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Impact investment for all of us
Everyday people acting in collaboration and solidarity to lend their support to courageous impact enterprises worldwide, helping to unlock their positive potential and benefit communities.
Chose installers that support local economy impact through the hiring of county residents
There are three main barriers that keep people from adopting solar: cost, red-tape, and customer inaction. The most important truth remains--Solar panels are a smart energy solution of the future that reduces the risks we face from increasing power prices and cuts our reliance on fossil fuels – over 35% of Blaine County’s electricity mix comes from out of state coal fired power plants. The limited-time nonprofit initiative reduced the three barriers listed above. RePower cut costs by relieving customer acquisition costs for installers. Red-tape and momentum barriers were addressed by vetting installers for the customer; setting up educational workshops to explain the technologies, incentives, and financing options; and creating limited-time campaigns to get people to act fast.
Free Solar Site Assessment and an Accompanying Reach-Out from Local Installers
There are three main barriers that keep people from adopting solar: cost, red-tape, and customer inaction. The most important truth remains--Solar panels are a smart energy solution of the future that reduces the risks we face from increasing power prices and cuts our reliance on fossil fuels – over 35% of Blaine County’s electricity mix comes from out of state coal fired power plants. The limited-time nonprofit initiative reduced the three barriers listed above. RePower cut costs by relieving customer acquisition costs for installers. Red-tape and momentum barriers were addressed by vetting installers for the customer; setting up educational workshops to explain the technologies, incentives, and financing options; and creating limited-time campaigns to get people to act fast.
Installers provide an all-inclusive $/w purchase price, decreasing by defined tier levels as capacity increases
There are three main barriers that keep people from adopting solar: cost, red-tape, and customer inaction. The most important truth remains--Solar panels are a smart energy solution of the future that reduces the risks we face from increasing power prices and cuts our reliance on fossil fuels – over 35% of Blaine County’s electricity mix comes from out of state coal fired power plants. The limited-time nonprofit initiative reduced the three barriers listed above. RePower cut costs by relieving customer acquisition costs for installers. Red-tape and momentum barriers were addressed by vetting installers for the customer; setting up educational workshops to explain the technologies, incentives, and financing options; and creating limited-time campaigns to get people to act fast.
Electric Vehicle Group Purchase Program
There is hesitancy for both individuals and businesses to make the switch to electric vehicles due to lack of EV education and not enough financial incentive. It was important to start an electric vehicle initiative in the area, especially as Idaho’s transportation sector has the largest sources of carbon dioxide emissions in the state. Electric vehicles (EVs) directly reduce these emissions – especially when paired with renewables energy sources like solar.
Electric Vehicle Community Outreach and Education
There is hesitancy for both individuals and businesses to make the switch to electric vehicles due to lack of EV education and not enough financial incentive. It was important to start an electric vehicle initiative in the area, especially as Idaho’s transportation sector has the largest sources of carbon dioxide emissions in the state. Electric vehicles (EVs) directly reduce these emissions – especially when paired with renewables energy sources like solar.
Actionable Impact Management Guidebooks
Assessing the risk and impact of you investments, grants and social business is complex and time consuming. Often feedback from capital deployment to outcome created, and learnings are not properly aligned. Having an outcome lifecycle platform from defining the impact strategy, metrics selection, result data collection, analysis, insight, and reporting can bring necessary accountability that impact space demands.
Solar Ambassador Toolkits
RE-volv, founded in 2011 is a nonprofit that empowers people to support clean energy and combat climate change via crowdfunding campaigns that enable community-serving nonprofit organizations to go solar, reduce their carbon footprints, and save on their electricity bills. There are roughly 1.5 million nonprofits and 30,000 cooperatives in the United States that face major barriers to getting their solar projects financed. These organizations have a difficult time finding financing because of their inability to take advantage of solar tax credits, the difficulty establishing their credit worthiness, and their small solar energy system size (10kW-30kW. For reference, 5kW powers a medium-sized home). RE-volv seeks to serve this niche yet incredibly influential market. RE-volv offers a zero down, 20 year solar lease option that offers up to 15% or more in electric cost savings. At the same time, RE-volv earns between 6-12% Internal Rate of Return on each project.
Crowdfunding platform for Non-Profits going Solar
RE-volv, founded in 2011 is a nonprofit that empowers people to support clean energy and combat climate change via crowdfunding campaigns that enable community-serving nonprofit organizations to go solar, reduce their carbon footprints, and save on their electricity bills. There are roughly 1.5 million nonprofits and 30,000 cooperatives in the United States that face major barriers to getting their solar projects financed. These organizations have a difficult time finding financing because of their inability to take advantage of solar tax credits, the difficulty establishing their credit worthiness, and their small solar energy system size (10kW-30kW. For reference, 5kW powers a medium-sized home). RE-volv seeks to serve this niche yet incredibly influential market. RE-volv offers a zero down, 20 year solar lease option that offers up to 15% or more in electric cost savings. At the same time, RE-volv earns between 6-12% Internal Rate of Return on each project.
resilience.io
By 2030 5 billion people will need housing, infrastructure, services, food, healthcare, education, decent jobs and natural resources, with growing threats to society from climate change, water/food insecurity and ecological destruction. There is consensus among UN agencies and national governments to tackle these challenges and sufficient investment capital is available but not released due to lack of city region capacity and investment mechanisms. Computing and communications technology, geospatial data volumes and modelling skills have now improved significantly to enable integrated planning & investment decision making at the city community level to release this capital into the right projects. Our 2030 Roadmap action plan shows how $100 million core funding can create open-source software tools and facilitate release of $3.5 trillion/year of risk informed capital into city regions to enable 5 billion people by 2030 to live safe, healthy, productive, prosperous, fulfilling lives.
Community Engagement
Springfield is experiencing severe economic distress as well as the damage and vulnerability that came about as a result of five disasters that were disproportionately experienced by the Connecticut River Valley watershed. Economic distress is concentrated in neighborhoods next to the downtown area and closest to the Connecticut River, where residents are predominantly people of color and experience a 41% poverty rate.
Business and Job Opportunities
Springfield is experiencing severe economic distress as well as the damage and vulnerability that came about as a result of five disasters that were disproportionately experienced by the Connecticut River Valley watershed. Economic distress is concentrated in neighborhoods next to the downtown area and closest to the Connecticut River, where residents are predominantly people of color and experience a 41% poverty rate.
Safe & Healthy Rental Homes
Springfield is experiencing severe economic distress as well as the damage and vulnerability that came about as a result of five disasters that were disproportionately experienced by the Connecticut River Valley watershed. Economic distress is concentrated in neighborhoods next to the downtown area and closest to the Connecticut River, where residents are predominantly people of color and experience a 41% poverty rate.
Clean Redundant Energy Sources
Springfield is experiencing severe economic distress as well as the damage and vulnerability that came about as a result of five disasters that were disproportionately experienced by the Connecticut River Valley watershed. Economic distress is concentrated in neighborhoods next to the downtown area and closest to the Connecticut River, where residents are predominantly people of color and experience a 41% poverty rate.
Flood protection
Springfield is experiencing severe economic distress as well as the damage and vulnerability that came about as a result of five disasters that were disproportionately experienced by the Connecticut River Valley watershed. Economic distress is concentrated in neighborhoods next to the downtown area and closest to the Connecticut River, where residents are predominantly people of color and experience a 41% poverty rate.
Permaculture expansion crash test
This solution emerged from discussions between an expert in business models and a couple of permaculturists. Permaculture is a system of agricultural and social design principles centered on simulating or directly utilizing the patterns and features observed in natural ecosystems. It has many branches that include but are not limited to ecological design, ecological engineering, environmental design, construction and integrated water resources management that develops sustainable architecture, and regenerative and self-maintained habitat and agricultural systems modeled from natural ecosystems. It holds an enormous potential for solving many of our and our environment problems (pluri-SDG!). However, it is surprisingly slow in getting known more widely. A co-creator of the Business Model Crash Test and a couple of permaculturists are willing to invite G3iD participants to brainstorm on ways to make the permaculture approach spread faster than ever!
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Crafting the Narrative
To educate children about the SDGs.
Ecomap, Amsterdam
A smart city is one that uses technology to transform its basic infrastructure and optimise energy and resource usage. Arup specialists recommend a smart city development strategy that rests on three interlinked components: leadership, urban informatics, and systems architecture.
Instrumenting resource systems
A smart city is one that uses technology to transform its basic infrastructure and optimise energy and resource usage. Arup specialists recommend a smart city development strategy that rests on three interlinked components: leadership, urban informatics, and systems architecture.
Barangaroo, Sydney
A smart city is one that uses technology to transform its basic infrastructure and optimise energy and resource usage. Arup specialists recommend a smart city development strategy that rests on three interlinked components: leadership, urban informatics, and systems architecture.
Urban informatics
A smart city is one that uses technology to transform its basic infrastructure and optimise energy and resource usage. Arup specialists recommend a smart city development strategy that rests on three interlinked components: leadership, urban informatics, and systems architecture.
Low2No, Helsinki
A smart city is one that uses technology to transform its basic infrastructure and optimise energy and resource usage. Arup specialists recommend a smart city development strategy that rests on three interlinked components: leadership, urban informatics, and systems architecture.
IT Strategy
A smart city is one that uses technology to transform its basic infrastructure and optimise energy and resource usage. Arup specialists recommend a smart city development strategy that rests on three interlinked components: leadership, urban informatics, and systems architecture.