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Businesses Going Green
Mar 8, 2010Featured in the New Hampshire Chonicle
We're all trying to live greener these days, and here in NH there are many individuals and companies that are doing all they can. But often those efforts go unnoticed. That's not the case anymore thanks to business activist Sarah Brown of Portsmouth. She founded "The Green Alliance".
Sarah devised a system where member companies go through a 60 question sustainability evaluation. They're graded on their environmental impact and are expected and encouraged to make strides toward even better practices. We'll see how it's done tonight. Read the full story here!
EARTHTEC and the University of New Hampshire Partner on Green Hat Giveaway
Mar 4, 2010Featured in Earth Times
PORTSMOUTH, N.H. - (Business Wire) EARTHTEC, an innovative eco-conscious company that turns recyclable plastic bottles into lifestyle apparel, is partnering with the University of New Hampshire (UNH) for a green giveaway at one of the most exciting men’s hockey games of the year. Fans attending the highly-anticipated March 5th face-off between the UNH Wildcats (Ranked #1 in Hockey East) and Boston College (Ranked #2 in Hockey East) will receive complementary eco-friendly fleece hats sporting their true team colors – blue, white…AND green.
These earth-friendly hats, made entirely out of recycled plastic bottles, will not only give hockey fans something of value – a practical, reusable item – but also an opportunity to do something for the environment - fewer plastic bottles sitting in landfills. EARTHTEC is able to convert plastic bottles into functional apparel and accessories, as described in a recent segment on WMUR’s NH Chronicle. Read the full story here!
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Living Green- Tips for leading a better, cleaner life from NH families
Mar 3, 2010Featured in Parenting NH
By Susan Nye
Concern for the environment and interest in living green has grown in leaps and bounds over the past few years. Many New Hampshire families are adopting healthy, green habits. If going green seems daunting, don’t despair. You don’t need to do a complete overhaul and go green all at once. Let a healthy lifestyle be your guide and adopt new habits over time.
Mike Turcotte, energy and environmental consultant, grew up green. His mother, Paula, started Nashua’s first volunteer recycling program. Mike has vivid memories of going house-to-house with his mother and brother passing out big yellow recycling bins. Mike urges all families to develop a recycling mindset. He encourages families to not only recycle bottles, cans and paper, but to also recycle kitchen and garden waste into compost.
Taliesin Mod.Fab TM
Mar 2, 2010Featured on www.taliesin.edu/pages/MODFAB.htm
The Taliesin Mod.FabTM is an example of simple, elegant, and sustainable living in the desert. The one-bedroom, 600-square-foot prototype residence relies on panelized construction to allow for speed and economy on site or in a factory. It can be connected to utilities or be "unplugged," relying on low-consumption fixtures, rainwater harvesting, greywater re-use, natural ventilation, solar orientation, and photovoltaics to reduce energy and water use. The structure is dimensioned and engineered to be transportable via roadway.
The Taliesin Mod.FabTM was designed and built by graduate and undergraduate students at the Frank Lloyd Wright School of Architecture with the faculty guidance of Michael P. Johnson and Jennifer Siegal, project manager Christian Butler, recent M.Arch graduate, and assistant project manager Nick Mancusi, current BAS student.
The structure can be visited on the student-led Taliesin West Desert Shelter Tour, Saturdays at 1:30, mid-November through mid-April. See the full story here!
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Familiarity Leads to Love for Rival Restaurants' Children
Mar 1, 2010Featured in Foster's Daily Democrat
EXETER — Blue Moon Market & Cafe and the Loaf and Ladle would appear to be bitter rivals to the common walkers-by on Water Street.
Several characteristics of the cafes contribute to this conclusion: the restaurants cater to the hungry hankering for a bowl of soup or sandwich, both provide wholesome original recipes and they happen to be situated directly across the street from each other.
But the rivalry is mere conjecture. In reality Blue Moon and the Loaf and Ladle are the site of an across-the-street romance.
Andrew Ulery of the Loaf and Ladle, and Meadow Ulery of the Blue Moon had been working across the street from each other for 12 years before getting married in June of 2007. What makes them seem like perfect rivals makes them the perfect couple. Read the full story here!
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ReVision Solar Install: Stop Motion
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Green Home & Living Show Feb. 27 - 28
Feb 11, 2010Featured in Foster's Daily Democrat
PORTSMOUTH — From practical and simple solutions designed to reduce home energy bills, to the area's largest selection of green and local products, you'll find it all at the 1st annual Seacoast Green Home & Living Show, Feb. 27-28 at The Frank Jones Center.
The show will include 20 seminars from industry experts, demonstrations on sustainable cooking, yoga and massage therapy sessions, as well as raffles and prizes – all covering over 21,000 square feet and three expo halls. The show will also feature the Green Alliance (GA) marketplace, highlighting local businesses specializing in organic, fair-trade, local and earth-friendly products.
The show is open-to-the-public Saturday 10 a.m. - 7 p.m., and Sunday 10 a.m. - 5 p.m. Tickets are $7 for adults and $5 for seniors and active military. Children 16 and under are free. Read the full story here!
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- American EcoThermal
- Cardea Chiropractic Well-Being
- Grander North America / Water Revitalization Ltd.
- GreenPoma.com
- Habitat for Humanity Re-Store
- Just Us Chickens Gallery
- Ridgeview Construction
- Serendipity of Exeter
- Ultra Geothermal
- Affordable Weatherization Solutions
- ReVision Energy
- Pocos Bow Street Cantina
- Two Ceres Street
- Suntree Tree Healthcare
Web site for recycled building stock starts today
Feb 9, 2010Featured in the Portsmouth Herald
Not long ago, I wrote about the Habitat for Humanity ReStore in Dover, a very cool place where people can find recycled and overstocked building material. And one of my first columns was about the work of Sarah Brown and the Green Alliance, a Seacoast green business organization.
The two have teamed up with Los Angeles-based diggerslist.com to launch New Hampshire diggerslist, one of the few on the East Coast, in the august company of only Boston and New York.
The diggerslist.com Web site acts essentially as an online marketplace but deals with recycled building materials and anything related to the building trade.
To get newhampshire.diggerslist.com up and running, the ReStore has downloaded nearly its entire inventory onto the site. It's a model that's been used across the country, said diggerslist founder Matt Knox.
"So far, ReStores are our biggest partners. It's a perfect win-win fit for us and for them," he said. Read the full story here!
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State, UNH team to help boost energy firms
Feb 8, 2010Featured on NH.com
Paul Bemis runs a start-up company that is trying to market a program to help calculate the amount of heat and power generated by computers and to help cool them down to save energy costs.
He’s hoping a new partnership announced Wednesday to link businesses developing clean energy products with experts at the University of New Hampshire and potential investors will be just the funding boost he needs for Applied Math Modeling Inc. in Concord – now with just four employees who work from home. Read the full story here!
Smuttynose owner sees growth, expansion
Feb 8, 2010Featured in the Portsmouth Herald
If you want to see what a company looks like at a time of rapid growth, visit Smuttynose Brewing Co. on Heritage Avenue in Portsmouth.
Every square foot, from floor to ceiling, is in productive use either brewing, bottling, packaging or preparing beer for shipment. Even the small lunchroom that once served as a hospitality area holds a 7,200 gallon cone-bottomed fermenting tank and an equally massive cylindrical conditioning tank where beer is stored while gravity slowly filters out sediments. Another tank will soon be added to the already tight space.
Smuttynose Brewing Co. had a breakout year in 2009 with revenues growing by more than 20 percent and is off to an even faster start in 2010, with January sales volume up 30 percent year over year. Read the full story here!
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