To help organize and build more industry social networking support, I've created a Facbook page for this initiative. Please become a fan of: http://www.facebook.com/pages/April-is-National-Solar-Quote-Month/102457003123461?v=wall Then insert your company website into the comments section. You can also say what discount you're offering for April. Also, please mention if you will be calling reporters on April 5th per Step 3 above. Thanks again for your participation. My goal is for this to become a voluntary yearly solar quote event.

Dr. Nangia, thank you for your comment. Certainly, any country (or company) can adopt this concept! All it takes is a little promotion through your solar industry community and action. Feel free to adapt the above model and refer people to this blog post. The point was to kick off Spring with solar awareness. (For Southern Hemisphere countries, perhaps it would be better to adopt September or October instead of April.)

That's great Jesse and Ken! Hope you guys sell a lot of solar in April! Stephen and Jennifer, thanks so much for your support.

Hey, Bradleyg, Great! I'll be giving some guidelines for how to best contact the media. In the mean time, get prepared by getting the contact info of your local media person. Otherwise, start thinking about what discounts you want to give for April and start inserting that with whatever marketing or advertising that you're doing. Hopefully, on April 5th, you'll get into contact with someone in the media, and they'll want to do the suggested story above. Thanks for supporting this!

All points to solar moving towards the tipping point into the main stream in 2010, Liz. Looking forward to these trends lasting longer than 15 minutes. :)

Thanks, Tara!

Thank you Svea! I genuinely appreciate your support and of your company, Kaco Newenergy, and your positive vision for this project. Many thanks.

Great thoughts, Ethan! Thanks! Got your email and will be in touch.

Hello, Phil and Tom. Thanks for the support! I really appreciate it. If you both (and anyone else wanting to contribute) could, please email me specifically what you'd like to donate to this White House project. My email address is solarfred "at" solarpowerrocks.com. Thanks! Anyone else? Please put in in the comments below and contact me as well.

Phil and Tom, I forgot to mention, please become a fan of the Face Book page, as well, and invite others to also, whether or not they're industry pros. Thanks again. http://www.facebook.com/pages/Americans-Putting-Solar-Power-on-the-White-House/348123157322?v=info#%21/pages/Americans-Putting-Solar-Power-on-the-White-House/348123157322?v=wall

CNblevins, That's a really wonderful, simple analogy, and I intend to use it with these personal debates that I have. Thanks so much.

Thanks, Stephen! This one is on its way. More to come from myself and others, I hope. All the best.

Stephen, to your point, I do believe that there is a common consensus that RE, in all of its forms, are better for the planet and therefore, we can all be on the same page. Then the question becomes paying for getting to our RE friendly World. I think if fossil fuel companies weren't discrediting and throwing doubt at climate change science, they would be focusing their PR and doubt machines on portraying the costs "unaffordable" without subsidies. (That coal and gas companies are subsidized is never to be mentioned.) Whether speaking of converting our energy to RE or climate change, I believe the solution is consistent, accurate, transparent communication about RE and its benefits, and consistent, transparent communication about the hazards and hidden cost of fossil fuels and other air and water pollutants. If we can focus on those two tactics, I do believe progress will be made for the world, whether or not climate change is a reality. For the record, I do believe climate change is a real and man-made. For skeptics and believers alike, here's a great website that tracks all of the arguments. It shows annotated, scientific responses for each skeptic claim. http://www.skepticalscience.com. There is also a free, corresponding iPhone App so that you can have all of this information at your iPhone fingertips.

May you enjoy those beautiful panels for the next 25 years or longer. :) Congratulations!

Paul, that's terrific! Thank you and everyone at Free Hot Water! I will contact you soon about next steps. We're still looking for more installers and PV modules. If you're inspired reading this but aren't authorized to make that decision, please ask your superiors if you'd like to contribute. Thanks again, Paul!

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