Home Power Magazine's Fifth Anniversary: growing, graying, helping, and paying Growing As you may have noticed, Home Power Magazine has been growing. More pages, more articles, and more people. Growing is a natural process that is energy, ecstasy, and exasperation combined. Graying Home Power is now five years old and still growing . While growing is fun, it is also scary. Over the last five years, the amount of grey on our heads has definitely grown. We all pay a price. For Richard and I, the price was becoming too high. We needed HELP! So that's just what we did, we hired more help. BUT, and there's always a but..., more help meant more mouths to feed. In the beginning of Home Power, everyone's labor was donated. No one received a paycheck. Five years down the road, Home Power has taken over the lives of all those involved with it. Home Power must support the people who produce it. Helping We welcome Therese Peffer and Chris Greacen to the Home Power Crew. They work, with Richard, Kathleen and I, on the day-to-day business of this magazineÄwriting, editing, illustrating, processing the mail, and other chores on an endless list. Paying We have decided to raise Home Power's subscription rate from $10 to $15 per year. This increase allows Home Power to grow without Richard and I burning out or having nervous breakdowns. This increase allows us to support full time help in producing this magazine. Everyone who works here could easily be making twice the bucks, in half the time, anywhere else. More Growing So what will you be getting for your extra five bucks? More pages within which to cover more solar architecture, more domestic hot water, more solar heating, more do-it-yourself projects, and more electric vehicle articles. Starting with this issue, Home Power has a higher recycled paper content and soy-based color inks inside a 116 page magazine! All of these changes means that it cost us more to publish and distribute Home Power. We are asking you, our readers, to help out by paying more for a subscription. We feel that fifteen bucks a year is a fair price. We hope you feel we're worth it, and stay with us. Thanks for listening, Karen Perez for the whole Home Power Crew.