Teams Will Receive Direct Funding and More Than a Year of Technical Support as They Explore New Forms of Equitable Solar Adoption in Residential and Commercial-Scale Settings Solar energy is taking off in the United States. The U.S. Energy Information Agency projects that solar power will account for nearly half of all … [continued]
A grassroots solar energy revolution is bubbling up across the country among hundreds of nonprofits, with help from — shocker! — the US Dept. of Energy.
If the Energy Department goes down, it will go down swinging. The agency is facing the budget axe but it is still funding innovative solar energy projects.
A creative rooftop solar financing solution enables donors to get tax credits for funding new solar projects at non-profits and community centers.
Originally published on Solar Love. Solar power costs have come down so much in recent years that going solar is a no-brainer money-maker for millions of people. That increasingly includes low- and moderate-income people as well as rich people. Affordable solar power seems as abundant and as popular as ice cream … [continued]
In 1974, a group of San Francisco’s pragmatic idealists, the Food Conspiracy, a grass-roots organization of food-buying clubs committed to buying and distributing wholesale food among themselves, became Other Avenues Worker Cooperative. Its mission is and was “food for the people, not profit.” Other stores expanded out of this group and yet, … [continued]
Originally published on Let the Sunshine In: A Solar Power Blog. The nonprofit sector would seem to represent a natural fit for the solar revolution. Nonprofits exist primarily to do good. A community center, a food bank, a nationwide health-related charity: all these try to give a helping hand to … [continued]
Originally published on 350.org. RE-volv is pleased to announce the completion of its first solar project, made entirely possible by individuals who care about renewable energy and climate change, and seek to positively impact the environment with their dollar. 300 people from 26 states and 5 countries came together and … [continued]
In December of last year I wrote about RE-volv’s Indiegogo campaign to finance their first community-based solar energy installation. Fast-forward to March of this year, and RE-volv announced that they had finally signed their first solar lease agreement with the non-profit Shawl-Anderson Dance Center in Berkeley, California. RE-volv’s idea is … [continued]
It would be no surprise to the majority of CleanTechnica readers that I am a huge fan of crowdfunding platforms like Kickstarter and Indiegogo. They provide people and companies who have great ideas a platform on which to sell their ideas to the wider global market. Crowdfunding has been a real … [continued]
