by Cisco DeVries | Oct 16, 2019 | Climate Change, OhmConnect
My kids, hard at work saving the world When it got hot this summer, my kids earned $42.39 each for sitting outside with a book. They also, believe it or not, helped make a small but important dent in the climate crisis. Here in California, when the sun sets on a hot...
by Cisco DeVries | Mar 16, 2019 | Climate Change, General
I spent the last decade trying to solve a simple, but devilishly difficult, problem: how do we pay for the rapid de-carbonization we need to do in our buildings? While we have not solved the climate crisis, the availability of capital for energy retrofits and...
by Cisco DeVries | Aug 29, 2018 | Climate Change, PACE, Policy
My father examining fire damage in the National Forest at the boundary near my childhood home. Fire hardening works Last month, the Ferguson Fire in California’s Mariposa County marched over 20 miles to my childhood home. The battle raged for days as firefighters...
by Cisco DeVries | Jul 31, 2018 | Climate Change
Photo courtesy of the National Interagency Fire Center July has been a difficult month for a warming Planet Earth. Record heat was recorded across much of the globe and fires burned above the Arctic Circle. Here in the western part of the United States, dozens of...
by Cisco DeVries | Jul 11, 2018 | Climate Change, PACE
The first thing you notice is the sea of blue tarps. I think PACE can help. Last week, I spent time in Puerto Rico to explore whether Renew Financial could help the residents of this hurricane-battered island rebuild and prepare for the next storm. Since the...