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2021 C.E. March 2
Major Christian adoption agency in U.S. to start working with LGBTQ people
In an email sent to 1,500 staff, Bethany Christian Services’s President, Chris Palusky, said, “We will now offer services with the love and compassion of Jesus to the many types of families who exist in our world today."
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2021 C.E. March 2
Honda, Yamaha, KTM, and Piaggio team up in swappable battery consortium
Four major manufacturers have committed to developing a standardized swappable battery system for electric motorcycles, opening up the possibility of quick-swap battery banks at service stations, servicing a range of brands and models.
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2021 C.E. March 1
Sweetgreen to cut its CO2 emissions in half by 2027
Sweetgreen has recently set the goal of cutting its carbon footprint in half in the next six years while offsetting the rest of its emissions to achieve carbon neutrality by the same time.
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2021 C.E. March 1
SolarPower Europe launches solar manufacturing accelerator
This new platform is aimed at accelerating the deployment of solar PV manufacturing projects in Europe — something that strengthens the EU’s leadership in clean energy technologies.
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2021 C.E. March 1
Black Lives Matter Foundation expands $3 million pandemic survival fund
The foundation, which grew out of the creation of the Black Lives Matter movement nearly eight years ago, plans to give 3,000 microgrants of $1,000 each to people who it believes need it most.
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2021 C.E. February 26
Delaware River Basin Commission votes to ban fracking in historic victory
The ban was supported by all four basin states — New Jersey, Delaware, Pennsylvania and New York — putting a permanent end to hydraulic fracking for natural gas along the 13,539-square-mile basin, The Philadelphia Inquirer reported.
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2021 C.E. February 26
The first class of female Eagle Scouts has earned their badges
Two years ago, the Eagle Scout program was opened up to female participants, with the first 1,000 young women who had just earned their badges and the honor that comes with it.
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2021 C.E. February 26
World’s largest hydrogen “green steel” plant to open in Sweden by 2024
H2 Green Steel (H2GS) will use hydrogen produced with renewable energy from Sweden's Boden-Luleå region. By 2030, H2GS expects to be producing five million tons of high-quality zero-emissions steel annually.
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2021 C.E. February 25
EV charging station installations increasing rapidly in the United States
In 2009, 245 new EV charging stations were installed in the country. In 2019, more than 20,000 new EV charging stations were installed, according to the U.S. Department of Energy.
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2021 C.E. February 25
Atlanta builds the United States’s largest food forest to tackle food insecurity
Thanks to a US Forest Service grant and a collaboration between the city’s municipality and a number of different NGOs, the 7.1 acres of land are now ripe with 2,500 pesticide-free edible and medicinal plants.
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2021 C.E. April 1
New York must offer vaccine to all prisoners immediately, judge rules
A judge in the Bronx ruled that people incarcerated in the state’s prisons and jails had been arbitrarily excluded from the coronavirus vaccine rollout.
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2021 C.E. March 31
Joe Biden releases historic Transgender Day of Visibility presidential proclamation
President Joe Biden issued a proclamation honoring the Transgender Day of Visibility today, a historic first that’s even more remarkable after the previous president relentlessly attacked transgender rights and even refused to issue a proclamation for Pride Month.
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2021 C.E. March 31
Audi commits to cut water consumption in half by 2035
Automotive World says that it takes 39,000 gallons of water to produce a car, with one of the biggest issues being painting.
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2021 C.E. March 31
Massachusetts passes sweeping climate legislation to reduce emissions
The law, which was passed last week by Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker, sets emission limits at 50 percent below 1990 levels by 2030 and 75 percent below by 2040 with interim limits every five years.
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2021 C.E. March 30
India donates 200,000 vaccines to protect UN blue helmets against COVID
The donated AstraZeneca vaccines left Mumbai for the Danish capital of Copenhagen, where they will be safely stored and distributed to UN peacekeepers serving in various missions.
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2021 C.E. March 30
U.S. announces measures to expand offshore wind energy production
The New Wind Energy Area off the coast of New Jersey will be available for lease to offshore wind companies and the federal government will also make $3 billion in funding available through its loan guarantee program to incentivize wind energy investment.
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2021 C.E. March 30
Electrify America & Jeep Partner to create trailhead charging network in the U.S.
Their plan is to put a Level 2 charging station at the trailheads for every Jeep Badge of Honor trail. Jeep wants to complete this within the next 12 months.
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2021 C.E. March 29
U.S. Federal Judge blocks further oil and gas extraction in Ohio’s Wayne National Forest
The ruling rebuked the U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management (BLM) for failing to consider threats to public health, endangered species, and watersheds before opening more than 40,000 acres of the forest to fracking last year.
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2021 C.E. March 29
New Zealand approves paid leave for miscarriage
The country is expanding upon its public health policies surrounding reproductive rights and has unanimously approved a bill that gives mothers and their partners the right to paid leave following a miscarriage or stillbirth.
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2021 C.E. March 29
Supreme Court Of Canada upholds national carbon tax
The Supreme Court of Canada ruled this week a federal carbon tax that is legal pursuant to the “peace, order, and good government” provisions of the Canadian constitution.