PLEASE JOIN US TOMORROW FOR CEC ANNUAL MEETING AND “HOUSTON’S ENERGY FUTURE IS NOW” PROGRAM

CEC’s annual meeting will be on Tuesday, March 11 at 6:30 pm, at 3015 Richmond, in the first floor conference room. After a social and brief business meeting, the program, “Houston’s Energy Future Is Now”, begins at 7:15 pm. 

Local attorney Dan Hedges and Oak Ridge North mayor Fred O’Connor are the featured speakers. They will spotlight two projects, a house near downtown Houston and a small town north of Houston, that achieve energy independence with technology we have now. The speakers will focus on the political, economic, regulatory, and social challenges they have encountered in these projects. Our moderator is Manny Mehos, CEO of Green Bank.

When Dan and Judge Adele Hedges’ house in the Upper Kirby neighborhood is completed later this year, they will have complete energy self- sufficiency. The house will be completely “off the grid” with solar panels, geothermal wells for heat and cooling, and rainwater harvesting.

About 80 percent of the homes in Oak Ridge North get their electricity from a biodiesel-powered generating plant owned by Biofuels Power Corp. The plant began producing power on March 5, 2007. It primary fuel is chicken fat.

The program is free and open to the public. Annual meeting sponsors are Kirksey, Georgia Bost’s Texas Grass-fed Beef, and the Village Botanica, Inc. For more information, contact Ella Tyler at ella@cechouston.org or (713) 524-4232.