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Category: Sustainability

Posted onJanuary 5, 2020May 23, 2020Sustainability

No Amazon, Now Is Not the Time to Be Quiet About Climate Change

by Heather Clancy

Last spring, a group of Amazonians — collectively known as Amazon Employees for Climate Justice (AECJ) — earned national headlines with their very vocal and very public advocacy for meaningful climate action. Their employer, they argued, had a responsibility to be more agressive about reducing…

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Posted onSeptember 15, 2019September 15, 2019Entrepreneurship

I Knew This Podcast Powerhouse When He Was ‘Just’ a Marketing Powerhouse

by Heather Clancy

Over the past six months, my long-time friend Christopher Lochhead — the same guy who convinced me I COULD write a book, resulting in the July 2018 release of our book about entrepreneurship, Niche Down — has become a totally-on-fire host of not one but…

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Posted onAugust 16, 2019August 16, 2019Entrepreneurship

Catch Me On TV (DisrupTV, That Is)

by Heather Clancy

Whenever I need a crash course in keeping a message succinct, Ray Wang (with Constellation Research) and Vala Afshar (avec Salesforce) drop in to give me a lesson — and to remind me that I tend to run off at the mouth sometimes! Here’s our…

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Posted onFebruary 11, 2019May 20, 2020Energy

SolarCity Founders Charge Up African Energy Venture

by Heather Clancy

This article is drawn from the Energy Weekly newsletter, running Thursdays. Subscribe here. The co-founders of SolarCity, Lyndon Rive and Peter Rive, are back on the grid. The brothers, who left their former solar energy services company in mid-2017 after it became part of the Tesla…

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Posted onJanuary 5, 2019May 23, 2020Energy

7 hopeful power prognostications for 2019

by Heather Clancy

In my mind, year-ahead predictions by journalists like me are somewhat akin to corporate sustainability commitments — the best are aspirational, yet grounded in some practical reality. Some are hopeful, others resigned. With that, here are some thoughts crowding my brain on the precipice of…

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Posted onDecember 30, 2018May 23, 2020Sustainability

Amazon, Microsoft Are Making Artificial Intelligence Real

by Heather Clancy

Species identification schemes. Early warning systems informed by sensors and big data. Predictive population modeling. Looks like a job for artificial intelligence! It felt appropriate to weigh in with a year-end riff about a topic that’s guaranteed to spark debate at holiday parties — when and…

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Posted onDecember 29, 2018May 23, 2020Sustainability

Amazon Digs Renewables, But Progress Is Elusive

by Heather Clancy

Is the world’s largest provider of cloud computing services falling down on its 2014 pledge to one day power all of its data centers entirely with renewable energy? That’s the question posed recently by an investigative report in The Information (subscription required, but you can…

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Posted onDecember 28, 2018May 23, 2020Sustainability

Why You Should Pay More Attention to Bloom Energy

by Heather Clancy

When rocket scientist K.R. Sridhar founded the technology startup that would become Bloom Energy in 2001 — and famously introduced its electricity-generating “box” to the world in 2010 during a “60 Minutes” segment — his inspiration was a photograph snapped from outer space illustrating the…

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Posted onDecember 1, 2018May 23, 2020Sustainability

Kickstarter To Designers: Consider The Environment

by Heather Clancy

Genusee, an eyeglasses maker that fashions its frames from water bottles sourced in Flint, Michigan. Huskee Cup, which brews up reusable mugs made out of coffee husk waste. EcoTruck, a toy made from a wood-hybrid material that is far tougher than competitive options. All three…

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Posted onNovember 4, 2017May 23, 2020Nature

Amazon, Apple Go for the Photo Opp

by Heather Clancy

Generally, you know a company is “serious” about a strategy when they march the chief executive officer out to be the mouthpiece or the face of it. Or at least that’s what the marketing gurus and guru-esses hope. So, I was intrigued by two recent…

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Heather Clancy is an award-winning journalist specializing in transformative technology and climate tech. As editorial director for GreenBiz.com, she chronicles the role of technology in decarbonization and business innovation meant to catalyze a low-carbon economy. Her articles have appeared in Entrepreneur, Fortune, The International Herald Tribune and The New York Times.

She co-authored the Amazon best-seller for entrepreneurs, Niche Down, How to Become Legendary By Being Different.

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