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This past weekend Community Energy partnered with the Brooklyn Brewery to host a  Wind Power Weekend — a new event that gives visitors to the Brewery the opportunity to sign up for wind power!  This event was exciting for both the Brewery and Community Energy because it promoted the Brewery's long standing commitment to New York wind-generated Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) which offset 100% of their electricity usage, and it...

Tuesday morning while listening to NPR on my drive to work I heard a story about global warming that piqued my interest.  A small think tank in Oakland, California, the Breakthrough Institute, is attempting to reshape public opinion of global warming by reshaping the message that surrounds the issue.

I’m always looking for new ways to tell a story (hey, I’m in marketing), so I’m keen to the institute’s idea.  What they propose is...

I recently finished reading a very interesting book that I thought readers of this blog might like.  It is called "Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life", by Barbara Kingsolver.  I had read The Poisonwood Bible by Kingsolver a few years ago and loved it.  The Poisonwood Bible is a novel about an American missionary and his family, set in Africa in 1959, which follows the family members for the next thirty years.  It...

This past Friday, June 19th at 11:00 a.m., over 500 folks gathered in the small town of Lempster, New Hampshire, to celebrate the completion of the first modern, utility-scale wind farm in the state!   Iberdrola Renewables, the developer and owner-operator of the 24 megawatt (12 turbine) project, celebrated this milestone by hosting a wind farm dedication onsite with members of the local community, political dignitaries, customers and...

As a customer service and marketing manager for our commercial and institutional accounts I have the pleasure of working with other marketing managers, public relations contacts and decision makers on the customer’s side to help them promote and communicate their clean energy commitments.  Often times, the most important stakeholders that our customers are interested in communicating to are their employees and customers. 

Some...