Renew Economy
SEPTEMBER 9, 2024
A 260MW, under construction solar farm that will graze sheep among its panels has landed a deal to sell 50% of its energy output to Telstra. The post Telstra signs up to buy half the output from big Riverina solar farm, sheep not included appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Science Daily / Earth & Environment
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
A landslide in a remote part of Greenland caused a 200 meter (650 foot) mega-tsunami that sloshed back and forth across a fjord for nine days, generating vibrations throughout Earth, according to a new study. The study concluded that this movement of water was the cause of a mysterious, global seismic signal that lasted for nine days and puzzled seismologists in September 2023.
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ESG Today
SEPTEMBER 9, 2024
Australia’s House of Representatives voted today to pass the Treasury Laws Amendment bill, including new introduce mandatory climate-related reporting requirements for large and medium sized companies, including disclosures on climate-related risks and opportunities, and on greenhouse gas emissions across the value chain, starting as soon as 2025 for the largest companies.
Impact Alpha
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
Greetings Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: Featured: ImpactAlpha Latin America Meeting of ‘impact minds’ in Oaxaca aims to catalyze capital for Latin. The post The Brief: Indigenous communities, the creative economy, and the future of finance in Latin America appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
Speaker: Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions
Is your manufacturing operation reaching its efficiency potential? A Manufacturing Execution System (MES) could be the game-changer, helping you reduce waste, cut costs, and lower your carbon footprint. Join Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions, in this value-packed webinar as he breaks down how MES can drive operational excellence and sustainability.
Renew Economy
SEPTEMBER 8, 2024
Investigations underway after small turbine blade parts detached and fell from turbines at the 756MW stage one of Golden Plains wind farm. The post Investigations underway after turbine blade parts detach at Golden Plains wind farm appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Science Daily / Earth & Environment
SEPTEMBER 9, 2024
Dangerous mixtures: pesticides in combination can have unexpected effects on the development of honeybees. This is shown by a new study in which the last neonicotinoid still approved in the European Union was combined with two fungicides.
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Impact Alpha
SEPTEMBER 9, 2024
Greetings Agents of Impact! In today’s Brief: Featured: Back to School Business-school funds give MBA students a jump on careers in and out. The post The Brief: How business schools help students make real world impact with student-led funds appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
Renew Economy
SEPTEMBER 10, 2024
A Victorian farm hosting 13 wind turbines from the Mortlake South wind farm is up for sale – and the turbines are a key selling point. The post Prime farmland goes up for sale, with option to reap the harvest from 13 wind turbines appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Science Daily / Earth & Environment
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
Our planet will only remain able to provide even the most basic standard of living for everyone in the future if economic systems and technologies are dramatically transformed and critical resources are more fairly used, managed and shared, a new report shows.
McKinsey Sustainabilty
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
The authors of a new book on the journey of leadership explain why this era of unprecedented global change demands a new style of leadership—one that reflects the inner world of the CEO along with the needs of organizations and employees.
Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions
In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. ♻️ Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets. 📊 Join us for a practical webinar hosted by Kevin Kai Wong of Emergent Ene
Impact Alpha
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
Celebrities including Rihanna and Madonna descended on New York City for Fashion Week, where venues from the Guggenheim Museum to basketball courts in. The post Ethical and inclusive are in style at New York Fashion Week appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
Renew Economy
SEPTEMBER 10, 2024
A massive solar farm proposed for Victorian coal country has been given the green light by the state planning department, with provisions for an equally massive four-hour battery. The post Victoria’s biggest solar farm cleared for construction in “heart of the Latrobe Valley,” huge battery included appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Science Daily / Earth & Environment
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
Researchers can harvest protein and vitamin B9 from microbes by feeding them nothing much more than hydrogen, oxygen, and CO2. The technology runs on renewable energy to produce a sustainable, micronutrient-enriched protein alternative that may one day make it to our plates.
McKinsey Sustainabilty
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
Global capability centers (GCCs) are rapidly evolving beyond their traditional roles as execution centers, becoming increasingly important as enterprise innovation hubs.
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Whether your organization is at the start of its sustainability and impact journey or years into it, many brands share a common concern: the uncertainty of whether they are sending stakeholders mixed messages. Creating content that speaks to your audience's “love language” can be a tricky dance. But, worry not! 3BL has put together tips to ensure that your content not only finds its rhythm but also resonates with your target audiences.
Energy Central
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
The connection between climate change and education isn’t talked about much, but it should be. There are multiple layers to this connection, and some are not necessarily intuitive. Still, like most aspects of life, education is key. A new report by the World Bank titled: Choosing Our Future: Education for Climate Action highlights the impact of climate change and the lack of.
Renew Economy
SEPTEMBER 8, 2024
Big Three gentailer tips more money into Australian redox flow battery hopeful whose up to 12-hour energy storage technology is being trialled at Origin's Eraring coal plant. The post Origin Energy boosts its bet on the 12-hour battery technology that could help kick out coal appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Science Daily / Earth & Environment
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
Mega ocean warming El Nino events were key in driving the largest extinction of life on planet Earth some 252 million years ago, according to new research. The study has shed new light on why the effects of rapid climate change in the Permian-Triassic warming were so devastating for all forms of life in the sea and on land.
Impact Alpha
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
The week before the launch of Heading for Change, the legacy foundation founded by my late wife, Suzanne Biegel, of which I am. The post Reimagining disability investing: Lessons from an actually Autistic advocate appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
Speaker: Hortense Grouvel
In this new webinar, you will learn firsthand how to set up a sustainable supply chain program that will help meet increasing ESG requirements stemming from regulators, customers, consumers, and investors alike. Hortense Grouvel, ESG expert at IntegrityNext, and Sean Whelan, Global Senior Manager at Halliburton, will look at how ensuring compliance will also help you increase sustainability performance, resilience, and innovation, allowing you to unlock the full potential of your supply chain op
Energy Central
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
In a recent article, Dan Gearino commented that coal power is fading away but what is to replace it? Mr. Gearino's statement is both a reality and a challenge for us to perhaps to re-think a potential role for coal. To some that may be anathema, but to many others, it is a compelling and important reality that needs to be addressed or, at the very least, re-visited.
Renew Economy
SEPTEMBER 10, 2024
Leading thinkers call for Australia to stop relying on selling emissions-laden resources for prosperity and turn the focus to renewables, hydrogen and science-backed action. The post “We’re going to have to innovate the s**t out of this:” Forum urges fresh thinking on climate appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Science Daily / Earth & Environment
SEPTEMBER 13, 2024
A nationwide analysis of community-level floodplain development found that over two-million acres of floodplain were developed over the past two decades across the United States, with roughly half of all new floodplain housing built in Florida.
Impact Alpha
SEPTEMBER 10, 2024
WIC Capital backed Wood Packaging Industry, which uses sustainably sourced wood for locally-made pallets for moving goods and shipping. Wood Packaging Industry company. The post WIC Capital invests in sustainable carpentry company in Côte d’Ivoire appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
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Navigating the waters of sustainability reporting disclosures and regulations can be intimidating, to say the least. With various measures set in motion in 2023 to keep companies accountable, there is a lot in store for brands’ impact communication in the upcoming year. 3BL is kicking off this January with our Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Capricorn Edition by highlighting the impact of: The U.S Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Climate disclosure rules The European Commission
Good.is: Planet
SEPTEMBER 8, 2024
Some startups are even selling 'cooling credits' to send sunlight back to space and cool the planet, but experts have something else to say about this.
Renew Economy
SEPTEMBER 8, 2024
Plans to build a massive 600MW solar farm and 1200MWh big battery have cleared their final hurdle, after being cleared for construction by the federal environment minister. The post Huge solar farm and battery project to go ahead after securing federal green tick appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Science Daily / Earth & Environment
SEPTEMBER 10, 2024
Methane concentrations in Earth's atmosphere increased at record speed over the past five years. At least two-thirds of annual methane emissions now come from human activities, including fossil fuel use, agriculture, and landfills and other waste.
Impact Alpha
SEPTEMBER 9, 2024
At Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management, Professor William Towns pushes his students to get comfortable with being uncomfortable. “Somebody might end up. The post Business school ‘evergreen’ funds propel students into impact careers that go beyond investing appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
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Temperatures are rising (and not just metaphorically) as key stakeholders anxiously anticipate the outcomes of COP28. While companies reconsider their 2024 environmental sustainability strategies, there is another aspect of ESG that deserves exploring, the social sector. In the latest edition of "Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Sagittarius Edition", 3BL hones in on this sign’s bold quality of asking questions others are burning to know the answers to.
ESG Today
SEPTEMBER 10, 2024
Sustainability is falling behind other pressing issues on the prioritization list of CEOs globally, at the same time that consumers become increasingly focused on climate change and personal impact, and as corporate buyers are shifting their buying preferences to more sustainable products and suppliers, according to a new report released by global management consultancy Bain & Company.
Renew Economy
SEPTEMBER 12, 2024
Victoria's biggest electricity network has published its draft five-year plan for the 2026-31 regulatory period. And there's a lot going on. The post Lots of EVs, even more rooftop solar, a gas exodus – and no sun tax: Network sets out 5-year plan appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Science Daily / Earth & Environment
SEPTEMBER 9, 2024
Higher exposure to fine particulate air pollution (PM2.5) during infancy was associated with lower economic earnings in adulthood, according to a new study. The association was most pronounced in the midwestern and southern U.S.
Impact Alpha
SEPTEMBER 10, 2024
Hi there, Agent of Impact! I’m on location at Latimpacto’s confab of Latin American capital providers in Oaxaca, Mexico. And ImpactAlpha’s Amy Cortese will be sniffing out. The post ImpactAlpha Open: Sustainable fashion disruptors + African capital for African infrastructure appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
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In our latest edition of Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Scorpio Edition, 3BL embraces the perspective of one of the zodiac's most misunderstood signs: Scorpio. While this sign often has a darker view of the world, they do not shy away from shining a light on controversial topics. This month we take a deep dive into corporate pullback of DEI and how companies can utilize astrological advice to reinvent its social impact communication.
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