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HOME
Honoring Our Mother Earth. Inc.
Participate and reinvest in sustainable social experiments in partnership with HOME, Inc.
Testing Market Ideas to:
1. Power with Solar
2. Compost with Worms
3. Sell Stuff < Brand New
About
She builds off the successes and failures of energy project pioneers to bring the most effective solar adoption strategies to you. Homeowner or renter, fixed income or debt-free, she can help calculate your best route to affordable, reliable, and sustainable energy.
She lends her knowledge of solar energy policy, geographic research, decision-making, network analysis, and entrepreneurial management.
Check out our blog to learn more about lessons learned from past projects.
Making the world a better place takes many ideas.
We are always testing them out.
Would students benefit from a $15 solar cell phone charger? Is selling secondhand goods a "good" time investment? Is there a strong enough market demand for compost and/or organic waste pickup services? Might rural agricultural communities benefit from shared solar cold storage?
We are testing out hypotheses around these and other related questions. Participate in our social science and entrepreneurial experiments to be on the cutting edge of sustainable lifestyle improvement idea testing!
Solar for Our Superheroes
Installed June 2016
Hypothesis: Solar Renewable Energy Credits (SRECs) are a worthwhile investment for a nonprofit seeking passive income streams.
Experiment: Honor community nominated heroes for their service with solar panels for their homes, while collecting and reinvesting quarterly SREC credits generated from the solar power produced by their home system.
Results: SRECs have been flowing in quarterly to HOME, Inc. with challenges and successes. Expected amounts for budgeting purposes are about $250/quarter for the next ten years. Detailed report and discussion section pending, so message us on any questions, comments, or feedback!
The Solar Blueprint
March 2001
Hypothesis: Would-be solar homeowners would find a net benefit from performing a decision analysis using Multi-Criteria Evaluation (MCE) techniques in early-stage project design.
Experiment: Compare the value of homeowners perceptions of time spent researching a "solar transition" with the value of a design analysis report generated at the onset of their project.
Pitching Solar to Upper Management
June 2015 - July 2017
Krissy spent the summers and winters off from undergraduate studies as the sustainability department for a life sciences lab. She played a role in the research of value, opportunity, and carbon offsets possible in an energy transition for the massive biotech facility. She learned to compare to apples to oranges when installers operated on different assumptions, managed to help establish mutually exciting goals between environmentally minded employees, management, and facilities. She helped to successfully pitch upper management on megawatts solar.
The Solar Blueprint
Project Tagline
The Solar Blueprint is a case study based project that experiments with small and independently scaled solar applications. It's about bringing solar cell phone chargers to Worcester college students, and figuring out how to apply the model then elsewhere. It's about helping homeowners move quickly and confidently after deciding renewable or independent energy is a priority. It's about spending money cautiously now, and investing wisely in the future. Most importantly, it's about learning from successes and failures to build a strong social model of implementing solar energy.
Solar Cold Storage
Idea in Research & Development
On a recent trip to Ghana, Krissy overheard opportunities for potential community solar cold storage opportunities in Western Africa that could be implemented in agricultural neighborhoods across the world! She's considering with a case study participant in Florida, USA to test the concept of giant shared refrigerators for small neighborhood communities. Learn more about you could participate in the solar cold storage study here!
