GRID Alternatives in the News

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Radio Bilingüe visits a GRID Alternatives project in Fresno
Radio Bilingüe, a non-profit Latino radio network that distributes Spanish-language programming to public radio affiliates around the country, recently completed a Spanish-language profile of a GRID Alternatives project in partnership with Habitat for Humanity Fresno County. www.radiobilingue.org

NPR profiles a Richmond job training success story
NPR's Morning Edition on Dec. 17th featured Andre, a participant in one of our Richmond installations with Solar Richmond and Richmond BUILD, who has been able to leverage that experience to get a job with Berkeley-based Sun Light & Power. www.npr.org

Time Magazine features a GRID Alternatives installation
Time Magazine recently ran a brief article highlighting a recent GRID Alternatives project in the City of Richmond for Annie, a low-income Richmond homeowner. The article uses the project to highlight the broader efforts of Van Jones' Green for All initiative, but the actual installation was done by GRID Alternatives, Solar Richmond and Richmond BUILD. The installation was fully sponsored by SunPower Corporation, including providing donated panels, an inverter and related hardware. www.time.com

KTVU visits our first installation in Richmond
KTVU (Channel 2) news did a piece on our first low-income solar installation project in the City of Richmond, where all the volunteer labor was conducted by local trainees at the City's Richmond BUILD job training program. There was also related coverage of this project in the Contra Costa Times, in the San Francisco Business Times, and on TV20's Your Green Life segment. www.ktvu.com

GRID Alternatives in the Palo Alto Daily News
GRID Alternatives first solar installation in East Palo Alto was featured in the August 20th Palo Alto Daily News, including pictures of our volunteers in action. www.paloaltodailynews.com

GRID Alternatives on NBC 11 (KNTV) News
Erica Mackie, GRID Alternatives' Executive Director and Co-Founder, was interviewed on the NBC 11 morning news by KNTV's Laura Garcia-Cannon. www.nbc11.com

GRID Alternatives in the Oakland Tribune
GRID Alternatives was featured on the front of the Tribune's business section on July 27th, 2007 in an article on "Green Jobs", including a great photo of our Construction Assistant, Lafo Laulu! www.insidebayarea.com

GRID Alternatives in the San Mateo County Times
The San Mateo County Times featured our work with Peninsula Habitat for Humanity at their Brisbane development. www.insidebayarea.com

GRID Alternatives on KPFA Radio
KPFA radio's Full Circle, the weekly radio magazine of KPFA's First Voice Apprenticeship Program, recently featured GRID Alternatives on a panel of Bay Area nonprofit organizations. You can listen to the program here. The KPFA First Voice Apprenticeship is an intensive 18-month Affirmative Action training program that brings primarily women and people of color into the field of radio. kpfa.org/apprentice

GRID Alternatives in the Woodland Daily Democrat
The Woodland Daily Democrat came out to one of our recent volunteer workdays with PG&E out at our Habitat for Humanity Yolo County build in June. www.dailydemocrat.com

Renewable Energy World highlights GRID's work with Habitat for Humanity
Renewable Energy World magazine published this article in their May/June 2007 issue highlighting GRID Alternatives work with Habitat for Humanity East Bay, with a focus on the Freeda Court development in Livermore where GRID Alternatives has installed solar electric systems on all 22 homes. Renewable Energy World is a leading international publication for renewable energy professionals, and is distributed in over 120 countries. www.renewable-energy-world.com

GRID Alternatives featured by the Silicon Valley Community Foundation
The Silicon Valley Community Foundation has featured GRID Alternatives' recent projects in San Mateo County in their recent e-newsletter. SVCF is the fourth largest community foundation in the nation with more than $1.5 billion in assets and more than 1,400 philanthropic funds. www.siliconvalleycf.org

GRID Alternatives on TreehuggerTV
TreehuggerTV did a video feature on our Solarthon 2006 event. Treehugger is a fast-growing web magazine, dedicated to everything that has a modern aesthetic yet is environmentally responsible. www.treehugger.com

"One Rooftop at a Time"
GRID Alternatives volunteer Jon Bice put together this great 5 minute video on our Solar Affordable Housing Program, with footage from an installation in Pleasanton.

Bringing Light to Low-Income Communities
GRID Alternatives co-founder Tim Sears, P.E. penned this article for Solar Today magazine as an overview of our Solar Affordable Housing Program. This article is republished courtesy of SOLAR TODAY, the award-winning magazine published by the American Solar Energy Society and dedicated to energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies. www.solartoday.org

Solar Power to the People
An article by Mike Nowak in the San Francisco Bay Guardian in December 2004 as the Solar Affordable Housing Program was finishing its first year of pilot projects. www.sfbg.com

Green Light: Could solar power become the Bay Area's answer to overpriced electricity?
A column by Carol Lloyd of the San Francisco Chronicle featuring one of GRID Alternatives' earliest low-income solar installations. www.sfgate.com