Resources
Midwest Roofing Contractors Association
MRCA is an association of roofing contractors that have joined together to develop and administer programs and services that help member companies build their business, save them money while continually working to improve the roofing industry.
Recently, the MRCA T&R Committee has created a Photovoltaic (PV) Task Force to disseminate “best roofing practices guidelines” for PV by bridging the gap between the discovery of new knowledge (education) and the time that knowledge is applied (practice) through quantitative and qualitative data (research). In an effort to validate the performance of building-integrated PV, the task force utilized an evidenced-based approach that integrates the best available information, research, and expertise to foster a decision-making framework for contractors before they embark on a strategic plan of action within their respective businesses.
The Center for Environmental Innovation in Roofing
The Center is dedicated to promoting the development and use of environmentally responsible, high performance roof systems. Headquartered in Washington, D.C., the Center’s core purpose is to provide a forum for drawing together the entire roofing industry into the common cause of advancing and increasing the knowledge base of environmentally friendly, high performance roofing.
The Center endeavors to advance innovative solutions to energy and environmental challenges and proceeds with the belief that the spirit of collaboration is a critical ingredient of innovation.
Database of State Incentives for Renewables & Efficiency
DSIRE is a comprehensive source of information on state, local, utility, and federal incentives that promotes renewable energy and energy efficiency. The information on the DSIRE web site provides an overview of incentives and other policies, but should not be used as the only source of information when making purchasing decisions, investment decisions, tax decisions, or other binding agreements.
Kansas Corporation Commission
KCC was established to protect the public interest through impartial, and efficient resolution or all jurisdictional issues. The agency regulates five cornerstone industries in the Kansas economy and has the responsibility of ensuring that natural gas, electricity, telephone and transportation vendors provide safe, adequate and reliable services at reasonable rates. The Commission also has the mandate of assuring that oil and gas producers protect correlative rights and environmental resources.
Within the Commission’s Energy Programs Division, you will find a variety of energy resources ranging from wind and solar to educational information regarding tax incentives, legislation, and climate change.
- Westar Energy’s Facility Connection Standard
- KCP&L’s Renewable Energy Requirements
- Midwest Energy’s How $mart Program
Climate + Energy Project
CEP is a project of the Land Institute that supports lively conversation about our energy future. Their goal is to help halt the Midwest’s contributions to global warming and climate change. They support the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions by increasing energy efficiency and developing renewable energies in a sustainable manner.
Kansas Natural Resource Council
Founded in 1981, KNRC was the first environmental organization to focus exclusively on Kansas issues. KNRC speaks out to:
- Protect the quality and supply of Kansas water
- Support sustainable family farming practices that respect and restore the land and the community
- Ensure a competitive energy market where renewable resources and conservation can flourish
- Reduce the exposure of hazardous and nuclear wastes
- Promote responsible solid waste management focusing on waste reduction, recycling, and reuse
- Encourage environmental sound industrial practices
Great Plains Alliance for Clean Energy
GPACE is an alliance that seeks to encourage citizen participation in a well-informed, open, and bipartisan public discussion of long-term energy and regulatory policy in Kansas that is consistent with the national movement for a clean and balanced energy future. They embrace full disclosure of the assests, costs, potential, and liabilities of our energy and fuel options, including the environmental, social, and economics costs of global climate change and carbon emissions. GPACE seeks to correct an imbalance in the information citizens and their elected representatatives have received regarding critical and complex energy policy decisions facing our state. Their concern is for all Kansans, east to west, conservative to liberal, today, and for generations to come.
Kansas Association for Conservation and Environmental Education
KACEE is a statewide non-profit association of many public and private agencies, organizations, businesses, and individuals throughout the State of Kansas. Non-biased and scientific-based environmental education has become their focus by promoting a full understanding of environmental issues through the educational process that enhances critical thinking, problem solving, and effective decision-making.
