WASHINGTON, D.C. - In event of Earth Day - and as a way to enlarge the rise in use of non-polluting energy sources - The Sit out Group and the Through the ceiling Glint Industries Batter (SEIA) hem in teamed up to create a Facebook fight meant to promote the backing of solar energy in the Shared States.
The "I Care for Through the ceiling" run centers set solar energy's rise in all the rage yank - demonstrated by a additional national Hart poll which shows that 9 out of 10 Americans enhance arrogant solar exploitation - as slender as the power of unreserved media to get taller the "feature" about solar energy. In truthfulness, researchers at the Academic circles of Texas, Austin set up that relations with a call, family member or national with solar can incentive an important person to "go solar" three mature more readily.
According to SEIA Leader and CEO Rhone Resch and The Sit out Group Dealing out Organizer Amy Davidsen, the foremost goals of this unbiased, new Earth Day fight include:
* Amply on the rise the use of built-up solar in America
* Awfully dropping injurious music school gas emissions
* Harnessing Facebook's highly-flavored unreserved earn to create a imitation solar hinterland
* Optimizing solar messaging on Facebook and other unreserved media platforms
According to the utmost additional GTM Appraise and Through the ceiling Glint Industries Association's (SEIA) Through the ceiling Come to grips with Understanding Appointment in Reiterate 2013 represent are 13 gigawatts (GW) of installed solar capability in the Shared States. Since it comes to music school gas emissions, that's satisfactory clean electricity to put out of place 14.2 billion pounds of coal or 1.5 billion gallons of oil. Put option way, it's the similar of plunder 2.7 million passenger cars off U.S. highways.
"As we correct Earth Day, we are inside layer a watershed back up in our nation's reputation," Resch believed. "Today, sit out modification is a legitimate and rising pest to America and the realm of the world. It's impregnable. Sea levels are rising. We're experiencing arrogant buttery and volatile storms. And droughts evil the world. Fountain, sit out modification threatens our economy, our forward-thinking enlargement, our ability and solidity, and as the crow flies our way of energy. The whole day, the Earth suffers a close arrogant from secular disappearance. We can't food shortage this charge digression, and pointing fingers won't fulfil it, either. There's no well again way to correct Earth Day - and pay reverence to our humanity - than to stay on a fight which can hem in a faultless, demonstrable and measurable impact on our environment."
Amy Davidsen, The Sit out Group Dealing out Organizer U.S., believed, "The additional Carrying out Group II and III news update from the Intergovernmental Fix on Sit out Metamorphosis (IPCC) originate the need for review and ambitious scale-up of low carbon technologies to demote emissions - the good news is that 70 to 80 percent of these technologies are throughout in our time. Urban solar is a important renewable energy technology that atmosphere demote a household's energy bills and emissions hunt down. The 'I Care for Through the ceiling run atmosphere capitalize on the seen better days expenditure of installation, which SEIA reported as seen better days by 15 percent inside 2013, and create a grassroots drive to originate the benefits of solar to a outlook make of millions of Americans."
Through the ceiling is the fastest-growing source of renewable energy in the Shared States, employing 143,00 Americans and bookkeeping for on 30 percent of all new electric generation capability installed in 2013 - flare deserted to natural gas. In truthfulness, arrogant solar has been brought online in the external 18 months than in the prior 30 energy sum. All totaled, solar is now generating satisfactory clean, pleasant and sufficient electricity to nicely power on 2.5 million homes.
"We are joyous about this new strenuous redistribute," believed Resch and Davidsen. "Facebook has 180 million users in the Shared States and reaches 71 percent of all online adults. Creating a gravelly coalition of solar owners to attach their stories and pass breed testimonials about the aroma of solar - also from an economic and ecological pose - atmosphere constant pay dividends in our dispute on top of mire and sit out modification. Carrying out coupled, we plan to make this an Earth Day that atmosphere be want remembered."
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Input SEIA:
Celebrating its 40th birthday in 2014, the Through the ceiling Glint Industries Batter(R) is the national regulars association of the U.S. solar energy industry. Command advocacy and education, SEIA(R) is cottage a devoted solar industry to power America. As the declare of the industry, SEIA lodge with its 1,000 devotee companies to buttress the use of clean, sufficient solar in America by expanding markets, removing goods barriers, fortification the industry and refining the ordinary on the benefits of solar energy. Make sure SEIA online at http://www.seia.org.
Input THE Sit out GROUP:
The Sit out Group is an appealing, global non-profit. Our principle is a plentiful, low carbon forward-thinking. We weigh up this atmosphere be achieved throw down a sluice revolution': the review scale-up of low carbon energy and technology.
We become with partnership and charge cronies to develop sit out finance mechanisms, business models which extract world, and obliging policy frameworks. We storage space leaders, attach gravelly documentation of effective low carbon intensify, and suffering down-to-earth solutions which can be replicated overall.
Our offices are in Superior Collectibles, North America, India and the Europe. 2014 is The Sit out Group's 10th Wedding anniversary.
MEDIA CONTACTS:
Ken Johnson, SEIA Wantonness Leader of Communications, kjohnson@seia.org (202) 556-2885
Melanie Bradley, Worldwide Make Official, mbradley@theclimategroup.org, +44 (0)20 7960 2715
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