{"id":79,"date":"2010-07-21T02:33:00","date_gmt":"2010-07-21T02:33:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ec2-54-213-215-163.us-west-2.compute.amazonaws.com\/?p=79"},"modified":"2022-10-24T22:24:37","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T22:24:37","slug":"shine-baby-shine-larry-hagman-solarworld-self-pih-and-haiti","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bobfreling.com\/index.php\/2010\/07\/21\/shine-baby-shine-larry-hagman-solarworld-self-pih-and-haiti\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Shine, Baby, Shine&#8221;: Larry Hagman, SolarWorld, SELF, PIH, and Haiti"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/B-XNNPTqNMQ\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There\u2019s a sweet irony watching long-time SELF board member&nbsp;<strong>Larry Hagman<\/strong>&nbsp;turn the world-renowned oil tycoon J.R. Ewing&nbsp;into a conscientious solar executive while retaining his famously wicked laugh.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>\u201cShine, baby, shine,\u201d<\/strong>&nbsp;chuckles a fiendish Hagman as he coins the new energy mantra for our time in a series of advertisements for&nbsp;<strong>SolarWorld<\/strong>. He\u2019s playing off \u201cDrill, baby, drill\u201d&nbsp;of course, but few can argue with his message.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Serving on SELF\u2019s board since 2000, Larry walks the talk. In 2003, he installed what is surely the largest residential solar system in the United States, if not the world, at his hilltop home in Ojai, Calif., north of LA. The combined arrays on his property total about 90 kilowatts.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Now with his catalytic involvement in SolarWorld\u2019s advertising campaign, he has leveraged his passion for solar energy to help SELF as well. Through its\u00a0<strong>Solar2World<\/strong>\u00a0donation program to aid communities in developing regions, SolarWorld donated solar panels to SELF for a Partners In Health (PIH) clinic in Haiti in 2009. After an earthquake devastated Haiti on Jan. 12, SELF was among nonprofit aid groups that SolarWorld agreed to supply with even bigger panel donations to ease the Haiti crisis. Thanks to Larry\u2019s efforts, SolarWorld\u2019s generous donation of 100KW of solar panels will power\u00a0<strong>five more clinics<\/strong>\u00a0in Haiti. For SELF, this is an integral part of our overall\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.bobfreling.com\/index.php\/2010\/03\/10\/self-and-pih-a-solar-healthcare-partnership\/\">solar healthcare partnership<\/a>\u00a0with<a href=\"http:\/\/www.pih.org\/\">\u00a0PIH<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thank you, SolarWorld, and thank you Larry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"340\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/4mH2CuQKWp0\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<em>New York Times<\/em>&nbsp;covered the story&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2010\/07\/14\/business\/media\/14adco.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Update<\/strong>: In June SELF completed solar installations at two more of the clinics operated by PIH\u2019s Haitian counterpart,&nbsp;Zanmi Lasante (ZL).&nbsp; And the solar industry, too, deserves tremendous credit for stepping up to help. The 5.8 kW solar-diesel hybrid system at the&nbsp;<strong>Hinche&nbsp;<\/strong>clinic was made possible by generous in-kind donations from the&nbsp;<strong>Solar Liberty Foundation<\/strong>&nbsp;and&nbsp;<strong>Sunsense Solar<\/strong>. At&nbsp;<strong>Cerca la Source<\/strong>, SELF technicians installed a 10kW system with panels donated from&nbsp;<strong>Q-Cells SE<\/strong>, and money donated by&nbsp;<strong>Good Energies Foundation<\/strong>&nbsp;helped fund the balance of materials. At the Cerca la Source clinic, one of the key goals was to improve security by using outdoor night lighting throughout the grounds. We\u2019re finding, though, that solar power brings many other benefits. Within minutes of the first lights coming on, our project director saw a small boy standing underneath them,&nbsp;reading a book. That&#8217;s the power of solar.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s a sweet irony watching long-time SELF board member&nbsp;Larry Hagman&nbsp;turn the world-renowned oil tycoon J.R. Ewing&nbsp;into a conscientious solar executive while retaining his famously wicked laugh. \u201cShine, baby, shine,\u201d&nbsp;chuckles a fiendish Hagman as he coins the new energy mantra for our time in a series of advertisements for&nbsp;SolarWorld. 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