September, 2022

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Can companies ever move past incremental approaches to climate action?

GreenBiz

A new report focuses on how companies can move from commitment to bold action that can accelerate the transition to a decarbonized, just economy.

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Aerosol recycling initiative launched by trade group

Envirotec Magazine

Alupro, the aluminium packaging recycling organisation, has launched the UK Aerosol Recycling Initiative, which it says “will help increase the awareness and uptake of aerosol recycling among the public and drive increased recycling rates across the UK” The initiative brings together working group partners from across the value chain including Ball Aerosol Packaging, the British Aerosol Manufacturers’ Association (BAMA), Ecosurety, a packaging compliance scheme, The Metals Processing

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Clean Hydrogen Market Size to Expand Around USD 5.95 Billion by 2030

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The global clean hydrogen market size is predicted to expand around USD 5.95 billion by 2030 with a growing CAGR of 17.36% from 2022 to 2030, according to new report study by Precedence Research.

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Vortex: The Future of Green Technology?

U.S. Green Technology

At a time when the world is focused on becoming more environmentally friendly, it’s no surprise that green technology is one of the hottest topics around. But what exactly is green technology? And what are some of the latest and greatest innovations in this field? Today, we’re taking a look at Vortex, an online atmospheric. The post Vortex: The Future of Green Technology?

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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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Tesla Loves Texas for Battery Production not Grünheide

Green Living Guy

According to Electrive: In Germany, Tesla continues to focus on battery production says no to Grünheide for now. but wants to prioritise the USA first because of the prospect of extensive US government subsidies. Battery production in Texas is to be ramped up sooner than planned, but in at Giga battery factory in Berlin in Grünheide […]. The post Tesla Loves Texas for Battery Production not Grünheide appeared first on The Green Living Guy.

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Tools and solutions that stand out from Climate Week

GreenBiz

Action against plastics and fossil fuels. New tools to embed carbonization throughout businesses of any size. These developments from the climate confab in the Big Apple offer ways to move climate action forward.

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Ocean oil pollution is growing — and not from oil spills

Grist

Oil spills may be dramatic and devastating, but they’re not the biggest contributor to ocean oil pollution — not by a long shot. A report released Wednesday gives that distinction to fossil fuel runoff from highways, parking lots, and other land-based infrastructure, mostly transportation related. According to the report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, “ Oil in the Sea ,” these sources are by far the largest and fastest-growing contributor to ocean oil polluti

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Vehicle-to-grid (V2G) Technology Market Challenges and Developments

altenergymag

The growth of the global vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology market is being driven by the surge in demand for electric vehicles globally. The surge in demand for electric vehicle charging stations all around the globe are driving the expansion of global vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology market.

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Move over New York: Clean energy action shifts to industrial Pittsburgh

Impact Alpha

The spotlight may have been on Climate Week NYC last week, but 370 miles away, Pittsburgh was the site of additional high-level climate. The post Move over New York: Clean energy action shifts to industrial Pittsburgh appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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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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Biden Administration Announces Approval of EV Charging Infrastructure Across 35 States

Green Living Guy

Going Green by Growing EV Charging The Biden-Harris Administration today announced more than two-thirds of Electric Vehicle (EV) Infrastructure Deployment Plans from states, the District of Columbia and Puerto Rico have been approved ahead of schedule under the National Electric Vehicle Infrastructure (NEVI) Formula Program, established and funded by President Biden’s Bipartisan Infrastructure Law.

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Antelope Valley schools to buy 20 BYD electric school buses

Charged

California’s Antelope Valley Schools Transportation Agency (AVSTA) has announced plans to buy 20 BYD electric school buses. The buses will be built in Lancaster, California at the BYD Coach & Bus facility by members of the SMART Union. The BYD Type D Battery Electric School Bus has a top speed of 65 miles per hour and a range of up to 155 miles.

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Solar panels have come a long way. Recycling them has not

GreenBiz

Making solar panel recycling more commonplace will require a mix of technological advances, economic incentives and smart policies at the state and federal levels.

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Who qualifies for direct pay for the solar ITC?

Solar Power World

The Inflation Reduction Act includes a provision allowing tax-exempt entities to receive the solar investment tax credit as a direct payment. In the past, to make nonprofit solar projects financially viable, most organizations had to partner with developers or banks that could take advantage of the tax benefits. Organizations would sign power purchase agreements (PPAs)… The post Who qualifies for direct pay for the solar ITC?

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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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Natural Power PhD develops power forecasting excellence

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Through a collaboration between the world-class University of Strathclyde; Scotland's Innovation Centre for data and artificial intelligence, The Data Lab; and the leading renewable energy consultancy and service provider, Natural Power; a PhD completed by Rosemary Tawn, has developed a short-term (less than four hours) power forecasting system that demonstrates up to 20% improved forecast accuracy.

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Displaced East Africans remake camps into testbeds for refugee-lens investing

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, Sept. 28 – A settlement camp in a remote area of northwest Kenya is abuzz with economic activity – and a signal of the. The post Displaced East Africans remake camps into testbeds for refugee-lens investing appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Test Drive Results Chevy Bolt EUV 2023

Green Living Guy

I really do like this car. No kidding. It’s a smaller mid size Chevy. Also I don’t worry ever about range with this thing! I mean ever! It’s like a step closer almost to an Equinox! Wow! As I wrote about this before: Electric drive unit: 200 hp (150 kW) of motoring power, 266 lb-ft […]. The post Test Drive Results Chevy Bolt EUV 2023 appeared first on The Green Living Guy.

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Polestar electric roadster concept to enter production as Polestar 6

Charged

In March, Polestar (Nasdaq: PSNY) revealed an electric roadster concept called the O?. Now the company has confirmed that a production version is expected to launch in 2026 as the Polestar 6 electric performance roadster. The hard-top convertible will be built on Polestar’s bespoke bonded aluminum platform. Developed in-house, it will feature an 800-volt architecture.

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Global 'stilling': Is climate change slowing down the wind?

GreenBiz

As carbon dioxide levels rise and the Earth’s poles warm, researchers are predicting a decline in the planet’s wind speeds. This ‘stilling’ could impact wind energy production and plant growth and might even affect the Gulf Stream, which drives much of the world’s climate.

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New modelling finds Canada’s battery supply chain could be a boon for jobs and the economy, assuming Canada takes action

Clean Energy Canada

LONDON / VICTORIA — With the U.S.’s new electric vehicle tax credit requiring that EVs and their batteries be made in North America, Canada’s EV battery supply chain is in the spotlight. That spotlight is well warranted. If Canada plays its cards right, a domestic EV battery supply chain could support up to 250,000 jobs by 2030 and add $48 billion to the Canadian economy annually.

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Sungrow Offers Liquid Cooled Energy Storage System PowerStack for North American C&I ESS Market

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The PowerStack is designed for the 250kW mainstream market, which is a portfolio with a battery capacity ranging from 500kWh to 1MWh, available for 2-hour and 4-hour applications.

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Solar panel and energy storage sights at RE+ 2022

Solar Power World

RE+ was actually insane. The Solar Power World editors are no strangers to the tradeshow scene; we hit the ground running each show to find the hottest products and latest trends. But even we were overwhelmed in the sea of 27,000 attendees — 27,000!! — and finished each day absolutely spent. My shoes filled with… The post Solar panel and energy storage sights at RE+ 2022 appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Volkswagen Group and Canada Prime Minister to Ramp-Up Its Global Battery Business

Green Living Guy

Toronto (Canada) – Volkswagen Group (Volkswagen AG) and the Government of Canada aim to promote e-mobility in the country and explore opportunities across Canada’s automotive and battery supply chain. This was agreed on in a “Memorandum of Understanding” (MoU) signed today in Toronto by Volkswagen CEO Herbert Diess and Canada’s Minister of Innovation, Science, and […].

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Stora Enso and Northvolt partner to develop wood-based batteries

Charged

Just as you’ve always suspected, the powers that be have been keeping a cheap miracle technology from us—batteries can be made not from scarce and expensive minerals, but from wood! Well, not exactly. But in fact, lignin, a plant-derived polymer, is a renewable source of carbon, and two European firms have launched a project that aims to use lignin-based hard carbon produced from Nordic forest wood as an anode material.

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The GreenFin Interview: NAACP’s CEO on ESG and equity’s 'third act'

GreenBiz

Derrick Johnson, president and CEO of the NAACP, discusses the role of a new fund designed to provide exposure to American companies that fit the NAACP’s vision of good corporate citizens.

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Planet Announces New Details of Hyperspectral Offering

Planet Pulse

Today, we are excited to announce new details of our hyperspectral constellation, which is being brought to market through a first-of-its-kind public-private partnership with the Carbon Mapper Coalition. This future hyperspectral satellites will be named Tanager, a colorful and visually diverse family of birds in Central and South America, and are designed to deliver hyperspectral data at a resolution of 30 meters with over 400 spectral bands.

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Growatt announces the pre-sale of its first portable power station - Infinity 1500

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Growatt announces the pre-sale of its brand-new portable power station - Infinity1500. The event will last for 15 days from September 1 to September 15, 2022.

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How asset managers are digging in on diversity to stand out from their peers

Impact Alpha

ESG begins at home. As increasing numbers of investors are looking for environmental, social and governance investment opportunities, asset managers are directing more. The post How asset managers are digging in on diversity to stand out from their peers appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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All-Electric bZ4X Production Model Announced in Japan

Green Living Guy

Contribution to SDGs based on the concept of “home planet” As a leader in electrification, Toyota’s introduction of bZ4X represents the first of a global series of battery-electric vehicles to be introduced under the global “Toyota bZ” brand umbrella. Once the rubber hits the road, bZ4X will have a manufacturer-estimated range of up to 250 miles for XLE front-wheel drive models.

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ONE reveals 1,007 Wh/L anode-free cell that enables a dual-chemistry battery architecture

Charged

Michigan-based energy storage company Our Next Energy (ONE) has unveiled a 240 Ah prismatic anode-free cell after a 12-month R&D effort. ONE says the new technology will enable the commercialization of its Gemini dual-chemistry architecture, which will be integrated into a BMW iX prototype vehicle later this year. ONE says its 1,007 Wh/L cell eliminates the need for graphite and anode manufacturing equipment, and predicts that the savings could bring cell costs to as little as $50 per kWh at

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Salesforce will launch carbon credit marketplace

GreenBiz

The Net Zero Marketplace connects projects from Climate Impact Partners, Pachama, South Pole and others to any business that wants to invest in credits.

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How Higher Quality Data Can Help Improve Urban Planning and Reduce Inequities

The City Fix

Local-level, high-quality data can provide powerful insights for urban planning and lead to better policies on mobility, climate adaptation, gender equity and more. But only if the inputs are good and there’s enough capacity to analyze it effectively. New technologies.

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