Virginia Community Wood Energy Program

06/06/2017

05/22/2017

Research has shown the health benefits of 'forest bathing', the act of being among the trees.

05/21/2017

04/07/2017

The Odenwald Wood Energy Company (Holzenergie Odenwald, HEO) in Grasellenbach (county of Bergstraße) is a merger of six sawmills from the area. Together they...

03/31/2017

"Longwood University has practiced sustainability by heating with biomass (sawdust) for over 30 years... Current annual energy savings are more than $4.9 million when compared to burning oil..."!

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03/24/2017

Another public school supporting people, forests and economy..."Many of the school’s fuel suppliers are local lumberyards operated by residents who are also alumni of the Rowan County school district."

02/27/2017

Community energy!

When a local school in Burns, Oregon needed to replace an aging boiler, community leaders discovered that a biomass district heating system would dramaticall...

02/17/2017

Sounds counterintuitive but replacing fossil fuels with thermal wood energy would help protect these amazing organisms.

02/14/2017

Warm wishes from the Virginia Community Wood Energy Program

02/07/2017

Happy Anniversary US Forest Service!

It's our anniversary! 112 years ago, Pres. Roosevelt unified all federal forest lands, creating U.S. Forest Service.

02/06/2017

Energy from your own backyard

01/30/2017

Wood pellets are a source of renewable energy that not only allow clean combustion using forestry and agricultural by-products, but also reduce our dependence on natural fossil fuels such as oil and gas, and improve economies by creating jobs and keeping energy dollars local.