Mitigation
Overview of the FIT and microFIT Programs - Making Money from your Rooftop
The Green Energy Act, the Feed in Tariff Program (FIT), advantages for Eastern Ontario businesses and homeowners, and key considerations such as determining if your roof is suitable, finding solar contractors, and getting started.
Location: Rideau Canal Museum, 12 Beckwith St. N, Smiths Falls (http://www.rideau-info.com/museum/)
Please note that parking immediately adjacent to the museum is limited, so allow a few extra minutes to park on Main, Chambers or Beckwith Streets, or in the lot by the lock.
Farmers' Market Seminar
The Leeds and Thousand Islands Public Library will sponsor a free seminar at the Escott Library (Springfield House) for anyone who may be interested in selling their products at a local Farmers' Market. Whether you plan to sell preserves, produce, meats, crafts, honey, maple syrup or baked goods, this seminar will help you learn the ins and outs of Farmers' Markets, and the benefits of selling locally.
Solar Industry Learns Lessons in Spanish Sun
New York Times / Elisabeth Rosenthal / 08 March 2010
In its haste to create a solar industry, Spain made some miscalculations: solar plants can be set up so quickly and easily that the rush into the industry was much faster than anticipated. And the lavish subsidies inflated Spanish solar installation costs at a time when they were rapidly decreasing elsewhere — in part because of increasing competition from panel makers in China, but also because higher volumes produced economies of scale.
Kingston: 3rd Annual Conference on Biomass for Energy
The Great Lakes Bio-Region: Market Opportunities and Carbon Pricing
Ban Righ Hall, Queen’s University
Register today for the Early Bird Rate $375 ($425 after April 16, 2010)
Demands for low-carbon sources of energy mean that governments are crafting policy and committing funds to biomass, and businesses are making decisions and allocating their resources. The biomass industry is changing as quickly as it grows, and it therefore remains crucial to share information and to highlight best practices, challenges and successes.
Screening: FLOW
Don't ignore World Water Day, Monday, March 22nd, but mark it by attending the showing of the excellent film, FLOW.
This film exposes the hardships brought on people around the world by the privatization of water delivery by huge corporations such as Suez, Vivendi and RWE AG, and by the exploitation of water aquifers by companies such as Nestles and Coke. Third World countries are being forced into privatization by the World Bank and IMF, even though it often results in their poor being cut off.
Ontario: Share the Road Green Paper Unveiled
Share the Road / Press Release / 05 March 2010
The Share the Road Cycling Coalition (The Coalition) an Ontario-based provincial cycling advocacy organization released today a Green Paper for Bicycling in Ontario entitled “When Ontario Bikes, Ontario Benefits – A Green Paper on Bicycling in Ontario”.
The Green Paper’s release comes in advance of the upcoming Speech from the Throne and Budget and outlines specific recommendations on how the Ontario government can and must play a direct role in encouraging cycling in Ontario.
