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The Midcoast Green Collaborative is pleased to offer the community
Two Home Energy Clinics
- Patten Free Library, 33 Summer Street, Bath 5:30 - 7:30 PM Wednesday, January 11, 2012
- Five Town Adult Education, Camden Hills High School, 33 Keelson Drive, Rockport 6 - 8 PM Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Admission is free but tax deductible donations are always welcome.
Heating bills are not getting cheaper. These clinics focus on how to permanently reduce them, preferably without breaking the bank yet reducing Maine's oil dependency in the bargain. This four part workshop will address
- Things we all must understand: the basic science of a house and its indoor climate
- Things we all should know about: 5 ways developed by international research to reduce heating energy bills by up to 90 percent
- How these 5 ways apply to our existing homes
- Home energy issues you care to bring up
Presenters are Paul Kando and Topher Belknap, the Midcoast Green Collaborative's energy auditor team. Belknap is a building science consultant, mathematician and designer of the Collaborative's continually updated energy audit software. Kando has been involved in international building and renewable energy research since the mid-1970s.
Articles
- Insulation: First Do No Harm, Part 1 by: Paul Kando
- About that Open Bedroom Window by: Paul Kando
- Bag Tricks to Seal and Insulate by: Paul Kando
Meeting at Skidompha Library, Damariscotta.
picture credit: Guy Marsden
We are a group of professionals, business persons, public officials and other citizens from the Damariscotta area of Midcoast Maine who have joined together to promote a sustainable, socially responsible and balanced economy built on the production of goods, rather than just services, retail sales, and tourism. We believe that the best way to begin to achieve this is by addressing the problems of threatening climate change, oil dependency, food supply, and the rising cost of energy.
For more information on the focus and direction we are currently taking, please read this document: Working to make Damariscotta an alternative energy center and creating well paying jobs in the process.
