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The town of Natick, Mass., plans to use part of a state grant to fund a solar array at a middle school — a project that could save the town more than $15,000 a year in energy costs.

Plymouth, Massachusetts schools are going Green and saving Green.Private developers would install solar panels on the roofs at their own cost and sell a portion of the energy they generate back to the schools at drastically reduced cost.    

And for our Patriots Fans…

The Kraft family, the team’s owners, are fervently committed to solar power and clean technology because they "believe this is the way the world is going," says their business group’s director of site development, Dan Krantz. In fact, the solar panels at the stadium are the largest collection of any professional sports complex in North America.
 

Did you know….

• 10 million tons of tear-off asphalt shingles are sent to landfill every year in the U.S.
   
• Trapped in those shingles sent to landfill is the equivalent of 10 million barrels of oil.
   
• The average roof tear-off creates 3 tons of material that can be recycled.
   

The environment has always been very important to us at O’Lyn Roofing.  Over the past several months we’ve been working on a great shingle recycling program.

To learn more, check out our press release about shingle recycling.

The awards ceremony will be held in Cambridge on October 21st, so wish us luck!

"Quantum dots" and electron conductors hold the key to 60 per cent efficient solar cells

A breakthrough in solar cell design that could dramatically improve the efficiency of the technology to more than 60 per cent has US researchers hot under the collar.

A team from the University of Texas claims to have found a way to tap the energy wasted by solar cells through so-called "hot electrons". Led by professor of chemistry Xiaoyang Zhu, the Austin team reported its findings in last week’s edition of Science. Read BusinessGreen.com Article

Stephen De Cesare was the lucky winner in our Spring 2010 O’Lyn Job Sign Drawing! Each Spring we offer any customer who keeps an O’Lyn job sign in their yard for the month of April the chance to win a grand prize. This year it was $1000, and Stephen’s name was the one selected in our drawing! Here’s what he had to say;

05/16/2010

8:45AM

Dear O’Lyn Roofing,

My name is Stephen De Cesare and I was the winner of your recent drawing. I wanted to thank you for picking my name and also to say that I fully support your organization in your business and constantly give others your name as your work on my house was exemplary. Good luck in the future and thanks again for the prize!

If you missed out on your chance to win this year, call us at 781-769-8599 and find out how you can be eligible to win our Spring 2011 Grand Prize.

On roofs, moss holds moisture which can lead to leaks and serious damage to your home. On decks, sidewalks, or driveways, moss can create slipping hazards, and some people don’t like the way it looks in yards. Read More

Using heat from a forge that turns orange-hot metal into everything from car parts to hand tools, a Michigan manufacturer is developing an energy-efficient way to warm a year-round greenhouse on the company’s roof. Read More

Not long ago, Robert De Los Santos realized that the roof on his Saddle Brook home was near the end of its lifespan.

"We’d had the roof for about 30 years and we figured it was getting to be time to replace it," De Los Santos said.

The initial plan was simply to replace the shingles for about $4,000, but when contractors got up on the ladder, they found the wood underneath was rotting. Read More