A couple of years ago, when my husband and I decided to build a house for ourselves, we looked into a lot of different options to make our home be earth friendly and as green as we possibly could. We felt that this was our duty as parents and we got a lot of knowledge through the research that we did.

One thing that kept coming back to us was the solar system benefits. We had decided, before reading any of the literature, that we wanted our house to run completely on solar power, but we had no idea as to the vast benefits that doing this would cause.

It was kind of a win-win situation. We would not only save a lot of money by never having to pay a power bill, but we could also make money by sending power back into the grid. This was one thing that I did not know before that. By far though, the best benefit would be knowing that we had made the right choice for the world and that we were saving it, one little it at a time.