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2017 C.E. April 26
Warren Buffet’s family pledges $90 million for young women of color, using “listen, don’t tell” approach
The money will be deployed via three streams to tackle the different issues facing women of color in distinct ways.
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2017 C.E. April 26
New Orleans begins removing white supremacist monuments
Workers dismantle an an obelisk dedicated to the Battle of Liberty Place, which commemorated whites who tried to topple a biracial post-Civil War government.
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2017 C.E. April 25
U.K. achieves first coal-free day since Industrial Revolution
According to the National Grid, the U.K. did not use coal to generate electricity for a full day on Friday 21 April, the first time since the Industrial Revolution.
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2017 C.E. April 21
World Health Organization hails major progress on tackling tropical diseases
WHO director general says significant strides have been made in fight against sleeping sickness, elephantiasis and other neglected tropical diseases
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2017 C.E. April 21
SF’s green energy goal is a decade ahead of target
Mayor Ed Lee on Thursday set a new goal for San Francisco that at least 50 percent of the city's electricity come from renewable sources by 2020. That's 10 years ahead of the target the state has set for itself.
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2017 C.E. April 20
Austin council votes to boost worker cooperatives
In late March, Austin City Council passed a cooperative business ordinance, which primarily supports the idea of worker cooperatives businesses that are owned and democratically controlled by workers
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2017 C.E. April 19
Millions of Venezuelans join the Mother of All Marches
The Mother of All Marches, also known as the Mother of All Protests, was a day of protests held on April 19, 2017 in Venezuela against the Chavista government of president Nicolás Maduro.
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2017 C.E. April 19
Kentucky coal company announces plans to build the state’s largest solar farm
Berkeley Energy Group, the coal company behind the project, billed it as the first large-scale solar farm in the Appalachian region, which has been hit hard by the decades-long decline in the U.S. coal industry.
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2017 C.E. April 19
Kansas City votes to eliminate jail time for marijuana possession
Voters in Kansas City voted overwhelmingly on Tuesday to eliminate the possibility of jail time for people caught with small amounts of marijuana or related paraphernalia.
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2017 C.E. April 19
Green bond issuance up 42% in first quarter of 2017
Globally, total green bonds issuance stood at $21.76 billion during the first quarter of 2017, up nearly 42 per cent from the issuance during the same period last year, according to the Climate Bonds Initiative.
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2017 C.E. June 20
Supreme Court to hear potentially landmark case on partisan gerrymandering
The Supreme Court declared Monday that it will consider whether gerrymandered election maps favoring one political party over another violate the Constitution, a potentially fundamental change in the way American elections are conducted.
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2017 C.E. June 20
YouTube introduces new measures to curb extremist video online
Google announces four measures to tackle problem, including better detection and greater counter-radicalisation efforts
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2017 C.E. June 19
Europe mostly ends mobile roaming fees
Europeans traveling through the 28 Member State bloc are now able to use their mobile devices more freely, thanks to a top level abolition of mobile roaming charges across the region.
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2017 C.E. June 19
Hawaii first U.S. state to declare everyone deserves basic financial security
Hawaii is taking the lead in embracing yet another innovative idea: universal basic income (UBI).
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2017 C.E. June 16
Apple issues billion-dollar ‘green’ bond to support clean projects
That money will go towards efforts to improve the energy efficiency of Apple's own facilities, as well as throughout its supply chain, by financing renewable energy, procuring more recycled and renewable source materials so as to reduce its need to mine for them.
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2017 C.E. June 16
Renewables generated 10% of US electricity in March, breaking records
Combined wind and solar energy accounted for more than 10 per cent of U.S. power generation in March; the highest ever share of renewable energy in the nation's power mix.
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2017 C.E. June 15
Agnes Gund donates $100 million to start fund to fight mass incarceration
The prominent art collector recently sold a Roy Lichtenstein painting for a reported $165 million, and the Ford Foundation announced on Monday that $100 million of that would go to establish The Art for Justice Fund.
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2017 C.E. June 15
Leo Varadkar elected as Ireland’s first gay prime minister
Leo Varadkar was elected Irish Prime Minister on Wednesday, making the 38-year-old son of an Indian immigrant the first gay premier of the once-staunchly Catholic country and the youngest person to hold the office.
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2017 C.E. June 14
Singapore opens country’s first sustainability academy
The Singapore Sustainability Academy (SSA) has been built to highest energy efficiency and green building standards and will serve as the city-state's sustainability learning and collaboration hub.
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2017 C.E. June 13
D.C. and Maryland sue President Trump, alleging breach of constitutional oath
DC and Maryland Attorneys sued President Trump, alleging that he has violated anti-corruption clauses in the Constitution.