GreenBiz

JANUARY 13, 2021

GM's electric delivery foray, plus other mobility trends headlining CES. Katie Fehrenbacher. Wed, 01/13/2021 - 01:30. For the first time in its 54-year history, the world's largest tech show — the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) — kicked off this week as an all-virtual event, cramming a week of keynotes, press conferences and over 1,000 exhibitor booths onto the screens of our laptops and from the comfort of our homes. .

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JANUARY 13, 2021

Charleston, South Carolina has raised the bar for inclusive healthcare design with the opening of the new Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) Shawn Jenkins Children’s Hospital and Pearl Tourville Women’s Pavilion.

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The Environmental Blog

JANUARY 13, 2021

Fashion and your dressing style say a lot about the person wearing the clothes. Apparel can talk about the wearer’s interest in following the latest ramp trends, celebrity and model looks, or a free-thinking spirit that prefers what truly complements their body and makes them feel great. The clothing brands you choose can also highlight your commitment to securing the future of the planet.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JANUARY 13, 2021

For those who love the idea of a tiny home but hate the thought of feeling cramped inside a small space, the Loft Edition model from Mint Tiny Homes should definitely be on the radar.

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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.

Energy

Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 13, 2021

The benefits of sustainable business certification go well beyond a seal or certificate of proof. The process itself becomes a journey to get more sustainable. The starting point is often a way to do an assessment of how sustainable your business currently is. The program engages employees and helps create a culture committed to environmentalism and social responsibility.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JANUARY 13, 2021

The University of Oregon recently welcomed the Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact, a 160,000-square-foot campus built to accelerate groundbreaking scientific discovery and development in a collaborative multidisciplinary environment.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JANUARY 13, 2021

The gorillas showed symptoms, including coughing, at the San Diego Zoo last week.

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Charged

JANUARY 13, 2021

Irish charging operator EasyGo , which boasts a network of 1,200 charge points and 7,000 customers, has formed a partnership with telecom company Eir to replace 180 telephone kiosks around Ireland with Tritium DC fast chargers. EasyGo Director Gerry Cash said the idea of transforming phone boxes came about because of their locations around the country.

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Impact Alpha

JANUARY 13, 2021

After years of signaling its intent to withdraw from the Paris Agreement to fight climate change, the United States made the decision official. The post What the U.S. return to the Paris Agreement means for investors appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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Charged

JANUARY 13, 2021

Over the past few months, GM has gotten a lot more serious about electrification, unveiling a new EV platform , plans for more investment and more electrified models, and most recently, a new EV-centric marketing campaign. However, some have been pointing out the gap between the automaker’s high-wattage future plans and its flickering present (only one EV in the current lineup and two low-volume halo vehicles in the pipeline).

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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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Impact Alpha

JANUARY 13, 2021

ImpactAlpha, January 13 – Small, privately-run clinics are often the only providers of essential health services in remote and low-income parts of Africa. The post Medical Credit Fund blends $19.2 million to finance Africa’s frontline health clinics appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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altenergymag

JANUARY 13, 2021

Pioneers in the automotive battery industry, ABS is leveraging that experience to bring advanced battery systems for the new emerging transportation, industrial and commercial markets. The solutions it is showcasing at CES 2021 provide the makers of Industrial, NEV, EV’s, and autonomous robotics an opportunity for enhanced value to end-users.

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Impact Alpha

JANUARY 13, 2021

ImpactAlpha, Jan 13 – First came solar and wind energy. Then batteries and storage. Now, a raft of better, cheaper and more sustainable. The post Jigar Shah: Deployment, deployment, deployment are keywords for sustainable infrastructure in 2021 (podcast) appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 13, 2021

Read time: 6 mins Four environmental groups sued Environmental Protection Agency ( EPA ) chief Andrew Wheeler last week, alleging that the agency stood by while Texas failed to enforce the nation’s federal environmental laws and adequately control air pollution in the state.

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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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Impact Alpha

JANUARY 13, 2021

ImpactAlpha, January 13 — Black-run investment firm Lafayette Square invests in “communities that have been traditionally neglected by fiscal and monetary policy, not. The post Morgan Stanley invests $100 million in Lafayette Square to support housing, jobs, and financial inclusion appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2021

Labour leader promises climate change and the green economy will be central to Party's plans 'now and at the next election'. Tackling the climate emergency must be at the heart of the UK's rebuilding process after the coronavirus crisis, with the green economy boasting the potential to create "huge opportunities for our country", Labour leader Keir Starmer has argued.

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Impact Alpha

JANUARY 13, 2021

ImpactAlpha, Jan. 13 – Burlingame, Calif. electric bus maker Proterra announced a merger with ArcLight Clean Transition Corp., a publicly traded special purpose acquisition. The post Electric fleet company Proterra to go public through merger with ArcLight SPAC appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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R-Squared Energy

JANUARY 13, 2021

In 2020, the energy sector got hit with the triple-whammy of a price war between Saudi Arabia and Russia, demand destruction as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, and perceptions that oil is about to give up its dominance to renewable energy and electric vehicles. Those factors combined to send the energy sector reeling in 2020. The Energy Select Sector SPDR ETF (XLE) tracks an index of energy companies in the S&P 500.

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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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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2021

The two firms are drawing up plans to produce hydrogen and capture CO2 at an oil refinery in Ellesmere Port. Plans for a major hydrogen production hub are being drawn up in Cheshire, where oil refining firm Essar and technology specialist Progressive Energy are aiming to capture carbon for storage below Liverpool Bay while producing low carbon fuel for heavy industry, transport, and home heating.

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Impact Alpha

JANUARY 13, 2021

Featured: Jigar Shah: Deployment, deployment, deployment are the keywords for sustainable infrastructure in 2021. The post The Brief: Jigar Shah on infrastructure (podcast), financing clinics in Africa, electric fleet flurry, special-ed tech, return to Paris appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2021

Environmental NGOs urge investment giant to expand its coal exclusion policy to include bigger portion of coal value chain, noting that current ban applies to just 17 per cent of coal companies. NGOs have accused asset management giant BlackRock of greenwash after publishing findings that suggest the company has $85bn worth of assets invested in coal companies one year on from the firm's high-profile pledge to exit investments in thermal coal.

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altenergymag

JANUARY 13, 2021

• For first time, clean energy sector ends year with fewer workers than when it began • At current recovery rate, sector would not reach pre-COVID employment level until 2023 • Women and Hispanic workers lost jobs in December despite overall uptick in employment

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2021

Study published this week by US charging network ChargePoint predicts growing range of specialist commercial vehicles will turbocharge corporates' shift away from fossil fuels. The fleet market for electric vehicles (EV) is set to boom over the coming years as zero emission versions of heavy-duty vehicles that have previously resisted electrification hit the market.

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Solar Power World

JANUARY 13, 2021

The structural integrity of a solar array is only as good as its mounts, and that becomes especially imperative when installing solar carports or canopies. The material composition of a canopy structure far outweighs that of arrays with similar wattage in rooftop and typical ground-mount applications. The type of foundation used on a carport depends… The post Foundations are the linchpin of proper solar carport installation appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2021

Cars, buses, trucks, scooters and even planes are going electric, and Britain needs an electricity grid able to cope with it, writes Onward's Ted Christie-Miller. The UK's record on transport emissions is poor. While surface transport emissions are currently at the same rate as they were thirty years ago, aviation emissions have soared by 86 per cent in this timeframe.

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altenergymag

JANUARY 13, 2021

Safe, reliable, accurate optical sensor technology allows utilities to mitigate grid disruption from increased renewable use

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2021

After lockdown measures forced many staff to work from home in 2020, NatWest set out to rethink how it assesses its emissions. At the start of 2020, NatWest Group was targetting a 10 per cent carbon emissions reduction to help facilitate its transition to net zero. As a result of the Covid-19 lockdown, it is predcited this reduction will be significantly higher at 34 per cent.

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Low Impact

JANUARY 13, 2021

Sean Fagan of Pioneer Bushcraft brings the outdoors to life as he shares his musings on trees and why it is he loves them so. “…and there were sunsets where trees stood hushed and patient” John Muir. Lets face it – it’s hard to do bushcraft and many other outdoor activities without becoming, at the very least, besotted with trees.

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altenergymag

JANUARY 13, 2021

Zero Emission Vehicle (ZEV) Market is growing rapidly as it does not emit any kind of pollutant from its power source, such as internal combustion (IC) engine. ZEV market is segmented based on power source, vehicle type and region.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2021

Criticism of banks' financing of environmentally-destructive industries continues to grow, but a new report argues they could play a critical role in protecting forests and driving climate action. Banks have faced increasing criticism in recent years over their ongoing financial support for environmentally-destructive industries, but by tweaking their practices they could become part a critical part of the solution to escalating deforestation and habitat destruction worldwide.

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altenergymag

JANUARY 13, 2021

Floating wind farms would be unmanned and inaccessible, so if an outage was to occur, the operator would have to rely on remote monitoring technology to signal an issue.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2021

Researchers reveal NO2 emission reductions during first lockdown were lower than previously thought, amidst warnings ozone levels actually increased. The first wave of coronavirus lockdowns around the world delivered more modest improvements to urban air quality than previously thought, research published today in scientific journal Science Advances has found.

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altenergymag

JANUARY 13, 2021

Combined Energy Storage Capacity of Orders Is 151,000 Megawatt Hours

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