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Look, Ma! No Fossil Fuels: Ricardo Brown at TEDxFloyd

269 views · Published 3 June 2013 · 10:37 · Indexed 20 September 2026

Channel: TEDx Talks · 2013 · Nonprofits & Activism

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Ricardo Brown's passions run the gamut from cycling to organic gardening to climbing trees to playing his Spanish-built guitar. A former designer of electronic circuits/systems, he now focuses his attention on renewable energy as the owner of SolShine Energy Alternatives where he designs and builds portable photovoltaic generators and installs small-scale solar electric systems for home and business. He and his wife, Christy Pugh, live in a 300 sq. foot PV-powered home that they designed and built. One of the many reasons Rick and Christy moved to Floyd was to pursue living a radically simplified, rural life by developing a small-footprint homestead. Rick's larger goal is to promote, as author/educator Jim Merkel states, "Small footprints on a finite Earth." 

Anne Armistead, Scott Smith, and Stu Maxey--video; Stu Maxey--video editing; Ed Cohn--audio.

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