By Ashley Obara

On Wednesday evening November the 18th from 7 to 9 p.m., Repower America, the Green Alliance and several seacoast business members met for a Clean Energy Roundtable meeting. Owner, and GA member, Jack Bingham kindly hosted a packed room at his Seacoast Energy Alternatives Store located in Dover, New Hampshire.

Sarah opened the meeting with an enthusiastic introduction about her creation of the GA and her own views on energy conservation relating to clean energy. Her introduction was an excellent segway to the following nights speakers.

Jane Pendlebury from Pew Charitable Trust spoke first about her research in clean energy, and its relation to providing numerous jobs for New Hampshire and the nation. Jane was followed by interesting and informative presentations by Melissa from Ultra Geothermal and Jeff from Waterline Alternative Energies, who are both active GA business partners.

The most captivating speaker of the night was undeniably the SEA Solar Stores owner and founder Jack Bingham. Celebrating over a year of successful business, Jack spoke about the creation of the store. Jack explained his vision and passion for inspiring individuals and businesses alike, to make the switch to renewable home energy products. He concluded with a call to action statement to the room urging us as individuals to look to our Senators and Congressmen for support. “We need to engage in this battle,” Jack declared.

The evening concluded with a presentation from Dave Anderson from Repower America who actively engaged the audience in Repower America’s “Call to Action” plan. Upon arrival each attendee was provided with blank paper and envelopes to create personal call to action letters to our State Senators. He urged the crowd to write to Senators Judd Gregg and Jeanne Shaheen showing their support in the investment of clean energy to create new jobs for the state of New Hampshire. The roundtable turned out to be enlightening to me, and will hopefully inspire those who attended to take action in the direction of cleaner energy solutions for the future.