http://www.thegreencadet.com Exploring Green Business Opportunities Tue, 14 Jul 2009 17:38:36 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en In a great interview on Climatebiz.com Joel Makower interviews Auden Schendler author of a new book "Getting Green Done" Schendler speaks about the innumerable and often innance challenges we face getting businesses to agree to embrace eco-solutions in their behaviors. The will to change is difficult to engender and Schendler is ... http://www.thegreencadet.com/cleangreennews Tom Konrad of Alt Energy Stocks has an excellent article on why we need smart incentives to encourage the correct type of solar power developments. Better solar installations will result if we first decide what we want from solar, and then choose the solar incentives we use to match. He breaks ... http://www.thegreencadet.com/cleangreennews I ran across CA State Assembly Bill AB 212 in a climatebiz.com article on solar power developments and it really caught my attention. The perfect audacity of it. It's absolutely feasible, absolutely necessary yet so radical and/or seemingly impossible to many. How can every possible new house be energy self-sufficient, what ... http://www.thegreencadet.com/cleangreennews Image via WikipediaAnd then we got all confused an moved into the suburbs with cars that burn lots of gas and houses that are so big we can no longer afford them. Reading this older Atlantic article about the status of foreclosures in the US is rather grim and the ... http://www.thegreencadet.com/cleangreennews I recently picked up "The Solar Economy: Renewable Energy for a Sustainable Global Future" by Hermann Scheer and have been quite impressed. One of the more salient arguments he makes in the early pages is one he borrows from Marx; the exponential increase in production innovation leads to greater and ... http://www.thegreencadet.com/cleangreennews I'll begin with one of the most exciting stories I've read recently, "A New Gang Comes to Los Angeles: Solar Panel Installers." Miriam Jordan uncovers a very popular and very successful prison rehabilitation center that is providing green job training for ex-convicts. The combination of rehabilitation and green job training ... http://www.thegreencadet.com/cleangreennews