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  • Home
  • About
    • Brief Bio
    • Reporting Awards
    • Other Work Samples
    • Contact
  • E-cology Reports
    • Bird Habitat
    • Climate Change
    • Energy/Environmental Policy
    • Land Restoration
    • Waterway Health
  • Energy News Network
  • Buy Elizabeth’s Book

Category: household energy use

This shines a light on the black box of everyday energy use, whether it’s explaining an energy bill, how wind power is available with out a backyard turbine or how a hybrid car can save money and limit emissions.

Posted on September 24, 2018 awareness climate change e-cology electric vehicles environmental heroes household energy use post-coal energy sustainable transportation

Plugged In: Hyattsville, Md., police officer advances electric vehicles

WASHINGTON—Richard Hartnett’s official title at the Hyattsville Police Department might be sergeant, but it could just as easily be chief “EV”angelist. He has put his...

Posted on March 23, 2018March 23, 2018 awareness climate change D.C. Department of Energy and Environment e-cology environmental heroes household energy use plastic trash textiles recycling trash zero waste

Woman of the Cloth: Diverting fabric from landfills one pair of pants at a time

WASHINGTON—The average American tosses upward of 70 pounds of T-shirts, jeans, sweaters and towels into the garbage. Each year. Do the math in the nation’s...

Posted on November 21, 2017November 21, 2017 climate change e-cology environmental heroes faith-based stewardship household energy use just transitions post-coal energy Uncategorized

Keeping the Faith: D.C. marchers say climate legacy starts with local carbon cap

WASHINGTON—These are the things some three dozen D.C. residents buried on a clear, blustery Saturday afternoon: climate justice, public and Native American lands, walks in...

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E-cology Reports

Book cover Greetings Readers, February 10, 2021 by Elizabeth McGowan - Elizabeth McGowan here. Please click to my author website to learn about my journey to publishing Outpedaling ‘The Big C’: My Healing Cycle Across America. You can sign up for my NEW newsletter about riding and writing, and also invite me to be a speaker for your book group, cancer support group or other cherished institution.… Read more >
Ingenuity + money = flourishing enterprises on Central Appalachia coalfields April 24, 2019 by Elizabeth McGowan - Whitesburg, Ky.—If hollowed out minelands and communities of Central Appalachia are to be restored in some fashion, then the vision for the region’s future has to extend beyond infrastructure for federal prisons and natural gas pipelines. That’s what Eric Dixon of the Appalachian Citizens’ Law Center says he hears as he crisscrosses the area. "Communities… Read more >