Terra Infirma

DECEMBER 6, 2023

On top of the usual stuff about eating well, getting plenty of exercise, socialising and sleeping properly (my personal weakness as my brain often kicks into gear at 3am) here are my five tips for keeping one’s mind on an even keel in this business: Focus on science, not doom. Embrace nature.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Despite retail investors being interested in sustainability issues, few are investing money with this in mind. Read the original here: Personalizing sustainable investments can shape the future of finance.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 15, 2022

Moreover, the average person generally has little chance of becoming a shareholder in energy production, as this is technically complicated and requires a large investment. The cooperative provides members with a platform for investments, preparing projects and raising the necessary money for the construction of the park.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2021

Prime Minister promises to put climate and finance commitments front and centre of upcoming G7 summit in Cornwall. However, Johnson's appeal received an immediate setback from the co-host of yesterday's conference, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, who said she regarded Germany's current climate finance spending plans as "fair".

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

Without the burden of paper statements or in-person transactions, customers can calculate container price, select financing options, and set up delivery from the comfort of their home.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

The best example is software-as-a-service (SaaS), now the preeminent way to acquire and use personal and enterprise software. The model sees a third party financing the equipment used to retrofit a building while the owner uses the ongoing energy savings to pay this back. These firms tend to be smaller startups with fast growth.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Similar to the marketplaces that support soil carbon credits, the GreenCollar reef credits rely on farmers sharing the personal records of practices on their properties, including how much fertilizer they apply and the systems they use to calculate that fertilizer amount. . In the nitrogen space, it’s not countable in that sense.".

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2021

“I kind of remind people, I personally think oil is a renewable, it just takes a little bit longer,” said Mari Salazar, senior vice president and manager of Energy Financial Services for BOK Financial, an Oklahoma-based bank that caters to the oil and gas industry. Lending Issues Due to Failed Economics, Not ESG.

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2021

We need to see the narrative change in the financial sector," Rhian Mari-Thomas, CEO of the Green Finance Institute, told BusinessGreen recently. It's not about what you can't do - the smart money needs to be figuring out how to make money from this huge transition.". Banking on the opportunities.

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Mosaic

AUGUST 1, 2023

He joins from Santander, where he spent nearly a decade in various strategy, corporate development and finance roles, including most recently serving as Chief Strategy Officer and previously as Head of Financial Planning and Analysis. In each of his COO positions, Moore launched and scaled successful point of purchase financing businesses.

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Business Green

MARCH 24, 2021

Which is why, last year, we committed to halving the climate impact of our financing activity by 2030 and why we intend to join the growing coalition of organisations in the Race to Zero, championed by the UK COP26 presidency and others. And rightly so, up to a point. But the reality is more complicated. There are no quick-fix solutions.

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Defend Our Future

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

The framework includes clean energy and technology investments that will encourage widespread use of solar and wind energies while also making solar more affordable for the everyday person to install. Excitingly, money to fund environmental justice grants and the long-needed Civilian Climate Corps was also included in the framework.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 11, 2021

A review of major pension funds by divestment campaign group Make My Money Matter found 71 of 100 are yet to detail concrete plans to reach net zero emissions by 2050. In contrast, the majority of major Defined Benefit (DB) funds – where both the person and employer contribute to the scheme – were found to lag behind.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Business Secretary and Glasgow summit President Alok Sharma's speech at the launch of the COP26 Private Finance Agenda in London. This was a personal priority for me when I was Secretary of State for International Development. This, in turn, will mobilise further finance from public and private sources.??

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Mosaic

MAY 11, 2021

More people at home, and working from home, has caused an increase in the wear-and-tear on their houses—and the need for home improvements and home improvement financing.*. This month, we’ll share blogs on: How financing know-how can simplify your home improvement business. Provide home improvement financing option choices.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 7, 2021

Borrow lenses for special photo shoots instead of buying new ones; it will save you money and will generate less waste for the environment. . Have a virtual gallery instead of an in-person one, so you would print to meet order demand only and not waste any materials preemptively. Save money by reducing waste. Outsource Printing.

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Mosaic

OCTOBER 7, 2021

“Decisions we control in our households are responsible for 42% of energy-related greenhouse gas emissions,” 1 a 2020 Rewiring America report , “No Place Like Home: Fighting Climate Change (and Saving Money) by Electrifying America’s Households,” by Saul Griffith and Sam Calisch, stated. Clean technologies are a win-win-win.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Chancellor says new bond will let consumer 'put their money to work in the fight against climate change'. Our world-first Green Savings Bonds give savers across the UK the chance to back the government's green projects and put their money to work in the fight against climate change," Sunak said in a statement. per cent gross/AER.

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Business Green

JUNE 1, 2021

But the Trades Union Congress (TUC) said the money was "just a fraction" of the green investment pledged by most other G7 nations, as it urged the government to significantly ramp up its investments in green infrastructure to boost its job creation potential. But the prime minister's plans are nowhere near ambitious enough.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 15, 2022

Fly tipping is adding enormous costs to UK councils when pressure on finances is already intense. Confusion and inconsistency create the perfect opportunity for opportunistic individuals to mislead the public, take their money and dump their waste – leading to ever increasing clean-up costs for both councils and landowners.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Campaigners described the MP’s interests as “concerning” and said the government should prevent lawmakers from “having a personal stake in the success of companies and financial institutions causing the catastrophe we’re already seeing in so many parts of the world”. Extractive Interests.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

Campaigners described the MP’s interests as “concerning” and said the government should prevent lawmakers from “having a personal stake in the success of companies and financial institutions causing the catastrophe we’re already seeing in so many parts of the world”. Extractive Interests.

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Mosaic

JULY 27, 2021

JULY 27, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — Mosaic , a leading financing platform for U.S. We are supplementing our robust finance leadership with these moves, thus continuing to build our capabilities to support the company’s continued strong growth,” said Ballenger. or one of its lending/financing partners. OAKLAND, Calif.,

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 4, 2024

While we are all entitled to a personal opinion on these issues, in the highly regulate energy sector we tend to primarily focus on delivering against a plan that will enable us to support regulatory change……right? However, there are a number of challenges to successful deployment.

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Clean Energy Canada

JULY 18, 2019

governments that includes money for 10 long-range electric buses in Victoria. When it comes to electrifying how we move around in Canada, personal vehicles are only half the picture. There are, for example, the trucks that move goods and the buses that move people. Report | Will Canada Miss the Bus?

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 22, 2020

” Off-grid and C&I solar in particular are still seeing strong interest because deals don't always require in-person meetings, he said. The firm estimates money flowing into African technology startups could drop from $2 billion in 2019 to between $1.8 billion and $1.2 billion this year.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 19, 2021

To minimize environmental impact and landfill waste, sustainable camera manufacturers incorporate recycled content into their products – precious metal compounds and plastics sourced from discarded CDs, water bottles, personal computers, etc. instead of virgin material. Renting Camera Equipment.

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Low Impact

JULY 18, 2021

And it’s the same with the people I know in the food sector, housing sector, finance sector and every other sector. So I think this is where mutual credit comes in, because if people can become each other’s customers, we can trade with each other using mutual credit, without the need for money, interest or banks. Most of the time, yes.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

I’ve also seen the challenge personally, having had that experience of being removed from the picture. I can say that this has not been a journey of just one person, it has been a journey of different people coming together and supporting the work that I’m doing. Vanessa Nakate. Credit: Joan Namaggwa.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JUNE 29, 2016

Strategies for Sustainable Finances. What’s the formula for healthy personal finances? Tiffany gave two basic principles for building wealth: Establish good money habits. When that one is paid off, that money will be freed up to pay the next credit card. As we all know, time is money!

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Terra Infirma

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

When someone does buy an offset, that’s money they are not spending on buying something else – so if I decide to offset a flight, then I can’t use that money to buy, say, a pair of jeans and its associated ecological footprint. If we can raise money to cut carbon via offsetting, why wouldn’t we do it?

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

There was a historic breakthrough in agreeing on a finance facility for loss and damage, but we failed to agree urgent action to help peak emissions in the middle of this decade and secure finance for an unprecedented ramp-up in renewable energy. So, where do we go from here?

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Low Impact

DECEMBER 20, 2020

We’ve been talking about mutual credit on Lowimpact for a while now – and how we change the money system. I’d like to ask you some questions about saving and investment in a credit commons – in a world where the ‘money’ is mutual credit. Developers will come along, borrow money, build a condo – you and I will come along, buy a condo.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 27, 2020

It seems like almost everyone in solar comes from either real estate, finance, or law. You’re the first person I’ve met that started off in an embassy, which is also how I got my start. And from a personal formation standpoint, if you take the easy path, you don’t learn.

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Low Impact

DECEMBER 12, 2021

But I don’t think the party-political circus justifies the time, money, energy and headspace required for the campaigns, rallies, gossip, backbiting and demonisation it generates, not to mention the ruined family get-togethers. Currently, academia is dominated by the left, and the finance and business worlds are dominated by the right.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 10, 2022

A positive Return On Investment (ROI) and Sustainability go hand in hand, as many sustainable business practices save money, create a competitive advantage, open new markets and attract customers and employees. Finance and Accounting, including applying carbon credits, minimizing paper billing, printing, and remote working.

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Low Impact

JUNE 27, 2021

But if I say that the Sarafu Network is a mutual credit network that allows trading without conventional money, that includes 50,000 households across Kenya and did $3 million worth of trade last year – how’s that for a brief description? Conventional money just leaks away eventually, and ends up in tax havens.

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