Chris Wondra . com

Whoever said wind turbines litter the landscape?
This 3-D image won first prize at the AWEA wind power conference recently in Pittsburgh.
“While making this piece, I intended to show the beauty of renewable energy sources,” said creator Aleksandar Rodic.
Nice.
Share This

[Read more →]

Every other Thursday (or so) we have a morning staff meeting. This morning our principal (bless her heart) shared a little quiz with us to help keep it light. She got the quiz from a book by award winning teacher turned motivational speaker, Bill Collar.
Next week Mr. Collar will be coming to SCF […]

[Read more →]

The picture above is of my family (minus me, I’m taking the picture . . .duh) and Will Steger. It was taken at this year’s St. Paul Winter Carnival in January. The temperature that day was about 5 degrees and the wind was really kicking out of the north, so the wind chill was actually […]

[Read more →]

Part of me still has a hard time believing we really have it.
It’s something I had dreamed about for years. From the start, I found the concept and technology fascinating. And oh, the money you can save!
For a confessed energy geek, everything about a geoexchange heat pump seemed really really cool.
Share This

[Read more →]

This column first appeared in print on September 27, 2006 in that day’s issue of the Inter-County Leader.

“Dad!” she said one Sunday morning. “I was going right back up!”
“I know,” I said, my head thrust in the refrigerator. “But every second counts. Every penny adds up. You have to turn the lights off when you […]

[Read more →]