GreenBiz

AUGUST 10, 2020

Terreform ONE’s plans to upend cities and suburbs in a post-pandemic world. Joel Makower. Mon, 08/10/2020 - 02:11. And now for some serious fun. Last week, I had the opportunity to facilitate an online conversation with Terreform ONE , a Brooklyn, New York-based nonprofit architecture and urban design research group whose humble mission is “to combat the extinction of planetary species through pioneering acts of design.”.

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Impact Alpha

AUGUST 12, 2020

ImpactAlpha, Aug. 12 – More than two-dozen investment funds are making investments in tropical forests and communities. The funds have at least $2.6 billion in capital to invest in firms and projects generating revenue from tropical forestry and agriculture products and benefiting smallholder farmers and forest-dependent communities. “Combating deforestation, incentivizing conservation, and improving livelihoods requires.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2020

A trial is underway in forests in Surrey and Northumberland to assess the potential for Internet of Things (IoT) technology to monitor tree growth and the impacts of environmental change on the UK’s forests. Vodafone is funding the project, which is being conducted in partnership with Defra and the UK research organisation Forest Research. It will monitor tree growth and the impacts of environmental change on the UK’s forests.

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Daniel Burrus

AUGUST 12, 2020

The predictability of disruption as an innovation accelerator is a central component of the Anticipatory Organization Model , focusing closely on how Anticipatory Organizations and Anticipatory Leaders can look at disruption and see enormous opportunities. The untimely situation we have been facing with COVID-19 is no exception. Not only has every industry been touched by the coronavirus pandemic and subsequent lockdowns, every country has.

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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

AUGUST 12, 2020

Sustainable fleets are at an inflection point. Katie Fehrenbacher. Wed, 08/12/2020 - 00:15. Companies and cities are increasingly adopting lower-carbon fleets — including trucks and buses that run off electricity, renewable diesel and renewable natural gas — according to a new report from the research team at Gladstein, Neandross and Associates (GNA). .

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Impact Alpha

AUGUST 13, 2020

ImpactAlpha, August 13 – Venture capital firm S2G Ventures invests in sustainable agrifood technology. It’s now expanding into ocean health and sustainable seafood. Oceans provide a critical food source for billions of people and are crucial link in tackling climate change. S2G’s Oceans and Seafood fund will back early- and growth-stage startups developing science and.

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EMG CSR

AUGUST 12, 2020

Reporting of non-financial information: By presenting an organization’s values and governance model, well-communicated and inclusive reports can not only demonstrate the link between core strategy and commitment to a sustainable economy, but can help forward-thinking organizations to set goals and manage change more effectively, leading to a greater financial and social return on investment.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 13, 2020

2020: Fossil fuels are dead, long live the sun. Hunter Lovins. Thu, 08/13/2020 - 00:15. We’re female entrepreneurs and environmentalists. We’ve spent decades promoting clean energy technologies. In this strangest of all years, as the death toll mounts from a disease caused by human incursions into once intact ecosystems, we’re observing another death — the demise of fossil fuels.

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Impact Alpha

AUGUST 14, 2020

ImpactAlpha, Aug. 14 – It’s been a busy summer for Maurice Jones. If community development financial institutions are an overnight sensation decades in the making, Jones and his Local Initiatives Support Corp., or LISC, are the belle of the ball. In June and July alone, LISC landed a $60 million inclusive economic development partnership with. The post Agent of Impact: Maurice Jones, Local Initiatives Support Corp. appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2020

Renewable energy projects in the agri-food sector excluded from BEIS’s RHI Covid-19 Extension. Includes 20MW of previously-eligible renewable heat projects on farms and factory sites. Undermines Government ambitions to deliver Carbon Net Zero and to ‘build back better’. British biogas businesses are urging Kwasi Kwarteng MP, Minister for Business, Energy and Clean Growth, to include all eligible renewable heat projects in the Covid-19 Extension of the Non-Domestic Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI),

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EMG CSR

AUGUST 12, 2020

It is globally acknowledged that aid, if it is to make a real impact on reducing poverty and suffering; needs to be targeted, relevant, and compatible with local cultures and religious traditions. The realisation is growing that the principles inherent in Islamic countries have a great contribution to make to this discussion, particularly in terms [.].

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 12, 2020

How cities can influence the energy system. Heather House. Wed, 08/12/2020 - 00:45. As U.S. cities and counties transition to clean energy for their own operations and communities, many are finding that stakeholders and policies beyond their jurisdictions affect their ability to purchase clean energy. Policy and regulatory decisions made by states, utilities, public utilities commissions and wholesale market governing bodies determine the clean energy procurement options available to cities and

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Impact Alpha

AUGUST 13, 2020

ImpactAlpha, Aug. 13 – How Women Invest, a San Rafael, Calif.-based venture capital firm, is aiming to raise $10 million for its first fund from up to 249 accredited investors. The mission, fund cofounder Erika Cramer told ImpactAlpha, is to bring more diverse women into the venture capital world and, in turn, fund more diverse. The post How Women Invest closes first $5 million for new gender lens fund appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 13, 2020

Scottish Renewables’ Annual Conference is to be held online for the first time on 1-3 September. The event will feature speakers from organisations including Ofgem, Committee on Climate Change, Scottish Government and National Grid. At the heart of discussion will be the green economic recovery from coronavirus and Scotland’s net-zero target, according to the organisers.

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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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Sustainable Development Network

AUGUST 11, 2020

The challenge of offering a comprehensive response to COVID-19 in the Amazon, focused on reducing disparities in health access faced by indigenous populations in the region, led to the creation of the "Amazon Indigenous Health Route," an initiative of the Hivos organization, through the All Eyes on the Amazon program. The solution was announced on Thursday, August 6, as the first prize winner of the 2020 SDSN Amazonia Award, promoted by the Sustainable Development Solutions Network for the Amazo

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 13, 2020

Renewable Natural Gas: Today’s Carbon-Negative Fuel. Renewable natural gas sits at the intersection of two critical challenges: addressing increased emissions from organic waste and laying the foundation for zero carbon transportation across all sectors.? By turning waste into fuel, renewable natural gas delivers negative-carbon fuel to fleets today with a production process where resources are continuously used and reused – fueling a sustainable, circular economy.

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Impact Alpha

AUGUST 13, 2020

ImpactAlpha, Aug. 13 – The national reckoning with racial justice has generated a raft of reports and resources for investors. Recent contributions: Inconvenient truths. Social-justice investing firm Robasciotti & Philipson examines the industry’s history of systemic racism and challenges long-held industry beliefs stifling change in its Race in Finance series.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2020

Shrill carder bees. A conservation project at Thames Water’s Long Reach sewage works in Kent has created an unexpected haven for the rarest bumblebee in England. Shrill carder bees ( Bombus sylvarum ) have made an unlikely home in the grounds of the sewage treatment works and their local population at the site has been seemingly boosted after an extensive effort by Thames Water and the Bumblebee Conservation Trust.

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Sense and Sustainability

AUGUST 11, 2020

Though it has become easier and easier to forget the discussions of yesterday in today’s fast-spinning wheel of news cycles, not too long ago the question surrounding the coronavirus pandemic was one of a trade-off: health or economy? The title of a New York Times panel discussion published on the 10 th of April sums the thinking up nicely, reading “Restarting America Means People Will Die.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 9, 2020

rePurpose. saracefalu2. Sun, 08/09/2020 - 14:59. rePurpose Global is a movement of conscious consumers & businesses going Plastic Neutral by financing the removal of ocean-bound plastic worldwide. We are here to reinvent the wheel of the world’s resource economy - one where our duty to protect the planet is ethically shared among manufacturers, consumers, and recycler.

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Impact Alpha

AUGUST 10, 2020

ImpactAlpha, August 10 – EIT Food makes early investments in European companies advancing a sustainable food system. The initiative of the European Institute for Innovation Technology committed bridge funding to help 13 startups weather COVID disruptions and continue research and development. The companies include Poland’s plant-based protein startup NapiFeryn, which will use the funding to.

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EMG CSR

AUGUST 11, 2020

EMG is a leading international management consulting firm specialized in CSR and sustainable development with unique and in-depth experience Governmental bodies, private and non-profit sector organizations are all essential stakeholders in the generation of shared value. By ensuring strategy is aligned with the wider sustainability agenda, organizations can become benefactors in social and environmental welfare [.].

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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.

Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2020

A seemingly state-of-the-art drilling technique has allowed Thames Water to install a vital new sewage pipe while protecting a centuries-old country path used by medieval monks. According to the utility, engineers had to think outside the box when fitting the new pipe at Selborne sewage treatment works in Hampshire, which is close to the ruins of a priory and is surrounded by protected woodland and historic monuments.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 14, 2020

So far, this year is a microgrid letdown. Here is what's next. Sarah Golden. Fri, 08/14/2020 - 00:45. I had high hopes for microgrids this year. The cost has fallen, out-of-the-box solutions are more common and businesses and homes understand the expense of losing power. All signs pointed to this being the year of the microgrid. . Yet here we are, at the start of the new fire season, and we’re just launching programs and soliciting proposals designed to add more resilience.

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Impact Alpha

AUGUST 12, 2020

ImpactAlpha, August 12 – TemperPack makes thermal insulation for delivery of perishable goods and medicine. The Richmond, Va.-based company raised its Series C round amid “significant growth,” accelerated by COVID and the rising demand for home delivery. The pandemic is likely to spur “lasting changes in e-commerce behavior as well as increased interest in sustainability.

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Eco-Business

AUGUST 12, 2020

Famous for innovation in consumer electronics and a progressive approach to sustainability, Samsung has been called out for links to the construction of the controversial Vung Ang 2 coal-fired power plant in Vietnam.

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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

AUGUST 10, 2020

Glenfield Invicta says it aims to provide customers with the optimal penstock engineering and installation solution on every project. Water firm Glenfield Invicta offers perspective on specifying penstocks, and its own product offering. In isolation, a penstock is a simple sluice or gate that controls the flow of fluids in open environments. In reality, as any water engineer will tell you, specifying, building and installing an effective penstock is a challenging exercise.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 13, 2020

This carbon challenge is bigger than cars, aviation and shipping combined. Adam Aston. Thu, 08/13/2020 - 02:15. You may not know it, but you rely on industrial heat every day. It helped make the bricks that hold up your home; the cement underfoot. It forged the steel and glass in your car, and it also cooked the aluminum, plastic and silicon in the very screen on which you may be reading these words. .

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Impact Alpha

AUGUST 10, 2020

ImpactAlpha, Aug. 10 – Public market investors increasingly are deploying ESG, or environmental, social and governance, investing strategies to manage risks and opportunities in company operations. Private-market impact investing puts the focus on outcomes, or how the company’s products and services deliver education, healthcare, financial access and other social or environmental goals.

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Eco-Business

AUGUST 11, 2020

Scientists from Australia and Malaysia have found a sugar with many reported health benefits present in the honey produced by five species of stingless bees. The finding could lead to increased interest from consumers.

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