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:
Energy
Interested in Solar Energy? Start here.
Findsolar.com - Find pre-screened solar professionals for solar power system installation, service. Estimate cost, price and benefits, savings of solar energy power systems for home, house or building. Find solar incentives, rebates. Find a solar contractor, installer, service professional, manufacturer, brand, make.
The U.S Department of Energy has joined forces with a number of solar groups to provide the necessary information to help you invest in solar power for your home or business. Find out about net metering, (selling power back to the grid) and how to locate pre-screened contractors and suppliers who can also help with the necessary permits, state and federal tax incentives and rebates that are available. The FAQs and Resources and Links pages are excellent.
Mercury disposal services in Vermont
Vermont Mercury Education & Reduction Campaign | MERC Vermont Home Page
CFL bulbs are in the headlines, and people want to know how to dispose of them safely. This site will help Vermonters to do just that.
Increase energy efficiency and save money through trigeneration
www.wasteheatrecovery.com
This group specializes in renewable energy technologies that are Kyoto Protocol compliant. If you are interested in building a net zero energy building, this is the site for you.
This smart little tool not only shows you exactly how much electricity each device in your house is using at any one time, but also how much it is costing you and the amount of greenhouse gas being generating. Install one in your home or business, and learn how you can save electricity, money and the Earth, all at the same time.
Million Solar Roofs
The Million Solar Roofs Initiative is a market driven partnership between public and private interests to develop and deploy cost-effective solar power systems throughout all sectors of the community. Their aim is to help to sell and install one million solar roofs by 2010. This is an excellent and inspirational site, with information for everyone, from the general public to the engineer and scientist, available through the Solar Information Resources network. Learn how you can bring the future into your present.
Solar Energy Technologies Program: Million Solar Roofs
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
A Way to Cut our Gasoline Dependence
As Honda launches its new hybrid Accord, here is a piece by Lester Brown from Earth Policy Institute which makes a powerful case for the combination of gas-electric hybrid engines and advanced-design wind turbines as a way to alleviate our dependence on foreign oil.