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<div><strong>January 15</strong></div>
<div><font color="#ffffff"><strong>Tour of Saco's Energy Efficiency Initiatives</strong>
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<div align="left"><font size="2">View the geothermal heating and cooling system, the EW 15 wind turbine and other energy efficiency steps Saco has taken.</font></div>
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<div align="center"><strong><font size="2">Saco Transportation Center </font>
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<div><strong> </strong></div></font><strong> January 17 + 18</strong>
<div><font color="#ffffff"><strong>Maine Solar Energy Association Workshop</strong></font></div>
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<div align="left"><font color="#ffffff" size="2">Learn how to build a 60w PV module</font></div>
<div align="left"><font color="#ffffff" size="2">FMI: 733-1095 or </font><a href="mailto:seads@maineline.net" target="_blank"><font color="#ffffff" size="2">seads@maineline.net</font></a></div></div></font>
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<div><font color="#ffffff"><strong>Legislative Breakfast</strong>
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<div align="center"><strong>Cross Cafe</strong></div>
<div align="center"><strong>Maine State Office Building, Augusta</strong> </div>
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<div><font color="#ffffff" size="4">"The Power of Community: How Cuba Survived Peak Oil" </font></div><font size="2">
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<div align="left">When the Soviet Union collapsed in 1990, Cuba's economy went into a tailspin. With imports of oil cut by more than half and food by 80 percent, people were desperate. This film tells of the hardships and struggles as well as the community and creativity of the Cuban people during this difficult time. Cubans share how they transitioned from a highly mechanized, industrial agricultural system to one using organic methods of farming and local urban gardens. </div>
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<div align="left">"Everyone who is concerned about Peak Oil needs to see this film" - Richard Heinberg, author of The Party's Over, Powerdown, and The Oil Depletion Protocol<br /> <br /></div></font><font size="2"><strong>
<div align="center"> Orono Council Chamber</div>
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<div align="left">More than 30 billion kilowatt-hours of energy is wasted because many of us simply forget to shut down our computers when we're not using them. If we could just improve the efficiency of how we use our PCs, the savings in energy costs would be over $3 billion dollars! The CO2 emissions from just 15 computers are equivalent in energy terms to the gas consumption used by one car. <br /><br />Find Out more: <br /><a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001drO4j9y1b7VBTlCXqjoDWBPS6GEN2knt5oil1rG73FiRtpJ8oyyr7Myl08raUCIGRYCoSS-VK83dzbFJYGNSEnUhAnaqkBuvABlEPJCaH32yu9w4Z2Bw7g==" target="_blank">http://www.localcooling.com/</a> <br /> <br /></div></font></td></tr></table></td>
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<div style="FONT-SIZE: 14pt; FONT-FAMILY: Trebuchet MS,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif" color="#a3a9ab" align="left"><font color="#5580a0">Happy New Year Cool Teams!
<div /></font><font color="#000000"><font size="2" face="Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font size="2" face="Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font size="2" face="Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><font color="#000000"><font size="2" face="Verdana,Geneva,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">All of us at Maine Partners for Cool Communities (MPCC) and the Sierra Club hope that you will make a resolution to make a special attempt to engage your neighbors in dialogue about global warming and energy efficiency. Inspire them to become involved in their neighborhoods and reach out to others to identify areas where they can become more energy efficient. <br /> <br />MPCC will soon be sending a survey to all Cool Teams in a effort to serve you better and continue to share information and ideas, and we encourage you all to send us information for this newsletter. To receive the newsletter or to send information contact <a href="mailto:maine.chapter@sierraclub.org" target="_blank">maine.chapter@sierraclub.org</a>.</font></font></font></font></font></font></font></font></div></font></td></tr></table><table style="background-color:#CDD4D7;margin-bottom:10px;" bgcolor="#CDD4D7" border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
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<div>Due to the current financial situation, New England Grassroots Environmental Fund (NEGEF) is merging the winter and spring application deadlines for its Small Grant Program for 2009.</div>
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<div>The new deadline for New England Small Grants is May 1st, 2009 with funds available in July 2009.<br /><br />Please contact the NEGEF staff if you have any questions.</div>
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<div>The wind turbine located at the Kittery Solid Waste Transfer Station began producing power on October 2, 2008. The turbine had produced 1,715 kilowatt hours of electricity by the end of December and with stronger winter winds, significantly more is expected in the next few months. <br /> <br />It has been estimated that the turbine should produce approximately 80,000 kilowatt-hours of electricity per year, which, at the current cost of electricity (10 cents per kilowatt hour), translates to $8,000 per year in savings.<br /> <br />The wind turbine produces enough electricity to power the transfer station and about one-quarter of the electricity used at Shapleigh Middle School.<br /> <br />The wind turbine in Kittery is one of at least four in southern Maine. Appledore Island has a seven kilowatt system, powering air quality monitoring equipment and Saco has installed two systems similar to Kittery's.</div></img></font></font></td></tr></table>
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<div><font color="#000000">Five percent of the world's annual CO2 emissions come from cement use. According to a recent Guardian article, a new environmentally friendly formula for making cement could reduce the emissions considerably.
<div> </div>Nikolaos Vlasopoulos is the chief scientist at London-based Novacem, who invented the product. Novacem's invention has garnered support and funding from industry and environmentalists. The new cement is based on magnesium silicates, a different material than traditional cement. Not only does it requires much less heating than traditional cement, but it also absorbs large amounts of CO2 as it hardens, making it carbon negative.
<div> </div>The full article can be read at: <a href="http://rs6.net/tn.jsp?e=001drO4j9y1b7X2au_MzaEtTSPn92pupeGRUmW1rsvv9bf5cfdVdR5wnCylZaV4iYLF9qqMVp3kY5Fas_L1SK_fO4Nm2qzBIOhBAry71Cx6HXVR6YZca2SgpEA_rBxg-Lp-lMBshffQcbPivvy3r43GANVro2BIsFSU8aOscfJLrdbi0tsy9Cd3m2YJ61m4_ayY" target="_blank">http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2008/dec/31/cement-carbon-emissions</a><br /><br /></font></div></img></font></td></tr></table><table style="background-color:#CDD4D7;margin-bottom:10px;" bgcolor="#CDD4D7" border="0" width="100%" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
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