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GreenBiz 350 Podcast

Episode 183: Green finance, New Jersey shipyard gets clean economy makeover

Plus, chatter about supply chain data, clean economy startups and agriculture's potentially positive impact on climate change.

Week in Review

Tune in around 4:43 for commentary

Features

The green finance revolution (17:07)

This week, GreenBiz welcomed veteran sustainable investing advocate Mark Tulay to oversee development of sessions on environmental, social and governance (ESG) metrics, measurement and sustainable investing at February's GreenBiz 20 event, as well as the accompanying GreenFin Summit, in Phoenix. As head of ESG for Risk Metrics Group (now MSCI), Tulay helped create an ESG fund for the largest 400 companies in Japan. He was also the first full-time employee of Ceres. Tulay chats with Executive Editor Joel Makower about the "crisis of confidence in capitalism" that is leading forward-thinking companies to embed ESG concerns and risk factors into their management ethos.

A model for urban infrastructure resilience (22:40)

Rebuild or reimagine? After Superstorm Sandy devastated the Kearny Point commercial and industrial site in 2012, real estate developer Hugo Neu made a bold decision to embark on a $1 billion redevelopment project intended to serve as a model for green infrastructure and public-private collaboration for urban resilience. This segment features highlights from our chat with CEO Wendy Neu and Senior Vice President Dominique Lueckenhoff, the former EPA official who joined the company this spring. 

*Music in this episode: "Memory Rain" (Yung Logos), "Sleeplessness" (The Brothers Records) and "Soul" (Text Me Records/Grandbankss)

What's new at GreenBiz?

Deal aggregation is supercharging clean energy. Contracts that allow more than one off-taker to buy pieces of a solar, wind or other renewable power project promise to create new opportunities for buyers large and small. This free, interactive webcast featuring members of the Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance takes place at 10 a.m. PST Aug. 13, will explore deal options and use cases, and offer tips for finding potential partners. Register here.

Carbon conversation. How can companies add carbon-negative products to their supply chains? Which technologies have the most potential to capture and store the most carbon dioxide? What‘s the potential of the carbon economy? These questions and more will frame our discussion at 10 a.m. PST Aug. 20. Sign up to hear from experts with Carbon180, Opus 12 and XPRIZE.

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