Damian Miller – författare

To solve the climate crisis, the world must make a wholesale shift to renewable energy technologies. With surging growth in emerging markets, this transformation takes on even greater urgency. The challenges - and opportunities - are immense.

Selling Solar considers how such a shift might happen. Focusing on the case of solar photovoltaics, it shows how, at the start of the 21st century, this promising technology began to diffuse rapidly in select emerging markets, after years of struggling to take off. What were the initial barriers to diffusion? How were they overcome? Who did it? And how can this success be replicated?

Drawing on literature on innovation diffusion and entrepreneurship, the author answers these questions, showing how entrepreneurs affected profound technological change not just through the solar systems they sold, but through the example they set to both new market entrants and policymakers. In analysing how this happened, this book offers important lessons for the diffusion of a range of renewable energy technologies in emerging markets, and for the advancement of the sector as a whole. Selling Solar is essential reading for anyone who believes in a renewable energy future and wants it sooner rather than later.

To solve the climate crisis, the world must make a wholesale shift to renewable energy technologies. With surging growth in emerging markets, this transformation takes on even greater urgency. The challenges - and opportunities - are immense.

Selling Solar considers how such a shift might happen. Focusing on the case of solar photovoltaics, it shows how, at the start of the 21st century, this promising technology began to diffuse rapidly in select emerging markets, after years of struggling to take off. What were the initial barriers to diffusion? How were they overcome? Who did it? And how can this success be replicated?

Drawing on literature on innovation diffusion and entrepreneurship, the author answers these questions, showing how entrepreneurs affected profound technological change not just through the solar systems they sold, but through the example they set to both new market entrants and policymakers. In analysing how this happened, this book offers important lessons for the diffusion of a range of renewable energy technologies in emerging markets, and for the advancement of the sector as a whole. Selling Solar is essential reading for anyone who believes in a renewable energy future and wants it sooner rather than later.

"e;There's no one alive who remembers the world that was, before our legends became reality and two worlds merged into one. I was born in the soaring city-tower of Babel —the Spire— where generations of humans and fae live side by side together in unity and relative peace. Sitting at the crossroads between nations, Babel remains as a free port where where adventurers, traders, and diplomats arrive daily to create a new world out of the ruins of the old."e;A city full of innumerable conspiracies, endless adventure, and dangerous secrets...."e;This is the only home that I've ever know and I will defend the Spire with my dying breath."e;-Sharon Orho, Confessions of a Holy MatronStanding on the edge of a high wall, a reckless rogue overlooks the Spire and smirks as the gendarmes pursue him over another minor misunderstanding. As the scoundrel flees from his memories, he is unexpectedly reunited with a past that he thought he'd left behind. Now the scoundrel must confront his painful past, shattered dreams, and murderous deception.The prodigal son is joined by the Matron's dutiful daughter and a grief-stricken ranger to investigate the ruins of an abandoned city, but in doing so they stumble upon a conspiracy set into motion decades before they were born. Forced to fight against bio-magical titans, treachery, and sorrow; the only way the trio can survive is to unravel a psychopath's plot before the world is plunged into eternal darkness.The Sibyl of Babel is the first book in an exciting new series: The Spire of Babel.

It always rains now; it's the way of this new world. After fifty years of war we are all exhausted, the world broken by what we did during the war.Unfortunately the world has more suffering yet to endure.During the war we learned from the ancient past, delving into knowledge better left forgotten.Magic was reawakened after thousands of years of ignorance.We were egotistical to believe that we could control the rediscovered magic; we took that knowledge and incorporated it into technology full of spinning bronze gears and created the frightening monstrosities that polluted the world.The Church hungers for more wealth and power, supported by an Inquisition that enforces the will of the Saints. Nobles bleed the city dry as they enslave the poor.I find myself in an Empire where lucre is more important than lives and I'm caught up in the manipulations of the Merchant-Lords.The heart of the grigori has been stolen and the world will burn unless it is returned.

To solve the climate crisis, the world must make a wholesale shift to renewable energy technologies. With surging growth in emerging markets, this transformation takes on even greater urgency. The challenges – and opportunities – are immense. Selling Solar considers how such a shift might happen. Focusing on the case of solar photovoltaics, it shows how, at the start of the twenty-first century, this promising technology began to diffuse rapidly in select emerging markets, after years of struggling to take off. What were the initial barriers to diffusion? How were they overcome? Who did it? And how can this success be replicated? Drawing on literature on innovation diffusion and entrepreneurship, the author answers these questions, showing how entrepreneurs affected profound technological change not just through the solar systems they sold, but through the example they set to both new market entrants and policymakers. In analyzing how this happened, this book offers important lessons for the diffusion of a range of renewable energy technologies in emerging markets, and for the advancement of the sector as a whole. Selling Solar is essential reading for anyone who believes in a renewable energy future and wants it sooner rather than later.

To solve the climate crisis, the world must make a wholesale shift to renewable energy technologies. With surging growth in emerging markets, this transformation takes on even greater urgency. The challenges – and opportunities – are immense. Selling Solar considers how such a shift might happen. Focusing on the case of solar photovoltaics, it shows how, at the start of the twenty-first century, this promising technology began to diffuse rapidly in select emerging markets, after years of struggling to take off. What were the initial barriers to diffusion? How were they overcome? Who did it? And how can this success be replicated? Drawing on literature on innovation diffusion and entrepreneurship, the author answers these questions, showing how entrepreneurs affected profound technological change not just through the solar systems they sold, but through the example they set to both new market entrants and policymakers. In analyzing how this happened, this book offers important lessons for the diffusion of a range of renewable energy technologies in emerging markets, and for the advancement of the sector as a whole. Selling Solar is essential reading for anyone who believes in a renewable energy future and wants it sooner rather than later.

Die Schulreformen der letzten 30 Jahre führten im schweizerischen Bildungssystem zu neuen Zuständigkeiten. Bei nach wie vor hoch gehaltenem Bildungsföderalismus sind einerseits Bestrebungen zu grösserer Schulautonomie feststellbar. Andererseits zeigen sich deutliche Tendenzen zu verstärkter interkantonaler Kooperationen, zu (subsidiären) Bundeskompetenzen und zur gesteigerten internationalen Orientierung. Da fragt sich wer, die Schule eigentlich definiert, reguliert, verantwortet und beaufsichtigt.

Der pädagogische Bestseller ‹Dummheit ist lernbar› von Jürg Jegge wurde im deutschsprachigen Raum 200 000 Mal verkauft. Nur Alexander Neills ‹Antiautoritäre Erziehung› toppte die Zahlen. Nachdem bekannt wurde, dass Jegge Schüler sexuell missbraucht hat, suchen die Autorinnen und Autoren durch eine Re-Lektüre nach Erklärungen, wieso ‹Dummheit ist lernbar› zur Geburtsurkunde eines ‹neuen Pestalozzi› werden konnte. Die Beiträge des vorliegenden Bandes beschäftigen sich nicht mit der Person Jegge, sondern mit dessen pädagogischen Schriften. Die grosse Bekanntheit, breite Akzeptanz und die unkritische Auseinandersetzung mit dem Buch nähren die Annahme, dass ‹Dummheit ist lernbar› die Leserinnen und Leser von links bis rechts faszinierte, trotz der darin enthaltenen vernichtenden Lehrer- und Schulkritik sowie der Verachtung gegenüber «Unterschichtseltern». Was aber hat diese Faszination und Bewunderung ausgelöst? Allein dieser Frage wegen drängt sich eine Re-Lektüre auf.Aus dem Inhalt– Zur Wahrnehmung des Buches bei und nach seinem Erscheinen– Zum Kontext der Emanzipationspädagogik der 1970er-Jahre– Zur Sprache von ‹Dummheit ist lernbar›– Über Jegges Bezugnahmen auf die Psychoanalyse– Jürg Jegge – Verteidiger von Kinderrechten?– Zum Vorrang der emotionalen Gemeinschaft in Jegges Pädagogik– ‹Dummheit ist lernbar› neu und wiedergelesen– Zur Ästhetik von Jegges Publikationen– Der pädagogische Zirkel– Analogien zur Odenwaldschule: Warum erfreuen sich die Täter einer streitbaren Lobby?Mit Beiträgen vonPatrick Bühler, Nicole Gönitzer, Hans-Ulrich Grunder, Andreas Kaiser, Veronika Magyar-Haas, Damian Miller, Petra Moser, Jürgen Oelkers, Peter Schneider, Urs Strasser, Brigitte Tilmann