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2009 Sustainable Santa Fe Commission Awards

Last Updated on Saturday, 25 April 2009 18:58 Written by Administrator Wednesday, 01 April 2009 12:35
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The Sustainable Santa Fe Commission is seeking nominations for Sustainability Awards for projects completed during 2008 in the following categories:

 

Water Conservation Project

Waste Reduction Project

Ecological Adaptation Project

Sustainable Food Project

Green Building/Planning Project

Transportation Project

Education Project

Youth Creative Sustainability Project

Commercial Project

Best Project Not Covered

 

Please submit your nominations on Survey Monkey at the link below.  Please feel free to make more than one nomination by going back to the website and entering your information in again.

 http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=5_2fYCGV5sGngM5ADjs9dH4A_3d_3d

 The awards will be given out at the Sustainable Santa Fe Commission and Earth Care International's Earth Day event at the Railyard on Saturday April 25th from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

 

Thank you for your participation.   

-Taylor Selby

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Earth Day 2009

Last Updated on Sunday, 05 April 2009 07:37 Written by Administrator Wednesday, 01 April 2009 12:33
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Date: Wednesday, April 1, 2009

Contacts:

Bianca Sopoci-Belknap, Earth Care International, (505) 983-6896 This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

Katherine Mortimer, City of Santa Fe, (505) 955-6608 This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it

 

Earth Day Celebration & 2009 Sustainable Santa Fe Commission Sustainability Awards

Saturday April 25, 2009

 

Earth Care International and the City of Santa Fe have partnered with Santa Fe County and the Santa Fe Watershed Association to host an Earth Day event on Saturday, April 25, 2009.

 

11 a.m. to 2 p.m.

Santa Fe Railyard Park

The event will kickoff at the Santa Fe Railyard Park with music from the Santa Fe Concert Band and Mariachi Estrella, a youth open mic event with poetry and other performance art by local youth, presentations by local dignitaries, tables with information and fun activities from local environmental and youth groups and the announcement of the winners of the first annual Sustainability Awards from the Sustainable Santa Fe Commission.

 

2:30 to 5:00 p.m.

Tree Planting with Santa Fe Watershed Association and Santa Fe County

At 2:30 the festivities will continue with a tree planting event at the San Ysidro Park in the village of Agua Fria. Be part of this river restoration project by helping to stabilize the river banks with native plants. San Ysidro Park is located along the Santa Fe River from San Ysidro Crossing to Caja del Oro Grant Road.

 

6 to 8 p.m.

Evening Workshop on Sustainable Santa Fe Plan Implementation at the Clear Light Book Store

The day will finish with a discussion on sustainability including development of implementation strategies for the Sustainable Santa Fe Plan.  The Clear Light Book Store is located at 851 W. San Mateo Street where Open Hands used to be.

 

Sustainable Santa Fe Commission Sustainability Awards

If you would like to submit a nomination for the Sustainability Awards that will be given out during this event, please visit the City of Santa Fe website at www.santafenm.gov and click on the button that says “Sustainability”.

 

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Solar Renewable Energy Credits (REC)

Last Updated on Saturday, 25 April 2009 19:02 Written by Administrator Sunday, 29 March 2009 08:11
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When you put up a solar Photovoltaic (PV) system and connect it to the grid, PNM would like to give you a check each month. PNM will pay you $0.13 per kilowatt hour (Kwh) for every Kwh you produce and they will sign a contract with you for 12 years. 

 

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So what does that mean?

Let’s say you install (14) 215-watt panels (which is a 3kW system) at your home and connect it to the grid. In Santa Fe, this will produce around 400 Kwh of energy per month.  This is more energy than I use in an 1850 square foot home. This amount of energy created would equate to $52.00 of REC from PNM. If you sized your system properly for a Net Metering of zero*, meaning your meter spun forward as much as is spun backwards. Then PNM would send you a check for $52.00.

This is for systems up to 10kW. Larger systems get $0.15 per Kwh produced.

PNM is doing this because they are mandated to produce 20% of their power from Renewable Energy sources by 2020. So the bean counters figured out how much it would cost to build their own massive arrays of solar and wind and they figured it would be better to buy the REC from indendepent producers - like you!

*Please see article on Net Metering for more information.

-Taylor Selby

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