… 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 … 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 … loops characteristic of many sustainability challenges baffle classical economic thinking. Markets don’t deal with feedback loops very well, particularly when the agents of feedback …
… for distributed solar? To some in structured finance, it seems like a great fit: solar assets produce reliable cash flows, backed by the good credit of customers. Those leases can … 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 capital markets will say ‘Yes’,” said SEFA president Mary Rottman. What is SEFA? SEFA grew out of …
… Originally posted on the Clean Energy Finance 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 … electricity is priced, noting that the traditional “cost-plus” regulatory model for rate-setting was quickly becoming obsolete in the face of increasing competition from distributed …
… This blog was originally published on Cool Green Science , the Science Blog of The Nature Conservancy . Mention engineering to a … 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 …
… to motivate rooftop solar installation. Specifically, the program relies on a small set of volunteers 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 …
… A new in-depth report on the electrical vehicle (EV) market suggests that states interested in boosting EV adoption rates should support the … 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 forGreen Capital , who helped develop the report. “But if policymakers can get this right, the …
… th , students, professors from Duke and Yale Universities, and executives from non-profit marketing firm SmartPower and the Connecticut Green Bank gathered around a very large table in the basement of Kroon Hall. This was the … 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 …
… technologies and business models necessary to ramp up growth in the electric vehicle (EV) market in the United States. It 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 … resulting limited usage of public chargers. Building up higher station usage is necessary for EV infrastructure to become more financially viable and therefore become widespread. …
… have experienced over the past five years. It signals the growing interest in channeling assets under management into investments that advance important social and environmental … of 2014, approximately $6.57 trillion US-domiciled assets were under management with some form of SRI strategy, up from approximately $3 trillion in 2010. This represents more than … 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 …
… 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 … had to make sure that each and every product was reliable from day one. And, their marketing and communications strategies have followed suit. They write ads as if they are … in which the EPI team is able to compile its reports. Relying on publicly available datasets means that the EPI has to trust how countries report on their actions, but it also …