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Solar hot water
03/18/13 Jon ButtsSustainable Living and Alternative Health Listen to this entire show:
Tags: solar hot water, solar, solar power
On today’s program our guests were all involved with companies that sell and install solar energy and hot water systems in the Tampa Bay Area.
Rick Gilbert, the vice president of Solar Source located in Largo, started the show then brought on their Director of Residential Solar Sales, Richard Smith. Also, Rich Glueck a long time friend of the Sustainable Living program joined us to talk about, as he calls it, “the best kept secret of the sunshine state”, Ho...
Be the first to commentMarch is Bike Month
02/18/13 Jon ButtsSustainable Living and Alternative Health Listen to this entire show:
Tags: solar power, solar, nuclear, nuclear power, Bike Month, bicycling, biking
We started today's program with Arnie Gunderson, a nuclear engineer with the nonprofit group Fairewinds, who gave us a little more information about Crystal River and what's next. Arnie talked about what happened that finally shut down the Crystal River Nuclear Power plant and our future options. He felt that solar electric was a good option, but that solar thermal to heat water was a quicker return on investment. Solar thermal central power plants and wind power on our coast lines, connected...
Be the first to commentEnergy, Electric Rates, the Environment and Solar Power
01/28/13 Robert LoreiLast Call Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: clean energy, solar, nuclear, rate hikes, Florida PSC
Interview with safe energy activist Susan Glickman, director of the Florida Clean Technology Business Council. FMI http://www.cleanenergy.org
Be the first to commentFirst zero net energy office opens in St. Pete; home to Florida Sierra Club listen
12/03/12 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Monday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Green building, LEED certified, net zero, solar, energy efficient, environment, Sierra Club
St. Petersburg officials and environmentalists celebrated the opening of the city’s first commercial building that will make more energy than it uses today. The net zero energy office on Central Avenue near downtown is now home to the Sierra Club’s Florida headquarters. Bob Harrington, the residential director of sales for the company that provided some of the building’s technology, Bosch, said the use of photovoltaic solar panels could actually earn money.
Be the first to comment“Every community throughout th...
Home solar electric systems
06/25/12 Jon ButtsSustainable Living and Alternative Health Listen to this entire show:
Tags: solar, energy, sustainability, efficiency, solar power
On today’s Sustainable Living program we spent the hour talking about home solar electric systems. Our first guest, Paul Spencer, is the founder of The Clean Energy Collective located in Colorado. Paul’s business is setting up community solar power and other forms of renewable energy systems (wind, hydro, etc) that you can buy into for the long term, off-setting part or all of your power consumption to renewable. You can visit his website to find out more ...
Be the first to commentSt. Pete's going green with solar water heaters listen
05/29/12 Janelle IrwinWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: solar, energy, sustainability, efficiency, Bill Foster, Kathy Castor, St. Pete, solar power
St. Petersburg officials are celebrating the completion of a federally funded energy efficiency program. A new solar water heater on the roof of the city’s Coliseum and twenty others will save the city more than $22,000 a year. But U.S. Representative Kathy Castor said saving money isn’t the program’s only benefit.
Be the first to comment“Created jobs by putting solar panels on the Coliseum and many city of St. Petersburg facilities like City Hall. It updated the air conditioning systems at community centers...
Tampa Electric offers customers rebate for installing new solar arrays listen
10/04/11 Olivia KabatWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Energy, Energy conservation, energy resources, Tampa Electric, solar, solar power
This week Tampa Electric began offering registration to customers for their new solar array rebate program. Their second annual $1 million dollar solar rebate will be available for the remainder of this week.
This past spring Tampa Electric launched their new rebate program for solar arrays and the company is now offering $1 million dollars in solar rebates for customers. Sherie Jacobs, spokesperson for Tampa Electric says Tampa Electric wants to increase solar energy in the community. ...
Be the first to commentSolar electric prices dropping
06/27/11 Jon ButtsSustainable Living and Alternative Health Listen to this entire show:
Tags: solar power, solar, solar energy, solar panels, alternative energy, sustainable living
We were very happy to have Andy Black with ON Grid Solar, a solar electric information business that produces software for the solar industry. Also a good friend of the Sustainable Living program joined us: John Gambil with Hot Wire Enterprises, a solar company in Tarpon Springs.
The focus of the program was that solar electric systems continue to get cheaper. Andy felt like this will continue for a while longer; the main reason being t...
Be the first to commentBig power companies putting smaller solar companies out of business? And media monopolies blocking fair debate in US?
03/31/11 Robert LoreiRadioactivity: Live Call-In (Thursday) Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Scott McIntyre, Solar Energy Management, FPL, solar, Broadcast Blues, rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Clear Channel, Minot, Steve Wilson, Jane Akre, WTVT
Good morning, welcome to Radioactivity. Coming up today an interview with Scott McIntyre, CEO of Solar Energy Management, a small solar company in St. Petersburg. He says legislation moving through Tallahassee will give giant utility companies an edge over small businesses such as his.
And later, what impact is media consolidation having on political discourse, elections, public safety and honest reporting? All thos...
Be the first to commentFlorida House panel advances renewable energy bill listen
03/29/11 Kate BradshawWMNF Drive-Time News Tuesday Listen to this entire show:
Tags: Florida House, renewable energy, Southern Alliance for Clean Energy, Florida Legislature, energy, solar, wind
You’ve heard it many times before – Florida is the Sunshine State, so why doesn’t it the nation lead in solar power? Today the state House energy and utility subcommittee tackled that very question by passing a bill encouraging the state’s major utilities to invest in renewable energy. Pensacola Representative Clay Ford is the bill’s Republican sponsor.
Be the first to comment"If you want to have a clean state that you can breathe the air and you can drink the water, you've got to get to renewables. That doesn'...
