Decentralization
An important way to decrease dependence on transmission lines and centralized electricity generation is to decentralize energy production—using solar, wind, and micro-hydro to generate electricity as close as possible to the point of use.
Energy
What will fuel our world and how can we meet our needs without polluting the Earth and depleting it’s resources?
The Drive-In Utopia is Closed, by Dennis Lieb
Regional Approach to Energy vs. Increasing Power Line Capacity – The Alliance opposes the new major transmission lines proposed for the mid-Atlantic electricity grid. Given environmental concerns, peak oil, global climate instability, and local ecosystem stability, the new transmission lines, like other increases in the grid, are unsustainable.
vs. Power Lines
Peter Crownfield wrote on Oct 6, 2011 re: “Power line being fast-tracked”: The Express-Times doesn’t seem to realize that this power line will do nothing whatsoever to improve power supplies to this region….. Express-Times Thursday, October 06, 2011, 4:00 AM EDITORIAL … more
Permaculture
Permaculture has considerable design promise but poses organizing difficulties. On the plus side, its principles provide a transformative pathway toward a sustainable way of living, one that is a real, doable alternative to the unsustainable, life-threatening practices of our current … more
Regional Sustainable Energy Center
by Joris Rosse With a start-up grant from The Century Fund in hand, the Alliance has been moving ahead with its Sustainable Energy Center Project, a coordinated regional approach that we believe will help the Greater Lehigh Valley address the … more
Fifty Ways to Help Save the Planet
What you can do The problem is so vast and the urgency so great that advice which suggests you turn off the tap while brushing your teeth or switch off lights and standbys when they are not needed or go … more
Dave Slaperud’s Testimony
Testimony of Dave Slaperud, of Stop The Lines, Fredon NJ, at the 10-23-10 Gathering at the Portland PA-Columbia NJ footbridge. Thanks to everybody for coming out today. Stop The Lines has been challenging this project since we first found out … more
Pennsylvania and New Jersey Unite Against Coal-By-Wire Transmission Lines
October 23 2010, Portland, PA—Today citizens from Pennsylvania and New Jersey united with environmentalists and citizen action groups to oppose the expansion of the Susquehanna-Roseland transmission lines. The rally took place at the Portland to Columbia walking bridge which joins … more
Miriam MacGillis OP: Outline of 10/23/10 Testimony
Miriam MacGillis is the director of Genesis Farm Ecological Learning Center in Blairstown NJ Context: The expansion of power lines is happening at the same time we are facing projections of peak oil and rising costs, as well as aggravated … more
Implementing Climate Protection Agreements
The Climate Protection Agreement pledges that ‘We will strive to meet or exceed Kyoto Protocol targets for reducing global warming pollution by taking actions in our own operations and communities’, and lists 12 specific points. The following suggestions depict a … more