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Videos: Six things you need to know for Election 2020

Defend Our Future

The 2020 Election stakes are extremely high. But as Defend Our Future’s Tucson organizer Karlyn Bradley explains, the stakes are high EVERY cycle for a lot of people. Voter ID laws, fewer polling places, fewer resources for the United States Postal Service… Andrea Sosa explains some of the ways voters can be suppressed.

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UK House of Lords Considers New Bill on Mandatory Human Rights and Environmental Due Diligence

Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

The Private Members Bill, if passed, would establish the UK’s first law mandating business due diligence on human rights and the environment. By Paul A. Davies , Michael D. The Bill aims to level the playing field among businesses, provide clarity on legal obligations, and enable a greater level of access to justice.

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Is someone you know changing the world? Nominate them for the constellation prize

Renewable Energy World

The Constellation Prize was new to me (and most everyone) in 2020 when I got word of the nomination for some work that I had been involved in with the New York State Capitol, also known as the “Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza” in Albany. See the New York Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act CLCPA.

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The community solar program in Illinois

Renewable Energy World

Illinois estimates that 1,000,000 RECs will be delivered annually by the end of the 2020-2021 delivery year, demonstrating ILSR’s third principle of a good program, increasing renewables. The purpose of blocks is to establish a progression of price levels based on the response of the market. 25 percent of ISFA’s $12.16

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Des Moines, Iowa commits to 24/7 clean electricity

Renewable Energy World

Kari Carney is the Executive Director of 1000 Friends of Iowa , a non-profit organization “engaging local residents around responsible and equitable land use.” Josh Mandelbaum, Senior Attorney at the Environmental Law & Policy Center, was elected to Des Moines City Council in 2017. Photo from Phil Roeder via Flickr (CC BY 2.0).

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Kyla Navarro: Keep Your Head Up

Defend Our Future

Our lessons about the civil rights movement fails to acknowledge how it inspired other minorities to organize and fight for their rights. With hate crimes against Asian Americans on the rise, the increase in voter suppression laws, and the threat of climate change warming impacting our livelihoods, we must speak out and speak loudly.

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Sustainable Business in 2021: Table Stakes

Green Business Bureau

By 2020, over 95% did. We have high-tech software companies, large manufacturers, retailers and insurance companies as well as small businesses like restaurants, law firms, bed & breakfast inns, commercial cleaners, and dry cleaners. In 2013, only 15% of the S&P 500 companies reported ESG (Environment, Social.