May your Days be Brighter and Brighter

Greeting on this bitterly cold Solstice Morn in Wisconsin!  This is a deeply Holy time for me, one who is not very religious but undeniably given to fits of spirituality at times.  Usually when Nature unveils Her Beauty and Power and Mystery.
This Solstice I leave you with these words excerpted from a sermon given last December from a Unitarian Universalist minister,  Reverend [...]

Inspiration-CSE taking shape

This Saturday past our Community Supported Energy (CSE) club/group hosted a tour of Growing Power in Milwaukee, Wi. This was my second trip and it was just as inspirational as the first time.  This time we had almost 20 people in tow -many of them new to our group and had never come to a [...]

Bourgeois Happy Feeling

Heard that song by The Submarines in the latest iPhone commercial yet?  I absolutely love it, but a song that could very well have been the soundtrack to the Story of Stuff being used to promote something as consumption-rific as an iPhone is more than a little ironic.  But so is alot of our sustainability [...]

Willow Coppice Math Fun

We are actively looking in to designing a Community Supported Energy system here in JEfferson County Wisconsin based on a wood chip gasifier powering a small co-gen unit providing roughly 30,000 kWh of electricity and enough BTU’s to heat 10,000 gallons of water for tilapia aquaponics similar to what Growing Power of Milwaukee is doing. [...]