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Advanced Energy Solutions
Advanced Energy Solutions sells, installs, and educates you about renewable energy to save you money and help you produce your own electricity with energy efficiency, micro-hydro, wind, and solar power.

NOTE: The following letter was penned by our very own Tom Kruzen, who for various reasons is unable at present to post to this forum. Because the letter is worthy of re-publication, and this is as good a forum as any, here it is:

January 26, 2012

Dear Editor,

(EDITOR's NOTE: The following is submitted for Tom Kruzen who is currently experiencing login problems.)

THOUGHTS ON THE ATOMIC AGE

Are you a rural small business owner, dairy producer or an individual involved in sustainable agriculture or energy? If so, you may want to sign up to attend this one-time workshop hosted by the National Center for Appropriate Technology to learn more about the Rural Energy for America Program (REAP) program.

Burning Biomass to Produce Electricity: Folly and Tomfoolery

My friend, Denny Haldeman, a longstanding Heartwood member, over a decade ago warned that biomass burning was an issue that had not yet come to fruition but to keep a look out for it. He took the lead on this; many others have recently joined him in opposing the biomass juggernaut heading for all of our lungs.

The Evergreen Institute's Center for Renewable Energy and Green Building has published its Workshop Schedule for 2009. Here it is:

APRIL
Home Energy Efficiency (1 day) April 18
BASIC PV's (1 day) April 19
Intro to Wind (1 day)

May
Green Building--A systems Approach (5 days) May 30 to June 3

June
Passive Solar Heating & Cooling ( 2 days ) June 4,5
Straw Bale Design & Construction (1 day ) June 6
Natural Plasters (1 day) June 7
Natural Building ( 2 days) June 13, 14
Passive Solar Heating and Cooling (1/2 day) June 20 through MREA

Register now for the Surviving Climate Change roundtable in St. Louis. Only $4 – but it goes up after May 15! Please send the information to anyone you know who might be interested.

*Surviving Climate Change: Producing Less and Enjoying it More*

The effects of climate change, peak oil and toxic production are here. We know it every time we see news of weather disasters and disappearing species. We feel it every time we buy gas. We hear it every time a child uses an asthma inhaler.

Wood waste eyed as renewable energy source in Missouri Ozarks

By ALAN SCHER ZAGIER
Associated Press Writer

CUBA, Mo. (AP) -- The forest-rich Missouri Ozarks have been quite good to the four generations of kin at McGinnis Wood Products, a supplier of white oak barrels to distillers and winemakers the world over.

Business is so good, there's even a market for the 120 tons of sawdust produced daily as remnants from the plant's two lumber mills. Rather than haul the wood waste to the landfill, McGinnis sells its scraps to a nearby Kingsford charcoal factory.

Ethanol is Not Clean Energy

EPA Enforcement Action to Protect Streams in Missouri
Release date: 01/28/2008
Contact Information: Kris Lancaster, (913) 551-7557, lancaster.kris@epa.gov

Environmental News

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

(Kansas City, Kan., Jan. 28, 2008) - EPA's Criminal Investigation Division, the Missouri Department of Natural Resources, and the Missouri Department of Conservation conducted a joint investigation of an illegal discharge of pollutants in Hermondale, Mo., leading to criminal charges against James Raulerson and James Raulerson Farms for violating the Clean Water Act.