Would you like to pitch an article to Solar Today? Here is a list from my brainstorming file to help you generate ideas:
Marketing and Behavior
Engaging local communities in solar projects and programs
Supporting decision makers in making pro-solar decisions
Exploring federal approaches to improving solar communications and marketing
Reaching audiences who are not in the environmental movement
Motivating behavior change beyond environmental and financial benefits
Segmenting and analyzing the solar market
Using survey and research techniques for solar marketing
Leveraging community-based social marketing
Using persuasive communication and effective storytelling
Recommending media and outreach best practices for technical professionals
Marketing solar on a shoestring budget
Utilizing social norms for marketing
Creating solar presentations or media that are persuasive and effective
Solar Living
Financing your home solar system
Maintaining your home solar systems
Adding energy storage to a home solar system
Making inverter choices for a solar home
Finding energy mortgages for solar homes
Selling a solar home
Doing a home energy audit or reducing energy usage before going solar
Navigating different installers & quotes
Going off-grid
Using EVs to help power your home
Setting up solar maintenance for home systems
Installing solar at minimal cost
Using passive solar approaches
Daylighting
Using IoT technologies in home settings
Developing homes that can demonstrate new technologies (such as the ones in the Solar Decathlon)
You could also develop questions based on items from our "40 Questions to Ask an Installer" article.
We are also looking for articles from students at the undergraduate or graduate level. And we may be looking for an article on federal policy.
Two-paragraph pitches for our December issue are due on 9/15; please email your ideas to me at kfriedrich@ases.org.
Thank you,
Kat
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Kat Friedrich
Editor in Chief
American Solar Energy Society
Monona WI
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