Fri.Jul 28, 2023

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How Google is turning to AI to help address the climate crisis

GreenBiz

The company is grappling with the tradeoff between creating artificial intelligence services to help with sustainability and the large amounts of energy and water they need.

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Tips for Sustainable Pet Ownership & Care

The Environmental Blog

Are you curious to understand how to simultaneously address the needs of your pet and the environment? If you’re a pet owner attempting to live sustainably, it’s imperative to take your pet’s carbon pawprint into account. Besides humans, pets also exert a considerable environmental influence. Therefore, making sustainable choices in pet ownership can contribute to a healthier planet, and it’s worth more than just a fleeting consideration for pet lovers seeking to embrace

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3 straightforward ways to combat the anti-ESG push

GreenBiz

Here’s how corporate sustainability executives can effectively shift anti-ESG discourse and consequences.

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Code Red for Heat: Workers & Communities Need Protections Now

NRDC onEarth

Workers and communities urgently need protection from the ravages of killer heat.

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.

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Hope Theory offers a vision for the circular economy

GreenBiz

These three steps can help apply hope to the cause of advancing circularity.

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The end of Oppenheimer’s nuclear energy dream: Modular reactors supported by ideology alone

Renew Economy

"Tech-bro libertarians:" Former nuclear regulatory chief questions hype around new nuclear power technologies that largely don’t exist and will likely be very costly. The post The end of Oppenheimer’s nuclear energy dream: Modular reactors supported by ideology alone appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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The Week in Impact Investing: Hot Streak

Impact Alpha

TGIF, Agents of Impact! You deserve a break, and so do we. The ImpactAlpha team will be off next week. We’ll be back. The post The Week in Impact Investing: Hot Streak appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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A Sad Screening This Summer: Wildlife Under Siege Yet Again

NRDC onEarth

Wildlife star in this summer's congressional attacks.

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Nuclear Power for Cargo Ships on Earth and Rockets to Mars

Energy Central

Nuclear Power for Cargo Ships on Earth and Rockets to Mars BWXT to Provide Nuclear Reactor Engine and Fuel for DARPA Space Project NASA Selects Zeno Power Radioisotope Power System for Lunar Applications Maritime / UK Gen IV Reactor Developer Signs Agreement For Shipping Study Kairos Submits Construction License Application to NRC UK Fusion Company To Work With Japan’s.

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ABC and Proterra’s new charging hub can charge 40 electric motorcoaches

Charged

ABC Companies, a provider of motorcoach, transit and specialty passenger transport equipment, together with commercial EV specialist Proterra , has announced the opening of a large electric motorcoach charging facility in Newark, California. The charging facility, which was jointly developed by ABC, Proterra and local utility Pacific Gas & Electric, is equipped to charge up to 40 electric motorcoaches with 20 dual-cable EV charging dispensers, and can support up to 1.4 megawatts of EV chargi

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Electrofuels Are the Future: The Driving Force to Decarbonizing Heavy Transport

Speaker: Ayesha Choudhury - Senior Vice President, Head of Capital Markets at Infinium

With the first wave of the energy transition, renewable energy sources (such as solar and wind) have begun replacing coal power generation. However, some sectors are lagging behind and struggling to decarbonize more than others, including large-scale transportation like commercial aviation, shipping, and rail transit. Electrofuels (aka eFuels) are the next generation of solutions to help the hardest-to-abate sectors pivot from their reliance on fossil fuels.

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California Walks Away from Hundreds of Millions of Dollars for Safe Drinking Water

NRDC onEarth

The federal government has dedicated $15 billion to removing lead from our drinking water systems, but California is leaving funds on the table.

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ChatGPT and other generative AI could foster science denial and misunderstanding – here’s how you can be on alert

DeSmogBlog

This article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license. Until very recently, if you wanted to know more about a controversial scientific topic – stem cell research, the safety of nuclear energy, climate change – you probably did a Google search. Presented with multiple sources, you chose what to read, selecting which sites or authorities to trust.

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Clearing the Air: California's Leadership on Clean Trucks

NRDC onEarth

We must stay vigilant in protecting state authority to provide clean air protections through state-level vehicle emission standards.

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Voltpost closes seed funding round for curbside EV charging platform

Charged

Installing public EV chargers in lampposts is an elegant solution to the problem of urban drivers who can’t install home charging—it minimizes sidewalk clutter and leverages existing electrical service. Voltpost, founded in 2021, is one of several companies targeting this market. The company recently successfully closed a seed funding round led by RWE Energy Transition Investments.

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AR/VR Simulations for Sustainable, Regenerative, Circular Cities

Speaker: Nik Gowing, Brenda Laurel, Sheridan Tatsuno, Archie Kasnet, and Bruce Armstrong Taylor

With 191 country signatories to the Paris Climate Agreement now hard at work in the race to zero carbon by 2050, much of the heavy lifting in ecosystem sustainability falls on the shoulders of the world's densely populated urban centers. This conversation considers how today's AI-enabled simulation media, such as AR/VR, can be effectively applied to accelerate learning, understanding, training, and solutions-modeling to sustainability planning and design.

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Charging Up: A chat with Victoria Stulgis, SVP at Black Bear Energy

Canary Media

Canary Media’s Charging Up column chronicles gender diversity in the climatetech sector. Part one is a short Q&A with an industry role model about their career path. Part two features updates on career transitions. Please send feedback and tips to wesoff@​canarymedia.​com. Canary thanks BayWa r.e.

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Ganging up on Tesla Could Help Accelerate EV Adoption

Energy Central

Maybe ganging up is too harsh a categorization, or not. When seven major automotive manufacturers agree to cooperate, that can reasonably be considered a gang. And when the objective of said partnership potentially neutralizes a major advantage held by Tesla, I think Tesla should “take it personally.” So what have BMW, GM, Honda, Hyundia, Mercedes-Benz Kia, and Stellantis.

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The Week’s Impact Jobs: July 28, 2023

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, July 28 — Impact investors are looking for impact analysts, directors, officers and associates in the US and abroad. Just this week: The post The Week’s Impact Jobs: July 28, 2023 appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Integrated halide perovskite photoelectrochemical cells with solar-driven water-splitting efficiency of 20.8% - Nature Communications

Energy Central

Almost Perfect (in the lab) New Solar Direct conversion of sunlight to hydrogen. Rice University has managed to run a lab scale solar to hydrogen converter for 102 hours, and using a new water proof coating on the solar cells, converted sunlight to hydrogen at a 20% rate (normal PV is 21% efficient at converting sunlight to electricity). Now it has to scale, operate for.

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How Digital Transformation will Bend the Curve of the Linear Economy Toward the Circular

Speaker: Bruce Armstrong Taylor, Co-Founder & Managing Director of SmartNations Foundation, Jimmy Jia, Venture Partner at Pi Labs, Fabienne Durand, Senior Advisor to the SmartNations Foundation, & Roger Strukhoff, Executive Director of the Tau Institute

The Climate 4.0 Economy. Climate change is here. We see it in many ways already. Weather catastrophes: Texas freezing over, the wildfires of California, the increasingly unpredictable violence and frequency of hurricanes, the rapid melting and disappearance of polar ice caps. Much more evidence all around us. What can we do in our corporate organizations, in our homes and communities, to change the current course?

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Impact at HBCUs: Hubs of talent, innovation and Black excellence (video)

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, July 28 – Most historically Black colleges and universities were formed during the Reconstruction era. In the more than a century since, Spelman, The post Impact at HBCUs: Hubs of talent, innovation and Black excellence (video) appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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'Landmark decision': ULEZ expansion to go ahead after High Court rejects legal challenge

Business Green

Mayor of London's plan to expand the Ultra Low Emission Zone to cover the entireity of central London deemed lawful

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Cash flows to ensure the water flows in Latin America

Impact Alpha

Quito, Ecuador, is more than 9,000 feet above sea level. But even higher than the city are Andean wetlands that filter, store and. The post Cash flows to ensure the water flows in Latin America appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Charts: US clean energy developers are hyped about post-IRA prospects

Canary Media

Canary Media’s chart of the week translates crucial data about the clean energy transition into a visual format.

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Biodiversity Net Gain: Government pledges £9.6m to help council hire specialists for 'nature positive' development

Business Green

Further support unveiled for local authorities to recruit ecologists and specialists to protect habits during building work, as Defra reveals statutory biodiversity credit prices

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Colorado is now a national model for clean hydrogen fuel. But what does that mean?

Energy Central

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Wind and solar drive UK to flurry of fresh renewable power records in 2022

Business Green

Official figures show renewables generated 41.

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Hottest ever July heralds ‘era of global boiling’: UN chief

Eco-Business

United Nations secretary-general António Guterres calls for tougher targets from major polluters at the upcoming COP28, as high temperatures bring record-breaking extremes in the Philippines, China, India, and Pakistan.

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Could AI provide the recipe for faster, less-destructive minerals mining?

Business Green

Artificial Intelligence is increasingly being touted as a useful way to find new sources for lithium, cobalt, copper and nickel more quickly and, theoretically, with less environmental degradation than previous methods

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Global benchmark launches to define what 'high quality' carbon credits are

Eco-Business

Approved high-quality carbon credits will be available to buyers by the end of the year, according to the Integrity Council for the Voluntary Carbon Market.

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'No public mandate for delay': PM warned he faces fierce resistance if UK green policy watered down

Business Green

More than 50 groups including Green Alliance, the National Trust and the RSPB promise to mobilise more than 20 million supporters against 'any and all attacks' on net zero and environmental policy

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Stakeholders take stock as anticipated EPR delay means more time available to line things up

Envirotec Magazine

The move towards easier-to-recycle packaging formats seems well underway, but the issue of funding for waste and recycling is still up in the air, without the investment the EPR policy was intended to provide. Just as anticipated, the government has decided to delay the implementation of Extended Producer Responsibility for Packaging (EPR) by a year.

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Why it's time for a new relationship with water

Business Green

Water scarcity is a real and present problem for the UK, yet we significantly underestimate how much water we consume on a daily basis, writes Kingfisher's Dorothee D’Herde

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Impact Clean Power develops GigafactoryX in Poland to produce a heavy vehicle battery

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Polish company Impact Clean Power Technology (Grenevia Group) has unveiled a rendering of its planned GigafactoryX, a large-scale battery factory for EVs and energy storage in Pruszków, near Warsaw. The facility will produce batteries with maximum dimensions of 1400 mm x 1000 mm x 400 mm and a maximum weight of 500 kg. The production area of GigafactoryX will be 16,300 square meters.

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MPs urge government to use road building budget for network upgrades to support net zero

Business Green

Government's reliance on rapid uptake of electric vehicles to decarbonise transport without reducing demand amounts to 'risky strategy', Transport Committee warns