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The Mid-Atlantic Renewable Energy Association (MAREA) is a nonprofit organization, dedicated to informing and educating the public on renewable energy production, energy efficiency, and sustainable living through meetings, workshops, educational materials, and energy fairs.
Your membership makes these activities possible. If you can help, please [Join MAREA]. The support is greatly appreciated and your dollars are used carefully. (And, members get into the Festival free!) |
Community Projects & Workshops
MAREA conducts small group workshops on practical alternative energy projects throughout the year. Learn from experts in the field. MAREA members receive special discount on workshops. |
MAREA Monthly Meetings, the More the Merrier!
Next Public Meeting:
7 p.m. Tuesday, February 28, 2012
Subject to be Announced |
Download the Slide Presentation from the Jan 31 Meeting:
[Next Time the Power’s Out, Count on the Sun] |
Thanks to all of You! The Response was Overwelming!
(Feb 1, 2012) We were delighted but unbelievable overwhelmed (literally!) by the response last night to our first live streaming of a MAREA monthly meeting. Due to capacity limitations, we now know that many of you were denied on-line entry to the meeting. This was entirely unexpected and we apologize. We believed the terms of our agreement with the online video platform (dacast.com) were sufficient, but turns out we way underestimated how many of you would be interested! We are truly sorry for the frustration and inconvenience many of you experienced last night. But looking ahead, this enthusiasm is great news. We heard you. The on-line capacity issue is something we can, and will, fix.
This is all new for us—new equipment, new software, new ways of doing things. Except for the overload, most things went pretty well last night. Picture and sound were good, and we have lots of ideas for making them better next go round. We’re also working on ways to add live chat. Thanks for your suggestions and comments. If you have more, please send them along, themarea@gmail.org.
We did record last night’s presentation and plan to make it available on our website. But that seemingly simple act has its own set of issues! Hope to have it available soon.
We will live stream again at our next meeting on Tuesday February 28, where the topic will be Residential Energy Audits. The experienced (and entertaining) Anthony Hyde of Saving Green Energy Audits will be talking about how to select a home energy auditor, what you can expect to learn and how to proceed from there plus local and national programs for incentives, rebates, financing and utility rebates. We plan to compile and distribute a directory of energy auditors serving our area. If you are in the business and would like to be included in this directory (free), please watch for the form, which will be attached to future mailings and on our web site soon.
As the date gets closer, please visit here (www.themarea.org) for more meeting details and updated on-line viewing information. Thanks again for the gung-ho interest!
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For more information or to suggest a topic or speaker, contact:
Vera Cole, 215-258-0526 or veracole@comcast.net
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Last Tuesday of the month, 7:00
TEK Park, 9999 Hamilton Boulevard, Breinigsville, PA
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MAREA Educational Programs
MAREA is planning a series of two-hour workshops on possible topics that include, so far, solar electric design, solar hot water design, structural engineering for solar electric mounting systems, thermodynamics, commissioning solar electric systems, solar oven cooking, reducing electrical use in the home, all about RECs, considerations for commercial solar electricity installations, solar electricity for homeowners and wire crimping for solar installations. Whew! Let us know topics you would like covered and if there's a topic you, or someone you know, would like to instruct. Dates, locations and times will be announced soon. We expect them to be on Saturday mornings with a fee of around $45 for members. We're also nailing down plans for the next solar electric installation workshops. We'll send details as soon as they're available.
With ideas or questions, please contact Bill Hennessy, 484-560-4666, bill@berkssolar.com. |
Resource Recovery 2011
". . . Another Woman's Treasure"
Julie Fiorini,
Resource Recovery Coordinator
Recycling was an adventure! Who would volunteer to deal with that?!? But it's a RESOURCE- that's what saving the Earth is about! [READ MORE] |
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Higher Learning:
Rooftop Solar Workshop
From as far as Staten Island, NY to York, PA, participants in MAREA’s most recent Solar Installation Workshop sweated and smiled through four vigorous days of cooperative work and learning. This installation took place on a residential rooftop in Kutztown, PA at the home of Gene and Vivian Mosca.
[FOR MORE INFO AND PICS] |
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Use Google Calendar for MAREA Events
Sign up for access to our Google Calendar, and never miss another MAREA event! It’s easy and you can share your events too.
For more info: [MAREA Calendar].
Sure, you can check our website or read our newsletter to learn about our events, but, with Google Calendar, you can choose to receive reminders about our meetings and choose when and how you’d like to receive them.
Here’s how it works. Click the link below to send us an email asking us to add you to the calendar. After we’ve added you, you’ll automatically see our events on your Google Calendar. Click on an event that interests you and select Copy to My Calendar. Depending upon which version of Google you use, you’ll see Reminder either to the right of the event announcement or directly below it. Choose between an email or pop-up reminder and then select when you’d like to receive it. One reminder not enough? You can create as many as five for the same event!
Don’t worry if you don’t have a gmail account. You don’t need one. All you need is a Google account. It only takes a minute to sign up. Go to www.google.com and click on the Calendar option on the upper left side of the screen. If you don’t see it, click on More to find it on a drop-down list of options. On the calendar page, you’ll see a Create an Account button on the lower right of the screen. Click on the button to get to a page where you’ll enter your email address, select a password, and add a little information to set up your calendar.
If your organization lists its events on a Google calendar, let us know! Send a description of your organization and the type of events you list to info@paenergyfest.com.
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