How You Can Help Spread Solar

Talk to Your Neighbors Talking with your neighbors is the most effective thing you can do in letting people know about One Block Off the Grid. One of the reasons we’re able to offer great discounts to our members is that they tend to cluster in neighborhoods. This makes it easier and more efficient for solar installers to evaluate homes and and complete solar installation jobs. Watch our video about how One Block Off the Grid creates home solar panel discounts.

Send Some Quick Emails It’s really easy to tell your friends about One Block Off the Grid online. Just use our tell-a-friend page to invite your friends (we’ll never use the email addresses you enter unless your friends sign up). We have a few examples of the types of emails you can send. These can also be posted for groups on discussion boards, blogs, and websites. Use our example template or samples with our tell-a-friend invite service.

Share our Solar Resources We have some pretty cool flyers available that you can bring with you to hand out around your community. The Front of our Lovely New Door Hanger The Back of our Lovely New Door Hanger A Homeowner’s Checklist for Going Solar A Homeowner’s Checklist of Questions to Ask Solar Installers Top Five Solar Energy Myths Canvass Flyers Info Flyer

Visit our Online Store We have bumper stickers, t-shirts, and hoodies are available at our online store! Click here if you want a beautiful yard sign in your front lawn.

A few sample Emails Collected from One Block Off the Grid Customers

“I’m a Chico homeowner and I’d like to have the benefit of cheaper utility bills by putting solar energy to work on my home. But the installation of solar panels has seemed prohibitively expensive, and who can you trust to do the job? http://1bog.org/

One Block Off the Grid can help with that. One Block Off the Grid forms cooperative groups of homeowners in cities across the U.S. When a city has 100 to 150 households registered (at no cost or obligation) they guide the group through the process. They find the contractor, arrange for everyone to have a site study, get the bids and then they negotiate with the contractor and the suppliers to get the best deal for the group. Then group members can decide to participate or not.

If nothing else, check out their website. Now is a great time for residential solar because the federal and state incentives have never been better.”

“Dear Neighbors,

I heard about the group “One Block Off the Grid” from an email, and checked it out online. They are gathering names of people who are interested in installing solar systems on their homes. Just as with anything, if you have numbers, you can negotiate HUGE discounts, which they have done in some neighborhoods already. They have now negotiated a deal for a much larger area, and we can benefit. If you are interested, go to 1bog.org. You can read about it and sign up if you like. In addition, the more people that sign up, the better the deal will end up being. I’ve signed up, and am really excited about it.”