Audubon Center of the North Woods - environmental education and conference center

Renewable Energy &
NOAA Weather Station at the Audubon Center

What is our Sustainable Energy Campaign?

View our Sustainable Energy Campaign -a document which summarizes where we are and initiatives we will pursue 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 the Sustainable Energy Campaign—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.

ENERGY
Outreach & RELC Curriculum

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

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, three solar arrays and a series of solar panels, 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. Follow the links below to learn more about the steps the Audubon Center is taking to lead the way in renewable energy in Minnesota.

Geo-thermal Heat Pumps

Solar & Wind Energy

Eco -RV

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:

Air temperature
Precipitation
Solar radiation
Wind speed
Surface temperature
Relative humidity

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 the director, Mike Link