Webinars
Past Webinars
Common Problems – and Solutions – for Self-Installed Wood Stoves
October 17, 2024
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Link to Webinar Slides: Click Here
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Description: Wood stoves can be a very affordable and practical way to heat and they are also very effective at reducing fossil fuels. But dangerous stove installations are common in America and are usually the result of homeowners doing their own installation. A panel of experts explored this problem, and what issues and trends they are currently seeing. They discussed what issues homeowners can typically fix themselves and when they should call a professional. We also looked at how Canada and European countries avoid some of the problems that exist in the US.
This webinar is part of a series of webinars about responsible wood and pellet heating. This one is funded in part by a grant from the USDA Forest Service.
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Speakers
Byron Schramm, Midtown Chimney Sweeps Franchising
Bamm Brewer and Dale Pine, One Spirit
Yvette Aube, AIM Chimney
Mark Humphrey, National Fireplace Institute
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AGH + Northern Forest Center Webinar: The Carbon Account of Modern Wood Heat
January 17, 2024
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Description: This webinar features three researchers in a discussion on the climate impacts of modern wood heat, from the forest to the flame.
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Speakers
Dr. Alexandra Kosiba, Extension Assistant Professor of Forestry, University of Vermont
Dr. Robert Malmsheimer, Distinguished Teaching Professor of Forest Policy and Law, SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Dr. Thomas Buchholz, Senior Scientist, Spatial Informatics Group
Starting a Firewood Bank?
October 5, 2023
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Description: This webinar on October 5, 2023 featured Dr. Jessica Leahy of the University of Maine School of Forest Resources describing her research along with student Sabrina Vivian into firewood banks and the various considerations necessary to start one. John Ackerly and Darian Dyer of Alliance for Green Heat describe the application process for the federal wood bank financial assistance grants that will fund existing and start-up firewood banks.
AGH Webinar: State Clean Heat Standards and Pellet/Chip Heating
November 9, 2023
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Description: Most states now have standards designed to gradually grow the amount of renewable electricity on their grids. Now, states are looking to do the same for heat, through clean heat standards (CHS). A CHS is a performance standard, requiring heat providers to deliver a gradually-increasing percentage of low-emission heating services to customers. Vermont was the first state in the nation to adopt one, and now Massachusetts is working on one. These experts will discuss how they work, how wood, pellet and chip heating systems may best fit in, and unique equity challenges CHS pose for lower income households.
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Speakers
Jared Duval, Executive Director of Energy Action Network
Chris Egan, Executive Director of Massachusetts Forest Alliance
Lilith Guzman, Fellow at Alliance for Green Heat
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Pellet Heating in the Age of Heat Pumps
September 14, 2023
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Description: The electrification of home heating is now a major goal of scores of agencies and institutions as the best and most affordable way to decarbonize heating. Pellet heating is also a low-carbon pathway and affordable to many homes that heat with propane, oil or electric resistance heat.
This webinar explored how various experts think the heat pump boom will impact pellet heating, taking into account the potential price of electricity, the need and benefits of non-electric heat, consumer preferences, etc. and what major factors we should be considering.
Speakers:
Frank Kvietok, Senior Director of Innovation at Lignetics
Scott Williamson, Head of Technical Support, Stove and Grill Parts.com
Adam Sherman, Senior Consultant, VEIC
Darian Dyer, Policy Analyst, Alliance for Green Heat (replacement for Christiane Egger, Deputy Manager, OÖ Energiesparverband)
Karen Harman-Smeltz, Director of Channel Marketing for Forge & Flame, Hearth & Home Technologies.
