In the world of energy policy, not every law can be a flashy renewable portfolio standard. Though there’s been plenty of those in 2019 —…
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Omnidian, the software startup that offers home solar performance guarantees, raised a $15 million Series A to expand operations. The Seattle-based company raised a $5…
Changes to the European Union’s Emissions Trading System (ETS) this year have breathed new life into the formerly lackluster scheme. But buoyant carbon pricing, which…
It was, by all measures, a success: a high-energy, sold-out event attended by passionate professionals seemingly aching to become a community. Last week in Minneapolis,…
Building the foundation for a circular economy involves reworking a multitude of systems, including existing large organizations, but it also requires supporting the earliest-stage innovations…
The business risks posed by climate change and extreme weather have become more frequent and more apparent. Severe weather events have become a significant concern…
Cities can be carbon-emitting beasts, but they’re also hotspots for innovation and political action. Efforts to create circular cities laser-focus systemic change at the local…
China’s Huawei Technologies, the world’s biggest solar inverter manufacturer, ended its U.S. inverter sales last week, according to an equity research note from Roth Capital…
This week on Watt It Takes: How a Ukrainian immigrant quietly toiled away on a new battery chemistry and created a cleantech unicorn. Powerhouse CEO Emily…
There’s something refreshing about breaking out of the confines of expectations set by investors, regulators and analysts. It doesn’t happen often, but some actors within…
Concentrated solar power (CSP), a renewable energy technology that has more or less dropped off the radar in the U.S., is quietly becoming competitive elsewhere.…
Stories are everything — in corporate sustainability as in life. Facts and numbers help explain the world as it is, but narratives give it meaning.…
Every economic movement, every technology revolution is led by the vanguard — individuals who flout the rules to create products, services and business models that…
Thrift shopping is getting a makeover. As companies begin to take reuse seriously, an increasing number of consumer goods companies are building “recommerce” businesses around…
When Kathryn Dellinger moved to the Pacific Northwest five years ago to take a position at Amazon, she fretted over friends and relatives back home…
Democrats are dominating the public dialogue on climate change. That is just a fact. It’s part of their party platform in a way that it’s…
Denmark’s Ørsted won New Jersey’s first offshore wind solicitation with a 1.1-gigawatt project known as Ocean Wind, the largest offshore wind project to secure a…
When recent headlines announced that rare earth elements might become a weapon in the growing trade war between the U.S. and China, green tech leaders…
Week in Review Tune in around 6:50 for commentary and highlights from this week’s Circularity 19 conference. Here are the main-stage speakers we’ve featured. Andrew…
Since its inception in 2010, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation has placed design as crucial to achieving a circular economy. In fact, the very first initiative…