In this post I’m going to use some (relatively simple) math to give a sense of how great the Biden Administration has been for America.
In this post I’m going to use some (relatively simple) math to give a sense of how great the Biden Administration has been for America.
A $156 million grant to Capital Good Fund will allow us to reach 15,000+ low-income Georgia households with solar energy, creating tremendous bills savings, emissions reductions, and job opportunities.
When the Inflation Reduction Act (“IRA”) passed, it was like Christmas morning for those of us concerned about the climate crisis: we spent the coming weeks scouring the bill, finding new “gifts” like $27 billion to establish a national green bank…
It’s easy to look out at the world and despair, to ask what point there is in donating to nonprofits, voting, protesting, calling your elected officials, writing Op-Eds. There is no shortage of anecdotes and pithy quotes to rebut that […]
It has been a difficult summer for people directly impacted by the climate crisis, of course, but also for those of us who have been spared the fires, floods, and extreme heat yet are nevertheless terrified by what’s happening. Some […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
In August of 2021, just as Capital Good Fund was launching our solar lending pilot, I wrote an article, Say It Ain’t So, Solar Lenders!, about some unsavory practices in the industry. Since then, several things of note have happened. First, Capital […]
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 […]