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Stories about First Solar

Why Startups Hella Love Oakland

Gertrude Stein once famously said of Oakland, “There is no there there.” Nancy Pfund, of the VC firm DBL Investors, makes a case for how modern Oakland is proving Stein wrong.

Why Startups Hella Love Oakland

Fast Company Magazine

Solar Power’s Best Bets

Solar Power Business Heats Up: Enter GE

Watch out, solar manufacturers: GE may be about to take over your turf. The corporate giant, which has already carved out a spot as one of the world’s leading wind turbine suppliers, announced this week that it is moving into the thin film solar business.

Solar Power Business Heats Up: Enter GE

A New Link Added to the World’s Largest Solar Pipeline: First Solar

Most Innovative Companies – Energy

From First Solar to Vestas, our picks for the top companies in energy.

Most Innovative Companies – Energy

The World’s Top 10 Most Innovative Companies

Nanosolar Steps Out of the Shadows With Over $4 Billion in Orders for Thin-Film Solar Tech

First Solar Building Largest Photovoltaic Plant in U.S…Maybe

The Most Innovative Companies in Clean Energy

Fast Company Magazine

The Solar Industry Gains Ground

At a time of economic pain and planetary peril, a renewable global powerhouse takes shape. Just when we need it most.

The Solar Industry Gains Ground

Impact

Shifting to plant-based plastic is a start—but it can’t be the only solution to plastic waste

The insidious ways building private prisons creates more prisons

Tom Steyer: The climate crisis is now threatening the health and safety of every American

News

16 years later, we failed to take Oprah’s “You get a car!” moment to heart

RIP RBG: Ruth Bader Ginsburg dies at 87

How to keep wildfire smoke out of your home: Avoid these 5 surprising mistakes

Co.Design

This library looks like a giant game of Scrabble

Returns are bad for the environment. Pottery Barn wants to do something about it

The world’s most unconventional use of business cards

Work Life

The YA novel ‘K-Pop Confidential’ infiltrates the idol factory behind the global phenomenon

This one unconscious reaction may be holding women back at work

Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s career completely changed the way we think about women—and men