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 the agree­ment, coun­tries agreed to lim­it the rise of glob­al tem­per­a­ture to …
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To com­pile The Impact 50 list of the most notable impact investors, Forbes iden­ti­fied pri­mar­i­ly U.S.-based indi­vid­u­als invest­ing in ven­tures striv­ing to have a pos­i­tive social or envi­ron­men­tal impact both domes­ti­cal­ly and around the world. We researched U.S. bil­lion­aires, as well as …
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The Plan­et Earth-obser­­va­­tion com­pa­ny has just released new imagery of the bro­ken Milne Ice Shelf in the Arc­tic. Locat­ed on the north­ern mar­gin of Canada’s Ellesmere Island, the ice plat­form split on 30/​​31 July to form a free-float­ing bloc some …
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Stephen and Ayesha Cur­ry offi­cial­ly launched their new Eat​.Learn​.Play Foun­da­tion, with Rev­o­lu­tion Foods as a key part­ner. At the kick­off event in down­town Oak­land today, we pro­vid­ed healthy meals for 1400 Oak­land youth and part­ners and host­ed a “taste the rain­bow” acti­va­tion as the key food part­ner for the foun­da­tion. Rev­o­lu­tion Foods is so proud of this part­ner­ship, through which …
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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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SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 7, 2018 /​​PRNewswire/​​ — A new sur­vey of more than 1,000 women with side hus­tles reveals that the top three rea­sons women choose inde­pen­dent work are: flex­i­bil­i­ty (44 per­cent), income (38 per­cent) and entre­pre­neur­ship (25 per­cent). Com­mis­sioned by BabyQuip (www​.babyquip​.com), Ruby Rib­bon (www​.rubyrib​bon​.com) and Urban­Sit­ter (www​.urban​sit​ter​.com) “Women in the Gig Econ­o­my 2018” pro­vides an in-depth look at …
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