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I got a solid taste this week of what our virtual post-coronavirus world will look like over the next several weeks or maybe longer. From the quiet of my San Francisco apartment, on Monday afternoon I tuned into a YouTube livestream of the Silicon Valley accelerator Plug and Play showing off a cohort of energy […]
Week in Review Commentary on this week’s news highlights begins at 6:08. 25 badass women shaking up the climate movement in 2020 Signs of progress for green chemistry Can this app solve our coffee cup problem? Features A Project Drawdown update: Here are the climate solutions we should draw on first (20:10) Jonathan Foley, executive […]
Week in Review Commentary on this week’s news highlights begins at 6:45. Stores are essential for the Loop reusable packaging program 5 hot technologies for cold trucking Inside Bill Weihl’s quest to give employees and job seekers a ‘ClimateVoice’ Features What will it take for brands to fix recycling (29:45) We all know the […]
Last week, I was at the United Nations Habitat’s World Urban Forum in Abu Dhabi, sharing ideas with city leaders about how to tackle the climate crisis. I was there to shout about 44 proven solutions — a collection of ground-breaking projects and enterprises from Yemen to Guatemala. These innovations, from the longlist of finalists […]
This article is adapted from GreenBiz’s weekly newsletter, Transport Weekly, running Tuesdays. Subscribe here. I have the sad claim to fame of being one of the journalists most associated with the bubble and bust of Silicon Valley’s tortured love affair with cleantech. It perhaps wasn’t the most advantageous career move, but it was an interesting ride […]
Week in Review Commentary of some of this week’s stories begins at 7:21. Features How corporate land can protect biodiversity (20:31) Margaret O’Gorman, president of the Wildlife Habitat Council, chats with GreenBiz Associate Editor Deonna Anderson about practical ways companies can use corporate land to stimulate green spaces and cultivate biodiversity — using the organization’s […]
This article first appeared in GreenBiz’s weekly newsletter, VERGE Weekly, running Wednesdays. Subscribe here. Are you looking in all the right places for technological solutions to climate change? I can’t possibly enumerate the sheer number of innovation competitions and startup accelerators I have the opportunity to write about on an almost weekly basis, not to […]
To kick off the 2020s, the “Exponential Decade,” Volans launched the Green Swan Awards for exponential sustainability Jan. 10 at our Tomorrow’s Capitalism Forum. The extraordinary response from those present suggests that the idea has both legs and wings — indicating considerable potential for positive impact. Co-hosted by Aviva Investors, the forum reported out on […]
Given the scope of the climate crisis, Microsoft no longer believes it’s enough to be carbon neutral. That philosophy is reflected in the software giant’s bold new pledge to become “carbon negative” within the next 10 years, with a stretch goal to remove all of the carbon it has emitted “either directly or by electrical […]
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