GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

venture capital firms were on the lookout for cleantech targets, drawn, not least, by the reassurance of a Department of Energy loan program that was busy dispersing $15 billion in loan guarantees. But the figures for one final group in the original top 50 tell a different story. It was also a time when U.S.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 6, 2022

If you show why and make it easy, they’ll buy. They ask “How will this lower my carbon footprint, energy consumption, waste, and resource use?”. Reducing asthma in a polluted urban neighborhood through clean energy.”. Stress how green features create benefits like: Easy. Saves or makes money. Deep Greens.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 12, 2021

For some, wood may not be so easy to source sustainably, so choosing other options such as concrete may be more cost efficient and sustainable. This is because steel is the most recycled metal available and while it is energy intensive to create, it is able to last for decades and be repurposed for many different projects.

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Mosaic

DECEMBER 6, 2018

At Mosaic, our vision of 100% clean energy for all led us to build an industry-leading platform for home solar financing – and now we’re going beyond that to connect homeowners with financing for modern, energy-efficient home improvements. Financing Both Solar and Energy Efficiency. Instant credit decisions.

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Low Impact

JANUARY 27, 2021

Whether working from home or learning from home right now, our computers have, for better or worse, become lifelines, with the thought of having to replace them likely to fill us with dread. Switching to an open source operating system like Linux is one way to prolong the life of an ageing laptop. What’s not to love?

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 3, 2022

This story was originally published by WIRED and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. If you look at a legume’s roots, you’ll see nodules that provide these nitrogen-fixing microbes with a home and food. It’s not easy to turn atmospheric nitrogen into a form of nitrogen that plants can absorb on their own.

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Business Green

AUGUST 22, 2022

Whoever takes on the mantle of leading Britain through what promises to be an extremely difficult winter faces a baptism of fire next month, and it is not a fire to warm the cockles: energy bills, food costs, inflation, and geopolitical tensions are all ratcheting ever upwards with no immediate end in sight to the worsening economic crisis.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Bay-Area startup Stem used to sell standalone batteries to save businesses money on their utility bills. Energy finance publication SparkSpread reported last week that Stem was seeking a buyer with the help of Morgan Stanley and Greentech Capital Advisors, with bids due recently. Good things happen with execution," he said. "By

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2020

They are the homes and offices of the future that promise to keep occupants cool in the summer, warm in the winter, and healthy in mind and body all year round, while also providing a critical component of the zero emission energy system that should emerge over the next decade. Not that any part of this transition is easy, of course.

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Jigar Shah

MARCH 29, 2019

both to save the world and to make even more money for his shareholders. In January 2018, AWS stated that it had achieved 50% renewable energy usage. Reaching 100% renewable energy usage, as it were, would only require another roughly 1,000 Megawatts of renewable energy?—?something In short, he should?—?both

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Earth Gratitude

JULY 11, 2017

The interviews were centered on ways that we can all support a more beautiful common home, without a change in lifestyle. If they aren’t eating lettuce and tomatoes at home, it just goes into the trash. The idea is to make sure that all of the energy that cities buy comes from renewable energy,” according to Ken Berlin.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 1, 2022

Each organization’s team or teams may look and feel a little different, but they all have a champion, goals, ways to track accountability and they meet regularly. Bring Energy and Excitement. Being a member of a company’s Green Team should be fun, filled with energy and excitement for all members.

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Clean Energy Canada

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

If you hadn’t heard that the federal government just made buying a home heat pump even cheaper – and practically free for many low-income Canadians switching from oil heating – you aren’t alone. But missing from this political standoff is this fact: Clean energy is actually one of the best ways to save money at a household level.

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Business Green

MARCH 20, 2023

It's got the climate angle, it's got the exponential potential to be profitable, it's got the interest, and it's a good story down the pub. Biochar is going to open so many other avenues for investment, for carbon, and for planet-saving, because of all the exponential benefits that we haven't even accessed yet," Casely predicts.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

NOVEMBER 14, 2015

But thanks to a supportive audience and the warm welcome of our own Lisa Ann Pinkerton , who graciously introduced the speakers, nervousness soon gave way to an atmosphere of appreciation and sharing. Google prides itself on having been carbon-neutral since 2007, with data centers that use 50% less energy than is typical.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 26, 2024

The result is “ The Sky Was Ours “ (Penguin Books, April 23), a modern retelling of the story of Daedalus and Icarus. Joe Fassler Fiction was what I went to grad school for, and at first I found my way into journalism mostly as a way to support myself while I wrote this novel.

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Charged

AUGUST 2, 2023

Furthermore, the case for electric trucks and buses would seem to be an easy one to make. Saving money is important, but reliability is mission-critical, and fleet operators were unwilling to get serious about going electric until they had tested EVs in years-long pilot projects. In the real world, things haven’t been that simple.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Her story is a testament to what you can achieve when you play big, act boldly, and create a compelling vision for your life and career. It wasn’t easy to say, “I’m closing this chapter and I don’t know what I’m doing.” She says, “It has everything I wanted: intellectual rigor, and investing in companies that will help save the world.”

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Barry Cinnamon is CEO of California's Cinnamon Energy Systems. Fortunately, with current solar, battery and heat pump technology every building with a sunny roof under two stories can be a net generator of energy — essentially carbon negative. Some people say this is the new normal. Former U.S. No more fossil fuels.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. Often working from home themselves, they empathized with employees and other stakeholders, some refusing to issue layoffs. 20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021.

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Grist

APRIL 14, 2021

This story is adapted from the forthcoming book WARMTH which will be published by Penguin Books in August. In a low voice he tells us stories of another world, the Dreaming, which enfolds our own like a shroud. The story goes that he remains there today, watching over his work, heralding the passage of the seasons.

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 12, 2023

Geothermal energy is climate tech but it isn’t new tech. Bedrock Energy , which just announced a $8.5M seed round this week , aims to bring this all-electric, energy-cost-saving tech to commercial and industrial properties by re-engineering the tools of oil and gas to drill deeper, faster, and cheaper. 

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Grist

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Max La Manna Cooking videos are, in many ways, perfectly suited to these aspects of TikTok’s ethos. If that something is an easy, low-effort dish using ingredients you can get at the supermarket — like feta or cottage cheese — all the better. “‘Oh my God, I have way too much zucchini.

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Mosaic

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Make sure the referral process is clear and easy to follow, so it fits into busy customer schedules. Show off your success stories by adding them to your website, social media, on hand outs or in your email signatures. It's a simple, powerful way to show your expertise and reliability.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

A new excerpt from Tesla: How Elon Musk and Company Made Electric Cars Cool, and Remade the Automotive and Energy Industries , Edition 4.1. My dad would bring home lab cars—like a library book, but it was a car. Inside Sales would book drives, and I’d go conduct test drives at peoples’ homes. An inside look at the early days.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 29, 2022

The push to sell “blue hydrogen” as a clean energy fuel — which experts have called a misleading rebrand of fossil fuels — hit another setback this month. Climate provisions in the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 are bringing new economic headwinds to the gas-derived hydrogen fuel’s prospects.

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Bidgely

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

With Europe becoming the pioneer of energy transition, the European Utility Week (EUW) has evolved from a classic industry trade fair to a hotbed of energy innovation and thought leadership. The question for European energy utilities is: can you see, and respond to, what is happening in customers’ homes?

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MAY 14, 2021

It was Mother’s Day weekend, and WCS Chairwoman Lisa Ann Pinkerton kicked-off the event with a nod to the creativity and nurturing spirit that unites everyone in the WCS community – dedicated to using our creativity to come up with solutions to save our planet and using our nurturing instinct to look after mother Earth. .

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

The story of B Lab, however, really starts back in 1993 with Jay Coen Gilbert. Stress Matters is a UK-based workplace wellbeing organization that’s focused on making it easy for organizations to look after their team. Since these beginnings, the B Corp movement has come a long way. And so, the B Lab was established.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

This book explains how events like these are influenced by climate change and offer ways you can get involved in the fight for solutions. We already have the practical, clean-energy solutions to make a real impact and help stop the destruction from extreme weather events from getting ever-worse.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 12, 2021

So we know that humans have been telling stories for over 40,000 years. Childhood tales, such as The Story of Ferdinand convey culture, values and ideas of right and wrong. We listen to stories throughout our lives, these are tales that connect society, teach social norms, and provide community support. 5: Public Trust.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021 Elsa Wenzel Mon, 01/11/2021 – 02:15 The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. and globally by 2040.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

Clean energy for Native American communities. Others have lost their own homes to natural disasters. Vartan Badalian’s mother has a favorite story to prove that being born on Earth Day imbued him with an innate concern for the environment. I've always been an energy nerd and I just knew that was my place. Deonna Anderson.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

VERGE Energy Conference (VERGE 20) will take place on October 26-30, 2020. This online event can be attended from anywhere, The central theme at VERGE 20 will focus on how energy systems can be decarbonized, decentralized, digitized and democratized.

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Low Impact

JUNE 6, 2021

Most people didn’t stray far from home. The story is that people were struggling to trade in a barter economy – they had to find someone who had what they wanted, and wanted what they had, which is difficult. There are some real-world ‘origin of money’ stories scattered through this history. It’s over 2700 years old.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

WCS Talks is different in more than one way from events where women are less well represented. Women also tend to make connections and see things in a holistic way. How business can lead the way. Google, the largest corporate non-utility buyer of renewable energy in the world, is well positioned to lead the way.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 17, 2021

Clean energy for Native American communities. Others have lost their own homes to natural disasters. ” Today, Barudin works on state clean energy policy, collaborating closely with tribal leaders to ensure community buy-in and outcomes that are equitable. So it feels good to give back in a way that I know I can help.”

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