February 17, 2021
Want more great analysis of electric and sustainable transport? Sign up for Transport Weekly, our free email newsletter. While electric vehicles hold big promise in 2021, another aspect of decarbonizing transportation could get major support this year: reducing car driving. Cutting down on car trips isn't about guilt-tripping folks into abandoning cars. Many of us need to use cars. It's
...February 16, 2021
Two entrepreneurs are introducing circular business models that could upend the food and apparel industries for the better.
February 16, 2021
An international research team has used microalgae to produce hydrogen and methane with a significantly reduced carbon footprint. The researchers, from Monash University’s Department of Chemical Engineering, the IITB-Monash Research Academy Mumbai and The Indian Institute of Technology’s Department of Chemical Engineering, used reactive flash volatilisation (RFV) gasification
...February 16, 2021
Last week, during GreenBiz 21, Jarami Bond — a new colleague but an old friend — announced the launch of a new nonprofit "that exists solely to nurture and empower BIPOC professionals to accelerate a just transition to a clean economy," as he described it. It was a moment of deep pride for all of us. The nonprofit, spun out of the for-profit GreenBiz Group as an independent entity, was
...February 15, 2021
This article originally appeared in the State of Green Business 2021. You can download the entire report here. Corporate community investment historically has been the realm of philanthropy and volunteerism departments, but there are a growing number of examples where direct investment by businesses benefits operations as well as the communities in which they serve. In 2019, the Business Roundtable
...February 13, 2021
To erase its massive climate footprint, Ikea needs to change how it makes its products and how you buy them.
February 12, 2021
Big Oil is over. Meet Big Energy.
February 12, 2021
One single death from COVID-19, and it's carbon-negative. What's up with Bhutan?
February 12, 2021
Sustainability goals have become top of mind for an increasing number of corporations and communities, but in the words of Sherri Mitchell Weh'na Ha'mu Kwasset, Indigenous rights attorney and executive director of the Land Peace Foundation, we will not "solar panel or vote our way out of this crisis without also radically re-framing our connection with our Mother." In order to restore
...February 12, 2021
Over the years, as Rochelle Routman’s work took her to hundreds of contaminated manufacturing sites, it bothered her to find one thing in common: They seemed to be built on the backs of lower-income communities. "I thought, they would have never put this factory in the backyard of a country club neighborhood," said the trained geologist, whose career launched with the Georgia Environmental
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