Questions and Answers from Energy Town Meetings
Click over to YouTube to see the Q&A sessions from our Energy Town Meetings. Here, for example, Joe answers a question about Duct Tape vs. Duct Sealer.
Energy Town Meeting Presentations Available Online
In 2004 and 2006 a series of Energy Town Meetings took place across New York State. The presentations given by Dr. Joe Laquatra, Mark Pierce, Gay Canough, Andrew Fisk, and Mark Dechiro are now online. You can see the whole list of them by going to the DEA multimedia page and scrolling to ‘teleconferences.’ The list below links to each of the videos directly.
- Residential Lighting 101
- Energy $mart Program
- Renewable Energy for your Home
- Solar Energy I
- Solar Energy II
- Home Performance and EnergyStar I
- Home Performance and EnergyStar II
- Keeping your Home Warm
- Lower Energy Bills
- Indoor Air Pollution
- Indoor Mold
- EnergySmart.Org Efficiency
- Lighting Energy Comparison
Please share these videos with friends, family, and anybody who wants to learn a bit more about energy use in their homes.
New HHE News – Spring 09
Energy Efficiency Information Sheets
Please remember that we have many available consumer information sheets on various home energy efficiency topics. All of these sheets can be downloaded and printed on your association letterhead. The link on the right ”Energy Efficiency Information“ provides a full list of these sheets.
Spring 2009 HHE News
Articles:
Air Pressure and Energy Efficiency
by Joe Laquatra
The Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative & the Debate over Cap & Trade versus a Carbon Tax
by Mark Pierce
Architectural Styles of New Yorks Older Homes
by Mark Pierce
To view HHE News go to: http://www.human.cornell.edu/che/DEA/outreach/upload/HHE-news-springr-09NJ.pdf
Healthy Homes Training
Cornell Cooperative Extension is partnering with the New York State Department of Health (DOH) and the National Center for Healthy Housing to provide two training sessions for those interested in developing expertise in healthy homes issues. These two-day events will be held May 5-6 at the offices of CCE Albany County in Voorheesville and May 19-20 in East Greenbush, New York (site to be announced). These sessions will be offered to a limited number of Extension Educators free of charge. Travel expenses, including hotel and per diem, will be reimbursed by DOH. For more information, contact Joe Laquatra: JL27@cornell.edu.
Welcome!
This is your new direct portal to learn what is happening with Design and Environmental Analyisis outreach. We plan to keep this website up to date with important news that affects our Cooperative Extension programs and the county educators. This website will be a place to learn about upcoming programs and events. The sights and sounds of these events will be readily available through this new medium. Additionally, this website will allow for a new kind of discussion to take place.
We hope you can take advantage of the opportunities that this website will present over the coming months. We also would like your feedback about what is working and what needs improvement.
Thank you and welcome!