John Schaeffer - Real Goods Solar Living Sourcebook: Your Complete Guide to Living beyond the Grid with Renewable Energy Technologies and Sustainable Living - 14th ... and Updated (Everything Under the Sun)

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Solar Living

SOURCEBOOK

14th EDITION REVISED & UPDATED

The Solar Living Sourcebook is a breath of fresh air for everyone interested in being part of the evolutionary revolution. Johns book is the best single source Ive ever found on the technologies, philosophies, and the lifestyle changes we must embrace in order for our species to survive and thrive into the future. Time is of the essence for all of us to start walking the talk and this book is the guide for taking those first steps

Woody Harrelson, environmentalist, actor

Sourcebook is perfectly named, though it could easily be called the masterwork on re-inhabitation, an owners manual for regenerating our earth, skies and water. Succinctly and clearly, Sourcebook delineates the pathways, tools, and knowledge we need to achieve the title of denizens, human beings who live in accordance with the laws of physics, botany, and biology, people who truly want to master the art of living as contrasted to a life of taking. The best manual you could possibly want.

Paul Hawken, Project Drawdown, author Blessed Unrest

Sunlight is the source of all life, and if we dont harvest and manage it intelligently, life (for us humans) will become irrelevant. John Schaeffers masterful and elegantly updated opus, the Solar Living Sourcebook, is the most comprehensive guide published for the practical management of sunlight. This book is our blueprint for both the present and future, if our species is to survive into the 22nd century.

Thom Hartmann, NY Times Bestselling author and talk show host

John Schaeffer has been a pathfinder in spreading distributed solar energy and self-reliant life ways since the earliest days. In this astutely practical sourcebook, he provides an indispensable field manual at exactly the tipping point when these tools are finally becoming the norm. This masterful compendium pulls it all together and gives everyone what we need to get off the grid and democratize clean energy.

Kenny Ausubel, CEO and Founder, Bioneers

Ive been an early advocate for solar and renewable energy for over 40 years always doing my best to convert Hollywood to a lower carbon footprint. Through most of those 40 years I have always recommended the Solar Living Sourcebook as the #1 source, indeed the Bible, for all things solar and sustainable. Bravo to the 14th edition, its the best one yet!

Ed Begley Jr., Actor/Actor Environment Activist

If youre interested in understanding alternative energy sources and sustainable lifestyles, Real Goods offers the most comprehensive, enlightening and entertaining resource in the world in its Solar Living Sourcebook. Building on many years of accumulated knowledge, Real Goods founder John Schaeffer has updated the Sourcebook in its freshest and most useful form ever. Its an indispensible resource on the bookshelf of anyone seriously interested in helping save our habitat.

Bryan Welch, Publisher, Mother Earth News, author of Beautiful and Abundant: Building the World We Want

The Solar Living Sourcebook is the must-have resource for consumers seeking the path to a sustainable lifestyle. This well organized and powerful book is still, after 30 years, one of the most useful resources on my bookshelf.

Rhone Resch, President & CEO, Solar Energy Industries Association

Smart people who pay close attention to whats happening in the world around them fall into two groups: those who turn to whiskey and those who buy the Solar Living Sourcebook. Both have their merits. But if you have to choose, buy this book. It can change your life for the better. And the world, too.

Denis Hayes, President, Bullitt Foundation

John is a sustainability and solar industry pioneer, who sold the first residential solar system and published The Solar Living Sourcebook more than three decades ago. His visionary actions and ideas then have now become a big, mainstream business solar is the fastest growing industry in the U.S. and residential solar the fastest growing sector within it. That is good news for our environment, economy, and national security. Thirty years from now his recommendations for more sustainable living should improve our lives in the same ways.

Nat Kreamer, Chairman of the Solar Energy Industries Association, White House Champion of Change, and CEO of Clean Power Finance

Here in one book is everything you need the information and the technology to build a more sustainable lifestyle for yourself and your family. Its a treasure trove youll find yourself returning to time and again.

Richard Heinberg, Senior Fellow, Post Carbon Institute, Author, The End of Growth

Better than a bible! This book ranges from philosophy and history of why we need to go solar as a civilization to being a very hands-on and practical guide on how to do it, with great graphics and personal stories to boot. It will be looked back at as the key text of the greatest economic change the world will experience this century, creating jobs and clean energy for a prosperous and sustainable global community.

Danny Kennedy, CoFounder, Sungevity and SfunCube, and author, Rooftop Revolution

For a green economy and a just, sustainable world, its crucial to go solar. And whats the best way to do that? Turn to the Solar Living Sourcebook!!

Alisa Gravitz, President, Green America

This amazing book is just swimming in knowledge and you can dive in again and again to get your daily fix of sustainable ideas. John is the solar sage and an inspiration to so many of us in the sustainability business.

Birchy, co-founder and CEO, Sungevity

John Schaeffers Solar Living Sourcebook is the authoritative guide to the solar home in the 21st century. REAL GOODS has been lighting the way to sustainability for nearly four decades. Read this book, install solar, eliminate your electric bill and declare independence from the grid forever!

David W. Orr, author, Hope is an Imperative.

First there was the Whole Earth Catalog, and then there was the Real Goods Solar Living Sourcebook, and nowthere is still the Solar Living Sourcebook. Now in its 14th edition, the Sourcebook continues to be jam-packed with exciting ideas and innovative products to make the good life a practical reality. Always a classic, but now even better.

Stephen Morris, Publisher Green Living Journal and founder of The Public Press

The Solar Living Sourcebook, long a trusted source of accurately described energy-efficient products, has evolved into this remarkably comprehensive textbook for an education in Sustainability. Youll not only see whats available, but how to think about your choices as you learn the why and how to develop a lifestyle with minimal environmental footprint. Bucky Fuller wrote, Philosophy, to be effective, must be mechanically applied. Heres the philosophy and most everything else you need to do so.

Jay Baldwin, Senior Adjunct Professor of Industrial Design and Sustainability, California College of the Arts (CCA) San Francisco

For all those dedicated to sane, reverent common sense and to those not yet, here is a comprehensive, rousing guide to a renaissance of reverent ingenuity. Critique holds up a necessary mirror to our world look ack!, with a wave of the hand we change the mirror into a window look how beautiful it could be! then with another wave of the hand the window becomes a door lets go and heres how! John Schaeffers Solar Living Sourcebook does all three. Lets spiral this forth to libraries, schools, neighborhoods, elected officials at this time of dire beauty.