June 2009
I dont just bask in the sunshine;
I use it to power my home
Let the sunshine in for less. Thanks to the commonwealth's newly approved PA Sunshine Solar Program, Pennsylvania homeowners and small business owners may install new solar technologies at a discount. Approximately $100 million in rebates are available to help fund solar electric and hot water projects, reimbursing eligible consumers up to 35 percent of the purchase and installation costs of solar energy technology. Go here for an application and further enlightenment.
Be green, earn green
My Emissions Exchange is a personal carbon exchange web site that allows you and your friends to economically benefit from reducing carbon emissions. This isn’t just a bunch of hot air. The first step is to sign-up and create a CO2 profile, then you track and lower your CO2 output. The household carbon reductions are certified as carbon credits and those credits are traded on the global carbon offset market. The process ends with proceeds in your personal account. You earn money and the environment benefits. How’s that for synergy?
Click your mouse, plant a tree
For the second year, the Odwalla Plant a Tree program will donate $100,000 worth of trees to 11 state park systems across the nation based on the “votes” of web site visitors. Go here and click on Pennsylvania. Add to the treevitalization of Penn’s woods!
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Congratulations to Jeffrey Brunsink from Media, the winner of a monthly drawing from the SEEDS subscription list. Mr. Brunsink receives a copy of It’s Easy Being Green: A Handbook for Earth Friendly Living. .
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iConservePA is a program of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Edward G. Rendell, Governor.
PAiCon of the month
Meet John, an “activist for change” from Buckingham who gardens for wildlife and works to conserve natural habitats with the cooperation of local people. Become a PAiCon like John and plant your face on the pages of iConservePA. Everyone can be an activist for change
Did you know?
A $400 prize pack of Ames True Temper garden tools (18 items in all) is waiting to be won at iConservePA. Go to Plant, Post, and Win and submit pictures of your native plantings. You’ll automatically be entered in the October 2 grand prize drawing and you could win a copy of Bringing Nature Home: How You Can Sustain Wildlife with Native Plants, an acclaimed book by Doug Tallamy, in monthly drawings through September. Submissions must be received by October 1.
Spotlight on…
Skippack Golf Club at Evansburg State Park in Collegeville. Skippack is an Audubon International Cooperative Sanctuary and a practitioner of Integrated Pest management (IPM) program to reduce the use of chemical pesticides. They are also DCNR’s first iConcessionaire – demonstrating “greener” practices and helping to message about conservation.
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