Get a discount on a Solar System when mentioning our name

Great news: I got a fantastic offer for home and business owners in California who are looking into building or retrofitting a house with a Solar Power system.

Jim Jenal, owner of Pasadena based company Run On Sun has given me the go ahead to offer you a considerable discount if you mention Change The World T-Shirts when signing a contract with them.


Run On Sun is a NABPEC certified installer; check their website, they have tons of helpful information on there. And if you prefer to talk to a human being about how Solar Power works and how it can help you save money, call Jim Jenal of Run On Sun at (626)793 6025.

Good news! We Can Meet All Our Energy Needs from Solar in 20 Years

Good news! I just read an article on the predictions by Ray Kurzweil a known futurist who laid out the law of accelerating returns, which states that technology improves at exponential rates. He made a string of dead-on predictions about computing in the 80s -- that a computer would beat a man at chess by 1998, and that the world would link networks into some crazy globally connected system sometime in the mid-90s.

Now, Kurzweil is talking solar. In the following interview with Grist http://www.grist.org/article/2011-02-19-futurist-ray-kurzweil-isnt-worried-about-climate-change, he explains why he's not worried about climate change, and how renewable energy sources will become dominant much, much sooner than we think.

"One of my primary theses is that information technologies grow exponentially in capability and power and bandwidth and so on. If you buy an iPhone today, it's twice as good as two years ago for half the cost. That is happening with solar energy -- it is doubling every two years. And it didn't start two years ago, it started 20 years ago. Every two years, we have twice as much solar energy in the world. Today, solar is still more expensive than fossil fuels, and in most situations it still needs subsidies or special circumstances, but the costs are coming down rapidly ... we are only a few years away from parity.

So right now it's at half a percent of the world's energy. People tend to dismiss technologies when they are half a percent of the solution. But doubling every two years means it's only eight more doublings before it meets a 100 percent of the world's energy needs. So that's 16 years. We will increase our use of electricity during that period, so add another couple of doublings: In 20 years we'll be meeting all of our energy needs with solar, based on this trend which has already been underway for 20 years."

Change The World T-Shirts official sponsor of Peace Angel Project

Change The World T-Shirts is proud to announce that we are the official sponsor of the Peace Angel Project, brain child of UK artist Gary Smith, a.k.a. Brickz and Stones.

A few months ago, Brickz and Stones painted a little Peace Angel in the shape of a Lego figurine (http://www.flickr.com/photos/brickzandstones/), the artist's brand mark style that has gained him recognition not only in his hometown of Manchester, but all throughout the UK, and a thought began to form in his head and take shape, the thought of how cool it would be to spread a little love by sending the Peace Angel on a journey around the world.

The idea became a plan, the plan became reality and a week ago, the Angel began its adventurous trip, leaving Manchester for its first stop, London.

People in countless countries around the globe have contacted Brickz and Stones, volunteering to become part of the project, and are now eagerly waiting for the arrival of the Peace Angel.

Once they received it, they will take its picture in front of a famous landmark or recognizable landscape.

All they need to do then is download the photos to the Peace Angel Project's blog, and then send the Angel off to its next destination.

You too can still become part of it. If you are interested in becoming a supporter, just shoot us an email via our Change The World T-Shirts contact form http://www.changetheworldtshirts.com/contact.html, and we will put you in touch with Brickz and Stones.

Please check out the Peace Angel Project's blog at http://www.peaceangelproject.blogspot.com/ for more info.

How to become more indepedent from oil

How about electric cars. Too unsexy? Maybe not. Porsche is working on the first fully electric sports car, the Boxster E.


With its 240 horsepower, 0 to 60 mph in 5.3 seconds and a battery pack providing about 100 miles per charge, this prototype is bound to create a considerable buzz.


http://www.treehugger.com/files/2011/02/porsche-unveils-boxter-e-a-fully-electric-sports-car.php

Personally, I am not much into sports cars but I am interested in how biodiesel works. That's why I am planning to rent a biodiesel car from Bio-Beetle, a Maui-based company with branches in Los Angeles. The world’s only all-biodiesel car rental company! You can check them out at www.bio-beetle.com.

Recycling in Germany

According to Earth911, "Germany leads the European nations in recycling, with around 70 percent of the waste the country generates successfully recovered and reused each year. To put that figure into perspective, consider this: In 2007, the U.S. was able to recover only about 33 percent of the waste generated that year."

Take into consideration that there are many more people in the US producing trash than there are in Germany, that's A LOT of unrecycled trash year after year ...

To find out more about how they manage to reach those percentages in Germany, go here:
http://earth911.com/news/2009/07/13/trash-planet-germany/

Recycling bottles & cans - helping the environment and making money doing it.

We finally got around to adding a blog to the Change The World T-Shirts site. Here we want to focus on the GOOD stuff. Like recycling bottles & cans - you can kill two flies with one swatter, as they say in Germany - and do something good for the environment while at the same time making extra cash. Find the nearest recycling center; in California they pay 5 to 10 cents per container. If you live in an apartment building, asks your neighbors to participate. And if you don't know what to do with all that money, donate it for a good cause. For more info, go to www.bottlesandcans.com.