The Energy Answers significant issues grant is off to great start. Denise Blaha has joined us on a part-time basis as its coordinator. Denise will continue to work at the Complex Systems Research Center at UNH where she was a co-founder of the New Hampshire Carbon Challenge, a UNH initiative committed to providing New Hampshire residents and communities with information, tools and support to reduce the carbon dioxide emissions of each household by 10,000 pounds per year.

Extension Educators Alice Mullen and Tim Fleury are heading up the Energy Answers project. The plan is to conduct needs assessment forums with consumers, industry and energy-related agencies. Information garnered from these forums will then be developed into an energy education curriculum. This project is currently funded for one year.