Home Solar Energy

Welcome to Home Solar Energy!  This project is long overdue for the three of us, and I think I'll take our first blog post and explain why the site was born, and what we hope to accomplish.  I'll try to keep it brief so we can get to the more informational posts we'll be adding every few days!

Michael, John and I, the three founders of this site, all lived in very different parts of the United States growing up.  We also lived in very different environments and had significantly different backgrounds on many levels. 

By chance, we all ended up at college in Arizona, which was a huge change for all of us.  All three of us grew up in big cities with tons of industrial parks, pollution, and clutter.

We were all amazed at the beautiful place we had moved to, in Arizona, and it has changed our outlooks on many things ever since.  We all met our first year at school just by luck because we were in the same dorms.  We all studied different things, but found ourselves spending a lot of time together, and one huge thing we had in common was our amazement at the environment we had moved into.

This amazement manifested itself into a love for the natural beauty around us that we were so unaccustomed to.  We ended up doing a lot of volunteer work together in the realm of environmental preservation, as well as studying it and making it a part of our every day lives.

Five years later, we have all moved on to different places working our regular old jobs, but we promised each other that we would not only keep in touch, but would work together to do our part in helping the environment and trying to bring as many people along with us as possible. 

There was lots of talk about what we could do, and we decided that the biggest impact we could have would be educating as many people as we can about what they can do to help. 

Much of the work we did was learning about energy preservation, and being in Arizona, Solar energy was something we learned a lot about.

There is no greater impact a person can have within their own home and every day life than converting their home to be much more energy efficient and at the very least, gradually move away from consuming fossil fuels.

One of our most important goals is to help as many people as possible learn how to accomplish this, and eventually end the U.S. and world's dependence on fossil fuels.  We hope can join us.

Erica