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2008
Piedmont Alternative Energy Expo® Exhibitors

Exhibitors are listed alphabetically.

• Am-Cor, Inc.

  Am-Cor is a supplier of ferro-cement structures that are hurricane, tornado, earthquake, fire, flood, vermin and mold-resistant, environmentally friendly, and sustainable. The Am-Cor system uses much less energy and material than standard construction and easily incorporates solar and other renewable energy sources.
  Exhibitor: Angus MacDonald
  Website: www.am-cor.com

• Appleton Campbell, Inc.

  Appleton Campbell is a leader in the design and installation of energy-efficient heating and cooling systems for homes and businesses. Appleton Campbell utilizes technologies developed by companies such as WaterFurnace (geothermal systems), Unico (high velocity duct systems), Rinnia (tankless water heaters), and Veiga (radiant systems). The company also installs wood, corn, and soybean boilers.
  Exhibitor: Shaun Roop
  Website: www.appletoncampbell.com

• Association of Energy Conservation Professionals

  AECP is an energy education and advocacy organization that is involved in many projects related to providing energy education to the general public. AECP currently is developing a sustainable living educational center.
  Exhibitor: Billy Weitzenfeld
  Website: www.aecp.org

• Awesome Performance Insulation, Inc.

Awesome Performance Insulation is a local commercial and residential insulation company dedicated to using environmentally friendly insulation material to create a high-quality thermal barrier on buildings. These structures, once insulated properly, have proven to save customers in energy costs. Products exceed Energy Star and Earth Craft requirements.
Exhibitors: Ray Goodall, Lois Goodall
Contact: awesominsulation@aol.com

• Borders Books of Warrenton, Virginia

Borders Books is offering a wide selection of books on alternative energy and related subjects for sale to Expo attendees.
Exhibitors: Chauncey Kopp, Beth Gentry
Website: www.bordersstores.com

• Brighter Innovation

  Brighter Innovation is your local Solatube® and Solar Star® Premier Dealer. Solatubes are tubular skylights designed specifically to bring an incredible amount of natural light into your home while being more energy efficient and much more affordable than a conventional skylight. Solar Star attic fans are designed to reduce considerably the heat buildup in your attic while saving on your energy costs.
  Exhibitor: Wayne Urick
  Website: www.brighterinnovation.com

• Chesapeake Climate Action Network
  Fauquier County Chapter
  

  CCAN is a grassroots, nonprofit organization dedicated to fighting global warming in Maryland, Virginia, and Washington, D.C. Its mission is to educate and mobilize citizens of this region in a way that fosters a rapid societal switch to clean energy and energy-efficient products, thus joining similar efforts worldwide to slow and halt the dangerous trend of global warming. CCAN is a broad coalition of farmers, students, coastal mayors, scientists, health professionals, businesses, fishermen, environmentalists, and people of faith working together to preserve our children’s future. Help us educate the public about the coming impacts of climate change and build on recent clean energy legislative victories in Maryland and D.C.
  Exhibitor: Archer Gilliam
  Website: www.chesapeakeclimate.org

• Cleaner Greener America Foundation

  This nonprofit foundation provides the children, youth, and families of Frederick County, Virginia, with a full range of community services, including health, renewable energy sources, local food sources, and educational seminars. Created in 2007, the foundation is committed to serving every citizen in Shenandoah Valley and eventually expanding throughout Virginia and into other states. The foundation deals with such critical issues as food choices in schools, sustainable agriculture, the health of citizens, and saving farms though Community Supported Agriculture programs.
  Exhibitors: Kevin Rooney, Dawn Rooney, Jeanette McClellan
  Website: www.cgafoundation.org

  Commonwealth Sustainability Works

  Commonwealth Sustainability Works provides professional consulting services in the areas of green buildings, sustainable community development, and strategic planning. It helps clients design, construct, and furnish efficient, healthful homes, schools, and other buildings. Working with public officials and citizen groups, the company promotes diverse, walkable communities, preservation of rural land, and green economic development. It also consults with businesses and other organizations seeking to reduce costs, increase productivity, and improve environmental performance.
  Exhibitor: Andrew Grigsby
  Website: www.commonwealthsustainability.com

• Community Housing Partners

  Community Housing Partners is a nonprofit community development corporation that serves the needs of low-income and low-wealth individuals and families in the southeast. Its mission is to create affordable, green, sustainable housing opportunities for the people and communities they serve. Since 1975, CHP has served over 150,000 individuals and families, including elderly people, women and children in transition, formerly homeless people, single female heads-of-household, the chronically mentally ill, at-risk youth, and other families and individuals of low income and low wealth. Activities include sustainable development, architectural design, construction, energy services, homeownership, and housing management.
  Exhibitor: Chris Heslep
  Website: www.communityhousingpartners.org

• COTEFCO Energy Group, Inc.

  COTEFCO is the acronym for Combustion Technology Efficiency Collaborative. COTEFCO offers its Emulsion to Combustion (E2C-unit)™ products and services for a wide variety of emission-reduction and fuel-saving applications. The COTEFCO process reduces emissions and may deliver significant fuel savings in institutions, factories, manufacturing plants, and almost any facility where heat plays a major part in the conversion of raw materials into usable products.
  Exhibitor: Andrea Zunzer
  Website: www.cotefco.com

• Eating Locally

  For every week that each U.S. citizen eats just one meal made from locally and organically grown meat and produce, we reduce our consumption of oil by 1.1 million barrels! Learn how you can support local farms, eat healthier, and save energy. Stop by the Eating Locally table for a comprehensive list of sources for locally grown food.
  Exhibitors: Ellen Ussery, Harvey Ussery

• Electric Vehicle Association of D.C.

  EVA/DC a nonprofit organization of electric vehicle owners, hobbyists, educators, and enthusiasts dedicated to promoting the use of electric vehicles as an environmental and energy alternative. The group will display at Expo the restored Aztec (photo on right), a solar-assisted, battery-powered vehicle built in the 1990s by MIT students and competed in the Tour del Sol. Also included in the EVADC display will be a Toyota Prius converted to plug-in.
  Exhibitor: John Clinton
  Website: www.evadc.org

• Energy Cycle
  
  Visit George Hagerman’s Energy Cycle and find out how hard you need to pedal to make a light bulb glow and whether it’s harder to light up a fluorescent or an incandescent bulb.
  Exhibitor: George Hagerman
  Contact: hagerman@vt.edu

• Green Man Forest Management

  Coupling science and traditional knowledge, Green Man Forest Management provides landowners with an ecologically sound and economically viable market alternative to conventional forest management. The mainstay of this management approach is a program of systematic, restorative harvesting using low-impact, modern, animal-powered extraction. The major benefit of this approach is that the ecological health, and subsequently the economic value of the forest, increases over time. The forest remains intact and so does its ability to provide invaluable ecosystem services, such as wildlife habitat, clean air, carbon sequestration, water retention and purification, and soil enrichment and stabilization.
  Exhibitor: Justin LaMountain
  Website: www.greenmanforestmanagement.com

• Helios Energy Solutions

  Helios Energy Solutions is a renewable-energy services company. With rising energy prices and new renewable technologies coming on the market daily, it’s hard to make sense of it all. Helios will help you, the farm, home, and small business owner, transition to renewable energy, and more important, more cost effective energy solutions. It may be as easy as helping you find ways to conserve electricity, or it might involve the installation of electrical backup systems integrated with solar panels. Whatever the answer, Helios will help you find the right solution.
  Exhibitor: John Jerakis
  Website: www.heliosenergysolutions.com

• IntraGroups

  IntraGroups.com stimulates minds with new paradigms on energy matters, such as 3-year off-grid plans – the fastest way to U.S. energy independence and reduced costs. IntraGroups provides member-based services to individuals, groups, and businesses needing to lessen power consumption. Lower usage of grid-based electricity, gas, and diesel are critical to reducing pollution and personal expenses.
  Exhibitor: Michael Rainger
  Website: www.intragroups.com

• John Marshall Soil & Water Conservation District

  John Marshall Soil & Water Conservation District provides local solutions to natural resource and conservation issues in Fauquier County. Its mission includes providing leadership, technical assistance, and education to the people of Fauquier County in proper soil stewardship and water quality protection to ensure the wise use of Fauquier County’s natural resources.
  Exhibitors: Melissa Allen, Kerry Wharton
  Website: www.johnmarshallswcd.com

• Jordan River Farm, Huntly, Virginia

  Cory Koral of Jordan River Farm will showcase his
  off-the-grid house and his alternative energy solutions. Cory will help Expo visitors determine whether they can use alternative energy sources in their home. He will share his checklist of factors to consider and spend time with Expo visitors to talk them through alternative energy choices, such as use of solar, micro-hydro, wind, and solar voltaic devices.
  Exhibitor: Cory Koral
  Website: www.jordanriverfarm.com

• Larry's Garage, LLC

Larry’s Garage converts vehicles to total electric. One of the converted vehicles will be on display at Expo.
Exhibitors: Larry Billing, Andrew Smith
Contact: larrysgarage@erols.com

• Light Speed Power, Inc.

  Physicist Charles Bigelow demonstrates the portability of the UNI-PAC™ 30 photovoltaic charger by UNI-SOLAR®. The UNI-PAC is designed to provide field communications, emergency power, and battery maintenance to military units, climbers, professional photographers, and others needing energy in the field. Bigelow uses the UNI-PAC to charge batteries for his digital camera and other devices.
  Exhibitors: Charles Bigelow, David Womick
  Contact: energy@visuallink.com

• Maryland-D.C.-Virginia Solar Energy Industries Association

  MDV-SEIA is the trade association of manufacturers, distributors, contractors, and consultants engaged in the solar energy industry in the region. The association abides by a code of ethics, supports educational opportunities, and encourages elected officials to support solar programs and expanded use of the most plentiful renewable energy source in Virginia. MDV-SEIA also supports training and educational programs to meet the needs of the industry’s workforce.
  Exhibitor: Peter Lowenthal
  Website: www.mdv-seia.org

• National Renewable Energy Lab
  U.S. Department of Energy

The Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory in Golden, Colorado, is the premier research facility for energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies in the United States. As home to the National Bioenergy Center, the National Center for Photovoltaics and the National Wind Technology Center, NREL works with other National Labs, universities and private sector partners to provide economically viable and environmentally sustainable solutions to the nation’s and the world’s mounting energy challenges. NREL is a U.S. Department of Energy laboratory, operated by Midwest Research Institute and Battelle Memorial Institute.
Exhibitor: Gary Schmitz
Website: www.nrel.gov

• Oesch Environmental Design

  Fred Oesch of Oesch Environmental Design has designed and built alternative architecture, custom interiors, furniture, and fine art for more that 30 years. His green building specialties include solar and zero energy homes, green oak timber frames, straw bale construction, living earth roofs, and healthful environmental control systems. Oesch is available for residential or commercial design projects worldwide, including consultation, lectures, and teaching. Oesch will be on hand to present and discuss practical solutions toward affordable alternative building and energy independence, with natural materials and healthful environmental control. Also exhibiting at the Oesch booth is Jessica Jones Oesch with health products and services to replenish, rejuvenate, and refresh. Visit www.healthpathways.org for more information.
  Exhibitor: Fred Oesch
  Website: www.fredoesch.com

• Piedmont Biofuels

  Piedmont Biofuels is a worker and member-owned cooperative. Its mission is to lead the grassroots sustainability movement on the East Coast by using and encouraging the use of clean, renewable biofuels. In support of this mission, Piedmont Biofuels provides pure biodiesel (B100) to its community; provides a space where worker members can make their own fuel from waste vegetable oil; maintains a USDA Research Farm for oilseed crop research; owns an elaborate glycerin composting facility; provides education and outreach on both biodiesel and engine modifications to enable the use of straight vegetable oil as fuel; lobbies the North Carolina legislature, as well as our national representatives, on behalf of biodiesel and alternative fuels; and has an intern program that allows students to live onsite and learn about all facets of operations.
  Exhibitors: Matt Rudolph, David Thornton, Emily Warren, Greg Austic
  Website: www.biofuels.coop

• Piedmont Environmental Council

  The Piedmont Environmental Council is a 35-year-old nonprofit organization dedicated to promoting and protecting the Piedmont’s rural economy, natural resources, history, and beauty. Each facet of PEC’s work is strengthened by its place in a four-part strategy for ensuring a healthy, beautiful, and prosperous future for the Piedmont. PEC’s work helps citizens to achieve four interrelated goals: understand and envision the Piedmont, protect what can be protected, respond to the forces of change, and direct growth to the right places.
  Exhibitor: Don Loock
  Website: www.pecva.org

• The Piedmont Virginian Magazine

  The Piedmont Virginian will be available for purchase at Expo. The magazine is a quarterly journal of information and appreciation—of nature, place, and ways of life. The magazine promotes historic preservation, open spaces, sustainable agriculture, and country values.
  Exhibitor: Margaret McCann
  Website: www.piedmontvirginian.com

• Rappahannock League for Environmental Protection
       and Money and Energy $aving Alternatives (ME$A)

  RLEP is dedicated to preserving the natural resources and rural character of Rappahannock County, Virginia. RLEP helps the community understand issues, challenges, and initiatives that affect our natural and cultural landscape. RLEP also encourages citizens to become active participants in those things that make an environmental difference—whether defending threats to the good land we are blessed with, or promoting good programs to manage our precious environmental resources for succeeding generations. RLEP is the host, founder, and primary sponsor of the Piedmont Alternative Energy Expo.
  
  ME$A, a new RLEP alternative energy project, promotes energy efficiency within Rappahannock County by offering residents and businesses assessments of their energy footprints and suggestions for monetary savings through use of renewable and alternative energy.
  Exhibitors: Monica Worth, Pam Owen
  Website: www.rlep.org

• Rappahannock Timber Frame Company

  Rappahannock Timber Frame Company builds timber frame, post-and-beam homes that can be finished out in any style and easily outfitted with energy-saving devices. Options can include radiant heat, ductless cooling, heated floors, energy-saving house fans, solar shingles, and wind turbines. The company has its own energy consultant to help you develop a plan to fit your lifestyle’s energy requirements.
  Exhibitors: Kyra Howell, Bill Christian, Steve Howell
  Website: www.rapptimber.com

• RASP Technologies
  
  RASP Technologies has developed a highly efficient, continuous-flow chemical reaction and separation process that is both compact and inexpensive to operate. This system of reacting fluids will have broad applications in the environmental, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries. Currently, RASP Technologies has developed a unit that produces ASTM-quality biodiesel fuels at a cost now available only to large-scale production facilities, while requiring a fraction of the support infrastructure. This process can meet the needs of a community or region utilizing locally grown agricultural products for fuel production.
  Exhibitor: Robert Miller
  Contact: rmiller@nexet.net

• Recovered Energy Resources

  Recovered Energy Resources develops small-scale, renewable-energy power plants that use materials such as biomass, animal manure, wood wastes, and trash as fuel. RER produces electricity and thermal energy in state-of-the-art modular power plants. The RER power plant is built on or adjacent to a customer’s site and provides all or a portion of the energies needed to run their facility and processes. The advantages are stability in price, dependability in delivery, and sustainability of the environment.
  Exhibitor: Bradley Schneider
  Website: www.recoveredenergyresources.com

• ReThink Solar (Solar Union Energy Solutions)

  ReThink Solar makes solar electricity a possibility for homeowners by designing a complete custom system at an affordable fixed monthly rental rate. Solar doesn’t cost, it pays!
  Exhibitor: Suzanne Smith
  Website: www.solarunion.net

• SandEnergy

  SandEnergy is dedicated to helping you create energy security through independent energy conservation solutions. Renewable power is readily available. The company’s systems and services make it easy and affordable.
  Exhibitor: Don Sandros
  Website: www.sandenergy.net

• Sierra Club—Great Falls Group

  The Sierra Club’s members are more than 750,000 of your friends and neighbors. Inspired by nature, members work together to protect communities and the planet. The club is America’s oldest, largest, and most influential grassroots environmental organization.
  Exhibitor: Kayti Wingfield
  Website: http://virginia.sierraclub.org/greatfalls/

• Solar Connexion

  Solar Connexion is a solar design and installation firm based in Blacksburg, Virginia. Exhibitor Bryan Walsh is an NABCEP-certified photovoltaic contractor. Since 1993, he has provided customers with the highest-quality products and services, from simple cabin to complex solar-powered communities. Walsh and his family live in an all-solar, off-the-grid home that he and his wife designed and that features both active and passive solar. Walsh is conversant with all aspects of solar power, collectors, hot water, and inverters.
  Read about one of his projects in Rappahannock County.
  Exhibitors: Bryan Walsh, Able Duffy
  Contact: 540-961-5120

• Solar Panels Plus, LLC

  Solar Panels Plus is a wholesale distributor and partner for turnkey solar energy systems, including solar hot water, photovoltaic, solar air conditioning, and solar heating systems for residential or commercial applications.
  Exhibitor: Kamran Koochekzadeh
  Website: www.solarpanelsplus.com

• Solar Services, Inc.

  Solar Services has been dedicated for 21 years to delivering clean and free solar energy. Its systems are in use in thousands of homes and businesses providing heat and hot water, warming swimming pools, and generating electricity. Th company can show you how to improve your quality and standard of living by reducing your utility bills, providing an uninterruptible source of power, or extending the use of your recreational facilities.
  Exhibitors: Richard Good, Nathan Farley
  Website: www.solarservices.com

• Southern Air-Temp Heating & Cooling, Inc.

  Visit Southern Air-Temp Heating & Cooling’s booth at Expo to learn about geothermal heating, cooling, and hot water systems for home and business.
  Exhibitor: James Santos
  Website: www.southern-dist.com

• Staber Industries [display only]

  Staber’s energy-efficient washing machines are the most efficient clothes washers available and cost less to use based on total energy, water, and detergent usage. Staber is the only top-loading, horizontal-axis clothes washer made in the U.S. The washers operate similarly to a front-loading washers but have top-loading convenience and better durability.
  Website: www.staber.com

• Standard Solar, Inc.

  Standard Solar is a service company providing design and installation expertise of solar photovoltaic electric and solar hot water systems for residential and small commercial customers interested in simple, hassle-free solutions to save money and conserve using clean, renewable solar energy.
  Exhibitor: Roger Williams
  Website: www.standardsolar.com

• Sustainable Design Group

  SDG is a full-service residential design firm specializing in homes that are in complete harmony with man, nature, and the spirit. SDG’s president, John Spears, has been a pioneer in self-sufficient, green home design and sustainable community development worldwide since 1973. His work has been featured on television and in many national publications, including Better Homes and Gardens, Building Ideas, and Popular Science. His highly refined designs incorporate tested and proven techniques for building high-performance homes, including passive solar heating and natural cooling, all-natural nontoxic materials, compressed-earth brick walls, whole-house ventilation and filtration, solar power and hot water, geothermal heat pump and radiant floors, reused and recycled materials, rain water collection, green roofs, composting toilets, Bau-biology, Feng Shui, and Vastu Vedic.
  Exhibitor: John Spears
  Website: www.sustainabledesign.com

• Virginia Conservation Network

  VCN is Virginia’s only statewide network of more than 110 environmental organizations, including RLEP, from across the Commonwealth. The network’s mission is to protect the Commonwealth’s air, lands, and waters for the benefit of the people, as guaranteed by the Virginia Constitution.
  Exhibitor: Nathan Lott
  Website: www.vcnva.org

• Virginia Sustainable Building Network

  VSBN promotes environmentally sound—or Green Building—practices for Virginia. These building designs, methods, and materials save energy costs, reduce waste, and promote recycling, reduce environmental impacts and exposure to unhealthy substances, strengthen local economies, and contribute to an enhanced quality of life. To accomplish its mission, VSBN has built a statewide network of Green Building proponents, provides Green Building events and training around the state and region, provides technical assistance on Green Building design and operations, and has created an information clearinghouse and resource directory.
  Exhibitors: Pamela Vosburgh, Annette Osso, and Paul Furlong
  Website: www.vsbn.org

• Warmboard Radiant Subfloor

  Warmboard radiant subfloor is stiff, strong, and especially tough. It combines a structural subfloor and a thermodynamically sophisticated radiant panel into one simple component of your radiant heating system. Warmboard begins with a 1-1/8″ thick, 4′ X 8′ sheet of tongue and groove, weather-resistant plywood. A modular pattern of channels is cut into the top surface, then a thick sheet of aluminum is stamped to match the channel pattern and is permanently bonded to each panel.
  Exhibitor: Bill Prillaman
  Website: www.warmboard.com
  

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