… This project explores the mechanisms that allow actors in different settings to coordinate and create the institutions required … environmentalists, developers, utilities, turbine manufacturers, local and federal policy makers, and academia. Interviews lasted, on average, 1.5 hours and yielded more than 500 … von der Haar/flickr Equity and Justice Clean Energy Environmental Innovation Institutional Entrepreneurship and Renewable Energy in the U.S. … Institutional Entrepreneurship and …
… The objective of this project is to investigate ways that consumers make inferences about green product quality. The investigators found that consumers tend to … to result from consumers’ reliance upon a “zero-sum” heuristic, whereby they assume thatcompanies have a fixed amount of manufacturing resources. Thus, resources devoted to “making …
… Finance and ESG Equity and Justice Bridging the Gap: How Philanthropy Can Unlock Impact Investing … Bridging the Gap: How Philanthropy Can Unlock Impact Investing -by Abhishri … (GIIN) total global impact investing assets in 2018 grew more than 50% from 2017. Yet, that growth is tiny relative to the overall investing marketplace—comprising only 4% of … a side benefit to this report may be facilitating stronger communication between grantmakers and impact investors. It may also be of immediate relevance for conferences and …
… So you’ve decided you want to be more than just a company. You want to have a positive impact on society, promote corporate … Certified B Corporations and Benefit Corporations help consumers identify trustworthy companies. Signaling this commitment is a trend that has been catching on quickly, both domestically and abroad; to date, there are …
… Agrivoltaics is a solar market subsegment that co-locates solar energy production and agricultural operations. Combining these … a broad audience, also examines how communities, solar developers, local leaders, and policymakers can effectively promote, support, and regulate agrivoltaic systems. Clean Energy … Energy on Public Lands Mobilizing Finance for Land Conservation at the Energy-Land-Agriculture Nexus … Agrivoltaics is a solar market subsegment that co-locates solar energy …
… insights to developers and investors interested in constructing resilient infrastructure that can provide essential community services–even during disruptions to the electrical … significant potential for GRHs to support communities in emergencies while also providing sustainable revenue streams during non-emergency periods. In this report, we define the … sizing a battery, choosing a technology mix, and creating operational strategies. Furthermore, we offer potential operating and business models for GRHs. We then examine financing …
… of unsustainability and a possibility of vision-oriented sustainability, it can be more clearly articulated how expressions of autonomous, intrinsic or self-determined … vision (or envisioning) from projections, scenarios, or forecasts in a way that provides access to crafting autonomous motivation for sustainability and … expanded into an online article series in collaboration with the MIT Sloan Initiative for Sustainable Business & Society. Use and Applicatons The article, “Transforming …
… Low productivity in agriculture is a significant development challenge, yet many processes used to increase land productivity have deleterious effects that actually reduce the long-run usability of the land. Moresustainable agricultural technologies exist, designed to minimize the adverse effects …
… the benefits a product provides to you, does it matter to you whether many others also use that product? For many products, the answer is yes. This simple idea that there are additional benefits to you if everyone else is using the same product is often called a network effect because as more people are ‘connected’ to the network, the benefits increase. More precisely, anytime …
… Should policymakers incentivize electric vehicle (EV) purchases first or invest in charging stations … of new car registrations and number of chargers per capita. Our analysis suggests that the best way for policymakers to facilitate the growth of the overall market is to grow … also explores policy options for supporting a growing EV and EV charging market. 2274 2239 2379 Clean Energy Sustainable Finance and ESG Equity and Justice Financing Electric …