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Well, it's a start:
Rock Port, Missouri, First 100 Percent Wind-powered Community In U.S.

ScienceDaily (July 16, 2008) — Rock Port Missouri, with a population of just over 1,300 residents, has announced that it is the first 100% wind powered community in the United States. Four wind turbines supply all the electricity for the small town.

tags: energy sustainable wind power

YourGreenDream is an excellent site that describes itself as a "free source of information on how to create your own homemade projects on solar, hydro, wind, tidal, geothermal or other green power". There are articles on various aspects of sustainable energy, a "diy instructions" section detailing home-built projects you can try, a forum, and even a small store where you can order parts for some of the projects... from Australia. Shipping may be an issue for us here in Canada.

The site's a bit sparse at the moment, but it has potential. It's nice to see that a website like this exists at all; it shows a widening awareness of alternative energy sources.

tags: energy alternative wind solar diy doityourself

Treehugger recently posted an article on small-scale wind generation called "Small Wind is Beautiful". It discusses a blog post by Glen Estill which covers the subject of erecting a small wind turbine at your home or business. In following the link to Glen's site, I discovered that his blog is excellent. There's a wealth of information, not only about wind turbines, but other forms of sustainable energy as well. The blog entries are very well written and easily digestible by the lay-person.

tags: energy sustainable alternative wind turbine