Greentown Labs

MAY 6, 2020

Three investors whose organizations are active in the energy transition and have made major investments in Greentown Labs member companies joined the community in April to discuss venture capital, how it can offer strategic value to startups, and how entrepreneurs can seek this type of funding during the current economic downturn.

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Greentown Labs

MAY 6, 2020

Three investors whose organizations are active in the energy transition and have made major investments in Greentown Labs member companies joined the community in April to discuss venture capital, how it can offer strategic value to startups, and how entrepreneurs can seek this type of funding during the current economic downturn.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 1, 2021

Facing far less risk, people with the luxury of working from home nevertheless have faced new stressors on their mental health, including blurred work-life boundaries, social isolation and ceaseless caregiving. Our efforts at work could reduce our team members' overall risks in and out of work. Managing human capital.

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Greentown Labs

MARCH 31, 2020

Nordan suggests going to the drawing board and drafting three-, two-, and one-year plans for how you could survive without raising capital. The three-year plans virtually never work, he acknowledged, but said playing out these three scenarios is a useful exercise. But what if you were planning on fundraising?

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Greentown Labs

APRIL 15, 2020

The event featured Amy Duffuor , principal at Prime Impact Fund ; Ryan Macpherson , portfolio and investment manager at Autodesk Foundation ; and Adam Rein , co-founder of CapShift. There aren’t many sources of capital that can do both grant-making and equity investments,” Macpherson said. How is COVID-19 affecting impact investing?

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Greentown Labs

APRIL 15, 2020

The event featured Amy Duffuor , principal at Prime Impact Fund ; Ryan Macpherson , portfolio and investment manager at Autodesk Foundation ; and Adam Rein , co-founder of CapShift. There aren’t many sources of capital that can do both grant-making and equity investments,” Macpherson said. How is COVID-19 affecting impact investing?

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 25, 2020

“As a member of the venture capital and technology ecosystems, we’re hopeful this commitment will be shared by our peers and ultimately catalyze an industry-wide shift in mindset.” ” Keep in mind that the fund was announced before the COVID-19 pandemic sent shock waves through the real estate world. .”

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Enervee

JANUARY 13, 2020

It’s something that we’ve been working towards for several years now and we recently had the opportunity to test our capabilities, in partnership with AEP Ohio. These features are new in the low-income efficiency space. It should therefore come as no surprise that roughly one-third of U.S.

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Energy Innovation

AUGUST 14, 2023

MORE AMBITIOUS POLICY TO CAPITALIZE ON GROWING MOMENTUM The International Energy Agency’s climate roadmap concludes zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) trucks have the fifth largest potential for greenhouse gas reductions of any technology, across all economic sectors. [7] But further policy action is needed to speed their adoption.

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Greentown Labs

MARCH 31, 2020

Nordan suggests going to the drawing board and drafting three-, two-, and one-year plans for how you could survive without raising capital. The three-year plans virtually never work, he acknowledged, but said playing out these three scenarios is a useful exercise. But what if you were planning on fundraising?

Startups 52

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The government is closely following the important work of various sector-led initiatives including: the Taskforce on Scaling Voluntary Carbon Markets (TSVCM); the Voluntary Carbon Markets Integrity Initiative; UK VCM Forum; and, the Financing UK Nature Recovery coalition,” it adds. Voluntary Carbon Markets and COP26.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 14, 2020

Business leaders question shareholder primacy and capitalism. The business community, the media reported, was “ panicked ” and “ worried ” about capitalism, questioning whether it’s the right model in a world of climate change and inequality. It’s an era of what some call “ woke capitalism.” Subscribe to Andrew’s Blog.

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Enervee

APRIL 4, 2019

Surveys have shown that shoppers particularly value the energy-related features not available elsewhere: The Enervee Score, a zero to 100 energy efficiency index on every product model; Personalized energy bill impact and total cost of ownership estimates.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 6, 2022

Working to achieve zero waste within two years by.” Stress how green features create benefits like: Easy. reveal that your product works better because it’s green. Find future articles at greenbusinessbureau.com/blog. Social/Racial/Gender Justice. Helping Disadvantaged Populations. Ethics/Caring. specifics convince).

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GreenBiz

MARCH 1, 2021

This article originally appeared on the author's personal blog, and was written in that capacity. As simple as this sounds, it’s going to be an enormous job, requiring hard work over the coming decades. Let me illustrate how this might work with a simplified version of the Carbon Law. Italics are the author's.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 18, 2021

This essay originally appeared on the WeSpire blog and is republished with permission. Major banks, including JPMorgan Chase, Capital One, PNC and Fifth Third, close early. We need as leaders to acknowledge that the work of emancipation is still not done: not in our companies, our cities or our nation. Pull Quote.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Often working from home themselves, they empathized with employees and other stakeholders, some refusing to issue layoffs. Raised in Detroit, as a teen Mary Barra worked as a co-op student at Pontiac Motor, where her father was a die maker. Mary Barra, Chairman and CEO, General Motors; Detroit. LinkedIn | Company profile.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Amazon said in a blog post that it is aiming for the arena to "set a new sustainability bar for the sports and events industry". And it confirmed it would use the Global Oil and Gas Exit List to exclude the more than 900 companies featured on it from its portfolios. "We Paris unveils €250m cycle plan.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

As part of this work, the center seeks to bring transparency to the new landscape of climate commitments — discerning barriers to success and pinpointing opportunities to ensure measurable impact from this promising momentum. Barclays’ accounting additionally covers the capital markets activity it supports. degree Celsius world.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

As part of this work, the center seeks to bring transparency to the new landscape of climate commitments — discerning barriers to success and pinpointing opportunities to ensure measurable impact from this promising momentum. Barclays’ accounting additionally covers the capital markets activity it supports. degree Celsius world.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MAY 25, 2015

The culture in technology startup companies and venture capital firms thrives on risk-taking. The expectation of all-night working marathons in many of these companies clashes with the needs of families, and may keep women in the traditional gender roles of family care and child-raising. Women’s voices are making a difference in tech.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Beyond traditional venture capital, creative tools to accelerate sustainability are gaining hold, including green bonds and special purpose acquisition companies, or SPACS. Featured in featured block (1 article with image touted on the front page or elsewhere). In December, Gates called for the U.S. What does it mean for you?

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 8, 2024

This year, Chevron has pushed out messages on LinkedIn and in accompanying blog posts celebrating the company’s career opportunities for women in science, technology, engineering and maths (STEM), featuring a profile of Katila Dompetelo, Chevron Angola’s first-ever forewoman. Shell and Wunderman Thompson were undeterred, however.

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AutoGrid

MAY 16, 2023

Yet they are not one in the same, as was delineated in this previous blog entitled How DER Growth Feeds Synergy Between VPPs, DERMS and Microgrids. There is significant overlap with microgrids, but also some distinguishing features. to find out how this DER aggregation platform has evolved over time.

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AGreenLiving

JUNE 18, 2021

This essay originally appeared on the WeSpire blog and is republished with permission. Major banks, including JPMorgan Chase, Capital One, PNC and Fifth Third, close early. We need as leaders to acknowledge that the work of emancipation is still not done: not in our companies, our cities or our nation.

Education 28

Education Law Resilience Sustainability 28

AGreenLiving

JUNE 18, 2021

This essay originally appeared on the WeSpire blog and is republished with permission. Major banks, including JPMorgan Chase, Capital One, PNC and Fifth Third, close early. We need as leaders to acknowledge that the work of emancipation is still not done: not in our companies, our cities or our nation.

Education 28

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Earth Gratitude

AUGUST 27, 2017

Work to provide health coverage to everyone, while also seeking ways to reduce the costs, without denying people with pre-existing conditions their access to treatment. Do everything in my power to abolish cronyism in our nation’s capital and corporations. Work hard to increase the funding of the K-12 educational system in the U.S.,

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Greentown Labs

MAY 1, 2019

At Greentown Labs, we have the privilege of working with our corporate partners and startups within our Greentown Launch program to forge corporate partnerships. Here they are in ‘Part 2’ of our two-part blog series focused on how to forge corporate + startup partnerships. So why innovate if things are working pretty darn well?

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 1, 2021

In stopping climate change, time is as important as tech Jonathan Foley Mon, 03/01/2021 – 01:30 This article originally appeared on the author’s personal blog, and was written in that capacity. As simple as this sounds, it’s going to be an enormous job, requiring hard work over the coming decades.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

Often working from home themselves, they empathized with employees and other stakeholders, some refusing to issue layoffs. Mary Barra, Chairman and CEO, General Motors; Detroit LinkedIn | Company profile Raised in Detroit, as a teen Mary Barra worked as a co-op student at Pontiac Motor, where her father was a die maker.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Develop innovative financial vehicles to scale green technologies “Because energy research can take years — even decades — to come to fruition, companies need patient investors who are willing to work with them over the long term,” Gates wrote in 2018. In December, Gates called for the U.S. Pull Quote What does it mean for you?

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Low Impact

OCTOBER 17, 2021

The organisation that I work for ( Lowimpact.org ) has been promoting and assisting lifestyle change since 2001. Now on to question 3 – does advocating system change mean anti-capitalism? ‘It’s not capitalism’, they might say. It all works – we only have to use it. ‘It’s a dictatorship.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Rees-Mogg was previously referred to the parliamentary standards watchdog for failing to declare in debates that his investment firm, Somerset Capital Management, held shares worth around £3 million in mining firms, £2.4 Ellis has indicated his support for climate action in a number of entries on his personal blog.

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Low Impact

JUNE 6, 2021

Since I’ve been involved in the mutual credit world, I’ve been reading various ‘history of money’ texts, and so I thought I’d organise the notes I’ve taken into a blog article. 15th – 19th centuries: early capitalism. But this involved a lot of work to get, and could be stolen.

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 30, 2020

In 2018 she joined Project 90 by 2030 , an NGO working to cut the country’s carbon emissions by 90 percent by 2030 and in 2019 she joined African Climate Alliance , a pan-African climate justice group. He fell in love with the ocean from an early age, thanks to his parents, who work as marine conservationists.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 22, 2020

NIne members of this year’s cohort work are affiliated with some of the world’s most influential companies, including Allbirds, Amazon, Goldman Sachs, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, MetLife, Moody's Investor Services and Saint-Gobain. The list of their accomplishments is long and growing longer by the day, and they're just getting started.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 21, 2020

I’ve come to Stone House Farm from Brooklyn to learn more about how regenerative agriculture — the nature-based approach to farming generating all kinds of buzz around its climate mitigation potential — actually works. These pilots are also working out potential cost and pricing models, Reed said. But in a way, it doesn’t matter.

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