Green Options

Where is the grid going, big or small?

[image via Gaetan Lee]

There was a fantastic article by Peter Asmus in Sunday’s San Francisco Chronicle about a new movement towards alternative energy. It talks about people who are tired of rising oil and natural gas prices and of their effect on our environment. Rather than waiting for utility companies to come around, these folks are opting to generate their own energy using sources like solar power, small wind turbines and electric cars that give back to the grid.

You’ve heard of the locavore. Well, it’s time to meet the “locavolts!”