It is great to see her building upon Smitty Pignatelli’s excellent work in improving emergency medical/ambulance services, and vital for the Berkshires with its aging population.
HeatSmart Great Barrington offers a limited-time sale on equipment that can save you money on heating bills, keep your house comfortable in both winter and summer, and reduce your carbon footprint.
HeatSmart Great Barrington, a state-funded program to help Great Barrington residents save on their energy bills while reducing their carbon footprints, will kick off Tuesday, May 8, at 6:30 p.m. at the First Congregational Church.
Fighting climate change can mean everything from sealing up drafty houses and driving an electric vehicle to keeping up with a fossil-free push that is gaining steam worldwide.
Great Barrington will work with partner organizations to educate residents on financial aid programs that would help defray the costs of switching to more environmentally friendly heating sources.
HeatSmart Mass is a community-based education and group purchasing program for clean heating and cooling technologies, which, via a $9,000 grant, will enable Great Barrington to reduce its carbon emissions.
In her letter to the editor, Virginia Irvine of Windwise Massachusetts writes: "Encouraging the replacement of old energy-hog refrigerators for one-half of the households in Massachusetts could generate a substantial savings in electricity use."
Since its launch in 2011, 51 cities and towns have participated in Solarize Mass, which has led to the contracting of more than 2,600 new small-scale installations at homes and businesses and resulted in 18 megawatts of contracted solar capacity.
There are already signs that Massachusetts’ solar industry has slowed in response to a limit on a key program known as net metering.
-- Environment Massachusetts Research and Policy Center and Student MASSPIRG
“The wind turbine is better than mowing down 200 acres of trees for a solar array, and has minimal impact to the environment for the same amount of electricity.”
-- Chris Bouchard, former highway superintendent and member of the Energy Committee.