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URLs (uniform resource locaters or web addresses) for Wind Energy & Green Power

4 Hydrogen: http://4hydrogen.com/

AERO (Alternative Energy Resources Organization – Montana) http://www.aeromt.org/

American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy http://www.aceee.org/

The American Solar Energy Society (ASES) http://www.ases.org/

American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) http://www.awea.org

AWEA (wind tutotial) http://www.awea.org/faq/

Wind Energy Projects in the US http://www.awea.org/projects/

Apollo Alliance (the premiere web site championing the hydrogen economy): http://www.apolloalliance.org/

About the Apollo Alliance: http://www.apolloalliance.org/about_the_alliance/index.cfm?bSuppressLayout=1

Billings (MT) Senior High Library http://senior.billings.k12.mt.us/senior/library/

Bill Moyers NOW info on wind (good site for teachers and kids)

http://www.pbs.org/now/classroom/wind.html

http://www.pbs.org/now/science/wind.html

BIRDS & BAT CONCERNS -- See National Wind Coordinating Committee (NWCC) Fact Sheet at http://www.nationalwind.org/publications/avian/wildlife_factsheet.pdf

-- Also click on the NWCC publications tab for avian studies found at http://www.nationalwind.org/publications/avian.htm

-- The AWEA and American Bird Conservancy cosponsored
Proceedings of the May 18-19, 2004 Wind Energy and Birds/Bats Workshop

Center for the Rocky Mountain West http://www.crmw.org/

Citizens for Clean Energy involved in opposing non-IGCC Great Falls (Highwood) Coal Plant

CIA – Homepage (search what the intelligence community says about global warming) http://www.cia.gov/

Climate Solutions http://www.climatesolutions.org/

Collected Art of Brett Tibbles

Colorado Energy http://coloradoenergy.org/

Coloradoans for Renewable Energy http://www.coenergy.info/home.htm

--CRE has a good page of links to other sites at http://www.coenergy.info/sites/default.htm

--CRE’s Craig Cox has posted material on the Colorado Green Wind Farm here http://www.state.co.us/oemc/events/cwade/2004/presentations/cox.pdf

Colorado Governor's Office of Energy Management and Conservation http://www.state.co.us/oemc/

Colorado’s Renewable Energy Initiative http://www.renewableenergyyes.com/learnmore/Initiativetextfull.html

Colorado Renewable Energy Society (CRES) http://www.cres-energy.org/

Earth Track (this fine site specializes in listing & explaining peer & non-peer reviewed studies of subsidies to the energy industry since the 1970s) http://www.earthtrack.net/earthtrack/index.asp

ENERGY CONSERVATION --
           US Department of Energy at http://www.eere.energy.gov/consumerinfo/energy_savers/
             For conservation in your home see, http://www.eere.energy.gov/consumer/your_home/,
             Also see, American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy, above and geoexchange, below.
          Conservation education , teachers, students and homeowners http://www.energyscience.org/

Energy Literacy Project http://www.energy-literacy.org/

Energize Montana http://deq.state.mt.us/energy/

-- See info on Alternative Energy Loan Programs at http://deq.state.mt.us/Energy/Renewable/altenergyloan.asp

Energy Information Administration (US) (has pages for kids & energy jobs) http://www.eia.doe.gov/

Environment Colorado http://environmentcolorado.org/envcoenergy.asp?id=901&id4=ES

Environmental & Energy Study Institute http://www.eesi.org/

Environmental Law & Policy Center http://www.elpc.org/

-- See ELPC’s spin-off web site on farm energy & financing at http://www.elpc.org/farmenergy/index.htm

FindSolar.com to locate solar pros and calculate net installation costs

Fischer-Tropsch Synfuel Report from Northern Plains Resource Council and more on synfuels

Geoexchange, ground source heat pumps

Great Falls (Highwood) Coal Plant Citizens for Clean Energy

Green Electricity Buying Cooperative, Inc. for Montanans to obtain clean, renewable energy

Green Power Sites (government/energy industry collaboration web sites)

Colorado Green Power http://www.cogreenpower.org

Montana Green Power http://www.montanagreenpower.com/

Utah Green Power http://www.utahgreenpower.org

Harvesting Clean Energy (covers activity in Montana, Washington, Oregon and Idaho) http://www.harvestcleanenergy.org/hce.html

homeWord Montana's Affordable, Energy Efficient, Housing Organization

"Hydrogen Hopes," PBS Scientific American Frontiers program with
Alan Alda http://www.pbs.org/saf/1506/

LIGHTING & ENERGY EFFICIENCY (Switching to compact florescent light bulbs can save the average family up to $60/year – and you get a tax credit for it in Montana) check out http://www.lightsite.net/

Minnesotans For an Energy Efficient Economy (ME3) This site has a lot to offer – one of my favorites. http://www.me3.org/

Memorial Phones

Montana Audubon Society (for info on Birds & wind, also see Birds, above) http://www.mtaudubon.org/

Montana Affordable, Energy Efficient Housing called homeWord

Montana Conservation Voters http://www.mtvoters.org/

Montana Electric Cooperatives Association http://www.mtco-ops.com/index.htm

Montana Environmental Information Center (MEIC) http://meic.org/

Montana Alternative Energy Equipment Installers, etc. (Listed only as a courtesy, not as a recommendation)

-- D.H. Blattner & Sons, Inc. (large wind) http://www.dhblattner.com/

-- Dopler Solar Construction (Red Lodge) 406-446-3314

-- H & H Enterprises of Montana, Inc. (small wind & solar, Billings) http://www.handhenterprisesofmontana.com/handhenterprises_001.htm

-- Hansen C W (Architect, Bozeman) 406-587-9514

--Matney-Franz Engineering, (Claud Matney) 105 W. Main St., Suite G, Bozeman, MT 59715 (406- 581-9819), cmatney@matneyfrantz.com, http://www.matneyfrantz.com Wind energy consulting, knowledgeable in Clean Renewable Energy Bonding, Community Wind Development.

-- Montana Marginal Energy (David G. Healow (pronounced halo)), 652 Park Lane, Billings, MT 59102 (406-855-1799) dhealow@bresnan.net Wind energy consulting, sales & service--responsible for 65 KW & 250 KW machines in Martinsdale and various other Montana locations.

-- Power Procurement Group, Renewable Energy Consultants (Robert Julian), 1500 Merrell Lane, Belgrade, MT 59714 (406-388-3300), http://www.ppgpower.com

-- Sundance Solar Systems http://www.sundancesolarmt.com/ (Red Lodge)

--Western Community Energy, LLC, (Mike Costanti), 4213 Benepe St., Bozeman, MT 59718 (406-579-6164) mcostanti@westerncommunityenergy.com ; Wind energy consulting, knowledgeable in Clean Renewable Energy Bonding, Community Wind Development, Montana contact for Wind for Schools.

--WindPark Solutions, (Bob Quinn, Wendy Kleinsasser, Dave Ryan) PO Box 70, 154 Johannes Av. E.
Big Sandy, MT 59520 (406-378-2179) http://www.windpark-solutions.com Original developers of the Judith Gap wind farm, knowledgeable in community wind development.

Montanans may obtain clean, renewable energy at Green Electricity Buying Cooperative, Inc.

Montana Public Interest Research Group www.pirg.org/montpirg/

Montana, University of – Wilderness Institute’s Montana Environmental Directory http://www.forestry.umt.edu/research/MFCES/programs/wi/ediralpha.htm

Montana Wind Data http://climate.ntsg.umt.edu/html/wind.html

NASA Satellite Measures Earth’s Carbon Metabolism, Ap. 2003 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Newsroom/NPP/npp.html

-- NASA Satellite pictures & histograms of vegetation in the Pacific Northwest http://images.ntsg.umt.edu/result.php?cipid=12794&PHPSESSID=0b6281a87d7debc4feb0e39357c4d280

National Association of State Energy Officials http://www.naseo.org/

National Center for Appropriate Technology (offers internships) http://www.ncat.org/

National Wind Coordinating Committee (NWCC) http://www.nationalwind.org/

-- NWCC has a well-researched summary of bird and bat concerns about wind power at http://www.nationalwind.org/publications/avian/wildlife_factsheet.pdf

-- Also click on the NWCC publications tab for avian studies found at http://www.nationalwind.org/publications/avian.htm

National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL http://www.nrel.gov/

NREL’s National Wind Technology Center http://www.nrel.gov/wind/

Renewable Energy Pictures (8000 free image downloads from NREL) http://www.nrel.gov/data/pix/pix.html

Net Metering, Table of State Rules http://www.irecusa.org/connect/net_metering.pdf?PHPSESSID=f50aad8224850731682635304dc309fa

Northern Plains Resource Council http://www.northernplains.org/about/default.asp

Our Wind Coop (Financing model for small wind groups) http://www.ourwind.org/windcoop/

RECYCLING:
Earth First Aid (Curbside Recycling in Billings, MT, Paper, Plastic & Aluminum)
Scott Berens, 406-698-0903 www.earthfirstaid.com

Renewable Energy Atlas of the West http://www.energyatlas.org

Renewable Energy Incentives & Hookup Requirements http://www.dsireusa.org/

Skytruth Satellite images of mining, oil & gas damage

Solar Cafe http://www.gardenearth.com/ Montana native Steve Corrick's web site on Global Climate Change

SOLAR POWER
FindSolar.com to locate solar pros and calculate net installation costs

SUBSIDIES TO THE ENERGY INDUSTRY For subsidies to the energy industry since the 1970s, see the Earth Track web site at http://www.earthtrack.net/earthtrack/index.asp

Tribal Energy Program (by DOE)see www.eere.energy.gov/tribalenergy
"Guide to Tribal Energy Development" at www.eere.energy.gov/tribalenergy/guide

Union of Concerned Scientists

http://www.ucsusa.org/clean_energy/renewable_energy/page.cfm?pageID=1505

US Department of Agriculture (USDA) loans http://www.rurdev.usda.gov/

US Senate Committee on Energy & Natural Resources http://energy.senate.gov/

Utility Wind Interest Group http://www.uwig.org/

Water Conservation, Check your usage calculator http://www.h2oconserve.com/

Western Governor's Association links to Energy Task Force Reports

Western Resource Advocates http://www.westernresourceadvocates.org/

Wind Author (Paul Gipe) http://www.wind-works.org/index.html

Wind Manufacturers

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