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Our goal at The Solar Forum is to promote awareness of Solar and Renewable Energy solutions. Help support this vision by participating in our new but growing community.

Website: http://TheSolarForum.com
Location: Seattle
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Latest Activity: Jul 26

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The Solar Forum is the place to learn and share information about Solar Energy through Community, News, Events, and NPR Solar Podcasts.

Our goal at The Solar Forum is to promote awareness of Solar and Renewable Energy solutions. Help support this vision by participating in our new but growing community.

We are currently in the process of developing our website to serve as a hub of collaborative community raising awareness of Solar and Renewable Energy. We also have a store for some amazing practical, portable, and promotional Solar technologies. The proceeds support the site and the cause.

We are looking for earnest collaborators to contribute their dialogue to The Solar Forum. We are constantly looking for new, quality websites to link with. Contact us if you would be interested in contributing an article, blogging, or getting involved in other ways.

Portable power from the sun for your iPod, cell phone, or laptop has obvious practical benefits in a fast-paced technological culture. Purchasing our excellent Solar products also serves the cause in two key ways: it supports the development of our website hub and models leading edge Solar technology to your peers within the community. Not everyone is ready for a full residential Solar installation, but many can afford smaller Solar solutions for portable electronics - and thereby still support awareness of Solar and Renewable Energy and effectively invest in further research and development of this profound technology.

"I'd put my money on the Sun and Solar Energy. What a source of power! I hope we don't have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that."
- Thomas Edison

Even after all this time the sun never says to the Earth, "You owe me." Look what happens with a love like that; it lights the whole sky.
- Hafiz

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Comment by Jacqueline on June 22, 2009 at 10:49am: AB 560 needs to pass:
Assembly Bill 560 would increase the cap on "net metering," which gives solar customers credit on their electric bill for surplus power they transfer to the utility. Currently, a utility is not obligated to sign net-metering contracts once solar power equals 2.5 percent of its peak electricity demand, a level PG&E is approaching. AB 560 would quadruple that cap, to 10 percent.
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_12620166?source%253Dmost_emailed.26978592730A3B8C7F471EACE0DA4EF2.html
Please spread the word and take action by calling your Representative - requesting the bill be passed. Thanks!

Comment by ed janus on March 6, 2009 at 9:53pm: Howdy- Thanks so much for your attention to these important issues.There really are powerful currents moving today in unprecedented ways.In big picture terms,House Reps Hollen & Dogget advocate legislation in support of a100% cap& trade auction for emission credits at the Southern Alliance for Clean Energy.House Speaker Pelosi is writing a single energy and global warming bill that wraps cap&trade legislation together with renewable electricity standards as well as modernizing the electrical grid.House Energy & Commerce chairman Waxman is trying to get that bill onto the floor by Memorial Day.Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee Chairman Bingaman is optimistic about movement on clean energy, efficient energy technology ,and has ideas about a Clean Energy Bank and Senate Majority Leader hopes to get energy legislation to the senate floor by Easter. The State Departments'Todd Stern is pushing congress to enact a cap on greenhouse gas emisions as an additionto UN talks around a new treaty to succeed the Kyoto Protocol.The EuropeanUnion wants 25-40% reduction from 1990 levels by 2020 and trying to pressurize the Obama Admin.... additionally,Rep. Reid has a plan to trump states' authority and build long distance power lines but the clean energy transmission idea gets complicated by a new designation of 2 million acres of wilderness land.Senator Kerry says that a clean energy REVOLUTION is ON THE WAY and Ford Motor CO. says a major portion of its' vehicles WILL BE ELECTRIC in a decade.Change is afoot ! WE , THE PEOPLE,are going to reinforce it, generate it,insist on it, and transmit all our New Energy to our leaders in Wash.DC when our Virtual March starts on April 1-2-3......for myself, I plan on being a total nuisance until then with as many letters ,emails ,calls ,shouts out, and even smoke signals if necessary.We should all talk to 10 people each day and lead them to action for their own sake and that of their children.We won't get another go-round on this carousel if we miss the RING....Make their phones RING! DO IT! Thanks I appreciate US Share

Comment by ed janus on February 17, 2009 at 7:05pm: Howdy- I've been dist.#1 leader in way northern cal. for only a couple of weeks and am curious as to the lack of awareness here in a community that is allegedly green and politically aware.My starting efforts have been to join interest groups online and signup for renewable energy class (residential solar systems) at our local university....the flyers I wrote for local bulletin boards have not produced as of today but I am optimistic.Any advice on how to set a fire under people?I don't imagine putting them into a full nelson and shouting at 90 decibels will work real well ....I guess I'll have to find a ballance.Meybe slow steady progress??