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Global Briefing: Amazon deforestation soars to highest level since 2006

Business Green

Just days after a host of countries signed a new commitment to end deforestation, the Brazilian government this week released official figures showing deforestation in the Amazon basin has reached its highest levels since 2006.

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The Nuclear Industry Pushes Back Against Coronavirus

Jim Conca

The Nuclear Industry first developed pandemic response plans in 2006, but they were revised in March.

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3 Things to Know About the 26%  Solar Tax Credit Before It's Gone

Sun Valley Solar

Since 2006, the federal solar investment tax credit (ITC) has helped thousands of businesses turn free sunlight into clean and affordable energy. But the current 26% ITC — which dropped from 30% in 2020 — is currently scheduled to drop again by 4% beginning in January 2023

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Check out these incredible high-rise designs of the future

Inhabitat - Innovation

Started back in 2006, this annual award recognizes visionary ideas through the use of technology, materials, programs, aesthetics and spatial organizations. eVolo crowned winners of its 2022 Skyscraper Competition, and they are spectacular. Three winners and 20 honorable mentions were chosen by a jury. In total, 427 projects were submitted, imagining innovative ways to push vertical architecture to address the world's most pressing problems.

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The basics of ITC vs. PTC for the solar industry

Solar Power World

solar industry has had some version of an investment tax credit (ITC) since 2006. The U.S. This one-time credit on the cost to build a solar project has been influential to the growth of the industry, with SEIA reporting the U.S.

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Evergreen Coast takes a majority stake in edtech startup DreamBox

Impact Alpha

based DreamBox, launched in 2006, provides personalized math and reading content to approximately six million K-12 students and. ImpactAlpha, November 9 — Bellevue, Wash.-based

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Independent experts confirm NOVONIX’s life-cycle assessment of synthetic graphite product

Charged

NOVONIX has announced that a life-cycle assessment of its GX-23 synthetic anode graphite product has been reviewed and confirmed by independent experts as compliant with ISO-14040:2006 and ISO-14044:2006 standards.

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New Island Capital winds down and moves its assets to Grounded Capital

Impact Alpha

6 – San Francisco-based impact investment vehicle New Island Capital, founded in 2006 by a member of the wealthy Pritzker family, The post New Island Capital winds down and moves its assets to Grounded Capital appeared first on ImpactAlpha. ImpactAlpha, Sept.

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JinkoSolar Updates Value-based Strategy Combining Principles, Social Responsibility and Profitability

altenergymag

JinkoSolar began in 2006 as a wafer manufacturer before going public on the New York Stock Exchange in 2010. The value of its brand is intrinsically associated with achieving carbon neutrality through the gradual phasing out of fossil fuels and their replacement by renewable energy

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Food, not steel, Is our biggest climate challenge

Eco-Business

Since 2006, the estimated costs of achieving net-zero greenhouse-gas emissions from the world’s energy, building, industrial, and transport systems have plummeted.

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Inovateus Solar releases first annual sustainability report

Solar Power World

Inovateus Solar’s sustainable roots began in 2006 with its mission of “Building a Brilliant Tomorrow.” Inovateus Solar, a Midwest solar developer, has released its first annual sustainability report.

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Why DeSmog Is Joining a Global News Collaboration to ‘Cover Climate Now’

DeSmogBlog

After all, DeSmog has a very long “now” that we’ve been covering climate change — all the way back to our launch in January 2006. Read time: 4 mins It may come as something of a surprise to regular readers of DeSmog that we are joining more than 250 other news outlets in a global collaboration called “ Covering Climate Now ,” led by The Nation and the Columbia Journalism Review.

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People of the 10th anniversary Top Solar Contractors list: Eric Pasi, Impact Power Solutions

Solar Power World

Wrapping up my collegiate career in 2006, I was somewhat listless and apathetic toward almost everything. For the 10th anniversary of the Top Solar Contractors list, we’re sharing Q&A’s with the people who make the industry run every day. Read more interviews here.

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How place-based strategies in Virginia and other states are leveraging private capital for public good

Impact Alpha

26 – Virginia Community Capital has turned a $15 million seed investment from the state in 2006 into more than $600 million in loan originations to finance thousands of affordable housing units, healthcare facilities, small farms, business and jobs. ImpactAlpha, Oct.

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Swedish study attempts analysis of harm posed by antibiotic residues in water

Envirotec Magazine

This was done by a systematic review of the literature published between 2006 and 2019, including 218 relevant reports from the WPR and 22 from the SEAR.

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Creators of underwater, eco-friendly concrete are finalists in the European Inventor Award

Envirotec Magazine

Launched by the European Patent Office (‘EPO’) in 2006, it honours individuals and teams behind solutions tackling some of the biggest challenges of our times. The inventors of an innovative building material for sea walls are finalists in the European Inventor Award 2022.

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People of the 10th anniversary Top Solar Contractors list: Matt Dankers, Blattner

Solar Power World

I started as an intern at Blattner in 2006 working on wind energy projects. For the 10th anniversary of the Top Solar Contractors list, we’re sharing Q&A’s with the people who make the industry run every day. Read more interviews here. How did you get started in solar?

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California celebrates 1 million solar roofs Industry advocates set new goal for storage

Solar Power World

Former Governors Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jerry Brown and other local elected officials joined local high school students, business leaders and workers, renewable energy advocates, and community leaders marked achieving one million solar roofs across California during a celebration event at Buchanan High School in Clovis.

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DeSmog Was Created to Combat Climategate-Style Misinformation. We’re Still Going

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 4 mins DeSmog was launched in January 2006 to call out the public relations industry for working with fossil fuel industry clients to sow doubt and seed misinformation about climate science. In those early years, we focused most of our attention on the merchants of doubt who were scuttling political action to address global warming in the United States. .

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Oslo transit agency orders 183 Solaris Urbino 18 electric buses

Charged

Poland-based Solaris has been selling buses to Unibuss since 2006. As US cities experiment with electric bus pilots, one transit agency in Norway is already replacing its existing e-buses with next-generation models.

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Effenco offers its heavy-duty EV powertrain at the same purchase price as diesel alternatives

Charged

Montreal-based Effenco was founded in 2006, and now operates in ten countries. Effenco, a designer of electric propulsion systems for heavy-duty commercial vehicles, says its new electric solution is available at the same purchase price as diesel alternatives.

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The Brief: Virginia’s impact ecosystem, Mastercard’s deposits with CNote, alt-protein SPAC, lending for Brazil’s small businesses

Impact Alpha

Virginia Community Capital has turned a $15 million seed investment from the state in 2006 into more than $600 million in loan originations to finance thousands of affordable housing units, healthcare. Greetings, Agents of Impact!

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Enphase Energy to acquire EVSE manufacturer ClipperCreek

Charged

ClipperCreek has served the EV charging market since 2006, and has sold more than 110,000 Level 2 AC charging stations since its inception.

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Why Is Diesel Being Exported During A Shortage?

R-Squared Energy

For example, in 2006 EPA began to phase-in more regulations to lower the amount of sulfur in diesel fuel to 15 parts per million (PPM). Following my recent article — Why The U.S. Has A Diesel Shortage — one reader pointed out that I omitted one factor from my analysis. Even as the U.S. grapples with one of the worst diesel shortages on record, U.S. companies are exporting more than a million barrels of distillates a day. That’s a fair point, but it isn’t a new development.

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As New York Takes Exxon to Court, Big Oil’s Strategy Against Climate Lawsuits Is Slowly Unveiled

DeSmogBlog

Rex Tillerson , who led ExxonMobil from 2006 until the end of 2016 when he became U.S. Read time: 12 mins By Dan Zegart. Last week, in a historic first, the former CEO of a major oil company took the witness stand in a New York City courtroom and spent four hours defending his company against charges that it misled investors about the potential impact of global warming on its viability as a business. .

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How Black environmentalists are organizing to save the planet from injustice

GreenBiz

Although the network took a hiatus in 2006 after executive director Damu Smith died , the network just announced that it’s making a comeback against the backdrop of the COVID-19 pandemic and renewed calls to fight racial injustice.

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Examples Of How The Physical Marketing Industry Is Going Greener

The Environmental Blog

They know that these are realistic targets because they have been actively working to reduce their carbon footprint since 2006. Almost regardless of where you look, you will see examples of businesses and industries that are striving to work in more environmentally friendly ways.

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Pumps industry group supports joint industry statement on Machinery Product Directive

Envirotec Magazine

“Since its original publication in 1989, and subsequent revisions up to 2006, it has effectively provided the highest level of machinery safety in the world, successfully supported the Internal Market as well as EU competitiveness, and continuously enabled the industry to innovate and thrive.

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Even “safe levels” of PCBs harm porpoises, say researchers

Envirotec Magazine

That’s more than double the 2% risk rise estimated in 2006. Manmade chemicals at levels below the toxic threshold for marine animals are now linked to a rise in the number of porpoises killed by disease.

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DOF Introductions: Meet Intern Shonali Palacios

Defend Our Future

Well, at the time of our move, 2006, there were just an estimated 1,411 tigers living in the wilds of the entire subcontinent of India. Why I’m with Defend Our Future. I think I got on track to working at Defend this summer through TV.

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Strategic moves and sustainability

Envirotec Magazine

Ellis said: “Since 2012, we have measured, managed and reported on our carbon footprint via the Carbon Reduce Scheme in accordance with ISO 14064-1:2006, achieving gold certification status.

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ESG Reporting: What Is ESG Reporting and Why Is It Important?

Green Business Bureau

The PRI is a group of investor signatories that began in 2006, supported by the United Nations. According to the PRI, in 2006 the organization had 63 signatories commanding $6.5 Ideological shifts in business demand effective ESG reporting.

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U.S. Energy Independence Has Grown

R-Squared Energy

From 2006 to 2016, U.S. But the trend of surging energy production and falling energy imports since 2006 is also clear. I am often asked if the U.S. is energy independent, or whether we have ever been energy independent.

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Brandon Cosinteno Named CleanTX Executive Director

CleanTX

Founded in 2006, CleanTX is the nonprofit economic development and professional association for cleantech in Central Texas, a $2.5 Press Advisory from the CleanTX Organization. Contact: Ryan Edwards (CleanTX Board Chair). Brandon Cosinteno Named CleanTX Executive Director. Austin, TX – Brandon Cosinteno has been named the new Executive Director for CleanTX.

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Various Positions at Canadian Solar

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

Founded in 2001, Canadian Solar is one of the world’s fastest-growing companies in the solar industry and has been listed on the NASDAQ since November 2006. Various Positions | Canadian Solar | Austin, TX. About Canadian Solar: Canadian Solar Inc. NASDAQ: CSIQ) is a vertically-integrated manufacturer of solar cells, modules and custom-designed solar power applications.

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Various Positions at Canadian Solar

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

Founded in 2001, Canadian Solar is one of the world’s fastest-growing companies in the solar industry and has been listed on the NASDAQ since November 2006. Various Positions | Canadian Solar | Austin, TX. About Canadian Solar: Canadian Solar Inc. NASDAQ: CSIQ) is a vertically-integrated manufacturer of solar cells, modules and custom-designed solar power applications.

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Climate change is making poison ivy stronger and itchier

Grist

The effect has been known since 2006, when Duke University researchers published a six-year study that showed poison ivy grew double its normal size when it was exposed to higher levels of carbon dioxide — levels on a par with the atmospheric carbon scientists anticipate seeing around 2050.

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Tracing EthicalEvidence in Moral Obligation to Future Generations

The Environmental Blog

“Virtue Ethics” The Oxford Handbook Of Ethical Theory, David Copp, Oxford University Press, New York, 2006, pp. The London School Of Economics And Political Science, 2006, [link] Accessed 2 June 2019. Cambridge University Press, 2006. 1. Introduction.

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books about a planet in peril

Fairsnape

MB: Elizabeth Kolbert Field Notes from a Catastrophe 2006 was part travel, part reporting and for me an early eyeopener to climate change, which. in 2006 was not recognised outside of the science community. Within FutuREstorative I included a list of books that have inspired me on my sustainability journey.

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Modular plant supports treatment upgrade for animal charity

Envirotec Magazine

Rob Hunt, Soma Services managing director, said: “Soma Services are proud to have worked with Dogs Trust since 2006 and, in close association with equipment suppliers WCSEE, have provided innovative cost-effective turnkey solutions to their challenging wastewater treatment needs.

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Pump industry mourns the loss of a great friend

Envirotec Magazine

Stoffel headed until his retirement in 2006. Between 2006 and 2020, he found a new challenge with the European Commission’s energy-saving requirements, to which his usual passion and meticulousness was dedicated. The European pump industry trade group Europump writes.

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Time to get real?

Envirotec Magazine

NIOSH Report of Investigations (RI) 9669, Laboratory and field performance of a continuously measuring respirable dust monitor, September 2006 4. Monitoring strategies for toxic substances, HSG 173, Second Edition, 2006, Health and Safety Executive 6.

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New CEO at Finnish measurement firm

Envirotec Magazine

Prior to InterDigital, Öistämö worked at private equity company Siris Capital Group and held several leadership positions at Nokia, where he also was part of the company’s Executive Board 2006–2014. Environmental and industrial measurement firm Vaisala has appointed Kai Öistämö (b.