I'm totally jazzed about this purchase and will remember in the future whom to call for a system redo/update: You!!!

The Solar Living Sourcebook features the latest nuts-and-bolts information on how to harvest renewable energy in a variety of ways depending on need.

You are one of the few true solar pioneers and you have done a great deal to shape a very important industry.

The store is amazing, from big appliances to clothes, with an amazing selection of books and kid, kitchen, home, and garden goods!

This kind of customer service can only come from those who have been there for a long time, are happy with their job, care about what they are doing, and believe in the company that they are working for.

The Solar Living Sourcebook is a breath of fresh air for everyone interested in being part of the evolutionary revolution. John's book is the best single source I’ve 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.

There are not a lot of places on Yelp that get 5 stars from EVERY reviewer, but Real Goods deserves it. They have THE BEST selection of sustainable construction, off-the-grid living, and healthy eating books that I have seen anywhere other than Amazon.

Used the Solar Living Sourcebook roughly 16 years ago to build an off-the-grid camp in the Bwindi Impenetrable National Park. It was my bible. The mountain gorillas and the Ugandan people will forever benefit.

Great shopping experience for self-sufficiency. Everything under the sun for solar independence. Very helpful and friendly staff.

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.

We visited Real Goods LONG ago (the first annual SolFest), and that visit changed our lives. We were inspired to change the way we live because of the beauty created on that CALTRANS dump site (we have installed two "willow rooms" for shade, installed solar, switched to a hybrid car, learned permaculture). The lessons we learned at Real Goods influenced our impact on the Earth.

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.