Can our Universal Spiritual Centre be funded by crowd-funding? Sometimes you blaze a trail that nobody follows, and sometimes you blaze a trail just to have others leave you in the dust, but just sometimes you do it well enough to inspire a movement to join together and make a powerful change, Billy Parish Ten years ago, Billy Parish visited the shrinking Gaumukh Glacier, a source for the Ganges River that provides 450 million people in Asia with water. Someone told him during the tour that a few years before, he would have been standing on a significantly larger glacier, but by 2030, the entire formation would be gone. After the trip, Parish was about to start his junior year at Yale. Instead, he dropped out and founded the Energy Action Coalition. By the age of 21, he was running the largest youth organization working on clean energy solutions in the world. Rolling Stone named him a Climate Hero. A few years ago, Parish and his now-co-founder Dan Rosen envisioned a Kickstarter for solar when they realized it is estimated to cost trillions of dollars to power the infrastructure of the world with 100 percent renewable energy. Read more about his experience at techrepublic/article/how-crowdfunding-solar-power-is-democratizing-the-way-we-finance-clean-energy/#ftag=RSS56d97e7
Posted on: Fri, 14 Mar 2014 04:52:34 +0000
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