Impact Alpha

MARCH 12, 2020

ImpactAlpha, March 12 – Toronto-based Engineers Without Borders has been making early-stage venture investments since 2013 as a complement its non-profit global development work. After a dozen investments, the organization is spinning off its venture arm as Hummingbird Impact to expand investments in tech-enabled social enterprises.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

JUNE 25, 2024

About Women in Geothermal (WinG) Women in Geothermal (WinG) is a vibrant, global volunteer organization dedicated to the education, professional development, and advancement of women in the geothermal sector. Our mission is to ignite passion and courage, making the geothermal community a global model for equality.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Instrumenation firm Edinburgh Sensors offers some thoughts on the measurement of Total Organic Carbon (TOC) as a means of assessing water quality, and in particular the relevance of IR-based measurements. billion between 2013 and 2014 into infrastructure and assorted costs to ensure safe drinking water [1]. Testing TOC. ml/l or less.3.

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The Verge: Energy

AUGUST 21, 2024

. | Raquel Natalicchio / Houston Chronicle via Getty Images The US has dealt with 60 percent more weather-related outages during warmer months over the past decade than it did during the 2000s, according to data crunched by the nonprofit research organization Climate Central. It’s a trend that raises health risks as the planet heats up.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 30, 2020

BS EN 12619:2013 specifies the flame ionisation detector (FID) method, and is intended for use as a SRM for the measurement of the mass concentration of gaseous and vaporous organic substances in stationary source emissions up to 1,000 mg/m³. Why monitor the emissions of organic compounds?

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

Without a healthy microbial population, important biochemical reactions are disturbed, altering soil formation, the decomposition of organic matter, elemental cycles (carbon, nitrogen, phosphorus and sulfur) and the processing of pollutants. If applicable, replace lawn with native plants to support local biodiversity.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 4, 2024

“The Carbon Majors research shows us exactly who is responsible for the lethal heat, extreme weather, and air pollution that is threatening lives and wreaking havoc on our oceans and forests,” said Tzeporah Berman, international program director at the grassroots environmental organization Stand.earth, in a press release. In the U.S.,

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 15, 2020

Best Cleaners is a proud affiliate of America’s Best Cleaners , a third-party organization that searches out the top cleaners across the United States. Magazine in August 2011, 2012 and 2013. America’s Best Cleaners is an independent certification organization dedicated to the continued excellence of the dry cleaning profession.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

In 2013, American Forests called Austin, Texas; Charlotte, North Carolina; Denver, Milwaukee, Minneapolis and New York; Portland, Oregon; Sacramento, California; Seattle and Washington, D.C., That’s one reason investing in urban forestry isn’t as simple; nor does it have the same sustainability impacts. the 10 best cities for urban forestry.

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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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Planet Pulse

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

Troy Toman has been a part of Planet’s story since 2014, helping to grow the company’s software engineering and product and design teams into a cohesive organization. Both roles are instrumental in continuing Planet’s growth as a platform company and leading innovator in today’s space industry.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 21, 2020

E-commerce retailers would need to integrate sustainability goals into their organization and operations. For example, back in 2013, Target launched its Sustainable Product Index , which tasked vendors with assessing the sustainability of product ingredients as well as their health and environmental impacts. .

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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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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Scrap the Crap, Please How could an organization that calls itself the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER) have allowed this to happen? Since its inception in 2013, the AER has been 100 percent funded – not by the public – but by the industry it purports to oversee. It’s a deception. It’s smoke and mirrors.”

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GreenBiz

JULY 27, 2020

Read his 2013 interview , when he "retired" from Applied Materials, in which he recounts his professional journey to that point.). He lectured at the Presidio School of Management and was integrally involved with Acterra, SASB, GRI and other sustainability leadership organizations.

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GreenBiz

MAY 11, 2021

According to one telling , a group of female climate leaders met at a Scottish estate in 2013 to discuss bold climate goals that could be enacted two years later in Paris. The concept of net zero goes back nearly a decade, in the run-up to the 2015 COP21 climate conference in Paris. But that could change.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Target's Sustainable Product Standard came on the scene in 2013. The work that ChemFORWARD is doing and proposes to do will provide important additional information to a community of organizations seeking real-world data to better understand the safety implications of their materials choices," said green chemistry trailblazer John C.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 10, 2020

That may sound fanciful — and, for some, less than appetizing — but insect consumption is hardly a novel concept, according to a 2013 United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization report. In a world with more than a billion undernourished souls, not to mention as many as 1.6

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JUNE 2, 2021

Women in Cleantech becomes an official 501(c)6 organization. We invite you to join us on November 10, 2021 to help shape the next decade of diverse leadership in climate tech. Ten Years of WCS. Watch More Videos. Women in Cleantech and Sustainability hosts it’s first-ever networking event! First Board is formed. First WCS Talks was held.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JUNE 2, 2021

Women in Cleantech becomes an official 501(c)6 organization. We invite you to join us on November 4, 2021 to help shape the next decade of diverse leadership in climate tech. Ten Years of WCS. Watch More Videos. Women in Cleantech and Sustainability hosts it’s first-ever networking event! First Board is formed. First WCS Talks was held.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JUNE 2, 2021

Women in Cleantech becomes an official 501(c)6 organization. We invite you to join us on November 4, 2021 to help shape the next decade of diverse leadership in climate tech. Ten Years of WCS. Watch More Videos. Women in Cleantech and Sustainability hosts it’s first-ever networking event! First Board is formed. First WCS Talks was held.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 19, 2021

Connelly comes to the growing organization by way of the International Living Future Institute (ILFI), which he helped expand into the world's leading proponent of regenerative, healthy and equitable building design — managing its Green Building Challenge and Living Product Challenge before serving as VP of projects and strategic growth.

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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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Greentown Labs

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The Board of Directors is immensely grateful to Emily for building Greentown Labs into a globally-recognized organization on the forefront of climatetech innovation over the past decade,” said Alicia Barton, Greentown Labs Board Chair and CEO of FirstLight Power. Reichert joined Greentown in early 2013 as the incubator’s first employee.

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EDF + Business

DECEMBER 15, 2023

billion — the amount of energy savings Climate Corps fellows have identified 3,000+ — the number of climate leaders and practitioners that comprise the Climate Corps network Another telling number is 50% — the number of host organizations that have utilized Climate Corps fellows over multiple summers. What a great resource!

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CleanTX

MARCH 25, 2019

Press Advisory from the CleanTX Organization. Austin, TX – Former RideScout CEO and TX-21 Congressional candidate, Joseph Kopser, has joined the CleanTX organization as the Chairman of CleanTX’s inaugural Advisory Board. In 2013, he was recognized as a White House Champion of Change for his efforts in Energy and Transportation.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

The European Association of Automobile Manufacturers (ACEA) has published an interactive map that illustrates the correlation between the adoption of plug-in vehicles (which the organization, apparently feeling that the industry needs yet more acronyms, refers to as “electrically-chargeable vehicles,” or ECVs) and per-capita GDP.

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Greentown Labs

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

We’ve also seen new nonprofit and startup support organizations invest philanthropic capital into climatetech startups, including VertueLab , Clean Energy Trust , and Prime Coalition.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 7, 2021

It’s the United Nations’ climate-science-focused organization. The last big IPCC assessment was released in 2013. Four RCPs were the focus of the future-looking climate modeling studies incorporated into the 2013 report. The IPCC’s Fifth Climate Assessment, in 2013, focused on representative concentration pathways, or RCPs.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

APRIL 4, 2024

These two public-private consortia are comprised of companies and other organizations in collaboration for the purpose of achieving the city’s vision by way of strategies being implemented to discover and promote measures to arrive at carbon neutrality.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 15, 2020

billion in 2013 to an estimated $22.4 But the miles of transmission actually built has declined over the past five years, with only about 1,300 miles completed in 2018 versus a peak of about 4,500 miles in 2013. transmission grid. Transmission investment has continued to rise over the past six years, from $17.7

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 25, 2022

ISO 13137:2013 Workplace atmospheres — Pumps for personal sampling of chemical and biological agents — Requirements and test methods 3. The Control of Substances Hazardous to Health Regulations (COSHH), Approved Code of Practice, HSE L5 (Sixth edition), Published 2013. References. Constitution of Matter, London Macmillan 1889 2.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 29, 2019

Resolution 73/292 establish that the Conference shall: (a) Build on existing successful partnerships and stimulate innovative and concrete new partnerships to advance the implementation of Goal 14; (b) Support further action to conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development, giving due consideration to (..)

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2022

Replate works with restaurants, caterers, food distributors, offices and other organizations to directly deliver their surplus food to those in need in local communities. The brand prioritizes using organic, renewable, and recycled materials whenever possible. Operating in most major U.S. Fjällräven.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 19, 2023

Researchers from Washington-based advocacy organization Environmental Working Group said they had calculated that eating one fish in a year equated to ingesting water with PFOS at 48 parts per trillion, or ppt, for one month. There should be a single health protective fish consumption advisory for freshwater fish across the country.”

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 19, 2022

The initialism “ ESG ” stands for “ E nvironmental, S ocial, and G overnance” Under each category there are a set of standards and goals an organization must meet to be compliant. Reports reveal that 87% of business leaders expect an increase in sustainability investments for their organizations over the next two years.

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The Verge: Energy

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

But this is something that we in our maps and geo organization, we’ve built up a lot of expertise,” Yael Maguire, vice president and general manager of Google’s Geo Sustainability team, said on a press call. “We EDF is also working with scientists at Harvard and the Smithsonian and their joint Center for Astrophysics on the initiative.

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