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The Easy Things in Climate Aren’t That Easy—or Enough
May 9, 2023

Once, when I was getting my masters degree in environmental studies, I met with the then-director of the department to talk about potential career paths upon graduation. I told him that I was interested in figuring out how to enable […]

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With a Grain of Salt
April 18, 2023

My freshman year of college at California State University, Northridge, I took a class called General Logic. I remember little of the class, in no small part because two weeks into the semester I fell off my bike at 40 MPH, sustaining […]

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We’ll Never Green the Economy Like This
February 12, 2023

One could be forgiven for thinking that, with passage of the Inflation Reduction Act, America is all set to reduce emissions and create a bevy of green jobs. In many ways, of course, we are: Climate Power, for instance, has […]

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Be The Change  / Capital Good Fund  / environment

A Pricing Conundrum
February 5, 2023

When Capital Good Fund launched the DoubleGreen Solar loan, in Fall 2021, the Federal Funds Rate (FFR) was near-zero, and we priced the product accordingly: by charging borrowers an APR of 3.099% – 4.99%, we could provide a return of […]

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High Interest Rates Are a Climate Problem
November 16, 2022

In 2008 I was a graduate student with almost no understanding of the financial system–I couldn’t even explain the difference between an interest rate and an APR!–working to launch what would become Capital Good Fund: a nonprofit lender. One day […]

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The Inflation Reduction Act Opens the Floodgates to Action
October 17, 2022

The Inflation Reduction Act (“IRA”) is one of those once-in-a-lifetime, transformational pieces of legislation that’s so far-reaching and chock-full of potential, it’s hard to wrap one’s mind around it. Indeed, when it passed in August the mood in the climate […]

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The Greatest Tool For Fighting Climate Change
September 17, 2022

When we think of building a clean future, the tools that come to mind are technologies like wind turbines, solar panels, electric vehicles, and heat pumps. And all of these are essential, to be sure. But there is a tool […]

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So You Bought An EV & Solar Panels: Are You A Climate Hero?
September 10, 2022

So you just bought an electric vehicle (“EV”), solar panels, heat pump, or other clean technology. Are you now a climate hero? You’ve reduced your emissions, to be sure, but… not quite! In this post, I’m going to explore the […]

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Channel Rage into Change: On Gun Violence, Climate, and Reproductive Rights
June 25, 2022

I’ve written that everything is an everything story, by which I mean that, in a global economy that is hyper-connected–physically, via supply chains, and digitally, via the Internet–it is difficult to separate one issue from another. For instance, climate change […]

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Tackling the Climate Emergency: An Urgent Call for Action and Funding
April 29, 2022

 As the goal to limit warming to 1.5C slips out of reach, Capital Good Fund seeks $25 million to kickstart a 5-year plan to deploy $1 billion in green loans to 40,000 underserved homeowners

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