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Five green flags for funders in your grant proposal

Candid

Last year, we shared our crowdsourced list of red flags that funders look for in grant proposals—the things that immediately reveal the weak points in an application and raise questions about the organization’s credibility. Not surprisingly, the question we got most in response to that article was: What are green flags for funders?

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Moving from Red AI to Green AI, Part 1: How to Save the Environment and Reduce Your Hardware Costs

DataRobot

How can we shift from Red AI that is inefficient and unavailable to the public to efficient and democratic Green AI? Needless to say, anything is green if it is powered by something renewable. Get your power from a renewable source. However, this can be difficult to retrieve from whatever software you use to build models.

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Boeing gets green light for satellite internet constellation

The Verge

The Federal Communications Commission has authorized a satellite internet project from Boeing first proposed in 2017. SpaceX has previously expressed concern that Boeing’s proposal to launch into already-crowded low orbits could increase the risk of a collision with other satellites.

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These trains could carry giant batteries across Colorado and deliver clean energy to Denver

Fast Company Tech

dozens of proposed solar, wind, and battery projectsencompassing thousands of gigawatts of potential power are backlogged as they wait to be allowed to plug into the power grid. SunTrain is a San Francisco-based company founded by green energy developer Christopher Smith, who now serves as the companys president and chief technology officer.

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Dear Sophie: What’s the difference between IEP and the latest proposed startup visa?

TechCrunch

Dear Sophie, What’s the difference between International Entrepreneur Parole and the latest proposed startup visa? Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) recently introduced the Let Immigrants Kickstart Employment (LIKE) Act , which creates both a startup visa and a startup green card. Do you think the startup visa will become a reality? If so, when?

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Elon Musk’s Boring Company gets green light for Las Vegas tunnel system

The Verge

But Musk’s startup proposed a massive city-wide expansion in December 2020 that largely lines up with what Clark County officials approved Wednesday. The Boring Company already operates a small version of this “Teslas in Tunnels” system underneath the Las Vegas Convention Center, which opened earlier this year and involves two 0.8-mile

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Change Climate Change: A New Approach to Grant Applications?

Amy Sample Ward

As you can read below, Green Mountain Coffee and JustMeans have partnered up for the Change Climate Change contest. Change Climage Change: Grant Proposals Open. Green Mountain Coffee will provide four grants for $200,000 each (payable over 5 years) to support the work of reducing climate change. Submissions close March 21st.

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