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Founded in 1985 in New Orleans, the Alliance conducts community education campaigns on energy issues, helps citizens and businesses become more energy efficient, and promotes sustainable energy policy solutions.
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Recent Updates:
RESNET Energy Rater Training September 18th-26th, 2010

The Alliance for Affordable Energy is proud to host a professional Home Energy Rater training course taught by Louisiana's premier instructor, Wade Byrd. If you are interested in becoming a RESNET certified home energy rater, you will not want to miss this intensive training opportunity. The class and field training is from Saturday, September 18th- Sunday, September 26th (9am-5pm). Deepen your knowledge of home energy performance and building science, enhance your professional qualifications, and become a part of Louisiana's growing energy efficiency economy!

Smart Growth Summit set

August 9- (The Daily World) LAFAYETTE — Community planners, architects and officials from across Louisiana are gearing up for the fifth annual Louisiana Smart Growth Summit, scheduled for Aug. 18-20 in Baton Rouge.

Can Louisiana afford renewable energy? Yes.

July 23 - BP has spent more than $3 billion to contain the oil disaster so far. And Goldman Sachs estimates that the total for cleanup and compensation will top $70 billion. Whatever the final price tag (it will be years or decades before we can calculate it), it is certain to fall far short of the cost of this crisis to the Gulf Coast.

We’re Not Ready

July 19 - (New York Times).  We were told by oil industry executives and their acolytes and enablers in government that deep-water drilling in the Gulf of Mexico would not cause the kind of catastrophe that we’ve been watching with an acute and painful sense of helplessness for the past three months. Advances in technology, they said, would ward off the worst-case scenarios. Fail-safe systems like the blowout preventer a mile below the surface at the Deepwater Horizon rig site would keep wildlife and the environment safe.