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The Future of Energy is Conservation

Author
MARY MORSE
Neighborhood Energy Connection
Americans have been on a century-long energy spending spree. From automobiles to architecture, as long as energy costs have stayed affordable relative to our incomes, neither wastefulness nor environmental implications figured into our buying and building decisions. But with skyrocketing energy costs, people are beginning to rethink that approach. Unfortunately, the inexpensive and immediate fix for our energy problems-energy conservation-is mostly overlooked in favor of high-cost energy production solutions, most of which are slow to implement and some of which are counterproductive
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ON THE WEB!

Home energy conservation/car sharing: Neighborhood Energy Connection,
651-221-4462, TheNEC.org

Insulation/air sealing contractors: Minnesota Building Performance Association, MBPA.us

Home energy conservation fact sheets and do-it-yourself guides from the Minnesota Department of Commerce http://www.state.mn.us/portal/mn/jsp/home.do?agency=Commerce (click on "Energy Info Center" tab)

Bicycle use and route planning: Bike/Walk Twin Cities,
bikewalktwincities.org

Transit use, costs, schedules, and route planning, metrotransit.org

Read Up!

The Complete Guide to Reducing Energy Costs, by the Editors of Consumer Reports, Consumer Reports, 2006.

The Home Energy Diet: How to Save Money, by Making Your House Energy-Smart, by Paul Scheckel, New Society Publishers, 2005.

Confronting Electric Racism

Author
Lea Foushee
Environmental Justice Advocates of Minnesota (EJAM)

Footnotes/Endnotes

Web Resouces:

Nuclear Information Resource Service
www.nirs.org

Rocky Mountain Institute
www.rmi.org

Print Resources

Dumping on Dixie, by Dr. Robert Bullard, Westview Press 2000.

Soft Energy Path: Towards a Durable Peace by Amory B. Lovins, Harpercollins 1979.

Organizations

Environmental Justice Advocates of Minnesota (EJAM)
Minneapolis, MN
612-436-5402
www.ejam.com
 
Indigenous Environmental Network
PO BOX 485, Bemidiji, MN
218-751-4967
www.ienearth.org
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