{"id":553241,"date":"2010-04-22T18:44:51","date_gmt":"2010-04-22T22:44:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-04-22-matt-golden-growing-power-earth-day-40-people\/"},"modified":"2010-04-22T18:44:51","modified_gmt":"2010-04-22T22:44:51","slug":"matt-golden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/553241","title":{"rendered":"Matt Golden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tby Grist <\/p>\n<p>\n.series-head{background:url(http:\/\/www.grist.org\/i\/assets\/2\/forty_people\/40people_header_C.gif) no-repeat; height:68px; text-indent:-9999px;} h3.subscribe-head{padding-left:5px;background-color:black;color:#ff8400;} dl.series-nav{margin-top:-15px;} .media {float:left; width:300px; margin-right:10px;}\n<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Art: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.natdamm.com\" >Nat Damm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\nMatt Golden<\/p>\n<p>President, Founder, and Chief Building Scientist, Recurve<br \/> Sausalito, Calif.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Matt Golden, 35, has become a golden boy of the nascent energy-efficiency industry. He started <a href=\"http:\/\/www.recurve.com\/\" id=\"o4g9\" title=\"Recurve\">Recurve<\/a>&mdash;formerly called Sustainable Spaces&mdash;back in 2004 before retrofit<br \/>\nwas hip. While Recurve works on a software-driven solution to scale up<br \/>\nthe energy-efficiency business from mom-and-pop shops to a sustainable<br \/>\nindustry, Golden spends much of his time in Washington lobbying for <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.grist.org\/article\/home-star-gets-a-hearing\" id=\"d:ww\" title=\"Home Star\">Home Star<\/a> and other legislation to fund energy-efficiency work and create thousands of jobs. Read more about Golden in a <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.grist.org\/article\/2010-03-19-things-you-didnt-know-about-your-furnace\" id=\"sn7c\" title=\"Grist article about Home Star\">Grist article on Home Star<\/a> and a <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.grist.org\/article\/2009-06-18-sustainable-spaces-business\" id=\"xick\" title=\"Grist article on Sustainable Spaces\">Grist article on Sustainable Spaces<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/twitter.com\/goldenmatt\" style=\"display:block; background:url(\/i\/assets\/2\/twitter_20x20.png) 0 0 no-repeat; height:20px; padding-left:25px; padding-top:2px\">Follow Golden on Twitter.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Meet <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.grist.org\/earthday40\">more people who are redefining green<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.grist.org\/article\/2010-04-22-zakiya-harris-grind-for-the-green-earth-day-40-people\"><strong>Next &raquo;<\/strong><\/a>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related Links:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-05-04-drilling-moratorium-must-come-with-commitment-to-conserve\/\">Any drilling moratorium must be accompanied by a commitment to conserve<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-04-27-14-buildings-compete-to-be-the-biggest-energy-loser\/\">14 buildings compete to be the Biggest Loser (of energy waste)<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.grist.org\/article\/2010-04-26-green-tea-party-closes-out-u.s.-earth-day-celebrations\/\">&#8216;Green tea party&#8217; closes out U.S. Earth Day celebrations<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<br clear=\"both\" style=\"clear: both;\"\/><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/click.phdo?s=c6636305e7be7fa44701315a099673df&#038;p=1\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 0;\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/ads.pheedo.com\/img.phdo?s=c6636305e7be7fa44701315a099673df&#038;p=1\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" height=\"0\" width=\"0\" border=\"0\" style=\"display:none\" src=\"http:\/\/ib.adnxs.com\/seg?add=24595&#038;t=2\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>by Grist .series-head{background:url(http:\/\/www.grist.org\/i\/assets\/2\/forty_people\/40people_header_C.gif) no-repeat; height:68px; text-indent:-9999px;} h3.subscribe-head{padding-left:5px;background-color:black;color:#ff8400;} dl.series-nav{margin-top:-15px;} .media {float:left; width:300px; margin-right:10px;} 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&mdash;formerly called Sustainable Spaces&mdash;back in 2004 before retrofit was hip. While Recurve works on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":765,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-553241","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/765"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=553241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/553241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=553241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=553241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=553241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}