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Scott Cowger ’82
Scott Cowger ’82 was named to the sixth annual Mainebiz Next List for alternative energy efforts at his inn and conference center in Hallowell, Maine (MapleBb.com). Each year, Mainebiz, a business news publication, selects a group of 10 innovative business leaders for inclusion on their Next List. Cowger, co-owner of the Maple Hill Farm Bed and Breakfast Inn and Conference Center, invested in alternative energy five years ago with his partner, Vince Hannan. The results thus far are a 10-kilowatt wind turbine, 126 photovoltaic panels, and 202 vacuum tubes for solar hot water that collectively save Cowger $1,000 a month in electricity costs, reduce the inn’s oil consumption by 20 percent, and produce about half of the facility’s energy. The Maine Department of Environmental Protection awarded the first “Environmental Leader” Green Lodging Inn Certification to Maple Hill Farm in 2005. Cowger expounds the importance of embracing social responsibility in the midst of success, “We need to make a personal commitment to protecting the environment and improving it, because humans have devastated it for some time.”
