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The Real Goods Resource List The American Wind Energy The Real Goods Resource List Association Although this Sourcebook is a complete source of renewable energy and envi- 1101 14th Street NW, 12th Floor ronmental products, we can’t be everything to everyone. Here is our current list Washington, DC 20005 of other trusted resources for information and products. We’ve selected these Website: www.awea.org/ organizations carefully, and since we have worked directly with many of them, Email: [email protected] we are giving you the benefit of our experience. Still, we’ll offer the standard Phone: 202-383-2500 disclaimer that Gaiam Real Goods does not necessarily endorse all the actions A national trade association of each group listed, nor are we responsible for what they say or do. that represents wind-power This list can never be complete. One good place to look for additional re- plant developers, wind turbine sources is www.wiserearth.org, an amazing compendium of tens of thousands of manufacturers, utilities, consultants, nonprofits compiled by Paul Hawken over many years (also see his bookBlessed insurers, financiers, researchers, and Unrest, p. 29). We apologize for resources we may have overlooked and for con- others involved in the wind industry. tact information that may have changed since this 30th-Anniversary Edition of These folks primarily work with utility- the Sourcebook went to press. We welcome your suggestions. Please mail a brief level wind systems. Not a good source description of the organization and access info to Gaiam Real Goods, Attention: for residential info. Resource List. Architects/Designers/Planners for AAP Automation Website: www.clean-air.org/ Social Responsibility (ADPSR) Website: www.aapautomation.com/ Email: [email protected], PO Box 9126 Frames/indexAAPAuto.html [email protected] Berkeley, CA 94709-0126 If you’re into high-level engineering, Phone: 602-328-4238 Website: www.adpsr.org automation, motors, pneumatics, A nonprofit organization that promotes Email: [email protected] controls, shop talk, and the like, this the use of hydrogen for fuel and energy Phone: 510-845-1000 site might be for you! storage. Publishes Hydrogen Today, a ADPSR works for peace, bimonthly newsletter. environmental protection, ecological Advanced Buildings building, social justice, and the Website: www.advancedbuildings.org/ American Society of Landscape development of healthy communities. Email: advancedbuildings@ Architects (ASLA) It has chapters around the country and enermodal.com 636 Eye Street NW APPENDIX publishes books on community arts Tremendous cache of resources and Washington, DC 20001-3736 and development through New Village case studies, geared toward building Website: www.asla.org Press (www.newvillage.net). professionals interested in technologies Phone: 202-898-2444 and practices for environmentally This professional organization Artha Sustainable Living Center appropriate and energy-efficient advocates on public policy issues 9784 County Road K construction. such as livable communities, surface Amherst, WI 54406-9355 transportation, the environment, Website: www.arthaonline.com American Council for an Energy- historic preservation, and small Email: [email protected] Efficient Economy (ACEEE) business affairs. Phone: 715-824-3463 1001 Connecticut Avenue, Suite 801 Offers solar thermal (water and/or Washington, DC 20036 American Solar Energy Society space heating) site assessments for Website: www.aceee.org (ASES) large applications worldwide. Offers Email: [email protected] 2400 Central Avenue, Suite A hands-on workshops and training at Phone (Research and Conferences): Boulder, CO 80301 their site or yours on solar thermal and 202-429-8873; Publications: 202-429- Website: www.ases.org/ sustainable living. 0063 Email: [email protected] Publishes books, papers, yearly guides, Phone: 303-443-3130 Battery Recycling (for NiCads) and comparisons of appliances and ASES is the United States section of Rechargeable Battery Recycling Corp. vehicles based on energy efficiency. the International Solar Energy Society, 1000 Parkwood Circle, Suite 450 Their website is an excellent source of a national organization dedicated to Atlanta, GA 30339 efficient appliance info. advancing the use of solar energy for Website: www.rbrc.org the benefit of U.S. citizens and the Email: [email protected] The American Hydrogen global environment. Publishers of the Phone: 678-419-9990 Association bimonthly Solar Today magazine for A nonprofit public service organization 2350 W. Shangri La members, and sponsors of the yearly to promote the recycling of NiCad Phoenix, AZ 85028 National Tour of Solar Homes. batteries. Just type your zip code in 588 G A I A M R E A L G OODS the website and get a list of local stores California Straw Building Center for Energy and Climate that will accept your old NiCads for Association (CASBA) Solutions/Cool Companies recycling. PO Box 1293 Website: www.cool-companies.org/ Angels Camp, CA 95222 homepage.cfm Bioneers Website: www.strawbuilding.org CECS promotes clean and efficient Website: www.bioneers.org Email: [email protected] energy technologies as a money- Bioneers, whose slogan is Revolution Phone: 209-785-7077 saving tool for reducing greenhouse from the Heart of Nature, is “a forum CASBA is a nonprofit project of the gas emissions and other pollutants. Its for connecting the environment, health, Tides Center. Its primary objective is website contains good information, social justice, and spirit within a broad to further the practice of straw bale including more skeptical views about a progressive framework.” Their annual construction by exchanging current hydrogen-based economy. conference, focused on practical and information and practical experience, visionary solutions for restoring conducting research and testing, Center for Renewable Energy and imperiled ecosystems and healing and making that body of knowledge Sustainable Technology (CREST) human communities, is extraordinary. available to working professionals and See Renewable Energy Policy Project the public at large. The Borrower’s Guide to Financing Chelsea Green Publishing Solar Energy Systems CalStart 85 N. Main Street, Suite 120 Website: www.nrel.gov/docs/ Northern California Office: PO Box 428 fy99osti/26242.pdf 1160 Brickyard Cove, Suite 101 White River Junction, VT 05001 A downloadable publication of the Richmond, California 94801 Website: www.chelseagreen.com National Renewable Energy Lab. Phone: 510-307-8700 Email: [email protected] Southern California Office: Phone: 802-295-6300 BuildingGreen, Inc. 48 South Chester Avenue One of the world’s premier publishers 122 Birge Street, Suite 30 Pasadena, CA 91106 of books on renewable energy, natural Brattleboro, VT 05301 Phone: 626-744-5600 building, and sustainable living. APPENDIX Website: www.buildinggreen.com Colorado Office: Email: [email protected] 1536 Wynkoop Street, Suite 600 Clean Energy First! Phone: 802-257-7300 Denver, CO 80202 706 North Ivy Street A leading source of objective Phone: 303-825-7550 Arlington, VA 22201 information on green building and Website: www.calstart.org Website: www.CleanEnergyFirst.com renewable energy. Publishes the Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected] journal Environmental Building News The latest information on electric, This site hosts a variety of clean energy and the GreenSpec Directory of green natural gas, and hybrid electric web links. building products. vehicles, and other intelligent transportation technologies. Electric Auto Association California Energy Commission PO Box 6661 Media and Public Communications Carbohydrate Economy Concord, CA 94514 Office Clearinghouse Website: www.eaaev.org 1516 Ninth Street, MS-29 Institute for Local Self-Reliance Email: [email protected] Sacramento, CA 95814-5512 1313 5th Street SE The national electric vehicle Website: www.energy.ca.gov Minneapolis, MN 55414-1546 association, with local chapters in most Email: [email protected] Website: www.carbohydrateeconomy. states and Canada. Dues are $39/year Phone: 800-555-7794 (inside CA); org/ with an excellent monthly newsletter. 916-654-4058 (outside CA) Email: [email protected] The website has links to practically The state of California’s primary energy Phone: 612-379-3815 everything in the EV biz. policy and planning agency. Strongly Biofuels is one aspect of the emerging supports energy efficiency and small- “carbohydrate economy,” which is based Energy Efficiency and Renewable scale utility intertie projects. A good on biomass rather than petroleum. Energy Clearinghouse (EREC) source of honest intertie information. Lots of great information here about Mail Stop EE-1 biofuels and other biomass issues. The Department of Energy California Solar Center parent organization, the Institute for Washington, DC 20585 Website: www.californiasolarcenter. Local Self-Reliance, has been around Website: www.eere.energy.gov/ org/downloads.html for more than 30 years, leading the Email: [email protected] Lots of great downloads of California- relocalization movement before it was Phone: 877-337-3463 specific information, reports, etc. a movement with a name. SOLAR LIVING SOURCEBOOK 589 The best source of information about Email: info@environmentcalifornia. Phone: 321-638-1000 renewable energy technologies and org Provides highly regarded independent energy efficiency. These folks seem to Phone: 213-251-3688 third-party testing and certification of be able to find good information about Maintains a website committed to solar hot-water systems
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