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ReVision Energy, who serves Maine, New Hampshire, and Massachusetts, is one of our 2021 business sponsors! ReVision Energy is a full service renewable energy contracting company that provides a full range of engineering, design, installation and equipment service for homes, businesses, municipal buildings and nonprofits. A 100% employee-owned solar company, they have focused on building a better world through the deployment of solar energy over the last 15+ years.

In 2017, ReVision Energy installed two large solar projects on Wolfe’s Neck Center’s campus: one at the dairy facility and the other at the Pote Barn, making us 50% solar powered. With a new operations center currently under construction and more infrastructure projects on the horizon, our end goal is to be entirely solar-powered.

Dave Herring, our Executive Director, recently spoke about our partnership with ReVision Energy in the video below. “The people that we partner with and the organizations that we associate with need to share our values. It was pretty clear tot us that ReVision was right in line with all of that. We are thrilled to be partnered with ReVision to help us care for these places and to also care for this greater place we call Earth.”

 

Read More From Our Blog

  • Wolfe’s Neck Center Goes Solar

    The upcoming spring sunshine will mean much more at Wolfe’s Neck Center this year. This March began the installation of two large solar projects on the campus: one at the site of the new organic dairy facility and the other on the Pote Barn, which was renovated in 2017. With the completion of these two projects, WNC will become 50% solar-powered, with an end goal to be entirely solar-powered in the next few years.

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    Cows for Climate Change Research

    Wolfe’s Neck Center has secured a key partnership in a $3 million grant with Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences to expand research on how to reduce methane emission by cattle and the effects of adding Maine seaweeds to a cow’s diet. Cattle are the largest human-caused source of methane emissions—the most potent of greenhouse gases—making dairy farms a source for reducing emissions at the start.  

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    What Can We Do About It?

    Climate change is not only a pressing issue, but it’s also becoming more widely discussed in mainstream media as the urgency of its impact heightens. In fact, Oxford Dictionary named “climate emergency” its 2019 word of the year. With that in mind, we launched two major initiatives this year that could have national—even global—impact on reversing the effects of climate change.

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    Can Seaweed Curtail Effects of Cow Burps?

    The B3 (Bovine Burp Buster) Project begins this summer at Wolfe’s Neck Center to study the effect of adding seaweed to the diet of dairy cows on reducing methane emissions. Learn more about the project from our new Agricultural Research Coordinator.

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    Ag Tech Tools: Farming in a Modern World

    Wolfe’s Neck Center has a rich history of innovation and experimentation in farming and food systems, and the future of farming depends on this resilience. By integrating technology into a daily farm operations and management, we can build soil health on farms in the face of climate change. Take a look at some of our newly implemented tech tools used to collect and manage on-farm data.