A Visit to Pasadena, CA With Diane Tegarden
Diane and I met online several weeks before we tried a Skype video session, which was a “first” for both of us. This was the next best thing for a “Traveling” interview. I enjoyed seeing the person I was talking to “first hand” and getting to know her a little more. Diane is an accomplished book author with her own publishing company, “FireWalkerPublications”. I’ll tell how she came by her company name in a bit but first I want to tell you about Diane’s involvement with alternative energy.
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Diane and her husband, Wade Webb, started a solar energy business in 1995. Their business was born as the result of an earthquake, with it’s epicenter located in Northridge, CA, about 30 miles from Pasadena. The earthquake was the cause of many residents losing electrical power. Using solar energy produced on site could have solved many problems associated with electrical energy. At the time of the earthquake Diane and Wade owned an alarm company and several of the alarm owners were without power. Solar power would definitely fill the needs of many in an environmentally friendly way. They operated their solar business through 2004. Diane told me about solar panels they have on their own roof(I’m waiting for her to take and send me some pics. It was raining the day I asked for them and Diane wanted to wait till the sun was out.) She told me her utility bill for the past two months was only $80, that they have and use a tankless hot water heater, she also hosts her own alternative/renewable energy radio/podcast talk show. It’s on the 2nd, 3rd and 4th Tuesday of each month. Go to her website at :http://www.firewalkerpublications.com to find out how to listen, a list of guest interviews, the number to call and times and info about her writing publications.
I asked her how she came up with the name “FireWalkerPublications” and she described what event prompted her. Diane and Wade attended an event with Tony Robbins. Immediately following an intense mental preparation, they walked across a bed of glowing hot coals, thus the name “Fire Walker”. Diane told me the “firewalk” gave her a confidence that will be with her all her life. She has an amazing energy and we conversed on “ocean energy recovery”, “wave energy conversion”, “OWC(oscillating water collumn), “desalination” and a variety of other sustainable energy topics. Diane is much more than an author, publisher, talk show host, environmental activist, poet, internet network leader on Ryze and a wife to Wade, she is a dreamer with her feet planted(moving forward) firmly on the ground. I will look forward to listening and contributing(hopefully) to Diane’s radio podcast, that has an alternative energy theme, my passion. I am just beginning to read her book “Anti Vigilante and the Rip In Time”, about a preventable version of the future(using alternative energy sources).
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Do you know the size of their system and how many hours of sun they get? Do they use silcone crystal panels? I’ve heard of Ms.Tegarden, she’s respected in several circles. Bei