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GRI and SASB are collaborating. Is that good news for companies?

GreenBiz

For years, corporate reporters — those inside companies responsible for creating sustainability reports and reporting environmental, social and governance data to various other organizations — have been frustrated by what many refer to as an alphabet soup of standards and frameworks: CDP, GRI, IIRC, PRI, SASB, TCFD, UNGC and more.

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Greentown Labs and Vineyard Wind Announce Offshore Wind Challenge Startup Participants

Greentown Labs

12, 2020 — Greentown Labs , the largest climatetech startup incubator in North America, and Vineyard Wind , developer of the first utility-scale offshore wind energy generation facility in the United States, have selected three startups for the Offshore Wind Challenge. Somerville, Mass., About Greentown Labs.

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EPRI, Shell, the City of Houston, Greentown Labs, and NYU Urban Future Lab Announce Startup Participants for the Low-Carbon Hydrogen Accelerator

Greentown Labs

As an industry-leading research, development, and demonstration organization, EPRI can support startups in their technology development and deployment. Greentown is the largest startup incubator in North America, headquartered in Somerville, Mass., This program builds on EPRI’s low-carbon efforts. About Greentown Labs.

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Why is the idea of the Anthropocene so contentious?

Grist

The geologic epoch had reigned for 11,700 years, ever since the sprawling ice sheets covering North America and Europe began melting rapidly, and Crutzen thought its time was up. The scientist Paul Crutzen grew tired of the Holocene 24 years ago.

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Greentown Labs Announces the Healthy Buildings Challenge with Saint-Gobain and MassCEC

Greentown Labs

It’s so important for the industry’s leading organizations and the public sector to engage with startups to tackle this challenge, and we’re thrilled to be joining forces with two of our longest-standing partners and experts in this space—Saint-Gobain and MassCEC—on this important program.”. Somerville, Mass.,

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The author of ‘Blight’ explains how humans supercharged fungal pathogens

Grist

White-nose syndrome, a fungal illness in bats, has killed millions of the winged critters across North America. Candida auris, a drug-resistant yeast, emerged in 2009 on three continents simultaneously. It was kind of unknown until 2009 or 2010, and then the CDC issued its first warning about Candida auris in 2016.

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Urban Future Lab, Greentown Labs, and the Fraunhofer USA TechBridge Program Announce the Carbon to Value Initiative

Greentown Labs

Leading climatetech innovation organizations launch multi-year initiative to accelerate the trillion-dollar carbon-to-value market. These organizations may be interested in making carbontech a core part of their business strategy, or may be future customers or supporters of carbontech products and services. and Somerville, Mass.,

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