Chris Mathis at Best 3 Conference in Atlanta, on solving the next energy crisis

Click here to read an article posted on smartplanet.com,  a CBS website dedicated to distributing information on making our world a better place to live, about the lecture Chris Mathis delivered at the Best 3 Conference in Atlanta.  The lecture titled "Why Buildings Matter: The Necessary Journey from Failure to Delivered Performance Imperatives" addresses our insatiable appetite for energy and two possible solutions...building power plants or fix our buildings.

North Carolina 2012 Energy Conservation Code FREE Download

Check out the new 2012 North Carolina Energy Code offered on the ICC website as a free download.  Click here to link to the ICC website!

Clean Energy in the Mountains

Check out MC2 staff as well as other energy advocates of Western North Carolina speak about we work for a cleaner, more efficienct energy future:

- http://energync.org/blog/ncsea-news/2011/11/15/the-face-of-clean-energy-in-north-carolina/

Press Release: North Carolina Adopts New Energy Code Effective January 1, 2012

On Friday, June 24, 2011, Governor Beverly Perdue signed SB 708 into law and, with it, approved a new Energy Conservation Code for the residential and commercial buildings in North Carolina. This new code, the fruit of over two years of work, will save home and business owners money on their monthly energy bills and help retain and create jobs in every region of our state. It delivers significant improvements in insulation levels, window performance and building envelope air leakage reduction. The new code also includes the High Efficiency Residential Option (HERO) Appendix which delivers a 30% improvement in minimum energy efficiency over the state’s current energy code. The new NC Energy Conservation Code has an effective date of January 1, 2012.

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A 4 year old's thought of the day....

 There must be a better way to power a "zero emission vehicle" than from coal burning power plants.