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The Sharing Economy in an Asheville, NC neighborhood. Inspired by Little Free Libraries and a neighbor's surplus vegetable offerings, this gardener decided to share her floral bounty with anyone who wants to take home their own bouquet.
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The Silicon Valley Energy Summit (SVES) at Stanford videos are now available. Minerva's Marianna Grossman moderated a panel on Innovation in Corporate Clean Energy with HP, Facebook and VMware as well as the afternoon keynote address by Senior Climate Advisor and head of the Office of Planning and Research for Gov. Gavin Newsom, Kate Gordon.
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Marianna Grossman was invited to attend the California Climate Risk: Insurance-based Approaches to Mitigation and Resilience conference at UCLA, hosted by CA Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara (photo on left), in July. Photo on right is with "Butch" Bacani, Global Leader of the UN Environment's Principles for Sustainable Insurance Initiative, and Subarna Bhattacharyya, founder of Climformatics and chief climate modeler for Ice911.
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Association of Women in Water, Energy & Environment (AWWEE) invites you to this inaugural event of their new Silicon Valley regional team. Please join us to hear from five women leaders representing utilities in Silicon Valley:
August 28, 2019, 5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m.
San Jose City Hall, Rotunda Building, 200 E. Santa Clara St.,San Jose, CA 95113
- Rekha Ippagunta, Project Engineering Manager at Alameda County Water District
- Lori Mitchell, Director at San Jose Clean Energy
- Jan Pepper, CEO at Peninsula Clean Energy and Vice Mayor at City of Los Altos
- Kerrie Romanow, Director of Environmental Services at City of San Jose
- Bhavani Yerrapotu, Deputy Operating Officer at Valley Water
- Moderated by Heather Dauler, Intergovernmental Affairs Officer at City of Palo Alto
It is free, but make sure to RSVP here.
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Two upcoming events from TRT:
Tuolumne River Film Festival
Saturday, September 7, 6:30 - 9:00pm
Menlo Atherton Performing Arts Center, 555 Middlefield Road, Atherton
Tickets: $10
For details and tickets: https://www.tuolumne.org/events/filmfestival/
TRT Fall Gala
Sunday, October 6, 4:30 - 7:30pm
College of San Mateo Bayview Dining Room, 10 Perimeter Road, San Mateo
Honoring Felicia Marcus, Former Chair of the State Water Board, and Susan Stern, longtime TRT Board Member.
Early Bird Tickets: $175
Details and Tickets: https://www.flipcause.com/secure/cause_pdetails/NTYyNjI=
Sponsorship Opportunities: https://app.etapestry.com/onlineforms/TuolumneRiverTrust/TRTGalaSponsor2019.html
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Ice911 Research is making great strides in scaling their work on a safe, effective method to protect arctic ice. Check out the Xinova Innovators interview featuring Founder, Dr. Leslie Field. The Ice911 team will be participating in the UN Climate Week in NYC in September. Dr. Field will be presenting a keynote address at the Arctic Circle Assembly in Iceland from October 11-13, 2019. Minerva's Marianna Grossman represented Ice911 at a meeting with Dutch Polar scientists in June, setting the stage for Ice911 to present at a meeting of European scientists to be convened in November in The Hague, by the Netherlands Polar Research programme of NWO.
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Green Programs on Hot Topics 2019
What You Can Do About the Plastic Pollution Crisis
Tuesday, September 24 at 7pm
Future events: New Technology That Can Save Water, Energy and Money, Thursday, October 17 at 7pm
These programs are free and open to the public. Please click here for more.
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The Governor's Office of Planning and Research
Integrated Climate Adaptation and Resilience Program
The State of California has developed outstanding resources for resilience to climate change.
Information on the Adaptation Clearinghouse:
- Overview of the Adaptation Clearinghouse
- Overview of regional resources and needs
- Opportunities to integrate adaptation into other local planning efforts
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Sustainable Electricity is edited by Jessica Fox and Morgan Scott of EPRI, published in October 2018 by Springer. Minerva founder, Marianna Grossman wrote Chapter 9, on Silicon Valley Innovations, featuring case studies based on personal interviews with HP, Inc., VMware, Facebook, Google and Stanford University. Find about the extensive action that each company is taking to meet their goals for carbon neutral energy. Available online now.
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Minerva Ventures is a consulting firm that works with established and new companies, communities and leaders from all sectors to create strategies and to implement plans that will help them thrive in an uncertain future. We bring insights from systems thinking to drive towards solutions that enhance resilience and success.
For more information visit our website: minervaventures.com
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