Venture over the back of Leland Hull Road today and take the righthand fork. You won’t find much. But forty years ago, this wooded hillside was alive with Franklin’s fabled utopian community, The Farm.
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What does it take to make change happen? A forward gaze and a lot of determination. Ask Mark Dupra. The Charlotte Valley Central School superintendent made energy savings a priority when he came to his job nine and a half years ago. It also mattered that the new energy source be as green as possible.
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Reconsidering Geothermal Systems If you have long presumed, as this writer did, that geothermal heating and cooling were practical only for vast industrial complexes or newly constructed McMansions, think again. “The house was always cold, even with the electric heaters on,” says Bryan Babcock, co-owner with his wife Betsy of Handsome Brook Farm and Bed
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This article is a continuation of “One House at a Time, Solving the Energy Crisis”, by Norm Farwell, published in the New Franklin Register #18, Fall 2012. Solving the Energy Crisis Here are a few principles to help with that. Forget upfront cost, think life cycle cost. The operating and maintenance costs of a building
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Download a PDF copy of the New Franklin Register Issue #18 (3.6MB) by clicking on the image at right. See the index of this issue, and links to all previous issues, on the index page. Issue #18, Vol. VI No. 3, Fall 2012
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