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Business Network Breakfast — Vehicles and the Grid

Zoom

Connect with business leaders like you who are passionate about sustainability, and hear from our guest speakers, who will be outlining the incredible opportunity to bring the power of electric vehicle storage to bear as an asset in the grid for the future. Stephen Lassiter, Policy Director at SunRun, and Rani Murali, EV-Grid Integration & Energy Services Project Management Analyst at Ford Motor Company will discuss their companies’ ambitious partnership to accelerate Vehicle to Grid integration.

California Climate Policy Summit 2023

Holiday Inn Downtown-Arena, 300 J Street, Sacramento, California, 95814
Dr. J Mijin Cha at the California Climate Policy Summit 2022

Deadline extended! Register before March 24, 2023, to secure your early-bird ticket price! California made historic progress on climate in 2022 — and we have the opportunity to do even more in the year ahead. Together, we passed the boldest set of climate laws in recent history, made major investments in clean energy, and mobilized … Read more

Accelerating Action for a Climate-Safe California

LA CleanTech Incubator, 525 S Hewitt St, Los Angeles, CA 90013
Accelerating Action for a Climate-Safe California

Thank you to the 60+ elected officials, business leaders, and community members who joined us for The Climate Center’s inaugural event in Los Angeles! Additional photos from the event are available here. Please endorse the Climate-Safe California campaign! Climate-Safe California is a set of policies that would allow California to remove more climate pollution from the … Read more

California Climate Policy Summit 2022

Sacramento State University
Ellie Cohen CA Climate Policy Summit

Accelerating action for a climate-safe future Scientists have repeatedly warned that California must act quickly to address the climate crisis or face more devastating fires, floods, heat waves, and drought. If we act now, we can secure clean air, abundant water, food security, and social equity. Our state has an opportunity to lead the world … Read more

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Q&A: Climate-friendly agriculture at Straus Family Creamery, with Albert Straus and Joseph Button

Albert Straus

I sat down recently with owner Albert Straus and Sustainability Director Joseph Button to discuss Straus Family Creamery’s approach to creating a climate-friendly dairy. Straus is a member of The Climate Center’s Business Network, a group of more than 70 businesses collaborating to advance bold, equitable climate policy in California. Straus is also pioneering techniques … Read more

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Welcome to our newest board members!

Jean S. Fraser, Elliot Hinds, and Susan Longville

Three new members have joined The Climate Center Board of Directors to advance our mission of rapidly reducing climate pollution at scale. We’re thrilled to welcome Jean S. Fraser, Chief Executive Officer for the Presidio Trust; Elliot Hinds, a partner in the Corporate Practice Group; and Susan Longville, a water policy analyst who has worked … Read more

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UN calls climate change a ‘code red’ warning for humanity, business must be part of the solution

United Nations by John Samuel

The head of the United Nations has a message for the rest of the world: act on climate change now or pay the price for years to come. In the midst of fires, drought, and extreme heat, we hardly need another report to tell us that the climate crisis poses a grave threat to California’s … Read more

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COVID-19 is a dress rehearsal for entrepreneurial approaches to climate change

By Jeffrey York, The Conversation Highlights Jeffrey York, a professor of sustainability and entrepreneurship at the University of Colorado, suggests that entrepreneurship could be the solution to the climate crisis. Environmental entrepreneurship offers solutions that create ecological and economic benefits  Being an environmentalist and a businessperson helps entrepreneurs recruit a broader range of people, inviting … Read more

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Earth Day 2030: California celebrates reaching net-negative emissions

Golden Gate by Benjamin W.

Let’s imagine it is April 2030. In the early 2020s, as the coronavirus pandemic swept the world, we in California finally addressed the climate crisis at the speed and scale science demanded. Nation & World Collaborating for Speed & Scale Climate Action Today, Earth Day 2030, we celebrate the deep systemic changes we have collectively … Read more

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