Lloyd’s To Phase Out Fossil Fuel Insurance by 2030
In response to activism and industry pressure, Lloyd’s will phase out fossil fuel insurance...
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Category: Hopeful Headlines
Hopeful Headlines Dec 9. New York State’s Bombshell Divestment
New York state is divesting its $226 billion pension fund — the third largest in the United...
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2020’s Best and Most Important Climate Newsletters
While climate change continues to scratch and claw for mainstream news coverage, many of the...
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Hopeful Headlines Dec. 2: Bank of America Rules out Arctic Oil
Bank of America joins the five other major US banks in ruling out financing for oil projects in...
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Hopeful Headlines Nov. 25: Stripe’s Selfless Carbon Removal Plan
Online-payments company Stripe (which we proudly use in the Emeraldology Shop!) is blazing the...
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Hopeful Headlines Nov. 12: Bring On the McPlant!
McDonald’s announces its version of a meatless hamburger, known as the...
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Hopeful Headlines Nov. 4: Voters Approve Green Energy
In both Nevada and Ohio, voters approve plans to transition to renewable energy sources. In Ohio,...
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Hopeful Headlines Oct 28: The Town That Built Back Green
After being levelled by a tornado, the small farming community of Greensburg, Kansas built back...
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Hopeful Headlines Oct. 21: Singapore’s City of the Future
Singapore’s “City of the Future” will feature “solar-powered...
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Hopeful Headlines Oct. 14: Renewables to the Rescue
With the Bakken Oil Fields going bust once again, laid off oil workers are finding steady,...
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Hopeful Headlines Oct. 7: NextEra Outvalues ExxonMobil
Solar and wind power producer NextEra surpasses oil giant ExxonMobil in terms of stock market...
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Hopeful Headlines Sep 30: Plastic Devouring Super-Enzyme
You know 2020 is a mess when the words “super-enzyme” are actually a source of hope....
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Hopeful Headlines Sept 23: C40ers Pledge Green Covid Recovery
Led by Mayors Sadiq Khan of London and Bill de Blasio of New York City, 12 major global cities...
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Hopeful Headlines Sep. 16: Surge of the Smiling Turtles
Once thought extinct, the population of smiling turtles of Myanmar is now over 1,000 turtles after...
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Hopeful Headlines Sept. 9: Big Milestone for Solar, Wind
Solar, wind installations accounted for more than two-thirds of all new power generation in 2019....
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Hopeful Headlines Sept 2: Streets Paved in… Recycled Plastic?
A one-mile stretch of highway in California is the first one paved in recycled plastic, using over...
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Hopeful Headlines Aug. 26: Wolverines Return to Rainier
For the first time in over a century, wolverines were spotted in Mount Rainier National Park. The...
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Hopeful Headlines Aug. 18: Garbage Dump Goes Green
Over 20 years, Staten Island’s Fresh Kills Landfill transformed from largest garbage dump in...
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Hopeful Headlines Aug. 12: How To Electrify The US Economy
A plan by McCarthur grant winner Saul Griffith details how to electrify the US economy and...
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Hopeful Headlines Aug. 4: BP Did What!?
If it were any other year, I wouldn’t believe it. But here we are in 2020: Oil and gas giant...
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