Energy Committee

Well, it's been a while! Over the past few months, I've wrapped up the projects I was working on at the Rockefeller Center and am in the midst of launching a new endeavor... working to send former astronaut and Dartmouth Medical School professor Jay Buckey to the US Senate. He's a great guy, and I am really looking forward to managing his campaign. To learn more about him and the campaign, visit our website.

I will try to keep this site updated with info about City Council happenings. The big update from this week is that the City of Lebanon now has an energy committee! Our charge reads:

The Lebanon Energy Advisory Committee identifies opportunities and makes recommendations to the City Council with regard to reducing energy use, increasing energy efficiency, exploring alternative energy usage, and reducing pollution, to the environmental and fiscal benefit of the City of Lebanon.

It will be composed of 9 members: 2 City Councilors, 1 Planning Board representative, 1 Lebanon High School student, 1 Thayer Engineering School faculty member or student, and 4 at-large residents.

The City Council formed this committee on Wednesday evening, and the vote was unanimous. It made me feel very proud, even though Pat Hayes says the language "reducing pollution" is very '60s. (Thank you to Steve Wood for adding that language in. I think it does make our charge that much clearer.) No matter what, it's a great thing that we're doing, and I think you can expect great things to come from it for Lebanon.