Great Lakes Echo

Small city’s ‘community carbon fund’ promises hyper-local carbon reduction

5 min read

By Emilio Perez Ibarguen

In 2023, community organizers from the outdoor Discovery Center, an outdoor education and conservation-focused nonprofit in Holland, Michigan looked for ways to further sustainability efforts in the west Michigan community. This led to a partnership with another local nonprofit to create the Carbon Community Fund, which accepts donations from residents to fund local conservation efforts.

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Clean Technica

A Push For Change In The US Electoral College Gives Us Hope For Future Climate Action

7 min read

If you haven’t subscribed to Teresa Hanafin’s weekly newsletter at the Boston Globe, you’ve missed the pleasure of reading the longtime editorialist’s acerbic wit and hard-hitting interpretation of current events. This week’s newsletter was entertaining, as always, but it also contained a bit of information I hadn’t come across previously: … [continued]

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Clean Technica

BYD’s Opportunity to Establish Brand Preference in the Developing World

9 min read

It may be easy to dismiss initial numbers in emerging markets as being relatively small in quantity and purchasing power. But those markets are developing as the people within them develop. Establishing brand preference and tying the brand to the economic emergence of these countries has an impact that extends far beyond monthly sales rankings. Electric vehicles are the future, and BYD can make their brand most associated with that future. The opportunity exists to establish long-lasting brand preference that can span generations, if BYD can take advantage of it.

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