Solar Energy Tour--This Saturday!

The Nebraska Solar Energy Tour takes off this weekend.

The tour is part of a nation-wide movement to increase awareness of solar energy, organized and promoted by the American Solar Energy Society.

Events are spread throughout the Good Life state, including demonstrations and tours in Omaha, Scottsbluff, Grand Island and Sioux City.

You thought Lincoln wasn't going to break off a piece of the solar pie?

The solar tour begins at 10 a.m. this Saturday, October 3rd and continues through 2 p.m. at the following locations:

• Hyde Observatory, 3701 South 70th
• 3002 Browning Street, (north of South Point Mall- follow signs north from 32nd and Pinelake Rd. Jessican Freeman and Chirstopher Marks, 3.5 KW of photovoltaic solar panels.
• 8800 South 55th, (just south of Yankee Hill Road- follow signs from 1/3 mile south of 56th and Yankee HIll Road- west on Rebel Drive & north on 55th St)Randy and Linda Schantell Thermal solar retrofit

For more information, www.nebraskasolartour.org

Earth2Lincoln 9-14-09

DJ Dharma welcomed Robert Smith of The Arbor Day Foundation and Jessica Kelling of ReTree Nebraska for a lively discussion on the importance of trees in our lives. On Saturday, ReTree Nebraska kicks off ReTree Week. Channel your inner John Muir and keep Nebraska’s ecological diversity flourishing this Saturday morning at 9 a.m. at Antelope Park for a tree planting celebration. ReTree Nebraska is a 10-year, cooperative initiative to promote the proper planting and care of 1 million trees in communities across Nebraska by 2017.

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Action Alert: Repower America

There are times when a bustling schedule, lethargy, and shortsightedness conspire to sap our environmental activism. Now is not that time. And hear to fill the void is Repower Nebraska. Repower is enlisting volunteers from all walks o' life to join in the effort to enact clean energy legislation this year. I joined them at a rally last week outside the Embassy Suites in downtown Lincoln, where we lofted signs skyward and bellowed "Go Big Green" to eager Cornhusker fans. Get involved by sending an email to nebraska@repoweramerica.org

-Jesse

Earth 2 Lincoln 8/31

UNL Electrical Engineering Professor Jerry Hudgins offers a comprehensive take on wind energy's challenges and opportunities and current and future and role in Nebraska's energy matrix.

Household Hazardous Waste Collection

Here's the ideal opportunity to gut the garage and prudently dispose of that Turpentine, WD-40 and Turtle Wax. Bring your household hazardous waste to Lincoln Industries, 600 West E Street, this Saturday (August 29th) from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. For a comprehensive list of what to bring, and what not to bring, take a journey here

And if you miss this one, bring your carburetor cleaner to Veyance Technologies (Goodyear), 4021 North 56th Street, on September 19th from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m.

Will There Be Enough Water To Grow Enough Food?

David J. Molden, Deputy Director of the International Water Management Institute in Sri Lanka, will give a free public lecture. Molden has extensive experience in managing water for agriculture.

Hear Molden mold his argument this Thursday at 3:30 p.m. in the Nebraska Union Auditorium on City Campus, 14th and R.

August 31st: UNL Professor Jerry Hudgins

Fact: Nebraska has the 6th highest potential for wind energy in the nation, but ranks 22nd in production, behind Iowa, Colorado and Minnesota. UNL Electrical Engineering Professor and Department Chair Jerry Hudgins wants to change this. He recently co-hosted a wind conference that drew over 100 participants from around the world. Last year, he received a $100,000 grant from the U.S. Department of Energy for UNL to direct the state's Wind For Schools program, which engages rural communities in alternative energy research by installing small-scale wind turbines at rural schools. Hear it in his own words, Monday, August 31st at 6 p.m. on KZUM-FM and www.kzum.org