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Sponsored: Each company’s innovative solution leverages advanced technology to mitigate the impact of climate change on underrepresented communities.
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Climate justice considerations center Salesforce’s latest renewable deal, while Microsoft moves to shore up access to U.S. solar panels and turnkey project management services.
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A just transition and nature will be major themes through to COP28 as climate justice mainstreams into corporate sustainability.
by David Wei
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BlocPower’s Civilian Climate Corps program provides training and job opportunities to New Yorkers in neighborhoods impacted by gun violence, while helping NYC tackle its largest source of GHG emissions: buildings.
by CJ Clouse
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The city’s Green Career Exploratory Program, launched in the early days of the pandemic, emphasizes the recruitment of people of color through partnerships with community institutions.
by Frank Jossi
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6 takeaways from the new federal Justice40 Initiative's climate and economic justice screening tool.
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The community solar market had a record year in 2020, accounting for 37 percent of annual non-residential solar capacity — up from just 13 percent in 2016.
by Sarah Golden
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Developed countries are promising the cut the worlds reliance on the fossil fuel projects that allowed them to develop without letting other countries reap the same benefits.
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The bill has a focus on equity and expanding economic opportunities for disadvantaged communities and people of color in the clean energy sector.
by Gina Ramirez
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The Breaking Barriers initiative is developing two resilience centers in Atlanta that will be backed by a solar-powered microgrid with battery storage.
by Sophia Wu
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Local leaders shouldn't lose sight of the funding that already exists to accelerate the transition to a clean energy economy.
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North Carolina’s industrial-scale hog farms have long been a major source of pollution. Smithfield Foods plans to turn some hog waste into biogas, but critics say the project does nothing about the larger problem of waste being stored in lagoons and sprayed on fields.
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Plus, the clean energy transition offers an unparalleled to bring diversity into the energy workforce.
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Many other tribes have looked to the success of the Elwha River dam removals in bringing down fish-blocking dams in their lands as well.
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Enbridge's Line 3 pipeline construction is running into tribal resistance over fears of water pollution, wild rice impacts, climate change, and exploitation of Native women.
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A public-private partnership will bring a 50-megawatt array to an abandoned landfill, bringing clean power and jobs to a predominantly Black community.
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A discussion of the potential for economic and social equity in the climate economy with Krystal Williams, founder of Providentia Group.
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An oil company wants to drill in Big Cypress National Preserve. Laws over mineral rights have complicated the fight to stop it.
by Dean Russell
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This crisis within the Navajo and Hopi Nations provides an opportunity to reimagine a new energy economy that provides more benefits to more people.
by Roger Sorkin
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The clean energy sector is, perhaps for the first time, a significant voting bloc.
by Sarah Golden
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Just look at community development projects in Orlando, Houston and Portland.
by Ted Wong
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If we define the value of resilience in such narrow economic terms, we will build a clean energy dystopia. But we can choose a better way.
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Communities of color have been shown to have about 25% higher energy burdens than white Americans. These programs can change that.
by Lacey Shaver
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Plus, our final set of interview highlights from the 2020 GreenBiz 30 Under 30 class of rising young sustainability professionals.
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The state's public utilities chief, Joseph Fiordaliso, chats about the potential of clean energy, the importance of equity within all initiatives, and how states can lead the way forward.
by Sarah Golden