Solar-Battery Storage: Micro-Solutions! Posted by SEEDS on Feb 12 , 2020 - 05:10 pm Storing Sunshine for Night Lighting Above: Morgan Vondruska assists with the installation of solar pathway lighting at Historic Barns Park. Morgan started with SEEDS as an AmeriCorps VISTA and was subsequently hired to our Youth Conservation Corps for the installation. In [...]
A Dozen Ways We Tackled Climate Change in 2019 Posted by SEEDS on Dec 27 , 2019 - 08:11 am 12 Local Solutions To Tackle Global Climate Change Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels continue to reach record highs. Local solutions to this global challenge can look like the following. Included are links to the science and [...]
SEEDS = Environmental Leadership Posted by SEEDS on Dec 05 , 2019 - 07:32 am Moving Needles in the Right Direction SEEDS Energy & Environment programs focus on quantifying change and proving the practical feasibility of reducing energy used, garbage landfilled, and increasing the carbon sequestered. Dana Pflughoeft, a political science and environment [...]
We got the Gold! Posted by SEEDS on Nov 27 , 2019 - 10:00 am SEEDS-led Kilowatt-Hour Challenge helps City win the gold! Remember this newsletter about the City of Traverse City's staff-wide energy efficiency challenge? The Kilowatt-Hour Challenge led to the City earning Gold in the 2019 Michigan Green Communities Challenge! SEEDS has worked [...]
Reduce your energy use with this 4-week kWh challenge! Actions include upgrading lightbulbs to LEDs, daylighting, turning off appliances and electronics, and unplugging. SEEDS guided the City of Traverse City…
Trees: Let's Tend More! Posted by SEEDS on Sep 05 , 2019 - 07:48 am Want to reverse global warming? Tend to a tree! Trees and other woody plants are superb at taking carbon from the atmosphere and sequestering it in their trunks, roots, and in the soil. Earth's lungs are also earth's "carbon sink". [...]
Traverse City Staff Take on a KiloWatt-Hour Challenge! Posted by SEEDS on Aug 14 , 2019 - 12:12 pm For one month this summer, City staff were encouraged to take electricity efficiency into their own hands! In striving towards its 100% renewable electricity goal, the City Manager, Marty Colburn, endorsed a City-wide Staff kWh Challenge [...]
For centuries, the energy marketplace has been focused on: Centralizing power structures (large-scale power generation, financial controls); Exponential growth in the demand for electricity and extractive additives (think fertilizer and…
Acting Natural: How the Sidewalk Ends Posted by SEEDS on Jun 12 , 2019 - 05:37 am By Will Nichols, SEEDS Volunteer Biomimicist by profession, physicist by training, nerdy by nature, Will is passionate about how systems are designed and how systems work. The theme of Acting Natural is to highlight ways nature can help [...]
Thirty eight percent and rising! Posted by SEEDS on Jun 03 , 2019 - 05:11 pm The City of Traverse is making progress towards its 2020 goal of meeting 100% of its operational electricity demand with clean, renewable energy sources. In 2018, Traverse City began purchasing the power generated by a local 1MW solar array. [...]
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