March 29th, 2013 | by sgordon | published in Challenge News, Municipal, Residential
Hey Syracuse, are you up for a challenge?! $5,000 says you are! Syracuse Mayor Stephanie Miner has announced the launch of the 2013 Syracuse Neighborhood Energy Challenge program. The Challenge welcomes neighborhood associations and community organizations to form teams and compete to receive a $5000 grant through the Gifford Foundation to put toward a neighborhood sustainability [...]
March 28th, 2013 | by sgordon | published in Challenge News, Municipal, Residential, Uncategorized
The Challenge is partnering with Sustainable Skaneateles to launch an Energy Challenge Team initiative. Sustainable Skaneateles is an ad hoc group of Village and Town Residents. Their mission is to foster action, communication, education, and collaboration to achieve a sustainable community for current and future generations. The group organized a event in coordination with the international [...]
March 25th, 2013 | by sgordon | published in Challenge News, Municipal, Renewable Energy
Interesting news coming out of Denmark – in order to foster the transition to a low-carbon economy it will be necessary to implement policy measures to reduce the utilization of carbon-based fuels. Denmark is taking an aggressive step in that direction: © Preben Maegaard “As of the 1st of January 2013, the installation of oil-fired boilers [...]
March 19th, 2013 | by sgordon | published in Challenge News, Energy Challenge, Municipal, Renewable Energy
Central New York municipal representatives and organizations are invited to a webinar event called “Planning for Renewable Energy”, scheduled at the Gateway Center at the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (1 Forestry Drive in Syracuse) from 10:00AM (doors open at 9:30) to 1:30PM. The event is sponsored by the New York State Climate [...]
March 4th, 2013 | by sgordon | published in Challenge News, Municipal
As part of the Central New York Climate Change Innovation Program (C2IP), the Central New York Regional Planning and Development Board (CNY RPDB) has partnered with the SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry (SUNY-ESF) this spring to undertake three community greenhouse gas (GHG) inventories and three community climate action plans (CAPs). The partnership is [...]
January 31st, 2013 | by sgordon | published in Challenge News, Municipal
The Central New York Regional Planning and Development Board (CNY RPDB) held a workshop on January 24, 2013 in conjunction with the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (DEC) Climate Smart Communities webinar series. The webinar provided information on how to develop a Climate Action Plan, with recommendations for stakeholder participation, outreach techniques, and [...]
January 28th, 2013 | by sgordon | published in Challenge News, Commercial, Industrial, Municipal, Renewable Energy
The Central New York Regional Planning and Development Board is a proud co-sponsor of this year’s Symposium on Energy in the 21st Century: A Future Using Net Zero Energy. The goal of net zero energy is to produce as much energy from on-site renewable sources as is consumed. Utilizing the Net Zero installations that the U.S. [...]
January 3rd, 2013 | by sgordon | published in Municipal
Gov. Andrew Cuomo recently issued an Executive Order directing state agencies to increase energy efficiency in state buildings by 20 percent in seven years. Cuomo also launched Build Smart NY, which will use state building energy data to prioritize projects that will deliver the greatest energy savings per dollar. The largest and most inefficient buildings will [...]
October 5th, 2012 | by sgordon | published in Challenge News, Energy Challenge, Municipal
Solarize Madison hosted a ribbon cutting event at the home of Stephen Law in the Village of Morrisville to celebrate the installation of a 7kW residential solar photovoltaic system by ARISTA Power through the Solarize Madison Program. Solarize Madison is a bulk purchasing program that offering discounted pricing based on total volume to customers in Madison [...]
October 4th, 2012 | by sgordon | published in Challenge News, Energy Challenge, Municipal
The Town of Preble celebrated the completion of an energy retrofit for their Preble town hall building constructed in 1906 as a two room school house on Wednesday October 3, 2012. The energy retrofit included a lighting retrofit, insulation and air sealing, window replacement, replacement of an aging fuel oil fired forced air heating system [...]
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