Tag: business
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Showtime Breaks Ground With First-Ever Climate Change Series
By Joe Romm This April, Showtime will start airing its groundbreaking TV series on the experiences and personal stories of people whose lives have been touched by climate change. Years Of Living Dangerously is an eight-part series produced by the legendary storytellers and film-makers James Cameron, Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jerry Weintraub—together with three former 60 Minutes producers…
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Nearly 1,000 Sustainable Corporations Encourage You to ‘B the Change’
The 900-plus Certified B Corporations already embrace social and environmental responsibility on a daily basis, so this week they decided to encourage the rest of the world to do so. The companies and Wayne, PA-based nonprofit B Lab launched the “B the Change” campaign this week to celebrate and reward those who use business for good, but also raise additional awareness. For…
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Why ALEC Said ‘No Thanks’ to Renewable Energy Members
By Connor Gibson [caption id="attachment_318009" align="alignright" width="500"] Photo courtesy of Shutterstock[/caption] Leaked American Legislative Exchange Council documents published by The Guardian recently offered a glimpse into ALEC’s financial troubles, spurred by its role in peddling corporate laws through statehouses around the country. ALEC’s controversial work has caused its member companies to abandon it, such as pushing the…
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Half a Million Solar Panels Now on UK Buildings
The United Kingdom is on a march to 1 million. According to the UK Department of Energy and Climate Change, 499,687 solar systems were installed by Jan. 5 as part of the feed-in tariff program supporting solar arrays smaller than 50 kilowatts. The British government has established a goal of 1 million panels by 2015. The…
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Which States Have the Most Solar Energy Projects in Their Pipelines?
The top solar states in the U.S. have about 2,000 non-residential projects in their pipelines that could go online in 2014 or beyond. That’s about 40 gigawatts (GW) of photovoltaic (PV) capacity capacity, according to PVTech. “Project pipelines provide significant insight into individual projects, but also help understand market structures, business models and future demand…