TravelersRest seeks sister status with Bloomfield

Travelers Rest Neighborhood

TravelersRest, Omokoroa(Population 2500)New Zealand  wants to kick start a similar movement and for the community to follow Bloomfield’s lead.

Bloomfield(Population 2650), Iowa, USA  a rural community, is leading the way toward an Independent Energy Cultural.

Bloomfield, Iowa USA (Pop 2650)

Their story

A Small Iowa Town Embraces Energy Independence

Excerpts from David Labrador’s report. JUN 16, 2015

“How does a single streetscape project turn into a community-wide energy independence effort? Tiny Bloomfield, Iowa, discovered the answer with the help of RMI’s eLab Accelerator. A team from Bloomfield attended the 2015 Accelerator at Sundance Mountain Resort in Utah, and their story is a surprising one with big implications for small towns across America. Today, they are well embarked on a path to be an energy-independent community, but they started with far smaller ambitions.

“We were looking at doing a streetscape project,” says Carol Ann Taylor, city clerk and treasurer of the City of Bloomfield, “and one thing kind of led to another.”

eLab Accelerator

Team Name: Energy Independent Bloomfield

Project Objective: To become a net-zero, electric energy community through innovative approaches in energy efficiency adoption, distributed generation implementation, and public/private partnerships to create renewable energy opportunities.

It Started with a street in Bloomfield

Bloomfield, Iowa USA (Pop 2650)

 It will start with a Neighborhood, in Omokoroa.

Travelers Rest Neighborhood

We at TravelersRest are very excited over the prospects of firstly becoming an energy independant neighborhood then encouraging the Omokoroa Community to take up the challenge and believe in future benefits for them selves the community and the environment. Browse these pages Travelers Rest    Solar Pus Battery Storage    Geothermal Energy  HomeStar Rating  

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