DeSmogBlog

JULY 27, 2023

In 2022, a Harvard University paper found that a “green innovation” narrative was one of the key social media tactics deployed by fossil fuel companies. In 2021, Shell also sponsored GadgetsBoy – a consumer tech channel with 73,000 YouTube subscribers – to test the firm’s new e-scooter. million views.

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2021

The spectacular decline of WeWork, or the crashing valuation of e-scooter company Lime, are just two cautionary tales that have underscored the risks involved for any business that thinks it has worked out how to disrupt long established operating models. Right now, we have a car or a bus or van," he says.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

Toward its bid to accelerate regenerative agriculture and aid farmers, one acre and data point at a time, the company recently partnered with Microsoft on a multi-year effort to hasten innovation and boost rural broadband. Among other challenges, Lyft’s scooter rentals mostly have flopped, but the company isn’t giving up on micromobility.

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

🏭 Boston Metal , a Boston, MA-based sustainable steel developer, raised $262M in Series C funding from Aramco Ventures, Baillie Gifford, Breakthrough, Microsoft’s Climate Innovation Fund, BHP Ventures, and other investors. Submit any events and activities via the following form !

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Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor 61

Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 5, 2024

In other news, federal interest rate cuts and holds; airlines dropping decarbonization targets; and South Africa's new climate change laws. It’s the one week of the year where innovators, funders, customers, and policymakers convene to collaborate, challenge, and celebrate across party lines. Thanks for reading!

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

AUGUST 3, 2021

Populus empowers cities to manage their streets and curbs – with access to data from mobility operators such as shared bikes, scooters, and cars. Founded by transportation PhDs from MIT and UC Berkeley, the Populus team brings together industry veterans who have spent their careers delivering innovation solutions for public agencies.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

AUGUST 3, 2021

Populus empowers cities to manage their streets and curbs – with access to data from mobility operators such as shared bikes, scooters, and cars. Founded by transportation PhDs from MIT and UC Berkeley, the Populus team brings together industry veterans who have spent their careers delivering innovation solutions for public agencies.

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Clean Energy Trust

APRIL 9, 2020

A study from the Chicago Council on Global Affairs found that scooters and micro-mobility solutions could replace up to half of car trips in Chicago (those less than 3 miles). This makes intuitive sense to me, although one caveat is that a bunch of those car trips are to buy supplies you can’t stick on a scooter.

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Business Green

JUNE 17, 2021

The UK regulatory landscape needs a rapid overhaul to accelerate the markets for offshore wind, hydrogen, zero carbon transport, clean tech innovation, and greener farming practices now the country has left the European Union, a government-commissioned task force has concluded.

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Clean Energy Trust

JUNE 9, 2020

May Cleantech Roundup: COVID & EVs | Enormous Storage Investments | Scooter Consolidation | Insanely Cheap Solar Clean Energy Trust’s cleantech roundup highlights interesting cleantech news and perspective, across industry, technology, policy, and investing. Note: There is a lot happening in the world.

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Clean Energy Trust

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Credit: Tesla Tesla and the Electric Vehicle Transition Tesla is seemingly always in the news, from its financial struggles to Elon Musk violating securities law, to a growing list of positives and successes (including scaling up Model III production). primarily scooters.

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CleanTechnica

JUNE 21, 2023

Laws take time to catch up with technological changes. And, worse, lawmakers are usually abysmal at predicting technological innovation and, more importantly, how that innovation is going to affect society. Because the country wanted to be prepared, laws were put in place […]

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