From Austin, ImpactAlpha’s Dennis Price joins host Brian Walsh to discuss Texas’s surprising role as the U.S.’s leader in clean energy – and how the oil-pumping state might still wrest defeat from the jaws of victory. Plus, the headlines. 


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VertueLab’s Aina Abiodun chats with Sherrell Dorsey about financing climate innovation with a justice lens, place-based investing, and worforce development. 


For more and a link to the video go to: https://impactalpha.com/plugged-in-the-opportunity-in-local-climate-innovation-with-vertuelabs-aina-abiodun-video/


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The opportunity in local climate innovation with VertueLab’s Aina Abiodun

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: 
The state of blended finance: https://impactalpha.com/blended-finance-rebounds-in-2023-with-focus-on-climate-and-bigger-deals/


How Big Tech can restore both forests – and credibility - in voluntary carbon markets: https://impactalpha.com/how-big-tech-can-restore-forests-and-credibility-in-voluntary-carbon-markets/


Why The California Wellness Foundation is putting a diversity, equity and inclusion lens on 100% of its $1 billion endowment: https://impactalpha.com/investment-manager-diversity-matters-when-investing-for-health-equity/


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The state of blended finance, restoring forests and carbon market credibility, and investing endowments for DEI

Host Brian Walsh takes up ImpactAlpha’s top stories with editor David Bank. Up this week: 
Family offices have the opportunity to invest in the climate transition:

 https://impactalpha.com/the-climate-transition-and-investment-opportunities-for-family-offices/

Three leading foundations make for-profit investments in an OpenAI competitor:

 https://impactalpha.com/with-stakes-in-anthropic-impact-investors-seek-a-seat-at-the-ai-table/ 

The brouhaha over whether voluntary carbon credits should count towards a company’s climate targets:

  https://impactalpha.com/with-stakes-in-anthropic-impact-investors-seek-a-seat-at-the-ai-table/



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Family offices target climate transition, foundations invest in AI for good, and a voluntary carbon credit brouhaha

Loren Taylor and Zaru Systems want to build a billion dollars in Black wealth in the next eight years by franchising sustainable turnkey businesses. First up, modular vertical farms. Hear his conversation with David Bank on this week's Agents of Impact podcast.


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Franchising indoor farms to build a billion dollars in Black wealth

Brian Walsh and ImpactAlpha editor David Bank take up the good news on the good economy, Participant Media’s lasting legacy and the signs of change at the World Bank. Plus: an exclusive early listen to the electrifying single, “I’m Your Heat Pump.”


To learn more about heat pumps and home electrification, visit The Switch is On and Rewiring America websites. Sign up for The Switch is On monthly newsletter and receive an email featuring the “(I’m Your) Heat Pump” music video.


Rob's column:

 https://impactalpha.com/good-economy-actually-is-good-news-as-impact-investors-adjust-to-new-realities/

Participant Media

 https://impactalpha.com/shutdown-of-participant-media-challenges-other-investors-to-drive-impact-through-film/

World Bank:

  https://impactalpha.com/spring-meetings-yield-green-shoots-of-development-finance-reform-at-the-world-bank/



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