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GreenSpeaks
Community Awareness Programs

GreenSpeaks
Community Awareness Programs

GreenSpeaks
Community Awareness Programs

GreenSpeaks
Community Awareness Programs |
LI
Green offers GreenSpeaks, an educational program designed to provide
noncommercial, unbiased, relevance based knowledge about green topics.
The programs are designed to be highly interactive with plenty of
opportunity for questions from the audience. Attendees leave these
meetings with resource handouts so that they can easily find the
products and other items they need to immediately apply the steps that
they learn about at this event.
This is the upcoming
GreenSpeaks schedule:
Energy Efficiency
What You Need To Get Your Home Ready For Winter 2008 / 2009
Wednesday August 13th,
6:30 PM at Cold Spring Harbor Library and Environmental Center
Click here for directions.
Join our panel of experts
to help get the tools that you need to
reduce fuel and electric bills while decreasing greenhouse gas
emissions in your home and business. Specific topics that will be
discussed include: *
Preparation of
individualized work plans to make homes and buildings more energy efficiency
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Phased approach
for home energy efficiency remediation focusing first on highest return on
investment items first *
Economic and
environmental benefits of home energy efficiency measures
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Break out of
work that homeowners can do themselves versus needing a contractor's assistance
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Financing programs that will help pay for energy efficiency home improvements
Participants in this program will have access to
the LI Green Free Home Energy Audit program, being offered in conjunction with
other nonprofits including the Sierra Club, Bethpage Federal Credit Union and
Stony Brook University.
Making Your Home and
Buildings Non-Toxic With "Green" Materials, Cleaning and Landscaping
Thursday September 18th,
6:30 PM at Cold Spring Harbor Library and Environmental Center
Click here for directions.
The replacement
and use of safer alternatives to building supplies, cleaning materials, lawn
products and pesticides made from toxic materials is something that all of us
need to look at very closely but it is also one that is jumbled by very unclear
marketing messages. The purpose of GreenSpeaks is to clear up these confusions.
Every member of the GreenSpeaks panel has been working with green alternatives
for years, in some cases decades. They will help you break through the clutter
and get clear understanding about things like:
* How buildings can make people sick and why you need to worry about this.
* The reasons that children, because of their unique physiology, are especially
at risk to illness from environmental toxins.
* What building materials contain the least amounts of volatile organic
compounds, formaldehyde, heavy metals and other dangerous chemicals.
* How you can keep your lawn green and lush without hazardous pesticides and
fertilizers.
* Non toxic alternatives to cleaning materials made of toxic chemicals that will
be just as effective.
Need
More information? 631-721-1908 or
www.ligreen.com/greenspeaks
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allows registered users or anyone to collaboratively create, edit,
link, and
organize the content of a website, usually for reference material. Wikis
are often used to create
collaborative
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power community websites." Wikipedia
LI Green has begun to host this
powerful technology at our Stony Brook University data center.
While presently in a test state (use at your own risk) the system is
ready for people to create pages, describe their experiences, tell about
their companies and products. Long term the goal is for the LI
Green Wiki to be the single point for information about green business
on Long Island.
You can connect to the LI
GreenWiki at
http://wiki.ligreen.com
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