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There are millions of unfilled positions open across the United States. By overlooking individuals with criminal records, businesses are ignoring a big pool of potential candidates.
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Featuring a conversation with Lucia Athens, who recently retired from her role as the city of Austin’s first chief sustainability officer.
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An equitable path to the clean economy will require far more attention to where we 'dig up' lithium, cobalt and other critically important minerals.
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Tech entrepreneur Mitch Kapor and social impact pioneer Freada Kapor Klein chat about diversity, rethinking startup compensation, and the role of corporations in supporting diverse entrepreneurs.
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The focus of the fifth annual GreenBiz Badass Women list was narrowed to highlight individuals spearheading the integration of environmental justice concerns into their company’s sustainable business practices.
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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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Tech giant Amazon will encourage members of the Climate Pledge to step up their support of gender equity in climate solutions.
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The Upside Tech Alliance is minimizing the individual sales calls its founding climate tech startups need to make to busy mayors and city planners.
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Suzanne Biegel, a longtime respected advocate of “gender-smart” investing, on why corporate sustainability teams should double down on their understanding of gender equality and women’s health issues.
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New revenue-based loan programs from Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator, Enduring Planet offer alternatives.
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From sustainable financiers to community organizers to breakthrough scientists, these inspirational individuals are disrupting the status quo.
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Meet the inaugural cohort of the Apple Impact Accelerator, ranging from a Native American-run renewable power company to one of the largest Latino-owned businesses in the United States.
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You could argue that climate tech funds writ large should simply consider their investments using a wider aperture than historically has been the case. But today’s climate, it’s clear that far more systemic support is necessary as we make the clean energy transition.
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Past cohorts of the GreenBiz 30 Under 30 weigh in on how the pandemic year has reshaped priorities when it comes to the social side of sustainability.
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Plus, progress on circular economy progress indicators.
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As companies look beyond their internal processes for cultivating diversity, equity and inclusion, they would do well to seek ways to engage the BIPOC communities affected by their operations more proactively.
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'Companies are part of the solution and not the solution.'
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Plus, a joint venture teams six Sioux tribes with a clean energy developer to build more than 1 gigawatt of wind power on tribal lands.
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Plus, will net-zero pledges create chaos in carbon markets?
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The Amazon and Blue Origin founder pledged $791 million of his $10 billion Bezos Earth Fund to 16 nonprofits.
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The initiative's new director, Andrés Jimenez, addresses the diversity gap at the world's top NGOs and foundations, and discusses how businesses can play a pivotal role in changing the culture.
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Co-editor Ayana Elizabeth Johnson: “We need to build the biggest team possible and respect what everyone’s contributing.”
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Bank of America, Mastercard, Salesforce and Microsoft, along with the cities of Detroit and Dallas, are among launch partners for the first regional chapter of the 1t.org initiative, led by World Economic Forum and American Forests.
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Its new goal to link at least 500 megawatts of forthcoming solar energy contracts to environmental justice considerations is the largest commitment it has made to a single portfolio investment.
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Plus, our final set of interview highlights from the 2020 GreenBiz 30 Under 30 class of rising young sustainability professionals.