Posts by Alicia Healey
Stop Congress from repealing light bulb efficiency standards that save you money and energy
Believe it or not, a bill before Congress aims to roll back energy savings measures that passed in 2007 with bipartisan support. The House plans to vote as soon as Monday, July 11, to repeal national energy efficiency standards for light bulbs. These standards will save consumers more than $10 billion a year and avoid about 100 million tons of global warming pollution, equal to the annual pollution of more than 14 million cars.
Contact your representative and urge them to vote NO on the BULB act!
Read MoreNew York Times: Atop TV sets, a power drain that runs nonstop
According to a recent New York Times article, some typical home entertainment configurations are eating more power than a new refrigerator and even some central air-conditioning systems. You can read the full article online at The New York Times.
Coalition member NRDC also released a study entertainment center "energy vampires" last month which you can read here.
Read MoreIt's still the economy, stupid
Newsweek has an article from former President Bill Clinton on how to put many of the fourteen million unemployed Americans back to work. The 42nd president has more than a dozen ideas on how to attack the jobs crisis and energy efficiency and renewables play a big part. Read it online here.
Read MoreCUB’s Jenks is 2010 Headwaters Award winner
Citizens’ Utility Board of Oregon executive director Bob Jenks received the NW Energy Coalition’s coveted Headwaters Award last week in Portland. Coalition executive director Sara Patton presented Jenks the award, which recognizes his lifetime of advocacy on behalf of ratepayers and commitment to a clean and affordable energy future. Founded by Oregon voters in 1984,…
Read MoreNew Buildings Institute receives Coalition's highest award
The Coalition’s Bob Olsen Memorial Conservation Eagle award is presented annually to individuals and organizations that demonstrate leadership for a clean and affordable energy future. The Coalition board unanimously selected NBI as its 2010 Eagle winner…
Read MoreExecutive Board Caucus Report Highlights — June 16, 2011
Each month, we post the updates from the state and provincial caucus reports…
Read MoreNW Energy Coalition – Utility Energy Efficiency Incentives and Disincentives Resolution
NW Energy Coalition Utility Energy Efficiency Incentives and Disincentives Resolution November 14, 2009 WHEREAS there are many barriers to energy efficiency that mean market mechanisms alone will not be enough to move consumers to acquire and install all the cost-effective measures available. Consumers, including residential, commercial, and industrial power users, often lack the time horizon,…
Read MoreThe Energy Activist – Summer 2011
We say goodbye to Efficiency Works, welcome new Coalition members, look at the opportunities for good jobs that renewables can provide and hunt down energy vampires in the latest issue.
Read MoreAround the region – May 2011
Each month, we post the updates from the state and provincial caucus reports…
Read MoreMain Feature: Jobs 'R' Us – Our economy desperately needs the jobs clean energy can create
If you care about creating jobs – as virtually all political and opinion leaders say they do – then you enthusiastically endorse full development of our energy efficiency and renewable energy potential. “The notion that we must choose between clean energy and economic progress is utter nonsense,” said NW Energy Coalition executive director Sara Patton.…
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