GreenBiz

JUNE 10, 2020

The time for electric trucks and buses is now. Katie Fehrenbacher. Wed, 06/10/2020 - 01:30. Despite the pandemic, sales of electric trucks and buses are expected to surge in the United States and Canada over the next couple of years. And perhaps, surprising to many, they'll soar even within this year (the year that can best be described as WTF). . That's according to new data released recently by the clean-transportation-focused nonprofit CALSTART.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JUNE 10, 2020

Slovak company Ecocapsule has just debuted their newest egg-shaped micro-unit — SPACE, a tiny mobile home with semi off-grid capabilities. Developed as a more affordable alternative to the fully off-grid Ecocapsule ORIGINAL, SPACE starts at the base price of €49,900 (about $56,380) and comes with a removable solar panel instead of a wind turbine.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 10, 2020

In Conversation: Paul Polman. Over the past decade, Paul Polman has emerged as one of the most influential business voices in sustainability. During his 10-year reign as CEO of Unilever (following 27 years at Procter & Gamble), he led the company’s Sustainable Living Plan, a multifaceted effort to decouple its. growth from its overall environmental footprint and improve its social impact.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 10, 2020

Smart electric vehicle charging and other flexibility services could have saved British billpayers £133 million ($104 million) this summer, power companies claim, as the U.K. grapples with surging renewables output. Low electricity demand during the COVID-19 lockdown and ever-increasing wind and solar capacities have seen U.K. power prices collapse this year — and curtailment costs soar.

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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.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JUNE 10, 2020

The Mountain Refuge invites you to immerse yourself among snow-capped mountains.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 10, 2020

A boisterous CEO who brags of “out-Eloning” Elon Musk; a reverse merger that makes a little-known fuel-cell trucking company as valuable as Ford; and no actual cars or trucks in production. On this week's edition of The Interchange , we try to make sense of Nikola Motor. Nikola Motor went public last week through a reverse merger, achieving an approximately $13 billion valuation.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 10, 2020

Grid operators around the world are unusually busy these days, but few have quite as much on their minds as NYISO, the independent system operator that manages New York state's bulk power system and wholesale energy market. New York state’s zero-carbon energy goals will require new transmission to carry upstate wind and hydro to downstate markets, plus a wave of new batteries and other balancing agents to balance the state's increasingly intermittent renewable mix.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JUNE 10, 2020

Discarded masks, along with latex gloves and hand sanitizer bottles, are washing up on shorelines.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 10, 2020

The coronavirus forced layoffs and spending cuts across the solar industry, and hammered global electric vehicle sales. But startups serving the EV charging market have continued pulling in new investments in spite of the uncertainty. In recent weeks, managed fleet charging specialist Amply executed a $13.2 million raise. Investors gave $25 million to Freewire Technologies to ship chargers that use batteries to reduce the strain on the distribution grid and the costs associated with interconnect

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JUNE 10, 2020

Learn about the environmental impact of working remotely.

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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

JUNE 10, 2020

Power is the thread that connects the surge in gender-based violence during the COVID crisis with violence against people of color, including by police officers. “Power is the issue: inequity and structural inequities that affect people in all sorts of different ways,” Criterion Institute’s Joy Anderson said in an interview on ImpactAlpha’s Returns on Investment.

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Planet Pulse

JUNE 10, 2020

We are excited to announce that the Copernicus Emergency Management Service , or Copernicus EMS, utilizes Planet data to help provide emergency response mapping services for a variety of disaster situations, ranging from geophysical and meteorological hazards to humanitarian and man-made crises. When events occur, authorized users can alert Copernicus EMS to an emergency location, and the service provides satellite-derived products for quick and effective response.

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Impact Alpha

JUNE 10, 2020

Black and brown ownership matters in rebuilding a more just, equitable and resilient economy. The murder of George Floyd and the heroic actions of movement organizers have once again exposed the social fragility created by this nation’s racist underpinnings. In an almost-poetic economic parallel, the Coronavirus pandemic has exposed decades of economic policy and investment.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 10, 2020

Read time: 7 mins The oil giant funds both civil rights groups and police, saying “Black Lives Matter” while committing acts of environmental racism all over the world. By Amy Westervelt. This story originally appeared in the Hot Take newsletter. At a House committee hearing on fossil fuel deception last year, Congressional reps from oil and gas states repeated a long-used talking point: A clean energy transition is just a big f**k-you to poor people.

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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

JUNE 10, 2020

ImpactAlpha, June 10 – Ford Foundation expects to issue $1 billion in long-term bonds, according to a report by The New York Times. “There’s never been such an existential challenge to the future of the nonprofit sector,” said Ford’s Darren Walker. COVID bonds. The foundation plans to issue 30- and 50-year bonds and distribute proceeds to. The post Ford, MacArthur, Kellogg and other foundations to issue bonds to scale up COVID relief appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Clean Energy Canada

JUNE 10, 2020

Canada has joined a small but growing group of countries, states, provinces, and cities pledging to reach net-zero emissions by 2050. And with transportation responsible for a quarter of the carbon pollution Canada produces, it represents a major area in need of smart solutions. Canada is also home to four prominent electric bus manufacturers with customers across the continent.

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Charged

JUNE 10, 2020

Passenger jets may be major consumers of fossil fuels, but the vehicles that refuel them need not be. Engineering firm Gaussin and oil giant Total, which supplies jet fuel to 280 airlines at 300 airports around the world, are jointly developing a fully electric aircraft refueller transporter (ART). The ART Full Elec (which could use a catchier name) is in development at the Airbus industrial site in Toulouse.

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Energy Innovation

JUNE 10, 2020

New research shows the United States can reach 90 percent clean electricity by 2035 thanks to plummeting wind, solar, and energy storage prices. Smart policy recommendations for Congress, the federal government, governors and state legislators, and wholesale markets can support rapid electricity sector decarbonization. Energy Innovation has developed this dynamic online data explorer to support the research and allow anyone to explore how the grid’s generation mix and cumulative clean energy add

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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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Forbes Green Tech

JUNE 10, 2020

Remnants of Tropical Storm Cristobal in Wisconsin and Canada. That's strange.

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U.S. Green Technology

JUNE 10, 2020

How To Stay Green While Living In Quarantine Many of us are still living under quarantine orders or recommendations to slow the spread of COVID-19, and staying home more than usual takes some getting used to. Adjusting to quarantine life can be tricky, but staying indoors does not mean you must sacrifice your goal of. The post Staying Green Under Quarantine appeared first on U.S.

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altenergymag

JUNE 10, 2020

The Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) issued its Draft Supplemental Environmental Impact Statement this week for the Vineyard Wind offshore wind project. The timely conclusion of this review is critical for this project and the future of American offshore wind development.

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Charged

JUNE 10, 2020

EV powertrain supplier Vitesco Technologies and silicon carbide specialist ROHM Semiconductor have signed a development partnership under which Vitesco will use ROHM’s SiC components to increase the efficiency of its EV power electronics. “Energy efficiency is of paramount importance in an EV. As the traction battery is the only source of energy in the vehicle, any losses caused by power conversion need to be minimized.

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altenergymag

JUNE 10, 2020

• 184 GW of clean power capacity added in 2019, a 20 GW jump from 164 GW added in 2018 • This new capacity delivered with almost the same investment as 2018 – USD 282.2 billion – demonstrating falling costs • 826 GW of new non-hydro renewable power planned by 2030, at likely cost of around USD 1 trillion.

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Charged

JUNE 10, 2020

In a newly-released report on the nickel sulfate industry, Roskill forecasts that the expanding EV industry will become the key driver of growth in nickel demand. In the past, the market for nickel sulfate was largely driven by the plating industry and non-Li-ion battery applications, such as NiMH and NiCd batteries, but year-over-year growth in these areas has stagnated.

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Impact Alpha

JUNE 10, 2020

ImpactAlpha, June 10 – Massachusetts-based Clean Crop is tackling post-harvest food waste with a chemical-free treatment that kills molds and toxins common to grains and nuts. Carcinogenic aflatoxins, caused by soil-based molds, affect as much as 40% of nut and grain harvests worldwide, Clean Crop’s Dan White told ImpactAlpha. The startup uses ionized gasses, produced.

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2020

Green cleaning brand announces new £500,000 fund to support nature based solutions. Environmentally friendly cleaning brand Ecover has launched a new fund to provide over £500,000 of support innovative projects that can cut greenhouse gas emissions through nature-based solutions. Dubbed 'Fertilise the Future', the fund was launched yesterday with the company explaining that it will be financed through the windfall the brand has enjoyed as a result of the coronavirus crisis.

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Impact Alpha

JUNE 10, 2020

ImpactAlpha, June 10 – Protests in the streets continue to challenge systemic injustices. Agents of Impact at this week’s Spectrum conference, produced by SOCAP, presented a vision for systemic inclusion. Media producers can hold up stories told by Black, Indigenous and other communities of color. Entrepreneurs can tap the economic potential of changing lives in.

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2020

Industry underscores support for net zero transition, but warns fresh policy interventions are required to decarbonise heat across the sector. The food and drink industry has become the latest sector to step up calls for the government to deliver a green recovery package, warning fresh action is required to decarbonise food and drink supply chains. The Food and Drink Federation (FDF) this afternoon published a new report on the Decarbonisation of Heat Across the Food and Drink Manufacturing Sect

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 10, 2020

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altenergymag

JUNE 10, 2020

The Bank Holiday (23-24 May) saw the UK experience warm yet windy weather. Coupled with the significantly low levels of energy demand observed during the lockdown, it is no surprise that the level of activity from National Grid Electricity System Operator (ESO) to turn down generation was high.

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2020

New UN-backed report confirms energy transition is 'in full swing' as renewables costs plummet, but sector is still not on track to meet global climate goals. With governments around the world working feverishly on economic recovery packages in an attempt to cushion the impact of the worst recession in decades, the UN's annual report on the global renewable energy market could not have come at a more opportune.

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altenergymag

JUNE 10, 2020

Ginlong Technologies, maker of Solis inverters, launches the latest edition of its energy storage hybrid. The Solis-HVES (High Voltage Energy Storage) string technology will be rolled out to homeowners in Italy, UK, Germany, the Netherlands, Poland, Sweden, South Africa and Australia this month. The Solis hybrid has one of the highest conversion efficiencies on the market (98.4%) - helping residential customers get more out of their solar-plus-storage systems.

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Impact Alpha

JUNE 10, 2020

Greetings, Agents of Impact! Safeguarding impact in emerging markets. The International Finance Corp.’s Operating Principles for Impact Management call for investors to monitor their impact – and respond appropriately. On ImpactAlpha’s Agents of Impact Call No. 18, Symbiotic’s Safeya Zeitoun, Finance in Motion’s Sandra Abella, DEG’s Julian Frede, Blue like an Orange’s Bertrand Badré, the IFC’s Neil Gregory and other Agents of Impact.

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