On the Ranch

On Saturday, October 18th, Kiley Ranch held its second annual Fall Harvest Festival to benefit the Food Bank of Northern Nevada. Visitors enjoyed a bounce house, face painting, carnival games, farmers market vendors and picking out a free pumpkin with their food or monetary donation to the Food Bank. I am excited to report that the Food Bank collected 909 pounds of food and enough monetary donations to supply 2896 meals for the hungry. This is a huge increase over last year so thank you, thank you for joining us and helping out a great cause in these challenging times! Check out a slide show of the event below.

 

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Although there has been much controversy over the passage of the recent $700 billion governmental rescue package passed earlier this month, I think many can agree the many energy tax incentive extensions included in the bill are incredibly important to the ongoing improvement of energy efficiency and alternative energy production in our country.  The United States Green Building Council had been pushing for these extensions for more than a year and is excited about the many tax incentives that will encourage the continued advancement of green building practices. Below are some of the incentives that were included:

• a 1-year extension of the tax credit for the production of energy from wind, and a two-year extension of the credit for energy production from other renewable sources, such as geothermal
• an 8-year extension of the tax credits for investment in commercial and residential solar projects, including the removal of the $2000 cap on investments in residential solar electric installations, and the addition of small wind energy and geothermal heat pump projects as qualifying installations for tax credits
• a 5-year extension of the tax deduction for energy-efficient commercial buildings
• a 1-year extension of the tax credit for the construction of new energy-efficient homes
• a 1-year extension of the tax credit for qualified energy-efficiency upgrades to existing homes
• an extension through 2010 of the tax credit for the manufacture of energy-efficient appliances
• a 3-year extension of the authority for state and localities to issue tax-exempt bonds for green building and sustainable design projects

You can read more about these tax credit extensions by clicking here.

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