Dave Kirkpatrick
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SJF - 25 years of impact investing, needed now more than ever!
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To celebrate 25 years at SJF Ventures we have produced one minute videos on a few of the high impact companies we have had the opportunity to partner with! https://lnkd.in/eW-YhBfB We are… | Dave...
To celebrate 25 years at SJF Ventures we have produced one minute videos on a few of the high impact companies we have had the opportunity to partner with! https://lnkd.in/eW-YhBfB We are holding...
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/davidkirkpatricksjf_to-celebrate-25-years-at-sjf-ventures-we-activity-7382453909858123776-Y7Yn?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAACnfoB0NXEV0qvHUKyzlzsLyca5vTytjg
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Thank you health care workers!
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Shout out to health care professionals who serve us with compassion and expertise, often in difficult circumstances. I have relied on the Duke University Health System twice recently. I had a… | D...
Shout out to health care professionals who serve us with compassion and expertise, often in difficult circumstances. I have relied on the Duke University Health System twice recently. I had a hard...
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Excellent book on Churchill during the war. Reminder of the importance of leadership.
#booksky
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More food and energy on less land? What’s not to love? ☀️🔌💡🌾🍓🍇🥕🥬
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Filling up our car battery with sunlight.
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Duke Energy bill = $0.
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No Kings in Abingdon, VA!
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Indivisible ❌👑
about 2 months ago
This is what democracy looks like.
#NoKings
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Pope Leo denounces "an economy that kills" and "imbalances of wealth"
YouTube video by CBS Evening News
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SJF - 25 years of impact investing, needed now more than ever!
www.linkedin.com/posts/davidk...
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To celebrate 25 years at SJF Ventures we have produced one minute videos on a few of the high impact companies we have had the opportunity to partner with! https://lnkd.in/eW-YhBfB We are… | Dave...
To celebrate 25 years at SJF Ventures we have produced one minute videos on a few of the high impact companies we have had the opportunity to partner with! https://lnkd.in/eW-YhBfB We are holding...
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/davidkirkpatricksjf_to-celebrate-25-years-at-sjf-ventures-we-activity-7382453909858123776-Y7Yn?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAACnfoB0NXEV0qvHUKyzlzsLyca5vTytjg
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Thank you Jane Goodall.
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Dr. Jane Goodall’s Final Message To The World | Famous Last Words | Netflix
YouTube video by Still Watching Netflix
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We Are Still In on the Paris Accord, despite current Administration.
#energysky
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Back in 2017, when the US was pulled out of the Paris Climate Accord the first time, SJF Ventures signed on the 'We Are Still In' pledge with many other investors, cities, states and companies...
Back in 2017, when the US was pulled out of the Paris Climate Accord the first time, SJF Ventures signed on the 'We Are Still In' pledge with many other investors, cities, states and companies. In 20...
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Alas for USA but good for the rest of the world.
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At Global Climate Summit This Week, U.S. Isolation Was on Full Display
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/24/climate/united-nations-climate-summit-emissions-targets.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Our planet has life thanks to the sun... and the sun overs the promise for us to keep our planet livable for humans for generations.Since SunShares in the early 1980's for passive and thermal solar, solar PV has since scaled to be the most affordable power globally!
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3 months ago
No Kings on Oct 18 is going to be the largest peaceful protest in American history. The only way to protect our freedom of speech is to exercise our freedom of speech. Get to planning in your community asap.
nokings.org
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For our 25th anniversary, SJF Ventures is producing one minute videos on our journey... here is the first on our solar investments over 20 years in groSolar, Community Energy, Nextracker, Terabase and NewEdge Power.
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#solar
#storage
#impinv
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#solar #storage #impinv | Dave Kirkpatrick
For our 25th anniversary at SJF Ventures we are making one minute videos on our journey. This one features five solar portfolio companies where SJF led a financing - groSolar (sold to EDF power solu...
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/davidkirkpatricksjf_solar-storage-impinv-ugcPost-7368641584784896000-_3Ir?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop&rcm=ACoAAAACnfoB0NXEV0qvHUKyzlzsLyca5vTytjg
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I Fought in Gaza. Here Is Why I Would Not Go Back.
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An honorable Israeli soldier. Serving his country through dissent from a despotic leader. Sadly, our country may come to needing such honor among our troops as well.
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Opinion | I Fought in Gaza. Here Is Why I Would Not Go Back.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/30/opinion/israel-defense-forces-reservists-gaza-refusal.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Wildflowers > Lawn
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I’m a Red-State Mayor. Diversity Is Not Reverse Bigotry.
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Opinion | I’m a Red-State Mayor. Diversity Is Not Reverse Bigotry.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/20/opinion/oklahoma-city-mayor-diversity.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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Trump getting advised from Putin on how to run elections to assure authoritarian control. Navalny, Reagan & Washington are rolling in their graves.
www.axios.com/2025/08/18/t...
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Trump raises end to mail-in ballots after claiming Putin questioned their security
Trump said Putin told him that "it's impossible" to have honest elections with mail-in voting.
https://www.axios.com/2025/08/18/trump-mail-in-voting-putin
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A Jungle Grows in the Backyard
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Love it
@margaretrenkl.bsky.social
72 trees on a half an acre! I counted about 80 but we have ~2 acres. I need to let nature get busy. Though at least most of the space without trees is in wildflower meadows now.
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Opinion | A Jungle Grows in the Backyard
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/18/opinion/tennessee-climate-change-summer.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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I recommend this book to shake up your sense of America’s history with Asia and China and Vietnam and Korea.
#booksky
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Robert Reich
4 months ago
The first time Charlie Chaplin used his voice in a film, he wielded it to forcefully condemn the rising forces of fascism around the globe. Will we listen to his words today?
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I visited DC a few times recently and found it lovely and peaceful. May our country live up to its beauty. (Peace Monument in front of Capitol.)
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George Takei
4 months ago
The stories we tell matter. I know this not from watching but from memory. I was just a child, held behind barbed wire in a U.S. internment camp, when an atomic bomb obliterated Hiroshima—killing members of my family.
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good for you on telling it like it is on the job report and the crazy firing in the Friday show and congrats on 20 years of excellent journalism.
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Trump's jobs report retaliation
Podcast Episode · Marketplace · 08/01/2025 · 27m
https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/marketplace/id201853034?i=1000720276506
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The Builders Fund
5 months ago
The Cost of Carelessness: A Response to Chris Wright’s Climate Dismissal: the latest from Managing Partner
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on what the climate science really says & why investing in decarbonization is necessary for long-term public interest & U.S. progress.
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Coal, gas, nuclear... NOT base load but big generators that can unexpectedly go offline.
#energysky
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This is why I push back on calling gas, coal and nuclear as 'baseload power'... | Dave Kirkpatrick
This is why I push back on calling gas, coal and nuclear as 'baseload power'... they are until they aren't and then you have a GW scale problem vs decentralized solar/wind/batteries/VPPs/D...
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Agrivoltaics!!
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A Brief But Spectacular take on agrivoltaics
YouTube video by PBS NewsHour
https://youtu.be/wh14fnQcgXc?si=9A2boEyb5657Msob
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Excellent essay by
@billmckibben.bsky.social
on solar saving the world.
#energysky
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4.6 Billion Years On, the Sun Is Having a Moment
In the past two years, without much notice, solar power has begun to truly transform the world’s energy system.
https://www.newyorker.com/news/annals-of-a-warming-planet/46-billion-years-on-the-sun-is-having-a-moment
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This one’s been on our bulletin board for years, but sadly still relevant.
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Yes.
@thomaslfriedman.bsky.social
www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/o...
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Opinion | How Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ Will Make China Great Again
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/opinion/trump-bill-clean-energy-china.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare
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The Raider by Steven Platt is a fascinating story of a New England boy who becomes a marine in China in the 1930s and is inspired by the early Red Army and later founded the first U.S. special forces - Evan Carlson.
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Latest SJF news... we invest in supply chain transparency and women's health companies... and support our govtech, climate, health, energy, edtech, logistics, and impact portfolio.
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SJF Ventures News: Tradeverifyd and Lovu Investments, Portfolio Updates
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Senator Tillis of NC has been unleashed since he is not seeking reelection in these four minutes on how moving from 'commence construction' to 'placed in service' for solar & wind will strangle the grid. Call your Senators to join him in opposing this bill!
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Thom Tillis Defends Break From Party On Big Beautiful Bill: 'We're Rushing To An Arbitrary Deadline'
YouTube video by Forbes Breaking News
https://youtu.be/FhSkd5ZDtnk?si=mUgGIwCmAMqJos4j&t=55
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Excellent Matt!!
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Opinion | Want to lead in AI? Then don’t kill wind and solar.
GOP efforts to slash clean-energy incentives risk both national security and economic dynamism.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/06/30/clean-energy-investment-risk/
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Tyler Norris
5 months ago
In plain terms, it’s designed to wipe out the US solar and wind industry.
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Tripp Baird
5 months ago
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5 months ago
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“There isn’t going to be a gas fired generator any time soon,” Tillis said. “You can’t get that online and the same time that [renewable] pipeline’s going down.” First time GOP opposition over this made public in Senate debate on the reconciliation bill.
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Aaron Fishbone
5 months ago
The BBB completely sacrifices 🇺🇸 clean energy economy & our future. It will likely cost us the AI battle and 100,000s of good jobs. It’s an own goal of epic proportions. More details below. Call your (gop) senators one last time to demand they stop this insanity
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Jesse D. Jenkins
5 months ago
The Senate version of GOP's budget bill dropped in the middle of the night. Astonishingly, it got EVEN WORSE. It raises energy costs, kills $100s of billions of investment in manufacturing, makes grids less reliable, increases pollution & constrains our ability to compete w/China on AI. Loser stuff.
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Aaron Fishbone
5 months ago
This is such an important final statement about how much 💰💰is ready to be invested into energy projects in 🇺🇸 and how many jobs will be created….if Congress gives projects the time & support to get built call your senators ! It’s working!
@ceforamerica.org
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Good to work w
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and ICM network to pull together 70+ energy investors with 1,000s of portfolio companies to urge Congress in
@wsj.com
to not trigger bankruptcies, job losses, write downs, blackouts, and higher bills with Reconciliation Bill.
secureusenergy.org
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6 months ago
#EnergySky
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Leah Stokes
6 months ago
The Republican controlled Senate has released their Finance committee text. On energy policy, it improves slightly over the House bill — but it will still gut clean energy projects, killing jobs largely in Republican districts. This is a garbage bill. THREAD. 🧵
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Tax Reform 2025 | The United States Senate Committee on Finance
Tax Reform 2025
https://www.finance.senate.gov/tax-reform-2025
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Energy powerhouse to Republicans: Don't ‘take renewables off the table’ | Dave Kirkpatrick
Excellent comments from NextEra Energy, Inc. CEO John Ketchum on problems with the Reconciliation Bill out of the House and the need for fixes in the Senate : the anticipated surge in power demand ove...
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Electricity Prices Are Surging. The G.O.P. Megabill Could Push Them Higher.
www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/c...
🔌💡 REPEAT Project work cited here finds repeal of clean electricity tax credits could raise retail electricity rates by 4-5% on average and over 20% in some states by 2030.
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Electricity Prices Are Surging. The G.O.P. Megabill Could Push Them Higher.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/climate/electricity-prices-republican-big-beautiful-bill.html
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Loved this book for young adults and all about a native girl surviving & thriving.
#booksky
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