sust-mar: Solar Nova Scotia News, Feb 2004

Date: Sat, 31 Jan 2004 13:53:17 -0400
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/ 1 / AGM February 9th
/ 2 / The newsletter is in the mail!
/ 3 / Solar Tour April 18th
/ 4 / More Solar Home Design Courses!
/ 5 / Home Builder's Show @ Forum, March 5th - 7th
/ 6 / Tippin' the solar elbow

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/ 1 / FROM: CHAIR LARA
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Please mark your calendars to attend the AGM on February!
When: Monday, Feb. 9th, 7:00pm - 9:30pm
Where: McInnes Cooper Boardroom, Summit Place, 1601 Lower Water St, Hfx
What: (1) AGM
       (2) Our guest speaker, Josh McLean, will talk about solar projects
    in Nicaragua.
       (3) Workshop on REAP (see Item 2.)

Everyone is welcome at the AGM.

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/ 2 / FROM: NORVAL
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The Winter 2003 newsletter is ready for your perusal!  It has the 
info about the AGM and other events you see in this memo, plus an 
informative and fun article about offgrid by Derek, and an update on 
our Millenium Home Inventory project which is now a joint project 
with Clean Nova Scotia and renamed to REAP (Renewable Energy Atlantic 
Portal.)  Also, there's a profile of new corporate members.

You can grab a .pdf of the newsletter from http://solarns.ca/ in the
"Newsletter Articles" section.

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/ 3 / FROM: SUSAN
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On Sunday April 18th, a few dozen solar enthusiasts will be visiting 
a couple of fascinating homes with solar design, in the Lower 
Sackville area.

Send a note to mailto:info@solarns.ca to get on the notification list
when we have more information about ths tour.
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/ 4 / FROM: DON
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Solar Nova Scotia is pleased to announce that our solar shelter 
courses have been so popular that we've added several more courses! 
Solar Shelter Design is a practical, how-to course on designing and 
building solar homes, greenhouses, solaria, and additions.

Here's the complete list of upcoming courses.  One of them is a 
special course for experienced homebuilders with some 
first-time-home-builder material removed.

HALIFAX: for experienced builders and contractors: Saturdays: Feb 7th and 14th
HALIFAX: Six Tuesday evenings starting March 23rd
HALIFAX: Saturday, April 17th and Saturday, April 24th

To register for Halifax courses, call 852-4758.

EASTERN SHORE: Moser River, Saturday & Sunday, May 15th & 16th.  To 
register, call 347-2602.

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/ 5 / FROM: DON
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Come visit our booth and talk solar at the Home Builder's home show 
at the Forum in Halifax, March 5-7

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/ 6 / FROM: DAN
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Maxwell's Plum every Friday 5 to 8: solar talk, suds, surf, and turf!


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Daniel MacKay
http://solarns.ca/
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
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