http://blogs.cornell.edu/deao news and information about DEA's cooperative extension programs Tue, 28 Jul 2009 17:31:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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. http://blogs.cornell.edu/deao/2009/07/28/questions-and-answers-from-energy-town-meetings/ 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 ... http://blogs.cornell.edu/deao/2009/07/17/energy-town-meeting-presentations-available-online/ http://blogs.cornell.edu/deao/2009/05/01/new-hhe-news-spring-09/ 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. http://blogs.cornell.edu/deao/2009/05/01/energy-efficiency-information-sheets/ 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 http://blogs.cornell.edu/deao/2009/04/29/spring-2009-hhe-news/ 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 ... http://blogs.cornell.edu/deao/2009/04/15/healthy-homes-training/ 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 ... http://blogs.cornell.edu/deao/2009/03/15/hello-world/