May 23rd and 24th, 2008 MORE Energy is Hosting Ethanol Expert, David Blume

MORE Energy is pleased to present: David Blume, author of the book Alcohol Can be A Gas, offering a FREE workshop Saturday, May 24th, 10am-3pm at 1411 Locust St, downtown St. Louis on how to produce alcohol fuel on a small scale. David Blume with be teaching how to make your own fuel and will show the simple technique used to convert vehicles to run on alcohol. David Bloom will also be doing a book signing on Friday, May 23rd, 5:30-7:30pm at "Not Just A Book Store" at 5892 Delmar, St. Louis 63112

Earth Day 2008

Every year since 1970, Earth Day has been celebrated on April 22nd. To read about the history of Earth Day click here.





Missouri Renewable Energy is participating in a few Earth Day events that we wanted to tell you about.

If you live in Central Missouri, you are invited to attend Columbia, Missouri's Earth Day celebration in Downtown Columbia, on Sunday, April 20th starting at noon. Every year the city of Columbia has a big outdoor celebration in downtown Columbia, with vendors, music, and resources on how to appreciate and save our Earth. Missouri Renewable Energy will be there, with a booth located on "Eco Ave" which is on the north side of Elm between 7th & 8th Streets. Come on by and say hello.

Missouri Renewable Energy is also hosting its own Earth Day event on Tuesday, April 22nd-- MORE will be having a free fair at our location in Marshfield, Missouri. Come on out and learn about Renewable Energy-- tour our new dome homes and biodiesel fuel labs, plus much more! For more information on this event, visit our website www.moreenergy.org

Happy Earth Day!

Renewable Energy Presentations in St. Louis, MO

In response to our supporters in St. Louis, Missouri and surrounding areas, Missouri Renewable Energy will be hosting Renewable Energy Presentations in downtown, St. Louis, MO.

This spring and summer stay tuned to our website for Missouri Renewable Energy Presentations in downtown, St. Louis, MO.

Information on the first presentation is below:

Renewable Energy Presentation
Saturday, April 26, 2008
11:30 AM at 1411 Locust St., St. Louis, MO

Roe Snyder will be presenting on:

• Honey Panels (P/V using honey to create electricity)

• Hydrogen Projects

• Honey Batteries (using copper tubes with aluminum rods w/ honey)

Green-Collar Jobs

Sojourners Magazine had a recent article about green-collar jobs as a viable solution to help save our earth and provide low-income or unskilled workers with advancement out of poverty.

MORE Energy believes and supports training in blue-collar jobs, but WHY limit the skills of the homeless to only sweeping and cooking? Green-collar jobs are a viable and important skill in our growing green workforce. MORE Energy is dedicated to the advancement of green energy as a way out of poverty.

How Green is Your Collar?
by Rose Marie Berger and Alexis Vaughan (Sojourner's Article 3/2008)
"All the Democratic presidential candidates talked about “green-collar jobs.” But what are they? “Green collar jobs are blue collar jobs in green businesses,” according to urban studies professor Raquel Rivera Pinderhughes in a recent report. A green-collar economy will provide high-quality jobs, requiring basic skills, paying a living wage, with room for advancement, to a broad array of low-income or unskilled workers. The main problem, according to the report, is matching green businesses with job-ready workers.

Part of the solution, says Van Jones, environmental leader and president of the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights in Oakland, California, was the passage by Congress of the Green Jobs Act of 2007 in August, which authorized $125 million “to create a new training program for energy efficiency and renewable energy workers … for market research, job referral, and job training,” according to the Congressional Budget Office report. Jones hopes that job-training programs will begin incorporating “green pathways out of poverty.” He is advocating that Congress fund $1 billion in green jobs training and is calling for the creation of 3 million clean-tech jobs by 2015."

It has been a long winter... but spring is finally here!

Yes, it has been a long winter in Mid-Missouri, but that hasn't stopped MORE Energy from having its annual Winter Energy show in February. We had a great time and hundreds of attendees who came out to learn about energy saving techniques and resources. And now as spring is approaching we are gearing up for our big Spring Energy show on April 22nd in Marshfield, MO. Our specialty in Marshfield is our dome home constructions and solar energy demonstrations. All of our fairs are FREE, so we hope to see you and your friends and family at one of our upcoming fairs!
We are also gearing up for this year's spring classes and invite everyone who is interested in becoming more energy independent and who is concerned about saving our environment, to learn how at one of our classes this spring. To save money on classes we invite you to check out our MORE Membership Program, listed on our website. If you have any questions or concerns, please feel free to contact us at MORE Energy at 1-800-228-5284 or email info@moreenergy.org

The Ozark Renewable Expo is this weekend

Are you interested in learning about solar panels, wind turbines, and alternative fuels? Curious if your city is actively combating climate change? Do you wonder if there are ways you could lead a greener life?

Visit the Ozark Renewable Energy and Sustainable Living Expo at Les Bourgeois Winery in Rocheport, Missouri on September 22-23 to find answers to these questions and more.

Learn ways to integrate renewable energy and sustainable living into your life at the Expo's workshops, exhibits, hands-on demonstrations, and speaker panels. Bring the family along to enjoy the weekend's live entertainment, organic and local food and wine, children's activities, and more. Visit www.OzarkRE.org for directions, a list of exhibitors, and the workshop schedule.

Tickets may be purchased at the gate or online at www.OzarkRE.org.

Buy your ticket online and be entered to win a Solar Gift Basket from MidAmerica Solar ( www.midamericasolar.com). Gift basket contents include a portable 6.5 watt solar panel, an outdoor solar lantern, a portable solar energy charger, and a four pack of Solar Flat Glass Pathway markers.

Ticket Prices:
$15 - Weekend Pass
$10 - Adult One Day Pass
$7 - Seniors 65+ and Students One Day Pass
Kids 12 and under Free

Do you want to get involved? Additional volunteers are needed. Volunteers receive free admission and a free t-shirt. Sign up to volunteer at www.OzarkRe.org.

Workshops Include (partial list):

• Turning your Diesel into a Greasel
• Photovolatics + Wind Power = Hybrid Home Energy System
• Show Me Natural Wonders: Experience Nature Sites - Near and Far
• Global Warming: Answer the Call
• The Solar Kitchen: Solar Cookers and Cooking With the Sun
• Missouri Cities Combating Climate Change
• Home Performance with Energy Star
• Fuel Cells as an Alternative Energy Source
• Green Residential Construction Methodologies
• Vegetable Based Fuels
• Utility-Scale Wind in Missouri
• Wilderness Skills
• Renewable Energy and Agriculture
• Nuclear Energy: A Sustainable Choice?

For a full speaker list and schedule, visit www.OzarkRE.org.
Hope to see you there!

Great Day

Fair visitors enjoy a "candid" conversation beside a mobile solar cart.

Thanks to all of you who made it out to our Memorial Day energy fair!

By our estimates, nearly 300 made it to New Bloomfield for the event – perhaps our biggest show yet! Our registry shows that you came in from all over Missouri, and a surprising number too from out-of-state. We’re glad you came, and we hope you had a good experience.

We certainly had a good time ourselves, and enjoyed meeting a lot of you. My wife, Jen, and I led tours of our house (across the street from the center) where we showed how a normal house can be converted, bit-by-bit, toward life “off the grid.”

And of course, at the center itself, we had some of our old faithful demonstrations – the building and design of dome homes, the making of bio-fuels like biodiesel and ethanol, our electric and hybrid vehicles and mowers, and the use of various kinds of solar and wind energy – from high-tech photovoltaics (solar panels) to homemade solar cookers and passive heating methods. We hope you also got the chance to see our new solar carts – we’re extremely excited about them. Maybe, though, I’ll leave them for another post.

Any rate, hope you all had safe travels home, and if you didn’t make it to this one, we’ll hope to see you at the next…