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BBOXX Lands $50M Led by Mitsubishi to Boost Off-Grid Solar in Africa, Asia

GreenTechMedia

BBOXX, an Imperial London College spinout launched in 2010, has installed about 200,000 home solar systems across Africa, many of them coffee and vanilla bean farmers living off-grid. billion at the end of 2018. More than $1.2 billion of this investment has occurred over the past two years. 2, 2019 in London, UK.

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How Shell Is Selling the Petrochemical Buildout as ‘Sustainable’

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After generations of wildly elevated rates of childhood asthma and cancer in the community that many believe were a result of the toxic pollution overhead, a group of Diamond residents living within a few blocks campaigned for Shell to buy their contaminated properties.

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Scientists Find Appalachian Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining Put Endangered Species at Risk Thousands of Times

DeSmogBlog

Their goal was to find out more about the impact mountaintop removal mining has had on those water pollution levels. And it’s certainly not the diamond darter alone that’s feeling the brunt of this mountaintop removal-linked water pollution. Mountaintop removal mine site above Route 23 in Pike County, Kentucky, in 2010.

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How tech deployment can turn climate commitments into action – and profits

EDF + Business

billion that investment firms committed to new technologies in 2018 was a 127% jump from 2017 and returns the category to highs it had not seen since the height of the cleantech bubble in 2010.” These sensors are making it easier and more affordable for companies to detect, visualize and manage a wide array of environmental impacts.

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The Navajo Generating Station Coal Plant Officially Powers Down. Will Renewables Replace It?

GreenTechMedia

Energy Information Administration found that between 2010 and the first quarter of 2019, U.S. The Sonoran Energy Center will comprise a 250-megawatt solar array coupled with a 1-gigawatt-hour energy storage system located in Arizona’s Little Rainbow Valley. Navajo Nation President Jonathan Nez appears to be heeding those calls.

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Solar-powered off-grid EV charging stations offer surprisingly attractive cost advantages

Charged

Charged recently spoke with Beam Global CEO Desmond Wheatley, who has been with the company since 2010, about the surprisingly wide range of benefits of the company’s EV ARC and Solar Tree systems. So, if you provide EV charging, you get that EV driver who’s coming in pollution-free. It can be equipped with EV chargers of any brand.

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What Is B Corp? B Corp Certification Guide + Quick Assessment

Green Business Bureau

For instance, a global survey of 279 companies conducted in 2010 found that those with the greatest proportion of women on their executive committees earned a return on equity 47% higher than those with no female executive members. For example, hazardous waste can contaminate soil and water supplies and pollute the air.