Business Green

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Solar panels and other clean technologies slash energy and fuel bills for households, while minimising exposure to future energy price hikes and air pollution. Which is great, but like Pratchett's boots you can only access those savings if you can afford to deploy the technologies in the first place.

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2022

Michael Grubb explores how government can better harness the remarkable innovation that is already underway across the energy sector to deliver on its climate goals. Many leaders still assume that reducing emissions and growing their countries' economies aren't compatible goals. Challenges.

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GreenBiz

JULY 9, 2020

Behind New Jersey's ambitions for clean energy equity and offshore wind. If you want to know what state-level clean energy leadership looks like, look no further than New Jersey. . They show how a state can signal the opportunities inherent in the clean energy economy, and the importance that it works for everyone. .

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Business Green

MAY 13, 2020

A truly green recovery will require a joint effort from government, business and society to overcome the challenge of transitioning to a low-carbon economy, says BT's Gabrielle Ginér. This has given us all a chance to take stock. million tonnes of carbon. BT, one of the first companies in the world to commit to a 1.5C

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

We are accelerating our efforts to protect the climate, advance a circular economy and improve the safety and sustainability of our materials. By 2030, Dow will reduce its net annual carbon emissions by five million metric tons versus its 2020 baseline. If we can get there quicker, we will. million tonnes per year.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 31, 2021

How corporations can jump-start industrial electrification in the US Ali Hasanbeigi Wed, 03/31/2021 – 01:00 From cardboard boxes delivered to our doors to home appliances, nearly everything comes from industrial processes. Those processes use a lot of energy and largely come from fossil fuels; one-third of U.S.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Boston University has started sourcing all of its electricity from a newly built wind farm in South Dakota, a move intended to maximize the university’s greenhouse gas reductions and hopefully provide a model for how other large institutions can also amplify their climate impact.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 17, 2021

GreenBiz explores the clean energy trends that defined the past year. This article was adapted from Energy Weekly, a free newsletter about the clean energy transition. It's been a big year for clean energy. No part of the US was spared. The weather this year was weird. billion in 2020.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 1, 2021

This article originally appeared in the State of Green Business 2021. You can download the entire report here. The industrial sector is the backbone of the economy, producing the materials that build everything from cities to phones. Industrial decarbonization picks up steam. Sarah Golden. Mon, 03/01/2021 - 01:00.

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Business Green

MARCH 5, 2021

For millenia, the ancestral homelands of the Oceti Sakowin or Lakota - the proper names for the people commonly known as the Sioux - spread across an area equivalent to 159 million acres. million acres. Little did they know that they would stick us in some of the windiest places on earth," Jack muses. An uncommon partnership.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 10, 2023

Selecting the right sustainability certification for your business can be a tedious process requiring thorough research and understanding which program will best suit your needs and budget. Certifications can be issued by government agencies, non-profits or private companies. Integrating the SDGs into sustainability reporting.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 18, 2020

Daimler, Scania, Man, Volvo, Daf, Iveco, and Ford signed a new pledge to phase out traditional combustion engines as they step up investments in hydrogen, battery technology, and clean fuels. If we can make this happen, we need to work all together," Henriksson said. Macron reveals plan for climate referendum.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Inevitably transforming our energy systems and economy away from fossil fuels is a complicated endeavour. The International Energy Agency's net zero scenario estimates a clean energy investment requirement of over $4tr per annum by 2030. million new jobs. This is not a novel statement.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

In the words of President-elect Joe Biden, America is facing four historic colliding crises: the economy; a pandemic; systemic racism; and climate chaos. . That’s because the problems have the same solution: the rapid deployment of clean technologies across the economy. . COVID, the economy and emissions. Sarah Golden.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 16, 2020

A vote for clean energy. I recently joined the most impressive group of clean energy leaders I’ve known, and it happens to have come together in support of Joe Biden for president. The network: Clean Energy for Biden (CE4B). . Clean energy professionals as a voting bloc. Sarah Golden.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2020

This article is adapted from GreenBiz's newsletter Energy Weekly, running Thursdays. New York and California are often jockeying to be seen as leaders in the clean economy. million customers on Long Island electrify and become more energy efficient. Subscribe here. 500m will help 1.1 500m will help 1.1

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Mr. Sustainability

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

million jobs, vulnerable. What is NorthVolt’s strategy to create a European battery power basis? This article is derived from the Financieel Dagblad and added upon. This one can come off now," says Carlsson, tucking his mouth mask into his pocket. This requires a lot of energy storage and batteries.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

They sparked uncomfortable conversations about diversity and discrimination, some pledging many millions of dollars to address lingering inequities internally and in society at large. Ecolab says it helped its customers save enough water in 2018 equivalent to the needs of 600 million people. million in Neighborhood Grants.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

With little fanfare other than a lengthy Instagram post, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos pledged $791 million in donations from the Bezos Earth Fund — his $10 billion commitment to funding scientists, nonprofits and "others" that have made it their life’s work to fight climate change.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 28, 2021

Over the past 30 years, the incidence of natural disasters has dramatically increased, and the actual and future potential cost to the economy has skyrocketed. We are now in a situation where climate change is an existential risk to our future economy and way of life. emissions by greening the electricity and transportation sectors.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

1 reason that a consumer is not an IKEA customer is accessibility,” Angela Hultberg, head of sustainable transportation at IKEA, said last week on the virtual stage of GreenBiz Group’s clean economy conference, VERGE 20. If we can’t deliver, that’s a huge problem.” We can’t have that.”

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

We’re going to have to change the way we make and consume basically everything, and we’re going to have to do it many times faster than energy transitions have happened in the past.". To meet this challenge, we need your business to join in, and you can be the champion inside your business to create these breakthroughs.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 21, 2020

As the Northeast Organizer for Clean Water for North Carolina , she’d met with residents of a small, majority Black town called Ahoskie, 40 miles from her home. Other wood pellet companies have flocked to the region, including Drax , a major energy utility in the UK that now manufactures wood pellets in the U.S.

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Business Green

APRIL 24, 2020

economy, more than 200 US startups have cut thousands of jobs. While they're not immune to the forthcoming fiscal challenges, entrepreneurs developing solutions for addressing climate change - from agtech to decarbonization to clean energy and more - are among those proving to be the most resilient.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

based organization installs solar in low-income communities using a professionally guided workforce consisting of volunteers and those receiving job training. Mackie has experienced repeatedly how savings from solar can be life-changing for people. Grid Alternatives was co-founded by Mackie, along with Tim Sears, in 2001.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

Creating better businesses with B Corp Certification and beyond B Corp Certification presents a set of guiding principles that support organizations to minimize their impact on the environment and society. This is discussed in more detail at the end of this article. Use the links below to navigate through this guide: What is B Corp?

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ThinkGeoEnergy

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Department of Energy (US DOE) has published the results of a study done by the Lawrence Berkey National Laboratory quantifying the domestic lithium resources from the geothermal brine in the Salton Sea region in California. million metric tons of LCE.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 12, 2021

In just the past week, for example, Bank of America announced a goal of deploying $1 trillion to accelerate the transition to a low-carbon, sustainable economy; BlackRock, the world’s largest investment manager, said it would peg the interest rate of a $4.4 I hope you can join us this week at GreenFin 21. Sponsored Article.

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GreenBiz

JULY 23, 2020

Rethinking Humanity " makes the case that the convergence of key technologies is about to disrupt the five foundational sectors that underpin the global economy, and with them every major industry in the world. . But it’s not just the march of progress of individual technologies that will save us. Super heady stuff, to be sure.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 29, 2020

One final note: Be sure to check the end of this article for quick job updates from others who responded to our outreach but chose not to comment on the two questions. As I get the chance to meet in virtual roundtables with community members, it can easily get pretty discouraging.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

This article explores what is needed to build such a green hydrogen refinery. About 400,000 metric tons of grey hydrogen is used for refining purposes each year in Rotterdam. It would require roughly 2GW of energy to replace this fully with green hydrogen, which is half the proposed IJmuiden Ver windfarm. Can we fix this?

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2021

Transforming this fossil feedstock and the industry behind it requires an immense amount of green hydrogen, in the very least 2GW of renewable energy coming from a windfarm like IJmuiden Ver. The end goal is to create circular fuel for the maritime industry in Rotterdam. Why focus on creating sustainable marine fuels?

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AGreenLiving

JULY 9, 2020

Behind New Jersey’s ambitions for clean energy equity and offshore wind Sarah Golden Thu, 07/09/2020 – 01:00 If you want to know what state-level clean energy leadership looks like, look no further than New Jersey. Sarah Golden: I wanted to talk to you about the Office of Clean Energy and Equity.

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Energy Innovation

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Energy Information Administration, Residential Energy Consumption Survey (RECS). And the most extreme cases of energy insecurity result in injury or death due to unsafe temperatures or from using ovens or stoves as primary or secondary heat sources. Who is impacted by home energy poverty? Figure 1: Source: U.S.

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Mr. Sustainability

MAY 5, 2020

Not having to worry about money and having all the time in the world to think about purpose in life can be defined as a ‘first-world problem’. You can imagine that she did not have time to work with four kids and a baby. I still have no clue how she managed to get us fed, clothed and happy. Of course we can. But she did.

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Andrew Winston

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

I’ll be posting again soon, but wanted to publish this article that I forgot to post…It’s written with my Net Positive co-author Paul Polman as part of a special Harvard Business Review series on “Preparing for an Era of Uncertainty” Can’t imagine what they mean. Can your organization say the same?

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Business Green

AUGUST 20, 2021

It's not the law of the land yet, but one of the most potentially impactful aspects of the US bipartisan infrastructure bill for climate techies is the groundwork it lays for new economic opportunities based on capturing and sequestering carbon emissions.

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