Brampton Environmental Alliance
This is the eighth in a series of posts on our journey to navigate government grants and loans available for home energy retrofits and to replace our natural gas furnace with a cold-climate heat pump. Click here to see all articles in the series . I want to share our first experience with our heat pump now …
This is the seventh in a series of posts on our journey to navigate government grants and loans available for home energy retrofits and to replace our natural gas furnace with a cold-climate heat pump. Click here to see all articles in the series . “The cheque is in the mail”. That’s what Kirby, Enbridge’s Customer …
This is the sixth in a series of posts on our journey to navigate government grants and loans available for home energy retrofits and to replace our natural gas furnace with a cold-climate heat pump. Click here to see all articles in the series. I realize I’m about to wade into the political swamp by arguing …
Continue reading “Heat Pump Chronicles Vol. 6 Is “Axing the Tax” really a good idea?”
man conducting a blower door test
This is the fourth in a series of posts on our journey to navigate government grants and loans available for home energy retrofits and to replace our natural gas furnace with a cold-climate heat pump. Click here to see all articles in the series. Our heat pump is installed. It’s beautiful and, although it’s only …
This is the third in a series of posts on our journey to navigate government grants and loans available for home energy retrofits and to replace our natural gas furnace with a cold-climate heat pump. Click here to see all articles in the series. With Thanksgiving upon us and the weather turning colder, I realize …
Heat Pump Chronicles is our story about replacing our natural gas furnace with a zero carbon heat pump. In this volume I describe what a heat pump does and the government grants and loan programs available to residents.
This is the first in a series of posts on our journey to navigate government grants and loans available for home energy retrofits and to replace our natural gas furnace with a cold-climate heat pump. Click here to see all articles in the series. The Break Up Twas the night before Christmas and all through …
The BEA attended two events on March 22. The first was a Health and Wellness Day hosted by the TRCA Bramalea SNAP team. The second was an Earth Hour Community Event in Caledon East. Attendees were asked to sign the One Planet Living pledge.
The environmental movement experienced considerable resistance in 2024 with differing opinions being vehemently expressed on both sides especially on areas of climate policy and active transportation. BEA members soldiered on against these challenges and progress was made in the four focus areas, Advocacy, Events, Education, Collaboration. Challenges continue at the start of 2025 but good may come from this chaos as the country faces both economic catastrophe and climate-based apocalypse.