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Reasons for cautious hope in a sea of gloom

GreenBiz

In looking across the broad array of business, environmental, social, technological and political topics that cross my screen and engage me in daily conversation, there is a temptation to allocate a growing share of mind for pessimism. Reasons for cautious hope in a sea of gloom. Mon, 07/19/2021 - 02:00.

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Make My Money Matter urges UK's 81 largest occupational pension schemes to target net zero

Business Green

The letter has been sent to the pension schemes of a number of fossil fuel giants including BP, ExxonMobil, and Shell, as well as to the schemes offered by firms across a wider array of sectors such as British Airways, ITV, and Imperial Tobacco.

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Would you like to be an ecological smallholder?

Low Impact

As part of the development, the ELC provides shared infrastructure on site which includes a track, a shared barn, a rainwater collection system, and a PV array on the barn roof. We apply for planning permission for agriculturally tied, rural workers’ dwellings for each plot so that our new smallholders can live on their land.

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How five green incentives could kick-start your company's route to net zero

Business Green

That means businesses could access up to £14,000 off the cost of a charging array at a time when energy companies are already offering highly competitive new flexible grid charging services as they work to meet soaring demand from the UK's fast-expanding EV fleet.

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Community energy, mutual credit and the mutualist economy

Low Impact

The money economy and cashflow isn’t really a problem for an organisation that owns assets like solar arrays and wind turbines that generate cash. If we put out a share offer at 4%, we often do very well at selling those shares, and we’ve sold around 30 million shares in total to fund these things over the last 10 years.

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Meet one vertical farm venture helping the industry grow past greens

GreenBiz

The industry needs to cultivate a much wider array of produce to mark more than a niche impact. Vertical farming needs to get beyond the leafy green business — the ability to grow crops such as kale, microgreens and lettuce in urban or indoor settings won't transform the entire agriculture system.

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Making clean hydrogen from sunlight: Texas group claims important advance

Envirotec Magazine

By coating the silicon dioxide layer with a thin film of aluminum and then heating the entire structure, arrays of nanoscale “spikes” of aluminum that completely bridge the silicon dioxide layer are formed. To get there, Yu and his team used a technique first deployed in the manufacturing of semiconductor electronic chips.

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