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Ameco Solar: Using Solar to Better the Environment and Economy
Patrick Redgate has seen the solar power industry grow from its nascent days of potential several decades ago to a market today that is expanding to meet increased residential and commercial demand. While working in Saudi Arabia in the late 1970s, during a time of severe gas shortages, Redgate began to think about “where I [...]
In Focus: Super Cities
A metropolis is a large densely populated urban area that has a significant economic, political and cultural function to its inhabiting country or region. A city’s population has to exceed 1 million inhabitants to even be considered a metropolis in today’s context. Another term has been coined to describe cities with super densely populated urban [...]
Solar Power: Economy Booster?
Many communities rely on fossil fuels, and importing these, for the provision of electricity, fuel and heating. These types of fuel adds up to a significant amount of money that the local economy will lose, because resources are not able to be produced locally. Solar energy can be developed locally. The money spent on fossil [...]
2013: Green Economy Inflection Point?
There are a few truths that make the fundamental case that investing in the emerging next economy is the clearest path to long term competitive portfolio performance. First, innovation – meaning improving economic output without increasing material or capital inputs – always wins. This is simply how capitalism works, money chasing the best ideas, and [...]
Denver: The First ‘Solar Friendly Community’
Thanks to Denver’s efforts to make it easier for residents to go solar, the Mile High City became the first city awarded Solar Friendly Community status, by the synonymous nonprofit. By speeding and lowering the costs for permitting of solar in Denver City and County, among other efforts, the city achieved recognition with the second-highest [...]
Report: Solar Job Growth Outpaces All Economic Sectors
The U.S. solar energy industry is outpacing the job growth in all areas of the economy, according to non-profit group the Solar Foundation. The organization reported that the solar energy field added jobs at about eight times the rate of the rest of the economy in the 12 months (September 2011 to 2012). Nearly 14,000 solar [...]
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 [...]
The Partisan Divide on Global Warming
A huge gulf exists between Americans who accept the reality of climate science and those who do not. According to an October 15, 2012, Pew Research Center poll, Democratic voters are more than twice as likely to embrace the facts on global warming than their Republican counterparts. A growing number Americans, including voters who identify [...]
Denmark Reaches 2020 Solar Goal Ahead of Schedule
Denmark’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced that the country is adapting solar technology at a much quicker rate than anticipated. This year, interest in solar technology has soared: “the solar cell capacity will be a hundred times bigger this year compared with 2010.” Every month, another 36 MW of solar capacity is added to the grid [...]