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Cutting Edge Renewable Energy Tech Appearing in the Strangest Places

Mark — Sun, 04 Jun 2006 05:18:08 +0000

First it was Bio Town USA in Reynolds IN, and now it’s East Amwell NJ. If I would’ve had to guess, I would’ve thought that the cutting edge of renewable energy technology would be somewhere like Seattle WA, Madison WI, or some other progressive cool place with hippie/environmentalist leanings. Of course I’m not familiar with either Reynolds or East Amwell, but I suspect that neither place is a hotbed of forward thinking environmentalists.

Check out the first solar/hydrogen house in the US… if they ever let the guy actually turn it on.

Thanks to hydroguy for the tip on this story.

BioTown, USA

Mark — Thu, 04 May 2006 03:15:20 +0000

I would not have thought of Indiana as being a leader on the frontier of environmentalism. But lo and behold, Govenor Mitch Daniels declared Reynolds IN as BioTown, USA on Sept 13th 2005.

The newspaper INtake published an article last week that seems almost too good to be true. Not only is it about trying to make a small Indiana town produce almost all it’s own fuel, but they make it sound like it might not be that hard, and maybe it would even be profitable.

Check it out here:

http://www.intakeweekly.com/articles/5/024302-8225-154.html

I certainly hope that this experiment works out, because it could be a model for communities all over farming areas. Incredible.