Newest dasolar Team Member Shares Thoughts on Renewables 

“We cannot just focus on the problem; in order to be effective we must focus on the solution.”  This sentiment is one of the driving mantras of my life and a primary reason I am working with dasolar.com  My name is Amy Guinan; I am the newest team member at dasolar, and I would like to briefly introduce myself. 

My passion is spending time in the outdoors:  skiing, mountain biking, walking in the woods.  When I am in the mountains I feel most alive.  In 2006 I moved to Boulder, Colorado and was making regular treks up in to the Rockies.  I noticed something quite disturbing that was worsening before my eyes: hundreds of thousands of acres of lodgepole pine trees were turning brown and dying from a bark beetle infestation. Due to the combination of drought and warmer winters, both results of a changing climate, the bark beetles were able to thrive and create massive destruction to the ecosystem. Something deeply personal inside me awoke:  the places that were sacred to me were threatened, and I knew I had to take action about climate change.

National Clean Energy Summit 7.0

Solar Education and Energy Savings

The Hawaii Department of Education plans to install solar photovoltaic panels (solar PV) on each public school in the state over the next five years. Electricity costs will decrease while helping the state meet its renewable energy goal of 90 percent clean energy by 2040. Little or no upfront costs from the state would be necessary to fund the proposed improvements. In fact schools should end up making money when extra power is generated and sold. Yearly electrical cost savings might be close to $5 million.

A New Jersey solar farm is growing on farmland that was originally destined to become a field of McMansions. Work on one of the nation’s largest solar farms began last month in Pilesgrove, in the southern flatlands west of the Pine Barrens and east of Wilmington, Delaware.

Solar power has caught fire in Pennsylvania, thanks to declining costs for solar equipment and generous state incentives, according to John Hanger, Secretary of the state's Department of Environmental Protection.

A group of pro-solar people are returning a solar panel to the White House tomorrow, September 10, and hope to convince President Obama to Put Solar on the White House roof.

The Maple View Farm in Hillsborough, North Carolina, recently added an acre of solar panels.

Earlier this month, North Carolina Governor Beverly Perdue signed a bill that extended a generous tax credit for investments in renewable energy and increased the tax credit for investment in facilities that manufacture renewable energy equipment.

Illinois Governor Pat Quinn signed a law August 17 requiring power utilities to get 6 percent of their energy from solar in 2015 and every year thereafter.

A few weeks ago I wrote about the new solar farm at NASCAR’s Pocono Raceway. Now I’m going to