GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The former EPA administrator and current president and CEO of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has been a leading advocate for smart, successful strategies to protect public health and the environment for more than 30 years. We have a shot at an equitable, healthy, sustainable future. Message of hope?

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Supports Sustainability Certification – Sustainable business certification is becoming a global standard for businesses across all industries. Water audits performed in conjunction with water reduction strategies can earn you credit towards sustainability certification such as the one offered by Green Business Bureau.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Date: February 24 6pm – Networking 6:30 – 7:30 – Panel 7:30 – 8:00 – Networking Venue: NRDC, 111 Sutter St, Floor 20, San Francisco Panelists: Annie Notthoff, Manal Yamout, and Mary Hughes. Annie Notthoff is Director, California Advocacy, San Francisco and Sacramento, Government Affairs Program at NRDC. REGISTER. ?

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Living Green Technology

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Fortunately, there are several things each of us can do to reduce our carbon footprint and live a more sustainable lifestyle—starting with the technological devices we use to watch our favorite television shows, make phone calls, or heat and cool our homes. Plus, the app is free to use and available for download on iOS and Android devices.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 7, 2020

New leaders at Patagonia, McDonald’s, Netflix Elsa Wenzel Wed, 10/07/2020 – 02:01 Heading into fall, this batch of career updates from the worlds of sustainability and business is somewhat top-heavy. Amid myriad social, health and political crises, business sustainability is alive and well and living the Paris Agreement.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Rainforest Alliance This famous, internationally known nonprofit conserves biodiversity and helps ensure sustainable livelihoods for people who toil in rainforests. Natural Resources Defense Council Founded in 1970, the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) is a big organization that helps the environment in many ways.

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Business Green

AUGUST 27, 2021

The participant list reads like a who's who of farmers, ranchers, scientists, retailers, food service providers and others in the region, including organizations such as Nori, LinkedIn, Zero Foodprint, Ecosystem Services Market Consortium, Compass, the University of California-Davis, Wholefoods and the NRDC.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MARCH 20, 2016

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability (WCS) recently held a panel discussion on the role of policy in driving cleantech and provided an inside look into the careers of three women who have shaped cleantech policy in California and beyond. appeared first on Women in Cleantech & Sustainability. By Pam Seidenman. ?While

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In deals, major funding includes $116M for hydrogen-powered aviation, $44M for sustainability software, and $75M in project finance investment for SAFs. sustainable infra fund.  fund that invests in sustainable infrastructure. Keep count using this COP28 Climate Funds Pledge Tracker from NRDC. CDR with one click.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The big green NGOs — EDF, NRDC, The Nature Conservancy, WWF and WRI — made out really big, each snagging $100 million. NRDC, for example, will be using its grant to help advance climate solutions at the state and community level that "strengthen equity and justice at the heart of climate advocacy."

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 4, 2024

Following the investigation, the company issued a statement expressing confidence that its “biomass is sustainable and legally harvested.” Pellets originating from primary forest are not sustainable in any way, shape or form.” For California, there’s no time to waste on false solutions like this,” Rita Frost of NRDC told DeSmog.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Nunes’ argument is challenged on two fronts: First, a spate of articles during 2023, from sources including Forbes, CNBC, Yahoo News, and the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), indicate there’s been a significant decline in the price of both new and used EVs. Neither are likely, or even logical, assumptions.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

The former EPA administrator and current president and CEO of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has been a leading advocate for smart, successful strategies to protect public health and the environment for more than 30 years. We have a shot at an equitable, healthy, sustainable future. ” Message of hope?

Climate change 28

Climate change Demand Health Fossil fuels 28

AGreenLiving

JUNE 1, 2021

“Electric vehicles are already benefiting the grid to a large extent,” said Miles Muller, attorney for the climate and clean energy program at NRDC. Spencer Reeder, director of government affairs and sustainability for Audi, says that will happen only if we work out some of the current challenges of charging.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Analysis by US environmental advocacy group, the National Resources Defense Council (NRDC), studied the emissions from wood pellets transported from pine plantations in the southeastern United States to be used in a bioenergy, carbon capture and storage (BECCS) operation by Drax in Yorkshire.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2022

” Elly Pepper, Senior Advocate at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and the Cut Carbon Not Forests Coalition (CCNF), said: “Governments and the bioenergy industry each have one hand on an axe that is decimating the world’s forests. It is a damaging way of using forests, and it cannot be sustained.”

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

The big green NGOs — EDF, NRDC, The Nature Conservancy, WWF and WRI — made out really big, each snagging $100 million. NRDC, for example, will be using its grant to help advance climate solutions at the state and community level that “strengthen equity and justice at the heart of climate advocacy.”

Climate change 28

Climate change Energy Monitor Organic Business Energy Monitoring 28

Earth Gratitude

AUGUST 27, 2017

I will… • Educate myself on the financial challenges we face with regard to Medicare, Social Security and Medicaid, and support sustainable solutions that protect the elderly and the most vulnerable in society. That is why sustainability and environmental literacy has to be a part of our conservation plan. Make your own I Will list.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 10, 2021

Conserving and Restoring America the Beautiful has proposed eight key principles that must be used to attain sustainable restoration of the environment. Conserving and Restoring America the Beautiful Via NRDC Image via Eric Vaughn. To create the report, the Biden administration started by collecting the views of diverse communities.

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Defend Our Future

JUNE 25, 2020

Providing relief to Americans in need should be the first priority – but Congress must build a sustainable and forward-thinking support system for the most-affected communities. The legislative response to Covid-19 needs to move us toward a just and sustainable future.

Health 52

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 24, 2023

A breakthrough in next-generation geothermal, industry approval for emissions-free cement, and the start of construction on a first commercial sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) plant illustrate progress and put the focus on execution moving forward. Meanwhile, extreme heat boils over into labor issues.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

It will specifically explore systemic solutions to the climate crisis focusing on clean energy, electrified, transportation, the circular economy, carbon removal and sustainable food systems. Meet the Innovators Creating a Sustainable Food Sector: Startups working in food and agriculture raised almost $20 billion in funding in 2019.

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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.

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 31, 2023

United Ventures , a Milan, Italy-based investment firm, announced the launch of its new fund with a target fund size of $166M to invest in startups tackling sustainable development. Energize Capital , a Chicago, IL-based investment firm, announced the close of its $300M second fund investing in climate software companies.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 1, 2019

John Moore, director of the NRDC’s Sustainable FERC Project, called the decision “a further erosion of long-standing norms and undercuts the independence and bipartisan decision making at FERC. “Danly has said that he wants FERC to be a ‘humble regulator,’” NRDC’s Moore wrote.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 2, 2020

We can clean up the air, we can improve the health of people, we can have greater security; we can make our neighborhoods healthier places to live; we can help ensure that farmers and fishers can still make a sustainable living and feed our communities; and we can avoid disputes and even entire wars over oil, water, and other limited resources.

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Climate change Politics Policy Energy 72

Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 2, 2020

We can clean up the air, we can improve the health of people, we can have greater security; we can make our neighborhoods healthier places to live; we can help ensure that farmers and fishers can still make a sustainable living and feed our communities; and we can avoid disputes and even entire wars over oil, water, and other limited resources.

Climate change 52

Climate change Politics Policy Energy 52

CleanTechnica

FEBRUARY 13, 2022

Arizona residents can expect a significant economic gain if the Biden Administration is able to pass its “Build Back Better Act”, with more than 55,000 new sustainable, clean tech, and electric car jobs coming to the state to support the historic infrastructure bill.

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CleanTechnica

MAY 29, 2021

Courtesy of NRDC. By Gillian Giannetti NRDC, the Sustainable FERC Project, and more than 50 other organizations sent a clear message on May 26th to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission: FERC must reform how it reviews applications for new gas pipeline infrastructure.

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CleanTechnica

APRIL 9, 2021

By Ashley Jordan & Shelley Vinyard A new NRDC analysis of Canadian logging companies supplying boreal pulp to the U.S. marketplace is showing just how toilet paper-thin Procter & Gamble’s (P&G) latest claims of sustainability are.

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CleanTechnica

DECEMBER 15, 2020

Rumors of another COVID recovery package are coming to a head as we close out the disastrous year that has been 2020.

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