3 Green Articles from Sister Site Scotts Contracting

3 Snippets of the latest green blog posts at ScottsContracting.Wordpress.com

This Green Blog Post is part of the ongoing experiment: Comparing how well a wordpress site does with a blogspot site

• Here's my thoughts Answering : What about Green and Cost Effective Decks?  Asked by: BentonPark West - Buying Locally Grown and using Missouri Resources and Lumber Mills

• Rather than spend $200 for 2 TV Mounting Brackets.  I fashioned these  Flat Screen TV Mounts for the New Bar Design. Labor and Materials was well under the $200 price tag alone. DIY Flat Screen TV Mounting

• Simple Comparison of Clothes to a Buildings Envelope-Its all about Comfort

• Thank you for stopping by St Louis Renewable Energy. Feel free to comment in the section below or contact Scotts Contracting- St Louis Home Improvement Projects and Energy Conservation Needs for your Property Needs in the St Louis Region- 

• Get Your Green Building Tips and Resources at St Louis Renewable Energy Green Blog

StLouis Your Future Electric Bills-Missouri Madness:Round 2

The Missouri General Assembly is currently considering legislation that would allow Missouri's monopoly utilities to place an expensive new surcharge on their customers' electric bills. This new surcharge would bypass the traditional ratemaking process that has served Missouri consumers well and weaken Public Service Commission oversight.  Vote the proposed new utility surcharge the worst idea in Missouri here.

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Dear Scotts, We advanced to Round 2 of Missouri Madness! Missouri has voted the proposed new utility surcharge one of the worst bills in the Missouri legislature. Make sure that this legislation makes it to the next round. Vote here today. The Missouri General Assembly is currently considering legislation that would allow Missouri's monopoly utilities to place an expensive new surcharge on their customers' electric bills. This new surcharge would bypass the traditional ratemaking process that has served Missouri consumers well and weaken Public Service Commission oversight.  Vote the proposed new utility surcharge the worst idea in Missouri here. Let's make sure that our Missouri legislature gets the message: the new utility surcharge is bad for Missouri consumers. Vote today and forward this message on to a friend and ask them to do the same. Sincerely, The FERAF Team Fair Energy Rate Action Fund • PO Box 1153 • Jefferson City, MO 65102 Paid for by the Fair Energy Rate Action Fund. www.fairenergyrates.org

Missouri-Stand. Act. Defend! Lobby Day April 17

Missouri Needs Your Help-MO Environmental Defense Alliance
 
Lobby Day

Wednesday, April 17th, 2013

One deeply meaningful action you can do for Missouri's energy future, for our air, our water and our state's children, is to attend Lobby Day.  
 
This is a call for those of you who can take the extra step to represent your family, your friends and your neighbors. Register now to be their voice to counter the swarms of paid lobbyists found in Jefferson City this time of year.

Missouri Needs Your Help

MO Environmental Defense Alliance  

Lobby Day

Wednesday, April 17th, 2013

8 a.m.- 3 p.m., Jefferson City, Missouri

See You at 2013 Earth Day Events! Webster University Sustainability Conference   April 12-13     St. Louis Earth Day Festival at Forest Park April 21  Kirkwood Earth Day at the Market April 27 Earth Day at Missouri Botanical Garden April 27      Donate Now Become A Member  Volunteer  Forward  to a Friend        Like Us on Facebook      Follow Us on Twitter            "All that is necessary   for evil to triumph   is for good men   to do nothing." - Edmund Burke One deeply meaningful action you can do for Missouri's energy future, for our air, our water and our state's children, is to attend Lobby Day.       This is a call for those of you who can take the extra step to represent your family, your friends and your neighbors. Register now to be their voice to counter the swarms of paid lobbyists found in Jefferson City this time of year. Missouri Needs Your Help MO Environmental Defense Alliance   Lobby Day Wednesday, April 17th, 2013 8 a.m.- 3 p.m., Jefferson City, Missouri Missouri Coalition for the Environment, Environment Missouri, and Labadie Environmental Organization request your presence for MEDA Lobby Day 2013. Join us in Jefferson City at 8 a.m. for an early start on a day filled with meeting your legislators, sharing your key concerns on this year's top priorities and defending Missouri's environment. Together with volunteers and staff from MEDA organizations, you will take a stand for the environment, enjoy lunch, and make a difference. Lobby day will finish around 3 p.m. Cost for lobby day is $20, which includes a vegetarian lunch.   Priorities this year include: Defending Clean, Safe Energy Investing in Missouri State Parks Keeping Toxic Coal Ash Out of Our Rivers To RSVP, complete the form here.  Want to carpool? Check the box in the RSVP form and you will receive all the details.      Share this invitation on Facebook.  Please join us to make a difference.

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Major Tar Sands Oil Spill in Arkansas-Photo

Enough is enough! Join us in saying NO to more tar sands spills. Help us reach one million comments against the dangerous Keystone XL tar sands pipeline. More than 500,000 gallons of tar sands oil and water just spilled in Arkansas. Don't let this dirty oil nightmare ooze across America. Help us gather 1 million comments to stop the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline! Submit your comment here >> Imagine coming home to this: Oil oozing down your driveway, pooling in your back yard, and filling up your local waterways. Sounds like a nightmare, right? This is the reality that families in Mayflower, Arkansas, have had to deal with since more than 500,000 gallons of dirty tar sands oil and water spilled out of a ruptured Exxon Mobil pipeline this past Friday. This spill is terrible and our hearts go out to the community in Mayflower affected by this disaster. This shouldn't have happened. That's why it's critical that President Obama and Secretary Kerry reject the construction of a much bigger pipeline, Keystone XL, which could cause even more devastating spills of tar sands crude in waterways and lands across America. We need you to raise your voice now. Tell the State Department to keep us safe from more tar sands spills by rejecting the dangerous Keystone XL pipeline! Unfortunately, the spill in Arkansas repeats a story we know too well. In 2010, an Enbridge Energy pipeline in Michigan broke and spilled more than 800,000 gallons of toxic tar sands crude into the Kalamazoo River -- and it still hasn't been fully cleaned up. That same year, TransCanada, the company that wants to build the Keystone XL pipeline now, built a pipeline that experienced 12 separate spills in a single year. In 2011, one of Exxon Mobil's pipelines in Montana ruptured and contaminated the Yellowstone River. And even just last week, a train derailed in Minnesota and spilled 30,000 gallons of tar sands crude. If these stories make your stomach churn, I know how you feel. It's absolutely infuriating that we keep allowing Big Oil to put our lands, water, and wildlife at risk, when we have seen over and over how it ends. The Keystone XL tar sands pipeline would be a monster -- carrying 20 times more oil than the Exxon pipeline that burst in the Yellowstone River two years ago.

If we have any hope of stopping it, we need you to tell Secretary of State John Kerry that this dirty pipeline is all risk and no reward. Send a message asking him to reject it  Right now, the State Department is accepting comments on its review of the potential environmental impacts of the Keystone XL pipeline. The initial draft of this review was completely off-base, downplaying the risks of spills and the devastating impact that this dirty oil would have in fueling climate change. Luckily, we have the chance to weigh in on this draft and push them to change it to recommend what many scientists have attested to -- that this pipeline is too dangerous to build and the tar sands oil needs to stay in the ground. So we're joining with groups across the environmental movement to gather one million comments opposing the dirty Keystone XL pipeline by the end of the comment period on April 22. With only 20 days to go, we need you to send a message now. Thanks to contributions from more than 3,000 LCV members, we hit our goal in our fundraising drive for this campaign and now we've got all the resources we need to win this fight. But we can't do it without your help. So thanks for taking a moment to make your voice heard today. Let's do this, Vanessa Kritzer Online Campaigns Manager League of Conservation Voters

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Design Build Update on Shady Jacks Saloon New Bar Design

Both the Owner and Myself were very satisfied with both the design and build of the New Bar Design for Shady Jacks Saloon and Deli in Downtown StLouis MO.

The first photo in this green blog post is the final CAD drawing of the project after the Waitress Station and Center Shelving was added to the project.

Previous CAD Photos and details:

• CAD Design- Shady Jacks Saloon New Bar Design by Scotts Contracting  
• CAD Bar Designs-Before Photos with CAD Drawing

View the Entire Photo for the New 

Bar Design at Shady Jacks Saloon Here

Waitress Station and Center Shelving Added to the Design Build Project 

Before the Waitress Station was added to the New Bar Design 

Shady Jacks Saloon-New Bar and Waitress Station-Stocked and Loaded and Ready to Serve 

Waitress Station for the New Bar Design at Shady Jacks Saloon 

Here's what people are saying about the New Bar Design:

• Patrons:

• Love the New Look- Natural Looking  
• Makes the Bar Look Bigger
• Design Blends with the Asthetics of the Bar
• Faster Drink Orders from Staff

• Bartenders:

• New Bar Design is User Friendly 
• Easier Access to Supplies  
• Able to Fill Customer Orders Faster and Efficiently!

• Waitress Staff:

• Easier Access to Needed Supplies
• User Friendly
• Makes Filling Drink Orders Faster (which increases their TIPS!)

• From the Owner-Shady Jack:

• New Design Opens the Bar up and makes it look bigger
• User Friendly Design helps bartenders to better handle the customers orders
• Functionality was added to the project for access to the New Beverage Dispensors
• Very Pleased with the: Natural Look, Functionality, and Form

Here are the main goals of the project that were accomplished from the New Bar Design:

1. Added Spots for the New Beverage Dispensers and Coolers
2. Functionality for the Bartenders to meet the the increased customer base
3. Any Additions must Blend in with Current Surroundings!

Here's what made this a True Green Build Project-All the Lumber was either from waste leftover from a Lumber Mill in the St Louis Area or Up-cycled from previous buildings in the St Louis Area

Come View the Bars New Design for yourself at Shady Jacks Saloon and Deli-1432 N. BROADWAY DOWNTOWN, ST. LOUIS MO 2 BLOCKS NORTH OF LUMIERE CASINO. THE ORIGINAL BIKER BAR! OVER 16 YEARS OF BUSINESS. see map


4/1/2013 Some of the Lumber was purchased from: Bruce at American Timber Salvage Inc-2100 N 2nd Street St Louis MO 63102

Thank you for stopping by St Louis Renewable Energy. Feel free to comment in the section below or contact Scotts Contracting- St Louis Home Improvement Projects and Energy Reducing Needs Get Your Green Building Tips and Resources at St Louis Renewable Energy Green Blog

Renewable Energy-Energy Conservation and MO Legislative Update-

We need more petition signers for the RES Complaint!

In case you missed it, our state's renewable energy standard is being ignored by the utilities. We filed a complaint last month, asking the government to make them comply and we'd like your voice in there with us. So far, we've got 500 out of our goal of 3,000 signers. Please help us create the renewable energy we voted for by signing our petition.

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Legislative Update

Seven weeks remain in the 2013 legislative session, and you might be curious what bills we're watching. If you haven't called up your legislator, there's some good bills and some bad ones to talk about now. So here are the proposed efficiency and renewables legislation that we've got our eyes on:

OPPOSED Bills:

• HB 44 - Allows hydropower produced in any quantity to be used to satisfy the renewable energy standard
  • Sponsor: Bart Korman, House District 42
  • Last Action: 3/07/2013 - Second read and referred: Senate Commerce, Consumer Protection, Energy, and the Environment
  • Why we oppose: Allowing old hydro damns to count toward the RES would gut the RES resulting in no new renewable generation. 

SUPPORTED Bills:

• SB 398 - Extends the expiration of an income tax deduction for energy efficiency audits and projects to December 31, 2019
  • Sponsor: Jason Holsman, Senate District 7
  • Last Action - 4/4/2013 - Senate hearing scheduled
  • Why we support: This act encourages investment in the best and cheapest source of energy – efficiency.
• SB 277 - Establishes the Missouri Energy Efficiency Performance Standard
  • Sponsor: Jason Holsman, Senate District 7
  • Last Action - 2/20/2013 - Second Read and Referred S Commerce, Consumer Protection, Energy and the Environment Committee
  • Why we support: This act would require mandatory energy efficiency measures by electrical corporations, gas corporations, municipals utilities, and rural electrical cooperatives to reach specified energy savings as dictated by the PSC, resulting in MO becoming a leading state in EE. 
• SB 299 - Establishes the Capital Green Program to provide funding for energy efficiency improvements to certain state buildings
  • Sponsor: Jason Holsman, Senate District 7
  • Last Action - 2/26/2013 - Hearing Conducted Commerce, Consumer Protection, Energy and the Environment Committee
  • Why we support: This act would provide funding for energy efficiency improvements including geothermal, wind, and solar energy resources to certain state buildings.
• SB 368 - Prohibits certain property associations from barring the installation of solar energy systems
  • Sponsor: Jason Holsman, Senate District 7
  • Last Action - 2/28/2013 - Second Read and Referred to Commerce, Consumer Protection, Energy and the Environment Committee
  • Why we support: Under this act, the adoption of a bylaw or exercise of any power by the governing entity of an association prohibiting the installation of a solar energy system is expressly prohibited.
• SB 400 - Modifies provisions relating to the renewable energy standard
• Sponsor: Jason Holsman, Senate District 7
• Last Action - 3/13/2013 - Second Read and Referred Commerce, Consumer Protection, Energy and the Environment Committee
• Why we support: This act reinstates the requirement that  renewable energy credits are generated from renewable energy sources and that has been sold as power to Missouri energy consumers.

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