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There's a big climate cost to failing to recognize Indigenous sovereignty

Corporate Knights

In December, a federal judge found that Enel Green Power, an Italian energy corporation operating an 84-turbine wind farm on the Osage Reservation for nearly a decade, had trespassed on Native land. courts to side so clearly with tribal nations and actually expel developers trespassing on their land. Department of Energy.

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How transforming the mica supply chain transforms lives

GreenBiz

How transforming the mica supply chain transforms lives. For those coming from the western world, visiting Jharkhand and other towns in India’s mica belt can be a jolting experience. He explained to me how mica moves through the community. Joel Makower. Tue, 10/06/2020 - 02:11. Second of two parts. Read Part One here.

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How the Navajo got their day in the sun

GreenBiz

How the Navajo got their day in the sun. In late March, during the early hours of the COVID-19 crisis, just as New Yorkers were realizing how many might die, a small solar development company closed a $4 million financing deal. We need to put people back to work in creating the clean energy future. Danny Kennedy.

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Web3 and the Trap of ‘For Good’

Stanford Social Innovation

On February 2, 2022, World Wildlife Federation-UK set social media on fire by announcing “Tokens for Nature,” a fundraising campaign that would sell non-fungible tokens (NFTs) to ​support efforts to protect thirteen of the world’s most endangered species. By Scott Smith & Lina Srivastava.

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Inside Eastman’s moonshot goal for endlessly circular plastics

GreenBiz

With both CRT and PRT, hard-to-recycle plastics can be recycled an infinite number of times, says Eastman, creating products that can claim high levels of certified recycled content — a true closed loop. By the end of World War II, Eastman was managing a project to produce enriched uranium for the Manhattan Project.

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Investors’ Commodities Exposures in Transition

Chris Hall

Julian Poulter, Head of Investor Relations at the Inevitable Policy Response, explains how a new initiative could overhaul the commodities narrative for investors. With the development of these new forward-looking indices, investors can now acknowledge their positive expectations of the new commodities exposure.

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25 badass women shaping climate action in 2021

GreenBiz

As I began identifying leaders to include on this third annual list, I was inspired by the introduction to " All We Can Save ," an essay and poem collection co-edited by marine biologist Ayana Elizabeth Johnson (who you can find on this year’s list) and Katharine Wilkinson (who we recognized on the first Badass Women list in 2019). .