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Renewable energy is even cheaper than previously thought

GreenBiz

A new report suggests early pricing prediction models have consistently underestimated how far the costs of renewable energy might fall and the benefits of an accelerated switch to clean energy.

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77-year-old launches waterproof hemp shoe company

Inhabitat - Innovation

8000Kicks hemp shoes opened in 2018 after founder Bernardo Carreira finished his business studies at Purdue University. He decided to make use of his grandmother Maria Otilia's 50 years of experience in the textile industry and launch a sneaker company with her.

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Natural Power wins Judges Award at Scottish Green Energy Awards

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Leading renewable energy consultancy and service provider, Natural Power, has picked up the coveted Judges' Awards at last night's Scottish Green Energy Awards in Edinburgh. The business was recognised for its internship programme, run in collaboration with the Galloway Glens Landscape Partnership (GGLP).

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Ginkgo Sustainability and Green Business Bureau Partner to Provide Living Wall and Living Roof Solutions to Businesses

Green Business Bureau

Green Business Bureau (GBB) has partnered with Ginkgo Sustainability to offer GBB members living wall and living roof solutions and services. The partnership is driven by our joint mission to connect the living and built environments through the installation of living roofs and the installation and manufacturing of living walls. Ginkgo offers custom solutions and support on the design, installation and maintenance of green roofs and living walls to help companies achieve their green building goa

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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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How ‘digital twins’ can model future effects of climate change

GreenBiz

Some projections call for the overall market to reach about $63.5 billion in 2027, compared with a relatively modest $3.1 billion for 2020.

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Home built from 100 bio-based materials at Dutch Design Week

Inhabitat - Innovation

The Exploded View Beyond Building at Dutch Design Week was created out of 100 different bio-based materials. It also uses sustainable building methods to highlight the ways we as a global society can apply sustainable design and building in real-world house construction right now.

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First IMPA members successfully complete the IMPA Green Business Bureau Programme, now officially launched

Green Business Bureau

Now officially live, the IMPA Green Business Bureau Programme has now seen its first cohort of five “graduates” successfully complete the online self-assessment during a period of beta-testing. Following feedback, the programme has had its final touches added to it and is now officially open to the wider industry. Be one of the early adopters! Back in May 2021, we announced a long-awaited partnership with Green Business Bureau in order to bring the GBB Sustainability Programme, Framework and Cer

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ESG Data: What Should You Collect and Why?

GreenBiz

Environmental, social and corporate governance (ESG) initiatives have become one of the most important ways organizations can provide value to stakeholders while making positive contributions to the global community. However, it’s not always obvious how to begin the ESG journey. The Insight Report ESG Data: What Should You Collect and Why? examines what ESG is and what you need to do to understand your ESG obligations.

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Over 80 fashion brands linked to Amazon deforestation

Inhabitat - Innovation

Turns out, it’s not just fast-food chains causing problems. According to a new study, many fashion brands source leather from opaque supply chains tied to decimating forests.

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Floating Solar Panel: A Promising Future for Solar Energy

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Floating solar panel is mounted on structures that float on water body. Waterbody typically includes drinking water reservoirs, quarry lakes, irrigation canals, remediation, and tailing ponds, and hydroelectric dam reservoirs. Floating solar technology has increased the attractiveness of the floating solar panels industry as it supports sustainability and efficiency.

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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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Corporate Sustainability Training: Career and Academic Education for Sustainability Professionals

Green Business Bureau

In my previous blog, Corporate Sustainability Training: Practical Employee Education , I discussed how sustainability education for the business consumer can be broken into two categories; Practical and Academic. The Practical article focused on courses that tackle smaller and more specific topics and focus on specifics to implement sustainability initiatives.

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Food startup round up: From plant electrodes to lab meat innovation

GreenBiz

The startups are creating plant AI technology, a marketplace for oversupplied food, the chemical infrastructure for lab meat and new technologies for raising clams.

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Climate change may be driving albatross divorces

Inhabitat - Innovation

Ever heard of an albatross divorce? A new study published in the journal Royal Society found that Black-browed albatrosses may separate from their life partners due to global warming. According to the study, albatrosses are among a few species that mate for life, but climate change is affecting their mating.

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Key COP26 takeaways for manufacturers

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The UN Climate Change Conference - COP26 has come to an end, bringing world leaders, NGOs, activists and climate enthusiasts together in a global-scale climate event. What for some felt like a catastrophic failure, to others represented a successful showcase of the social and business benefits of getting back together after COVID-19. Here Neil Ballinger, head of EMEA at automation parts supplier EU Automation, offers an overview of key takeaways for manufacturers.

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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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Corporate Sustainability Training: Career and Academic Education

Green Business Bureau

In my previous blog, Corporate Sustainability Training: Practical Employee Education , I discussed how sustainability education for the business consumer can be broken into two categories; Practical and Academic. The Practical article focused on courses that tackle smaller and more specific topics and focus on specifics to implement sustainability initiatives.

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Diesel trucks are driving environmental injustice in parts of the US

GreenBiz

Using satellite data, researchers found that poor communities of color are highly exposed to toxic nitrogen dioxide pollution, largely due to diesel truck traffic.

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Brutalist home in Puerto Rico is resistant to weather

Inhabitat - Innovation

QBO3 Architects have created Casa Ethos, a home in Puerto Rico that explores brutalist architecture, or how a home can be left uninhabited safely for long periods while still adapting to the environment.

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5 Ways to Protect Your Plants From Plant Diseases

Green Living Guy

Are you looking for some new plants to bring home? This will be a great way to green up your home. It’s also an aesthetic move that can add soothing and relaxing vibes to your home. But adding plants to your home isn’t just for looks. You need to put in the work and […]. The post 5 Ways to Protect Your Plants From Plant Diseases appeared first on Green Living Guy.

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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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New process cheaply extracts copper, nickel, cobalt and lithium from used EV batteries

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Sumitomo Metal Mining has developed a new proprietary process to extract high-grade metals from used EV batteries. Tapping its expertise in copper refining, Sumitomo says it can cheaply extract copper, nickel, cobalt and lithium from used EV batteries by crushing them, heating the resulting powder to specific temperatures, and adjusting oxygen levels.

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Being bold: AT&T connects industries to a low-carbon future

GreenBiz

Sponsored: AT&T’s new Connected Climate Initiative seeks to use 5G and other broadband connectivity to help accelerate a multi-industry transformation needed to reach global climate goals.

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ESG data is a public good. Let’s open it up.

Impact Alpha

There is a lot of confusion about how to implement climate as well as environmental, social and governance, or ESG, analysis in finance. The post ESG data is a public good. Let’s open it up. appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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How To Be Environmentally Conscious When Eating

Green Living Guy

When you want to live a greener and healthier life, there are a variety of strategies that you can start with. One of those strategies should focus on your eating habits. Because of the impact that food consumption and production have on the planet, adjustments to food, waste, and daily routines can have a big […]. The post How To Be Environmentally Conscious When Eating appeared first on Green Living Guy.

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Fluke FEV100 adapter kit for testing EV charging stations

Charged

Sponsored by Fluke. Test the functionality and safety of electrical vehicle charging stations, easily and reliably. Test the safety and performance of type 1, level 1 or level 2 electric vehicle ac charging stations (EVSEs) with the Fluke FEV100. This test adapter simulates the presence of an electrical vehicle, allowing you to conduct tests in combination with appropriate test instruments such as a digital multimeter or oscilloscope.

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Food startup roundup: From plant electrodes to lab meat innovation

GreenBiz

The startups are creating plant AI technology, a marketplace for oversupplied food, the chemical infrastructure for lab meat and new technologies for raising clams.

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Renewables account for 20% of U.S. electricity generation through Q3 2021

Renewable Energy World

Washington DC — Driven by strong solar and wind power growth, electrical generation by renewable energy sources (i.e., also including biomass, geothermal, hydropower) accounted for 20.45% of total U.S. production during the first three-quarters of 2021, according to a SUN DAY Campaign analysis of new data released by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA).

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Online vs. Land-Based Casinos – Which Is the Eco-Friendly Option?

Green Living Guy

The main advantage of online casinos is the convenience that comes with playing on such platforms. Players get to enjoy all the casino action they desire from virtually anywhere as long as they have an internet connection. Yet, another benefit that comes with online casinos is how environmentally friendly they actually are. Put simply, land-based […].

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Stellantis and Factorial Energy team up to develop solid-state batteries

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Stellantis and Massachusetts-based solid-state battery developer Factorial Energy have signed a joint development agreement to advance Factorial’s high-voltage solid-state battery technology. The agreement also includes a strategic investment from Stellantis. Factorial says its solid-state batteries offer 20 to 50 percent more range and increased safety, at the same cost as conventional lithium-ion batteries.

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BlackRock on the power of public-private finance

GreenBiz

Rael McNally, lead portfolio manager for the firm’s Climate Finance Partnership, discusses why it’s unique and how it could accelerate capital flows into climate-related investments in emerging markets.

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How to invest Sustainably with a robo-advisor

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, November 30 – Robo-advisors are online financial advisors that manage investments primarily using computer algorithms underpinned by the Modern Portfolio Theory. Typically, The post How to invest Sustainably with a robo-advisor appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Don’t Throw Away Your Old Airplane Parts; Do This Instead

Green Living Guy

Airplanes are durable, so it’s no surprise that their parts remain even after destruction. Some airplane parts sit at the bottom of the ocean, unable to degrade. If we could put these airplane parts to good use, we would be doing the environment a big favor. Old airplane parts can be purchased and repurposed for […]. The post Don’t Throw Away Your Old Airplane Parts; Do This Instead appeared first on Green Living Guy.

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Siemens to power electric bus depot in Queensland, Australia

Charged

Public transit operator Keolis Downer has selected Siemens to deliver charging solutions to its new North Lakes bus depot in Brisbane, Australia. The depot, which is expected to be in service by February 2023, will power 16 electric buses serving some 60,000 residents in the city’s northern suburbs. Siemens will supply 5 Sicharge UC200 and 16 Sicharge UC Dispenser charging units capable of delivering a peak power output of 200 kW.

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Demystifying sustainability-linked loans

GreenBiz

Just as there are no shortcuts in improving ESG performance, there are no shortcuts in structuring a high-quality sustainability-linked loan.

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Warriors and Lovers: Systemic change requires diversity in strategies, too

Impact Alpha

When it comes to reimagining capitalism, some leaders and organizations confront power with campaigns, demands, demonstrations and grassroots and community organizing. Others try. The post Warriors and Lovers: Systemic change requires diversity in strategies, too appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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