… A quick scan of sustainability events over this period reveals a series of news stories, beginning with Silent Spring, that have become household names — the crash of the … impacts. Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring had enormous positive impact by raising awareness of the environmental challenges that we face as a society. The Bhopal tragedy … below-living wage salaries, human rights infringements, consumption of constrained resources) all represent costs to society that are not factored into the price of an operation …
… to becoming a major game-changer in the path to unleashing distributed solar finance. “Our mission is to bring the solar industry up to a level where capitalmarkets will say ‘Yes’,” said SEFA president Mary Rottman. What is SEFA? SEFA grew out of … SunRun and Clean Power Finance. Rottman came to the solar industry in 2007 from a career in structured finance. She is owner and principal of Rottman-Associates, a financial …
… Forum Imagine you could design the electricity market in one state from scratch. There are no pre-existing programs to satisfy and no political baggage to consider. Your only guideline is to allow the continued growth of solar power and distributed … How Can Carbon Costs Play a Role? “Price, value and cost are not the same things in utility markets,” said Rábago, partly in reference to this disconnect between static rates and …
… strait-jacket rivers. Hardened coastlines. Even when these projects help communities, there are often consequences for natural systems. The dams interrupt fish runs. Seawalls hold back sediment that starve beaches of sand. This, of course, has not gone unnoticed by the conservation community. But perhaps these thoughts are … projects, after all. And engineers have often developed solutions that have improved resource management. Think fish ladders. Now, many engineers are going beyond that. They do …
… known as solar ambassadors to drive the campaign. Through workshops, tabling at farmers’ markets, open houses and other events, the solar ambassadors reach out to friends, family, … to see how this relationship works (or doesn’t) in person. On March 4th, I drove the hour up Interstate 91 from New Haven to Avon and slipped into the back row of the library to … Barbara recognized a clean-cut gentleman in the middle of the audience named Joel. “There are a lot of trees here in Avon, and sometimes those trees fall and cut the power. What …
… EV adoption, 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 … charging stations and the number of EVs in that area. State tax credits for EVs, along with secondary benefits like access to high-occupancy vehicle lanes, could go a long way toward … rather than direct subsidies. “True scale is only possible with wise policies to encourage network development,” according to Jeffrey Schub, executive director of the Coalition …
… and knowledgeable about solar. Solar Ambassadors and trusted town officials then advocated for the program and the installer through word of mouth, local publications, signs around … events including solar workshops, live-installations for the public and community tours of homes that already had solar. As more people signed up, the price fell further. A … installers, they got quotes for different-sized systems with terms that were hard to compare. This created confusion and may have discouraged people from moving forward. The web …
… also explores the relationship between charging stations and consumer purchases of EVs. EVs are becoming an increasingly large part of our clean energy economy and are a vital element of sustainable transportation. Because of … electric vehicle markets …
… A lot can happen in five years, especially when it comes to growth in sustainable investing. This year’s US SIF conference , held in Chicago from May 5-6, brought … to discuss current and future trends in sustainable, responsible and impact investing. “We are delighted with the tremendous growth in attendance we have experienced over the past … conversations to mature in coming decades. With all the communication tools available at our fingertips, it is sometimes important to sit in a room with peers and remind ourselves …
… There's the kind of trust that we're aware of. The kind of trust that makes us ask, "do I trust this Craigslist ad?" And then there's the kind of invisible trust that we don't even recognize. Our trust that the lights will turn on when we flip a switch, or that water will flow from a … and Unilever (addressing its operations at every level of its supply chain through its Sustainable Living Plan), Cone gave the audience a tour of the advantages of companies …