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Could Greta Thunberg Inspire Appalachia And Coal Country To Embrace Change?

Forbes Green Tech

Coal country fears uncertainty -- not green energies. But it needs help from forward-thinking leaders on how to acclimate to a changing economy. Greta Thunberg could inspire that movement.

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'Far cry from what is needed': Marathon climate talks deliver compromise deal but defer key decisions

Business Green

UN climate summit fails to secure progress on raft of key components of the Paris Agreement, putting huge pressure on UK to engineer a successful COP26 in Glasgow.

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Lessons In Leading Change For ‘Equitable Outcomes’ From New MacArthur ‘Genius’

Forbes Green Tech

What Stacy Jupiter found is that nature is also a key part of many cultural practices and, therefore, that changing people’s behavior. to combat its degradation from climate change, requires more than science, and that doing it her way breeds “equitable outcomes.

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Event - ASES Solar 20/20 (Annual National Solar Conference) Call for Submissions

Green Market Oracle

The 49th Annual National Solar Conference, ASES Solar 20/20, Renewable Energy Vision, Advances to achieve 100% renewable energy, has put out a call for participation. This event will take place on June 23-26, 2020 in Washington DC. It will include: Women in Solar Energy (WISE) luncheon, solar installer training, electric vehicle & solar cooking demos, international solar applications, tours of local green breweries, solar citizen action day, stronger together forum, oral/poster presentations

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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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Can You Pass This 9-Question Climate Change Quiz?

Forbes Green Tech

Test your climate change knowledge with this 9-question quiz. Good Luck!

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Computing giant Logitech latest to set science-based emissions target

Business Green

Products, packaging, and operations are all targeted in updated sustainability goals from the global tech hardware player.

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Fastned to expand charging network following €12m bond issue

Business Green

EV charging company plans to double the number of countries with its charging stations to six.

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Indonesia urged to follow 'game-changer' Malaysia on palm oil maps

Eco-Business

Making palm oil plantation maps publicly available could make it easier to monitor who is responsible for fires and deforestation.

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Dutch Electric Vehicle Sales Explosion — Market Will NOT Return To Normal

CleanTechnica

What is happening in the Netherlands is illustrative of what is going to happen in the surrounding countries. The key to understanding this is a European phenomenon (tax loophole) — company cars for private use.

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A world without waste: how gold mining is going green

Eco-Business

Recycling precious metals and minerals from used electronics can help make today's consumption patterns more environmentally sustainable.

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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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TIME Magazine: Tesla Model S One of 10 Best Gadgets of 2010s

CleanTechnica

TIME Magazine has declared that Tesla Model S one of the 10 best gadgets of the 2010s.

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Nearly half a billion people in Asia undernourished: UN

Eco-Business

While 'substantial advances' have been made in the region towards eliminating hunger and malnutrition, nearly half a billion people in the Asia Pacific remain undernourished, a new United Nations report has found.

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Tesla Backup Gateway 2 … Bank of America EV Cost of Ownership Study … Tesla Revenue Growth — #CleanTechnica Top 20

CleanTechnica

What caught readers' eyes the most on CleanTechnica last week? That would be the new Tesla Backup Gateway 2, which looks like a mini Powerwall; a titillating study on EV total cost of ownership in the UK that Bank of American Merrill Lynch conducted and shared with CleanTechnica; and a commentary on Tesla's revenue growth juxtaposed against Tesla critics' seemingly never-ending pessimism, which is typically very misplaced.

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Mostra Convegno Expocomfort (MCE) Asia 2020

Eco-Business

The annual Mostra Convegno Expocomfort (MCE) Asia is the region's leading trade community gathering for energy-efficient solutions in MEP (Mechanical, Electrical & Plumbing) and Renewable Energy. Into its 6th edition, the event will showcase HVAC-R, Water, Electrical and Solar Technologies, that cools and powers industrial plants, commercial and residential buildings.

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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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Thousands Of Electric Vehicle Owners Told Us This …

CleanTechnica

For our newest report, Electric Car Drivers: Demands, Desires & Dreams (2019), we surveyed thousands of plug-in vehicle drivers to find out more about their electric vehicle buying decisions, what they want from their next EVs, how EV life is going, and more. Below are some of the top-line takeaway points from the surveys of US, Canadian, and British respondents.

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Innobuild (IB) Asia 2020

Eco-Business

Innobuild (IB) Asia is the region's unique marketplace showcasing the latest construction materials, tools and technologies that helps to improve the productivity and resource efficiency during the construction of commercial, industrial, residential, hospitality, manufacturing and healthcare facilities.

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The AppScooter Is The Tesla of Scooters — CleanTechnica Exclusive

CleanTechnica

The electric revolution comes in various shapes and sizes. We are all very familiar with the intricacies of electric cars, but a category that sometimes gets overlooked is scooters. This may be because there hasn’t been an example that shines like a beacon of hope the way Tesla does. Until now, that is, and the scooter we are talking about today is the Etergo AppScooter.

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COP25: Lost opportunity, and a yawning gap between current progress and global goals to limit warming

Eco-Business

This year’s annual UN climate conference, COP25 in Madrid, became the longest on record after it concluded after lunch on Sunday, following more than two weeks of fraught negotiations. It had been scheduled to wrap up on Friday.

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Tesla Model 3 = 9th Best Selling Car In USA

CleanTechnica

With all of the data tallied, we have one electric car in the top 20*, or in the top 10 actually — the Tesla Model 3. The Model 3, based on our estimates (with support from EV Volumes), lands in the #10 spot in the USA in November among all cars. For the first 11 months of the year, the Model 3 was in the #9 position.

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Smart Cities & Buildings (SCB) Asia 2020

Eco-Business

Smart Cities & Buildings (SCB) Asia is the region's unique marketplace showcasing the latest innovations in smart facility management, security & surveillance, smart construction, Internet of Things and Smart City Adoption.

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Tesla Installed The Solarglass Roof On Our New Home — CleanTechnica Exclusive

CleanTechnica

Tesla has completed installation of its Solarglass Roof tiles on our new home and we just turned the system on for the first time. This installation of version 2 of Tesla's Solarglass Roof tiles marks one of the first new-construction homes they've installed these elusive solar roof tiles on anywhere in the world.

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BEX Asia 2020

Eco-Business

Region's architectural exhibition for the built environment with a focus on sustainability

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Tesla Model 3 Cooler From Tesmanian — CleanTechnica Review

CleanTechnica

While the Tesla Model 3 is essentially the most complete car on the market (imho), there are places and ways that it can be improved. In many cases, that's where our favorite aftermarket suppliers come in. One top product it's nice to have — especially here in hot-as-hell Florida — is a good cooler that fits the car well.

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GE Renewable Energy Will Supply 26 Cypress Wind Turbines For Use In Sweden

CleanTechnica

GE Renewables has been awarded a contract to install 26 of its Cypress wind turbines for a wind farm in Sweden. The Cypress turbines feature a two-part blade design.

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All The Good (Under-the-Radar) News About Renewable Energy

CleanTechnica

The US is still looking at a renewable energy revolution, even though US President Donald Trump passed on (yet another) opportunity to lead at.

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Tesla’s Cybertruck Makes A Garage Obsolete — Here’s Why

CleanTechnica

Many of us are now in a predicament, because Tesla made a vehicle that was made for people who need (or want) a large vehicle, but they made it so cool that many people with normal-sized cars want one too. On the internet, this has resulted in a bunch of things, like people realizing that the Cybertruck doesn't fit in their garages. It has also resulted in people asking Elon for a smaller Cybertruck.

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A Closer Look At Tesla Solarglass (Videos)

CleanTechnica

Arash Malek gives us a great close up shot of Tesla's Solarglass Roof while at a Tesla Service Center in El Cerrito, CA. Tesla's Solarglass is a unique roofing invention that fuses a roof with solar panel glass in a beautiful and artistic way that provides a cost-competitive alternative to power for your home.

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60 Years Of Life-Saving Seat Belts — Will Autonomy Eradicate Traffic Fatalities?

CleanTechnica

My day job is as a laboratory technician and systems developer at the Institute of Forensic Medicine at Aarhus University, Denmark, and as I had done so often before at lunch, I fell into an interesting conversation with the former head of the institute Markil Gregersen. He formally retired many years ago, but is still active working on publications in forensic sciences.