Category Archives: Scaling Green
Scaling Green is the online forum for the people who are working to scale the emerging clean economy – renewables, recycling, green building, smart transit,sustainable agriculture… You name it, we’re here to help scale it, toknock over the barriers to a green economy that will leave America stronger, healthier, better employed, and more secure.Scaling Green is an ongoing project produced by Tigercomm, a cleantech public relations firm specializing in helping renewable energy companies scale their businesses. But we’re out to make this forum bigger than the firm. Much bigger. We invite you to be a part of the Scaling Green community. Help us build this forum by giving us your comments, as well as suggestions on features, areas of focus, and improvements.You can contact us anytime at erin@scalinggreen.com
REPORT: “Compelling Reasons” to Develop Concentrated Solar Power (CSP)
A while back, we interviewed Belen Gallego, Founder & Director at CSP Today and PV Insider, on the future of Concentrated Solar Power (CSP). Now, researchers at CSP Today have completed a guide to CSP’s current role and future potential in the US energy mix. According to lead researcher Jack Ahearne, “there are a number of compelling [...]
RECAP: Solar Market Insight 2012 “Google Hangout”
The Solar Energy Industry Association (SEIA)’s and GTM Research’s “Google Hangout” on their new Solar Market Insight 2012 report just ended, and it was highly informative. If you missed it, here’s a quick recap. According to SEIA, “2012 was a historic and busy year for the U.S. solar energy industry,” in which PV installations “grew [...]
Fox News Misreports Clean Energy (again)
It’s getting to be a tired old story, but Fox News yet again has misreported and distorted the facts about clean energy. Fox News claimed that the future of solar power in the U.S. is “dim” because we have less sunlight than countries like Germany, the current world leader in solar generation. But Fox completely [...]
How Solar Can Transform the Real Estate Industry
Progress in solar financing is at the heart of the solar industry’s growth. Since the initial passage of the solar investment tax credit (ITC) back in 2005, and its extensions since then, financing has been the greatest boon and greatest hurdle of the industry. On the one hand, you have companies like Sungevity and Solar [...]
Crowdfunding Solar: Why It’s So Important
Crowdfunding is populism’s answer to the bank, and it’s being applied to solar. This once novel concept – a collective effort of individuals who network and pool their money, usually via the Internet, to support efforts initiated by other people or organizations – has evolved into a force and molded itself into an exciting company [...]
How Green Can We Get?
Recently, I’ve been watching Saul Griffith’s “Climate Change Recalculated,” a brilliant talk book about the connection between our individual carbon footprint (he presents his own in precisely measured details) and what it will actually take to power the future with clean energy. I’m coupling that with a read of Amory Lovins’ “Reinventing Fire,” which looks [...]
The Growth of Renewable Energy in the Mainstream Media
The beginning and end of the year are the best times to work in media because it forces us to look back and summarize what happened. It’s less about chasing stories and more about shaping an honest narrative that readers can identify with and understand. Over the past month, every publication devoted to clean energy [...]
Polls: Voters in Key “Swing States” Strongly Support Clean Energy
A new series of polls (this time by bipartisan firm Public Opinion Strategies of key “swing states”) tells us once again something we already knew, but that can’t be repeated too often: clean energy is highly popular with the American people, and they want lots more of it! New swing state polls released by the [...]
The Clean Economy: Good Politics and Policies
There are a lot of venues where clean economy players network and do business. Michael Liebreich’s excellent Bloomberg New Energy Finance summit and Pennwell’s Solar Power-Gen come immediately to mind. But there’s nothing for cleantech like the National Rifle Association (NRA) or NAACP conventions – a place where political candidates and office holders talk to [...]