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Community solar, urban trees and the digitization of employee engagement

GreenBiz

A perennial concern of corporate sustainability professionals — how to nurture employee buy-in for the organization’s programs and strategy — easily could have been sidelined during the COVID-19 pandemic, as companies everywhere shifted to accommodate remote workforces. .

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Experts see environmental, social fallout in Indonesia’s infrastructure boom

Eco-Business

The Indonesian government has announced a list of 89 priority projects, tagged at US$100 billion, to jump-start the economy out of the current Covid-19-induced slump.

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Commercial trucking's future is in the details

GreenBiz

COVID-19’s impact on the North American supply chain, hopefully, has heightened everyone’s appreciation that while food does grow on trees, a truck and driver probably has to get it to you. It’s a great advertising tag line, but there are no free rides; someone always pays somewhere. Trucks require energy. Free delivery."

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The Ghost Workforce the Tech Industry Doesn’t Want You to Think About

Stanford Social Innovation

This “ghost work” or “microwork” can include ultra-small online piece work, ranging from tagging content to interacting with large language AI models. The pay is pennies or less per task. There’s good old-fashioned health and safety violations too.

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Drone data helps a Minnesota city conserve energy

Renewable Energy World

The COVID-19 pandemic has slowed progress, says Mortenson, since enrollment at Northland Community College is down and students have been away from the classroom. The college already had the drones (each with a price tag of $40,000) and used the project as a student learning opportunity.

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Sponsored content: Casella announces Orbi-Trace smart tag launch

Envirotec Magazine

Casella , expert manufacturer of smart monitoring technology, is launching an innovative, technology-forward solution to simplify social distancing in the workplace with the launch of the Orbi-Trace smart tag – a flexible social distancing solution that provides simple proximity alerts all the way up to full effective contact tracing.

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Climate Change Preparedness Means Planning

3BL Media

While many electric utilities see merit in bolstering their infrastructures’ climate resilience, getting regulatory signoff for the often-steep price tag — and recovering that cost from ratepayers likely to object — keeps such projects from being viable, no matter the utility’s commitment to it.