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Entergy Arkansas Awards $110,000 Grants to Statewide Nonprofits

3BL Media

In honor of its 110 th anniversary, the state’s largest and oldest electric provider is donating more than half a million dollars as part of its “Entergy Arkansas Bright Futures Campaign” to six partner nonprofits to help build strong communities across its 63-county service territory for a total of $660,000.

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Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South

GreenBiz

This story was originally published by Southerly , in partnership with Scalawag and Environmental Health News for its Powerlines series, which looks at climate change, justice, and infrastructure in the American South. South, where companies find ample forests, lax business regulations, and ports along the Atlantic coast.

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New leaders at Patagonia, McDonald's, Netflix

GreenBiz

Who's news. B-Lab co-founder Jay Coen Gilbert is the new co-chair of the new Imperative 21 campaign to "reset capitalism.". Cortney Worrall is the new president and CEO of the nonprofit Waterfront Alliance , which pushes for resilience along the New York and New Jersey coasts. Names in the News.

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What if there was a cooking oil that didn't drive deforestation?

Corporate Knights

The marketing campaign worked. Its success gave birth to a new era of cooking fats. That’s not good news for the Earth. To grow oil crops, particularly palm and soybeans, farming corporations are cutting down carbon-rich forests, threatening climate goals and biodiversity. Crisco took off.

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Little Things Make a Big Difference

Chris Hall

Fires are turning biodiverse forests in California and wetlands in Argentina and Brazil into charred landscapes. The world’s forests alone store 1.5 Forests In 2020 alone, the world lost 12 million hectares of tropical forests, an area of land larger than Malawi. The world’s ecosystems are under threat.

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How Your Business Can Achieve Climate Neutrality

3BL Media

Climate neutrality is the concept of achieving net zero greenhouse gas emissions by balancing the emissions human sources release into the Earth’s atmosphere with the amount the planet naturally absorbs in emission “sinks,” like forests and oceans, via a process called sequestration. What Is Climate Neutrality?

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Let’s also not pretend we can reach our climate goals without trees

We Mean Business Coalition

An example of this is the recent New York Times opinion piece by an IPCC author, which joins a divisive campaign against those advocating for the need to both protect forests and grow new ones. without nature – including both the protection of our remaining forests and restoring damaged ecosystems.