Duke Climate Action

 I hope that you will enjoy this as much as I did! Reading it made me wonder, "What is each of us doing to take care of the trees near where we live, work, and play?" Reply to share your tips, tricks, and thoughts! Duke’s Oldest Trees: Witnesses to a Century of History | Duke Today https://today.duke.edu/2024/04/dukes-oldest-trees-witnesses-century-history

Here’s Bill Gates' review of climate data scientist Hannah Ritchie‘s new book, Not the End of the World : https://www.gatesnotes.com/Not-the-End-of-the-World  

 Here’s The Guardian’s review of climate data scientist Hannah Ritchie‘s new book, Not The End of the World : https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/jan/04/not-the-end-of-the-world-by-hannah-ritchie-review-an-optimists-guide-to-the-climate-crisis

Check out this interview with Dukie Josh Felser with his business partner Raj Kapoor about their new VC fund, Climatic Earlier this month, Climactic, a New York City and San Francisco, Calif.-based venture capital firm, launched with a $65M inaugural fund. In conjunction with the announcement, Raj Kapoor and Josh Felser replied to our questions about the firm, their strategy, what they like to see in founders and introduced their portfolio companies. Listen here: https://vcwire.tech/2023/12/29/climatic-joint-interview-with-raj-kapoor-and-josh-felser/

 Dukies team wins the silver! “Second place in this year’s competition went to the “Ene-archy” team from Duke University. Graduate students Petya Miteva, Amelia Atencio, Sanchit Patra and Louis Linden proposed the “Gullah/Geechee Offshore Wind Corridor,” a multi-use offshore wind site with a protected oyster reef designed to stimulate the local coastal economy and prevent coastal erosion while providing low-cost renewable energy to the local community in North Carolina. Their project earned the team a prize of $5,000 and a $1,000 donation to their selected charity of GiveDirectly, Inc.” Read the press release: https://www.aes.com/press-release/2023-EIC-winner

From The New York Times, Electric Vehicle Charging Can Be Confusing. Here’s What to Know. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/28/business/energy-environment/electric-vehicle-chargers-plugs-tesla.html

Duke Alumna @ElizabethKing spoke on ESG https://www.fintech.tv/News/Detail/7400-how-companies-can-prepare-for-esg-disclosure[…]review-of-the-upcoming-climate-capital-conference-at-the-nyse