Patagonia To Bring Solar To Local Homes
Patagonia is expanding its brand as an environmental steward with a new fund to help install solar panels on 1,500 residential homes in eight states. This follows several strategic...
Sustainability
News Roundup: JP Morgan Dumps Coal Financing
Favorable economics drive large companies’ clean energy push; DOE's ARPA-E reaches "holy grails in batteries"; U.S. and Canada take unified stance to tackle climate change; South...
The Paris Agreement: What it Means for Climate Finance
Experts from Goldman Sachs, RBC, Sindicatum and more share their thoughts and insights about what the historic climate change agreement will mean for clean tech and finance. Optimism...
1955 Capital’s Andrew Chung on Top Clean Tech Opportunities in China
Andrew Chung’s quest to become global matchmaker for sustainability got a big boost recently with his firm’s initial close of $200 million in anchor commitments. Chung reveals...
CBRE Exec on Green Buildings: Financing, New Technologies, and New Trends
Buildings are becoming ever more efficient, due in part to advances in technology and to more stringent regulations, says Peter Scarpelli, CBRE's global director for energy and sustainability....
Roundup: Lithium-Air Battery Breakthrough, Cambridge Univ. Says
81 corporations signed the "American Business Act on Climate Pledge"; Toyota, Honda bet on hydrogen-powered cars; DuPont builds world's biggest cellulosic ethanol plant using corn...
The Four Top Northeast Cleantech Open Startups
Being capital-light and utilitizing creative business models helped four start-ups win a regional contest; they now advance to the Cleantech Open Global Forum finals later this month....
GE Creates $1B Subsidiary Focused on Energy Efficiency
GE is combining several of its renewable energy, energy storage and energy efficiency-related business lines under one roof, forming a new unit called Current that springs into being...
How Chinese President Xi Jinping will Foster Clean Tech Growth: Hank Paulson
The former US Treasury Secretary reveals why China's gov’t is serious about cleaning up its dirty air and water, and where the biggest opportunities lie for firms to address its...
Things to Consider When Reinvesting Out of Fossil Fuels
As the divestiture movement gains steam, institutional funds should follow a 4-step formula to reinvesting capital in "clean solutions," says Ben Bingham of impact investor 3 Sisters...