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An Ultrarunner’s Guide to Efficiency, Renewables, and Resiliency
Ultrarunners are acutely aware of issues involving fuel and energy, of sustaining output over the long haul, of making upfront investments that pay back-end dividends. What can we learn from them?

Reality Check: Debunking the Renewables “Disinformation Campaign”
According to Fox Business reporter Shibani Joshi, renewables are successful in Germany and not in the U.S. because Germany has “got a lot more sun…

The Gender-Energy Connection
With energy poverty, a serious hindrance to economic and social development, poor women bear much of the burden of limited access to modern energy services.

How Real Estate Investment Trusts Can Change the Clean Energy Industry
REITs can often allow anyone—from real estate tycoons to retail investors—to invest in real estate and related assets. Now, this REIT financial instrument is coming to the world of clean energy.

Cleantech Investing: Shining Some Light Through the Gloom
For more than a year, media outlets have posted stories on various major venture capital (VC) firms throwing their arms up in frustration and feeling woe over their cleantech investment portfolios. But clean energy investment way up in the U.S., just not from VCs.