Susan Kraemer

Current

• Writer covering renewable energy at Cleantechnica, Gas 2.0 and Greenbuilding Elements
• Writer at HomeDesignFind

Past

• Solar Sales at Fresco Solar
• Freelance Writer at Cities Go Green
• Freelance Writer at Matter Network

• CEO / Designer at my 3 design businesses
• CEO / Designer at Cotton Kids

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Education

• University of Auckland

Recommended

4 people have recommended Susan

Connections

31 connections

Industry

Renewables & Environment

Websites

• Old archived writing
• Rabblerousing

Susan Kraemer’s Summary

I write about sustainable solutions to the fix we find ourselves in as a species attempting to live within our (planet's) means, and I advocate for good climate policy.My goal is to help birth a zero carbon economy.

My background is that of a longtime serial entrepreneur in design businesses. I have founded 3 start-ups, for which I drafted the business plans, conceived, launched, marketed and set up factories to make successful product designs that I created. The three businesses I designed kept food on many tables, and ours, for 33 years.

Seeking out innovation in energy ideas is not unlike the same quest for innovation in other fields, and it is much more imperative that we locate and push these into the world.

My writing is also informed by my brief career as a solar salesperson - when I discovered that I am afraid of heights.

Now I find and advocate for and publicize the many good solutions we can find for climate change, both in great new innovations and in clever new policy ideas.

Susan Kraemer’s Specialties:

Renewable energy: solar estimates and sales, financial payback analysis and presentation, policy advocacy, technical writing, web layout design, marketing materials, social marketing, SEO SEM optimization

Former CEO of design business as owner/designer: design, local manufacturing, entrepreneurship, sustainable business, contracting, factory project management, wholesale, offshore manufacturing, retail stores management, web design, web marketing

Susan Kraemer’s Experience

• Writer covering renewable energy

  Cleantechnica, Gas 2.0 and Greenbuilding Elements

  (Privately Held; Renewables & Environment industry)

  November 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)

  I write about renewable energy, sustainable solutions and climate policy news by scouring rss newsfeeds, press releases, innovation research news, and company websites.
  
  I condense the technical language in the original research and attempt to make the real implications of the news flow naturally and persuasively for the general reader.

• Writer

  HomeDesignFind

  (Online Media industry)

  November 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)

  I cover green building for HomeDesignFind

• Solar Sales

  Fresco Solar

  (Environmental Services industry)

  January 2009 — June 2009 (6 months)

  I directly help businesses and homeowners lower their CO2 emissions, by showing them their options for making their own solar electricity, hot water, home heating and cooling - more cost-effectively than continuing to rent it from PG&E in the California Bay Area.

• Freelance Writer

  Cities Go Green

  (Online Media industry)

  December 2008 — December 2008 (1 month)

  CitiesGoGreen is a very exciting start-up - sharing tips and ideas between cities on how cities can go green.
  
  It is a novel idea in itself to set up to not just advocate for greener municipal organizations, but, from an inside perspective, to actually share tips among cities on how to actually get there with innovative municipal policies.
  
  I have just made my first freelance contribution.

• Freelance Writer

  Matter Network

  (Online Media industry)

  August 2008 — October 2008 (3 months)

  I broke into environmental writing here and completely fell flat on my face. My editors taught me that it is far from enough to merely be a passionate advocate for eco innovation. There's grammar, and so on. I am still learning...

• CEO / Designer

  my 3 design businesses

  (Design industry)

  1975 — 2008 (33 years )

  My design and business history as a serial entrepreneur is detailed in the website link above: Prior sustainable businesses.

• CEO / Designer

  Cotton Kids

  (Apparel & Fashion industry)

  1986 — 2000 (14 years )

  I started a cotton line of garment-dyed clothing thinking that cotton was an eco alternative to the oil-based polyesters prevalent in childrenswear back then.
  
  I enjoyed the challenge of finding sustainable balance by designing a way to make clothing both simply and locally so that both my loyal customers and my 22 super sewing people got a fair deal.
  
  Everything was locally garment-dyed and I retailed them to many wonderful people from my two stores here in the Bay Area.

Susan Kraemer’s Education

• University of Auckland

  B.A , Fine Art , 1968 — 1971

Additional Information

Susan Kraemer’s Websites:

• Old archived writing
• Rabblerousing

Susan Kraemer’s Interests:

Creating a zero carbon future. Innovative ideas to that end.

Susan Kraemer’s Groups:

PlugInAmerica, CalCars, Solar Nation, Dailykos Environmentlists, SFKossacks, N.R.D.C. Union of Concerned Scientists, Step It Up, MainstreetMOMS,

•    GreenBiz.com -- Green Business Professionals

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