As a 10-year-old, John Dotson wrote to President Richard Nixon soon after the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency and the first Earth Day celebration, urging that the event be commemorated every day. For his senior high school physics project, he built his own solar water heater, which was more a labor of love than a usable device.
Now Dotson gets to build on his passion by helping plaster rooftops with solar panels and improve renewable energy technology... (continued)