Solar Fest 2009 is Off The Grid this Saturday at Maverick Park!

Solar Fest this weekend will be solar and biodiesel powered! (No extinct reptiles will be utilized in the making of this event!)

GreenCamp San Antonio will be there, literally in the center of the action. Look for us in the middle of Maverick Park. We’ll be the ones with the GreenCamp San Antonio banner!

Here’s more information about Solar Fest 2009

• 8 am “Run on the Sun” 5K
• 9 am - 4 pm Festival & Expo

Maverick Park (Broadway and 10th Street)

About Solar San Antonio

We are a non-profit advocacy and resource center dedicated to renewable and sustainable energy applications. Through community outreach, we strive to decrease energy costs and improve the quality of life in South Texas.

Green Headlines from S.A. Business Journal

Check out this green business news from the San Antonio Business Journal.

• Texas plans tax holiday on energy-efficient goods
• Scooter dealership revs up for business in San Antonio
• Hill Country home builder wins Platinum LEED honor

Sponsor Update: Vespa of Alamo Heights

The good guys at Vespa Alamo Heights have signed up to sponsor GreenCamp San Antonio!

They’ll be on site with a shiny, new, fuel-efficient scooter to  admire.

Stop by their Broadway shop to see lots of options from Vespa, Piaggio, and even USED (call them “recycled”) scooters.

Become a GreenCamp San Antonio sponsor today!

120 Slots and Counting!

We are really excited about how the registration is going for our first GreenCamp San Antonio! We have 30 people registered so far and we’re about a month out.

There are a lot of great participants coming including some of the big green trade groups and non-profits. And lots of regular people like you and me. And that was the point! To mix it up and get the conversations about green issues pumped up here in San Antonio.

Now is the time to register!

Please help us with the event by sponsoring or providng in kind donations. Thanks!

Mission Verde Consultant at 3 Free Events

Jeremy Rifkin, founder and president of the Foundation on Economic Trends, will be in San Antonio April 5 through 7 as a consultant for the City of San Antonio in its MISSION VERDE sustainability project. The opening session of Rifkin’s consultancy will be at 5 pm April 5 at the Hyatt Regency Hill Country Resort, 9800 Hyatt Resort Drive. Free and open to the public.

Rifkin is the author of 17 best-selling books on the impact of scientific and technological changes on the economy, the workforce, society, and the environment. He considers the four pillars of the Third Industrial Revolution to be renewable energy, buildings as power plants, energy storage, and the transformation to a smart grid, using plug-in vehicles, etc.

The second session, on April 6, will go from 8 am to 5:30 pm, and the third session, on April 7, will go from 8:30 am to 3:30 pm, when there will be a final press conference.

Solar San Antonio’s Bill Sinkin in the News

Christina at Solar San Antonio passed this along.

Our own solar pioneer, Bill Sinkin, is featured in Solar Today magazine on page 6.

Check it out!

The Spirit of DC, a Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle visits San Antonio

The Spirit of DC a Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle travelling All Around America and its driver, Jerry Asher will be available sometime Thursday evening through Saturday presented by the Alamo City Electric Automobile Association.

Read on for more info and his website:

The Spirit of DC - PHEVA3 and energy independence

The Spirit of DC (Plug-in Hybrid Electric Vehicle All Around America) gets up to 101 miles to the gallon and fueling it is cheaper than gasoline. It’s environmental friendly and reduces greenhouse pollution.

Launched from the Nation’s Capitol during the last day, Tuesday, 22 April 2008, (in commemoration of Earth Day) of the EPA 4th National Sustainable Design Expo, this car is being driven all around America to let the public know about plug-in vehicles and the power of electricity in automobile transportation.

The Father of the Modern Plug-In Hybrid, University of California at Davis Professor Andy Frank, said, “A long electric range PHEV is first an EV,” and we consider our PHEV “The Spirit of DC” in the same way. We believe PHEVs provide an alternative to using gasoline at $4, $5, $6 … a gallon, by providing the choice of plugging-in at 60, 70, 80 cents worth of electricity for gasoline gallon equivalent (GGE). In brief, it’s about our freedom of choice.

More information at http://spiritofdc.com.

In San Antonio:

From 9:30 -11:30AM, on Saturday, 14 March 2009, The “Spirit” will ’show & shine’ at Alamo City Electric Auto Association VP, Gary Krysztopik’s ZWheelZ Shop at the San Geronimo Airpark at the 2nd Hanger.

Address: 15474 FM Road 471, about six miles out on Auto Loop 1604 on West side of San Antonio. Please come and use the Parking Lot (avoid parking in front of any hangers!).

(Gary is also a member of the Experimental Aviation Association — another EAA. And yes, there are electric airplanes!)

Come on out and meet Al Rangel, ACEAA President, Gary, EVJerry and other ACEAA’rs and expound upon what the FuturEV is where America has her energy independence once again! See also Alamo City EAA’s website: www.ACEAA.org. After a super time with North Texas EAA’rs, the “Spirit” is really taking a shine to Texas! Second sidenote: NTEAA Prez, John Brecher, is also a dual EAA’rs, and he actually does build airplanes in addition to electric vehicles! See also www.nteaa.org

Note: There will be other plug-ins — pure electric RM2, a Porsche and many more! Gary Krysztopik’s phone: (210) 722-2977 just in case.