Over 30 people attended two Winsert Workshops during January. These workshops were funded with a grant from National Grid. Materials for making winserts (Interior Window Panels) were purchased with the National Grid grant money. At the first workshop on January 4th, fabricators and others experimented with making frames with mitered joints using spline to fasten film. This workshop produced 18 winserts for the Millers River Environmental Center in Athol which have been installed to help increase the R-value of windows and cut down on drafts. On January 25th another workshop was held at the Barre Library. Thirty-two people gathered at this public workshop to learn how to make winserts for their own homes. Each participant, who registered, was able to take home a finished winsert. Twenty winserts went home with people to try in their own homes. North Quabbin Energy Core members and the Barre Town Energy Committee also completed 13 winserts that were installed in windows at the Barre Library.
Now members of the North Quabbin Energy Core group are deciding what to do next regarding making more winserts for public buildings or for individual homes. If you are interested in this project contact Neil Anders at theosophist@charter.net (508-320-5846) or Janice Kurkoski at jdauphin3@hotmail.com. You may also view the instructions for both the spline method of making winserts at “How To Make Winserts” (see pull down “How to” for other methods) on our website.
Some photos from January Workshops show some of the work completed.
Other News from North Quabbin Energy
February 8, 2014 at 10:30 a.m.: Professor Raymond Bradley will be speaking at the Woods Memorial Library in Barre, MA. Professor Bradley, director of the ClimateSystemResearchCenter at the University of Massachusetts will speak about the latest information on Global Warming and what can be done about it.
This free event is sponsored by the Barre Energy Advisory Committee. Any questions, call Neil Anders, 508-320-5846, Energy Committee member. Also Neil suggested reading http://www.truth-out.org/opinion/item/20897-climate-protection-the-new-insurgency#.UsFzh8xiOs8.email for an interesting article on taking action – “Climate Protection: The New Insurgency”