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The compelling case for being ‘climate positive by design’

GreenBiz

Designing climate positive societies, workplaces and widgets is the missing element in climate models and, by consequence, climate action.

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South Australia wind farms lift Australia to record monthly output in August

Renew Economy

Four wind farms in South Australia lead country to record monthly wind output in August. The post South Australia wind farms lift Australia to record monthly output in August appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Green is good: The ESG talent war in private equity

GreenBiz

ESG roles are opening at an increasing clip at private equity firms both small and large. What’s behind the trend, and how is private equity skilling and staffing up to meet the moment?

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German government proposes limited extension of “high risk” nuclear

Renew Economy

German economy and climate minister says tweak to nuclear exit law will only entail a limited extension until spring next year, due to the technology's risks. The post German government proposes limited extension of “high risk” nuclear appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.

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Dolly told us to sing in the sunshine, and Sunfolding listened

GreenBiz

In Part 2 of the WWDPD series, we take a deeper look at how California-based Sunfolding is changing the solar panel game.

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Paying billions in subsidies to fossil fuel industry makes absolutely no economic sense

Renew Economy

Subsidies serve an important function, but it makes absolutely no economic sense to subsidise things a government is, or should be, trying to discourage. The post Paying billions in subsidies to fossil fuel industry makes absolutely no economic sense appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Spanish energy giant Iberdrola to invest $A4.4 billion in Australian energy transition

Renew Economy

Spanish energy giant Iberdrola says it plans to spend up to $4.4 billion on Australia renewable and storage developments. The post Spanish energy giant Iberdrola to invest $A4.4 billion in Australian energy transition appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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DraftKings Taps The Miz and Tony Hawk for its New Responsible Gaming Advertising Campaign: Practice Safe Bets

3BL Media

SOURCE: DraftKings. DESCRIPTION: BOSTON, September 7, 2022 /3BL Media/ - DraftKings Inc. (Nasdaq: DKNG) (“DraftKings” or the “Company”) today announced its newest responsible gaming initiative – the Practice Safe Bets advertising campaign – as the Company marks the American Gaming Association’s inaugural Responsible Gaming Education Month this September.

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Green hydrogen industry is sick of feasibility studies, wants backing for showcase projects

Renew Economy

Australia's green hydrogen hopefuls are tired of feasibility studies, and want support for a large scale project to show path to global dominance. The post Green hydrogen industry is sick of feasibility studies, wants backing for showcase projects appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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KeyBank, Buffalo GoGreen and African Heritage Food Co-Op Team Up To Bring Farmers Market to East Buffalo Neighborhood

3BL Media

SOURCE: KeyBank. DESCRIPTION: In an effort to encourage sustained, meaningful and transformational change in East Buffalo, KeyBank , Buffalo GoGreen and the African Heritage Food Co-Op are partnering to bring a bi-weekly farmers market to the city’s Delavan-Grider neighborhood. The market brings fresh fruits and vegetables to neighborhoods with few options and is part of KeyBank’s ongoing response to the mass shooting in Buffalo that took place on May 14th.

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Are Your Impact Comms Resonating With Stakeholders?

Whether your organization is at the start of its sustainability and impact journey or years into it, many brands share a common concern: the uncertainty of whether they are sending stakeholders mixed messages. Creating content that speaks to your audience's “love language” can be a tricky dance. But, worry not! 3BL has put together tips to ensure that your content not only finds its rhythm but also resonates with your target audiences.

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“Act of climate vandalism” as new PM names Rees-Mogg as UK energy minister

Renew Economy

MP who advocated for syphoning “every last cubic inch of gas” from the North Sea, the resumption of fracking, and the rejection of wind farms, to lead UK on energy and climate. The post “Act of climate vandalism” as new PM names Rees-Mogg as UK energy minister appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Multi-Stakeholder Public-Private Partnerships: Collaboration, Innovation and Growth

3BL Media

Caroline Rubin, Managing Associate at Nathan Associates, on our impactful public-private partnership with USAID and Qualcomm® Wireless Reach™. SOURCE: Qualcomm. DESCRIPTION: Our WEAVE project ran in Indonesia and Vietnam in 2020 and 2021. It successfully supported over 12,000 women entrepreneurs through our three online programmes – in the midst of the global pandemic.

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Sunshine state dominates winter performance tables for solar PV

Renew Economy

Strong winter sun helps Queensland solar farms dominate list of best performing large scale solar PV assets in August. The post Sunshine state dominates winter performance tables for solar PV appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Booster® Expands Mobile Fueling Services Coast to Coast

3BL Media

In response to growing enterprise customer demand, Booster expands its energy delivery platform to 13 major markets across the U.S. SOURCE: Booster Fuels. DESCRIPTION: SAN MATEO, Calif., September 7, 2022 /3BL Media/ - In response to growing customer demand from enterprise fleets looking to optimize costs, lower carbon emissions and source renewable fuels, Booster ®, the leading tech-driven mobile energy delivery company, announces that it is expanding services across the United States with seve

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Mastering Supply Chain Sustainability: Where Does ESG Fit In?

Speaker: Hortense Grouvel

In this new webinar, you will learn firsthand how to set up a sustainable supply chain program that will help meet increasing ESG requirements stemming from regulators, customers, consumers, and investors alike. Hortense Grouvel, ESG expert at IntegrityNext, and Sean Whelan, Global Senior Manager at Halliburton, will look at how ensuring compliance will also help you increase sustainability performance, resilience, and innovation, allowing you to unlock the full potential of your supply chain op

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St Baker tips millions into Australian electric aircraft technology

Renew Economy

St Baker Energy Innovation Fund joins $23m fundraising for company behind "world’s most efficient" electric vertical take-off and landing technology. The post St Baker tips millions into Australian electric aircraft technology appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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3M and Vomela Effort Keep Plastic Endcaps Out of Landfills

3BL Media

SOURCE: 3M. DESCRIPTION: Working together is more effective than working alone and that’s exactly what 3M and Vomela, a graphics and printing company, are doing with one sustainability challenge. The duo joined forces in 2019 on a project to reuse plastic endcaps which are crucial for transit because they protect 3M’s commercial graphics film from damage during shipping.

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How to make cities greener and cooler as temperatures soar

GreenBiz

Building a new investment asset class of “urban forest” carbon credits to save the trees in population centers.

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Whirlpool Community Charity Golf Event Raised Nearly $2.6 Million for Area Youth

3BL Media

SOURCE: Whirlpool Corporation. DESCRIPTION: August 18, 2022 /3BL Media/ The 19th year of the Whirlpool Community Charity Golf Event held on Aug. 7-8 raised $2,589,000 for youth in Berrien County. The two day event included rounds of golf on six courses for more than 650 people from all over the U.S., Canada, United Kingdom, Mexico and China, a Fireside Chat with Jack Nicklaus and Ken “Hawk” Harrelson, a Silent Auction and Live Auction.

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What Regulations Will Impact Sustainability Comms in 2024?

Navigating the waters of sustainability reporting disclosures and regulations can be intimidating, to say the least. With various measures set in motion in 2023 to keep companies accountable, there is a lot in store for brands’ impact communication in the upcoming year. 3BL is kicking off this January with our Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Capricorn Edition by highlighting the impact of: The U.S Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Climate disclosure rules The European Commission

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Reducing food loss: What grocery retailers and manufacturers can do

McKinsey Sustainabilty

An estimated $600 billion worth of food is lost during or just after harvest. Can manufacturers and grocers do anything about it? Definitely—and it will be good for business, people, and the planet.

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Alibaba-Backed C2 Capital Invests in Plant-Based Food Start-Up Eat Just

3BL Media

By Alison Tudor Ackroyd. SOURCE: Alibaba Group. DESCRIPTION: Alibaba Group-backed private equity firm C2 Capital Partners has invested $25 million in Eat Just, the food-technology company behind the successful plant-based egg brand, JUST Egg. C2 will deploy its growth capital and operational support to support San Francisco-based Eat Just’s go-to-market strategies, sales, branding, consumer insights, hiring and regulatory approach in China, Eat Just said in a statement on Wednesday.

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Is the quest for exceptional digital experiences outpacing your IT resources and expertise?

Cisco CSR

Exceptional digital experiences do not happen by chance . In today’s fast-changing business world, IT teams face a range of challenges as they work to bring exceptional digital experiences to market and to their customers. These challenges can vary from choosing the best strategy, talent, and expertise to implementing and managing execution risks. .

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Hybrid Working: Five Ways To Create a Powerful Hybrid Office

3BL Media

Struggling to find a hybrid working model that suits you and the teams you work with? Here are five ways to change that. SOURCE: Ericsson. DESCRIPTION: By Peter Linder , Head of 5G Marketing North America. If you’ve reflected lately about what hybrid working means for you and your workplace, then my guess is you’re not alone. As more businesses move toward hybrid working, there are at least five areas where you can improve your game: from where you work and when you work, to how you commute and

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What Questions Are Brands Asking About Their ESG Initiatives Ahead of 2024?

Temperatures are rising (and not just metaphorically) as key stakeholders anxiously anticipate the outcomes of COP28. While companies reconsider their 2024 environmental sustainability strategies, there is another aspect of ESG that deserves exploring, the social sector. In the latest edition of "Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Sagittarius Edition", 3BL hones in on this sign’s bold quality of asking questions others are burning to know the answers to.

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Can TinyML really provide on-device learning?

Stacey Higginbotham

Imagine if your smart speaker could be trained to recognize your accent, or if a pair of running shoes could alert you in real time if your gait changed, indicating fatigue. Or if, in the industrial world, sensors could parse vibration information from a machine that changed location and function often in real time, halting the machine if that information suggested there was a problem.

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Accelerating Purposeful Innovation in Healthcare

3BL Media

By Tobi Elkin and Brad Jolly. SOURCE: Keysight Technologies. DESCRIPTION: As the internet of medical things (IoMT) evolves, the healthcare sector is experiencing a digital renaissance that is improving the experience of both patients and practitioners. The remote care facilitated by the IoMT results in better patient outcomes and improves the experience of healthcare workers.

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J.P. Morgan Launches New Digital ESG Platform for Investors

ESG Today

J.P. Morgan announced today the launch of ESG Discovery, a new digital platform aimed at providing investors with a central source for ESG views from the firm’s sector and ESG analysts, and enabling assessments of current and forward-looking company and sector material ESG risks, opportunities and impacts. According to J.P. Morgan, the new platform was developed in response to growing client demand for “a more structured and fundamental ESG view.

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MilliporeSigma and Harris Stowe State University Partner to Spark Scientific Curiosity in Students

3BL Media

SOURCE: MilliporeSigma. DESCRIPTION: To help introduce students to STEM early and prepare them for a potential career in the field, MilliporeSigma , the U.S. and Canada Life Science business of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, and its local partner Harris Stowe State University (HSSU), provided educational opportunities and networking experiences to Missouri middle school students through a two-week residential STEM camp.

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The Silver Lining to Corporate DEI Challenges

In our latest edition of Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Scorpio Edition, 3BL embraces the perspective of one of the zodiac's most misunderstood signs: Scorpio. While this sign often has a darker view of the world, they do not shy away from shining a light on controversial topics. This month we take a deep dive into corporate pullback of DEI and how companies can utilize astrological advice to reinvent its social impact communication.

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Cisco’s next move in the Media and Content Provider industry with Intel

Cisco CSR

I love looking at trends and guessing where the next innovation is coming from. It is kind of like guessing what kind of presents you will get on your birthday or what your class will be like when you start grade-school. Either way, I get excited about new things. That excitement leads me to share several innovations, partnerships and success stories as Cisco prepares to attend the International Broadcast Convention (IBC) Sept. 9-12 in Amsterdam.

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FedEx Business Spotlight: Girls Chronically Rock!

3BL Media

SOURCE: FedEx Corporation. DESCRIPTION: For as long as she can remember, Cambridge, MA native Keisha Greaves has had a “passion for fashion” and wanted to be her own boss. She held onto that dream as she graduated from college, but it was while she was in grad school at age 24 that she got the news that would change her life – Keisha was diagnosed with Limb-Girdle Muscular Dystrophy (MD).

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A giant Jurassic sea dragon, unearthed | Dean R. Lomax

TEDxInnovations

Among the dinosaurs, giant sea dragons roamed the ancient ocean. Millions of years later, paleontologist Dean R. Lomax and his team freed the remains of one of these colossal creatures from the Earth. Settle in to learn about the once-in-a-lifetime discovery of the 10-meter-long Rutland ichthyosaur: the largest and most complete ichthyosaur ever unearthed in Britain and one of the greatest finds in the country's paleontological history.

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Valuing Water Finance Initiative: A Watershed Moment

3BL Media

SOURCE: Ceres. DESCRIPTION: Kirsten James, Ceres Senior Program Director, Water. From the recent destructive flooding in Kentucky and Mississippi to the dwindling Colorado River supply, no one is spared from the global water crisis that is accelerating before our eyes. Water is the world’s most precious natural resource. It is essential to industries, communities, and ecosystems.

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Supercharge Your ESG Content This Libra Season

Throughout Climate Week, a feeling of urgency on tackling the climate crisis was palpable. Yet, questions continue to linger about corporate progress. Are we truly moving the needle or are we stuck in a cycle of empty statements and a flood of reports and guidelines? In the latest edition of Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Libra Edition , we use Climate Week outcomes to explore how brands can communicate progress credibly.