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Flux Marine revs up its electric outboard business with $15M A round

TechCrunch

“We’ve taken a ground-up design approach that places the electric motor above the waterline for scalability, but does not use any legacy combustion outboard parts,” CEO Ben Sorkin told TechCrunch. Obviously that limits the number of people who can afford to go green, but boating is kind of an expensive hobby to begin with.

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Eight Social Justice and Advocacy Conferences You Must Attend

Care2

Place: FHI360, Vista Room 1825 Connecticut Avenue Northwest Washington, DC 20009. Don't miss the panels Using Technology and Social Media to Build Social Movements with Amy Sample Ward of NTEN, Michael Silberman of Green Peace International, Claire Diaz Ortiz of Twitter, and April Pedersen of Salsa Labs. Register now!

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How Bezos’ latest plan to protect forests could backfire

The Verge

The Bezos Earth Fund announced its latest round of funding on November 1 during a high-profile United Nations climate summit taking place in Glasgow. The Bezos Earth Fund also says it wants local communities and Indigenous peoples “placed at the heart of conservation programs.”. There’s a history of “green-grabbing”.

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Funding & Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On The Environment And Conservation Efforts

Kindful

The Green Climate Fund. The Green Climate Fun. The Green Climate Fund is the world’s largest climate fund, mandated to support developing countries raise and realize their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDC) ambitions towards low-emissions, climate-resilient pathways. PADI AWARE Foundation. National Forest Foundation.

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June Cause Awareness: LGBTQIA+ Pride Month

Qgiv

About Pride Month Pride Month’s origins come from the Stonewall riots which started on June 28, 1969, and took place over several days. A year after the riots, the first pride parades took place in several U.S. The first PrideFest was held in 2020, and since then, the celebration continues to be held every year on the town green.

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Where to recycle your used and unwanted gadgets

Engadget

Heres how to find places that will take your old gadgets. You can even recycle televisions and monitors, though in most places you'll be charged a fee of $30 per item to cover the higher costs of transporting and disassembling them. Connecticut locations will only accept Insignia and Dynex sets for recycling.)

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The most innovative companies for energy in 2025

Fast Company Tech

That could help lighten the load of data centers and all the other places that rely on fans and conveyorsa welcome reminder that even subtle innovations can have massive impacts. To make the green transition a little easier, in 2024, it released the Powin Pod, a compact battery system that holds 5MWh in a 20-foot container.