Spiraling consumer energy bills and a desire to be more eco-friendly have helped increase sales of multifuel and wood burning stoves to a record high, reports Northern Irish electrical retailer, Dalzells of Markethill.
Green Heating Scheme Launched After Two Month Delay
The UK government will on Monday open the world's first subsidy scheme designed to support the use of renewable energy sources for heating, two months later than its initial start date after the European Commission requested a rate change.
Wood-burning Stoves All the Rage in Austerity Greece
Wood burning stoves are making a comeback among cash-strapped Greeks horrified by the soaring costs of central heating as winter begins. (This story helped us understand why Greece ranked #4 after the US, Canada and the UK for hits on our website.)
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Fairbanks Gets Money from EPA for Stove Exchange
AK: The borough is a big step closer to starting a dry wood exchange program for residents that will allow people to trade in a cord of wet wood for a cord of cleaner-burning dry wood.
Assembly Continues Hashing Out Air Quality Issues
AK: The Borough Assembly got some good news and some bad news at a briefing on local, state and federal efforts to clean up air pollution in the Fairbanks area during a work session Thursday night.
Firewood Prices Up This Winter
CA: Here prices have seen some steep increases over the past three years. But this year the market is adjusting and prices are leveling off.
No Wood Smoke, Please
CA: Wood-burning restrictions are being enforced in Chico starting this month and will remain in effect through February (EPA certified wood stoves and pellet stoves exempt from the bans).
Snowbound Homes Burn Wood, Create Unhealthy Air
CT: Along with the massive power outages and other storm damage from last weekend's nor'easter, central and western Connecticut also have to deal with high levels of air pollution.
Keep the Home Fires Burning
CT: It's the latest locavore mantra and the most primal one: burn local. The Nature Conservancy urges anyone with a fireplace or wood-burning stove to make sure their wood comes from close to home.
Could Waste Wood be MD's Next Clean Fuel Source?
MD: Dan Rider, Supervisor of Forest Stewardship and Utilization for the Maryland Department of Natural Resources' Forest Service, argues that woody biomass could be ample, clean and economical fuel source for the state.
ME: The Maine Pellet Fuels Association focused on a key barrier in the supply chain: the economic success of the four pellet manufacturing firms is dependent upon the success of installing pellet equipment.
Controlled Burns, Not Woodstoves, Polluting Air
OR: They said I needed to buy a new woodstove. I bought a certified woodstove so I could heat with wood even on "red" days. But now the rules have changed and I have to buy a pellet stove for the "red" days.
Council Member Ordered to Stop Using Wood Burner
PA: A Hamburg Council member received a letter from a zoning officer saying the borough had received two complaints about smoke from his property. And the letter stated that the Council member should stop using his wood stove that also heated his water in the summer.
'Survivalist' Leads Classes On How to Use a Woodstove
WI: The thought of preparing food on a wood-burning stove in a kitchen that looks like it was plucked from a 1920s still-life painting might seem idyllic. But the reality of making dinner without running water, a microwave or all the other appliances in modern kitchens is something else.
John Crouch, director of Public Affairs at the Pellet Institute, laments current energy policies that send wood pellets out of North America: "Somewhere out in the Atlantic Ocean, two ships pass in the night...
Roanoke Virginia has a popular solution to low-income heating: Rather than let its fallen trees rot, the city maintains a municipal woodpile in Fallon Park and gives them away every autumn, when a chill in the air makes people appreciate free firewood. Anyone for replicating this program elsewhere? 
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