Solar Living Institute, Hopland CA

Category & Type :

Services

Location :

13771 S. Hwy. 101 , Hopland CA

Phone :

707-472-2450

Website :

http://www.solarliving.org

Information about Solar Living Institute...

Courses:
Categories - Solar and Sustainability
Solar Training
We offer IREC and NABCEP approved solar training courses from beginning to advanced levels. Whether you are just curious about solar, preparing for a career transition, desiring quality training for your employees, looking to start or expand a business, or advance within the solar industry, we have a course to meet your needs.

Current Courses
PV 300 Solar Training Advanced PV Systems
Dates: 12/05/2011 - 12/09/2011
Location: Ukiah, CA  $1195.00
Looking to become a Certified PV Installer? This advanced course has been accredited by the Institute for Sustainable Power Quality (ISP) and covers the NABCEP PV Installer Certification Task Analysis. It is especially useful for people who currently work in the PV industry. The workshop is the companion to the PV Design and Installation Intensive providing ...


 PV 200 Solar Training Design and Installation Intensive
Dates: 01/23/2012 - 01/27/2012
Location: Ukiah, CA  $1095.00
5-Day Solar Training. PV 200 is an intensive training course that offers 40 hours of critical knowledge and hands-on practice in the essentials of photovoltaic technology. The course content has been honed through 12+ years of experience and is taught by experienced industry professionals. If you are a contractor, builder, or electrician looking to...


PV 100 Solar Training Intro to Photovoltaics
Dates: 03/17/2012 - 03/18/2012
Location: Ukiah, CA  $325.00
If you are looking for Solar PV training to find employment in the ever-expanding PV market, then this workshop is the first step to familiarize yourself with the concepts of solar electricity. This entry-level workshop provides the foundation for the intermediate level of PV training and certification in our five-day PV 200 PV Design and Installation Inten...

Solar Living Canter:
Parducci Wine Tasting
Parducci Wine Cellars now has a Tasting Room at the Solar Living Center and contribute a percentage of their sales to the Solar Living Institute, a 501(c)3 educational nonprofit.

Parducci is "Family Farmed," locally owned and operated in California's Mendocino County. They are committed to sustainable winegrowing practices that yield top quality grapes and wines while protecting the environment and supporting our community and local farmers. Their sustainability check list:

- Locally Owned & Operated
- Grapes from Local Family Farms
- Sustainable Farming Practices
- 100% Green Power
- Water Conservation & Recycling
- Earth-friendly Packaging
- 1st Carbon Neutral Winery in the US

Tours
Tours of the Solar Living Center allow people of all ages to learn about a wide range of fascinating topics, from solar and wind power, to environmentally friendly building materials, to passive and active solar design in architecture, to organic gardening and permaculture. Solar Living Institute office hours are Monday through Friday, 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM Pacific Time. The Real Goods Store hours are 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM, 7 days a week.

Design & Landscape
The Solar Living Center (SLC) began as a shared vision among the workers of Real Goods Trading Corporation and company founder and President John Schaeffer. It was a vision of a permaculture oasis where the company could demonstrate the culture and technology of solar living.

The Center's beautiful main showroom was designed by architect Sim Van der Ryn of Sausalito, California. His associate, David Arkin, served as project architect and Jeff Oldham of Real Goods managed the building of the project. Their creation is a tall and gracefully curving single story building which is so adept in its capture of the varying hourly and seasonal angles of the sun that additional heat and light are nearly unnecessary. During the summer months, the building is kept cool through a combination of overhangs and manually controlled hemp awnings. Cool night air floods the building and is stored as "coolth" in the six-hundred tons of thermal mass of the building's columns, floor, and strawbale walls. Outside, grape arbors shield the building from the intense summer sun and a central fountain with "drip ring" provides evaporative cooling.