January 25, 2012 at 07:00pm
Here is a great example of what New Power looks like in Kentucky!
Check out this video from our friends at Appalshop. It features a new program called How$mart
that makes energy efficiency upgrades affordable and doable for customers of rural electric co-ops in eastern Kentucky. The video describes how the Big Sandy Rural Electric Cooperative is helping its customers in Floyd and Johnson counties save money by saving energy.
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On Monday, folks from 24 grassroots organizations in Appalachia, including KFTC, met in Prestonsburg to provide some guidance to the Alliance for Appalachia on ways to advance a just and sustainable economic transition in Appalachia.
December 6, 2011 at 07:00pm
![New Energy & Transition Committee Meeting](http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7024/6461849805_dc8b1866af.jpg)
"It was exciting to see these different areas of KFTC work for a better, more sustainable future brought together."
- Mimi Pickering
Fifteen KFTC members from across Kentucky, from Bowling Green to Whitesburg and Louisa to Louisville, gathered in Lexington to begin providing leadership for KFTC's New Energy and Transition work, which includes our rural electric co-op reform, sustainable energy policy and organizing and Appalachian Transition campaigns.
November 16, 2011 at 07:00pm
Adam Strobel Barr (pictured left, with wife Rae) first had the idea of putting solar panels on his farm when he learned that he would need to supply power to his farm’s pond to pump out irrigation to his crops.
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