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Rooftop Solar

A VC: Musings of a VC in NYC

When you do that in combination with electrification of your heating and cooling (using electric heat pumps vs gas or oil), you can save money and live a more sustainable life. Here is a chart from our SunPower dashboard that I looked at this morning: You can see that we generate about 2/3 of our energy consumption with solar.

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Helion raises $2.2B to commercialize fusion energy

TechCrunch

Helion Energy , a clean energy company committed to creating a new era of plentiful, zero-carbon electricity from fusion, today announced the close of its $0.5 Animation courtesy of Helion Energy. “Some projects in the fusion space talk about heat, or energy, or other things. Image Credits: Helion Energy.

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Future First: Finding Opportunity in Global Challenges

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Alice Mann’s latest book, Future First: How Successful Leaders Turn Innovation Challenges into New Value Frontiers is an important read for any business leader or entrepreneur who wishes to embrace global challenges as innovation opportunities. Why do you believe they are opportunities for leaders and companies?

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Innovation Through Crisis

Entrepreneurs' Organization

Written by Ruchir Punjabi , the co-founder and chief digital officer of Distributed Energy , a company that matches investors with renewable energy projects across Africa, Middle East and India, and the founder of Langoor, which was sold to Havas Group in 2019. For example, my energy business matches investors with renewable projects.

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Moonshots, Momentum, and Legislative Tailwinds Beyond Silicon Valley

Revolution

The soundbite: “The way to go fishing is by going where the fish are — we need to open source where federal funding is headed and how to get a piece of the clean energy and infrastructure pie.” There’s a cottage industry of folks figuring out how to stack tax credits from the inflation Reduction Act to accelerate sustainable initiatives.

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The Changing Venture Landscape

Both Sides of the Table

We have global opportunities from these trends but of course also big challenges. We have to have strong conviction in the quality of the team and the opportunity and commit more quickly. even before the pandemic itself has been fully tamed. So in our earliest stages we’re about 70% seed and 30% pre-seed.

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Remodeling English language education in Costa Rica

Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative

Hoping to develop more opportunities for people in his Costa Rican community to become more knowledgeable and compassionate, Alex originated unique lesson plans teaching English through a variety of topical issues and global concepts. Building sustainable societies. I wanted to establish one-on-one time to get to know them.”.

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