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Geothermal Green: An Energy Revolution at CVCS

New Franklin Register, NFR21 / By Marjorie Kellogg

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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A closeup of the heat pump in the basement

Let the Earth Do the Work

New Franklin Register, NFR19 / By Marjorie Kellogg

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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