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Why Using Technology to Accelerate Climate Action is More Essential Than Ever

Saleforce Nonprofit

For example, in the Eastern Cape of South Africa, the landscape resembles what many people consider a typical African savanna, with a few trees every hundred meters or so and brown grasslands in between. Of course, private finance will need to be involved; for example, through green bonds.

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A History of How Modern ESG Came to Be

sgEngage

This decade also saw the Black Power Movement, American Indian Movement, a further push for women’s rights , rights of farmworkers, and the Green Power Movement. A nti-war wasn’t the only movement that took place in the 1960s. 1970 – Milton Friedman introduces his Shareholder Value T heory.

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Snapshot of Worldwide Electronics Recycling 2013

Tech Soup

Africa is the poorest region in the world and there is comparatively little going on there in the way of dealing with e-waste, but there are actually some promising developments in Africa. The e-Waste Association of South Africa ( eWASA ) is building a network of e-waste recyclers and refurbishers in the country.

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Solutionary Women: Alli Chagi-Starr, Ilyse Hogue, Melinda Kramer and Reem Rahim

Have Fun - Do Good

And then another program is Reclaim the Future, which is one our newest projects, that is addressing green-color jobs and building opportunities for low-income people, formerly convicted people, and communities of color in this new green economy. My path was really environmental work, environmental policy work.

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All for Green, and Green for All: An Interview with Van Jones

Have Fun - Do Good

When I went to see Van Jones speak for the first time at the Green Festival in November 2002 about, "Green Jobs, Not Packed Jails," people in the States were just starting to lift their heads up from a year of fear and despair after September 11th. Our question is, will this green wave lift all boats? How do we make sure?

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