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Forbes Transportation Awards 2020: The Lucid Air Promises To Outperform Telsa’s Best

Forbes Green Tech

Sure, 2020 will be remembered as the year of the pandemic, but it was also a vibrant period in transportation’s ongoing revolution, with ambitious entrepreneurs rolling out innovations in electric vehicles, self-driving and sensor tech, and delivery services. Here are the year’s best.

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Porsche Taycan delivers electric luxury and performance

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There are so many new EVs on the market or in the pipeline these days, in all form factors and all price ranges, that it’s becoming impossible to keep up with them. However, the Porsche Taycan stands out from the crowd for several reasons: it’s the flagship model of the Volkswagen Group, which is by far the most charged of the legacy automakers; it incorporates a couple of technical innovations that may start showing up in the next generation of EVs; and, by all accounts, the Taycan is the first

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Forbes Favorites 2020: The Year’s Best Transportation Stories

Forbes Green Tech

From a wave of stock listings by electric vehicle and laser sensor startups to bold plans for high-speed trains, robotic trucks and robotaxis, 2020 was an exciting year in the ongoing evolution of transportation. Here are five of the year’s best stories.

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How To Optimize Your Use Of Solar Panels At Home

Green Living Guy

Nowadays, the use of solar energy is more popular and cheaper than ever. The cost of installation has lowered significantly in the last few years. Due to electrical independence from major suppliers, your bills will only get cheaper and cheaper. Besides the low cost, one more big advantage of going. The post How To Optimize Your Use Of Solar Panels At Home appeared first on Green Living Guy.

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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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3 Lessons From Climate Change Discourse In Election Fraud Claims

Forbes Green Tech

The election challenges reveal some similarities to climate change discourse (and not good ones).

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Home solar installation – DIY or professional fitter?

Green Living Guy

Installing solar panels in your home is a sound decision for many reasons. They’ll provide you with greener energy tolower your carbon footprint. They’ll reduce your energy bills. And they’re likely to increase the resale value of your home. However, you’ll have to be prepared for high initial investment, even. The post Home solar installation – DIY or professional fitter?

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Brexit deal forces UK carmakers to develop domestic battery supply chain

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Britain’s new relationship to the EU has important implications for automakers, specifically for their battery supply chains. As The Guardian reports, all UK-EU trade in cars and parts will continue to be free of tariffs or quotas, as long as they contain enough content from either UK or EU factories. For three years, batteries will be allowed to contain up to 70% materials from countries outside the EU or the UK.

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Does Teleworking Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions? Context And Methodological Implications

Energy Innovation

Energy Innovation partners with the independent nonprofit Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) to provide climate and energy research updates. The research synopsis below comes from AGCI Program Associate Martín Bonzi , and a full list of AGCI’s quarterly research updates covering recent climate change research on clean energy pathways is available online at [link].

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Online Course - Corporate Sustainability Management: Risk, Profit, and Purpose (Yale School of Management)

Green Market Oracle

This 6 week online course from the Yale School of Management offers a flexible education experience. Learning modules require approximately 8–10 hours per week. The program convener is Dr Todd Cort a Lecturer in Sustainability at Yale and faculty co-director at the Yale Center for Business and the Environment. Dr Cort is a researcher who works at the intersection of corporate responsibility and sustainable finance.

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Multifunctional Landscapes: Woody Plant Species Diversity as a Predictor of Ecosystem Services

Ideas 4 Sustainability

Originally posted on SCIENCE FOR SUSTAINABILITY : Biodiversity is key to human survival and the provision of ecosystem services benefits human well-being around the world: millions of people directly rely on ecosystem services generated by a biodiverse, multifunctional environment for their livelihoods. Especially smallholder farmers often manage their land to generate a diverse portfolio of services.

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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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Online Course - Business Sustainability Management (University of Cambridge)

Green Market Oracle

The University of Cambridge 6 week Business Sustainability Management online short course gives students the skills they need to argue the business case for sustainability, develop integrated sustainability strategies, and implement them throughout your sphere of influence. Time requirements are 8-12 hours per week. The weekly modules offer a flexible learning experience.

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Mono-material packaging: A recycler’s wish

Eco-Business

Recycling closes the loop for a circular economy, but the more complicated the packaging design, the lower the chance of it being recycled. Could mono-material packaging be the answer to this problem?

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Online Course - Climate Change Leadership (Cornell)

Green Market Oracle

Cornell Course Organizations everywhere are racing to plan for the effects of climate change on the global supply chain. These impacts present complex challenges which will only heighten over time — from effects on human health and the food supply to the weather and the water cycle to the economy and transportation. This course provides an overview of climate change science and its impacts on the global food system so you’ll come away better prepared to adapt to and mitigate the impacts of clima

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Could a plastic tax be coming to Asia?

Eco-Business

Recycling sector expert Antoine Grange says a tax on plastic — like one rolling out in the EU this month — would have an immediate effect in increasing the volume of recycled material used by brand owners.

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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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Magnetic induction cooking can cut your kitchen's carbon footprint

Business Green

Shifting from fossil fuels to electricity is climate-friendly, but serious cooks don't think much of electric stoves. Will induction cooking finally catch on as an alternative? To curb climate change, many experts have called for a massive shift from fossil fuels to electricity. The goal is to electrify processes like heating homes and powering cars, and then generate the increased electrical power needs using low or zero carbon sources like wind, solar and hydropower.

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UNEP Southeast Asia plastics lead Maggie Lee returns to WWF

Eco-Business

The former Procter & Gamble executive takes on a role as WWF's APAC lead for global seafood traceability based in Bangkok.

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Tesla Vehicles Could Be Able To Call 911 During An Emergency

CleanTechnica

Imagine this scenario: you are in some type of emergency situation and you need to dial 911. Whether it's a car wreck, someone is attacking you while you're in your car, or you have a heart attack. You reach for your phone, dial out, but there's no signal. This happened to a Tesla owner, Richard.

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UNEP Southeast Asia plastics project lead Maggie Lee returns to WWF

Eco-Business

The former Procter & Gamble executive takes on a role as WWF's APAC lead for global seafood traceability based in Bangkok.

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The Million-Mile Zero Emissions Club

CleanTechnica

Last week, Build Your Dreams (BYD), which manufactures electric buses in California, China, and elsewhere and is headquartered in China, announced inaugural members of its "Million Mile Club," which is made up of U.S. transit services that have logged over one million miles in their zero-emissions BYD battery-electric buses.

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WWF sustainable finance VP Helena Wright joins FAIRR

Eco-Business

Wright will lead policy for a sustainable finance initiative that campaigns for an end to factory farming.

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For A Planet Choking On Toxic Pollution & CO2 Emissions, Tesla’s 500,000 Sales Milestone Is A Breath Of Fresh Air

CleanTechnica

The news that Tesla has reached its goal of producing 500,000 electric vehicles is not only great for investors (such as me, even though I have a tiny, tiny stake), but also for those who don't even know anything about the company. It is good news for anyone and any animal that has a pair of lungs.

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Massachusetts Will Require All New Cars Sold To Be Electric By 2035

CleanTechnica

On the last day of 2020, Massachusetts Governor Charlie Baker and his administration shared a plan that will deal a major blow to fossil fuel automakers while severely cutting the state's greenhouse-gas emissions in the next decade and beyond. These changes include the mandate that all new cars sold in the state will be electric by.

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Climate Action 2021 — Wishes & Dreams

CleanTechnica

At the beginning of the new year, allow us to reach for the stars and seek the best within us to mitigate the climate crisis.

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Global Heating Will Make Colorado River Basin Drought More Severe

CleanTechnica

A person can survive 30 days (or more) without food, 3 days without water, and 3 minutes without air. The latest climate research indicates all three will be in short supply as average temperatures on Earth increase. Hotter, drier conditions will reduce harvests, constrain water supplies, and make it more difficult to breathe. Great thinkers [&hellip.

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Georgia Sends Renewable Energy Love Letter To Rust Belt State

CleanTechnica

A just transition to the 2035 decarbonization goal is achievable by planning ahead for the renewable energy workforce of tomorrow.

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Tesla Cybertruck-Inspired Micro Tiny Home (Part 8)

CleanTechnica

I am pleased to announce that the Micro Tiny Project has more than reached its initial goal. So far we have raised over $5,095. Alekz Londos and I really want to thank the CleanTechnica audience for donating so much, and for giving us feedback along the way.

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Will the Automobile Become the New Ultimate Gaming Console?

CleanTechnica

Elon Musk is a gamer from way back — his early love of computer games led him to programming, which led to Zip2, PayPal, and Tesla. So it wasn’t too surprising to see the introduction of the Tesla Arcade, which allows Tesla owners to play a variety of video games on the cars’ screens, even using the steering wheel as a controller.

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5 Finalists for 2020–2021 Prize for Cities Show How to Tackle Climate Change & Inequality Together

CleanTechnica

WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities announced five projects as finalists for the 2020-2021 WRI Ross Center Prize for Cities last month for showing how cities can address both climate change and inequality together.