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Idea |
Description |
Project type/product |
Interested parties |
Investor group - alternative energy |
Group focused on investing opportunities in alternative energy companies, with emphasis on local start-ups |
Meetings |
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Alt energy supplier guide |
Build guide for locally sourced alternative/green energy products and services |
Yellow page |
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Reskilling energy tech |
Courses to teach energy savings and generating skills |
Courses |
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Lobbying smart grid
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Government outreach program to increase opportunities for distributed energy generation |
Govt activism |
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Awareness raising energy resillience |
Films, talks, workshops, - prepare and distribute materials |
Presentations |
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Library books films |
Resource library |
Physical collection |
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Speaker bureau |
See above – maybe getting some high profile speakers to come in (i.e., Richard Heinberg) |
Resource, funding, event organization |
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Outreach other groups - VPO, bullfrog |
Networking with other organizations for outreach, funding, members |
Networking |
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Solar, econol, tidal energy, club
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Research group to provide input on state of art technology to Energy Group network |
Meetings, reports, pilot projects |
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