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Benjamin Healey, Research Affiliate, Yale Center for Business and the Environment
The collapse this past August of Solyndra, a California solar panel manufacturer backed with $500 million in federal loan guarantees, has sparked loud and ongoing complaints over renewable energy subsidies. “It is not the role of government to pick winners and losers,” said House Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman, Fred Upton, in a September statement. “Let’s learn the lessons of Solyndra before another dollar goes out the door.”
But these complaints, and the related calls for free market ascendance, ignore the basic historical fact that energy subsidies have been both a constant in the American narrative and essential to our country's economic development.
By Yoni Cohen - Follow Yoni on twitter @Cohen_Yoni
There goes the neighborhood. A new study by NYU and Yale professors suggests that rooftop solar is contagious. You are more likely to install solar panels on your roof if your neighbors have gone solar.
In “Peer Effects in the Diffusion of Solar Photovoltaic Panels,” Bryan Bollinger of the NYU Stern School of Business and Kenneth Gillingham of the Yale School of Forestry & Environmental Studies analyzed residential solar installations in California from January 2001 to August 2011.
The Sabin Prize is now open to all students and faculty with innovative ideas on entrepreneurship and sustainability. The Sabin Prize supports student and faculty efforts to start a sustainable for-profit business through cash prizes totaling $25,000.
The Green to Gold Playbook
How to Implement Sustainability Practices for Bottom-Line Results in Every Business Function
By Daniel Esty and P.J. Simmons
Bestseller Follow-up Helps Executives Put Sustainability to Work for their Bottom Line
Business leaders can rejoice at the arrival of the first comprehensive, practical guide created to help every type of executive and manager get business value from going greener.
Got an unusual idea? Think it might save the university money? And help to shrink our environmental footprint?
Yale students, staff, and faculty are invited to apply for short-term loans from the Yale Sustainability Microloan Fund. Aimed at engaging all members of the Yale community in helping to enhance the culture of sustainability at Yale, this program will both foster positive change and help call attention to the connections between financial and environmental prosperity.
