In “To Revolve or Not to Revolve?” Joe Indvik, former consultant of Dartmouth College’s Green Revolving Fund, explores the reasons why a growing number of institutions are seeking the green revolving fund model to fund cleantech investments on their campus. Indvik cites the motivating factors of GRFs’ dynamic ROIs, the opportunity for infinite scalability of achievable projects, and something that he calls the “sizzle” factor. Read more.
On Friday, January 27 from 2:30-3:30pm SEI, in partnership with the VEIC, will be hosting a webinar on GRF Accounting/Financing. Attendees will hear from accounting and finance representatives from the green revolving funds at Caltech, UNH, and Harvard.
The Billion Dollar Green Challenge was launched today at the AASHE 2011 conference. The Challenge invites colleges to invest a total of one billion dollars in self-managed green revolving funds that finance energy efficiency upgrades.
Earlier in 2011, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) hosted a webinar on Greening the Bottom Line: How Campus Green Revolving Funds Are Saving Energy and Money. Learn more.
