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Cisco's Sustainability 101: How IT Contributes to Emissions and Climate Change

3BL Media

The term IT (Information Technology) has been in use since an article in the Harvard Business Review in 1958 1. However what people think of when they hear the term IT has changed dramatically over the years—from feeding punched cards into a mainframe computer, to a smartphone accessing services from the cloud.

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Harnessing the Power of Parked EVs

3BL Media

It’s a concept that turns electric vehicles from consumers of electricity to suppliers as well, by enabling them to give power back to the grid, or even to a smart building. Smart buildings or business parks, with their own microgrids driven by renewable sources like wind or solar, could be another important application.

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Santander, EIT InnoEnergy Team up to Launch Climate Tech Venture Fund

ESG Today

Investee companies will span sectors ranging from circular economy, renewable energies, and energy storage and efficiency, to transport and mobility, smart buildings, cities and grid, and hydrogen. Innovation is critical to helping achieve net zero by 2050.

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These are Canada’s 50 fastest-growing green companies of 2023

Corporate Knights

Fifteen of the Future 50 companies produce sustainable consumer and business products – including seven companies involved in plant-based foods and three building electric vehicles domestically. Then she launched a climate consulting firm, which she later turned into tech startup Manifest Climate.

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Where are they now? Catch up with 30 Under 30 alumni

GreenBiz

One final note: Be sure to check the end of this article for quick job updates from others who responded to our outreach but chose not to comment on the two questions. In a way, we are seeing this crisis as an illustration of how expensive the failure to build resiliency can ultimately prove. Business as usual wasn’t working.

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It’s time to collaborate on climate and economic justice solutions

GreenBiz

On top of that is the profound, existential threat of climate change. . Climate change impacts including extreme heat and flooding also disproportionately affect people of color. . Businesses play a critical role in addressing the converging crises of climate change, public health and widening economic disparities. .