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Kansas City achieves LEED Gold with LEED for Cities

Greenability Magazine

We’re working with community partners to ensure we’re building a more resilient energy system for the future.” The certification helps jurisdictions achieve high performance in critical human and environmental health areas. Cimarron Bend III, the wind resource, accounts for 20% of the city’s electricity usage.

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Could rewilding our cities bolster urban climate resilience?

Business Green

Rewilding in cities could deliver a raft of environmental benefits, including enhanced climate change resilience through increased protection from flooding and heatwaves, reduced air pollution, biodiversity gains, and reduced environmental management costs. They were also installed with solar panels to generate power.

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New leaders at Patagonia, McDonald's, Netflix

GreenBiz

It's not necessarily that the game of musical chairs has intensified in the C-suite, but you'll note major executive moves at big apparel, food, energy, finance and technology corporations, some of which have enlisted a chief sustainability officer (CSO) or equivalent for the first time. The former U.K.

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It’s Time To Rethink Grid Reliability

Energy Innovation

This article is the first in a series entitled “Real Talk on Reliability ,” which will examine the reliability needs of our grid as we move toward 100% clean electricity and electrify more end-uses on the path to a climate stable future.

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The Return on Investment (ROI) of Sustainable Business

Green Business Bureau

Climate change has been linked to carbon emissions, yet another reason for businesses to change. In some regions, lack of access to natural resources and basic necessities such as water or reliable electricity is a major impediment to profitability and growth. Measuring Energy Usage and Savings.

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Builders, Helpers, and Closers: Insights from Interactive 2020

Elemental Excelerator

“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. Equity & Climate. 3 companies working to increase access to climate technologies in frontline communities.

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Lessons from a year of reporting on climate solutions in Cascadia

Grist

This story is part of the series Getting to Zero: Decarbonizing Cascadia , which explores the path to low-carbon energy for British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon. Worried about the climate crisis? And, in the United States, political gridlock chopped the heart out of Congress’ most ambitious clean energy plan. .