{"id":70,"name":"Scott Cooney","url":"http:\/\/www.greenbusinessowner.com\/about\/","description":"Scott Cooney (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twitter.com\/scottcooney\/\">twitter: scottcooney<\/a>) is an adjunct professor of Sustainability in the MBA program at the University of Hawai'i, <a href=\"http:\/\/greenbusinessowner.com\/about\/\">green business startup coach<\/a>, author of <i><a href=\"http:\/\/greenbusinessowner.com\/about\/book\/\">Build a Green Small Business: Profitable Ways to Become an Ecopreneur<\/a><\/i> (McGraw-Hill), and developer of the <a href=\"http:\/\/greenbusinessowner.com\/about\/gbo-hawaii\/\">sustainability board game GBO Hawai'i<\/a>.  Scott has started, grown and sold two mission-driven businesses, failed miserably at a third, and is currently in his fourth. Scott's current company has three divisions: a sustainability blog network that includes the world's biggest clean energy website and reached over 5 million readers in December 2013 alone; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ponohome.com\">Pono Home, a turnkey and franchiseable green home consulting service<\/a> that won entrance into the clean tech incubator known as Energy Excelerator; and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.costofsolar.com\">Cost of Solar<\/a>, a solar lead generation service to connect interested homeowners and solar contractors. In his spare time, Scott surfs, plays ultimate frisbee and enjoys a good, long bike ride.","link":"https:\/\/inspiredeconomist.com\/author\/scottcooney\/","slug":"scottcooney","avatar_urls":{"24":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/05ac9c30bca383b95ed213b7cb7e221d?s=24&d=mm&r=g","48":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/05ac9c30bca383b95ed213b7cb7e221d?s=48&d=mm&r=g","96":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/05ac9c30bca383b95ed213b7cb7e221d?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"meta":[],"simple_local_avatar":null,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspiredeconomist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inspiredeconomist.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users"}]}}