June, 2016

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4 Common Mistakes People Make with their Finances

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

Strategies for Sustainable Finances. By Pat Christianson and Rosana Francescato. What’s the formula for healthy personal finances? It comes down to 20% knowledge and 80% behavior. That’s according to Tiffany Groode , who spoke at the informative Women in Cleantech and Sustainability event “Financial Planning for Cleantech and Sustainability Professionals.”.

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Awapatent to guide the startups in Green Tech Challenge 2016

Green Tech Challenge

Green Tech Challenge – we make green business good business A central part of making green business good business is making sure that the green startups have the intellectual property rights to their technology. In Green Tech Challenge 2016, the startups in the program will get valuable assistance from the patent advisors in Awapatent. Awapatent is an international patent office.

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Why women are critical to clean energy

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

By Joan MacNaughton, Executive Chair, World Energy Trilemma, World Energy Council Originally published on GreenBiz. While climate change has been recognized as an urgent, global issue, the relevance of increasing the visibility of women in clean energy as a solution to advancing our climate goals is rarely discussed. Around the world, the energy industry remains one of the most gender-imbalanced sectors according to the United States Agency for International Development in “Women at the Fo

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GTC Alumni Kicking Ass on KickStarter

Green Tech Challenge

Looking back, we were always certain that the boys from Organic Basics would see a fair amount of success. We first encountered the team at an event co-hosted by the American Embassy in Copenhagen. When they pitched in front of the investors, everyone was laughing at the witty, yet convincing pitch. Fast-forward to today and the team has not only managed to raise more than 750.000 DKK on a kickstarter campaign (by Danish standards, that is a lot) – they’ve also recently been on the frontpage of

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Electrofuels Are the Future: The Driving Force to Decarbonizing Heavy Transport

Speaker: Ayesha Choudhury - Senior Vice President, Head of Capital Markets at Infinium

With the first wave of the energy transition, renewable energy sources (such as solar and wind) have begun replacing coal power generation. However, some sectors are lagging behind and struggling to decarbonize more than others, including large-scale transportation like commercial aviation, shipping, and rail transit. Electrofuels (aka eFuels) are the next generation of solutions to help the hardest-to-abate sectors pivot from their reliance on fossil fuels.