Pat Murphy discusses the background & implications of global oil depletion, why the most widely-discussed "sustainable" and "green" solutions are inadequate, and offers viable energy curtailment tactics for food, housing and transportation. Pat Murphy is the executive director of Community S...
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Andy Robinson of SEDEAC Building Research Council at the School of Architecture at the University of Illinois discusses SEDAC’s work to encourage energy efficiency in commercial buildings with the hope to reduce energy use by 70%, followed by a reduction to net-zero energy use as renewables come...
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The American Wind Association's Hans Detweiler talks through the AWA and Dept of Energy's report on how to get to a fifth of the nation's electricity from wind by the year 2030. Taped August 10th, 2008 at the Illinois Renewable Energy Association's annual fair held in Oregon, Illinois.
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Dr. Anders Carlson of the School of Geology and Geophysics at the University of Wisconsin discusses the rapid deglaciation of the Laurentide Ice Sheet during the early holocene and it’s implications for our future. Taped August 9, 2009 at the Illinois Renewable Energy Fair oregon, Il
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A talk by Kaymar Enshayan, director University of Northern Iowa Local Food Project. Local governments, economic development entities & other community organizations have a key role to play to invest in local food, energy & public infrastructure that will add resilience to the local econo...
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Four members of the McHenry County Regional Plan Commission called for a special meeting to discuss proxy voting, concerns about the time left to complete the the plan, how public comment would be treated, the mapping policies and the non-policy portions of the plan text.Part 1 is raw video of t...
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Readings by Joel Greenberg from his book Of Prairie, Woods and Water with music and readings by Tom and Chris Kastle, which brings to life the voices of early settlers and visitors to the Chicago region and their impressions of the natural surrounds. Taped April 27th, 2008 at Garfield Farm Museum...
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Portion of an update on the state of wind power development in the United States by Hans Detweiler of the American Wind Association. Taped August 9th, 2009 at the Illinois Renewable Energy Association’s Eighth Annual Illinois Renewable Energy Fair at the Ogle County Fairgrounds in Oregon, Il. Du...
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Linda Wigington seeks to demonstrate the feasibility of achieving deep energy reductions in existing dwellings through the North American Thousand Homes Challenge. Linda Wigington is founder and special project director of Affordabe Comfort, Inc.Taped August 9th, 2009 at the Illinois Renewable E...
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Dave Kraft of the NEIS presents a plan to convert nationally to renewable electrical energy generation with no carbon emissions and without resort to nuclear energy by the year 2050 in this 2-part presentation. Taped August 9th, 2008 at the Illinois Renewable Energy Association's annual fair in O...
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Part 1 of a raw video of the first of the Regional Plan Commission working meetings to refine the 2030 plan following a round of citizen comment. An unpopular map is discarded, a plan to evaluate a possible reliever airport is retained and a discussion of whether a sizable portion of land betwee...
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