How Crowdfunding Solar Power is Democratizing the Way we Finance Clean Energy
Thursday, March 13, 2014
Ten years ago, Billy Parish visited the shrinking Gaumukh Glacier, a source for the Ganges River that provides 450 million people in Asia with water. Someone told him during the tour that a few years before, he would have been standing on a significantly larger glacier, but by 2030, the entire formation would be gone.
After the trip, Parish was about to start his junior year at Yale. Instead, he dropped out and founded the Energy Action Coalition. By the age of 21, he was running the largest youth organization working on clean energy solutions in the world. Rolling Stone named him a “Climate Hero.”
A few years ago, Parish and his now-co-founder Dan Rosen envisioned a “Kickstarter for solar” when they realized it is estimated to cost trillions of dollars to power the infrastructure of the world with 100 percent renewable energy.
Source: Tech Republic (link opens in a new window)
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