In Michigan, the state’s utility companies have created three 501c4 nonprofits to foster the illusion of “grassroots” support for denying homeowners the ability to sell excess power generated from solar cells on rooftops back to the electrical grid.
In the nation’s capital, City Council unanimously passes a bill that includes one of the nation’s strongest climate policies. By 2032, the resolution commits Washington, DC to generate 100 percent of its electricity from renewable energy sources.
Humans are consuming 1.7 times the planet’s carrying capacity, so there is a big opportunity for nonprofits to help build a more equitable economy while addressing sustainability needs.
These nonprofits, Cleveland Clinic and Kaiser Permanente, are keeping more in mind than the patients who walk in the door, using a broader interpretation of their mission statements to improve the health of the community.
The practice of paying boards of nonprofits is relatively rare, and it raises serious questions about whose interests are being considered in decision-making of all kinds.
California joins the growing trend of states and cities planning to be powered 100 percent by renewable energy.
A new philanthropic vehicle catalyzes and convenes the troops for economic transition from coal.
As Sustainable Cleveland 2019 nears its conclusion, the city looks for more ways to build resiliency to climate change and to advance social justice.
With all of the talk about the failure of the energy grid in Puerto Rico, there has been little discussion about what citizens on the island are doing to ensure that it is rebuilt in a way that respects the earth and the island’s sustainability. This article is one in a series of original reports on Puerto Rico’s recovery by NPQ’s senior editor, Cyndi Suarez. We chose to take this project on because the devastation brought by Hurricanes Irma and Maria puts Puerto Rico in a unique position from which all nonprofits in low income communities can learn.
A combination of rapidly falling production costs, international pressures, and state and local polices is pushing rapid growth in the US renewable energy sector, despite federal recalcitrance.
