"Solar Kelly" Larson
"Solar Kelly" Larson is a California electrical contractor and NABCEP-certified PV installer, and�operates an alternative energy design, installation and repair service in Northern Mendocino County. She has an electrical engineering degree and was a staff engineer with
Adrian Dyer
Adrian Dyer has worked in renewable energy since 2005 and installed over 2MW of grid-tied PV on homes and businesses. He started his career as an electrician in 1994 and now holds a California electrical contractor's license.
Alex Aragon
Alex Aragon is a NABCEP certified solar installer and a C10 electrical contractor. He designs, sells, and installs on- and off-grid systems for his own company and is an installer for many Real Goods projects.
Allen Martin
Allen Martin has almost 20 years residential construction experience and has been building strawbale homes for the past five years. He is a licensed contractor, a building inspector, and a member of the California Straw Building Association.
Andy Black
Andy Black is a Solar Financial Analysis and Sales Consultant and owner of OnGrid Solar Energy Systems. He specializes in the financial payback of solar electricity systems. Andy is also an advisory board member of the NorCal Solar Energy Association and a board memb...
Armando Navarro
Armando Navarro has over 25 years of professional experience in the fields of energy efficiency, renewable energy and green building. Mr. Navarro is currently the Assistant Director of the Environmental Technology Center at Sonoma State University, a regional model for green building design and construction. He has e...
Babak Jacinto Tondrehas been an environmental and social justice activist for the past 15 years. Born and raised in Oakland/ Berkeley he completed his B.A. from...
Benjamin Fahrer
Benjamin Fahrer, a permaculture designer and farmer, manages a small, certified organic farm in West Sonoma County. Benjamin studied eco-dwelling at the New College in Santa Rosa and teaches a variety of workshops in permaculture, farming and ecological design. He strives to incorporate aspects of permaculture design,...
Bill Brooks
Bill Brooks, PE of Brooks Engineering, LLC, has 20 years of experience designing, installing, and evaluating grid-connected PV systems. Over 4,000 installers and 3,000 inspectors have attended his courses throughout the U.S. and abroad. He has authored several widely used publications including the Inspector Guidelines...
Catherine Woodman
Catherine Woodman has been an environmentalist from a young age. Growing up in Iowa, she developed a deep attachment to the environment and witnessed first-hand the devastation of unsustainable agricultural practices. Her interests in sustainability grew into an interest in economics and the role that local and global...
Darrel Deboer
Darrel DeBoer (www.DeboerArchitects.com) is a Northern California architect and furnituremaker who was named by Metropolitan Home magazine in 2001 as one of the 100 most influential designers, and named by Natural Home magazine in July of 2005 as one of the top 10 �Green Architect...
David Blume starred in the 10 part PBS series Alcohol As Fuel.He is a master permaculturist, ecological biologist/designer. and one of the first CSA farmers in Amreica. He's worked around the globe in alternative energy, sustainable agriculture, food/energy security and...
Dave Bonta first entered
into the solar energy arena in the Carter years of 1979, studying Solar Water
heating theory at Bridgeport Engineering Institute under the guidance of Jerry
Falbel and later in Ne...
David Williard
David Willard is the founder of Sustainergy Systems. He has a B.S. in Energy Management and Design from Sonoma State University and is a PG&E certified energy auditor. David has been active for years in the renewable energy and green building fields. He worked for an environmental and green building product center, Gre...
Doug Kent Since
starting at 14, Douglas Kent's passion and knowledge of plants, landscapes, and
urban design has steadily grown. He has written four books, authored over fifty
articles, received an M.S. from the Lyle Center of Regenerative Studies, an...
Doug Livingston Doug Livingston is a NABCEP certified solar installer and worked for Real Goods as a solar systems project engineer for eight years. He now works as an independent consultant, designing and installing solar and hydroelectric systems locally and internationally, and works on various aspects...
Doug Pratt
Doug Pratt provided �humanized� technical support for Real Goods products and services from 1990 thru 2004, and has provided much of the writing and editing for the Solar Living Sourcebook and other Real Goods publications. Doug currently provides system design and technical support for the wholesale PV industry. He ha...
Drew Hubbell
Drew Hubbell studied architecture in the U.S. and Europe and apprenticed in a firm specializing in historic restoration. Drew�s commitment to the ideals of organic beauty deepened and extended to include issues of green building processes and materials. He has worked with regulatory agencies to develop the use of more...
Ed Ristad
Ed started his own auto repair shop in Sonoma in 1971 and became an ASC Certified Master Mechanic.Ed became involved with the Alternative Fuels program at Santa Rosa Junior College (SRJC) in 2004. He converted a 1990 VW Cabriolet into an electric vehicle (EV) at SRJC, using an A/C motor with advanced glass mat batte...
Erik Corey Freed
organicARCHITECT is the office of Eric Corey Freed, a licensed architect (California, New Mexico, Arizona), and a recognized pioneer in the tradition of Organic Architecture, first developed by Frank Lloyd Wright. A lifetime proponent of individualism and sustainability, Eric Corey Freed knew he wanted to be an archite...
Heather Shepherd
Heather Shepherd is a wastewater and water quality consultant and has been consulting for small wineries, fruit processors, dairies, herbalists and other small agricultural businesses for the last 10 years. She developed the use of constructed wetland treatment systems for use in wineries and is developing their use fo...
Ingrid Severson Ingrid Seversonis a Lead Project Organizer for the Rooftop Resource initiative at Bay Localize. She gained experience in the environmental field through undergraduate studies at
Iris
Harrell founded Harrell Remodeling, Inc. in 1985, laying the foundation for the
values and quality craftsmanship the Harrell Remodeling team is committed to
with every project.
Jake Tornatzky
Jake Tornatzky started in the solar energy field with his Bachelor of Science at the University of California at Santa Cruz, focusing on environmental housing design. Upon graduation in 1990, he entered the solar energy field in the San Francisco Bay area and has worked on the design, installation and service of a vari...
James Pinon
James Pinon earned a BS in Physics from UC San Diego and worked for 10 years in Analytical Instrumentation until the 2001 energy "crisis" convinced him to pursue a career in Solar Energy. After studying PV at the Solar Living Institute, he began selling, designing, and installing Photovoltaic Systems and is a NABCEP Ce...
Jeff Adams
Jeffrey Adams is an ecological design consultant and permaculture practitioner, recently
working with John Todd Ecological Design, Inc on a prototype Eco-machine to degrade
Crude Oil as well as Green Man Landscaping in Durango, CO to blend permaculture into
the businesses operations. Jeff was an Intern at the Solar...
Jennifer Radtke
Jennifer Radtke is a member of the Berkeley Biodiesel Collective, teaches classes on home-brewing biodiesel at her house in Oakland, and taught interns for the Eastbay Biodiesel Internship Program. She is co-owner of Biofuel Oasis, the first biodiesel...
Joan Weir
Joan Weir, licensed General Contractor, owns J.J. Design & Renovations, a Bay Area residential remodeling company with interests in sustainable and environmentally responsible building management procedures. Ms. Weir received her general contractors license in 1986. Her crafts background started in metal working as a j...
John J. Girton
John J. Girton, CFA, Girton Capital Management�s president and portfolio manager, has over 25 years of experience in investment research. Prior to founding GCM, he was Director of Research and Senior Vice President of Van Kasper & Company, a leading regional investment brokerage based in San Francisco.
John was a Wall...
Joshua Muscat
Joshua Muscat is an herbalist in his tenth year of clinical practice, and has been formally studying herbal medicine for the past seven years. His education in the art of herbalism includes studies at the Pacific School of Herbal Medicine, the Southwest School of Botanical Medicine, as well as studied with Chuck Garcia...
Karen Kleven has been exploring
the social, environmental, and financial impacts of investing for the last
eight years. In 1999 she left the
non-profit world in...
Katherine Steele
Katherine Steele is a permaculture activist, designer and educator. She facilitates workshops on natural building and permaculture and is the founder of the Urban Permaculture Guild in Oakland, CA.
Kevin Moore
Kevin Moore is the founder of Rock
Ridge Windmills located just south of the
Solar Living Institute in Cloverdale. Kevin is well known in the water pumping
windmill world for both historical and new water pumping windmill projects, and
has written for...
Kevin Myers
Kevin Myers is an Applications Engineer at SunPower Corporation in San Jose, CA, where he was recruited from the Solar Living Institute Internship Program. After spending 6 inspiring months as an intern at the Solar Living Center, he had the opportunity to further develop his solar knowledge as an employee of a PV modu...
As program director for Kleiworks International, Kevin Rowell has spent many years working with people around the world to develop safe and ecologically friendly building methods. He is a guest instructor at Merrit
Liz Merry
Liz Merry�s interest in renewable energy began during the 2001 energy "crisis" after she decided to invest in a PV system but found no one to answer her "simple" questions about installing PV. After educating herself about the technology, Liz went on to organize a group of homeowners in Davis to install PV systems. Dur...
Lois Simonds
Lois Simonds is a licensed electrician with entry level NABCEP certification. She completed an apprenticeship in IBEW in 1989 and has worked independently in residential and commercial work. She’s a team leader for volunteers at Grid Alternatives, a non-profit organization that installs solar systems for low inco...
Loralyn Perry
Loralyn Perry is a NARI Certified Green Building Professional. She owns and operates a green and sustainable consulting business serving commercial and residential clients in the northern California area. She is a Certified Project Manager who brings together strong creative problem solving abilities with the experienc...
Marisha Farnsworth Marisha Farnsworth is the co-owner of The Natural Builders, a contracting
company based in the East Bay that focuses on green, ecological and indigenous
building systems. She also works as an organizer and a teacher with the
non-profit Kleiwerks International.
Mark Tighe
Mark Tighe is a master builder experienced in strawbale construction.
Massey Burke
Massey Burke fled the academic world several years ago in search of dirtier work. After bouts of trail work and habitat restoration, she found herself at the Solar Living Institute as an intern. Most recently she was an apprentice under Michael Smith of Cob Cottage
Melissa Hardy
Melissa Hardy is a co-owner of the BioFuel Oasis and a member of the City of San Francisco's Biodiesel Access Task Force. Melissa has been teaching about Biodiesel and vegetable oil fuels since 2002.
Mia Maltz
Mia Rose Maltz is a co-founder and Executive Director of the RITES Project (www.ritesproject.org) and has lived in west Sonoma County for nine years. Mia has been learning about mycology, mushroom cultivation and mycorestoration for twelve years and has taken several classes with Paul Stamets, founder of Fungi Perfecti...
Michael G. Smith
Michael G. Smith with Emerald Earth, an intentional community in Mendocino County (California), is experienced in many aspects of natural building, including cob, straw bale, straw-clay, natural plasters, earthen floors, and alternative foundations. He helped f...
An entrepreneur from an early age, McGeoy got her first taste of operating a business at age 11 running the school store. Years later, Michele’s most prolonged business adventure was Tailored Solution which developed database software for law schools....
Mike Symons
Michael Symons is an off-grid photovoltaic specialist. He is a C-10 electrical contractor and NABCEP certified solar PV installer. He has over 28 years of designing and installing off-grid systems and has lived off-grid for the past 21 years. Mike started teaching courses with the SLI in 2007. He was a marine elect...
Peter Oliver
Peter Oliver is a network engineer who began working on cars as a pre-teen and was involved in auto racing for many years as an assistant mechanic and pit crew member. He has been interested and involved with the EV network since 2003 and is the owner of Make Mine Electric, a company that creates classic replica cars t...
Philip J. Kranenburg, CPA
Philip J. Kranenburg, CPA is the managing Director of Kranenburg Capital Management LLC and a registered investment advisor with over 20 years of experience advising, operating and investing in growth companies and clean technology. Kranenburg is also a College of Marin Trustee focused on �greening� the campuses throug...
Rob Keller
Rob Keller received his MFA from UC Davis in 1999, where he became interested in incorporating bees into his art practice. As the owner of a small bee business (The Napa Valley Bee Company), Rob�s goals are to build a community of beekeepers in his area that practice responsible, sustainable hive management with the be...
Rody Jonas
Rody Jonas received a degree in Physics from UCSB and after working for an aerospace contractor for several years, Rody decided to follow a longtime dream and pursue a career in Renewable Energy Technologies. He is the founder of Healdsburg-based Pure Power Solutions, which specializes in off-grid RE solutions.
Ryan Lamberg
Ryan Lamberg, Co-Founder, Vice President and Communications Director of Community Fuels, a Bay Area biodiesel production company. Ryan is responsible for developing communications materials, monitoring the regulatory environment, and identifying grant and reg...
Ryan LeBlanc Ryan LeBlanc, NABCEP certified solar installer and founder of Natural Energy Works, has been a renewable energy system designer, installer and consulta...
Sasha Rabin
Sasha Rabin was first introduced to natural building as an intern at the Solar Living Institute in the summer of 1999. Since then she has apprenticed with the Cob Cottage Company, founded Seven Generations N...
Stephen Lyon, Ph.D.
Stephen Lyon, Ph.D. has twenty five years experience as an enironmental scientist. His areas of research include drinking water, domestic and agricultural wastewater treatment, groundwater recharge, constructed wetlands and bioremediation. He has taught at San Diego State University, U.C. Irvine, and California Poly...
Steve Heckeroth
Steve Heckeroth founded Homestead Enterprises, a solar design and renewable energy products company in 1975. He has manufactured electric vehicles including the electric Porsche Spyder and electric agricultural tractors since 1993. He is currently the Director of BIPV Products at Energy Conversion Devices, and is the C...
Tamara Wilder of Paleotechnics has been a primitive technologist
for the past eighteen years, and regularly teaches old ways living skills programs
to people of all ages through a variety of hands-on workshops, school programs
and skills demonstrations. She also co-authored the book Buckskin:
The Ancient A...
Tom Williard
Tom Williard spent 20 years in the electronics industry as a senior hardware and software engineer and manager. He worked for a number of imaging and communications companies, most recently Ascend Communications, before deciding to devote his time to the local community in Bolinas, CA. He is on several boards in Bolina...
Tyson Grul
Tyson�s career in solar began in the financial industry. After graduating Magna Cum Laude from U.C. Santa Barbara, Tyson spent nine years at the Pacific Stock Exchange specializing in equity options. He distinguished himself there as �market maker.� While trading, Tyson became increasingly interested in the green comp...
William Korthof
William Korthof is a licensed electrical C-10 and solar C-46 installer with experience in on-grid residential and commercial solar applications through his company, Energy Efficiency Solar, Inc. He is a graduate of Cal Poly Pomona in Civil Engineering and the Regene...
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