Title
& Description
News Outlet
& Journalist
Date
& Location
MEDIA TYPE
& LENGTH
17 May 2021
San Francisco, California, United States
Text
Over 3000 Words
San Francisco-based New Resource Bank was launched with environmental sustainability lending as its niche. But it pursued easier profits for a time, risking its survival and mission until a new CEO turned its fortunes...
11 May 2021
Louisiana, United States
Podcast
Over 15 Minutes
After oil and gas platforms reach the end of their working lives, some are being turned into artificial reefs that can create new ecosystems in the ocean. Since the 1980s, 550 platforms have been reefed in the Gulf of...
26 April 2021
Commerce, Georgia, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
The decision to build an electric battery plant is already impacting the local economy and residents in a rural, conservative Georgia town. The project claims it will bring at least 2,600 jobs to the area. Rental prop...
20 April 2021
Scarborough, Maine, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
The Hannaford supermarket chain has achieved their goal of creating zero food waste. Over the past year, they diverted 65 million pounds of unsellable products to food banks, de-packing facilities, and anaerobic diges...
17 April 2021
Maine, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Running Tide Technologies, a shellfish hatchery in Maine, is betting on kelp forests as a way to store carbon deep in the ocean and sell that carbon to corporations looking to combat climate change and offset their ow...
11 April 2021
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
The Partnership to Educate and Advance Kids, a tuition and mentoring program in Chicago, provides full-rides to Catholic school for students facing economical disadvantages. The program targets students with average ...
26 March 2021
Rotterdam, Netherlands
Text
Under 800 Words
Evides Waterbedrijf, a drinking water company, created Europe’s largest floating solar park. They installed almost 3,000 solar panels on an island in the middle of a reservoir that allows it to move with the sun to ma...
20 March 2021
Atlanta, Georgia, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Companies are making the move to Atlanta in their efforts to diversify their workforces. Corporate diversity is hard to achieve in places like Silicon Valley. Instead, companies like Pandora have drastically increased...
5 March 2021
Ballabgarh, India
Text
1500-3000 Words
A family-run syringe making company in India is leading the manufacturing of Covid vaccine-specific barrels and needles, a task that no other country has been able to manage at the same speed. Because Hindustan Syring...
23 February 2021
Bennington, Vermont, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
To make their restaurant more energy efficient and to cut its carbon footprint, The Publyk House utilized the services of Efficiency Vermont, a publicly funded energy efficiency utility. As part of their Deep Energy R...
Energy News Network
Sarah Shemkus
18 February 2021
Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Boston University is getting all of its electricity from a wind farm in South Dakota, which should cover its annual energy needs of 205 million kilowatt-hours. Some energy advocates say the higher education institutio...
16 February 2021
Oakland, California, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Firebrand Artisan Breads hires people with high barriers to employment, such as people experiencing homelessness or who were formerly incarcerated. The higher-than-minimum-wage starting salary, paid time off, and insu...
9 February 2021
Fairfield, Maine, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Stonyfield, an organic dairy company, is working with six of its suppliers to pilot how farms can measure the amount of carbon it’s trapping in soil through regenerative farming practices as a way for the company to a...
5 February 2021
England, United Kingdom
Text
1500-3000 Words
As governments and businesses make pledges to cut their carbon emissions, planting tress has become a popular solution to combat the effects of climate change. But tree-planting schemes take time and proper management...
3 February 2021
Chicago, Illinois, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
The Chicago Black Drag Council launched after a series of protests that called on Chicago’s LGBTQ neighborhood to address racial discrimination and oppression. A handful of businesses quickly agreed to a live-streamed...
22 January 2021
Rock Hall, Maryland, United States
Multi-Media
1500-3000 Words
Maryland farmer Trey Hill became the first seller in a tech startup’s carbon marketplace, paying him $115,000 for initiating regenerative farming practices. By introducing cover crops, he has been able to sequester ab...
12 January 2021
United States
Text
800-1500 Words
IBM is one of only a handful of companies that doesn’t give money to political candidates. IBM does spend millions on lobbying and runs an in-house government relations team, but the company doesn't have a political a...
11 November 2020
Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
A Target store looted and destroyed near the site of George Floyd's killing in Minneapolis, Target's corporate headquarters city, was quickly rebuilt with improvements informed by community input. The mostly white-run...
Grist
Adrienne Day
30 October 2020
United States
Text
800-1500 Words
Prime Coalition is financing clean tech startups and climate-focused technologies that often don’t get a lot of funding. These technologies can be expensive to build and don’t generate profits immediately. So far, the...
29 October 2020
New Jersey, United States
Text
800-1500 Words
A company known as TerraCycle recycles "items other companies won’t accept" – including the many masks, gowns, and gloves that have been used during the coronavirus pandemic. While the service is free for those who ca...
21 October 2020
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Promptworks is a tech company seeking to create a nurturing environment for its own employees as well as help the local community. When the pandemic shut down the city, Promptworks created a mutual-aid platform connec...
18 October 2020
New Zealand
Video
5-15 Minutes
A New Zealand firm has successfully implemented a 4-day workweek resulting in more satisfied and better-rested employees. Revenue for the firm remained steady and operating costs even declined. Employees enjoyed a sur...
14 October 2020
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
Philanthropies are funding “tough tech” startups that are developing technologies to cut greenhouse gas emissions and mitigate the effects of climate change. Since 2014, the nonprofit Prime Coalition has channeled mor...
12 October 2020
San Francisco, California, United States
Text
1500-3000 Words
What started as a small group of people taking pictures of waste in their communities and tagging it on Instagram with the hashtag #Litterati, turned into a global effort, and even an app, to map and dispose of trash....
Fall 2020
Nepal
Text
1500-3000 Words
Tourists can travel to remote destinations in the Himalayas and help install solar technology in villages where residents live without electricity. GHE has used funds from the tourism component to electrify 100 villag...
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