Green Business Bureau

APRIL 9, 2021

Incorporating SDG 11, Affordable and Clean Energy, into your business will empower you to tackle the unique challenges of urban sustainability, resiliency, reduce your carbon footprint, become a sustainability leader, and show your customers you prioritize the needs of all. Solid waste management and air pollution. SDG 11 Targets.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 21, 2020

But California regulators are adamant that PG&E must find a more permanent and less costly and polluting backup plan in the years ahead — even if it’s not clear yet what form it may take. Vote Solar, an advocacy group, argued the plan could undermine solar, batteries and other carbon-free alternatives.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 10, 2024

As blackouts become more common due to the severity of climate change, sources of continuous battery backup power can be one less headache—and a life-saving advantage—to fire departments and emergency services already faced with rising costs and operational challenges, explains Lance Honea of Swell Energy. Have you read? are volunteers.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

It’s time for Louisiana leadership to prioritize resilient solutions – solar photovoltaics paired with battery storage ( solar+storage ) paired with energy efficient housing – over continued fossil-fuel investment. Distributed solar+storage systems would avoid installing dozens of polluting natural gas generators.

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Elemental Excelerator

OCTOBER 17, 2023

These are the innovators who are creating the huge companies of the future – ones that invest in workers, reduce pollution, restore our soils and lower the costs of food and energy.” The why: Agricultural practices that maximize crop yields over soil health have given us fruits and vegetables with 38% less nutrients than those grown in 1950.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2021

Record-breaking temperatures, devastating natural disasters, and threats to public health and safety are a reflection of the urgency in taking action and an excellent opportunity to rebuild from COVID-19 and implement policies and practices that promote better health and well-being for the people and the planet. SDG 13 Targets.

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Energy Innovation

JULY 28, 2020

Despite clean energy’s economic and job opportunities, and scientific warnings that net zero emissions are needed by 2050 to prevent the worst impacts of climate change , Trump’s federal government has worked to implement policies that increase pollution. It is also designed, at its core, to generate economic and health benefits.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2021

Record-breaking temperatures, devastating natural disasters, and threats to public health and safety are a reflection of the urgency in taking action and an excellent opportunity to rebuild from COVID-19 and implement policies and practices that promote better health and well-being for the people and the planet. SDG 13 Targets.

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2020

The global health emergency caused by the Covid-19 outbreak has been a very unsettling situation for all of us. Our community's health, economy and way of life is under threat, with tragic consequences that governments, businesses, and individual citizens are facing with courage. Sadly, those streets will now be empty. That's not all.

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Green Market Oracle

JUNE 3, 2020

She said the current situation as an opportunity to put in place the policies and programs that will lay the foundation for a resilient economy. Good jobs contribute to the health of the local economies they come from. The country also leads in battery and energy storage.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 15, 2021

Milford created CEG’s Resilient Power Project in 2013 after Superstorm Sandy, to ensure that frontline communities and climate-vulnerable populations had access to new technologies like solar and battery storage, which can provide power during blackouts. Keane, President of SmartPower.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

That's why forward-looking companies are investing in their value chains and working with suppliers to build resilience and prepare for the worst. This must focus on those vulnerable communities - and the women within them - that have polluted the least and now suffer the most.

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Elemental Excelerator

MAY 20, 2020

. “There are vast applications that we can move into, from understanding microbial contamination within drinking water, to doing wastewater surveillance to inform public health concerns amongst communities. “ We help customers see batteries differently. ” ? . “Every crisis is unique.

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Business Green

MAY 7, 2021

Gold, tungsten, lithium, cobalt and other precious metals can be found in these devices and are crucial in the manufacture of wind turbines, electric vehicle batteries and solar panels. The scourge of pollution coursing through the nation's waterways is shameful.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

Endorsed by governments over the weekend, the report's 'summary for policymakers' cover text is a critical resource for business leaders and investors looking to bolster near-term resilience and boost long-term profitability amidst an ever-worsening climate crisis. Delivering on the Paris Agreement's goal of 1.5C

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Elemental Excelerator

APRIL 21, 2022

Additionally, in the climate technology space, many companies are building B2B (business to business) solutions to upgrade outdated or heavy-polluting systems. Matter has designed sophisticated filters to keep microplastics out of our waterways, protecting public health and ecosystems crucial for reducing carbon emissions.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2021

However, critics of net-zero pledges charge that corporations fall back on "net zero" goalposts to look virtuous while getting a free pass for their carbon-polluting sins and that net-zero deadlines are set so far in the future as to omit any accountability plan. It's really, really hard to get to net zero," Kline said.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 30, 2021

A former research scientist in clean energy and transportation at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, Gopal has a grant-making philosophy that focuses on electrifying the global economy quickly, resiliently and reliably with clean power.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Will improve public health. The second most important target for green power is replacing fossil fuel use in buildings, especially growing use of natural gas for heating; in Vancouver, British Columbia, that causes nearly 60% of the city’s carbon pollution. They concluded that the transition: Will have marginal costs. Political will.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2022

The health and welfare of the millions of households who are worried about soaring energy bills, the UK's long term economic prospects, and the stability of the biosphere itself all depend on these climate sceptic talking points being consigned to the parallel universe in which they belong.

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GreenBiz

JULY 19, 2021

For the future, there are emerging innovations and resilience lifelines that can transcend the limits of politics and short-term thinking to create better choices over a span of the next several decades. The present moment presents an extraordinary opportunity for public engagement around a different agenda for the future.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 15, 2022

Auto body and repair shops emit a plethora of contaminants, such as hazardous air pollutants (HAPs), particle pollution (dust), and volatile organic compounds (VOCs). These contaminants can contribute to health problems impacting shop employees, customers, and the local community.

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The City Fix

MAY 3, 2023

Editor’s Note: This article was updated in April 2023 with new findings from WRI’s dataset tracking electric school bus adoption in the United States, covering October to December 2022. To the best of our knowledge, these statistics are updated as of Dec.

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EDF + Business

MARCH 28, 2023

Improve Operational Resiliency On-site renewable energy and storage help companies improve the reliability and resiliency of their operations by mitigating the impacts of supply chain disruptions and power outages. Sources: Deloitte Analysis, H.R.5376 Sources: Deloitte Analysis, H.R.5376

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Greentown Labs

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Where else can you find entrepreneurs at neighboring benches working on innovations as diverse as filtration, energy storage, building materials, alternative proteins, and battery metal recycling? Resiliency + Adaptation. Manufacturing.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2022

We have a fantastic opportunity as we recover from the pandemic to build an economy and society which is greener, fairer and more resilient. Currently, tyre wear is the second-largest microplastic pollutant in our ocean after single-use plastic and accounts for up to 50 per cent of air particulate emissions (PM) from road transport.

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Elemental Excelerator

AUGUST 12, 2022

Bolstering domestic critical mineral supply chains by incentivizing car and battery manufacturers to adopt cleaner recycling and refining technologies in North American and allied nations. ( Funding the use of low-carbon materials in the built environment and in public infrastructure projects. CarbonCure ). Nth Cycle ). Vibrant Planet ).

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2023

The compronmise agreement sees the Greens back Labour's proposals for a 'Safeguard Mechanism', which promises to regulate emissions from Australia's 215 biggest polluting coal and gas facilities without outright banning new fossil fuel projects.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

However, it this week confirmed that it plans to start introducing new EV models during the second half of the decade and has put in place a partnership with Chinese-owned auto battery manufacturer Envision AESC Group to secure batteries for its plants in Japan. Western Europe heat wave death toll hit 20,000.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 4, 2021

The Biden Administration has a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to help Puerto Rico transition to a greener and more resilient energy future, but it’s on the verge of making a multibillion-dollar mistake. Rebuild or replace with a more resilient green system? Patrick Parenteau , Vermont Law School and Rachel Stevens , Vermont Law School.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

AND1 also worked with their oversea factories to ensure the health and safety of workers, professional development, and access to fair wages. Does your company have a health and wellness program in place? And with this strong social conduct, AND1 thrived. ” Where is the B Corp movement today?

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Business Green

JULY 8, 2021

That in turn followed news last week that Nissan is at the heart of a coalition looking to invest up to £1bn in the UK's first battery gigafactory in Sunderland. The news came just hours after Vauxhall announced its Ellesmere Port factory is to be the focus for £100m of investment to kit it out for electric van production.

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 10, 2023

Battery swapping in India raises $33M and Icelandic green fuels production draws $30M. ☔ Raincoat , a San Juan, Puerto Rico-based climate resilience insurance provider, raised $7M in Seed funding from Two Sigma Ventures, Alma Mundi Ventures, Elefund, Revolution’s Rise of the Rest Seed Fund. Thanks for reading!

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AGreenLiving

JULY 19, 2021

” For the future, there are emerging innovations and resilience lifelines that can transcend the limits of politics and short-term thinking to create better choices over a span of the next several decades. The present moment presents an extraordinary opportunity for public engagement around a different agenda for the future.

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Elemental Excelerator

OCTOBER 5, 2020

As always, equity and access is at the forefront of our mission to fund critical solutions for climate change, particularly in communities affected by the compounding effects of pollution, vulnerable infrastructure, and limited economic opportunities. Entrepreneurs may have half the solution, and communities often have the other half. .

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GreenBiz

JULY 6, 2020

Kimmons, who prefers to go by the name Queen, said what her neighborhood doesn't lack is pollution. Queen attributes the issues that north Minneapolis faces today — the vacant homes, the poor access to medicine and food, the proximity to industrial pollution — to a lack of Black ownership and the political power that accompanies wealth.

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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2020

"We also welcome the additional funding for boosting flood protection, though we have repeatedly argued for this to be complemented by the introduction of a national flood resilience standard. These new commitments, among others, are important ingredients, and we look forward to seeing the whole recipe in the Strategy later this spring.".

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