Renewable Energy Systems
at ACNW

The Audubon Center has made it a top priority to "practice what we preach". Through grants, creative thinking and generous help and teamwork, the Audubon Center has implemented a great variety of renewable energy sources including a geo-thermal heat pump system, solar PV arrays, solar hot water heating, solar air heat, and a wind generator. With these changes the Center has drastically reduced its dependence of fossil fuel sources of energy and proudly sets an example of what can be done to lessen our human impact of this earth.

Click here to visit our energy page sponsored by Lavelle Energy for an overview of all our renewable energy systems, our historical and real-time energy usage, our energy star rating and building energy facts.

www.lavelleenergy.com/schools/audubon/

Learn more about the NOAA Weather Station at ANCW

Click here to learn more about our NOAA Climate Weather Station and how to access the real-time measurements online!

If you've visited us lately, you are probably wondering what that strange looking apparatus is in the field to the south of our driveway. It's our new NOAA Climate Weather Station, which measures:

View our Sustainable Energy Campaign - a document which summarizes initiatives we have or will be pursuing in expanding our renewable energy capacity and reach our goal of reducing our carbon footprint by 80% within 10 years.

The Audubon Center of the North Woods (ACNW) is proud to be a part of EarthSense Alliance—a collaborative project of six accredited Minnesota Residential Environmental Learning Centers (RELCs). This campaign is a sustainability intiative to reduce and ultimately eliminate, where possible, the six centers’ collective CO2 contribution to climate change.

Click here to learn more about our Energy Outreach & RELC Curriculum

As part of our environmental
K-12 curriculum, we have developed
the following Energy Education
classes, used in both our RELC
and outreach programs:

• Acid Rain
• Energy Conservation
• Energy (1- & 3-hour)
• Geothermal Energy
• Solar
• Global Warming
• Wind

SUPPORT
The system grows as we find the money to invest.
If you can help us in our quest to be a zero carbon site, contact us to make a donation audubon1@audubon-center.org

For more information about the renewable energy initiatives the
Audubon Center is involved with contact our co-director, Bryan Wood