In 2015, the United States and representatives from nearly 200 countries reached a landmark agreement to combat climate change and transition towards a low carbon economy at COP 21 in Paris. In […]
Food waste startup backed by Oprah Winfrey snags $250 million
This morning brings one of the biggest deals yet this year: an infusion of $250 million in new financing for food waste crusader Apeel Sciences. What’s more, the funding pushes the […]
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue to Address Farmer2Farmer Conference
November 25, 2019 08:00 AM Eastern Standard Time SIOUX FALLS, S.D.–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Farmers Business NetworkSM(FBN), the independent farmer-to-farmer network, today announced that Sonny Perdue, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, will address the company’s […]
Game Changers 2020 Essay Series: When Faced With Times Like These, Turn to Impact Investing
At present, in a time when truth and transparency seem ever-elusive, when divisiveness appears a way of life, and social and environmental threats loom large, a bright spot has emerged. […]
Electrify Coffee? Nancy Pfund and the Rive Brothers See Returns in Roasting
If they can decaffeinate coffee, why not decarbonize it, too? Berkeley-based Bellwether Coffee proposed to do just that by building a fully electric micro-roaster. The product replaces conventional gas-burning machines to […]
AMS Breaks 2 Gigawatt-Hours in Grid Services
Southern California Edison’s groundbreaking DER procurement breaks a record for battery-based virtual power plants serving real-world grid needs. The competition for the title of “world’s largest virtual power plant” has largely […]