Pittsboro, NC
Lyle Estill is a traveling salesman who accidentally became an environmentalist, stumbled into being an activist, and went on to become a “social entrepreneur.”
He has founded companies, grown enterprises as an intrapreneur, and has traveled successfully throughout the business world for several decades.
Although he has written epistles, treatises, poetry, fiction, and essays he is best known as the publisher of Energy Blog, and for his newspaper columns, and books.
He is the author of Small is Possible; Life in a Local Economy, and Biodiesel Power; the passion, people, and politics of the next renewable fuel. His third book is scheduled to launch in the spring of 2011. His other print work can be found here.
Here is his actual resume.
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This is wonderful stuff.
We are embarking on a solar double cropping project that is limited by an archaic top-down regulatory framework which cannot imagine electricity being consumed where it is produced. Our current laws are stacked against distributed generation, which among other things keeps us from easily trading amongst ourselves...
Tarus,
Nice work. I learned a lot about "community building" during my time with OpenNMS. I think a lot of it has translated well into non-software undertakings.
I hope to contribute to opensource.com as soon as I get some free writing cycles.
Keep fighting the good fight.