ABOUT
US:
 The
founder of Blue Sky Energy Systems, Gary Cole, is a State Licensed
Electrical Contractor and began his career in the electrical field
in 1988. He is committed
to promoting the cost effective, sustainable benefits of healthy,
energy efficient green buildings and homes.
QUALIFICATIONS
State Electrical License # 16048
Electronics - 2 year certificate from Hickok Technical School
Solar Electric -  PV
(photovoltaic) advanced design and installation course from Midwest
Renewable Energy Association
PHILOSOPHY
His interest in the ‘Precautionary Principle’ as
the foundation for sustainable reasoning provides the level of commitment
that motivates him in his daily focus on advancing sustainable living
practices. The European Union and most of the global environmental
movement has adapted this principal to basically state -
IF: there is even small possibility that current
human activity could cause catastrophic harm to the ability of future
generations of humans to enjoy the same quality of live that we
share now,
AND: there is an economically sound method to begin
changing our living practices while still maintaining or even increasing
our quality of life,
THEN: we should move forward with that transition.
BACKGROUND
Enviro Beginnings – When contacted by an environmental
group advocating utility scale wind power in 1997, Gary began his
transition into a complete mind set of advocacy of sustainable living
practices. The great minds involved in Green Energy Ohio
(then SEED Ohio) were very influential in raising his awareness
of the best known science assessments of the impacts of current
human activity on the earth's finite energy resources. The focus
of this group was on the problems associated with energy production
and the solutions offered through renewable energy.
Green
Building Enters the Scene – In 2002, Gary "re-energized"
his work in standard electrical contracting with the intent of venturing
into the solar PV market as it emerged. Soon after that he discovered
the green building movement thru Sadhu Johnston
and his Cleveland Green Building Coalition. The
marketability of energy efficiency and other aspects associated
with "green building" became a very attractive avenue
for Blue Sky Energy Systems to pursue. The focus at that time shifted
to that endeavor, of which solar electric systems are just one component. |
