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What happens to a New Mexico commercial customer if the customer refuses to pay a bill for no gas consumed to support energy efficiency program?

New Mexico Date-based yes Protection Dates November 15-March 15 Temperature-based no Seasonal Policy A public regulated utility company shall not disconnect service to…

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Tuesday September 18, 2012 15:50



Ms Annette Gardiner, President

New Mexico Gas Company



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Hello Ms Gardiner,



Flawed methodology, imo,…

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Thursday September 13, 2012 17:14

Commissioner Marks responded to the 'spam?' email on Wednesday September 12, 2012 at about 18:45.

Email has not bee read…

Many of you may have heard of the recent report fromscientists going to bat for endangered species. The list of 100 most at risk species raises some tough questions: Do humans having a moral/ethical responsibility to save species or do we leave things as survival of the fittest? If there isn't money to save all the species, do we prioritize and how do we decide what ought to be…

Sometimes the doom and gloom of environmental issues get me down. So it is always refreshing to find new, cool inventions people are designing to bring some practical resolutions to the problems. You'll see a new post in news items on GreenLine today about a small company called BioLite, that's producing an efficient wood stove/ electric charger for developing nations. They started by first designing a popular…

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is offering prizes to student teams from colleges and universities across the country that design the best stormwater management system. The new competition, called the Campus RainWorks Challenge, can involve teams of students in landscape architecture, planning and engineering.

Stormwater carries…

It makes for a great, and ironic in some ways,when a Texas farmer loses an eminent domain fight against a big transnational oil company. It is David vs. Goliath. It is agriculture vs. oil. It is Texas, where people generally love their oil producers. It is one of those issues that creates strange coalitions of Tea Partiers and conservatives with far-left…

I must admit to being a little shocked to find out there is a formula for deciding which endangered species to save. I probably shouldn't have been, but it seems somehow wrong that such a formula exists. It means humans believe we can't and shouldn't save all species. Why? Because we don't have enough money to save them all.

At least that's the premise in this article from Business Insider.It…

If you are looking for tips on how to live off-grid (in style) check out Laurie and Ed Essex's two blogs. They are making the transition from urban condo to off-grid country living. They do a fine job of documenting the progress and offering tips to help others with the process.

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Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2012 9:23:48 AM



Subject: Do you know more about energy efficiency ... 3/10%



Hello Mr Teschler, Contents of your article Do you know more about energy efficiency than a regulator?

causes me to make you aware of another unfortunate New Mexico event.



New Mexico Gas Company is pushing energy efficiency…

Northern New Mexico is home to a lot of small farms. It is the way families have long survived with little money and a small plot of land.

Urban gardening and farming seems to be making a come back as well with interest in a return to healthier, less processed foods. I stumbled across this cool little radio blog on Google called Small Home Farm Radio. Blogger Erin, raised on farms, ended up in the city at age 12. She yearned…

I've long been fascinated by architecture and green building. My dream some day is to own a small, completely energy efficient, beautifully built house - the kind at least half the world could live in if they had a little financial help.

Here are some recent ones promoted by different designers:

The artistic recycled transportable shelter: Gomes

The …

Tuesday July 24, 2012 13:01



Solar generation of electricty works well when the power produced matches the load.



Large-scale solar generation matched to home loads may be an expersive scam? Think solar powered electric clothes dryer.





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Google 'shabhab mozaffari…

On a happier note than black lung disease, here's one of the inventors coming up with the new products that can help move us off of coal-fired power and bring practical energy to even the poorest places in the world.

Santa Fe based nonprofit Bioneers carried a radio program today about Buckminster Fuller and his design genius. MIT architecture professor Shiela Kennedy is carrying on the genius with a portable energy producing project called MATx…

Until U.S. policy makers and utility companies commit to moving the whole energy system off non renewable sources, a good portion of the electricity most of us use in Santa Fe and New Mexico at large comes from coal-fired power plants. The least policy makers can do is make sure existing laws are upheld and the health of coal miners is protected as much as possible from black lung disease. That's not happening according to a recent series of  reports from NPR.…

SCHOTT SOLAR CLOSING ABQ PLANT — Schott Solar told the Journal it will close its Albuquerque plant Friday and lay off 200 workers. About 50 employees will stay on to ramp down the plant before it closes for good later this summer. Schott is closing it photovoltaic panel production, but will move its concentrated solar operation out of state.



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Wednesday June 27, 2012 11:11



Hello Ms Homan,



Final foil in the power point presentation summarized at

http://www.prosefights.org/nmgco/intervene/hearing/hearing#pptx invites questions.



I did not attend June 8 meeting because we were on…