… (FES) joint-degree students shared some of the lessons they gleaned during internships this past summer. Because they’re enrolled in a three-year program, joint-degree students … (FES) joint-degree students shared some of the lessons they gleaned during internships this past summer. Because they’re enrolled in a three-year program, joint-degree students … (FES) joint-degree students shared some of the lessons they gleaned during internships this past summer. Because they’re enrolled in a three-year program, joint-degree students …
… the eyes” that if their situations had been reversed—if Warshauer had instead been born in this remote village and the boy to an upper-middle class family in the United States—so too would their fortunes have been reversed. Insight into this “cosmic roulette set me on the professional path that I’ve been on ever since,” … they help farmers to see their operations as a business with costs and investments and, this way, develop essential business skills. “Helping people with information is the first …
… This piece was originally published on Environmental Leader. The most recent California … with “Big Ag” and its apparent refusal to work in the interest of the greater good. This feeling grows when I read reports that some companies are using water in California to … has estimated that it takes 29 gallons of water to produce a single glass of wine. This figure is probably on the high side for California vintners, who tend to have larger …
… This piece was originally published on Environmental Leader. The terrorist attacks of 2001, … today. Intuitively, we understand these challenges are out there, but because they don’t fit into any of our tools they tend to be ignored — a classic recipe for generating a … to see these impacts coming; they are, after all, obeying scientific principles. But we don’t see them coming because of… 3) Complexity — The complexity of sustainability …
… customers. Those leases can be pooled and traded as liquid capital. In order to profit from this great opportunity for solar growth, investors and consumers demand standards and … concerns its stakeholders about solar . SEFA was created in part to help facilitate some of this engagement with the rating entities. Capital markets work with mature businesses that … access to cheap capital have begun to offer solar loans that compete with leases and PPAs. This means there will be more host ownership and less third-party ownership of solar …
… slate on which to envision a long-term, sustainable energy market. What would it look like? This was the challenge that Solar Electric Power Association (SEPA) posed to energy … boxes” – software packages that would optimize energy consumption at the household level by buying and selling electricity on the grid. An energy box would take care of a consumer’s … sources of electricity generation, the two authors said the “cheapest solutions don’t look so cheap” once externalities are considered. Carbon pricing, however, is just one …
… This blog was originally published on Cool Green Science , the Science Blog of The … and deliver new products and solutions. They seek to create innovative solutions by building on a base of established evidence. Bringing these disciplines together can result … just like they would ask how tall a levee or seawall needs to be to hold it back. They don’t deal in abstractions, because abstractions aren’t going to protect a community from …
… the relationship between social interaction and solar diffusion. But I wanted to see how this relationship works (or doesn’t) in person. On March 4th, I drove the hour up Interstate … on a ladder and explained how the tool he held detects obstacles, like trees or neighboring buildings, that might limit daylight exposure. Hands shot up. Barbara recognized a clean-cut … must say that I’m very happy with it. I’ve never had any major problems. What’s more, I’ve done the calculations on the equivalent tons of CO2 emissions that have been avoided as a …
… With more EVs on the road, the private market will build infrastructure. For EV supporters, this has long been a “chicken-and-egg” policy question: where should the money go first, … especially when 90 percent of charging happens at home and market participants are building chargers in states where the government hasn’t done so,” said Eitan Hochster, a researcher at the Yale Center for Business and the …
… Connecticut Green Bank gathered around a very large table in the basement of Kroon Hall. This was the final meeting of a five-year campaign. Everybody there was a partner in the … research program. Since 2010, 58 Connecticut towns have participated in five rounds of this unique community-based marketing campaign, designed to motivate solar adoption among … the local installers that participate in Solarize. This suggests that large national solar brands like SolarCity also benefitted from the education and awareness Solarize created—the …