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Could Trees Be the New Gravestones? – Better Place Forests in New York Times

July 12, 2019

A Cal­i­for­nia start-up wants to “redesign the entire end-of-life expe­ri­ence.” The answer to “eter­ni­ty man­age­ment”? Forests. SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — Death comes for all of us, but Sil­i­con Val­ley has, […]

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DBL Partners and ZOLA Electric Announce Nigeria Expansion at Global Climate Action Summit

September 11, 2018

MEDIA RELEASE San Fran­cis­co, CA (Sep­tem­ber 11, 2018) — DBL Part­ners and its port­fo­lio com­pa­ny ZOLA Elec­tric (“ZOLA”), for­mer­ly Off Grid Elec­tric, today announced a Glob­al Cli­mate Action Sum­mit pledge […]

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Electrify Coffee? Nancy Pfund and the Rive Brothers See Returns in Roasting

Former SolarCity CEO to join the board at Bellwether Coffee, whose all-electric bean roaster has VCs abuzz.

Green Tech Media
By Julian Spector
September 19, 2019

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 […]

AMS Breaks 2 Gigawatt-Hours in Grid Services

GTM
By JEFF ST. JOHN
March 19, 2019

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 […]

Investing Well by Doing Good: A CIO Benefits from the VC-ESG Connection

Chief Investment Officer
By Christine Giordano
February 22, 2019

First sto­ry in new series exam­ines how one CIO sourced his VC invest­ments that just hap­pened to be ESG. Envi­ron­men­tal, social and gov­er­nance (ESG) invest­ing is not always an easy […]

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