Renewable Sales, a photovoltaic and solar thermal products distributor is proud to be a sponsor of the 2011 Building Energy Conference and Trade Show. Renewable Sales will be displaying equipment from their manufacturer partners: Evergreen Solar, Solectria Renewables, Heliodyne and Constellation Racking. “We are looking forward to working with our partners. The Trade Show provides us an excellent opportunity to showcase local products and highlight the fact that electrical contractors and developers can be fully serviced by New England based companies,” states Kevin Price, CEO of the Holliston based company.
I just finished a call with the NESEA Chapter Caucus to update them on some changes to our chapter structure that the NESEA Board recently approved, unanimously, and inviting them to participate in a collaborative process to build a new chapter structure over the next six months. I was delighted with the level of engagement and cooperation on the call. Those who participated seemed, universally, to understand this new strategic direction and the rationale underlying it.
In the spirit of openness and collaboration, I wanted to share the same information with you, the NESEA membership.
Here’s the text of the letter I circulated for the call:
Seth did, that’s who!
When the NESEA board hired me as interim executive director a year ago, I’m not sure that either they or I envisioned that they needed an architect to fill the role. Well, lo and behold, according to Seth Godin (yes, my favorite blogger again), this is exactly what they needed. In one of his recent gems, “Hire an architect,” Seth wrote:
“Architects don’t manufacture nails, assemble windows or chop down trees. Instead, they take existing components and assemble them in interesting and important ways.
Check out this exchange between NESEA diehards Jamie Wolf and Bruce Coldham on the keynote speech at the annual meeting, delivered by Joachim Eble.
JAMIE’s POST
I want to share, briefly, the numbingly boring, but ultimately profoundly fascinating and inspiring presentation by German architect Joachim Eble at last night’s NESEA gathering in Providence. Let me first say that NESEA
continues to show evidence of an inspiring transformation as it actually (and finally) transitions to the twenty first century. Thanks to all who paved the way and even more, to those who are actively engaged NOW in that transition.
We’re having lots of great conversations internally about the strategic role of 50 Miles Street to NESEA.
For the uninitiated, “50 Miles Street” is the address of the NESEA building. Unlike many nonprofit organizations of our size, NESEA actually owns its building. We have owned it since the mid-1990s, as a result of an agreement with the City of Greenfield, MA, which also led to NESEA creating the Greenfield Energy Park.
Tweet The other day I had the pleasure of speaking with Michael Nerrie, the builder and owner of a passive solar house in Walpole, New Hampshire. Mr. Nerrie’s home was recently selected for the cover of the Fall 2010 edition of the Northeast Sun. Below is a brief transcription of our conversation. Michelle Rose: What [...]
This will be my last communication for a week or two, as I’m headed off to vacation in Madison, Wisconsin with my family on Friday. But I wanted to fill you in on what the staff and I have been working on over the past few weeks.
My favorite blogger, Seth Godin, wrote yesterday about winning. He started with the toddler’s approach to winning – getting what you want, now. But he went on to describe more nuanced ways of defining a “win.,” asking instead, “What happens when you define a win as getting closer to someone who wants the same thing? Or when you define it as improvement over time? Or in creating trust?”
These three questions set the framework for what could have been a very difficult meeting yesterday.
Wanted to bring you all up to speed on what’s happening with the NESEA strategic plan, and catch those of you up who might not even be aware that we have a strategic plan!
In the spring 2010 issue of the Northeast Sun, we published an article/compilation of interviews with 13 young NESEA members, exploring what they find valuable about NESEA, and how we can make the organization relevant to those under 40. Space constraints prevented us from publishing each interview in full, but the content from these interviews was so rich that we wanted you to be able to read them. What follows is the full interview with Caroline Petrovick, 28, a project manager at Coldham and Hartman.
