Solar surplus- A conundrum
We have now had a battery back up and enlarged solar system for about 6 months and have driven our electric LEAF for about 5,000 miles over that time. We […]
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Appalachian Offsets: Nonprofits Reduce Energy use, use Savings to Help Their Cause
Cue the music…Appalachian Offsets, your local solution to global pollution is back! Back by popular demand and with the help of two grants, Appalachian Offsets (AO) will reduce climate changing
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I have to clean my solar panels, and you probably do too
Later this month, my husband Matt and I will celebrate our five-year anniversary in our new net-zero energy house. When we built the house we made a commitment to use
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Garret K. Woodward: Finding a Balance
Finding a balance — Asheville Yoga Center By Garret K. Woodward Sunny Keach wanted more. “You get in this reality of what you can actually do with your business, what
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A month with an Electric Car
North Carolina dropped the tax credits for renewables for projects after 2015. This stuck us as a dumb move for jobs creation, staying ahead of the innovative curve, fighting
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Renewable Energy in Nicaragua
I am in Nicaragua with Leaf for Life that is doing workshops on sustainable ways people can grow food to fight malnutrition. The workshops have been at the University of
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Heating with wood
Heating with wood is about as old a technology as you can get and it still works. I think that primitiveness is part of its appeal. I have been using
Off the Grid: Appearance vs. reality
Off-grid. It’s a term that’s come to imply the absence of technology, a woodsy atmosphere; Chaco’s kicked up on a camp chair. Or perhaps it brings to mind the savvy
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Phelps Clarke and Douglas Ager: The Economics of Solar
There are a lot of misconceptions about solar energy systems – they need expensive batteries, have high maintenance costs, produce insignificant amounts of power, decrease the value of real estate
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Hybrid Vigor: Planting Solar Panels on Green Roofs Produces Mutual Advantages
There are two facts of nature that we can always count on — the sun shines and plants grow in a living partnership. This synergistic truth now goes even a
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