GreenBiz

OCTOBER 12, 2020

To keep going during these difficult times, remember to float. Chris Gaither. Mon, 10/12/2020 - 01:45. A couple of years ago, desperate for fitness and community, I joined the master’s swim program at my local pool. I churned up and down the lanes a few mornings a week, and I grew faster and faster, especially on the sprints. Turns out these big feet of mine, size 13 with fallen arches, propel me beautifully through the water.

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Jim Conca

OCTOBER 21, 2020

DOE awarded TerraPower/GE Hitachi and X-energy an initial $80 million each to commercialize their advanced nuclear reactors, planning up to $3.2 billion. They also approved a $1.4 billion award to UAMPS for the development and construction of a 720 MWe NuScale small modular nuclear power plant.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2020

A new study by an international team of environmental scientists in the Brazilian Amazon appears to show that redesigned conservation projects could deliver big gains for critical freshwater ecosystems – raising hopes for the futures of thousands of species. Although it occupies less than 1% of the Earth’s surface, freshwater hosts around 10% of all known species – including a third of all vertebrates.

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The City Fix

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Around the world, communities of color and marginalized groups disproportionately feel the effects of pollution and other environmental impacts. Whether it’s residents living along the polluted Cooum River in Chennai, India; Louisiana’s petrochemical-dense Cancer Alley; Thailand’s toxic hot spot Map Ta Phut Industrial. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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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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Clean Energy Canada

OCTOBER 25, 2020

VICTORIA — Merran Smith, executive director at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to the outcome of the 2020 B.C. provincial election: “We would like to congratulate Premier John Horgan and the rest of the BC NDP team on their election victory Saturday night. “While voters surely found many reasons to re-elect this government, an important pillar of its first term in power was the CleanBC plan to re-establish the province as a national climate leader while strengthenin

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2020

Read time: 7 mins The American public is facing a potential bill of $280 billion for the cleanup of 2.6 million unplugged oil and gas wells, according to Billion Dollar Orphans, a new report from London-based think tank Carbon Tracker. While this number is alarming, it does not even include an estimated 1.2 million undocumented orphan oil and gas wells.

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Jim Conca

OCTOBER 25, 2020

The Nuclear Decommissioning Collaborative’s report on socioeconomic impacts of nuclear plant closures on host communities has some sobering thoughts. Big hurdles are a lack of a national plan and the lack of planning when it would do the most good. But it would be best not to close them at all.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2020

A powerful documentary that aims to drive positive change in water is set to reach a global audience of millions. Brave Blue World , narrated by Liam Neeson and featuring actors and activists Matt Damon and Jaden Smith, will be available to watch on Netflix 21 October 2020, to an audience of 193 million subscribers worldwide, and available in 29 languages.

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The City Fix

OCTOBER 13, 2020

In 2015, the City of Oslo, Norway, made a commitment after years of rising transportation injuries to reduce car traffic and prioritize the safety of pedestrians, cyclists and the environment. Unlike in the United States and other countries where transportation. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Grist

OCTOBER 18, 2020

This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Restoring natural landscapes damaged by human exploitation can be one of the most effective and cheapest ways to combat the climate crisis while also boosting dwindling wildlife populations, a scientific study finds. If a third of the planet’s most degraded areas were restored, and protection was thrown around areas still in good condition, that would store carbon equating to h

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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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Impact Alpha

OCTOBER 5, 2020

Against the backdrop of a global pandemic, an economy officially in recession, and a stock market that seems increasingly divergent from the experience of most Americans today, it’s fair to say that the U.S. love affair with free markets is getting a thorough re-examination. Professor Mehrsa Baradaran’s op-ed in The New York Times this summer. The post With policy prompts, private equity fund managers can drive social benefits, too appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South. Danielle Purifoy. Wed, 10/21/2020 - 00:45. This story was originally published by Southerly , in partnership with Scalawag and Environmental Health News for its Powerlines series, which looks at climate change, justice, and infrastructure in the American South. The series is supported by the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University, and is part of their POWER proje

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Read time: 12 mins An open letter that emerged earlier this month opposing COVID -19 shutdowns and calling for a “herd immunity” approach to addressing the coronavirus — which already has claimed over 220,000 American lives — is one of the latest examples of how right-wing ideology and think tanks that have long cultivated climate science denial are now engaging in COVID disinformation and promoting messaging dangerous to public health.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Similar schemes are up and running elsewhere, such as Go Coach in Kent (image credit: Editor 5807 ). Schemes which would see passengers order on-demand bus services should be introduced in Scotland, a leading mobility charity has said. The ‘flexible bus’ initiative would allow operators to use ‘Demand Responsive Technology’ which would link local buses with the people who need them.

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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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The City Fix

OCTOBER 5, 2020

As coronavirus restrictions ease around the world, many consider a walk around their neighborhood for some fresh air to be a welcome break from confinement. However, socioeconomic status could greatly affect the landscapes people find on these strolls, particularly in how much. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Solar Power World

OCTOBER 20, 2020

By Allison Ruedig, freelance copywriter, Aurora Solar Could selling battery storage be the key to growing your solar installation business? Several industry leaders think so. In July, Aurora hosted its first ever virtual summit dedicated to navigating the unique challenges and possible opportunities amid COVID-19. One of the most popular sessions of the summit was Charging… The post 4 experts share their insights on the future of solar + storage appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Forbes Green Tech

OCTOBER 14, 2020

The U.K. maker of battery-powered buses and vans will use the funds to gets its first "microfactories" running in England and South Carolina next year, with more on the way.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Carbontech is getting ready for its market moment. Heather Clancy. Wed, 10/28/2020 - 01:30. It may be a little early to start writing about trends for 2021, but I’m going to do it anyway. What’s on my mind? Carbontech, a category of climate tech I’d love to see break through next year. It's the exciting idea that we can take something that could be considered waste, draw it out of the atmosphere and turn it into a source of revenue or economic growth.

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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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Grist

OCTOBER 6, 2020

This year has been hell on earth, in more ways than one. Catastrophic blazes have spanned the planet from Australia to the Arctic , and wildfires have torched large swaths of the western United States , all fulfilling forecasts much faster than scientists had predicted. It’s as if the wildfires of 2050 are already here. California’s wildfire season is far from over, and it has already scorched 4 million acres of land, more than twice the previous record.

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Impact Alpha

OCTOBER 27, 2020

ImpactAlpha, Oct. 27 – Kesha Cash has raised $55 million to look for technologies that address one of the largest market inefficiencies of our time: systemic racism. Impact America Fund’s thesis: Solutions to structural racism represent a series of multi-billion dollar investment opportunities. Cash, the fund’s sole general partner, attracted more than 65 limited partners to.

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Charged

OCTOBER 28, 2020

EV conversion one-stop shop EV West has announced a new Tesla crate motor kit designed to convert V8 muscle cars to EVs. The drop-in package consists of a complete Tesla drive unit, including inverter and mounting brackets. “Our new Revolt Tesla crate motor mounts to your small block motor mounts and attaches directly to your driveshaft, allowing you to use your existing rear axle,” says EV West.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 10, 2020

Read time: 6 mins This is a guest post by environmental communication professor and Louisiana native Ned Randolph. Living in Louisiana, reconciling the environmental harm caused by the state’s often celebrated oil and petrochemical sectors amounts to cognitive gaslighting. .

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Forbes Green Tech

OCTOBER 3, 2020

Over the past decade, NextEra has vastly outperformed ExxonMobil in the financial markets, and briefly overtook the company to become the largest energy company in the U.S.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 9, 2020

How to ensure circular fashion is good for people and the environment. Annelise Thim. Fri, 10/09/2020 - 00:15. This article originally was published in the BSR Insight. The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown the fashion industry into disarray, leaving supply chain workers without wages and causing major global brands to file for bankruptcy. In the United States alone, 2.1 million retail workers lost their jobs due to the crisis.

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Solar Power World

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Solar Basics is a video series by Solar Power World created to help installers learn about the business, tools and tricks of the solar power trade. Inverters of the past simply fed solar power into the grid. Learn about all the added duties solar inverters have now in this Solar Basics video, based on the… The post Solar Basics: What are smart inverters?

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The City Fix

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Cities are redefining their relationship with transport and it’s some of the smallest vehicles that are leading the way. Shared bike services, e-bikes, scooters and mopeds, together known as micromobility, are proliferating in the urban landscape. Recent changes in mobility. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Charged

OCTOBER 28, 2020

SAE International has published a new global standard that specifies both the vehicle-side and charger-side requirements for wireless charging of EVs. The new standard, SAE J2954 , was more than a decade in the making. In 2007, when SAE began its research, there were few EVs on the market, and wireless power transfer (WPT) may have seemed a whimsical pursuit.

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Clean Energy Canada

OCTOBER 8, 2020

VANCOUVER — Hydrogen is getting people talking. A Bank of America analyst recently compared the investment opportunity to that of smartphones before 2007. Already, 18 economies comprising more than 75% of global GDP are developing and rolling out hydrogen strategies. With a Canadian hydrogen strategy expected this fall, will it be enough to ensure Canada keeps up in this global hydrogen race?

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Forbes Green Tech

OCTOBER 5, 2020

As it strives for 100-percent clean energy by 2045, California is shifting its attention from lithium-ion batteries to zinc energy-storage technologies that can provide a charge longer.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

These changes to our food systems could improve human and planetary health. Oliver Camp. Mon, 10/26/2020 - 01:30. On the recent World Food Day, the clarion call was clearer than ever: We must fix our food systems to improve human health, drive economic growth and save the planet from environmental collapse. The challenges facing us are wide-ranging.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 31, 2020

Read time: 7 mins “ I will evacuate next time a hurricane is forecast to hit the area,” Traditional Chief Shirell Parfait-Dardar of the Grand Caillou/Dulac Band of Biloxi- Chitimacha-Choctaw Tribe told me the day after Hurricane Zeta hit Louisiana’s coast on October 28. Like many in the storm’s path, she was caught off guard when the storm intensified just before slamming into the coast. .

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Impact Alpha

OCTOBER 7, 2020

ImpactAlpha, October 7 – Ÿnsect represents a trifecta of agrifood tech trends: alternative proteins, carbon offsets and novel farming systems. The France-based agtech company is expanding its high-tech vertical facility in Amiens, which recycles waste streams to raise mealworms for more sustainable fish and animal feed (see, “These insects feed fish that feed people”).

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Charged

OCTOBER 12, 2020

Siemens eMobility solutions is field-testing a new charging technology called the Meter Integrated Charger (MIC), which provides a way to measure the quantity of electricity used to charge an EV in order to track and manage consumption. “Currently, for most customers who own EVs, EV energy consumption is mixed in with all other usage in the owner’s electricity bill, making it impossible to identify the energy costs from charging the EV versus the home’s air conditioning or lighting.

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