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| Website of architect Michael Reynolds, who is a true pioneer in lower-cost, owner-buildable thermal mass housing. This is his "tire house" approach known as "Earthships".. If anyone should be considered a leader in passive solar homes, this is the MAN! |  |
| Website of Stuart Simmons earthship home near Durango CO. Site has some other interesting features, including a link page allowing you to add yourself, and that's brought some hits for me! Might try to do the same here! | Earthship Landing:
A Pictorial History |
| Another MUST-SEE website. Using a poured-in-place technique utilizing earth & modified gypsum rather than cement. The stuff sets up way too fast to be useful for the owner-builder, but this approach to thermal mass has real possibilities - definitely on the right track! I wonder if this couldn't be combined with concrete to slow things down and enable owner-builder forming and pouring. |  |
| Among the problems we have doing our solar websites is providing information along with promoting our wares and services to make the website worth our time. These folks are on a good track that way! |  |
| They don't seem to have a logo, so I copied this from their catalog and did my best with it. Backwoods Solar in Idaho is my choice for solar supplier. Competitive, knowledgeable staff, stand behind their wares, and just plain nice folks. Outstanding service, prompt shipping, no undue delays all the way to Arizona! |  |
If you are just starting your solar research, this is: - a very interesting and helpful website, and
- probably the best real paper magazine you might subscribe to!
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| Good Instructional website by Ken Olson, who writes for "Home Power Magazine" above. Offers online classes, workshops, seminars & etc but expect to pay for what you get here (who could blame him?)! |  |
| Here's Michael Pott's website. Years back I bought his book "The Independent Home", since rewritten as "The New ...." Michael is an on-track "thinker" who can shake cobwebs from the dullest minds! Our webpage "Mobile Homes etc" is from his earlier book. The website organization seems muddled to me - it takes a little time to get the feel, but the ideas are there! |  |
| This website was good, but very slow to load, but I was downloading at the time. Some interesting and useful tools here. In Albuquerque, contractor & dealer. | 
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| I wouldn't call this a "beautiful, "classy" website, but there is a goodly spectrum of solar basics to be found here. I've found most University and Government sites to be totally tedious. Comparatively, EPSEA is "down and dirty", quick to get to the point. |  |
| These folks in Colorado are promoting insulated concrete tilt-ups. This again is a job for the pro's, what with the need for cranes and such, but they're on our track at least. |  |
| GreenbuildingHome is an eclectic site discussing all types of solar home approaches, links to publications, discussion of the environment, with a little something for sale on every page... and a "store" offering some different books and videos. |  |
| Here's where I "cut my teeth" on solar years ago. I subscribed to their "Solar Source Book", which covered a plethora of equipment and solar how-to's. Supposed to get a lifetime of fresh editions, but they weaseled out on that one. Started by John Schaeffer, who began as a hippie type around Hopland California and put Real Goods on the stock exchange! When I went to get this link, the entry page was messed up. |  |
| Solar news, new & resale solar equipment , free newsletter with links to current solar events and happenings. They've been around only a year and are slowly getting better. |  |
I prefer leaving the government out, but this is the only one I found! Free download software from the US DOE for evaluation and compliance with the Model Energy Code (MEC) and International Institute for Energy Conservation (IIEC). Residential, commercial & state-specific versions.
I'm looking for this in a simple Excel/123 worksheet?? | 
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| This is an "everything" website, great graphics, but slow to cruise. Eventually you'll find a wealth of good pages very helpful to understanding a myriad of solar principles and techniques. |  |
| I've used a lot of search engines, and Google is the best yet. Really fast, and more links on any search than you can possibly view! I've integrated their search bar to my ie6.0 - 'twas easy! Only wish SolarSense Designs could get on that first screen more often! |  |
| For those of you working on your own websites. This isn't about solar anything, but a helpful free site for webpage promotion, submitting to search engines, and more. |  |
