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Erik Curren

Author and speaker on clean energy, history and society

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The Solar Patriot

The Solar Patriot

In the spirit of 1776, The Solar Patriot aims to recruit citizens from Florida to Alaska as champions for homegrown, all-American clean energy. If you think that solar power should become America's top enery source, and you'd like to help make it happen, then this is the book you've been waiting for.

Even if you don't have solar panels on your own roof, The Solar Patriot will give you ideas to join the revolution to free America from the tyranny of fossil fuels and make our nation cleaner, safer and more prosperous. Enlist now!

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Praise for The Solar Patriot

Erik Curren is onto the technology that may well win the future. And he is right that it is a patriotic quest. Winning clean energy independence would serve America very well indeed.

Bob Inglis
Former Congressman from South Carolina
Founder, RepublicEn

If monopolistic utility lobbies are preventing the transition to clean energy in your state, this book is an excellent and practical guide for citizen advocacy and empowerment.

Marshall Saunders
Founder and President, Citizens’ Climate Lobby

Erik Curren has produced a solar-revolution manual that should inform, inspire, and energize anyone who believes in our inalienable right to a clean energy future.

Michael Brune
Executive Director, Sierra Club

The ability to use solar power at home helps keep your family more secure while helping America achieve a greater degree of energy independence. So, it’s no wonder that support for solar and other clean energy is growing on the conservative side of the political spectrum. For conservatives and others who want to help their neighbors join America’s clean energy revolution, The Solar Patriot is an indispensable source of good information and inspiration.

Mark Fleming
President & CEO, Conservatives for Clean Energy

Democracy, patriotism, and rooftop solar go hand in hand and Erik Curren makes the case with simple, easy-to-understand stories from the front line of the modern-day battle for energy independence. Curren highlights parallels between today’s fights and some of the most iconic stories from American history. This book is a great introduction to one of the most important issues of our time.

Anya Schoolman
Executive Director, Solar United Neighbors

I loved this book. Curren is a fabulous writer and has a great story to tell. The solar revolution in this country is exciting, patriotic, and as vital to our future as the 1776 Revolution was to our past. This is that rare must-read book for everyone, from liberal environmentalists to Tea Party conservatives.

Mike Tidwell
Executive Director, Chesapeake Climate Action Network

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Abolish Oil Now

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Latest Blog Posts

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Rural Whites Deserve a Fair Break. But they Must Dump the Language of MAGA.

After 1/6, it’s gotten harder to talk about why America needs to do more for the rural white working class. Can they meet the rest of us half way, by dumping Trump and picking some other champion?

How the South Won the Civil War by Heather Cox Richardson

[Book Review] ‘How the South Won the Civil War’ by Heather Cox Richardson

Heather Cox Richardson, a historian of 19th-century America with a popular daily politics blog, argues that today’s conservatives owe a large debt to yesterday’s Confederates.

Harvest the Vote: How Democrats Can Win Again in Rural America

[Book Review] ‘Harvest the Vote’ by Jane Kleeb

Jane Kleeb thinks that Democrats shouldn’t reject rural white voters as racists and dupes because they voted for Trump. Give them a choice beyond the lesser of two evils, and those voters will be open to a pro-rural left.

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Caste by Isabel Wilkerson

[Book Review] ‘Caste’ by Isabel Wilkerson

America has a race problem, and it’s as bad as it ever was. But talking about racism and hatred won’t help. We need to go deeper, writes Isabel Wilkerson.

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Why Rural Voters Swung from Obama to Trump — and Stayed Loyal to Trump

It’s a mistake to dismiss rural white voters who swung from Obama to Trump as racists or dupes. Their economy shows that rural white people have good reason to distrust Democrats.

Why We're Polarized by Ezra Klein

Trump Loves Polarization and His Opponents Love It Too

Ezra Klein explains the partisanship that allows Republicans to put party before country by embracing Trump. But he says that Democrats aren’t much different in the ways they oppose Trump.

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