Stinson Beach Solar Committee

Award winning author Richard Heinberg speaking at the Henry Miller Library on Tuesday August 8th 6:PM

Linda Parker — Fri, 14 Jul 2006 12:36:25 -0700

Start: 2006-08-08 12:08

Teaser:

Peak Oil: The Challenge and Opportunity of Petroleum's Waning Days

Contact email:
surite@sbcglobal.net

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STINSON BEACH SEES COMMUNITY SOLAR AS THE FUTURE FOR CALIFORNIA COASTAL COMMUNITIES!

Sandy LeonVest — Sat, 08 Jul 2006 13:14:58 -0700

Free Solar Workshop!

Wednesday Evening, July 12th
7 - 9 PM
Stinson Beach Free Public Library
on Hwy 1 (3521 Shoreline Highway)

Local Author Peter Asmus will present a short report on the following topic:
Community Solar: Obstacles & Opportunities In West Marin

Come meet Marin County Supervisor Steve Kinsey, and local solar activists, visionaries and entrepreneurs.
Sponsored by the Stinson Beach Solar Committee (SBSC) (An ad hoc Committee of the Stinson Beach Village Association) For More Info: (415) 868-9866 or pthfind@earthlink.net

Stinson Beach Solar Committee

ENERGY INDEPENDENCE IN STINSON BEACH - A FORUM AT THE STINSON BEACH LIBRARY

Sandy LeonVest — Thu, 06 Jul 2006 16:36:09 -0700

Start: 2006-07-06 14:00

End: 2006-07-13 14:00

Teaser:

YOUR COMMUNITY CAN BE ENERGY-INDEPENDENT!

Contact email:
solareditor@fastmail.fm

Stinson Beach Solar Committee

GOOD ENERGY FOR STINSON BEACH

sandyleonvest — Fri, 23 Jun 2006 13:42:21 -0700

GOOD ENERGY FOR STINSON BEACH
A conversation with Author & Renewable Energy Expert Peter Asmus

The Stinson Beach Solar Committee (SBSC) has a vision...to create a sustainable, energy-independent community, to educate the community regarding that process and to incorporate the use of solar power whenever and wherever it is possible. Toward those intentions members of the SBSC have met and discussed - and are currently researching - the concept of becoming energy-independent! Imagine producing clean, silent, renewable electricity right here in Stinson Beach - that's
exactly what a community-based solar power plant has the potential to do!

Peter Asmus is a member of the SBSC. He is also a friend, author, colleague and respected renewable energy activist. I spoke with him recently about the realities - technical, political and legislative - of such a community solar project. Peter's decades as a renewable energy researcher uiniquely qualify him to shed light on this and other critical 21st century energy issues.
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IN June, 2006, StinsonSolarTimes Editor Sandy LeonVest had a long conversation with Peter Asmus about the possibilities and challenges of transforming Stinson Beach and its sister city Bolinas into truly energy-independent and sustainable communities. Due to the critical nature of that conversation, SST chose to publish it in three parts as opposed to editing out vital information in order to accommodate our tiny newsletter! The entire conversation is published on Sandy's blog at http://www.relocalize.net/blog/3484, her website at www.leonvest.com and www.indybay.org.

June, 2006 - A Conversation with Peter Asmus - Part One:

SLV: Peter, will you talk about what thee Stinson Beach Solar Committee (SBSC) is currently up to - especially with respect to a commumnity-based solar production facility?

PA: SBSC is following up on the great response we received from the Stinson Solar Sunday event held here last February. On June 8th, we had Dana Armanino from Marin County speak at the Stinson Library about the various services and rebates the county offers to local residents and businesses. For example, most people here in the county might not realize that they can get a free site assessment from the county to determine whether they have a good solar site on their property. One of our challenges is that renters like me for example currently have few options to go solar or switch to any other form of renewable energy.

This idea of cooperating at a community level spurred on my investigation of the concept of “community solar.

Stinson Beach Solar Committee

Stinson Beach Solar Committee

Sandy LeonVest — Thu, 15 Jun 2006 12:20:52 -0700

For more information about Stinson Beach Solar Committee please contact the site manager, Sandy LeonVest, by email at stinsonsolartimes@yahoo.com or solareditor@fastmail.fm . For further information, StinsonSolarTimes can be found at www.stinsonbeachonline.com

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The SBSC's vision is to educate and inform our community about renewable energy and sustainable communities. Currently our top priority is a community solar system.