Here's an idea from the office of "The Governator":http://www.grist.org/news/muck/2005/06/23/little-solar/index.html that could make the Golden State truly golden: At Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger's behest, the California Public Utilities Commission is currently considering a "$3 billion program to install solar":http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2005/12/12/EDG5TG18A51.DTL on a million commercial and residential rooftops in California in the next decade. It would be the biggest solar-energy incentive program in the country, and the second biggest in the world after Germany.

Advocates say it would create a long-term financial incnetive that would go a long way to grow the solar industry. First proposed in August 2004, he Million Solar Roofs iniative, "came close to passing last summer":http://www.grist.org/news/muck/2005/06/23/little-solar/index.html but was stymied by a battle between labor unions seeking guaranteed pay levels and State Republicans. Now Schwarzenegger is trying implement the ambitious program directly through the state utility. Based on the positive response so far, the outlook is sunny. If you want to help spur this program on, visit "Votesolar.com,":http://www.votesolar.com/ and tell the Public Utilities commissioners that "now is the time to be bold, think big, and act decisively to bring solar power into the mainstream." Photo credit: "NREL":http://www.nrel.gov/