Florida regulators unanimously approved Florida Power & Light’s proposed community solar program this week, rubber-stamping the buildout of nearly 1.5 gigawatts of utility-built solar in…
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WARREN, MI — General Motors wants the world to know that it’s going big on electric vehicles, despite underwhelming sales in the segment to date. …
Brooklyn startup David Energy on Wednesday announced a $1.5 million pre-seed funding round, as it looks to transform into an energy retailer that helps customers get…
Gabriela Burian, senior director of sustainable food systems at Bayer, says that hunger is an issue that the company is trying to combat. “Our goal…
Sharon Basel, senior manager of sustainability at General Motors, works a lot on the company’s environmental, social, and governance (ESG) reporting. “I think it’s a…
EDF’s Victoria Mills: ‘It’s time to raise the bar for leadership to include climate policy advocacy’
EDF’s Victoria Mills: ‘It’s time to raise the bar for leadership to include climate policy advocacy’
Victoria Mills, managing director at EDF, works at the intersection of sustainability, public policy and business. “What we’ve realized — EDF and other NGOs —…
Courtney Thompson, vice president of global sustainable finance at Morgan Stanley says sustainability finance has taken off in recent years. “I think it’s mainstream and…
A about four to five years ago management consulting firm Oliver Wyman looked at the largest emerging risks facing companies and climate was a standout.…
Green chemistry as a concept has been kicking around since the 1990s, when the Environmental Protection Agency’s Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxins first coined…
Serial entrepreneur Bill Gross believes there are three key ingredients to launching a successful company: timing; iteration; and using Moore’s Law. When it comes to…
Young people increasingly are leading the way on climate change and environmental justice by pushing governments and companies to take stronger action to address the…
While people might argue for days about an exact definition of sustainability, it’s pretty clear that any society that cannot feed itself is not a…
As if “the Big Three” — the three largest U.S. automakers, General Motors, Ford and Fiat-Chrysler — needed any more uncertainty in their dramatically transforming…
As a leading author, scientist and speaker in the fields of autism and animal behavior, Dr. Temple Grandin has long understood the merits of different…
Biodiversity is fundamental to human well-being and a healthy planet, but biodiversity loss and species extinction is currently happening at an alarming rate. According to…
In Kentucky, coal still generates the vast majority of electricity: 75 percent in 2018, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration. That dominance is waning, however. …
Flex is a member of the U.N. Global Compact. Kyra Whitten, vice president of corporate marketing, communications and sustainability at Flex, says the Sustainable Development…
Jill Kolling, vice president of global sustainability at Cargill, says that it’s important for the farmers and ranchers it works with to be able to…
Where will investors in offshore oil and gas look as the energy transition starts to take hold? While the oil and gas sector remains the…
Author’s note: This is the second installment in a series profiling the top emerging state markets for energy storage. Last week, we focused on New…