5:00 PM to 7:30 PM

Le Club Calumet
344 West River Road
Augusta, ME 04330
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You are cordially invited to attend the MABEP Membership Meeting.   This meeting will feature Chris Gregory, from the National SAVE Energy Coalition, to discuss pending federal legislation that could dramatically impact Maine’s energy efficiency and renewable energy businesses.

The House of Representatives passed the American Clean Energy & Security Act, a landmark climate and energy bill in 2009.  The Senate now has multiple proposals for passage of a similar climate and energy bill.  Chris plans to cover current and recently passed legislation that will impact Maine’s energy efficiency and renewable energy industries.  There will be a Q&A period.

The National SAVE Energy Coalition is a diverse group of organizations formed in 2008 to make sustainable energy a top federal legislative priority.  Their first campaign sought to make efficiency a centerpiece of the American Recovery & Reinvestment Act (ARRA).  You can find out more about their legislative initiatives by going to http://www.nationalsaveenergycoalition.org/index.htm 

In addition to his work for the National SAVE Coalition, Chris is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Epidemiology at the Boston University School of Public Health.  He is a Vietnam Veteran and a 1973 graduate of Brandeis University.
AGENDA
·    5-5:30 PM Cocktail reception
·    5:30-6:00 PM Meeting
·    6:00 – 6:45 PM Speaker
·    7:00 PM Dinner
·    Cost of meal is $25  (No charge for members not staying for dinner)
·    Non-member guest  $10  - Non-member guest staying for dinner $35

For a full brochure and registration form which you can mail or fax, please download the PDF below. MasterCard, VISA, American Express and Discover Card can be accepted, or you can mail a check or money order.

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Members who don't wish to purchase a meal can use the form below to register online for the membership meeting. If you're not a member, and would like to become one (this free meeting just being one of many benefits), you can fill this form now and head to the Join Page to become a member!

March 5, 2010:  Ventilating New & Existing Homes
Our third free training in partnership with the Maine Indoor Air Quality Council presents practical strategies to achieve core ventilation goals. Registration deadline is February 26, please download the PDF brochure below for more info and registration form.

This meeting featured Dr. Tom Tietenberg, a member of Maine Efficiency Trust.  Funding for energy efficiency is certainly on an uptick, in no small part due to the availability of stimulus funds.  But those funds currently have a two-year horizon.  What happens after that?  

Some argue that the carbon market may pick up the slack.  Having been a part of the design and evaluation of these types of markets for the better part of thirty years, Tom will share some thoughts on the carbon market-energy efficiency connection.  He will outline how these markets work, how the current debates over carbon market policy design in Washington could effect the market for energy efficiency and what the future might hold.

Having retired from Colby College in 2008 following a thirty-five year career teaching environmental and resource economics, Tom is a former President and current Fellow of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists.  The author of over 100 articles, essays and books, Tom was the team leader for the United Nations project that laid the foundation for the design of the emissions trading, joint implementation and clean development mechanism components of the Kyoto Protocol on Climate Change.

A video is available on the Videos page.

MABEP Board of Directors' Meeting
Monday, Nov. 9, 2:00 p.m.
11 Columbia St., Augusta

1. Minutes of Sept. 21st Meeting
   
   
2. Financial Report
   
   
3. January training conference
   
   
4. HERS Training and Providership
   
   
5. MSHA RFP
   
   
6. Report on USDOE "Roadshow"
   
   
7. Other business

You are cordially invited to attend the MABEP Membership Meeting. This  members-only meeting will feature a talk on windows and energy efficiency by Dr. Charlie Wing. (If you're not a member, Join!) One of Maine’s most well respected “energy gurus,” he founded Cornerstone's Energy Group in 1976. Dr. Wing is an acknowledged authority on home building and remodeling, and specializes in translating technical information into layman’s terms .

He founded the Shelter Institute, the nation’s first owner-builder school. A dynamic speaker, he has been the host and writer of a national PBS TV series about remodeling and is the author of 14 home-related books, including “How Your House Works” and “House Warming.” He holds a doctorate degree in physical oceanography from MIT and lives in West Bath, Maine.

AGENDA
· 5-5:30 PM Cocktail reception
· 5:30-6:30 PM Speaker
· 6:30 PM Dinner
· Cost of meal is $25 (No charge for members not staying for dinner)