Montana Climate Events
AUGUST 2008
August 23. Solar Electricity for the Home, 9:00 AM, Sage Mountain Center, Whitehall. Interested in reducing your electric bill, cleaning up our planet, or
creating a backup electric system for your existing home? Solar
electricity is clean, quiet, and abundant. Right now it provides
electricity to millions of homes and businesses around the world. It’s also perfect for remote water pumping and RV applications! This workshop covers solar panels, system sizing and design, costs, batteries, inverters, codes, grid-interties, off-grid, controllers, demonstration equipment, and more. Visit www.sagemountain.org for more info. Cost is $100 for all day workshop. Discounts are available.
August 26. Solar and Small Wind Generation in Montana. Free Two Hour Mini Seminar. Billings. What if you could produce some, or all, of your electricity from sun and/or wind? What if you could lower your gas bills by using the roof of your house as an energy collector? In Montana, hundreds of homes and businesses are turning towards renewable energy to offset power bills and contribute to cleaner air, water, and soil. This two-hour overview covers solar electricity, solar hot water, small wind equipment, financing, rebates, and getting credit for the power you produce. Demonstrations, slide show with Q&A, and literature included. Sponsored by NorthWestern Energy's USB Renewable Energy Program. Visit www.sagemountain.org for more info.
August 28. Energy and Climate Change Solutions. 6-8PM. Missoula Children's Theatre. Missoula. Hosted by Sierra Club. Update on Big-Oil's mad-dash to drill off Americas coasts and in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge. Free to all.
SEPTEMBER 2008
September 10. Solar and Small Wind Generation in Montana. Free Two Hour Mini Seminar. Great Falls. What if you could produce some, or all, of your electricity from sun
and/or wind? What if you could lower your gas bills by using the roof
of your house as an energy collector? In Montana, hundreds of homes and
businesses are turning towards renewable energy to offset power bills
and contribute to cleaner air, water, and soil. This two-hour overview
covers solar electricity, solar hot water, small wind equipment,
financing, rebates, and getting credit for the power you produce.
Demonstrations, slide show with Q&A, and literature included. Sponsored by NorthWestern Energy's USB Renewable Energy Program. Visit www.sagemountain.org for more info.
September 15-17. Re-visioning Water Use in the Changing Climate of the Clark Fork. Missoula. Keynote address By David James Duncan at 7pm Monday at UM's University Center theater, panels, workshops, etc at UM. Sponsored by the Clark Fork Coalition, National Wildlife Federation, and Western Progress.
September 20. Extreme Energy Efficiency (E3), Sage Mountain Center, Whitehall.
You’ve changed your light bulbs to compact fluorescents, added more insulation to your attic, and sealed the cracks around your windows and doors. What’s left? How about E3? Learn about light emitting diodes (LED), on-demand hot water heaters, gray-water heat recovery, rainwater collection, compost toilets, in-floor radiant heat, phantom loads (the waste energy from electronic devices), and much more. Learn how to read a watt-meter and more importantly, discover how to give your place a serious energy efficiency makeover while saving fossil fuel, money, and our environment. Demos and plenty of literature provided. Visit www.sagemountain.org for more info.
September 20-24. Beginning on September 20th, one hundred and twenty Climate Riders will pedal 320 miles from New York City to the nation’s Capitol in Washington D.C. in five days, departing from the heart of Manhattan and then meandering along country roads through New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and Maryland. On the fifth day, riders will cycle past the iconic Washington Monument to arrive near the marble steps of the Capitol building. Here we will celebrate the riders’ amazing accomplishment and valuable contribution to the advancement of climate change education and renewable energy policies. For more information visit www.climateride.org.
OCTOBER 2008
October 7. Solar and Small Wind Generation in Montana. Free Two Hour Mini Seminar. Bozeman. What if you could produce some, or all, of your electricity from sun and/or wind? What if you could lower your gas bills by using the roof of your house as an energy collector? In Montana, hundreds of homes and businesses are turning towards renewable energy to offset power bills and contribute to cleaner air, water, and soil. This two-hour overview covers solar electricity, solar hot water, small wind equipment, financing, rebates, and getting credit for the power you produce. Demonstrations, slide show with Q&A, and literature included. Sponsored by NorthWestern Energy's USB Renewable Energy Program. Visit www.sagemountain.org for more info.
October 8. Solar and Small Wind Generation in Montana. Free Two Hour Mini Seminar. Missoula. What if you could produce some, or all, of your electricity from sun and/or wind? What if you could lower your gas bills by using the roof of your house as an energy collector? In Montana, hundreds of homes and businesses are turning towards renewable energy to offset power bills and contribute to cleaner air, water, and soil. This two-hour overview covers solar electricity, solar hot water, small wind equipment, financing, rebates, and getting credit for the power you produce. Demonstrations, slide show with Q&A, and literature included. Sponsored by NorthWestern Energy's USB Renewable Energy Program. Visit www.sagemountain.org for more info.
October 17-19. Northern Rockies Bioneers Conference. Bozeman. The 6th Annual Northern Rockies Bioneers Conference (NRBC) will take place October 16th through the 19th at the Emerson Cultural Center in the heart of Bozeman. This inspiring weekend will highlight dozens of local and regional innovative speakers, youth programs, music and dancing, the annual Reel 2 Real Film Festival, local farm meals, as well as several workshops, hands on demonstrations and panel discussions. Local sessions and workshops will address topics of regional importance ranging from sustainability in the built environment, social and economic compatibility, human and environmental rights, and democracy. Bioneers is rippling through the northwest communities as a stellar celebration and educational movement, and we invite you to join us! Website: www.bornnetwork.org Contact: Lori Foster, BORN, lori@bornnetwork.org, 406.586.3426.
