energy savings Archives

Building Community Resilience One Window at a Time

March 30, 2021March 30, 2021 by Ruah Swennerfelt

In 2019 the Vermont Charlotte Energy Committee and Transition Town Charlotte (population 4,500) participated in an exciting initiative to make and install inexpensive energy-saving window inserts in ten Charlotte homes and one community building.

Cheap, Simple DIY Water Catchment and Irrigation

July 8, 2020 by Kara Stiff

I like the idea of living within the rain budget of my area, which isn’t too hard because we usually get too much. I like the idea of having irrigation water even if I lost access to my local water utility for some reason (power outage, income outage, anything).