Renewable Energy World

JULY 15, 2021

Clean Energy Group (CEG), a national nonprofit that works on clean energy and climate, announced the retirement of Lewis Milford, its founder and president. 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.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

It also walked back restrictive rules on its books related to marches. James, explained to me on a call, describing her faith-based community organization’s latest legal victory. On November 17, a week before Thanksgiving, Tulane Law’s First Amendment Clinic, announced a favorable settlement on behalf of RISE. Back in the fall of 2020, RISE.

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GreenBiz

JULY 22, 2020

What makes Al Gore hopeful: Tech innovation, science-based targets and the racial 'awakening'. Heather Clancy. Wed, 07/22/2020 - 02:00. Who is responsible for emissions? Where did they originate? How can we be sure? What’s more, Gore observes that we’re still emitting 152 million tons of heat-trapping pollution into the atmosphere every 24 hours.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 1, 2021

The energy transition isn’t just sounding the death knell for fossil fuels. According to some experts, it has also revealed flaws in an idea that has bugged some academics for decades: As we move to less energy-dense fuels, could we end up without enough surplus for society? Oil is an energy-dense fuel.

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2020

The goal is decarbonisation, not 100 per cent renewables, and nuclear should be part of the climate equation, argue Energy for Humanity's Kirsty Grogan and Eric Ingersoll of the Energy Options Network. Energy for Humanity organised a series of events. There has never been a more important time to listen to the science.

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Andrew Winston

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Hundreds have committed to using only renewable energy. We outline many of these steps in our new book, Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take.) I’m reposting this piece I wrote with my Net Positive co-author, the great CEO Paul Polman, in MIT Sloan Management Review. Let me know… ].

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Andrew Winston

MAY 4, 2022

They see ESG-related spending — a capital expense to reduce energy use, opting for renewable energy, paying living wages, and so on — as purely cost, not investment. Worries that clean energy costs more, for example, are wildly out of date. This article got some good debate on my LinkedIn post. They shouldn’t.

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Business Green

APRIL 12, 2022

So without further ado, we are delighted to today announce all the finalists for this year's awards below - and to confirm that you can now book your place to attend the UK's largest and most prestigious green business celebration event in person, where the winners will be announced in June. Polypipe Civils & Green Urbanisation.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill - also known as the Brexit Freedoms Bill - is designed to strike the remaining EU laws from the UK's statute book by 2023, which environmental groups have warned could impact as many as 570 retained laws that come under the remit of the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra).

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

In September, the group’s energy editor John Constable was invited to give evidence to a parliamentary inquiry at the House of Lords into the country’s energy transition and the cost of its net zero policies. Institutional Ties. An Academy spokesperson said they were unable to comment on any external association of its 600 members.

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E2 Environmental Entrepreneurs

JUNE 8, 2020

In a different career, as the Washington correspondent for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper, I was lucky enough to get to know civil rights icon U.S. A passage in his 2012 book Across That Bridge sticks with me: “I have seen this restlessness among people before. We sense that power. They are definitely intertwined.

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Low Impact

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

EBUKI share news of this year’s upcoming virtual Clayfest, exploring and celebrating all things earth building on Friday 27th and Saturday 28th November 2020. This will be EBUKI’s 12th annual conference. The theme this year is ‘ Building Skills and Building Skills ’. This year, though, Clayfest is going online !

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JANUARY 16, 2022

We need to consider effective end-of-life strategies to ensure clean energy components don’t end up in our waste streams and landfills. A panel of circular economy specialists exploring recycling solutions for solar and storage technologies. Standard ticket: $15. This event is complimentary for all WCS members. No promo codes needed.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Tackling these multiple challenges and threats requires coordinated action from the public sector, private sector, NGOs, civil society, innovators and actors throughout the food value chain. These changes to our food systems could improve human and planetary health. Oliver Camp. Mon, 10/26/2020 - 01:30.

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CleanTX

MARCH 25, 2019

I look forward to expanding CleanTX’s reach across the State of Texas and beyond to further its mission of creating new cleantech jobs, innovation, and solutions to facilitate a new energy economy.”. Joseph Kopser to Lead CleanTX Inaugural Advisory Board. CleanTX’s Board Chairman, Ryan Edwards, welcomes Joseph to the CleanTX team.

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Terra Infirma

MARCH 30, 2021

Reflecting back, I’ve been striving for Sustainability for pretty much all my adult life, starting when I became SU Green Officer at college, introducing a recycling system and arranging an energy audit before either were standard practice. A parallel thread on my career was getting elected to Newcastle City Council in 2004.

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Business Green

MAY 5, 2022

The result has been eyewatering energy costs for homes and businesses, intense anxiety at the prospect of the war escalating, and fears that global climate action may have been pushed on to the backburner just months after countries around the world promised the precise opposite at the COP26 Climate Summit.

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Planet Pulse

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Her work lies at the intersection of disruptive technology, renewable energy, and human behavior. . Her work lies at the intersection of disruptive technology, renewable energy, and human behavior. . His book, “We’re Better Than This,” tells the story of modern-day democracy and the threats we all must face together.

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Andrew Winston

APRIL 16, 2019

I went to the New York march and the energy was electric — and I didn’t even take it personally when a group of teens called some colleagues and me “old people who need to do something.”. They're also serious.and business should listen. Here's what I wrote about it for my HBR column.]. And a group of teens has sued the U.S.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 24, 2022

The controversial Retained EU Law (Revocation and Reform) Bill - a move originally championed by Jacob Rees-Mogg during his brief stint as Business Secretary - is designed to strike remaining EU laws from the statute books by the end of 2023.

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Mr. Sustainability

APRIL 30, 2018

Fossil fuels, a vision of the future or something our children will see in history books? The energy markets, broadly taken to be fossil fuels and renewables, have seen significant changes over the past years. Will this lead to the end of our civilization? What is up with the world? Uncertainties rain rampant however.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 27, 2020

From foreign service to renewable energy. Benoit Allehaut: The embassy was very nice, but I was never going to be a civil servant. I was invited to decide who would be part of the presidential delegation and I chose Paris Mouratoglou, CEO of SIIF Energies, and Francois Roussely, CEO of EDF. I chose the administration option.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Working knowledge of electricity, solar, renewable energy, power generation or other industrial fields (3+ years). Understanding and ability to read electrical, structural, civil plans/drawings/diagrams. We offer customized performance and reliability solutions for the solar industry. Roles + Responsibilities (What you’ll do!).

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Business Green

JULY 7, 2021

Ahead of COP26 in November, where mobilising green finance will rightly be one of the four key themes, the UK government has announced a number of exciting initiatives to mobilise capital towards tackling climate change and biodiversity loss whilst delivering a green economic recovery to the Covid-19 pandemic.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

As pressure on the industry grows to phase out dirty energy and take responsibility for the climate crisis, buying goodwill may be a better marketing investment than ever. TotalEnergies will sponsor the 2023 Rugby World Cup in France. Aramco has partnered with Spain’s Laguna de El Hito Nature Reserve to conserve bird species.

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Business Green

JULY 27, 2021

Concerns about the efficacy of net zero targets are justified, but could condemnation of the concept from Greta Thunberg and others inadvertently serve to undermine efforts to decarbonise? The enemy of a good plan is the dream of a perfect one". Carl von Clausewitz, 1780-1831. The backlash is underway.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 15, 2022

Today, March 15, ClientEarth announced it was taking legal action against energy giant Shell’s board of directors, arguing that their failure to properly prepare the company for net zero carbon emissions breaches their legal duties. Addressing a challenge as big as climate change requires action from all quarters.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

Each storm season brings increased stress and fear for the people of Kivalina, a tiny Native village of some 400 Inupiaq people that sits on a small barrier island on the shore of the Chukchi Sea in Alaska. A bridg e to the mainland was only recently completed. Meanwhile, the island is rapidly eroding out from under the village.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Civil servants then dutifully run off to try and find anything on the statute book that is genuinely outdated or counter productive, only to return several months later having found next to nothing that can be cut without serious economic, environmental, and/or legal consequences, as well as likely political uproar.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Business Secretary and Glasgow summit President Alok Sharma's speech at the launch of the COP26 Private Finance Agenda in London. Let me start by thanking the Lord Mayor for hosting us today.??. It is staggering to think that over 600 years have passed since the Guildhall's master mason, John Croxton, started work on this incredible building.??.

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Andrew Winston

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

The New York Times put it another way in the headline to its article on the report: “Civilization Is Accelerating Extinction and Altering the Natural World at a Pace ‘Unprecedented in Human History.’”. Picture of AMNH, Flickr, Dano). Nature and its vital contributions to people … are deteriorating worldwide.” What does the report say?

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Andrew Winston

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

The New York Times put it another way in the headline to its article on the report: “Civilization Is Accelerating Extinction and Altering the Natural World at a Pace ‘Unprecedented in Human History.’”. Picture of AMNH, Flickr, Dano). Nature and its vital contributions to people … are deteriorating worldwide.” What does the report say?

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Business Green

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The government today confirmed that a new 10 point green recovery plan is imminent, but for now at least long-awaited net zero policy measures, including the energy white paper and national infrastructure strategy, remain stuck in the pipeline. The gap between the government's net zero rhetoric and its policy agenda remains.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

That is what the massed ranks of business leaders, investors, policy wonks, campaigners, and officials who make up the UK's climate community want to know as the clock ticks down to the globally critical COP26 Summit in Glasgow. This week should provide some much needed clarity.

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Business Green

JUNE 25, 2020

Hopes will also be high that ministers and civil servants on Whitehall are now digesting the report's many recommendations ahead of the Treasury's hotly-anticipated economic stimulus package, which is expected to emerge early next month. That's going to change fundamentally the context for climate policy, and everything else I suspect.

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Business Green

JULY 20, 2022

The government certainly hopes so, having this week set out its vision to transform all domestic flight and airports into a net zero emissions aviation industry within two short decades. However, the question as to whether such ambitious targets are achievable without measures to actively restrict passenger numbers remains an open one.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2024

Covid and inflation can take a share of the blame, but EDF's failure to deliver on a timeline and budget that has already been revised multiple times will have a significant knock on impact for the UK's climate, energy security, and even economic strategies. The details are bad. The details are bad. Here are just 10 of them.

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