Backup Power

By Alex Wilson May 25, 2021May 25, 2021 Alex Wilson/Front page slider/News & Blogs

Using Our Vehicles for Backup Power: Ford’s F-150 Lightning Heralds a New Age for Resilient Backup Power Systems

The media event on May 19, 2021 introducing the all-electric version of Ford’s iconic F-150 pickup truck was one of the biggest news stories in resilience and back-up power this year. The F-150 Lightning, which will be available in Spring 2022, has an onboard inverter and AC outlets allowing it

Texas Loop 306 near San Angelo Texas, covered in snow.

By Alex Wilson February 24, 2021March 2, 2021 Alex Wilson/Front page slider/News & Blogs

What the February Winter Storm Can Teach Us About Resilience – 10 Recommendations

The winter storm last week won’t be the last disaster to strike, and it won’t be the worst. Achieving resilience will depend on understanding the growing vulnerabilities we face and working together to respond to them.

By Alex Wilson January 27, 2021March 3, 2021 Alex Wilson/Front page slider/News & Blogs

Portable battery power and resilience

When I was considering buying a portable, battery-powered unit for my cabin I knew that it would have resilience benefits well beyond the cabin.

By Alex Wilson October 30, 2019August 7, 2020 Alex Wilson/Front page slider/News & Blogs

California wildfires and intentional power outages call for more resilient power systems

The most resilient backup power system is a solar system and battery storage that has islanding capability.

By Alex Wilson November 14, 2018March 3, 2021 Alex Wilson/Front page slider/News & Blogs

The LEED Pilot Credits on Resilient Design Are Back Up!

It is possible, once again, to specifically address resilience in LEED project certifications.

By Alex Wilson February 7, 2017February 24, 2023 Alex Wilson/Front page slider/Fundamentals of Resilient Design/News & Blogs

Fundamentals of Resilient Design: Backup Power for Homes

Living in a solar-powered, net-zero-energy house doesn’t solve the problem of being without power when the grid goes down—which can happen for any number of reasons.

David W. Orr, Ph.D

David W. Orr is Paul Sears Distinguished Professor of Environmental Studies & Politics, Emeritus. He also served as “Counselor to the President” of Oberlin College for ten years. He is the author of eight books, including Dangerous Years: Climate Change and the Long Emergency (Yale, 2016) and Down to the Wire: Confronting Climate Collapse (Oxford, 2009) and co-editor of three others. He has authored over 220 articles, reviews, book chapters, and professional publications. In the past twenty-five years he has served as a board member or adviser to ten foundations and on the Boards of many organizations including the Rocky Mountain Institute, Bioneers, and the Aldo Leopold Foundation.

He is currently a Trustee of the Alliance for Sustainable Colorado, Children and Nature Network, and the WorldWatch Institute. He has been awarded nine honorary degrees and a dozen other awards including a Lyndhurst Prize, a National Achievement Award from the National Wildlife Federation, leadership awards from the U.S. Green Building Council (2014) and from Second Nature (2012), and a lifetime achievement award from Green Energy Ohio and the North American Association for Environmental Education. He has lectured at hundreds of colleges and universities throughout the U.S., Europe, Latin America, and Asia. He headed the effort to design, fund, and build the Adam Joseph Lewis Center, which was named by an AIA panel in 2010 as “the most important green building of the past thirty years,” as “one of thirty milestone buildings of the twentieth century” by the U.S. Department of Energy, and as one of “52 game-changing buildings of the past 170 years” by the editors of Building Design +Construction in January, 2016. He was instrumental in the design and funding of the Peter B. Lewis Gateway Center. He is the founder of the Oberlin Project and a founder of the journal Solutions. His current work is on the state of American democracy.