by Kerrie Kyde and John Snitzer We strongly support the use of solar power, and took advantage of the 2020 Solar United Neighbors cooperative in Montgomery County to install about 8 kilowatts of grid-tied solar production on our Dickerson roof. We have since built a retirement house in Frederick County and installed another solar system, […]
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By Doug Boucher In 2013, the Town of Poolesville became the first town in Montgomery County, and only the third in the state, to create its own renewable energy system. Located next to the municipal wastewater treatment plant on the town’s eastern edge, the five-acre solar array was relatively small, generating just 1.13 megawatts of
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by Richard Strock After almost 7 years of EV ownership, this past February, while returning home from San Diego, we experienced our first encounter with brutally cold temperatures (2°F), combined with snowfall and gusty winds. Driving a gasoline-powered vehicle in these conditions can be problematic, but driving an EV presents some unique challenges. Unlike a
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By Kerrie Kyde In the classic English fairy tale, three little pigs build themselves houses, one of straw, one of sticks, and one of brick. The Big Bad Wolf comes along and, smelling dinner inside the houses, blows down the ones made of straw and sticks, but he can’t blow the brick house down. Attempting
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Poolesville Green column for the Monocacy Monocle By Patrick Lee The heat is on this summer. As I write, we’re just exiting several weeks of a brutal summer heat wave and but are still staring down drought conditions in much of our area. If you haven’t received an alert yet, the Town of Poolesville is
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by Doug Boucher – President, Poolesville Green Monocacy Monocle column for May 2024 Spring has finally arrived in Maryland and I think we’re all celebrating the blooming of the wildflowers, the greening of the trees and the chance to walk the dog without even putting on a sweater. But it wasn’t that long ago that
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For Poolesville Green, by K.L. Kyde April weather brings out the “inner gardener” in many of us. By now, dedicated earth tillers already have potatoes and peas planted in their vegetable beds, and have cut back last year’s perennial stalks, which the overwintering insects and birds no longer need for shelter. Even those of us
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Karen Lefkowitz Poolesville Green column for the Monocacy Monocle, March 2024 If you are considering installing solar energy at your home you may encounter the term ‘net energy meter’, or ‘net capable meter’. It will be useful to understand what a net energy meter is and what it means. Most people install solar generation at
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Doug Boucher Article for the January 2024 issue of the Monocacy Monocle As the threat of climate change has become more and more evident, religious congregations have been reflecting on what they can do about it – not just as individuals but as communities of faith. Churches, synagogues, mosques and temples have found in their
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Doug Boucher Article for the December 2023 issue, Monocacy Monocle As electric vehicles (EVs) become more and more common on our roads and their prices keep dropping, we can start to see that they will lead to some important changes in how we live. Some of them are pretty obvious. Since EVs cost considerably less
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