Raising conscious kids can be a fun and exciting adventure. Teachable moments for your intelligent, curious little ones are available each and every day. Take, for example, the sun: an incredible resource that provides light and heat and makes life …
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From Guest Blogger Chris Long: Three Fun Activities to Teach Your Children the Value of Solar Energy
From Guest Blogger Mary: Top Reasons to Invest in Solar Energy
Solar energy continues to gain traction as a mainstream idea for both homeowners and businesses alike. The rush to move to sustainable and green energy has begun to become entrenched deeper in America; who happens to be far behind the …
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New Business Model for Renewable Energy — A Reminder that the Real Market for Cleantech Solutions Lies in the Developing World
Here’s an article on a brilliant new business model for renewable energy, being implanted in the Philippines: install PV on people’s roofs, and let them pay you via the cell phone infrastructure for their use. It’s illustrative of a key …
The History of Solar Energy
Unfortunately, I won’t be able to make this lecture on a local professor’s new book: Let It Shine: The 6000-Year Story of Solar Energy. But I feel like I learned a lot just reading the abstract, e.g., the work the …
From Guest Blogger Tom Grant: Residential Solar Power: Answers to Your Common Questions
Although the news may be filled with headlines about solar energy, solar incentives, and the benefits of going solar, many homeowners still have lots of questions about solar power, how it works, and the cost of its installation. Solar is …
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From Guest Blogger Paula Sheamus: Different Types of Solar Installations
Some readers might be shocked by the fact that there are different types of solar installations. I know, because I could hardly believe it myself when I first found out but it turned out to be true. Not only that, …
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Times Are Changing Quickly in the Power Utility Space
One of our interns who spent the summer working on our companion site SustainabilityRoleModels.com wrote a good article on Southern California Edison’s numerous sustainability initiatives, and arranged for me to speak with one of SCE’s spokespeople, Evan Birenbaum. Late yesterday, …
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A Note on Clean Energy from a Reader in Zambia
A note from a reader in Zambia: Electricity should be safe, clean and affordable to all. Over 6 million people in rural Zambia rely on fuels such as kerosene and firewood for lighting and cooking.
Valuable Resource: The Geostellar Solar Index
I’d never come across the Geostellar Solar Index until a reader sent it to me just now. He writes: “Craig, Did you see this in your internet meanderings? I think it’s disturbing that in most states it’s more cost effective to …
Energy Storage, The Power Grid, and Solar Energy
Regarding the suggestion for a huge international effort to develop solar energy, Deon Deetlefs writes on the 2GreenEnergy Facebook page: Always good to see, but when are we going to place more emphasis on the storage of power rather than the …
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