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New homes for injured veterans part of community redevelopment in St. Pete listen
12/19/12 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: energy, net zero, energy efficient, veterans, housing, community redevelopment, neighborhood stabilization program
A wounded military veteran broke ground on what will be his new home today in St. Petersburg. The house is being paid for through a collaborative of charities, but is part of a greater effort to rehabilitate the city’s troubled Midtown area. Brian Lamb, president of the non-profit Community Partners in Revitalization said the project will help drive property values up in the neighborhood.
Be the first to comment“Within that, there’s a huge economic advantage to coming into neighborhoods, recognizing – or bett...
Home solar electric systems
06/25/12 Jon ButtsSustainable Living and Alternative Health Listen to this entire show:
Tags: solar, energy, sustainability, efficiency, solar power
On today’s Sustainable Living program we spent the hour talking about home solar electric systems. Our first guest, Paul Spencer, is the founder of The Clean Energy Collective located in Colorado. Paul’s business is setting up community solar power and other forms of renewable energy systems (wind, hydro, etc) that you can buy into for the long term, off-setting part or all of your power consumption to renewable. You can visit his website to find out more ...
Be the first to commentSt. Pete's going green with solar water heaters listen
05/29/12 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: solar, energy, sustainability, efficiency, Bill Foster, Kathy Castor, St. Pete, solar power
St. Petersburg officials are celebrating the completion of a federally funded energy efficiency program. A new solar water heater on the roof of the city’s Coliseum and twenty others will save the city more than $22,000 a year. But U.S. Representative Kathy Castor said saving money isn’t the program’s only benefit.
Be the first to comment“Created jobs by putting solar panels on the Coliseum and many city of St. Petersburg facilities like City Hall. It updated the air conditioning systems at community centers...
Former big oil president has a plan for sound energy policy in the U.S. listen
02/14/12 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Energy, Energy conservation, nuclear energy, solar energy, wind power, energy independence, John Hofmeister
A former oil executive is speaking out about the problems with America’s energy policy. John Hofmeister is the former president of Shell. In January he told a crowd of about 75 at the Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, he wants the U.S. to take the politics out of keeping the lights on.
According to Hofmeister, the United States is well on its way to long lines for gas, soaring prices and brown outs. The approach h...
Be the first to commentTampa Electric offers customers rebate for installing new solar arrays listen
10/04/11 Olivia KabatWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Energy, Energy conservation, energy resources, Tampa Electric, solar, solar power
This week Tampa Electric began offering registration to customers for their new solar array rebate program. Their second annual $1 million dollar solar rebate will be available for the remainder of this week.
This past spring Tampa Electric launched their new rebate program for solar arrays and the company is now offering $1 million dollars in solar rebates for customers. Sherie Jacobs, spokesperson for Tampa Electric says Tampa Electric wants to increase solar energy in the community. ...
Be the first to commentAmericans for Prosperity take their Running on Empty tour to Sarasota in hopes of trimming regulations for oil drilling listen
08/11/11 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Thursday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Steven Chu, Barack Obama, gas prices, Deepwater Horizon, BP oil disaster, Energy
A conservative group was in Sarasota yesterday to spread the message that regulations passed by the Obama administration are directly contributing to the high price of gasoline. About 25 people – mostly Tea Party supporters – came to the Running on Empty tour event.
Standing in front of an inflatable gas tank displaying a price of $3.65 per gallon, Americans for Prosperity President Tim Phillips placed the blame for high gas prices on President Obama.
Americans for Prosperity’s websit...
1 commentsTwo activists tree-sit to oppose mountaintop removal coal mining in WV listen
07/20/11 Seán KinaneWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: mountaintop removal, coal, West Virginia, Energy, environment, tree-sit
Two activists in West Virginia are using a risky tactic to try to stop a mountaintop removal coal mining operation. Becks Kolins and Catherine-Ann MacDougal are sitting on platforms in trees about 80 feet above the ground within 100 yards of active blasting from a mine on Coal River Mountain. Charles Suggs is a former Tampa Bay resident and is a volunteer with the RAMPS Campaign.
Suggs adds that Alpha Natural Resources is blasting dangerously close to a sludge ...
Be the first to commentGeologist: fossil fuels likely to remain dominant energy source for US listen
04/20/11 Matthew CimitileWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Fossil fuels, renewables, nuclear energy, oil, energy
Despite last year’s BP oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, global energy demand will continue to make fossil fuels the essential energy source for the coming decades. That’s the conclusion of a geologist who spoke last week at the University of South Florida’s College of Marine Science.
Nearly 19 million barrels of oil is consumed in the United States each day. According to the Institute of Energy Research, this staggering number meets 37 percent of the nation’s energy demand. Peter Rose ...
Be the first to commentObama proposes nuclear as one way to reduce dependence on imported oil listen
03/30/11 wire reports including APWMNF Drive-Time News Wednesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Barack Obama, Libya, energy, nuclear power, oil, biofuels, CAFE
Seeking to show the public he understands the burden of rising gas prices, President Barack Obama set an ambitious goal of reducing U.S. oil imports by one-third by 2025, and vowed to break through the political gridlock that has stymied similar initiatives for decades.
Obama touted a series of initiatives - some new, but many he's previously announced - that he said would boost domestic oil production, increase the use of biofuels and natural gas, and make vehicles more energy efficient. ...
Be the first to commentFlorida House panel advances renewable energy bill listen
03/29/11 Kate BradshawWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Florida House, renewable energy, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, Florida Legislature, energy, solar, wind
You’ve heard it many times before – Florida is the Sunshine State, so why doesn’t it the nation lead in solar power? Today the state House energy and utility subcommittee tackled that very question by passing a bill encouraging the state’s major utilities to invest in renewable energy. Pensacola Representative Clay Ford is the bill’s Republican sponsor.
Be the first to comment"If you want to have a clean state that you can breathe the air and you can drink the water, you've got to get to renewables. That doesn'...
