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More TED Talks For Your Listening / Viewing Pleasure

Posted Thu, 03/22/2012 - 16:50 by drapeau

TED Talks This week I'm throwing in a few of my favorite TED talks with no apparent theme.  I like them each for different reasons.  I'll get right to it; here are some TED talks I've found interesting; check them out via these links or directly on itconversations.com.

Big funding for residential solar power

Posted Thu, 06/16/2011 - 07:02 by drapeau
I saw this story yesterday, about Google investing $280 million in SolarCity to help them grow their residential solar business.  I think this is fantastic news.  Here's why.

Our Experience Researching And Installing Solar Electricity

Posted Mon, 05/30/2011 - 23:31 by drapeau
  I've been a big fan of solar power since I was a kid, and it's been a dream of mine to live in a house run by solar power, whether that be solar heating or solar PV (photovoltaic, i.e., solar electric cells).  Now that we own our own home, we've been looking into home improvement projects that could also help the environment; the two big ones are water catchment and solar electricity power generation.  We decided to go with solar first.

Solar power used at the individual's level (not big arrays)

Posted Tue, 05/10/2011 - 19:23 by drapeau
I'm a big believer in solar energy; we are almost done with our solar installation at home, and the system looks and performs beautifully.  (more on that in a separate blog post)

What I'm not a big believer in is those huge alternate energy installations that you always read about as the savior of our country.  You know, huge solar farms that require the Environmental Protection Agency to issue a report about how they affect the local ecosystem, or huge off-shore wind farms.

Cost of home solar power and how to pay for it

Posted Sun, 08/22/2010 - 03:27 by drapeau
It's been a couple of weeks since I last wrote about 1BOG (One Block Off the Grid), the web site that helped me get up to speed on solar power for the home.  In that time, I talked to the nice folks at 1BOG, and they set me up with an in-home appointment with a company called groSolar.  1BOG has negotiated a group discount with groSolar for 1BOG members in the San Fr

Sustainable plants seminar

Posted Sat, 04/24/2010 - 09:57 by drapeau



I didn't think there would be so many people showing up at the City Hall seminar. I guess we are not alone in caring about saving water, money, and our community. I love being in Hayward.

Some relevant web sites given out during this morning's seminar:
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