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Drawdown Georgia Launches Solutions Tracker to Accelerate Equitable Climate Action Across the State
This new interactive tool allows users to explore where climate solutions are scaling in Georgia, alongside markers of equity
With the launch of the Drawdown Georgia Solutions Tracker in April 2025, we are able to identify the best-performing solutions and the "bright spots" around the state where adoption of sustainable practices is scaling or emerging, and where co-benefits such as public health and environmental improvements, job creation, and greater equity are evident. This report offers a snapshot of Georgia's best-performing climate solutions and the communities where they are scaling.
Read MoreNourishing Community and Lowering Energy Burdens in Dewey City
A Climate Digest Interview from Drawdown Georgia
With deep community roots and an eye toward climate justice, Thomasville Community Development Corporation is doing more than just improving housing or access to local produce—they're restoring a neighborhood's spirit.
Read MoreRay C. Anderson Foundation to Sunset by the End of 2030
The Ray C. Anderson Foundation will sunset by the end of 2030.
Read MoreBiomimicry Institute Invites Startups to Apply For 2025 Ray of Hope Accelerator
A Leading Global Accelerator for Nature-Inspired Innovation Accepts Applications Until April 25, 2025
The Biomimicry Institute is now accepting applications for the 2025 Ray of Hope Accelerator. This founder-focused program supports startups drawing inspiration from nature to address the world’s most pressing environmental challenges. 10 selected startups will receive robust training, networking opportunities, and $15,000 in non-dilutive funding to scale their ventures and further environmental impact. Applications are due by April 25, 2025.
Read MoreIsabelle Tremblay Receives Interface Sustainability and Sales Award
Isabelle Tremblay, Directrice, comptes d'entreprise chez Interface, received the 2024 Interface Sustainability and Sales Award at Interface's Sales and Marketing Meeting in Texas.
Read MorePerennial Wildflower Meadow Research on The Ray
The Ray's Landscape Lab is a living vegetative lab spanning the diamond interchanges at Exit 6 of I-85 near LaGrange, Georgia.
Read MoreSupporting Georgia Farmers with Climate-Smart Agriculture Solutions
A Georgia Climate Digest Interview
Practicing climate-smart agriculture can help Georgia farms be more productive and build soils that can absorb more carbon from our atmosphere at the same time. A groundbreaking partnership is giving Black and Brown farmers in coastal Georgia accelerate climate-smart agriculture practices.
Read More$200k Drawdown Georgia grant revitalizes Thomasville’s Dewey City with housing and food initiatives
The grant will help repurpose the old Douglass High School into 52 senior apartments with solar energy, and a new plant-based food program will provide meals and education about plantbased diet to up to 40 families.
Read MoreFrom bullet trains to green buildings: Innovators take cue from nature through biomimicry
By Jill Baker - Industry Insight from Ethical Corporation Magazine, a part of Thomson Reuters.
As Janine Benyus wrote in her seminal book "Biomimicry: Innovation Inspired by Nature", released in 1997: ”Unlike the Industrial Revolution, the Biomimicry Revolution introduces an era based not on what we can extract from nature, but on what we can learn from her.”As nature-based solutions gain greater prominence, amid the deepening climate change and biodiversity crises, 66-year-old Benyus believes the movement she created will be even more critical.
Read MoreRay of Hope Accelerator Demo Day
The Biomimicry Institute will host a Demo Day on February 12 for the current cohort of climate tech startup companies participating in the Ray of Hope Accelerator.
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