Front And Centered

AUGUST 8, 2023

Prior to each session we work with our coalition of community of color organizations across the state to create policy priorities, as we did with our 2023 Just Transition Agenda , that truly represent and are accountable to our communities’ needs and solutions.

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Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

DECEMBER 14, 2023

The Private Members Bill, if passed, would establish the UK’s first law mandating business due diligence on human rights and the environment. By Paul A. Davies , Michael D. The Bill aims to level the playing field among businesses, provide clarity on legal obligations, and enable a greater level of access to justice.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 15, 2021

Lew Milford founded CEG in 1998, after working over several years on clean energy and utility restructuring dockets in New England while with the Conservation Law Foundation. Among the accomplishments of these organizations over the last 20 plus years was an early focus to bring new clean energy technologies to underserved communities.

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Defend Our Future

JULY 11, 2023

Catching up with the Community Organizing Fellows While Defend Our Future’s campus ambassadors are enjoying a well-deserved summer break, our community organizing fellows have been hard at work with our partners to engage community members to build a future free from fossil fuels. Let’s take a look at what they’ve been up to!

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Defend Our Future

AUGUST 14, 2023

Catching up with the Community Organizing Fellows While Defend Our Future’s campus ambassadors are enjoying a well-deserved summer break, our community organizing fellows have been hard at work with our partners to engage community members to build a future free from fossil fuels. Let’s take a look at what they’ve been up to!

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Defend Our Future

MAY 25, 2023

Neal sought the assistance of UNLV Film and the Boyd School of Law. who is a professor specializing in environmental law and who helped Sen. With a documentary to inform people and a bill to rally behind, everything was in place for successful community organizing event! After conducting her own research, Sen. Although Sen.

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The Environmental Blog

AUGUST 21, 2019

Water is undeniably essential for both living and nonliving organisms. Most industries are required by law to treat their wastewaters. Preserve the Environment: Waste from industries come with plenty of chemicals, which can be harmful and even fatal to living organisms. Benefits of Industrial Water Treatment.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 8, 2022

Organizations that hold or manage large events such as conferences, business meetings, concerts, fairs, weddings, or any large get-together need to consider the impact these events have on the planet. If you’re an event planner, you should organize your events so that they impact the community, the environment, and the economy positively.

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Planet Pulse

APRIL 12, 2022

Established by the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, World Meteorological Organization, and space agencies that operate Earth observation satellites, these variables provide a guiding principle to help produce accurate and meaningful data. Forward-looking Statements.

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EDF + Business

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

See the White House’s statement and compiled quotes from elected officials, industry groups, businesses and other organizations. According to Climate Power’s Clean Energy Boom report, the law has driven $278 billion in clean energy investments, creating over 170,000 new jobs in 44 states.

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The Environmental Blog

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

However, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and other federal associations placed strict laws to help limit the use of this potential carcinogen. Exposure to this substance may lead to malignant mesothelioma, which is a type of cancer occurring in tissues covering several internal organs.

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Green Tech Challenge

MAY 3, 2019

This calls for consumer behaviour change, impact innovation in the business sector, policy change and law enforcement by governments. Organic straws, food containers made from bamboo, banana leaves used to package fresh produce, and reusable shopping bags. As a traveller, she blogs at www.beyondthebirthplace.com.

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Defend Our Future

MAY 10, 2023

While Trees Forever provided the materials and tree planting expertise, Campus Ambassador Lauren Litterer educated attendees on the benefits of tree cover in densely populated cities, why equitable tree distribution is so important, and how the recently-passed climate law is making this all accessible.

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Defend Our Future

JULY 1, 2019

This blog will be a reflection of that core tenet: I am not a frontline community member and therefore have no firsthand experience of the realities surrounding environmental injustice, so I will not attempt to speak for those who have experienced environmental racism and injustice. Angelo Logan : Campaign Director, Moving Forward Network.

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 30, 2023

Plastic bags present another example — eight states have bans on plastic bags, but twice as many have laws protecting them, all due to. For decades they’ve lobbied against reform and injected confusing discourse into the public sphere. Non-renewable energy sources are an integral part of how our society is built.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 26, 2021

As I looked further into the prize, I noticed that it recognizes thoughtful collaborations between engineers and individuals, communities, and organizations that are striving to promote these ideals.The websites states that, “In totality, we seek to create a constellation of people and efforts that can help reimagine what engineering is for.”.

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Defend Our Future

OCTOBER 13, 2020

But as Defend Our Future’s Tucson organizer Karlyn Bradley explains, the stakes are high EVERY cycle for a lot of people. Voter ID laws, fewer polling places, fewer resources for the United States Postal Service… Andrea Sosa explains some of the ways voters can be suppressed. Why voting matters. Youth Turnout. Mail-in Voting.

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Green Market Oracle

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

By contrast, ecological psychology views humans as interconnected with the larger systems of nature and subject to its laws, and by virtue of our conscious awareness to be stewards of our shared planet. challenges students with the origins of the discipline, along with new research and current conversation.

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Green Market Oracle

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

By contrast, ecological psychology views humans as interconnected with the larger systems of nature and subject to its laws, and by virtue of our conscious awareness to be stewards of our shared planet. challenges students with the origins of the discipline, along with new research and current conversation.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 5, 2021

The Illinois Power Agency’s Illinois Solar for All (ISFA) program reserves capacity for individual or community solar projects serving low-income and historically polluted communities that cannot install rooftop solar due to cost, space, or limits in local zoning laws. 25 percent of ISFA’s $12.16

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Defend Our Future

OCTOBER 18, 2019

Richards experience organizing expands beyond the campus setting as he has worked for organizations like Environment Arizona and NextGen. Jesse Rodriguez, Flagstaff Organizer. Jesse is the Flagstaff Organizer in Arizona. Karlyn Bradley, University of Arizona Campus Ambassador. Writing poetry, drawing and watching Scandal.

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Defend Our Future

MAY 18, 2021

Our lessons about the civil rights movement fails to acknowledge how it inspired other minorities to organize and fight for their rights. With hate crimes against Asian Americans on the rise, the increase in voter suppression laws, and the threat of climate change warming impacting our livelihoods, we must speak out and speak loudly.

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CleanTX

MARCH 20, 2019

These areas of work build on BP’s methane reduction target; EDF’s extensive methane research, business analyses and other innovation projects; and both organizations’ participation in the Methane Guiding Principles , a multi-stakeholder initiative aimed at broad engagement to continually reduce emissions globally.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Kari Carney is the Executive Director of 1000 Friends of Iowa , a non-profit organization “engaging local residents around responsible and equitable land use.” Josh Mandelbaum, Senior Attorney at the Environmental Law & Policy Center, was elected to Des Moines City Council in 2017.

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Low Impact

JUNE 24, 2020

Eating sustainably often involves growing at least some of your own food (or at least sourcing it from local, organic producers), but supplementing this with foraged wild produce is another important component to an ethical diet. These pesticides and herbicides can be far more detrimental to human health. Woodlands or forests. Coastlines.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 25, 2021

We have high-tech software companies, large manufacturers, retailers and insurance companies as well as small businesses like restaurants, law firms, bed & breakfast inns, commercial cleaners, and dry cleaners. Online applications and knowledge bases can provide a framework and structure to organize people and projects.

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Planet Pulse

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

We are kickstarting a new blog series called “Belonging Spotlight.” As a team we have a diverse set of customers and stakeholders ranging from internal engineering teams, to global customer support, sales, and of course end users or organizations who sign up to download imagery or task a satellite.

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38 North Solutions

JANUARY 9, 2018

With that bill now law, we will need the rest of this year and, perhaps, several more, to figure out how the new tax code will impact innovative industries. We closed out 2017 after fighting successfully to remove the most damning provisions for clean energy from the tax bill. appeared first on 38 North Solutions.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 25, 2022

organizations working to build greener, more affordable communities for all. While environmental laws often improve the design and planning of communities, they also pose new hurdles that can both delay and increase costs of new developments and thus, the availability of affordable housing.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JANUARY 30, 2017

She went on to reveal that the organizers had asked her to speak, but she gave away the opportunity, even though she’s the head of her department and could easily talk circles around others in her field. She rationalized her decision by saying, “He just knows so much more about this than I do.”. So, if it’s hard for you, be real.

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Clean Energy Trust

DECEMBER 17, 2020

Best practice is to organize your documents in an electronic data room hosted on your own server, on your counsel’s Extranet, or via another service provider, such as Box.com or Carta. Join us back here next month for another blog post in this ongoing series focused on preparing for Series A financing. Document Checklist 1.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 16, 2021

There are both private and public service careers that help organizations and businesses create more environmentally friendly products or operate more sustainably. Sustainability directors and managers often lead a small organization of full-time employees or team of part-time representatives from various organizations within a company.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

NOVEMBER 14, 2015

Cynthia Christensen of Namasté Solar might agree, though she got into solar almost by accident — after a bet she made as a pre-law student with a boyfriend that they couldn’t handle each other’s classes. It was a law school lottery number for picking electives — 499 out of 500 — that led her to environmental law.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

These lawful constructs are put in place to serve and protect the world at large and public concerns over environmental and social wellbeing are on the rise. Competition Law and Sustainability Agreements. But regulations are more than just policies and they shouldn’t be your only reason for being a sustainable, ethical business.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

Dana Zartner, Associate Professor of International Studies in the School of Law at the University of San Francisco, commented that “California, Massachusetts, and Hawaii are being talked about on the global stage as leaders on the environment, even though the U.S. is no longer much part of the discussion.”. What you can do.

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Front And Centered

JUNE 20, 2020

In this blog post, we are excited to release a draft of the initial recommendations being considered. The Task Force aims to deliver proposals that reshape the way the state government plans, develops policy, distributes funding, and enforces laws. What do you think? Thank you for staying engaged, and stay tuned for more updates!

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JANUARY 21, 2015

I was dissatisfied and frustrated with the limitations of working within a highly political and bureaucratic organization. I knew that it was difficult for me to operate in organizations that were constrained by their own structural limitations. But neither of these were the case where I was. Had I always wanted to be a CEO and leader?

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