Soulardarity’s new solar-powered streetlights light up Highland Park, Michigan, a predominately Black city that had its streetlights repossessed by the electric utility. Fast Company and VICE have the story.

Florida Power & Light wants a record 20% rate hike. Catalyst Miami’s Zelalem Adefris tells VICE that the proposal would impose a disproportionate burden on the poor while failing to facilitate the rapid shift to clean, efficient energy that Floridians deserve.

Pack4U has opened a new central fill hub in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. This will allow Canadian pharmacists to spend less time filling medication and more time focusing on what matters most: patient care.

Despite lawmaker inaction this year, the 280+ environmental, justice, faith, labor and community groups that make up the NY Renews coalition see a future for the Climate and Community Investment Act. They vow to continue pushing for it to become law.

Dr. Sandra Gompf and Melissa Baldwin of Florida Clinicians for Climate Action tell ABC News that because climate change warms water temperatures, it could increase the risk of brain-eating amoeba and flesh-eating bacteria in lakes, rivers, and coastal waters.

The smart technology company Pack4U has secured $20M in private equity funding to radically improve and personalize healthcare, with a particular focus on the elderly and patients with complex medical conditions.

The Solutions Project’s first-ever Asian American and Pacific Islander Climate Week celebrates AAPI climate leaders and literary solutionaries of the past and present.

The newly launched Justice40 Accelerator supports communities on the front lines of the climate crisis as they compete for federal funding flowing from President Joe Biden's historic executive order directing 40% of the benefits from government-funded climate action to disadvantaged communities.

This Earth Day, the future looks bright for the environmental justice community of Highland Park, Michigan. Shimekia Nichols will be the new executive director of Soulardarity, a small but mighty nonprofit that is re-lighting the town with solar-powered streetlights after the original streetlights were repossessed by the local utility. Bonus feature: The new streetlights also provide public wi-fi for residents who lack internet access.

Climate Finance Advisors helps firms evaluate, manage, and prepare to disclose climate risk. That’s an increasingly valuable service as regulators in the U.S. and abroad consider new climate-risk disclosure requirements.

CFA CEO Stacy Swann elaborates in her new blog on this timely and important topic.