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Green news- Starbucks merges sustainability and social impact with latest layoffsThe coffee retailer’s chief sustainability officer, Marika McCauley Sine, was among 300 employees across the company whose positions were eliminated, sources said. The post Starbucks merges sustainability and social impact with latest layoffs appeared first on Trellis.
- What sustainability leaders are saying about SBTI’s new net-zero standardAfter a week of debate, the nuances are becoming clearer. The post What sustainability leaders are saying about SBTI’s new net-zero standard appeared first on Trellis.
- CDP sells majority stake to private equity firmInvestment from Permira will accelerate improvements to the disclosure platform's technology, its CEO said. The post CDP sells majority stake to private equity firm appeared first on Trellis.
- Anthropic joins Google, Stripe and others in $900 million carbon removal initiativeFrontier will focus its second tranche of funding on projects with a clear pathway to success. The post Anthropic joins Google, Stripe and others in $900 million carbon removal initiative appeared first on Trellis.
- Next-gen fiber solutions emerge as forest supplies tightenForward-looking supply chains create economic opportunity in rural and agricultural communities, reduce air pollution and relieve sourcing pressure on forests. The post Next-gen fiber solutions emerge as forest supplies tighten appeared first on Trellis.
- Starbucks merges sustainability and social impact with latest layoffs
Daily Archives: 22/04/2012
Home Solar Systems: Worth the Cost?
Humanity has acknowledged the power of the sun since prehistoric times, awed by the glowing orb whose presence creates day and whose absence plunges the world into darkness.
For all our advances in science and technology, most of the power from the sun still eludes us. NASA reports that we use only one ten-thousandth of the sun’s energy.
Photovoltaic (PV) solar electrical systems offer new and ever-changing ways to harness that energy. The term “photovoltaic” literally means light-electricity.
In 1839, French physicist Edmond Becquerel discovered that sunlight could produce an electric current. Another century would pass before scientists fully understood that this process happens at the atomic level. Albert Einstein’s only Nobel Prize was awarded for his work on the photoelectric effect. By 1958, the space program was using solar cells. Continue reading
Small enterprises: Shift to green economy underway, but not at full speed yet
According to the Eurobarometer survey on “SMEs, resource efficiency and green markets”, 37% of EU SMEs have at least one full or part-time green employee. Green jobs are largely created in SMEs as opposed to large firms: In 2012, 1 in 8 employees of small and medium-sized firms had a green job or almost 13% of all SME jobs.
In large firms it was only 1 in 33 equivalent to 3% of all large company jobs. Green jobs in SMEs are also estimated to expand dynamically with a rate of 35% in the next 2 years. Continue reading
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