GreenBiz

MARCH 16, 2023

I would love to see chefs convenience eaters that vegetables are awesome by focusing on celebrating vegetables instead of only trying to mimic meat.

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Renew Economy

MARCH 16, 2023

Study finds replacing 80% of town's gas power supply with a mix of solar and battery storage could deliver lifetime savings in the hundreds of millions. The post How switching out fossil gas for renewables could save this town $321 million appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 16, 2023

Google and LevelTen Energy are rethinking the clean energy procurement process to make it smarter and faster.

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Renew Economy

MARCH 16, 2023

Australia's trade partners - China, US, India, Japan and the EU – are making strategic public interventions at massive scale. Australia must act or lose out. The post EU piles pressure on Australia to seize once-in-a-century cleantech opportunity appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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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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GreenBiz

MARCH 16, 2023

We need to shape the boardrooms of the future by choice, not by chance.

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Renew Economy

MARCH 16, 2023

If the government is serious about cost-of-living relief and climate action, a bold plan to electrify Australian households is essential for May’s budget. The post Families need one stop shop, and budget support, to kick fossil fuels out of home appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Renew Economy

MARCH 16, 2023

VIDEO: Refurbished wind turbine blades make their way to 7+MW microgrid, where they will help power a garnet mine and local community. The post Preloved wind turbines from Netherlands help power remote mine in Australian outback appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Green Project Management

MARCH 16, 2023

How Can Project Organizations Benefit the Chief Sustainability Officer? The Chief Sustainability Officer (CSO) is becoming increasingly important in today’s business world. As companies become more aware of their impact on the environment and society, they hire professionals to help them navigate the complex sustainability landscape. However, being a successful CSO requires more than just […] The post The Importance of Chief Sustainability Officers Interfacing with Project Organizati

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Renew Economy

MARCH 16, 2023

Renewables hit record output in NSW as state swelters in Autumn heatwave, although supplies got tight in the evening peak due to coal and transmission problems. The post Renewables set new record output as NSW swelters in Autumn heatwave appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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ESG Today

MARCH 16, 2023

The European Commission announced today a series of proposals aimed at ensuring its place in the race to scale up clean tech industrial capacity for the net zero energy transition, including the launch of the Net-Zero Industry Act (NZIA), focused on the facilitation of clean technology industrial capabilities and capacity in Europe, and the European Critical Raw Materials Act, aimed at ensuring access to the raw materials necessary for the net zero, digital, aerospace and defense sectors.

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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.

Renew Economy

MARCH 16, 2023

Verdant Earth takes first step in latest bid to convert Redbank coal plant into a wood waste-fuelled power station – and green groups are not happy. The post Green group wages war against renewed bid to convert coal plant to woody biomass appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Stacey Higginbotham

MARCH 16, 2023

We kick off this week’s show with a focus on generative AI and what new models such as GPT-4 and even things like Stable Diffusion could mean for the internet of things. Along the way we disagree with an article trying to compare digital assistants such as Siri with ChatGPT, and highlight some of the opportunities generative AI provides , especially when it comes to robots.

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Renew Economy

MARCH 16, 2023

Energy demand is not an insatiable beast. There are a number of actions we can take to drive down our fossil gas consumption quickly. The post Does southern Australia really need more gas? appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Stacey Higginbotham

MARCH 16, 2023

On a recent Internet of Things Podcast , we took a voicemail from Brian on our podcast hotline. His mother is an assisted living facility and doesn’t always hear her phone ring so he’s looking for a solution to that problem. Brian asked if there’s some type of device he could connect to his mother’s television that would display text on the screen when her phone rings or when he texts her.

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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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Renew Economy

MARCH 16, 2023

Owner of biggest solar farm in Australia says industry is being battered by rising costs for both PV modules and battery storage. But it's not all bad news. The post How solar and storage developers got their market forecasts completely wrong appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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ESG Today

MARCH 16, 2023

Private equity investors are well ahead of their corporate peers in the process of integrating ESG considerations in the M&A dealmaking process, including being 3x more likely to conduct formal ESG due diligence, according to new poll results released by global professional services firm Deloitte. The survey of over 330 corporate M&A professionals and private equity investors also indicated that both group expect to significantly increase the integration of ESG factors in the M&A pro

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Renew Economy

MARCH 16, 2023

Acen Australia CEO Anton Rohner talks solar and storage after opening Australia’s biggest solar farm, and the controversy over Tasmania wind project. The post Energy Insiders Podcast: What price solar and storage? appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Impact Alpha

MARCH 16, 2023

Greetings, Agents of Impact! It’s time for Metrics Madness. ImpactAlpha, in partnership with the Southern Reconstruction Fund, is kicking off a tournament to. The post The Brief: Metrics Madness, Fink’s fine line on ESG, embedded finance in emerging markets, climate tech in Los Angeles, solar recycling, top impact CEOs appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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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

Just Capital

MARCH 16, 2023

Over our years of polling the public, we’ve heard time and again that Americans agree it is important for companies to make workers their top priority. They want to see companies pay their workers a fair, living wage, create jobs in communities that need them, and establish diverse and inclusive workplaces that provide opportunities for all employees to succeed.

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Utiliity Dive

MARCH 16, 2023

“To not protect these [bulk electric system] assets against one of the most frequent attack scenarios — supply chain — would be a big mistake,” said Willie Phillips, acting chairman of the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.

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ESG Today

MARCH 16, 2023

Faced with growing pressure from climate-focused lawsuits, energy giant Shell said in its newly released “Energy Transition Progress Report 2022” that litigation won’t help facilitate the transition of the world’s energy system to reach global climate goals. The company also said that it does not plan to set interim Scope 3 emissions targets, which would include emissions from the use of its energy products, such as oil and gas, as this would hurt the company financially and not contribute to mi

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Cisco CSR

MARCH 16, 2023

Whether you’re using a large virtual machine or beefy hardware server, running labs with a lot of nodes or labs with resource-hungry nodes in Cisco Modeling Labs (CML) can require a lot of memory/RAM… Read more on Cisco Blogs

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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.

Impact Alpha

MARCH 16, 2023

ImpactAlpha, March 16 – Lack of access to finance is a critical barrier to small business growth – and thus, to economic growth. The post Accion Venture Lab bets on ‘embedded finance’ in India, Pakistan and Indonesia appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Cisco CSR

MARCH 16, 2023

This article is authored by Matt Schmitz, Technical Solutions Specialist, Cisco’s Global Virtual Engineering (GVE) DevNet team. Visit the GVE DevNet GitHub page Where are my Metrics?

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Just Capital

MARCH 16, 2023

(Shapecharge/Getty Images) As diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) becomes an increasingly urgent priority in the U.S., the expectation is growing for corporate leaders to take meaningful action to advance racial equity in the workplace. Our survey research shows that DEI Issues remain a key element of just business behavior, with 92% of Americans saying that it is important for companies to promote racial equity in the workplace and 76% agreeing that reporting workforce demographics is a crit

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ESG Today

MARCH 16, 2023

TD Bank Group announced a series of new ESG and sustainable finance-focused measures today, including a goal to facilitate CAD$500 billion (USD$364 billion) in sustainable and decarbonization finance by 2030. The new ambition was unveiled with the release of the bank’s 2022 ESG reporting suite, which also included an expansion of TD’s financed emission reduction targets, and the establishment of a new economic inclusion-focused social framework.

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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.

Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 16, 2023

Swimming pools threatened with closure because of skyrocketing heating bills could get a reprieve from a new technology for waste heat reuse that is being described as a potential game changer. A UK start-up, Deep Green, has successfully trialled the scheme at a public pool in Exmouth that has cut its bills by around £20,000 per year. Unusually, the system involves locating a data centre underneath the pool, thereby generating a win-win, both for the pool owner (who gets lots of free heat), and

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ESG Today

MARCH 16, 2023

By: John McCalla-Leacy, Head of Global ESG at KPMG As the future of global sustainability reporting takes shape, the long-established Greenhouse Gas (GHG) Protocol looks set to play an integral role. And its decision to solicit input to understand user needs and improve the standards and guidance is timely. As examples, the draft IFRS® Sustainability Disclosure Standards, the EU’s draft European Sustainability Reporting Standards and the US SEC’s proposed rule on climate-related risk disclosure

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Utiliity Dive

MARCH 16, 2023

Proactive steps should be taken to account for the price volatility of raw materials needed for wind and solar, such as neodymium and polysilicon, the consulting firm says.

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McKinsey Sustainabilty

MARCH 16, 2023

Affordable broadband with wraparound support could expand access to cost-efficient virtual health for underserved communities. Seven actions could help state and local leaders unlock this opportunity.

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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.