A committee that has been reviewing the city of Holland s energy goals for the past year is ready to make its recommendations to the Holland City Council.
Our community has a passion for sustainable living and for Holland’s Community Energy Plan. The Holland Board of Public Works offers an easy option for choosing to use more sustainable energy the Elective Renewable Energy Rate.
Renewable energy is electricity from sources that produce little or no emissions by using resources that replenish themselves naturally, such as wind, landfill gas, and sunlight. Fifteen percent of the electricity supplied by Holland BPW comes from renewable resources.
The Elective Renewable Energy Rate gives customers a choice in their source of electricity. When customers choose additional renewable energy, their demand drives the BPW to secure additional renewable supplies.
Italian filmmaker, Fredrico Fellini, in his film Amarcord, playfully uses youthful memories to exaggerate the past. His characters move through a city square in trenches up to their necks in snow. The image reminds me of my own winters growing up in Michigan during the 1950s and 60s and makes me question the size of the drifts in those memories.
It’s a mistake to equate local weather with global warming, I know. But those of us “of an age” feel something in our bones. Winters are milder than in the past and seem to come later. Our first “real” snowstorm this winter was the 26th of January. Really? This “storm” in my youth would not have qualified as a storm, but rather just “a snow.”
HOLLAND — A group of local environmental activists have launched a new effort to lobby the city of Holland to commit to a more aggressive timeline for reducing the city s greenhouse gas emissions.Some of those involved in the efforts now helped a decade ago to shape Holland s current target of cutting emissions to 10 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions per person per year by 2050 — the goal outlined in Holland s Community Energy Plan, adopted in 2012.But they said the current
HOLLAND — A group of local environmental activists have launched a new effort to lobby the city of Holland to commit to a more aggressive timeline for reducing the city s greenhouse gas emissions.Some of those involved in the efforts now helped a decade ago to shape Holland s current target of cutting emissions to 10 metric tons of carbon dioxide emissions per person per year by 2050 — the goal outlined in Holland s Community Energy Plan, adopted in 2012.But they said the current