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Silicon Valley

Ready For A New Solar Roof?

Doug Moss and Roddy Scheer Apollo, BIPV, building integrated, CertainTeed, Forward Labs, photovoltaic, PowerHouse, RGS Energy, roof, Silicon Valley, solar, solarroof, start-up, startup, Tesla

Forward Labs and Solar Frontier are two of the companies challenging Tesla’s dominance in the nascent solar roof technology market…

Sustainable Cities

Sustainable Solutions to Silicon Valley’s Housing Bubble

Megan Wild buildings, California, density, disuse, home, housing, land, landfill, median, Palo Alto, price, rehab, San Francisco, Silicon Valley, space, vacant

Building on landfills? Rehabbing Old Buildings? Planning for Greater Density? These are among the sustainable solutions some planners would like to see put in place to solve the housing crisis in Northern California…

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