This month, we’re offering Story of Stuff community members an opportunity to go solar with our friends at Sungevity, while at the same time supporting the Story of Stuff Project.

Why Sungevity? Danny Kennedy—one of the company’s founders—has been a friend for 15 years. We worked for the same environmental organization and our daughters even went to preschool together. In the time I have known Danny, he has fought tirelessly for a clean, healthy environment. He worked in solidarity with groups in Nigeria and Indonesia who were fighting mining and oil extraction. He worked with big universities in the U.S. to get them to go solar. He lobbied for better laws and harassed corporations that were trashing the planet….