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Feb Solar install classes at Heartland Community College

January 21st, 2010

 Heartland Community College’s new Green Institute is hosting us teaching our 2 week intensive course with the NABCEP PV Knowledge test as the final.
This course is the same one we have very successfully done at John A Logan Community College (We have another one scheduled there end of May).

Week one at Heartland starts Feb 1st, register here

Week two starts Feb 7th  register here.

Here is a list of all the great classes they have at the Green Institute.

Hope to train some more great installers and pick out some of the best to ask them to join our Green Geek Squad (our Renewable Energy (RE) Install Network.

What does going “Green” mean?

December 24th, 2009

 The decade of going “green”!

You ought-a know

The top green stories of the 00s

http://www.grist.org/article/2009-12-21-the-top-green-stories-of-the-00s

1. POP UNTIL YOU DROP
Celebs and movies and magazines and TV go green

2009- The ultimate year of going super green.

12 One-Year Personal Stunts We Can’t Stop Talking About

No Impact Man

365 Days of Green

The Moneyless Man

The Compact: Saying No to Consumerism

A Year Without ‘Made in China’

The 100-Mile Diet

A Year of Food Life: Taking Local Eating to a New Level

The Julie/Julia Project

Run For One Planet: A Marathon a Day

The Uniform Project: 1 Dress, 365 Days

365 Days of Trash

Living Plastic Free

For detailed information about each of these year long commitments go here.

Payments for Specified Energy Property in Lieu of Tax Credits

December 12th, 2009

So you are involved in a public entity or non profit that doesn’t pay taxes. How about getting a payment in lieu of tax credits. Here is how http://treas.gov/recovery/1603.shtmlBanner: American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (Recovery Act)