John Parry

Owner, FSL (Fearless Solar Leader) and CEO, has been working for much of his life on behalf of a sustainable world. A graduate of the University of California, Irvine, with a B.S. in Physics, John built Solar Works from a one-person solar hot water business to the vibrant community-based company it is today. For nearly 40 years, John has honed his expertise with individual, community, business and institutional energy systems, and is a passionate advocate for local, healthy, self-reliant communities. He is active in CalSEIA, the statewide California Solar Energy Industry Association, and has served on the board of directors and founded a local North Bay CalSEIA chapter. John was appointed to the inaugural Sonoma Clean Power Ratepayers Advisory Committee, and is on the PV Certificate Program Advisory Committee at Santa Rosa Junior College. John has been a consultant to the California State Contractors License Board solar exam review committee, college faculty member, guest lecturer and community educator in renewable energy, site director of an appropriate technology research, demonstration and education center, and operator of a university steam plant. He is a long-time proponent of non-fossil fueled energy generation, a passion he has had since high school. John is also a peace, justice and climate activist and concerned scientist, bird-watcher, wildlife observer and habitat protector, star-and-cosmos-gazer, weather-tracker, wilderness explorer, home improvement maestro, crossword puzzle solver, music aficionado, rare vinyl collector, electric bass player and KOWS.FM radio host. A traveler to un-touristed and out-of-the-way places, John is most happy being home in the coastal hills of idyllic west Sonoma County where he lives in a passive solar home with his wife-and-partner-in-paradise.