iETV Interview Video
Welcome to my author web site. I’ll be using this space to not only talk about my new books, The New Solar Home and New Green Home Solutions, but also about the issues of sustainability and renewable energy I cover in those books and why they are important to me as president and founder of USA Solar Store LLC. I have taught classes on green business at The Solar Living Institute, I contributed a couple essays to Stephen Morris’ wonderful book, The New Village Green, and I am a frequent contributor to other periodicals such as BackHome Magazine, Alternative Energy Retailer, Green Living Journal. In addition, I pen a column as “The Green Guru” for Green Energy Times so I’ll be sharing some of those articles here as well as other essays on my life’s great passion — the world of green living.
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My name is Dave Bonta, president and founder of USA Solar Store, the largest renewable energy retailer in the Northeast. I have studied renewable energy and energy efficiency for more than twenty years, am a frequent speaker at major renewable energy and sustainable living conferences across America, and am a tireless advocate for green living. Nearly a decade ago I decided to rededicate my livelihood by breaking the energy dependence paradigm that carries with it so many social, economic, and environmental problems. I established the first USA Solar Store in Vermont with dreams for a 100-store National Chain. My primary goal is to bring renewable energy and sustainable living to Main Street USA. The secondary goal is to wean America away from fossil fuel addiction, by assisting in the development of cottage style industries, services and to provide training as necessary. To help focus on the emerging RE industries and the JOBS that they could help create, I formed “The Solar PANEL” (Solar Planning And New Energy Logistics). We soon merged with two other action groups after a historic meeting on the Summer Solstice in 2001 and that group became the SVG, The Sustainable Valley Group. My book The New Solar Home tours beautiful green homes that are pioneering not only in their use of alternative energy but also in their use of recycling and repurposing construction materials to reduce the impact on the planet through eco friendly building techniques. With details on why to go solar and how living in a solar home can save money over time, these solar masterpieces are meant to inspire homeowners to build or remodel their own solar energy havens. My book New Green Home Solutions tells you how most of the energy-derived pollution we produce comes as a direct result of our homes – how we heat them, how we cool them, how we keep them well-lit and full of things that make our lives so comfortable. New Green Home Solutions features a great jacket review quote by Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature, “eaarth” and “Deep Economy” and creator of 350.org. The New Solar Home book features a variety of solar dwellings of different sizes and locales, from 1,600 to 4,000 square feet or more, and in large cities, suburbs, and remote rural sites. My writing is also featured in The New Village Green which gathers some of the best ideas and brightest voices of the green community, some famous and familiar, others fresh and unknown. Each tells an absorbing story, and collectively they comprise a powerful chorus that profiles the current state of the environment. Topics range from spirituality to solar panels and, just like a real village green, are juxtaposed with opinions from “the new village people,” including: Writers Bill McKibben and Michael Pollan, Scientists James Lovelock and Donella Meadows, Spiritual leaders Gandhi and Buddha, and environmental activism and sustainable living pioneers Rachel Carson, Paul Ehrlich, and Helen and Scott Nearing. Thanks to the Jeanne Fredericks Literary Agency and Gibbs Smith, Publisher for making my books possible!
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