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Jos Hill directs Pew’s campaigns to protect marine life on the U.S. West Coast. This includes safeguarding coastal estuaries, salt marshes, underwater kelp forests, seagrass meadows, and other important nearshore marine habitat; ensuring sustainable fishing; and protecting sensitive corals, rocky reefs, and sponges from seabed mining.
Before joining Pew, Hill was regional program director for the Coral Reef Alliance, where she designed and led collaborative wastewater management and watershed restoration programs across the main Hawaiian Islands. She also oversaw research and development of small-scale ocean aquaculture models in Mexico, Indonesia, and Palau as executive director of Olazul, and was founder and executive director of Reef Check Australia.
Stok Announces New Vice President of Sustainability Consulting
Devon Bertram assumes new leadership role to bolster client sustainability offerings
April 28, 2021 14:01 ET | Source: stok stok
SAN FRANCISCO, and DENVER, April 28, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) Stok, a provider of sustainability and high-performance building services, announces Devon Bertram as Vice President of Sustainability Consulting. Based in the firm’s Denver office, Bertram is a six-year veteran of Stok and services clients across the country. Her transition replaces Jacob Arlein, who was recently named Stok’s Chief Executive Officer.
“We’re tapping Devon’s deep expertise during a pivotal time in the evolution of real estate,” said Arlein. “As organizations evaluate return-to-office strategies, ESG priorities, and the need for impact at scale, Devon’s background and technical knowledge will help companies understand how their real estate presents a significant oppor
This is surely the decade for real climate action. The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) warned that unless we achieve certain targets by 2030, we may pass the point of no return on many climate-related trends.
California has always been a leader in the United States for climate action in wide ranging sectors, including residential energy efficiencies. Building codes have grown more stringent over time, requiring new homes to be energy efficient and ready for renewable energy generation. However, that still leaves millions of existing buildings that fail to meet these new standards. Existing buildings haven’t been ignored, but multiple efforts around the state to encourage retrofitting and electrifying existing homes have been disparate and have made only incremental changes. The efforts have been laudable, but insufficient to the California goal of increasing existing buildings’ energy efficiency by 50 percent by 2030.
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Paula Angela Escuadra is the co-chair of the International Game Developers Association Climate Special Interest Group (IGDA Climate SIG) and previously the Games User Research Lead for Stadia Games & Entertainment’s Publishing division. She holds a dual MBA/MPA degree from Presidio Graduate School of Sustainable Management.