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Spencer Brown is a green icon.
America is doing a good job implemeting green intiatives, we just need to recognize we’re on the right track. Hope & change is what we all want to believe in, we need to start seeing the greener grass.
Twitter started on a piece of paper. Digital companies started in the analog way.
Writing a killer pitch can earn you $100k! It also includes having a great idea but everyone has at least one of those…
Taking a look at the players in solar. The price of solar systems has come down as new technology emerges.
The article states that “makers of both traditional crystalline silicon and thin-film solar panels have huge surpluses of inventory.” This may mean its even more attractive to invest in solar today.
Opportunity is knocking!
Now is the time to invest for the future. Although we are poorly programmed to visualize the value of future benefits, we need to do the math. If we invest in things now–ourselves, infrastructure and the stock market–we can end up miles ahead of the game in the future. For the energy entreprenuer, the question is not whether to spend or save, its how to help your customers realize that by spending they are saving. How can you positively reinforce the benefits of a solar system or solar water heater over time? Text highlights: …Psychology-tinged economics — that is, behavioral economics — has taken off over the last two decades, and one of its central findings is that most people do not do a good job of planning for the future. They aren’t nearly as nice to their “future self,” as economists say, as to their “present self.”.. …They could spend a little now and save a lot later… …McKinsey & Company recently analyzed household spending on energy, for example, and found enormous waste. People heat their homes when they are not there and, thanks to leaks in their walls and heating ducts, also heat the airspace above their roof… …A programmable thermostat, which adjusts the temperature when people are out of the house or asleep, can cost as little as $50. For less than $1,000, people can buy the thermostat, as well as hire a contractor to fix leaks and replace their light bulbs with more efficient ones. In either case, the spending often pays for itself in just a year or two. “There is a difference between consuming and investing,” says Ken Ostrowski of McKinsey. “And energy efficiency falls more into the category of investing.”…
The time has come.