2020 in Solar Power

  Given everything else that 2020 brought, Don and I are grateful to have moved into our zero-energy home before Covid grounded everyone. When everything shut down last March, my son and daughter-in-law, school principals in Miami, packed their four-year-old daughter Soraya in the car and drove to Indiana to stay with us and work […]

Moved! Settling in! It’s working!

 Our new home in Henryville, Indiana was completed at the end of July, and we moved in right away. So far, we’ve experienced drought and extreme heat; torrential rain; multiple visitors including our four grandchildren; sunny fall days; nights of stargazing; planting asparagus crowns, garlic, and shallots in our newly made Hugelkultur mounds and finding volunteer acorn […]

Engineer for Hope

If you still hold stock in Exxon, it’s time to sell now.  Ben Adler at Grist.com reported Tuesday (“ExxonMobil: Carbon caps? Fat chance. We’ll just keep on drilling”) on Exxon’s Monday shareholder report, which argued for business as usual, based on the assumption that the U.S. government will be unable to compel the necessary 80% […]