SEIA Road Trip Shows How Solar is Helping America
The Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), an industry trade group, is taking a new approach to educate the American public about the benefits of solar energy. Yesterday, the organization...
View ArticleImproving Lives with Solar
It was a sweltering 110 degrees on the roof, but that didn’t deter the Applied Materials employees who volunteered to install solar panels on two homes in a modest San Jose neighborhood recently....
View ArticleCould Solar Have Helped NYC After Hurricane Sandy?
With millions still left without electricity a week after Hurricane Sandy hit the Northeastern United States, many are left wondering how this aftermath could have been alleviated in some way. Solar is...
View ArticleThe Solar Sandy Project
We’ve already seen how sharing can improve our lives, and how we can save or make money from sharing. That plus the significant social and environmental benefits are combining to make sharing a new way...
View ArticleIn Focus: Philanthropic Crowdfunding
The earliest known citation of crowdfunding was made in 2006 and since then it has exploded onto the startup scene as the best way for fledgling ideas, products, creative projects, and causes to attain...
View ArticleHow Solar is Helping Africa’s Rural Community
A shining example of solar’s ability to cultivate change begins with a look at its immense influence on impoverished peoples — such as those found in rural Africa. A 2009 United Nations report claims...
View ArticleHonoring Technology Helping to Solve Critical Problems
The idea of using technology to benefit humanity brings to mindawe-inspiring, life-changing innovations of significant scale andimpact, such as medical breakthroughs, advances in communications andhigh...
View ArticleIn Focus: Crowdfunding Solar in Detroit
As the costs of solar technologies decrease, the opportunities for innovative solutions to community problems are increasing. Economic hardships have hit America’s communities hard and, in many...
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