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Jodi Leamon’s lifelong passion for nature sent her to a variety of locales while she gained the experience and professional skills that landed her in the role of Sustainability Coordinator for the Allen County Department of Environmental Management. From time spent on both coasts then to a remote island in the Bahamas, she’s been attacked by barracuda, learned how to operate a chainsaw, became a SCUBA diver as well as a certified wildland firefighter. She graduated from UNC Wilmington with a bachelor’s degree in Environmental Sciences and earned a master’s degree in Biological Sciences from the University of Illinois at Chicago. “I graduated the same month that the Great Recession started, so I moved back to Fort Wayne and tended bar for a while when I couldn’t find a job. I met my husband Dustin and landed a job with Allen County helping people reduce their environmental footprint, so I have stayed ever since.” Leamon is al
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It s easy to take leftover food at the end of a meal and just toss it in the trash, but getting food waste out of the can and into the right place could play a big role in our state s waste management and help fight climate change. This facility, being one of the first, we were very much pioneers in the process of recovering food waste and what it did was we set the stage for folks and communities to consider recycling their food waste,” explains Brian Paganini, the Vice President of Quantum Biopower in Southington. “In Connecticut food waste is the largest portion of our waste that is the least recycled.
Cincinnati Paves the Way for Equitable, Climate-Forward City Planning February 19, 2021 at 4:13 PM
CINCINNATI Cincinnati, Ohio, is a midsize city that has attracted attention for its outsized climate action. In early 2020, Cincinnati contracted the nation’s largest municipal solar farm as part of its plan to convert the city government’s power usage to 100 percent renewable energy by 2035. The 100 percent renewable energy goal is just one of 80 total recommendations in the 2018 Green Cincinnati Plan, which aims to reduce city carbon emissions 80 percent by 2050 and implement a suite of other projects in the fields of environmental sustainability, environmental justice, and climate resilience. The plan, the third of its kind, acts as the city’s roadmap for climate and environmental action.
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SMBC Launches Sustainability-Linked Loan for Overseas Japanese Customers
February 5, 2021 GMT
TOKYO (BUSINESS WIRE) Feb 5, 2021
Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corporation (“SMBC”) (President and Group CEO: Makoto Takashima) announced today the launch of Sustainability-Linked Loan (“SLL”) financing for its overseas Japanese customer’s ESG (※1) and SDGs (※2) related activities.
The objective of SLLs is to promote and support environmentally and socially beneficial economic activities by linking corporate loan terms with a customer’s performance against mutually-agreed, sustainability performance targets (“SPTs”) consistent with a customer’s sustainability strategy. The objective of the SLL is to incentivize customers to improve their sustainability performance.