Worried about staying warm and keeping a lid on your home heating bills this winter?

Free Energy Conservation Workshop
6:30 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 25, South Berwick Town Hall Auditorium

Experts will offer energy conservation and efficiency tips:
Bruce Monroe, Zero Draft Insulation
Mike Lassel, Lassel Architects
Jack Bingham, Seacoast Energy Alternatives Solar Store Anne Stephenson, Clean Air-Cool Planet
–energy audits
–insulation
–blower-door tests
–back yard turbines
–community purchasing of fuel and winterizing products

Children are welcome!  Child care and activities for children will be available

Know someone who needs their home winterized but can’t afford it? GreenUp! South Berwick and the South Berwick-Eliot Rotary Club will provide a free energy audit and winterizing assistance to eligible homeowners in both communities.  Please call 384-5921.

Energy Workshop sponsored by GreenUp! South Berwick

The following is a guest editorial from South Berwick citizen Nicholas G. Tsakiris. Mr. Tsakiris is a member of the South Berwick Solid Waste Committee.

Recently, South Berwick Councilors, voted to institute a “Pay-as-You-Throw” (PAYT) program to help manage the town’s growing solid waste problem. This means that residents of South Berwick will soon be asked to buy special garbage bags, with the sale of these bags going to help fund the cost of waste disposal. I admit that when I first heard about PAYT, I was very skeptical. Since that time, I’ve been researching the program and came to realize that PAYT actually rewards recycling. (more…)

Communities across our region are initiating efforts to reduce energy consumption, save money, and curb global warming. Eliot has a selectmen-appointed committee that performed a town-wide energy audit and wrote ordinances to regulate future wind and solar proposals. Kittery is installing a wind turbine at their transfer station and just signed on to the Mayors’ Climate Change Agreement. Portsmouth has a Committee on Sustainable Practices to provide input on sustainability initiatives throughout the City and has signed on to the Mayors’ Climate Change Agreement and adopted a resolution making the City an eco-municipality.

It’s time for South Berwick to get on board. To find out what we can do, join your neighbors at:

KEYS Region Smart Solutions Celebration
Free and Open to the Public!
February 7, 2008, 5:30pm-8 pm, Kittery Trading Post, Kittery

Keynote: John Rudolph, Bi-State Green Project

Hear about local towns’ solutions to curb global warming and how you can be involved! Representatives from Kittery, Eliot, York, South Berwick and the Portsmouth region will talk about 2008 plans and recent successes. The “Cool Kit” for the KEYS region will also be introduced. Refreshments will be served.

The event is sponsored by Maine Partners for Cool Communities and KEYS Region Organizations.

A South Berwick group can start small and grow from there. There are plenty of ideas and assistance to help groups and towns initiate sustainability practices. If you are interested in starting a sustainability group in South Berwick, attend the meeting or send an email.