Business Green

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Think of inspiring examples across the globe, such as Philadelphia's Green City, Clean Waters stormwater management plan and Seoul's Cheonggyecheon Stream. These ideas need to be communicated properly and brought into the mainstream so the public gets behind them. We need a paradigm shift in how we think about landscape.

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Business Green

JUNE 7, 2021

Even in an urban setting, green infrastructure is vital to cool our cities, manage stormwater, and deliver air quality benefits. It follows therefore, that the National Infrastructure Bank must include in its operating mandate nature-based solutions and nature restoration as investment priorities.

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Front And Centered

DECEMBER 12, 2023

They also require jurisdictions to create new anti-displacement policies, especially ones that preserve historical and cultural communities and invest in low-income housing. HB 1181 adds a new Climate Change and Resiliency Element that cities and counties must include in their comprehensive plans. Olympia, WA (Jan.

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Unsustainable

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

In 2017 the city of Miami Beach dove into the second stage of its $400- to $500-million investment project, (which began in 2013), to raise roads and install pumps in response to annually rising sea-levels. inches of runoff water, according to the project specs from the Florida Stormwater Associations 2018 Winter Conference.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Pharmaceuticals As one of the largest contributors of micropollutants, the pharmaceutical industry has the potential to play a significant role in tackling micropollutant contamination; increased investment in research, broader adoption of advanced treatment technologies, and collaboration are crucial.

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Front And Centered

MAY 17, 2019

By respecting communities’ ability to thrive in place, and relationships to place, we can reduce pollution and build resilience. Income is closely correlated with carbon pollution, so taxing higher, disposable incomes and wealth — especially if invested wisely — can contribute to reducing climate pollution.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MARCH 16, 2021

Fort Collins directly provides a full slate of municipal services, including operating its own electric, water, wastewater, and stormwater utilities. The City develops resiliency and sustainability through organization-wide systems and processes that ensure consistent employee work practices and alignment across service areas.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 30, 2021

Although COVID-19 has paused some of these activities, the organization sees this multifaceted support as an investment in a local workforce that will then have the knowledge and skills to continue the important work of tree-planting for building healthier communities. “There’s no asset value to the trees; only an expense item.”

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Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2021

More real estate owners, operators, developers and investment firms see the appeal of future-proofing properties from climate shocks such as floods and fires; from market shocks such as high prices for scarce fossil fuels; and from policy shocks such as any future laws requiring climate disclosures or that tax or penalize greenhouse gas emissions.

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Varuna

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

This past week (Jan 2020) a slew of climate change investment redirection announcements last week from Microsoft , Union Square Ventures and fifty wall ventures (both VC firms) and Blackrock (the second time Larry Fink has emphasized this shift in the hedge fund’s focus). drinking water, wastewater, stormwater and greywater?—?as

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GreenBiz

APRIL 15, 2021

They also are more equipped with the vital skills to adapt and be resilient to climate change when disaster strikes, and to influence how their communities mitigate against it. VC investment in climate tech is growing five times faster than overall VC, with a $60 billion increase in funding over the last seven years. Infrastructure.

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Grist

MARCH 29, 2023

Cracks in aging and poorly maintained pipes are being inundated , leaving plumbing unable to carry away stormwater and waste. Kim Jones, Bluffton’s watershed resilience manager, said the city has surveyed septic systems, looking for failing tanks. Pavement is degrading faster. In 2009, high levels of fecal coliform, bacteria like E.

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Elemental Excelerator

OCTOBER 5, 2020

We love investing at these meaningful, and highly dynamic, moments in a company’s growth cycle because they are where the ideal becomes real,” says CEO Dawn Lippert. “These are technologies that are primed for deployment and growth. ” — Nneka Uzoh, Director of Energy Innovation. Fervo Energy | EQUITY & ACCESS.

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Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 9, 2021

While we are not targeting specific technologies, we do have themes that shape our investments in each sector, and that evolve in relationship to the market, our growing portfolio, and the pressing needs of the communities in which we work. Stormwater management and flood resiliency solutions. Improving energy resiliency.

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EDF + Business

MARCH 1, 2021

Long inspired by the possibilities of sustainability-first consciousness provide, she was an Impact Analyst for four years at Sonen Capital, an investment firm that prioritizes socio-environmental outcomes in conjunction with financial returns. Mentoring EDF fellows every summer is fun and fulfilling for him.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Diversification, whether it’s on a single farm or across a local economy, can make towns more resilient, the report says. Renewed interest in cultivating native crops like taro helps restore local ecosystems and strengthen their resilience to threats like wildfires that feast on dry invasive grasses. That applies on land, too.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 22, 2020

She became intrigued by her clients’ requests for investments with a triple bottom line — and the very notion that profitability and impact needn’t be mutually exclusive. . When a Nigerian venture capitalist told Liswani it didn't make sense to invest in women, it spurred her on even more. It’s not like being an astronaut," he says.

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