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.

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