Green Power Links
AirHead Emissions Calculator
Helps you calculate approximately how much air pollution you are responsible for
in a given month, and target your pollution-reduction efforts to your biggest
problems.
Alliance for Climate Protection
The Allliance's mission is to persuade the American people — and people elsewhere in the world – of the importance and urgency of adopting and implementing effective and comprehensive solutions for the climate crisis. The Alliance is undertaking an unprecedented mass persuasion exercise based on scientific facts. Through a new combination of non-partisan alliances with Americans from all walks of life and innovative and far-reaching communication techniques the Alliance will focus on presenting the facts about climate change and its solutions to the general public in an accurate, clear and compelling manner. Use the website to learn how to help stop global warming in your home, community,and workplace,influence community leaders, and more. You can also sign the Alliance's pledge, making a commitment to help stop global warming.
Repowering Montana: A Blueprint for Homegrown Energy Self-Reliance
This new 2007 publication from the Alternative Energy Resoures Organization (AERO) explains how all of Montana's power needs can be met using conservation and clean, renewable energy while creating jobs, saving money, and revitalizing rural and urban communities.
Carbon Pollution
Calculator
Use this website and its worksheet to easily tally your own personal “carbon budget.”
Business
Council for Sustainable Energy
Advocates policies that promote the nation’s economic, environmental, and
national security goals. Members of the Council represent companies on the
cutting edge of efficient, economic and environmentally sound technologies, such
as fuel cells, solar power, cogeneration, and wind power.
Clean Energy States Alliance (CESA)
Twelve
U.S. states have established funds to promote renewable energy and
clean energy technologies. CESA is a non-profit project to provide information
and technical services to these funds and to work with them to build and expand
clean energy markets in the U.S.
Cleaner and Greener
A program of Leonardo Academy Inc., a nonprofit organization dedicated to
reducing pollution. The Cleaner and Greener Environment Program helps
individuals, organizations, and businesses have a direct impact on reducing
pollution.
Clean
Power Research
Designs analytical methods to evaluate clean energy investments (photovoltaics,
solar thermal, wind, energy efficiency) and builds software programs based on
these methods. These programs are licensed to vendors and other parties to help
their customers make purchase decisions. Website contains 10+ years of research
results.
Climate
Change and Montana
Learn more about how greenhouse gases affect Montana by downloading this
Environmental Protection Agency document (pdf format).
Communities
and Green Power Programs
The U.S. Department of Energy's Smart Communities Network includes a section on
green power that offers examples of green power programs and other efforts on
the local, utility, state, and national levels.
Customer Choice
Electricity and natural
gas customers in NorthWestern Energy's service territory can select the company
that provides their supply of energy. Find out more on this website.
Community Office
for Resource Efficiency (CORE)
A nonprofit organization that promotes
renewable energy and energy efficiency in western Colorado and beyond. Its
primary focus is in the Roaring Fork Valley, where CORE works on energy,
transportation, and sustainable architecture to help create a more sustainable
future.
Distributed
Energy Program
Describes DOE's Distributed Power Energy Program and its activities
and provides information and current news about barriers to distributed power,
policies and regulations, technical interconnection issues and upcoming events.
Environmental
& Energy Study Institute
Helps meet the critical need for timely information, the exchange of ideas,
and rigorous policy debate on major environmental and energy issues. EESI
promotes the development of public policy options that will sustain people, the
environment and natural resources, and educates policymakers and other key
individuals and constituencies with diverse perspectives through Capitol Hill
briefings, roundtables, policy analysis and concise issue papers.
Environmental Protection Agency Global Warming Site
Answers these questions about global warming: What is the problem? What do we
know? How much greenhouse gases do we emit? How serious is it now and in the
future? What’s being done?
Featured Green Power Reports
A list of select reports from DOE's Green Power Network.
Green-e
A voluntary certification program for renewable electricity products. The
Green-e Program sets consumer protection and environmental standards for
electricity products, and verifies that Green-e certified products meet these
standards. Electricity products that meet the Green-e Standard for environmental
excellence are denoted by the Green-e logo.
Green
Energy News
A free information source
for news about
clean, efficient, and renewable energy.
Green Power
Marketing in the United States: A Status Report
Find out what's happening in green power marketing in the United States.
Green
Power
Network
Learn more about green power from DOE's Green Power Network. The website
includes a host of useful information, including primers and other publications,
news, upcoming events, and more.
Green Power Partnership
This voluntary EPA program encourages organizations to use green power as a part
of best-practice environmental management. On its website you will find
information about green power, its benefits, green power leaders, and how to
participate in the Partnership.
Green Tags: A Renewable
Energy Option Available to Everyone
A guide that explains how green
tags work and how they benefit the environment.
Harvesting Clean Energy
This website, which features Northwest renewable energy technology profiles and
news, is maintained by Climate Solutions, a nonprofit organization based in
Olympia, Washington. Its efforts have been supported in part by Region X of the
U.S. Department of Energy and the U.S.
Wind Powering America
Program. The group’s goal is to build awareness of the benefits of renewable
energy technologies for rural landowners and communities, and support
implementation through technical and educational resources.
How Clean Is the
Electricity I Use?
Use this EPA Power Profiler to check how clean your energy is.
Montana
Electricity Sector
State Energy Alternatives gives a state-by-state snapshot of renewable energy
resources, technologies, and policies. Note that Information on the website does
not reflect Montana’s restructured electricity sectors.
Montanans for a Healthy Climate
A group dedicated to safeguarding Montana’s unique outdoor heritage. By bringing together conservation, recreation, agriculture, business, and other communities, the group hopes to provide possible solutions to climate change.
NW Energy Coalition
An alliance of
organizations, utilities, and businesses from Oregon, Washington, Idaho, Montana,
Alaska, and British Columbia that promotes energy conservation and renewable
energy resources promotes development of renewable energy and energy
conservation, consumer protection, low-income energy assistance, and fish and
wildlife restoration on the Columbia and Snake rivers.
Renewable Northwest Project
A broad coalition of public-interest organizations and energy companies
created to promote renewable energy development in the region. Since its
inception, RNP has been a forceful advocate in Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and
Montana, for basing the region’s energy future on clean, renewable resources,
such as solar, wind and geothermal.
Sustainable Energy
Coalition
Brings together more than 30 national business, environmental, consumer, and
energy policy organizations working to promote increased federal support for
energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies and reduced federal support
for unsafe or polluting energy resources. |
