Last weekend I attended the very fun and rewarding three-day Solar Pioneer Party in Grass Valley, California. This was the 2nd annual gathering of us "Solar Pioneers," loosely defined as those of us who have been promoting and selling solar PV since the late 1970s. It was inspiring to say the least to get most of us in the same room at the same time...

Real Goods former President and Founder John Schaeffer accepted the Green Power Leadership Award from the Center for Resource Solutions (CRS) on behalf of himself, the Solar Living Institute, and Real Goods today...

Author Amber Selene Turpin outlines a perfect 24 hours in Hopland, CA, complete with a trip to the Solar Living Center and an overnight stay in the Tumbleweed Tiny House.

Read Amber's article on 7x7.com here.

It's now been one year and nine months since my wife Nantzy and I bought back the Solar Living Center from the Colorado corporation that I sold to back in 2000. I'm happy to report that the transformation is nearly complete! Here's what we've been up to...

The Center for Resource Solutions has chosen the Real Goods Solar Living Institute as the winner of its 2016 Leadership in Green Power Education Award. There were over 80 applicants, but the SLI's commitment to sustainable living education made it the worthy winner of this prestigious award.

We buried a time capsule (two of them, actually) on August 28, 1994 at the ground-breaking of the Solar Living Center. We'd just finished our design competition and hired Sim Van Der Ryn and David Arkin to design the facility. We had invited people to contribute to the time capsules, which we said we'd open in 2010. But 2010 seemed too soon, so we decided to wait until the Solar Living Center's 20th anniversary celebration, which we held earlier this year...