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We Have to Fight to Win Our Future
A few months ago I was having a routine beer with my good friend Ken, who is the director of our local sustainable business network. He had met with one of the business people that belonged to his network earlier in the day and was caught off guard by a question. “What do we do [...]
How to Become a Sustainability Officer
There are four basic requirements for those seeking to become asustainability officer: Relevant education, related work, leadershipexperience, and communication skills. Beyond a keen interest in the environment, a sustainability officer should also be adept at working in teams. The first requirement to become a sustainability officer is to complete apost-secondary education program in environmental studies [...]
SolarCity appoints David White chief financial officer
SolarCity, a national leader in solar financing, design, installation,monitoring and related services, today announced that David White hasjoined the company as chief financial officer. White willoversee SolarCity’s finance and accounting functions, and brings morethan 20 years of executive-level financial management experience to hisrole. White joins SolarCity in a time of increasing growth. Thecompany recently passed [...]
Sungevity Raises $6M
Sungevity has raised $6 million in equity and hired new executives to help it expand its business. Greener Capital led the round, said the Berkeley, Calif.-based installer of solar energy systems. Sungevity also hired Charles Ferer as chief financial officer. Fererserved the same role at SolarCity, one of California’s largestinstaller headquartered in Foster City. Daphne [...]
JA Solar announces management shake-up
Chinese solar cell manufacturer JA Solar announced a major shake-up of its management team. JA Solar Co-founder and chairman of the board Baofang Jin has been named executive chairman and will assume additional responsibilities within the senior management team. “Samuel Yang remains as chief executive officer and will work closely with Mr. Jin to ensure [...]