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Melinda French Gates Sets Path to Empower Women Globally

American Entrepreneurship

Sabrina Habib , works to improve access to quality, affordable early childhood care in East Africa’s low-income communities. Later this year she is allocating $250 million to fill an open call for proposals from organizations working to improve the mental and physical health of women and girls worldwide at the community level.

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Decentralizing the Electric Grid

Andreessen Horowitz

Currently, we face a critical challenge: our electricity demands — expected to nearly double by 2040 due to factors like AI compute, reshoring , and “electrification” — are soaring, but our grid infrastructure and operations struggle to keep pace.

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NJEDA Establishes New Jersey Green Bank to Advance Climate Goals

American Entrepreneurship

The Murphy Administration has taken significant steps to meet the ongoing challenges of climate change and has set several clean energy targets, including 100 percent clean electricity by 2035,11 gigawatts of offshore wind power by 2040, and 50 percent economy-wide greenhouse gas emissions reduction by 2030.

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TechCrunch: Where top VCs are investing in construction robotics

Dream It

Robotics and automation are not only important, but they are also likely the only way to address the challenge of delivering the built environment we need by 2040. Compounding this is the fact that only 3 percent of the construction labor force is Millennial while over 20 percent is approaching retirement.

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To fix the climate, these 10 investors are betting the house on the ocean

TechCrunch

Just offshore wind alone has the potential to meet global electricity demand by 2040, according to the IEA, which is well in excess of all offshore oil and gas production today. In particular, the philanthropic community is just starting to recognize that there is an urgent need to support efforts to develop ocean-based climate solutions.

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Female-founded climate and construction tech startup backed by Mark Cuban

American Entrepreneurship

. “Having investors with a global reach, like Mark Cuban and Anthro Ventures on our team is a huge vote of confidence in our mission to regenerate marine ecosystems and protect coastal communities,” says Freeman, a woman entrepreneur taking on a construction tech startup.

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Nearly $4M in Grants to Support Offshore Wind Workforce Training Approved by NJEDA Board

American Entrepreneurship

With this funding, recipients will launch innovative training programs focused on strengthening and diversifying the state’s offshore wind workforce, with a particular emphasis on serving Overburdened Communities. This is another step towards achieving 11GW of offshore wind by 2040 while creating a better future for the next generation.”

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