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Articles featuring complementors and validators of the Regenerative Economy
EPA Withdrawal from Clean Power Plan: All Bluster according to Jigar Shah
Clean Energy leader Jigar Shah in an insightful article in Linkedin October 18, 2017 points out the economic and legal factors that are preventing the administration from rolling back progress of clean energy in spite of all their bluster. Great article detailing the...
Getting to Scale: How Amazon, Walmart and RMI Catalyze Sustainability
October 3, 2017 GreenBiz at its Verge 2017 conference hosts an insightful 26 minute video interview by Joel Makower with panelists including Walmart's Zach Freeze, Amazon's Kara Hurst, and Rocky Mountain Institute's Business Renewable Center's Miranda...
Levi’s Is Radically Redefining Sustainability
Dateline: February 9, 2017 FastCompany. Excerpts from an article by Elizabeth Segran: "These days, Levi’s continues to focus on how it can push the envelope when it comes to being green. Dillinger believes that part of the solution is encouraging people to stop...
Unilever’s sustainable brands grow 50% faster than the rest of the business
Dateline: May 18, 2017 Marketing Week article by Leonie Roderick: Unilever’s ‘Sustainable Living’ brands, which include Hellmann’s, Dove and Ben & Jerry’s, delivered more than 60% of the company’s growth in 2016. From Unilever's Sustainability section of their...
Anchor buyer combined with blockchain unlocks inventory financing and sourcing traceability
Dateline: October 12, 2017 CleanTech Group Blockchain and Supply Chain Financing: A Conversation with Skuchain "A first use case we decided to tackle is around digitization of trade finance. We did the first trade finance transaction on the blockchain and that...
Unlocking Financing for Solar Energy
In the early 2000's, when solar energy was a rounding error, Jigar Shah of Sun Edison, figured out how to make a long standing energy financing mechanism - the Power Purchase Agreement PPA - profitable for solar energy. The rest is history. Enjoy reading an overview...