{"id":692,"date":"2017-06-18T22:14:35","date_gmt":"2017-06-19T02:14:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/semba\/?p=692"},"modified":"2017-06-18T22:15:06","modified_gmt":"2017-06-19T02:15:06","slug":"from-the-web-prince-was-a-secret-patron-of-solar-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/2017\/06\/18\/from-the-web-prince-was-a-secret-patron-of-solar-power\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Web: Prince Was a Secret Patron of Solar &#8220;Purple Power&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-693\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/semba\/files\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-18-at-7.41.53-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1614\" height=\"932\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-18-at-7.41.53-PM.png 1614w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-18-at-7.41.53-PM-300x173.png 300w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-18-at-7.41.53-PM-768x443.png 768w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-18-at-7.41.53-PM-1024x591.png 1024w, https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/files\/2017\/06\/Screen-Shot-2017-06-18-at-7.41.53-PM-500x289.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/>Before his abrupt death a year ago, the pop musician <strong>Prince<\/strong> made an investment in green energy that\u2019s now helping solar start-ups weather an assault from President Donald Trump.<\/p>\n<p>It started with a conversation in 2011 between Prince and his friend <strong>Van Jones<\/strong>, a CNN commentator and California human rights agitator and onetime green-jobs adviser to President Barack Obama.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe asked, \u2018If I have a quarter-million dollars, what can I do with it?\u2019\u201d Jones recalled in an interview. \u201cMy wife said he should put solar panels all over Oakland.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>That led to the creation of Powerhouse, a rare for-profit incubator dedicated to putting clean-tech entrepreneurs together with investors. The company has helped 43 start-ups get on their feet in an era when venture capital funding for renewables has plunged and Trump is working to slash funds for early-stage entities from the U.S. Department of Energy.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2017-06-06\/prince-was-a-secret-patron-of-solar-power\"><strong>Learn more<\/strong><\/a> <em>(via Bloomberg)<\/em> &gt;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before his abrupt death a year ago, the pop musician Prince made an investment in green energy that\u2019s now helping solar start-ups weather an assault from President Donald Trump. It started with a conversation in 2011 between Prince and his friend Van Jones, a CNN commentator and California human rights agitator and onetime green-jobs adviser &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/2017\/06\/18\/from-the-web-prince-was-a-secret-patron-of-solar-power\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;From the Web: Prince Was a Secret Patron of Solar &#8220;Purple Power&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3919,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[221,427000,425248,425622],"tags":[4433],"class_list":["post-692","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-environment","category-from-the-web","category-green-leap","category-renewables","tag-sustainability"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8b9n0-ba","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3919"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=692"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":696,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/692\/revisions\/696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=692"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=692"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.uvm.edu\/si-mba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=692"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}