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Community solar, urban trees and the digitization of employee engagement

GreenBiz

"Many employees want to live out their personal values at work and are asking for these programs," said Richard Keiser, CEO and founder of community solar company Common Energy, during the GreenBiz webcast last week about engaging employees in sustainability. One of Common Energy community solar projects. Common Energy.

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FedEx pledges to be carbon neutral by 2040

GreenBiz

The plan includes a $2 billion investment across electric vehicles, clean energy for operations and a new academic center with Yale focused on capturing carbon. Beyond its transportation fleet, FedEx is doubling down on clean energy for its operations and is launching a new academic center with the Yale Center for Natural Carbon Capture.

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Automobili Estrema’s electric hypercar does 0-200 mph in 10 seconds

Charged

It uses prismatic solid-state cells from Belgium’s Avesta Battery Energy Engineering , arranged in a cell-to-pack format. The battery pack weighs 661 lb (300 kg), and Automobili Estrema claims a specific energy of 500 Wh/kg (and compares this to the 260 Wh/kg of a Tesla battery pack).

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GTM Podcasts Live: From Our Homes to Yours

GreenTechMedia

When we started making our podcasts seven years ago, it was clear that the energy transition would be a difficult one. The clean energy industry has faced its share of crises over the years — but nothing quite like the current pandemic and economic freeze. We’ll be considering them on future shows.

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MIT Study Lays Bare Why Nuclear Costs Keep Rising

GreenTechMedia

where developers are expected to meet significantly lower strike prices for energy from additional reactors. Only General Electric's BWR-4 boiling water reactor managed to get cheaper after the first plant. And each setback adds to the total cost as workers stand idle and managers tinker with revised schedules. In the U.K.,

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Big Oil Can't Fight the 'Irresistible' Rise of Electric Vehicles — Report

DeSmogBlog

The days of oil as a fuel for cars, whether petrol or diesel, are numbered — because the economies offered by wind and solar energy and other cheap renewables, combined with electric vehicles, are irresistible, a French bank says. Tags: electric vehicles BNP Paribas renewables investment cars

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As Risky Finances Alienate Investors, Fracking Companies Look to Retirement Funds for Cash

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 9 mins A year ago, Chesapeake Energy, at one time the nation’s largest natural gas producer, announced it was selling off its Ohio Utica shale drilling rights in a $2 billion deal with a little-known private company based in Houston, Texas, Encino Acquisition Partners.