Energy Advising, Events, Expiring Rebates, CFL results, Job post + more!
Jesse Gorden
Dear CEA friends,
In this email we would like to invite you to come see us tonight at Shop
Inman by Moonlight, share our newly-established Energy Advisor hours, and some information about incentives/rebates
to scoop up before they expire. We’ve also posted the results of our 12/4 CFL exchange canvass in
Mid-Cambridge, a job opening and free energy efficiency job training,
and of course details for an event coming up in January!
Cambridge Energy Alliance's Energy Advisor has been an active part of our operation for a long time. Now we are re-launching this service with a new component. You can be sure your call will be answered when you call during our Energy Advisor's in-service hours, Monday-Friday from 10am-12pm. Do you have questions about how you can become more energy efficient? Have you already installed CFL’s and want to take more action around your home? Wonder who to contact about having a home energy assessment completed? We will do our best to answer any question you have or set you on the right path to an answer. If you can’t call during our new in-service hours, leave a message for us any time or email eadv...@cambridgeenergyalliance.org with questions and we’ll get back to you as well.
Events coming up: Michael Blasnik will be giving a talk on real
vs. modeled residential energy savings at MIT on Thursday, January 13
(so save the date!).
Please take a moment to view the event description
below and consider joining us.
Best Wishes,
Jesse Gorden
Outreach Coordinator
Cambridge Energy Alliance
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Events
Tonight:
Shop
Inman by Moonlight
CEA Tests Your Energy Efficiency Knowledge, Gives Prizes
This year as shoppers celebrate the
holiday season by taking advantage of the late-night shopping hours and other
fun events happening in Inman Square (see attached flier), CEA will be in two
different locations throughout the night. We will debut our new energy
efficiency game, which includes a spinner wheel with more than four different
ways to test your energy efficiency knowledge! As a prize for participating,
you get a free fancy (average) 60 watt-equivalent Compact Fluorescent Light
(CFL) bulb. Come find us in Bukowski's from 6pm-9pm and 1369 Coffeehouse from
9pm-11pm.
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Residential Energy Savings: Real vs. Modeled
With Michael Blasnik
Thursday January 13, 2011
6:30 - 8pm
At MIT, The Strata Center, 32-141
Michael Blasnik will explain:
- How to save the most energy in your home
- Why real world savings don't always equal modeled savings
- Why the energy efficiency field needs great researchers
About Mr. Blasnik:
- Has analyzed the energy use of millions of homes over the last 25 years
- Heads the energy impact evaluation for the National Weatherization Assistance Program
- Is feisty, funny, and informative
Cosponsored by MITEI, Sustainability@MIT, the MIT Energy Club, HEET, Cambridge Energy Alliance, Greenport, and MCAN
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Incentives/Rebates: Take advantage while they last!
If you planned on taking advantage
of the Residential
Energy Property Credit for making energy efficient improvements to your
primary residence, they must be placed into service before January 1, 2011.
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Have you heard of “SmartStrips?” Computer peripherals like printers and
scanners, continue to use energy, even after you turn them off. It's called
'idle' current, and whether or not you’re using your peripherals, you're still
paying to power them. SmartStrips automatically shut
off your peripherals when you turn your computer off. Saving power and money! SmartStrips work with entertainment centers
and other appliances too. If you are an NSTAR customer and you hurry, you can
receive a significant discount on these useful tools before December
31st by purchasing them through Energy
Federation’s Website . While you’re shopping
stock up on other energy efficient items like LED light strings for holiday
decorating, air-sealing kits and CFL light bulbs. Perhaps you can make a gift basket and provide
the gift that gives back all year long: energy efficiency savings!
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Results: Mid-Cambridge CFL Canvass
On 12/4 the CEA, HEET, the Mid-Cambridge Neighborhood Association, and CCEAG gathered at Youville House to conduct a neighborhood CFL exchange canvass. This event was another great success! Our 22 volunteers knocked on 667 doors and donated 396 CFLs to residents of Mid-Cambridge- saving an estimated $1,865 dollars and cutting 6 tons of carbon dioxide per year. Many thanks to those who made this event possible. We look forward to seeing you at the next one!
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Jobs: Positions & Training opportunities
The GWS Green Team program employs teens throughout the year (most heavily in the summer) to perform a variety of hands-on environmentally-based work throughout the city (eg. garden-building + upkeep, selling local produce at farmers markets, community organizing/outreach, parks maintenance, coordinating GWS's bicycle-based compost pickup service). The program's core aim is the professional and leadership development of its teen employees.
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Cambridge Free Green Jobs Training
Building Energy Efficiency Maintenance Skills (BEEMS) Job Training Program: This is a 22 week program that teaches basic building repair and maintenance skills by combining hands-on training and classroom learning. There is also a 5 week, full-time unpaid internship included in this program that allows students to gain experience working for property management companies, hotels, and schools. We are currently recruiting for the January 2011 start date.
Energy Efficiency Technician Apprenticeship Program (EETAP): This is one year paid apprenticeship program that teaches the basics of weatherization and how to analyze and increase the energy efficiency in homes. This is an on the job-training program that also incorporates classroom learning to prepare students for the BPI Building Analyst exam to become certified as an energy auditor. We are currently accepting applications on a rolling basis for a TBD start date.
Feel free to contact Victoria Wong with any questions:
Victoria Wong
Recruitment Coordinator
T: (617) 426-9492 ext. 251
victor...@aaca-boston.org
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Resources
Energy efficient lighting Apps for smart phones
Light Bulb Finder
App – A new app for Android smart phones that helps select
appropriate energy efficient lighting. The iPhone app is coming.
We recently discovered a great rallying point for communities of faith to take action as environmental stewards: Massachusetts Interfaith Power & Light (MIP&L) has dared community members to take the Noah Challenge, comparing the actions that Noah took to the comparatively easy energy efficiency ones that can be taken today. MIP&L shares success stories, and supplies other resources as well- all in the name of protecting Creation.
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Jesse Gorden
CEA Outreach Coordinator/Intern
617-491-0488 ext.124
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