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Art: Nat Damm
Matt Golden
President, Founder, and Chief Building Scientist, Recurve
Sausalito, Calif.
Matt Golden, 35, has become a golden boy of the nascent energy-efficiency industry. He started Recurve—formerly called Sustainable Spaces—back in 2004 before retrofit
was hip. While Recurve works on a software-driven solution to scale up
the energy-efficiency business from mom-and-pop shops to a sustainable
industry, Golden spends much of his time in Washington lobbying for Home Star and other legislation to fund energy-efficiency work and create thousands of jobs. Read more about Golden in a Grist article on Home Star and a Grist article on Sustainable Spaces.
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