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How Bezos’ latest plan to protect forests could backfire

The Verge

Jeff Bezos’ $2 billion plan, announced last week, to plant trees and restore landscapes across Africa and the US has already raised red flags for some conservation experts and activists. The hope with the new conservation investment is to preserve ecosystems that naturally draw down and store planet-heating carbon dioxide pollution.

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Are You A Nonprofit Techie, Working on a Social Media Strategy, and Love Dogs (or cats)? Need Your Help!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

That's Jonathon Coleman from the Nature Conservancy above, I know there must be others. I work with the Universal Health Care Foundation of Connecticut, and my wonderful dog's name is Maggie! I'm going to explain on the Cute Dog Theory but I need some photographic evidence. I also don't want to offend the cat lovers.

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The most innovative companies for energy in 2025

Fast Company Tech

By tapping its deep pool of usage data, analytics, and energy billing expertise, the Connecticut-based company is betting it can cut most clients energy bills by 30%. Customers then pay Budderfly up to 5% less than what they would have paid their electric company before the upgrades, while Budderfly keeps the rest of the resulting savings.

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This Pennsylvania landfill sends radioactive waste into a nearby creek—and fracking has only made it worse

Fast Company Tech

[Photo: Scott Goldsmith/Inside Climate News] The Max Environmental Technologies landfill has been out of compliance with requirements set under the Clean Water Act for most of the past three years and with the federal hazardous waste law, the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, known as RCRA for short, since July 2023.