Tag Archives: california
Everybody Solar: Solar Crowdfunding in California
Youness Scally founded Everybody Solar in 2011. Its mission is to help nonprofits go solar, thereby benefitting not only the environment but also the nonprofit’s budget. By reducing its power bills, a nonprofit can focus resources on its programs instead of on operating costs. And that helps the community the nonprofit serves. Everybody Solar focuses [...]
California SB-43 Re-introduced as Legislation
Please take the time to help us to help SB-43 pass. It has the potential to revolutionize the way that solar is sold today, and open up the market to renters, people with wonky roofs, shaded homes, etc. Summary (from Senator Lois Wolk): “As proposed to be amended, SB 43 will establish a program that allows [...]
RE-volv: Crowdfunding Community Solar Installations
Andreas Karelas founded RE-volv in 2011. He started the organization, he says, “out of a sense of frustration felt by many of us working for clean energy. The change isn’t happening fast enough and if it’s going to happen now, we’ll have to do it ourselves. There’s a huge opportunity here to mobilize people who [...]
Solar Savings Used to Fund Teachers Salaries in California
California is one of the top solar states in the United States, and it is now using solar to do more than reduce carbon dioxide emissions and generate electricity. The California school system, which has struggled with constant budget reductions in recent years, has found that solar installations can free up money to keep teachers [...]
California: The Cap-and-Trade Leader
On Wednesday November 14, California held its first auction to sell carbon credits. For six years that state has been working on its cap-and-trade system, more than six years in the making. Finally California has imposed a limit on the amount of carbon emissions and this limit will be reduced over time so that by [...]
Cap And Trade: U.S Bound by 2016?
Think the U.S. could use tens of billions of dollars of brand new revenue to address its budget and debt challenges? And do you think newly re-elected President Obama might take a run at a bonafide climate strategy as part of his legacy by 2016? The answer to the first question is easy. But answering [...]
Schwag, Brah: California Medical Weed Farms Hurting The Environment
In California’s Emerald Triangle, the nation’s largest area for growing medical marijuana, federal anti-drug laws are keeping the state from regulating the growing industry. A California state law passed in 1996 that decriminalized the use of medical marijuana has led to an influx of dispensaries and pot farms to service them. The marijuana industry is [...]
California: Vote Yes on Prop 39
Amidst the multitude of measures on next Tuesday’s ballot, Proposition 39 has garnered little media attention. For proponents of renewable energy, however, it might be the second most important vote you can cast on Election Day. Here’s our take. Prop 39 seeks to close a loophole in existing state tax law that allows multistate corporations [...]
LADWP Updates FiT Status
The Los Angeles Department of Water & Power (LADWP) has released an update on the status of its efforts to develop a Feed-in Tariff program (FiT) which provides some clarity while leaving many questions unanswered. Here is our take on what has been revealed so far. As we have reported before, LADWP has taken a [...]