Elemental Excelerator

JUNE 23, 2021

It’s a good moment to share the origin story of EDICT , a movement to diversify our climate-tech workforce. We sat down with Devin, Jason, and Sara Chandler, Elemental’s Managing Director of Equity & Access, to talk about the ideas and stories behind EDICT. ll tell a quick story. We need diverse voices and viewpoints.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 10, 2020

Their answers covered stories of leadership, perspective and passion. Funny: I’d endure good-natured teasing from coworkers ("How many trees are you killing, Jackie?"), and others would hide their single-use water bottles or apologize for other eco-indiscretions.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

FEBRUARY 18, 2015

For example, she tells the story of Elmer Rankin, an elderly, disabled Navy veteran who lived in Sun City, Calif. million to provide women hands-on training, mentorships, fellowships, leadership-building events and networking opportunities. Mackie has experienced repeatedly how savings from solar can be life-changing for people.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Sustainability and business 3. The news today is full of stories of dislocated people on the move. This revised edition is filled with proven strategies and tools for organizations to integrate sustainability into their business models. These books are organized in the following six categories: 1. Climate impacts 2.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 28, 2021

But it also comes as growing numbers of states and local jurisdictions with ambitious climate pledges are moving to require or promote all-electric buildings. In the gas companies’ favor, the statute that prevented unfair competition endured. Homebuyers – not builders — still made the fuel choices, building professionals say.

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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 14, 2023

Despite Proterra’s 50%+ foothold in the US electric bus market, it’s the latest in a string of recent bankruptcy filings among climate tech businesses that went public via special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) in the last two years.

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Better Ventures

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Backing Breakthrough Innovations to Build a Better World At Better Ventures , we back founders on a mission to build a better world. Last month we held a final close on our $32M third fund, and we wanted to take a moment to reflect on the incredible journey that got us here and discuss what we’re excited about as we look ahead.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 28, 2020

To recall some of the key developments, as I have done each December for more than a decade, I’ve plumbed the nearly 1,300 stories, columns and analyses we’ve published on GreenBiz.com since the dawn of 2020 — a.k.a. All links are to stories published on GreenBiz.com during 2020.) But it was much, much longer than that.

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Grist

AUGUST 17, 2023

In some forests, they also cut Douglas firs to increase the number of oaks and madrones that provided food and shelter for wildlife, cultural resources, and building materials. He fiercely opposes any tree removal beyond 100 feet of buildings and evacuation routes. Forests store carbon.

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Business Green

JANUARY 30, 2023

Rather than slowing down, energy transition investment has surged to a new record as countries and businesses continue to execute on transition plans. The continued acceleration of the clean energy transition depends on the White House remaining in the hands of Presidents who want to build on the success of the IRA rather than roll it back.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 10, 2020

Their answers covered stories of leadership, perspective and passion. Funny: I’d endure good-natured teasing from coworkers (“How many trees are you killing, Jackie?”), How does that play out in your personal life, in ways good and bad, and how has that affected you?

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

The latest BusinessGreen Webinar, hosted in association with Patch, reveals how there are good reasons to think the voluntary carbon market could be at an inflection point Voluntary carbon markets have endured a turbulent couple of years. I think you'll see a lot more positive stories in 2024 than you've seen in 2023."

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Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The UK has endured yet another year of economic underperformance - there is only one route available that can break the pattern of managed decline, but the clock is ticking. It is at most two business planning cycles away. How are you spending the New Year? You could easily be in the same job. You may well be driving the same car.

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Grist

JANUARY 30, 2020

Back in August, I’d set out to see if I could find a success story, one that might offer a template for others to follow. I thought I’d found my story, until I learned that, after a couple rainy years, Kutztown had to turn the machine back on. Fertilizer pollution had returned to historic highs. Clayton Aldern / Grist.

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Business Green

MARCH 7, 2021

And there are many, many more women working behind the scenes on campaigns and policy, in businesses and within communities. The same imbalance is rife in the world of green business. per cent more than women in the same roles.

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Business Green

MARCH 7, 2021

And there are many, many more women working behind the scenes on campaigns and policy, in businesses and within communities. The same imbalance is rife in the world of green business. per cent more than women in the same roles.

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Grist

JANUARY 18, 2024

US EPA handout / Anadolu Agency via Getty Images “Four months after the derailment, we went back to contaminated buildings, and they still smelled like the acrid chemical contamination odor that was associated with the spill,” said Whelton. It’s not really the stuff of polite conversation,” said one business owner in town.)

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Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

States, cities, businesses, and organizations across the country are taking increasingly large steps to reduce emissions — and those efforts are aided by the falling costs of renewable energy and other decarbonizing technologies. Climate pressures like ocean acidification have made it harder for the mollusks to build and maintain shells.

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

This blog reveals why we are addicted, and provides a possible methadone that is needed to transform the transportation, buildings and industry sector. Buildings and Industry How to kick the habit Two other sectors that account for significant oil use are buildings and industry. My comments on that article are in italic.

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2020

It is that last goal - the promise of renewed and effective institutions - that is suddenly in sharp focus, as many of the world's leading economies endure a crash course in how vulnerable many of their institutions have become to global shocks. The private sector is also keenly aware of the limited progress on SDG16.

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Grist

JANUARY 29, 2020

This story was published in partnership with the Center for Public Integrity and The World. Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City and kill 168 people in 1995. Muska was walking toward the burning building when, he said, “there was this wall of explosion, a very, very bad, loud explosion. At 7:51 p.m.,

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Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2021

The global economy has endured a particularly volatile period since the Paris Agreement was signed in 2015, with President Trump's victory, Brexit, and the flexing of authoritarian muscles all sparking geopolitical tensions and economic uncertainty, even before the pandemic struck. Net zero moves from aspiration to action.

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Green Market Oracle

MARCH 6, 2020

We're building a mass-movement and reaching out quite far in our methods of mobilizing and gaining attention. From activists to sustainability focused business women, this ethnically and geographically diverse group of women includes both young and old and everything in between. However, Neubauer rejects comparisons with Greta.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 24, 2020

We have seen the power of protest and Americans are increasingly realizing that they have the power to build a more just society. This is the most serious recession since the great depression, more than 50 million people have filed for unemployment and nearly one in 6 small businesses have closed. It's not about Joe or me.

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