http://www.TheSolarVillage.com Learn how to live a more sustainable lifestyle. We make it easy with resources that include documentary videos, books, articles, web sites and news. When you are looking for detailed information and experience implementing solar, wind, green roofing, straw bale, organic agriculture, and emerging electric/hybrid cars, then this is the place to be. Join us now. en-us Copyright 2012 John Wilson http://www.TheSolarVillage.com/rss/ Wed, 22 Feb 2012 20:55:51 EST http://www.thesolarvillage.com/images/solarvillagemain3.jpg http://www.TheSolarVillage.com Making the switch from gasoline to electric motor for your sailboat turns out to work exceptionally well. The future of boating, if not most transportation, is heading rapidly towards electric. Find out how it works. http://www.thesolarvillage.com/index.cfm?page=News&tab=News&app=News&news=449 http://www.thesolarvillage.com/index.cfm?page=News&tab=News&app=News&news=449 john.wilson@thesolarvillage.com (The Solar Village) Jan 23 2012 Nuclear accident in Japan has universities there dreaming up new ways to make solar and wind energy sufficient to replace all of their nuclear power plants. http://www.thesolarvillage.com/index.cfm?page=News&tab=News&app=News&news=448 http://www.thesolarvillage.com/index.cfm?page=News&tab=News&app=News&news=448 john.wilson@thesolarvillage.com (The Solar Village) Jan 3 2012 Stunningly beautiful home shows off great green features like solar thermal hot water, green roofing, and Bullfrog Power 100% green energy. http://www.thesolarvillage.com/index.cfm?page=News&tab=News&app=News&news=442 http://www.thesolarvillage.com/index.cfm?page=News&tab=News&app=News&news=442 john.wilson@thesolarvillage.com (The Solar Village) Dec 15 2011 Be the ideas and action that will change everything. Yes, the occupy movement has shown us, we can simply take action now. Now is the time to be part of changing the way the world works. http://www.thesolarvillage.com/index.cfm?page=News&tab=News&app=News&news=441 http://www.thesolarvillage.com/index.cfm?page=News&tab=News&app=News&news=441 john.wilson@thesolarvillage.com (The Solar Village) Dec 3 2011 Look out Nissan Leaf, here comes the Kiira EV, Uganda's first electric car. http://www.thesolarvillage.com/index.cfm?page=News&tab=News&app=News&news=439 http://www.thesolarvillage.com/index.cfm?page=News&tab=News&app=News&news=439 john.wilson@thesolarvillage.com (The Solar Village) Dec 2 2011 Nissan sees the future of solar energy. Having developed the most powerful and safe battery system (arguably) in the world, they've now seen that the opportunity now exists to scale production by offering the system as a backup power system for your house. Currently they are testing the concept in their own head office, a masterpiece in sustainable building design. http://www.thesolarvillage.com/index.cfm?page=News&tab=News&app=News&news=440 http://www.thesolarvillage.com/index.cfm?page=News&tab=News&app=News&news=440 john.wilson@thesolarvillage.com (The Solar Village) Dec 2 2011 Build a solar house, out of sustainable renewable super insulating straw bales, in the city, and make it affordable through cohousing? Okay. Done. http://www.thesolarvillage.com/index.cfm?page=News&tab=News&app=News&news=437 http://www.thesolarvillage.com/index.cfm?page=News&tab=News&app=News&news=437 john.wilson@thesolarvillage.com (The Solar Village) Dec 1 2011 Now is the time to start investing in solar power. We are on the cusp of the major turning point where the panels you buy today will be producing electricity for less than any other source of energy at some point in the next two to ten years. If we accounted for the cost of pollution (carbon and nuclear waste) that point has already been passed. If we removed the subsidies to fossil and nuclear industries we'd also have passed the point where solar is more cost effective. It is in fact more cost effective and always has been. Only our economic systems has been used by vested interests to secure their large sunk investments in these polluting sources of energy. http://www.thesolarvillage.com/index.cfm?page=News&tab=News&app=News&news=432 http://www.thesolarvillage.com/index.cfm?page=News&tab=News&app=News&news=432 john.wilson@thesolarvillage.com (The Solar Village) Nov 23 2011 How can Ontario make a good thing even better? You have until December 15th to add your ideas. Here are some responses to the survey that may provide food for thought. http://www.thesolarvillage.com/index.cfm?page=News&tab=News&app=News&news=429 http://www.thesolarvillage.com/index.cfm?page=News&tab=News&app=News&news=429 john.wilson@thesolarvillage.com (The Solar Village) Nov 14 2011 After his arrest in front of Goldman Sachs, as a part of the Occupy Wall Street sit in, Chris Hedges, upon his release wrote a thought provoking article for TruthDig.com, regarding the meaning of freedom. http://www.thesolarvillage.com/index.cfm?page=News&tab=News&app=News&news=427 http://www.thesolarvillage.com/index.cfm?page=News&tab=News&app=News&news=427 john.wilson@thesolarvillage.com (The Solar Village) Nov 7 2011 2012 is The Year of the Electric Car. There are at least 7 models coming out, and those are all 100% electric cars. It is a very exciting time. http://www.thesolarvillage.com/index.cfm?page=News&tab=News&app=News&news=426 http://www.thesolarvillage.com/index.cfm?page=News&tab=News&app=News&news=426 john.wilson@thesolarvillage.com (The Solar Village) Oct 21 2011 "A radical situation is a collective awakening...In such situations people become much more open to new perspectives, readier to question previous assumptions, quicker to see through the usual cons." - Ken Knabb, The Joy of Revolution http://www.thesolarvillage.com/index.cfm?page=News&tab=News&app=News&news=424 http://www.thesolarvillage.com/index.cfm?page=News&tab=News&app=News&news=424 john.wilson@thesolarvillage.com (The Solar Village) Oct 19 2011 Global climate change is now affecting millions of people. What is going to happen to the people displaced by climate change? What are you doing about it? http://www.thesolarvillage.com/index.cfm?page=News&tab=News&app=News&news=422 http://www.thesolarvillage.com/index.cfm?page=News&tab=News&app=News&news=422 john.wilson@thesolarvillage.com (The Solar Village) Oct 12 2011 Solar rooftops on homes, when integrated with smart battery systems, are the iPad of the energy world. Solar homes that can store a portion of their renewable energy, contribute to the grid on demand, and even operate autonomously when the grid fails, make for a beautiful energy experience that can power a democratized power future for us all. Here is another open source solar idea that we've proven works. Next generation batteries will then, within ten years, allow you to go fully off-the-grid. http://www.thesolarvillage.com/index.cfm?page=News&tab=News&app=News&news=420 http://www.thesolarvillage.com/index.cfm?page=News&tab=News&app=News&news=420 john.wilson@thesolarvillage.com (The Solar Village) Oct 6 2011 "Either you obstruct, in the only form left to us, which is civil disobedience, the plundering by the criminal class on Wall Street and accelerated destruction of the ecosystem that sustains the human species, or become the passive enabler of a monstrous evil." - Chris Hedges http://www.thesolarvillage.com/index.cfm?page=News&tab=News&app=News&news=419 http://www.thesolarvillage.com/index.cfm?page=News&tab=News&app=News&news=419 john.wilson@thesolarvillage.com (The Solar Village) Oct 4 2011 Is possible to get off the electricity grid in a city setting through various means of power generation? For example can an individual home owner set up enough solar panels to create enough power to run a fridge, dishwasher, washing machine, lights, computers etc.? How realistic could getting off the grid be? http://www.thesolarvillage.com/index.cfm?page=News&tab=News&app=News&news=418 http://www.thesolarvillage.com/index.cfm?page=News&tab=News&app=News&news=418 john.wilson@thesolarvillage.com (The Solar Village) Oct 2 2011 Back to Eden is a new feature documentary that follows one man's revolutionary approach to organic and permaculture gardening. http://www.thesolarvillage.com/index.cfm?page=News&tab=News&app=News&news=409 http://www.thesolarvillage.com/index.cfm?page=News&tab=News&app=News&news=409 john.wilson@thesolarvillage.com (The Solar Village) Sep 23 2011 Ontario is a pioneer in green energy in North America. We want the planet to take notice. On September 24, join us for Ontario's first Green Energy Field Day, a grassroots surge that begins in your community and builds. http://www.thesolarvillage.com/index.cfm?page=News&tab=News&app=News&news=408 http://www.thesolarvillage.com/index.cfm?page=News&tab=News&app=News&news=408 john.wilson@thesolarvillage.com (The Solar Village) Sep 22 2011 Our time for the solar revolution has come. Distributed generation and renewable energy owned by local communities offers us a chance to regain our democratic rights. http://www.thesolarvillage.com/index.cfm?page=News&tab=News&app=News&news=401 http://www.thesolarvillage.com/index.cfm?page=News&tab=News&app=News&news=401 john.wilson@thesolarvillage.com (The Solar Village) Sep 20 2011 Join John Wilson as he leads tours of his sustainable design award winning solar home near Orangeville, Ontario. Learn how to build with local renewable materials like straw bales. See how profitable it can be to add solar panels to your rooftop with the MicroFIT program. http://www.thesolarvillage.com/index.cfm?page=News&tab=News&app=News&news=396 http://www.thesolarvillage.com/index.cfm?page=News&tab=News&app=News&news=396 john.wilson@thesolarvillage.com (The Solar Village) Sep 13 2011 AL GORE ANNOUNCES NEW CAMPAIGN AND WORLDWIDE, (24-HOUR EVENT TO MOBILIZE CLIMATE CHANGE ACTION 24 Hours of Reality event to be produced by The Climate Reality Project, formerly the Alliance for Climate Protection. http://www.thesolarvillage.com/index.cfm?page=News&tab=News&app=News&news=393 http://www.thesolarvillage.com/index.cfm?page=News&tab=News&app=News&news=393 john.wilson@thesolarvillage.com (The Solar Village) Sep 12 2011 Nothing is going to change unless you do something to change it. Get involved in changing our world by making the switch to renewable resources. Learn more about Moving Planet taking place this September 24th, 2011, everywhere. http://www.thesolarvillage.com/index.cfm?page=News&tab=News&app=News&news=394 http://www.thesolarvillage.com/index.cfm?page=News&tab=News&app=News&news=394 john.wilson@thesolarvillage.com (The Solar Village) Sep 12 2011 Germany with one third the land, less wind, less solar and fewer hydro resources, today produces more electricity from renewable energy sources than Ontario requires. http://www.thesolarvillage.com/index.cfm?page=News&tab=News&app=News&news=383 http://www.thesolarvillage.com/index.cfm?page=News&tab=News&app=News&news=383 john.wilson@thesolarvillage.com (The Solar Village) Sep 7 2011 Coal kills. When will we do something about it. The fight for the last great mountain in America's Appalachian heartland pits the mining giant that wants to explode it to extract the coal within, against the community fighting to preserve the mountain and build a wind farm on its ridges instead. THE LAST MOUNTAIN highlights a battle for the future of energy that affects us all. http://www.thesolarvillage.com/index.cfm?page=News&tab=News&app=News&news=374 http://www.thesolarvillage.com/index.cfm?page=News&tab=News&app=News&news=374 john.wilson@thesolarvillage.com (The Solar Village) Sep 2 2011 We can't afford to fight global warming. Right, if we leave our economic systems as they are, then the economic incentive is not there, only the moral one. Why not make our economic system meet the needs of our moral imperative to prevent the scientific certainty of runaway global warming that begins to lock in over the next nine years unless we change now. Change the system, and then it pays to eliminate carbon emissions and make the switch to renewable energy, while more equitably sharing the wealth, and stabilizing the world economic system. http://www.thesolarvillage.com/index.cfm?page=News&tab=News&app=News&news=373 http://www.thesolarvillage.com/index.cfm?page=News&tab=News&app=News&news=373 john.wilson@thesolarvillage.com (The Solar Village) Sep 1 2011