By Lacey Gaechter | National Director
The Sacred Earth Lodge (SEL) has been open to the public for three months now! We have already had several groups stay at the new faciltiy and we look forward to hosting many more visitors and Native American trainees in 2014.
At the end of this month, Native American students from across the country (including our first student from Alaska!) will join us at the new Lodge to learn how to install a solar hot water system. This will be our first Solar Hot Water Heater Training. Once the system is in place, it will join our growing selection of on-site renewable energy demonstration units. Along with our existing solar air heaters, wind turbines, and grid-tied and battery-tied photovoltaic systems, we will now have a solar hot water system that can be taken apart and reassembled class after class. This equipment gives us the ability to do hands-on training, which is so important to the learning process and what makes our training program unique.
With your donations, you are supporting this important new clean energy system and contributing to SEL’s low impact, sustainable building design. The hot water generated in this solar water system will be mixed with anti-freezing agents and circulated through a radiant heat floor to keep the building warm, using only the sun’s rays!
We can not do this important work without people like you! Thank you for your support and we look forward to sharing more updates with you throughout the year.
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