Thank You

Thank you to the many businesses and volunteers who helped organize Energy Night and Energy Day: Green Mountain Coffee Roasters, Underhill Country Store, Price Chopper, Cathy McNamara, Rob Sleamaker, Dan Clayton, Sally Duval. Rebecca Schwarz installed her Tower of Power and John Koier, Maura Duval, Courtney Rose, Matt Thompson, and John Treybal created projects for Energy Night. Bob Murphy and George Hoguet gave valuable presentations, while Efficiency Vermont, Firefly Solar Store, Union Bank and Spafford & Sons exhibited during Energy Day. Thank you all for making it fun and interesting.

See you at Button-Up Day, 10:00-12 noon October 18 at Deborah Rawson Memorial Library.

-- The Underhill Energy Committee: Tom Moore, Irene Linde, Roger Frey, Peter Duval, Shelley Jurkiewicz, Jerry Adams, Bob Murphy.

UPDATED 14 October 2008: The site of Button-Up Day has been changed to Deborah Rawson Memorial Library.

Hold the Carbon, Please

Here is the song that George Hoguet sang at the end of his Underhill Energy Day presentation.

Hold the Carbon, Please …………..George Hoguet 12/2006.

(to the tune of The Weight by J.R.Robertson. Album: Music from Big Pink
© 1968, 1970 Dwarf Music

G Bm C G

CO2 is rising, the temperature's beginning to climb;

Bm C G

the oceans soon will follow, wreaking havoc on all mankind.

Bm C G

Polar bears and coral are already feeling the heat,

Bm C G

And 200 species a day are dying at my feet.

(chorus)

G D C G D C

Take a load off the Planet, Take a load off please,

G D C G D C G C

Take a load off the Planet, and get below -2.3!

Fanny, can you tell me how we pumped up this CO2?
We're at 20 tons per person in this land of Red, White & Blue
Call the cops, pull all the stops, get your Congressman on the line,
We need to get below 2.3 to help save all of mankind.
(chorus)

Never understood this tune the first time it came around.

Some guys going to Nazareth, but it had a really cool sound.

Now it's tons of carbon, and we're toking those fossil fuels.

We've got 6 billion ship mates and we're acting like fossil fools.

(chorus)

I'm doing my best to get myself down below 2.3;

Tons of CO2 that is from all my living needs.

These boots are made for walking, not driving a big SUV,

I'll shut the light, set the thermostat right, gonna get myself carbon free.

(chorus)

Take a load off the Planet, Take a load off please,
Take a load off the Planet, and get below (3x)- 2.3!

Recent Press

On the front page of the August 21, 2008 Mountain Gazette, Ted Tedford wrote Underhill to hold energy fair

In the Community section of the September 11, 2008 Burlington Free Press, Joel Banner Baird wrote about how Underhill Energizes with Weekend Festival