Episode 1.10 On Solar Recycling and the Joy-Innovation Positive Feedback Loop with Janette Freeman

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We all know the green benefits of installing renewable energy generation like solar PV, but what happens at the system's end of life? If the panels end up in a landfill, we aren't doing our planet any favors.

Janette Freeman at FabTech is on a mission to keep panels out of landfills by either reusing or recycling them. In this episode, we talk about what the different paths to reuse and recycling look like and how to shift mindset to prepare for project end-of-life during earlier project phases to create an even greener clean energy future.
Janette is also a deep thinker and sees the connections, as I do, between personal development, business development, and innovation. We talk about the positive feedback loop created by joy and innovation and dream of a future where creativity spurs us on to a brighter future.

Referenced Often: Episode 1.05 with Leslie Glustrom on how to engage with policymakers

Quotables

"More joy brings more solutions."

"For most decomissions, those panels are fine and they are an asset."

"When we keep working on ourselves and keep listening to our intuition, our creativity, our innovation, and let our inside matter, the outside solutions become more evident to us."
-all above quotes by Janette Freeman
This week’s guest

Janette Freeman is passionate about saving the landfill from the millions of solar panels which will be coming to end-of-life in the years ahead.

She is the Director of Business Development for FabTech Solar Solutions, which does solar panel refurbishing and recycling, giving panels a second life or a proper cremation. Prior to working in renewables, she worked in personal development training and coaching. She is the author of three books and has a Doctorate of Consciousness Studies.
Resources:
Books:

Saving Us by Katharine Hayhoe

Spiral: A Catalyst for Innovation and Expansion by Amy Simpkins

Connect with Janette on LinkedIn.

Check out Fab Tech’s website.

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