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

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. In-person demos will be available in Rhode Island (where the company is based and just got a fat tax credit) and Connecticut. Lead times should decrease as they scale up over the next year, he added.

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The Northeast Recycling Council – A GreenTech Nonprofit Profile

Tech Soup

From time to time we like to profile the work of nonprofits, NGOs, and libraries that are doing great work in green IT. Northeast Recycling Council was founded 22 years ago as an economic and environmental sustainability advocacy organization. But as the topic of e-waste has expanded so have NERC's projects.

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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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Interview with My Dad, Tom Aageson, Co-Founder, Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship

Have Fun - Do Good

It also built up a wonderful market to the point where over six for-profit galleries opened up, and began to do business, all the way from Seattle to Annapolis to Newport, Rhode Island. That would be one example of taking an initiative, and starting an enterprise. That's the difference between the two.

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New York-based indoor ag company Gotham Greens raises $87 million

TechCrunch

In the past few months, AppHarvest, a developer of greenhouse tomato farms, went public through a special purpose acquisition vehicle, vertical farming giant Plenty raised $140 million , and now Gotham Greens, which is developing its own network of greenhouses, is announcing the close of $87 million in new funding.

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Google launches new tool to help cities stay cool

The Verge

That tool, created by conservation organization American Forests with support from Microsoft, was piloted in Rhode Island, the San Francisco Bay Area, and Maricopa County, Arizona. The City of LA is working to green some of those neighborhoods and prepare the city for a warmer world.

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First commercial-scale offshore wind farm in the US gets federal approval

The Verge

Block Island, R.I.: Deepwater Wind offshore wind farm at Block Island, Rhode Island on August 14, 2016. The first commercial-scale offshore wind project in the US just got the green light from the Biden administration. Photo by Mark Harrington/Newsday RM via Getty Images.