TEEC Activities
Next meeting:
Thursday, February 16, 7:30 PM
Town Hall Annex
Retrofitting of the Municipal Building, Fire Department, and Mansfield Library has been completed!
Here are the details:
Installation of insulated R40 cool-vent roofing
Summer-Fall 2007
- PSNH Municipal Energy Efficiency Lighting Upgrades
- Initiated Recycling Program for major town events (ongoing)
- Educational Booth at Harvest Festival (ongoing - annually)
Winter-Spring 2008
- Municipal Energy Inventories
Summer-Fall 2008
- Energy Audits of Municipal Building/Fire Department
and Mansfield Library
- Audit of Master Plan and Zoning Ordinances
- Free Weatherization Workshop for Residents
Winter-Spring 2009
- Free Home Weatherization for Qualified Residents
by TEEC Volunteers
- RGGI Grant Proposal Development and Submittal
- Ongoing collaborative work with Temple Planning & Zoning
Boards following the recommendations of Master Plan and
Zoning Ordinance Audit
Summer-Fall 2009
- RGGI Grant Awarded to Temple in the Amount of
$332,100
- Launch of the TEEC educational website - www.teec.info
- Harvest Festival Special Exhibit honoring Temple's grant
and receipt of the Climate Champion Award
- Oct. 24 - created a "350" Campaign Event in Town Hall;
joining thousands of cities around the world in raising
awareness about the need to reduce the level of CO2 in the
atmosphere back to 350 parts per million from where it has
climbed to 387 ppm -- an unhealthy level for mammals,
particularly human life.
- Conducted a "Neighbors Helping Neighbors" gathering
on November 16 to prioritize the most desired action items
for Temple and the Monadnock region to develop based on
the many recommendations of the 2009 NH Climate
Action Plan.
Winter-Spring 2010:
- Oversight of the retrofitting projects at the Municipal/Fire Department buildings and Mansfield Library - ongoing
- Administration of the Recycling Program at Temple Elementary School - ongoing
- Free Weatherizations for Temple residents who are fuel-assistance qualified - ongoing. CLICK HERE to sign up.
- Adoption of the Energy Chapter for the Temple Master Plan - completed May 5, 2010
Summer-Fall of 2010:
- Facilitate, support and oversee the retrofitting projects of our Municipal Building, Fire Department and Library.
- Community Energy and Environmental Education at Temple's Annual Harvest Festival - September 26, 2010
- 10-10-10 global work party events: 1) installation of solar-powered motion detector for Temple Historical Society building and 2) Booth at Milford/Amherst Speakers' Event featuring Temple's Energy Committee activities.
- Button-Up NH free home weatherization workshop sponsored by TEEC for residents and neighboring towns - November 20th 10:00AM at Temple Town Hall.
Winter-Spring of 2011:
- TEEC's Free Home Weatherization Program has been expanded and is available for any resident, based on a simple screening. Call Bev Edwards at 878-3227 for additional information.
- The Temple Energy Challenge was launched on February 9 and ran until May 9, 2011 to help residents save household energy and money. Temple was engaged in a friendly competition with Rindge, Jaffrey, and Bennington to see which town could produce the highest percentage of household participants to take the challenge at www.myenergyplan.net. The winning town was announced at the end of June. Temple won the competition with 15 % of our residents taking the Challenge. Cumulatively they will save $35,656 and 255,092 tons of C02 in the first year.
- June, Open House Celebration for the RGGI funded completed energy efficiency retrofit for Mansfield Library, the Fire Department and Municipal Building. We filled Town Hall with displays of photographs from the retrofit; gave a Powerpoint presentation on the process of the work-- its surprises, most interesting details, the installation of equpment upgrades, and all-important aggressive air sealing and insulation work; gave tours of the buildings; and celebrated its success with pizza and drinks with a large crowd of residents.
Summer-Fall of 2011:
- Ice Cream Social! 200 residents came to celebrate our victory in Temple's 4-town Energy Challenge Competition on Sept. 24 at our Town Hall. It was a high-spirited afternoon with everyone enjoying 5 flavors of ice cream and frozen yogurt donated by Stonyfield Farm and Temple's own Connolly Brother's Dairy. There were also tables filled with energy saving hand-outs, information on climate change in NH and the Northeast, literature on home energy savings measures and a table display by CVTC - the Contoocook Valley Transportation Company which supports energy saving transportation for our region with ride-share and car pooling programs.
- TEEC was invited to provide the Special Exhibit at Temple's Annual Harvest Festival on Sept. 25. It highlighted the demonstration of a solar-powered truck, a solar thermal hot water demonstration, displays and a DVD on the energy efficiency retrofits of Temple's municipal buildings, and helpful hints on energy efficiency measures for households.
- Our booth on the Village Green for the Harvest Festival highlighted the newly forming regional initiative for residential solar hot water installations and home weatherization program based on the "barn raiser"/neighbors-helping-neighbors model, as practiced by the Plymouth Area Renewable Energy Initiative (PAREI). 30 residents filled out a sign-up sheet indicating their interest in the program.
- TEEC is actively participating in the creation of a new regional initiative for cost effective, low cost solar hot water installations and hands-on home weatherization trainings. The Monadnock Energy Resources Initiative will use the neighbors-helping-neighbors, barn-raiser model of professional and non-professional volunteers to illiminate labor costs.for these projects. It is in the process of establishing its foundation and plans for a spring/summer launch.
- TEEC strongly supported the establishment of a local driveway snow plowing cooperative to conduct energy-saving, emissions-reducing, consecutive plowing for adjacent houses throughout the town.
- TEEC has been actively involved in the Planning Board's process of creating a town ordinance for large commercial wind projects in Temple. Our members have visited the large wind installation in Lempster, NH, conducted interviews with residents there, done research on the raptor migrations over the prospective site for Temple, gathered data on the possible effects of audible and inaudible sound from large scale turbines, and presented reports from many perspectives to the board.
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