Success stories - April 2009

• Harts Nursery
  Reducing a six-figure energy bill for the month of March alone took some creative thinking, but Doug Hart did it by installing a variety of energy efficiency measures.
  
  
• The Greenest Ale Around
  Sam Hoffmann's Red Lodge Ales uses the outdoors for refrigeration, solar panels to heat water to warm his new 11,000 square foot facility and to mash grain in the brewing process and waste vegetable oil for biodiesel in his trucks.
  
  
• Turning Cow Pies into Cash
  It’s an easy laugh – making power from poop – but more than that, methane digesters are a really clever idea that benefits both the environment and the farmers.
  
  
• Nursery Energy Efficiency Measures Save Money, Earn Salmon-Safe Certification
  Northwoods Nursery/One Green World in Molalla, Oregon is a great example of the interconnection between energy savings and other natural resource stewardship strategies.
  
  
• Dairy Follows Energy Pyramid Philosophy: Efficiency, then Renewables
  Louie Kazemier’s dairy farm is one of the most energy efficient operations in Oregon as well as third highest milk producing herd in the nation. “I’m looking forward to saying that we use energy efficiently and have a low carbon footprint as well.”
  
  
• Farmers Save Energy in Grande Ronde Valley with Management, Technologies, Incentives
  Phil Hassinger never knew that conventional irrigation pumps are sized for the grower’s maximum water needs, and operate at that horsepower regardless of the size of the irrigation job. “With a regular pump, you use almost as much energy to run one wheel line as you would need to run four wheel lines.”