Generation Investment Management, a sustainable investment firm with approximately $22 billion of assets under management, has announced the close of its $1 billion Generation IM Sustainable Solutions Fund III. The new fund will seek to make to make meaningful minority investments of between $50 and $150 million in innovative companies with high-growth potential, according to the management firm. The...Read More

Washington became the first U.S. state to legalize human composting Tuesday, offering residents a more environmentally friendly way to dispose of their remains, AFP reported. The bill, signed by Governor and climate-focused presidential candidate Jay Inslee, would allow people who die in Washington after May 2020 to forgo burial or cremation and have their bodies turned into soil through a...Read More

SCE’s Charge Ready Transport Program helps customers add charging for more than 8,000 trucks and industrial vehicles. Photo Credit: Penske Truck Leasing IRWINDALE, California — Area truck and industrial vehicle fleet owners gathered in Irwindale recently to hear about a new Southern California Edison program that can help them convert from fossil fuel to clean electric transportation....Read More

American small businesses got nearly a $22 million boost from the Energy Department’s Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program. Small businesses are receiving Phase I Release 2 grants that demonstrate technical feasibility for innovations during the first phase of their research. Most Phase I awards are for $200,000 for less...Read More

Chemists at the University of Illinois have successfully produced fuels using water, carbon dioxide and visible light through artificial photosynthesis. By converting carbon dioxide into more complex molecules like propane, green energy technology is now one step closer to using excess CO2 to store solar energy — in the form of chemical bonds — for use...Read More

Gas-guzzling sports cars are getting a re-brand as luxury car manufacturers look to an electrified and application-enabled future One of Lagonda’s concept cars at the Geneva Motor Show (Credit: Aston Martin Lagonda)   Luxury sports car companies are looking to an electric future as they pursue a new customer base that’s young, affluent and environmentally-conscious. Aston...Read More

Mercedes-Benz’s parent company Daimler has committed to making all cars across the brand’s portfolio carbon-neutral within the next two decades, in a move it has described as a “fundamental transformation” for the company. The commitment has been dubbed the ‘most ambitious’ from a carmaker to date. Pictured: Mercedes-Benz’s fully-electric SUV, the EQC The commitment will cover...Read More

The District of Columbia and New York City both recently passed bold laws to meet their commitments to slash their greenhouse gas emissions in half in a little more than a decade and by more than 80 percent by 2050. By passing the first two laws in the country that require broad swaths of existing...Read More

London has been ranked as one of the 43 global cities leading the global charge on climate action and emissions reduction in a new league table compiled by CDP. London scored highly due to its ambitions and actions around air pollution, electric mobility and green buildings The ranking, known as the ‘A List’ for cities, scored...Read More

If you bring a tote bag to the grocery store, you’re not necessarily saving the planet. When you visit the supermarket, is it better for the planet to carry home your groceries in a paper, plastic or reusable tote bag? The answer is more complicated than you might think. Plastic bags are cheap and convenient,...Read More