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Tapestry, Inc. teams up with Pivot Energy to develop solar projects

Renewable energy provider Pivot Energy is teaming up with Tapestry, Inc. fashion brands Coach, Kate Spade, and Stuart Weitzman to develop six community solar projects in Illinois to enable 33 Megawatts of solar energy. Tapestry has committed to purchasing 15 years of Impact Renewable Energy Credits (RECs) produced by the projects, which will...

Business

LanzaTech receives multi-million dollar investment for carbon capture projects

LanzaTech, a company dedicated to turning waste carbon into materials, has announced a new funding partnership with Brookfield Renewable. The initial 500 million dollar investment will go towards the co-development and construction of new commercial-scale production plants which will employ LanzaTech’s Carbon Capture and Transformation (CCT)...

Business

Yoga practitioners join in call urging Lululemon to cut use of fossil fuels

Over 1,600 international yoga practitioners have joined in signing an open letter to Lululemon requesting for the athleisure company to transition to renewable energy. In a release, the group noted that nearly half of Lululemon’s energy comes from factories powered by burning coal, which it added is ultimately harmful to people and the...

Business

Lenzing Group signs deal to finance solar panel plant

The Lenzing Group, a provider in wood-based fibres, has announced that it has signed onto an electricity supply contract with green power producer Enery and Energie Steiermark which will see it finance the development of a solar panel plant. With construction set to commence this autumn in Austria’s Deutschlandsberg region, the plant will supply...

Retail

Tendam to use renewable energy across Spanish stores and operations

Spanish fashion retailer Tendam has announced that in 2020 it will begin using entirely renewable energy supplied by energy company Endesa across its Spanish store network and operating facilities. The retailer, which owns brands the Cortefiel, Pedro del Hierro, Springfield, Women’secret, Fifty brands, and Hoss Intropia, operates almost 800...