Piedmont Environmental Alliance

Piedmont Environmental Alliance (PEA) is looking for an Executive Director.  A successful applicant must be highly motivated, committed to environmental sustainability, and productive in an independent work setting. Excellent communication skills and proficiency with use of online database, Microsoft Office, and social networking tools required.  Click here to see full job description.   

If your energy bills are too high, or if you want to make your home more comfortable and environmentally friendly, this workshop is right for you!  Every day, air leaks let in the hot summer air or let out your heat in the winter, making you air conditioner and heater work more than it has to. 

An enhanced version of Piedmont Environmental Alliance's new weatherization resource, Weatherization Makes $ense is now available!  Find information on why weatherizing your home is a great investment, how to weatherize your home on your own or with a contractor, and comprehensive details on the federal tax incentives and programs to help you pay for it all.  Other outstanding features you will now find include:

-A full weatherization glossary

-A focus on how weatherization can be especially relevant and beneficial to lower-income families

-A focus on home energy auditing---professional services vs. on your own

N.C. A&T State University's Energy Engineers Starters' Program summer camp for middle- and high-school students, recently visited Winston-Salem’s first solar-energy project.  Volt Energy installed the 10-kilowatt solar-panel system in April as part of a statewide initiative encouraging clean, alternative-energy sources.  Click here to see the full story.

According to the US EPA, 136 million tons of construction and demolition debris enter our solid waste stream per year, which is almost 40 % of all solid waste.  Reuse Alliance has launched a new statewide construction and demolition materials exchange website to divert this solid waste.  Reuse Alliance is, a national nonprofit association that increases public awareness of reuse and strengthens the reuse sector by connecting, supporting and promoting its members www.reusealliance.org. 

Volt Energy, an early stage renewable energy firm, announced today it has completed the first solar powered electric generating project located in downtown Winston-Salem.  The roof top system is located at 224 Town Run Lane at the office of ophthalmologist Dr. David Branch.  The 10kw solar panel powered system is part of a state-wide initiative to encourage the generation of energy through clean alternative energy sources.  The clean energy produced will be sold to Duke Energy. 

Piedmont Environmental Alliance now has a twitter page - follow us and get the news!  http://twitter.com/peancorg

PEA announces Weatherization Makes Sense, a web resource dedicated to providing information on how weatherizing your home can save you money and save the environment. About half of the energy used in a home is for heating and cooling, but much of that heated and cooled air is leaking out through cracks in the house, around windows and doors for example. Weatherization home improvements will last for many years, will lower heating and cooling costs, and will reduce green house gas emissions. Being “environmentally friendly” makes good economic sense!