July brings summer into full swing, with beach days, cookouts and ball games abound. We reserve the 4th to celebrate our independence as a nation, but it is far from the only form of independence we can rally around.
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The city of Somerville is home to a myriad of descendants of early settler and immigrant families spanning the globe from Haiti and Brazil to the Mediterranean.
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Climate change is here, happening all around us, in little ways and big ways. We can’t stop it, although I and many others believe that we can slow it down and shift our economy, our built environment and our people to be more resilient and responsive to the impacts of climate change.
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At the US SIF conference in DC earlier this month, I picked up a copy of The Resilient Investor, by Hal Brill, Michael Kramer and Christopher Peck. The book revolves around two central concepts – resiliency and a broader view of what it means to “invest.”
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Whenever discussing the advantages of solar energy, resiliency must be a part of the conversation. With climate change causing an increase in both the frequency and intensity of devastating weather events around the world, decentralized solar appears to be an absolute necessity.
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When you visit Greentown Labs, you are immediately struck by the talented community of entrepreneurs developing advanced clean technologies in the global fight against climate change.
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I recently attended the Yale Impact Investing conference. The roster of conference speakers read like a “Who’s Who’s” of Impact Investing, including long-time leaders and field builders like Debra Schwartz of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation…
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The U.S. potential for commercial solar is over 375,000 MW on rooftops alone. This represents a $500 billion investment opportunity with the potential to generate 15% of the nation’s electricity – and much more when you include parking lots and underutilized land adjacent to buildings.
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