{"id":22117,"date":"2014-02-15T14:30:33","date_gmt":"2014-02-15T14:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ecowatch.com\/?p=321536"},"modified":"2014-02-15T14:30:33","modified_gmt":"2014-02-15T14:30:33","slug":"watch-activist-and-race-car-driver-leilani-munter-achieve-her-goal-of-going-solar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leedpoints.com\/green-building-blog\/watch-activist-and-race-car-driver-leilani-munter-achieve-her-goal-of-going-solar\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Activist and Race Car Driver Leilani Munter Achieve Her Goal of Going Solar"},"content":{"rendered":null,"protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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About three years ago, Leilani Munter, an Automobile Racing Club of America driver dubbed the “Carbon-Free Girl<\/a>,” set out to go solar at home and electric on the road when she wasn’t competing.<\/p>\n

The driver’s goal became a reality this week when Boulder, CO-based Main Street Power<\/a> installed panels on her home after she made it known that she wanted to charge her Tesla with 100-percent renewable energy.<\/p>\n

“Dear Oil, I’m breaking up with you,” Munter writes in a letter depicted in her “Goodbye Oil, Hello Sunshine” video posted this week to her Vimeo account<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Munter was once named The Discovery Channel’s top eco-athlete. In 2007, she became the first carbon-neutral race car driver, commiting to adopt an acre of rainforest for every race she runs to offset the carbon footprint of her race car.<\/p>\n

A year later, she became the first ambassador of the National Wildlife Federation and began advocating on behalf of renewable energy to Congress.<\/p>\n

Her next race is at 4 p.m. EST today at the Daytona International Speedway<\/a> in Florida.<\/p>\n

Visit EcoWatch’s TRANSPORTATION<\/a><\/b><\/b> page for more related news on this topic.<\/b><\/p>\n

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