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Community biomass heating: Creating a "market for crummy trees"

By Julia Reischel on Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2014 - 3:20 pm
The plan to heat the village of Fleischmanns with a communal wood boiler will live or die on community buy-in, according to Jim Waters, the director of the Catskill Forest Association (CFA), which is spearheading the proposed project.  Waters gave a... Read more

This weekend: Can you heat a village with wood?

By Julia Reischel on Thursday, Jan. 30, 2014 - 1:03 pm
Above: Jim Waters, the executive director of the Catskill Forest Association. Photo courtesy of the Catskill Forest Association. Does it make sense to heat the village of Fleischmanns with wood? Hear what the experts think at a public forum this Saturday... Read more
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