January, 2015

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Start Small: How I Went from Junior Analyst to Startup CEO in One Year

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

Posted by Elena Foukes Lucas. One year ago, I was the lowest-level analyst at a Fortune 200 company. Now, I’m a co-founder and CEO. Two catalysts began my year-long path to entrepreneurship: Kate Purmal and Sheryl Sandberg. Working at the Fortune 200 company was my first full-time job. I applied on their website, interviewed, and accepted an offer as a Business Finance Associate Analyst.

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My new job at The Conversation

Martin LaMonica

Several months ago, I ran across a TED talk by Andrew Jaspan , a former editor at The Age in Australia who talked about an experiment in journalism. In spending time at a university, he saw a parallel to news rooms: much like there are beat reporters in different topics, university departments have experts in their areas of research. What if the academics wrote articles themselves, rather than published in academic journals or provided quotes on news articles?

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Bernadette Del Chiaro Wants to Make California Solar a Force of Nature

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

Posted by Guest Contributor By Rachel Barron This article originally appeared on SolarEnergy.net , and is reprinted with permission. It’s no secret that California is king when it comes to the U.S. solar industry. The state leads the country by housing about half of the nation’s total installed solar capacity, according to the latest data from the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA).