Recycling Coming to Cloudcroft?

Here is the Alamogordo Daily News article

Native Plant Sale in Alamogordo Tomorrow

Tomorrow (April 16, 2011), the Native Plant Society of New Mexico - Otero chapter, will hold its annual native plant sale from 8 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Rose Garden on 10th Street (across from the Alamogordo Public Library). Check it out for native and xeric plants for our area.

Green Energy Works presents to Cloudcroft School Board

A representative from Green Energy Works visited with Cloudcroft's School Board last Monday to explain the "Renewable and Clean Energy Bond Program" and how it could benefit the schools. A brochure was provided that outlines the program, along with a flyer explaining who Green Energy Works is.

To hear this presentation, you can visit the podcast for the April 11, 2011 school board meeting at http://cmsbears.podbean.com or download the podcast from iTunes.

Renewable Energy Conference and Lincoln County Solar and Sustainability Tour

The Renewable Energy Conference will be held at the Ruidoso Conference Center on April 22nd. For more details, you might email the contacts listed in the brochure below.

The Lincoln County Solar and Sustainability Tour will take place on April 23rd from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Directions and a description of the tour can be found here. (Updated April 14, 2011)

Earth Club helps with Clean-up

Members of Cloudcroft High School's Earth Club teamed up with a local exchange student from the Ukraine to pick up trash and debris from the swimming hole below the tunnel. The students donated their Sunday afternoon to remove almost a dozen sacks of trash from the area locally referred to as the "hippie dip."

Students remove garbage from the waterfall area.

The students hauled almost a dozen bags of trash
up the side of the mountain.

Greenhouse Underway at Cloudcroft Schools

The greenhouse project is finally underway inside the bus loop at Cloudcroft schools. Purchased with funds from the A+ for Energy Grant sponsored by BP, volunteers started pounding stakes into the ground this past fall. Then came the BIG freeze...and the only thing harder than pounding stakes into rock is pounding stakes into frozen rocks. Now that things have thawed out, we will once again be rounding up volunteers to beat more stakes into the ground.

Volunteer John Manford and volunteer/science teacher Jean Davis are starting to piece together the greenhouse.

Solar Heated Greenhouse Talk

Jim Money will be giving a presentation at the Alamogordo Public Library this Thursday, January 21, 2010, from 6pm-7:45pm about his solar heated greenhouses. Jim is also a great source for local-grown produce, which he delivers in the Alamogordo area each Wednesday.

Another School gets a Greenhouse

I know this isn't Cloudcroft, but since the project seems similar to ours I thought I'd link to it:

Mountain View Middle School Breaks Ground for Greenhouse

UPDATE: The Alamogordo Daily News links don't stay up for long, so the above link doesn't work anymore. You could get the article from their archives, though.

School Board Approves Grant Application

Tonight the Cloudcroft School Board approved the application for a grant for a 100KW Solar photovoltaic system. More information is available at www.cmsbears.net

Cloudcroft Schools looking at Solar Energy

On November 9th, the Cloudcroft School Board will consider the approval of the application for a grant for a 100 KW PV Solar system. If you would like to check out this program, you can visit the PED memo or the Governor's press release.

Cloudcroft Schools also received a grant for $150,000 for energy efficient lighting. The Governor has publicized this information here.

Of course, the energy-related grant from British Petroleum, which prompted the formation of this blog, was received this past summer. The school was awarded a $10,000 grant for a greenhouse, powered by solar photovoltaic and heated by solar thermal. This program will be used by science and agriculture students across the district to study botany and plant biology, as well as to learn about alternative energy sources.

Lincoln County Solar and Sustainability Tour

You will have an opportunity to tour several homes devoted to alternative energy and sustainable living on November 21, 2009. Visit http://sacramentomountainssustainableliving.blogspot.com for more information.

Solar Community Education Classes

New Mexico State University-Alamogordo, is offering the following community education classes:

Basics of Alternate Energy & Home Energy Conservation, October 29, 2009 from 5pm-9pm.

Passive Solar: Housewarming without Mechanical Systems, November 5, 2009 from 5pm-9pm.

Active Solar Energy and Living off the Grid, November 12, 2009 from 5pm-9pm.

All classes are taught by Ron Offley and are $20 each.