The Overview Effect

 Warning: video may feel overwhelming. 

 

Most days when we look outside, the sky feels vast and infinite. The Sun feels like it’s our Sun, and the land under our feet seems sure and firm.

 

Most days, we forget that we’re really just living on a tiny blue marble. We forget that the infinite sky is actually a paper thin mist barely clinging to that marble. We forget that our Sun is just another star, and we forget that the solid land beneath our feet is spinning wildly as it hurtles through the empty black vacuum of space. We forget that we’re alone.

 

Most days we forget all this, and we go to work and get stuck in traffic and pick up groceries and relax with our families. We live our lives and strive to make them wonderful. And the Earth seems huge, not tiny; ubiquitous, not unique; sturdy, not fragile.

 

Most days, we forget the effect we have on our planet. It seems hard to imagine that turning the thermostat down one degree could raise the atmosphere’s temperature one degree.

 

Most days it’s helpful to forget, because other things can feel more important right now.

 

At Sungevity, we don’t forget. We know, as you do, how fragile this planet is, and how important it is to protect it. We also know how important our own lives are, and how crucial it is to keep them comfortable. So we pioneered a way for people to turn up their AC and not make the planet hotter, by harnessing free energy from our Sun. We created new finance solutions so almost anyone can start generating clean power and save money at the same time. And we work tirelessly to design and install the systems, so you don’t have to — because your life is for you to live wonderfully.

 

Before starting Sungevity our founder Danny Kennedy spent decades campaigning with Greenpeace to help others remember that we’re all on this tiny blue marble together.

 

This is why we started the Rooftop Revolution.

 

This is why we love our superstar customers and fans, who all remember.

 

This is why we Generate Positive.

 

 

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Where Does The Sun Take You?

Our partner, The Wilderness Society, just had a big win — President Obama just dubbed five new national monuments! We want to go visit all of them.

 

 

We’re a solar company for many reasons — we believe in saving families money and creating a brighter future. But we also just love sunshine!

 

Where does the sun take you?

 
http://wilderness.org/article/win-wildlands-president-obama-designates-five-new-national-monuments

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Happy Earth Day

 

We’d like to show appreciation for our beautiful little planet.

 

Each solar panel we put on your home protects the future of our collective home.

 

Thanks for being part of the solution!

 

 

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Seeing Through Sun-Tinted Glasses

We’re not talking any ordinary sunglasses — this new material actually generates electricity while being transparent!

 

Imagine your shades charging your iPhone. Doesn’t get cooler than that!

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/feb/12/printed-solar-glass-panels-oxford-photovoltaics

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119,000 Reasons Why Solar is a United States’ Success Story

Every state in the union has benefitted from solar power’s remarkable growth over the last few years. In an actual headcount of employees, DC-based The Solar Foundation has found 119,000 employees in solar companies across the country.  You can dive in and learn more about them here at the State Solar Jobs Map.

 

Dive in to each state's solar jobs

Check out each state in the union and how many solar jobs they have!

 

California now has more solar workers than actors and that there are more solar jobs in Texas than there are ranchers”, according to Andrea Luecke, the Executive Director of The Solar Foundation, based on Bureau of Labor statistics.

 

The State Solar Jobs Map also does a great job of breaking out the different kinds of work within the solar industry, by state, per subsector. There is a huge diversity of good jobs being created. Rhone Resch, head of Solar EnergyIndustries Association summarises, “Solar is the fastest-growing clean energy technology available today and employment in our industry has doubled over the past three years.”

 

How many other industries in America have doubled in the last 3 years? Few.

 

How many can claim employees in all 50 states? Not a lot.

 

And what’s the formula for success? It’s clear from the study that states with smart, consistent pro-business policies can expect future growth. You can dive in to the map by state to see a rating of these policies.

 

Doing so makes you wonder if the politicians currently attacking net metering and renewable portfolios aren’t protecting the telegraph from the telephone!

 

But that’s for another day… Today just revel in the home-grown success of these United States of solar.

 

Shine on!

 

By Danny Kennedy

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