Greentown Labs

AUGUST 17, 2023

and Houston, Texas, August 17 , 2023 — Greentown Labs , the largest climatetech incubator in North America, today announced its Board of Directors has appointed Kevin Knobloch as the organization’s next Chief Executive Officer, effective Sept. Knobloch was formerly Chief of Staff of the U.S.

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Grist

JUNE 5, 2024

The Blob first formed in 2013 and spread across an area of the northeast Pacific the size of Canada. And over the past decade, the same has happened in China, where tough government controls on dirty industries, introduced by President Xi Jinping in 2013, have cut overall aerosol emissions by 70 percent, according to Zheng.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

In 2013, when Enviva Biomass opened a new plant near Belinda Joyner’s community in Northampton County, North Carolina, she already knew what to expect. As the Northeast Organizer for Clean Water for North Carolina , she’d met with residents of a small, majority Black town called Ahoskie, 40 miles from her home.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 22, 2021

Fama, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2013, goes as far as arguing stakeholder capitalism is "indefinite and ineffective," for this very reason. Indeed, sustainable finance veteran Paul Watchman (an advisor to UNEP FI) argues "the concept of fiduciary duty is organic, not static. Indeed, Eugene F. Measuring success.

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Grist

JUNE 12, 2024

Earth Day organizers educated people about the value of sorting through their trash and advocated for community recycling programs. Corporations responded by creating the first anti-litter organization, Keep America Beautiful, founded in 1953 by the American Can Company and the Owens-Illinois Glass Company.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 30, 2019

It was published in the International Journal of Human Rights As defined by by Polly Higgins, in a book titled Eradicating Ecocide: Laws and Governance to Prevent the Destruction of Our Planet (London: Shepheard-Walwyn, 2010). However, the final version of the Statute only included ecocide as a crime in times of war. section 7).

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

A CSR strategy is implemented by an organization to: minimize harm, practice fair business, be responsible along a global supply chain, exercise philanthropy and create a self-oriented human resource management system. Yes, good CSR practices can create a socially sustainable organization. The following example shows how.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 6, 2024

A wave of farmers protests in Europe earlier this year were jumped on by populist politicians, resulting in the watering down of measures including a law to restore nature – ignoring that many of the farmers’ concerns were unrelated to green rules. Lee has spread misinformation about organic farming.

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 16, 2020

This is why it’s more important than ever to have partners and organizations like Greentown Labs, whose mission is to solve the climate crisis through entrepreneurship and collaboration. We are proud to welcome this organization to our City and look forward to the continued partnership.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 23, 2020

Google has become a member of regional transmission organizations in the Midwest and Southeast to have a “seat at the table” among market stakeholders, Neha Palmer, Google’s director of operations and the lead on the company’s energy purchasing, told Greentech Media last year.

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 2, 2020

At a time when many startups are having to plan and pivot to navigate the economic downturn, we turned to a cleantech leader who’s no stranger to piloting organizations through challenging periods. . ER: When you entered state government, you left your job at a law firm and headed to the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Within the Green Deal, the EU’s “Farm to Fork” strategy includes a 50 percent reduction in pesticide use and a 20 percent reduction in fertilizer use, and a 25 percent increase in organic farming. CropLife has echoed COPA-COGECA’s arguments against pesticides reduction plans and the intensification of organic agriculture across Europe.

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 2, 2020

At a time when many startups are having to plan and pivot to navigate the economic downturn, we turned to a cleantech leader who’s no stranger to piloting organizations through challenging periods. ER: When you entered state government, you left your job at a law firm and headed to the Massachusetts Department of Environmental Protection.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 22, 2019

She’d just graduated from law school, and she, a few of her classmates and Tofurky founder Seth Tibbott put the race together. The next year, Tofurky got a little more proper about the whole thing and invited Northwest VEG to be the race organizer,” Leeds said. “So So it was Tofurky’s event with Northwest VEG organizing.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 3, 2019

Food and Agriculture Organization notes, if aquaculturists remove rocks or native sea grasses to plant massive seaweed farms, they could disrupt ecosystems and even alter coastal currents. A 2016 law requires the state air resources board to implement a strategy to reduce these emissions by 40 percent from 2013 levels by 2030.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 17, 2022

So, it’s not like these neighborhood cops just doing a patrol and checking in,” Eugene Kung, a staff attorney with West Coast Environmental Law, told DeSmog. “In In short, the clans that oppose Coastal GasLink say that both Indigenous and Canadian law are on their side. “When I first read the letter, I nearly cried.

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38 North Solutions

JULY 30, 2022

Current law taxes the performance-based compensation paid to managers of certain investment partnerships at long-term capital-gains rates rather than as ordinary income provided that a three-year holding period is met. Should this bill become law, from 2022-2024, these credits are extended and restored to their full value. 13101/ SEC.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

A recently published chapter of the Harvard Law Review argues that “While utility companies have been building and profiting off fossil fuels without internalizing the down-stream consequences and costs for decades, their regulators—state agency leaders—have approved their actions at every step of the way.”. “I

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 25, 2021

In 2013, only 15% of the S&P 500 companies reported ESG (Environment, Social. We have high-tech software companies, large manufacturers, retailers and insurance companies as well as small businesses like restaurants, law firms, bed & breakfast inns, commercial cleaners, and dry cleaners. Governance) measurements.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

These technologies include the use of insects, ‘fake meat’ made from plants, lab-grown meat, vertical farming, genetic modification (GMO), micro-organisms (such as algae) and 3D printing of food in general. The first hamburger from lab-grown meat was created by Mark Post from the Maatsricht University back in 2013.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

In other words, a building that is organized instead of chaotic. And I just thought a building as an organism operated by children would be so much fun. With Michael Braungart, 2013. But we were not required to by law. McDonough: I had two things occur simultaneously in 1989. Purified water. It grew food.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JANUARY 11, 2015

billion spent in California to install solar in 2013, according to the SEIA, and more expected to have been spent in 2014, the golden state’s solar industry is still vulnerable to be toppled from its ruling position. Del Chiaro was hired by CALSEIA in July of 2013. Even with $7.1

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 6, 2022

For instance, in 2019 the state passed a new law named the Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act , which raised the 2030 target from 50% of electricity generated by renewables to 70%. Funding for New York-based organizations can cover a significant subsidy of the total service costs. (followed by Boston and Seattle).

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Dubbed one of the “ Desperate Dozen ” imperiled species by conservationists, the diamond darter won a new lease on continued existence in 2013 when its name was added to the federal government’s list of protected endangered species. The paper suggests that all of this might have happened in violation of federal law.

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Grist

JUNE 28, 2024

The Supreme Court on Friday threw into question the future of climate and environmental regulation in the United States, scrapping a decades-old legal precedent that gave federal agencies leeway to interpret laws according to their expertise and scientific evidence. Environmental organizations also condemned the decision.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Finley, who is based in Dorset, UK, but has been the Cook Islands’ ambassador to the International Maritime Organization (IMO) since 2006, has been praised for his contributions to the agency by its Secretary-General. ‘Full Confidence’ of Cook Islands.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

But a coalition of more than two dozen frontline community groups and environmental justice organizations in Ohio are trying to change that. As a result, the amount of fracking wastewater injected underground in Ohio has surged from 690 million gallons in 2013 to 12.7 We know that it has PFAS in it. EPA vs. State “Primacy”.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

Partnerships It takes multiple organizations working together to successfully steward the land. President Obama signed the San Juan Islands Monument into existence in 2013. “We came up with seven principles, we call them the San Juan Seven. Fortunately for San Juan County, it has a land bank and the San Juan Preservation Trust.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 22, 2021

Fama, winner of the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2013, goes as far as arguing stakeholder capitalism is “indefinite and ineffective,” for this very reason. Indeed, sustainable finance veteran Paul Watchman (an advisor to UNEP FI) argues “the concept of fiduciary duty is organic, not static. Indeed, Eugene F.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

“There’s a lot of beautiful things that happen out of [Richmond],” says Khamphanthong, a community organizer with the Asian Pacific Environmental Network whose family emigrated from Laos in the 1980s. “But at the same time, when you look at the reality of it, it is sad.” California has done exactly that.

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Unsustainable

JANUARY 27, 2020

Using business-as-usual projections they predict that by 2100, solid waste generation rates will exceed 11 million tonnes per day – more than three times the rate in 2013. Besides following laws and regulations, some countries and/or cities have come up with extraordinary interesting and creative waste management ideas.

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Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

According to recent reports, VCs invested $60B in climate tech between 2013–2019 with an 84% CAGR in capital deployed, with no signs of slowing in 2020 (see below). To date, insurance and financial organizations have relied upon predictive risk models based on historical trends. We would love to chat!

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 21, 2020

In 2013, when Enviva Biomass opened a new plant near Belinda Joyner’s community in Northampton County, North Carolina, she already knew what to expect. As the Northeast Organizer for Clean Water for North Carolina , she’d met with residents of a small, majority Black town called Ahoskie, 40 miles from her home.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Sometimes I use the comparison to Moore’s law,” said O’Shea. This was really the focus in 2010 through 2013. As the legend goes, Alejandro Agag met with some big-time motorsport sponsors at a restaurant in Paris, and told them that if they ever organized an electric championship, he would love to be the promoter.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

According to the project’s 2022 Environmental Statement , drilling waste and chemicals will be discharged into the water column and onto the seabed, forming toxic piles that can “smother benthic organisms and impair their feeding and respiratory systems.” The project will also dump produced water. A 2005 U.S.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JANUARY 21, 2015

I was dissatisfied and frustrated with the limitations of working within a highly political and bureaucratic organization. Catalysts for transformation Amidst this career dissatisfaction, I attended a talk in September 2013 by Kate Purmal, hosted by Women in Cleantech and Sustainability. Had I always wanted to be a CEO and leader?

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 16, 2022

But Dye’s cachet with both his former employer and OPUC has been virtually non-existent since settling a wrongful termination suit in 2013. One NW Natural spokesperson requested their name be withheld, and employees from both organizations discouraged DeSmog’s reporter from contacting individuals named in Dye’s complaints.

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