Buy the Book
Start by purchasing What Can I Do? Lisa Harrow's A-Z guide to caring for the planet, now available in separate editions for the US, The UK, Australia, and NZ.
Updated Information
Lisa's updated topics to What Can I Do?, available here for free:
Latest Additions
- Increase energy efficiency and save money through trigeneration
- The Most Important Thing You Can Do To Stop Global Warming.
- Organic food and handmade beers
- Modern Miracles, or Another Toxic Nightmare?
- Thirty Different Pesticides Used in One Tomato Field?
- Plastic: Is it Beneficial or Destructive to Life on Earth.
- PVCs and Breast Milk
- PVC, Our Health, and National Security.
- Sailing on a Sea of Plastic
- Serious Hazards in House Dust
- Take Action Against a Misleading Auto Advertisment.
- All About Birds
- Useful Birdwatching
- Million Solar Roofs
- Power from the Sun
- Your New Car
- Facts, News and Re-Usable Bags
- Sea Turtles and Plastic Don't Mix
Power from the Sun
Some day, people in the future will wonder why we were so eager to fight wars, threaten our children's health, and destroy our natural world through our use of fossil fuel technologies, when one of the answers to our energy needs shone down on us from the sky every day. All Earth's living systems are powered by the sun. We are part of life on Earth. So we should start to use the sun as a source of energy. Solar power is abundant, clean, and belongs to no-one. There will never be a war to control the flow of the sun. No corporation can own it. It is freely available to all.
This site, part of the US Department of Energy's Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy, will help you to start thinking about the benefits of solar power, and how it could be incorporated into your home.
EERE: Solar Energy Technologies Program Home Page