As a power source, solar offers a wealth of gains. Environmentally, it is clean and sustainable. Once the photovoltaic panels that generate electricity from sunlight are manufactured, they create power with no accompanying emission of pollution and no production of greenhouse gases. They can be placed on already existing structures, within areas of land that have already been built on. They draw on a resource that is wholly renewable, and they do so quietly and unobtrusively. Practically, solar power is consistent and reliable. It can be generated at the locations where it will be used, and it is dependably available when demand for electricity is most substantial, providing the greatest power at mid day and in the summer months. Photovoltaic panels are steady-state devices and don't involve moving parts that can wear out with time. They can be counted on to be effective for more than twenty years with little more maintenance than periodic cleaning. Solar is a resoundingly environmental source for power, with corresponding practical potential. SunWork's purpose is to put it within the power of interested individuals to propagate solar power. Putting some solar up is generally a very expensive venture for a property owner to take on, due principally to the high cost for photovoltaic panels and reinforced by the cost of the associated equipment and the labor cost for installing them. By helping to install these systems more inexpensively, SunWork volunteers put solar within the reach of more people. Through their energy, putting up solar power is advanced from being economically imprudent for many people, and from being financially unapproachable for others even when the environmental benefits are worth a great deal to them, to being prudent and practicable. The heart of our mission is to provide this possibility -- to give environmentally concerned and conscious people who want to do something to make a difference a genuine route, with hands-on work and a clearly visible product, for condending with some of the serious environmental challenges present today. With SunWork, we strive to install solar electric systems more inexpensively, to allow more people to afford these systems, to spread solar power widely -- through the resource of the actions of individuals. SunWork pushes to change the shape of our energy landscape, and to change the pervasive feeling that the environmental problems humanity faces are too big to be within the power of individuals to meaningfully impact.