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CORTLAND NY - Sustainable Living Tour this Saturday!

The much requested Cortland County Sustainable Living Tour is this Saturday. Tour website http://cortlandgreenhomes.wordpress.com

Please be sure to spread the word!
Tour 1: Organization Tour

10:15 AM Cortland YWCA (Cortland)
Contact information: Amy Simrell, 607-753-9651, Amy@cortlandywca.org

11:30 AM SUNY Cortland Professional Studies Building (Cortland)
Contact information: Jeff Lallas, (607) 753-2214, Jeffrey.Lallas@cortland.edu
Tour features: Meets LEED Silver building standards including geothermal heating and cooling.

1:00 PM Lime Hollow Center for Environment and Culture (Cortland)
Contact information: Glenn Reisweber, (607) 662-4632, glennreisweber@aol.com
Tour features: Solar PV System, Geothermal Heating, Native Landscaping


Tour 2: Farm and Home Tour

9:15 AM Twin Oaks Dairy (Truxton)
Contact information: Kathie Arnold, kathieyarnold@gmail.com
Tour features: 27.6 kW two axis tracking solar PV system

10:30 AM Klein Residence (Solon)
Contact information: Karl or Beth Klein, 607-836-4060, karl@karlklein.com
Tour features: Solar PV with battery back-up, solar thermal hot water and on-demand hot water systems, root cellar, gardens and fruit trees.
Other information: Jon Wood of Cortland’s Green Sun-Solar will be on hand to talk about his solar thermal installation at this site. See:

12:00 PM Northland Sheep Dairy including Karl and Jane North Residence and
Donn Hewes and Maryrose Livingston Residence (Freetown)
Contact information: Maryrose Livingston, (607) 849-4442, tripletree@frontiernet.net
Tour features: The North home is an earth-bermed, passive solar design with a greenhouse, and solar hot water. Their back up heat (other than the sun) is a wood cook stove in their kitchen.
Hewes and Livingston home is a straw bale insulated house, that uses passive solar heat as well. They use a wood stove as a back up heat system.
They also have a greenhouse attached to the house, and a root cellar and cheese caves built into the basement.
They also have a solar hot water system to heat hot water in the summer.

2:00 PM Uttech Residence (Lapeer)
Contact information: Chuck or MJ Uttech, 607-849-3452,
Tour features: Solar panels with online monitoring, house designed for solar gain, radiant floor heating, high-efficiency wood stove with catalytic converter, gardens & orchard
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