Investment, Stormwater, Sustainability and Waste

The Brief: Prudential’s billion-dollar blueprint, sustainable alt-leather, prison education, stormwater and waste reduction bonds, Carlyle’s strategy

Impact Alpha

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Featured: ImpactAlpha Original Prudential’s $1 billion portfolio of impact investments offers a blueprint for institutional investors. Long before $1 billion became table stakes for impact investment funds, Lata Reddy went to the White House to announce Prudential Financial’s plan to build a $1 billion impact investment portfolio by 2020.

Stormwater

Stormwater Education Waste Waste

New York Sustainability: Tax Credits, Grants and Green Funding

Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 6, 2022

New York sustainability: Urban sustainability that supports the green business. For the purpose-driven business operating within the New York district, this Green Business Bureau article looks at the New York sustainability agenda to detail the developments this city is championing to achieve urban sustainability.

Sustainability

Sustainability Electric vehicle Innovation Stormwater

‘Fantasy league’ reveals future of water innovation

Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 26, 2022

The 2022 showcase companies have developed ground-breaking solutions in areas such as stormwater management, water reuse, sanitation, smart water and circular economy, all aligning with the BlueTech Forum 2022 theme – radical collaboration for regeneration. Hawaii-based 3Rwater was named Top Innovation Pavilion Company at WEFTEC 2021.

Innovation

Innovation Stormwater Technology Waste

Environmental Services Director

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.

Sustainability

Sustainability Health Resilience Waste

Comment: Agriculture and pharma key to solving micropollutants problem

Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

However, run-off from agriculture and discharges and waste from the pharmaceutical sector must be at the forefront of future discussions, due to the sheer volume and persistence of the pollutants they generate. Preventing micropollutants from being discharged into the environment in the first place must become the touchstone of policymaking.

Agriculture

Agriculture Pollution Stormwater Ozone

How to lay the foundation for net zero carbon building projects

Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Designed and executed with care, net-zero carbon goals can offer more than sustainability window dressing for commercial buildings in the decades to come. The market has changed from seeing sustainability as an amenity to sell to being something that is actually about risk management," said Breana Wheeler, director of U.S.

Carbon

Carbon Real Estate Carbon-neutral Sustainability

GM’s renamed Factory ZERO to be retooled for all-EV production

Charged

OCTOBER 20, 2020

billion investment in Factory ZERO, the largest single investment in a plant in company history, will position the facility to build EVs at mass-market scale. GM is redesigning Factory ZERO with sustainability in mind. GM says its planned $2.2-billion acre wildlife habitat.

Stormwater

Stormwater Automotive Batteries Cooling

We, The Army, Are Prepared For The Last War

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

Greywater

Greywater Climate change Stormwater Carbon-negative

The case for raising up women in climate tech

GreenBiz

APRIL 15, 2021

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. Women founders generate more than twice as much per dollar invested than their male counterparts, exit one year earlier, staff up with 2.5 3 — Reduce Food Waste. 36 — Alternative Cement.

Startups

Startups Carbon-negative Plastics Biodegradable

How do you monitor a tidal river?

Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 4, 2021

Almost 9 million people now live in the capital, so significant investment has been made in the city’s wastewater infrastructure in recent decades. However, sustainable urban drainage systems (SUDS) now feature in many new developments and these initiatives help to slow the flow. Today’s challenge. High intensity monitoring.

Energy Monitor

Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring

Meet the Innovators in Elemental Excelerator’s 9th Cohort

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. Upcycling textile waste in collaboration with leading brands and supply chain partners. “These are technologies that are primed for deployment and growth.

Innovation

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In West Virginia, Plan to Clean up Radioactive Fracking Waste Ends in Monster Lawsuit

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

In rural West Virginia, largely hidden among steep hills, stands a $255 million facility designed to transform fracking waste into freshwater and food grade quality salts. Laden with heavy metals, chemicals and other contaminants, this waste frequently exhibits levels of radioactivity hundreds of times the safe limits set by regulators.

Waste

Waste Waste Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring

Climate Corps Alumni Advisory Board

EDF + Business

MARCH 1, 2021

He/Him/His) Energy & Sustainability Consultant, Cumming Corporation Los Angeles, CA, USA Shorenstein Realty Services (‘15). As an Assistant Project Manager, Trevor Anderson supports his Energy and Sustainability team and their clients on a variety of sustainability consulting services. Praneet Singh Arshi. (He/Him/His)

Business Energy Monitoring

Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring

What we’re looking to fund in Cohort 10

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. Digital and financial solutions.

Business Energy Monitoring

Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Agriculture

Every region of the country is taking climate action. Here’s how.

Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

In Hawaiʻi, some advocates are exploring the possibility of a zoning category for “traditional lands” that would support sustainable housing communities along with culturally rooted farming and fishing. With dam failures and overflows from combined sewer and stormwater systems common, there’s more work to do. Some go even further.

Home Energy Monitoring

Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Energy Monitor

The 2020 GreenBiz 30 Under 30

GreenBiz

JUNE 22, 2020

We are proud to introduce our fifth annual cohort of twentysomethings who are sustainability leaders within — and without — their companies, nonprofits and communities. Grateful appreciation to the World Business Council for Sustainable Business and the Yale Center for Business and the Environment for helping us spread the word.

Sustainability

Sustainability Carbon-neutral Waste Waste

CleanTech Focus

The Brief: Prudential’s billion-dollar blueprint, sustainable alt-leather, prison education, stormwater and waste reduction bonds, Carlyle’s strategy

New York Sustainability: Tax Credits, Grants and Green Funding

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‘Fantasy league’ reveals future of water innovation

Environmental Services Director

Comment: Agriculture and pharma key to solving micropollutants problem

How to lay the foundation for net zero carbon building projects

GM’s renamed Factory ZERO to be retooled for all-EV production

We, The Army, Are Prepared For The Last War

The case for raising up women in climate tech

How do you monitor a tidal river?

Meet the Innovators in Elemental Excelerator’s 9th Cohort

In West Virginia, Plan to Clean up Radioactive Fracking Waste Ends in Monster Lawsuit

Climate Corps Alumni Advisory Board

What we’re looking to fund in Cohort 10

Every region of the country is taking climate action. Here’s how.

The 2020 GreenBiz 30 Under 30

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