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Practitioners' Guide to Community Lending for a Just and Equitable Energy Transition
In this guide, authors Curtis Probst, Tina Poole Johnson, and Hannah Vargason share a collection of key resources and references that provide an entry point to clean energy finance for community lending practitioners and to community development finance for green…
Center for Impact Finance Community Development Finance, Energy, Environment
Clean Energy Project Development for Low-Income Communities
Scaling clean energy in low-income communities through solar and deep efficiency retrofits presents financing challenges, but that is only part of the problem. Drawing on research conducted by the Carsey School’s Center for Impact Finance, this white paper outlines a…
Center for Impact Finance Community Development Finance, Energy, Environment, Infrastructure, Low Income
Scaling Equitable Solar Finance
The U.S. solar photovoltaics industry has taken off over the past decade, but without deliberate action low- and moderate-income communities could be left behind in the transition to clean energy. Drawing on substantial literature related to multiple dimensions of…
Center for Impact Finance Energy, Environment
Bringing Solar Energy to Low- and Moderate-Income Communities
The U.S. solar photovoltaics industry has taken off over the past decade, but without deliberate action low- and moderate-income communities could be left behind.
Center for Impact Finance, Community, Environment, and Climate Change Climate Change, Community Development Finance, Energy, Environment, Infrastructure, Low Income
Providing Clean Energy Solutions to India’s Bottom of the Pyramid Population
In this white paper, Jill Howard, Fiona Wilson, and E. Hachemi Aliouche discuss how Oorja Development Solutions, a social enterprise based in India, is working to provide integrated energy solutions to revitalize the agrarian economy, alleviate poverty, and fight…
Changemaker Collaborative Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Poverty
Carsey Perspectives: New Hampshire's Electricity Future
May 2017 update PointLogic Energy, a source for natural gas pipeline flow and capacity in the original report, has recently updated its models for calculating natural gas flow in the Tennessee Gas Pipeline in New England. This model update has resulted in significant…
Community, Environment, and Climate Change, New Hampshire Energy, Infrastructure, New Hampshire
On Renewable Energy and Climate, Trump Voters Stand Apart
Globally, 2016 was the warmest year on record, surpassing records set in 2015 and 2014,1 and each new record emphasizes the longer-term upward trend. Though not every place on Earth experienced warming effects last year, they were quite evident in many areas. Rising…
Community, Environment, and Climate Change Climate Change, Energy, Politics and Elections, Public Opinion
Carsey Perspectives: To Dig, Or Not To Dig?
Editor’s Note: Tom Haines, a journalist and assistant professor of English at The University of New Hampshire, has walked hundreds of miles across landscapes of fuel while researching a book about energy and the environment that will be published in 2018. He served…
Community, Environment, and Climate Change Climate Change, Energy, Environment, Politics and Elections