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Plan It Native landscape conference goes virtual

Greenability Magazine

Deep Roots KC and its partners will host this second annual event featuring keynote speakers: Majora Carter, urban revitalization strategy consultant, real estate developer and MacArthur Fellow and Peabody Award winning broadcaster. For more conference information and registration, visit Plan It Native.

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How to lay the foundation for net zero carbon building projects

Business Green

Designed and executed with care, net-zero carbon goals can offer more than sustainability window dressing for commercial buildings in the decades to come. As we're moving from what was traditionally an avoidance of carbon emissions to avoid climate change, we're now moving much more into adaptation," she said. Risk and adaptation.

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California Ports Turn to Microgrids for Energy Security, Demand Flexibility

GreenTechMedia

Real estate on the port is valuable and space to install distributed energy resources such as solar PV panels and batteries is scarce. Brown later signed SB 100, which requires 100 percent carbon-free electricity in California by 2045. The Port of Long Beach handles $200 billion of cargo each year.

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Analysis: How did the 2019 legislative session fare on climate justice?

Front And Centered

By respecting communities’ ability to thrive in place, and relationships to place, we can reduce pollution and build resilience. The final budget included a progressive Real Estate Excise Tax that charges more for the sale of more expensive homes (although using it for tax breaks), an important precedent.

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Climate Corps Alumni Advisory Board

EDF + Business

Praneet Arshi is an Associate Consultant at WSP and focuses on renewable energy procurement, ESG frameworks/reporting, real estate sustainability, and life cycle circularity. Analyst, Global Impact (ESG), Salesforce San Francisco, CA, USA PGIM Real Estate (‘17). Praneet Singh Arshi. (He/Him/His) Anuraag Jhawar. (He/Him)

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The 2020 GreenBiz 30 Under 30

GreenBiz

based insurer to achieve carbon neutrality in 2016. . During her five years with Quantis, Bande has advised some of the world’s largest companies in the food, cosmetics and apparels sectors, helping them define science-based targets, insetting initiatives and carbon pricing approaches. Jesse Klein. Jennifer Ballen, 28 . Lauren Phipps.