Ashland Solar Tour

Date:  Saturday, October 13, 9:00 am
Starting Location:  Ashland Civic Center, 1175 East Main Street
Registration: $ 6 at http://activenet3.active.com/ashlandparks/ or North Mountain Park Nature Center.
Participation is limited to 100 people over age 12.
Contact:  City of Ashland Conservation Division at (541) 552-2065

Find out how solar energy can be used to power and heat your home and water, and how homes can be more energy efficient, healthier and better for the environment. Participants will visit homes with solar electric, solar hot water, solar swimming pool heat, solar space heat, increased energy efficiency, healthier indoor air, and reduced environmental impacts. Learn about current technologies, and financial incentive programs to implement them. The tour will begin at 9:00 AM at the Ashland Civic Center 1175 East Main St., and travel by buses to four home sites with a bring-your-own lunch stop along the way.

October is Energy Awareness Month. The Ashland tour is one of hundreds of events planned throughout the state and across the country to raise awareness about energy conservation and clean, renewable energy. The City of Ashland and Home Power Magazine sponsor the tour, for more information call the City of Ashland Conservation Division at 552-2065.


Klamath Falls: Solar Tour

Date:  Saturday, October 6, 2007
Time: 9:00am
Location:  Meet at Klamath County Government Center, 305 Main Street, Klamath Falls
Registration:  Free
Contact:  Scott McMahon, (541) 882-9923

Rogue Valley Tours

Dates:  Saturday, October 20th – Phoenix-Talent Tour Green and Solar Tour:  9:00AM at Phoenix Organics (4543 S. Pacific Hwy, Phoenix, OR).  Plan to stay for a fun Tour Party afterwards, around 3:30PM
Sunday, October 21^st – Shady Cove-Upper Rogue Green and Solar Tour:  11:00AM at Shady Cove Park parking lot. 
Also bus pick-ups:
10:00AM at Fred Meyers in north Medford
10:30AM at Ray's in Eagle Point. 

Registration:  Advance registration required, $10 per person, per bus tour, space is limited.  For ages 15 and over, bring brown bag lunch. 
Contact:  Suzanne Frey, Tour Coordinator, sfrey@mind.net, (541) 552-0598. 

A Variety of Features:  Both tours will include homes with a variety of energy efficient, green & solar features that can be incorporated into new home construction and remodels, including:  passive solar design for space heating and cooling, solar water heating, photovoltaic solar electricity, green building materials, straw bale construction, use of thermal mass, and more... 

A Variety of Lifestyles:  Green and solar features can be incorporated into any home or lifestyle, whether conventional or alternative, modest or luxury, large or small.

Talk With the Homeowners:  Our homeowners will be on hand to share their personal experiences purchasing, installing and living with green and solar features in their homes.

Earth Advantage & Energy Star Homes:   Tours include some Earth Advantage and Energy Star Homes, with an Earth Advantage certification demonstration. 

Bio Fuels:  The Shady Cove-Upper Rogue tour will include a demonstration of waste veggie oil diesel vehicles.   The Phoenix-Talent tour will include information on local bio-fuels and green building products. 


Roseburg: Solar Tour

Date: Saturday, October 13, 2007
Time: Workshop 9:00-11:30 am, Self-guided Tour 12:00 – 5:00 pm
Registration: $12, register by October 1 at Umpqua Community College, Community Education at (541) 440-7744.
Location: Workshop at Timber Room, Campus Center at Umpqua Community College, 1140 Umpqua College Rd, Roseburg OR 97470.
Contact:  Scott McKain, (541) 679-5597

In the morning, a workshop at Umpqua Community College will overview technologies, contractors and financial incentives for homeowners, and introduce the self-guided tour of homes.  Instructors:  Tom Beverly, Energy Trust of Oregon - financial incentives for renewable energy; Al Walker, Energy Independence - solar, conservation, and green technologies to be seen on the tour.

The afternoon is scheduled for the tour of homes in urban, suburban and rural settings in the Roseburg area.  A booklet describing each home and a map to the location will be provided at
the morning workshop.