New and Notable

• Welcome to our website!  Let us know what you think!

• The most recent issue (Fall 2007) of Yellow Wood Notes is available for download.
  
• Download a new article about Green Community Technologies in ICMA's August 2007 issue of Public Management and another article in the Tuesday, July 24th Barre-Montpelier Times Argus/Rutland Herald.

• We now have a narrated slideshow about Green Community Technologies for municipalities to review. Click here to view it.
  
• Yellow Wood is seeking two associates to join our team and take advantage of our many strengths. Click here to go to the job descriptions or download them.
  
• The next Becoming a Measurement Guide training will be held at Yellow Wood Associates in St. Albans, Vermont on October 20-22, 2008. For more information, please call us at (802) 524-6141 or email us at lee@yellowwood.org. To maximize the amount of personal engagement and hands-on learning, this training has been limited to five participants, so please register early! One or two of the available slots for this training will be available for smaller organizations at discounted rates (email or call us for more information). This training will enable interested professionals to deliver a powerful planning and evaluation tool, called You Get What You Measure to their own clients. Click here for more information.
  
• Read an article in Grist Magazine about community forestry featuring Yellow Wood Principal Shanna Ratner. http://www.grist.org/news/maindish/2006/02/23/curtis/index.html
  
• Download an article about Yellow Wood's Green Community Technologies wastewater project in Hinesburg, Vermont.

• Yellow Wood Associates Principal Shanna Ratner is featured in an article about the underground economy, entitled "Searching for the Hidden Economy" by Doug Campbell in the Spring 2005 issue of Region Focus. Read the article at http://www.richmondfed.org/publications/economic_research/region_focus/spring_2005/feature1.cfm

• Yellow Wood Associates, Inc. has chosen eight new municipal partners to work with in Phase 2 of the Green Community Technologies program. The eight new Phase 2 partners include: Barnstable County, Massachusetts; Hancock, New Hampshire; Harrisville, New York; Hinesburg, Vermont; Milford, Connecticut; Richmond, Massachusetts; Thetford, Vermont; and Litchfield, Maine.

• Yellow Wood Associates Principal Shanna Ratner recently made a presentation at the Northern New England Chapter of the American Planning Association Annual Conference in Montpelier, Vermont entitled "Retaining Farm and Forest Land." Click here to read it. The facilitator of the session, Bill Rossmassler, had this to say about the presentations, "Thanks to each of you for tremendous presentations. Y'all received rave reviews."

• Download the Executive Summary from the Yellow Wood's Green Community Technologies pilot project with Richmond, Vermont.

• Download an article in Small Communities Quarterly about Yellow Wood's Green Community Technologies pilot project with Richmond, Vermont.

• In a recent article by Robert W. Varney of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) Region 1 entitled "Vermont Communities Providing Leadership on Energy Efficiency and Clean Energy," the town of Richmond, Vermont was highlighted for its recent work, which resulted from its Green Community Technologies pilot project with Yellow Wood Associates. The article reads, "Richmond expects to save $23,000 a year on energy costs with new energy-saving transformers, motors and lighting at its wastewater plant. The payback period on the project, partially funded by Efficiency Vermont, is about two years."