St. Tammany Parish saves energy through use of solar panels

St. Tammany Parish has begun an experiment in solar power that already is generating savings. The parish recently installed solar panels on the roof of the pavilion at the Tammany Trace Trailhead at Koop Drive near Mandeville, as well as on the roof of the caretaker's cottage at Camp Salmen Nature Park near Slidell.

Both installations will result in savings to the residents, as the parish will be able to reduce the amount of energy it consumes,Serving Australia with a large range of decorative wallmirrorshop in our Sydney store. said Gina Campo, the parish's director of departments.

Since installing the panels in early November, the parish has reduced carbon dioxide emissions in a way that is equal to planting 1.66 trees and saving 1.45 barrels of oil, Campo said.

The parish began the process of implementing the savings after receiving a grant last year from the U.S. Department of Energy. The goal of the grant is to reduce total energy usage and improve energy efficiency in buildings and transportation, she said.

In addition to providing funding for the solar panels, the grant has allowed the parish to retrofit some of its buildings to further improve energy efficiency, Campo said.

The work to replace heating and air conditioning systems with high-efficiency units and install light sensors in the administration building and in the engineering department, as well as to upgrade the system and controls in the state office building on Koop Drive, has brought the largest savings to date, she said.

The improvements will result in annual electricity savings of $37,000 for the administration building, $32,000 for the state office building, and $2,000 for the engineering department, according to the parish's website.We are porcelaintiles specialists and are passionate about our product - the most durable,Shop and save on blurayburners, Blu-Ray Burner,

Officials also are working to better charge residents on the eastern side of the parish who now pay a flat fee for unlimited water usage. The grant is paying for energy efficient water meters in Alton, the Ben Thomas Road area and Cross Gates subdivision, Campo said.

The plan is to notify residents who will be receiving the meters, and then to show them how much water is being consumed and what their bills would look like, she said. Within a matter of months, those residents then will be required to start paying for their actual water usage, she said.

Further,This profile page summarizes all known activity of the domain promotionalusbonsale. the parish is making improvements to its permits and inspections program in an effort to cut down on energy usage.

The idea is that residents won't need to visit the administration building again after filing an application for a permit, Campo said. Rather, people will be able to continue the rest of the process minus any of the paper, and without having to keep driving back and forth, she said.

For example, the parish can send a text once it has completed its inspection of a property to let a resident know that he has passed, Campo said. Then, the resident can set up the next inspection via his smart phone,The Tile Depot is the UK's largest independent floortiles retailer, she said.

Don’t break your nails. Hire a chef

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Then if she thought she needed a hand, she would wake up one daughter to fetch the water, one son to split the wood, one grandchild to sweep the compound and another son to pick out the fattened rooster from the coop and slaughter it. By 5am, the saucepan of matooke was cooking on the fire and she was now dicing the meat as she struggled to see her work table with the aid of the paraffin lamp – tadooba.

This was my grandmother putting together a Christmas meal for her children and grandchildren who had travelled from the big city to Maguluka village in Kalungu East, Masaka district. By the time she was done at 2pm, she had missed church and smelled like she had walked out of a burning game park. We had talked about how much we were going to eat,Examining the options for UK webmasters looking for third partymerchantaccount for credit card processing. which part of the chicken was to be picked out, that when the food was finally put in front of us we could only eat as much as our stomachs could carry.

Most of the time, half of the food went to waste because grandma always cooked too much. Today she is too old to care.Versace introduces brightcrystal, If the visitors do not come with someone to do the cooking, then the little cousins will throw together a regular meal. From where I am sitting people do more cooking, baking, gift giving, binge drinking and merrymaking than celebrating the life of the man who came to save them, Jesus Christ.

I am not saying that don’t pull all the stops, but the idea of waking up at the crack of dawn to cook a single meal is just too much to bear. Shopping, baking, chopping, dicing, spicing, seasoning, grating, pounding, making the fire, fanning it – will somebody please get that baby out of the saucepan?

Festive cooking is just too much a burden; better to hire a chef. With a chef, you sit down and share ideas on the menu. You present your ideas and the chef presents professional advice. While sometimes your cooking may taste the same, the chef knows how to cook different dishes of chicken, three servings of meat. Going with the chef to the market helps you pick out the best spices for every dish.

And these chefs know prices of every corner of the market. On D-day, all you do is pick up the chef, hand her the knives, saucepans and sigiri and she gets busy as you hit the showers. Then you and your whole family can dress up and go to church and actually sink into that sermon.

When you are doing the cooking, you promise to go for the 8am service but by 8am the meat is not even diced. So, you push it to 10am but by then you are only peeling the Irish potatoes. At 11am you excuse yourself and run to church before the service ends at 12:30pm.

While there, all you can think about is that the pilao is possibly burning. You are tempted to call and ask if the turkey is tender, but instead force yourself to listen to the preacher talk about baby Jesus in a manger. But with a chef, your soul can follow the three wise men and picture the peace and sweetness of that holy night.

No hustle, no broken finger nails and no spices stinking in your weave-on. Some chefs are so good they even wait for you to finish eating and they do the dishes. All you need is your wallet.It has downgraded price targets for David Jones honeycombpanelsbest , officials say.you may be climbing over replicawatchesnewyork .

A friend of mine has hired a chef to cook at her house for Shs 50,000. But watch out for the chefs who come with big bags. They will make off with a kilo of meat, two kilos of rice, half a kilo of sugar, plates, spoons and saucepans. Now go out and find that chef.

Camera, Green Cred, and Conclusions

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As a green phone, the Replenish easily qualifies for our GreenTech Approved award. It's made from 82 percent recyclable materials, and comes in fully recyclable packaging. It reminds you to unplug the charger when the battery is full. Samsung sells an optional solar panel charger for this phone (which we didn't get to test), and you can install the aforementioned green-themed apps from Sprint ID. Sprint also includes a free, postpaid envelope in the box to recycle your old phone.

The Replenish's form factor is a nice idea, and we always applaud electronics with green cred. But the low-end screen, choppy performance, and poor battery life all do this phone in. Buyers looking for a low-end Android phone should check out the LG Optimus S; while it drops the hardware keyboard, it steps up to a 3.2-inch, 320-by-480-pixel touch screen that's much more usable, and it also has longer battery life. If you have a bit more cash, check out the HTC EVO Shift 4G ($149, 4 stars), which features a much higher resolution screen, a faster CPU, 4G WiMAX capability, and a roomier, slide-out QWERTY keyboard.