Solar - RESOURCES
Supporting Solar Renewable Energy
The sun is absolutely brilliant!
In 15 minutes, it radiates as much energy as humans consume in an entire year.
Solar energy is the cheapest and most abundant energy source on Earth.
Over 1.6 million solar power systems in the United States are generating enough electricity to power 9.5 million homes.
And we’re just getting started. Want to make money while the sun shines? Want to help reduce dependency on fossil fuels without exhausting yourself marching in protests and lobbying reluctant politicians? Invest in solar panels! (You might still protest and lobby too.) The future is bright. Go solar!
“We are like tenant farmers chopping down the fence around our house for fuel when we should be using Natures inexhaustible sources of energy – sun, wind and tide. … I’d put my money on the sun and solar energy. What a source of power! I hope we don’t have to wait until oil and coal run out before we tackle that.”
Here are some excellent resources for more information on how you can support the use of solar energy in our world and help change climate change.
Vote Solar fights for a 100% clean energy transition that puts the interests, health, and well-being of people at its center.
Getting to Zero is perhaps the most ambitious effort in human history. Every year, humans add 51 billion tons of greenhouse gases to the atmosphere. To avoid a climate disaster, we have to get from 51 billion to zero in just 30 years.
Exact Solar is a solar energy advocate and solar panel installer who installed 26 panels on Jonathan’s home in 2017, helping him earn an 8% return on his investment while offsetting more than 64,000 pounds of carbon dioxide emissions in the first five years!
PennEnvironment helps protect the places we all love and promote core environmental values, such as clean air to breathe, clean water to drink, and clean energy to power our lives. They focus on timely, targeted action that wins tangible improvements in the quality of our environment and our lives. Jonathan and Rodney were invited to show three of our films at one of their Climate Crisis Conferences in a Philadelphia suburb.
Groundswell develops community solar projects and programs that connect solar power with economic empowerment. They believe that clean energy is a necessity, not a luxury; we’re all in this together; and we can’t afford to leave our neighbors in need behind.
The Solar Foundation is a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization dedicated to advancing the use of solar and solar-compatible technologies worldwide. They believe increasing access to this clean, abundant, reliable, and affordable energy source will lift up people’s lives and bring about a prosperous future for all.
The American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) is a 501(c)(3) national nonprofit organization that unites finance, policy, and technology to accelerate the transition to a renewable energy economy.
Planet Ark is Australia's most trusted environmental organization. They provide positive environmental actions, for everyone.
Citizens Climate Lobby empowers everyday people to work together on climate change solutions. Their supporters are organized in more than 400 local chapters across the United States. They work to build support in Congress for a national bipartisan solution to climate change. Force For Good has worked with the local Philadelphia, PA, United States chapter. These are compassionate, smart, global-minded people who work selflessly for this greater cause.
The United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) is the leading global environmental authority that sets the global environmental agenda, promotes the coherent implementation of the environmental dimension of sustainable development within the United Nations system, and serves as an authoritative advocate for the global environment.
Conservation International works to protect the nature we all rely on for food, fresh water, and livelihoods.
Earth Day has been celebrated every April 22 since 1970. Each of us has the power to change the world.
Friends of the Earth fights for a healthier and just world. They speak truth to power and expose those who endanger the health of people and the planet for corporate profit. They organize to build long-term political power and campaign to change the rules of economic and political systems that create injustice and destroy nature.
The Earth Times aims to provide with current environmental news coverage and green blogs to give background information needed to better understand what can sometimes be complicated and controversial environmental issues.
Alliance to Save Energy works toward using energy more productively to achieve economic growth, a cleaner environment and greater energy security, affordability and reliability.
Climate Institute is instrumental in moving climate change onto the international agenda, fostering collaboration between developing countries and richer nations, and in launching and implementing pioneering studies and initiatives on subjects such as environmental refugees, transforming the energy infrastructure of small island states, and catalyzing policymaker focus on the necessity of limiting emissions of black carbon and other short-lived climate forcers.
RFF’s mission is to improve environmental, energy, and natural resource decisions through impartial economic research and policy engagement.
Sustainable Princeton (NJ, United States) is leading community change toward sustainability.
Quakers and Climate Change involves Quakers worldwide who view climate change as a peace and justice concern. They seek to transform the human activities which feed environmental crises unprecedented in human history, including the rate of species extinction, ocean acidification, soil erosion, chemical pollution, and the rate of rising global temperature.
Established in 1954, American Solar Energy Society is a 501(c)(3) non-profit that advocates for sustainable living and 100% renewable energy by sharing information, events and resources to cultivate community and power progress.
Founded in 2014, Project Drawdown® is a nonprofit organization that seeks to help the world reach “Drawdown”— the future point in time when levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere stop climbing and start to steadily decline. Stopping global warming is possible with solutions that exist today.
Environmental Defense Fund works to reduce energy waste while saving customers money.
The Solar Electric Light Fund mission is to design and implement solar energy solutions to assist the 1.2 billion people living in energy poverty with their economic, educational, health care and agricultural development. Since 1990, SELF has completed projects in more than 25 countries and pioneered unique applications of solar power such as for drip irrigation in Benin, health care in Haiti, telemedicine in the Amazon rainforest, online learning in South Africa, and micro-enterprise development in Nigeria.
Power Up Gambia The Gambia Ministry of Energy has named solar power for decentralized electricity production as the top renewable energy opportunity in The Gambia. Providing solar power solutions to hospitals and clinics is a priority issue for the Ministry of Health and Social Welfare. This well run and heartfelt organization was the charitable recipient of our Force For Good online Solar Energy event in 2021.
The Philadelphia Solar Energy Association (PSEA) is a volunteer based, member supported nonprofit whose goal is to promote the rapid adoption of solar energy in the Philadelphia region and across the state. Founded in 1980, PSEA has sponsored the Junior Solar Sprint every year since 1994, inspiring many young people to pursue careers in math and science. PSEA has played a key role in the development of clean energy policies in Pennsylvania in order to accelerate the adoption of solar energy to reduce our collective carbon footprint, improve energy security and move toward energy independence.