GreenBiz

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Fleet leaders share four recommendations for driving toward zero emissions. Mike DeSocio. Thu, 10/29/2020 - 01:45. The transportation industry is at a turning point: Ever-more ambitious climate goals are combining with the dropping cost of electric and low-carbon vehicles to make sustainable fleets more of a reality. It’s still early days, but public and private sector organizations alike — all recognized on our top 25 most sustainable fleets list this week — are making the transition, and solvi

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Global leading wind turbine manufacturer Vestas has taken full ownership of its offshore turbine JV, MHI Vestas. The company revealed Thursday that it has acquired Mitsubishi Heavy Industries’ half of the offshore business. MHI will take a 2.5 percent stake in Vestas and a seat on the board in return. The all-stock deal is valued at around €709 million ($832 million).

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Startup Phood tackles food waste at the top of the food chain. Jesse Klein. Thu, 10/29/2020 - 01:00. Picture your local salad bar either at your school, grocery store or office. There are many options between the greens, toppings and dressings. At the end of each day, it’s the job of a kitchen worker to perform a "shrink analysis" on each ingredient — manually identifying, weighing and recording the leftover volume of each item.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The proposed lunar habitats would be 3D-printed using robotic, zero-waste construction for a reduced carbon footprint.

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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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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Investors call on major US polluters to clean up lobbying activities. Cecilia Keating. Thu, 10/29/2020 - 00:10. Carbon intensive companies in the U.S. are facing growing pressure to clean up their lobbying activity, with a host of institutional investors this week issuing an urgent call to 47 of the largest greenhouse gas emitters to disclose how their corporate advocacy aligns with the most ambitious climate goals of the Paris Agreement.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Many people are relying on Amazon throughout the pandemic. At least now they can shop sustainably there, too.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

OCTOBER 29, 2020

This totally unique hotel experience helps guests get away from it all.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2020

July seemingly marked a milestone for wastewater treatment in the UK, with the installation of 10 OxyMem membrane aerated biofilm reactor (MABR) modules from DuPont Water Solutions at Severn Trent’s Redditch Spernal site in Worcestershire. This central treatment plant has thus become the largest MABR in the UK, all during a period of restricted access to the site due to the COVID-19 pandemic.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Residential solar and storage company Sunnova logged an overall loss in the third quarter of 2020, as the industry emerges from a difficult period in which the coronavirus pandemic challenged overall sales. Sunnova, unlike many of its publicly traded peers, chose to move through COVID-19 disruptions without revoking its 2020 guidance. In May, the Houston-based company said it expected to add between 28,000 and 30,000 new customers in 2020 and end the year with between $10 million and $20 million

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Past research suggests that growing international demand for cooling has the potential to drive one of the most substantial increases in greenhouse gas emissions in recent history. A new study, led by the University of Oxford and published on 19 October in Nature Sustainability , sets out a framework for delivering sustainable cooling. It also examines cooling needs in the context of sustainable development, and finds that this is a global blind spot.

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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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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 29, 2020

In the wake of spring outpourings of grief and anger over the killings of Black Americans such as Breonna Taylor and George Floyd, numerous companies in the clean energy industry turned the lens inward. Companies that had never before spoken out about racism published statements condemning it, and some donated to the NAACP’s Legal Defense and Educational Fund.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Briiv has the purifying power of over 3,000 houseplants in one small device.

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altenergymag

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Designed to help maintain component temperatures inside the enclosure within certain design limits, the Stahlin® 60mm breather vent quickly and easily installs with just a turn of the wrist.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Climate change is on the ballots of several cities and states this year. Here's what to keep an eye on this election season.

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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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altenergymag

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The All-Energy & Dcarbonise Virtual Summit will open next week with Scotland's First Minister, The Rt Hon Nicola Sturgeon giving an introduction at ‘The Green Recovery' the first of eight webinars being held between Tuesday 3 and Thursday 5 November. The Virtual Summit acts as a replacement to the ‘face-to-face' event, the UK's largest renewable and low carbon energy exhibition and conference, organised by Reed Exhibitions, that had to be postponed from May to September and then to November.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The energy transition isn't just about producing renewable energy - investment and earnings opportunities are spread across four different areas, explain Schroders' Mark Lacey, Alexander Monk and Felix Odey. The energy transition involves shifting from a system based on fossil fuels - oil, gas and coal - to one dominated by clean, renewable electricity.

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altenergymag

OCTOBER 29, 2020

AWEA releases 2020 third-quarter report and important addendum to 2019 annual report

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Business Green

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Successful test in Oxfordshire hailed as a major milestone in UK's quest to produce clean energy from nuclear fusion by 2040, government said. Hopes of developing nuclear fusion in the UK secured a major boost this week, after researchers from the UK Atomic Energy Authority powered-up a multi-million pound machine that proponents hope may pave the way for the country's first fusion power station.

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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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Charged

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Fleet management specialist ViriCiti has begun rolling out a major implementation of its Smart Charging service for Qbuzz, a public transport operator in the Netherlands that runs a fleet of 782 vehicles. Qbuzz will use ViriCiti’s Smart Charging solution to manage a total of 163 chargers (both plug-in and pantograph) from Heliox and ABB, which represent a total installed capacity of 24.04 MW, and serve 164 electric buses operating in the Dutch provinces of Groningen and Drenthe.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The world is now in an 'era of pandemics' due to nature loss and unsustainable economies, leading scientists warn. Many more lives will be lost from future pandemics that risk inflicting even greater damage on the global economy than Covid-19, unless drastic action is taken to halt ongoing destruction of the natural world that risks exposing humanity to hundreds of thousands of zoonotic viruses.

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Charged

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The Journey to Automation award presented by the European Rubber Journal (ERJ) has named Continental the Overall Winner in the award’s six categories, and the winner of the Tire Technology Award. The UK-based trade journal honored Continental for its Conti C.A.R.E. tire concept. Conti C.A.R.E. (Connected. Autonomous. Reliable. Electrification.) is a wheel/tire concept that uses cloud-based connectivity to offer fleet operators a means of mobility management.

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altenergymag

OCTOBER 29, 2020

When is the best time to replace an ill-functioning or badly damaged boiler? Here are six signs.

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Charged

OCTOBER 29, 2020

SK Innovation has announced plans to hire more than 1,000 skilled American workers by the end of 2021 as it prepares for initial production at the first of two EV battery plants being built in Commerce, about 70 miles northeast of Atlanta. SK Innovation is building two EV battery plants at the Georgia site as part of a $2.6-billion investment in its US battery business.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 29, 2020

VIDEO: Co-founder of Global Optimism Tom Rivett-Carnac speaks to Amazon's vice president for worldwide sustainability Kara Hurst about building optimism and excitement about the transition ahead. Meeting the challenge of climate change must become part of a new human story, of striving for a better life on the only planet that can sustain us. Up until now the story we've been telling ourselves is that we're doing the best we can, but climate science is telling us our best is nowhere near enough.

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Forbes Green Tech

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The U. K. government is squandering an opportunity to move towards a zero carbon future by pumping billions in stimulus cash into fossil fuels, according to a new report.

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altenergymag

OCTOBER 29, 2020

As some companies slowly bring employees back into their office space, one solar tech start-up eliminated its office space altogether, even as the numbers on its team have doubled.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 29, 2020

COP26 President and Secretary of State for Business Alok Sharma's speech to UN Member States ahead of the upcoming summit hosted by the UK in December. It is a real honour to be speaking to you all again at the UN. As the Deputy Secretary-General has just set out, climate action cannot wait. Even though COP26 has been postponed, we need to act now to fulfil our Paris Agreement commitments.

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Charged

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The governments of Ontario and Canada have announced that each will invest $295 million to help Ford upgrade its assembly plant in Oakville to start producing EVs. The grant was agreed to as part of last month’s $1.8-billion deal between Ford and the Canadian trade union Unifor. Ford plans to produce five new electric car models at the Oakville facility, making it the company’s highest-volume EV factory in North America.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 29, 2020

VIDEO: Lucy Siegle joins activist and lawyer Farhana Yamin, Global Action Plan CEO Chris Large, and Stand.Earth's Tzeporah Berman to discuss whether activism can accelerate the net zero transition. Activists such as Greta Thunberg, school strikers and Extinction Rebellion have helped thrust climate change into the spotlight over the past couple of years, and undoubtedly played a key role in pushing environmental issued up both the political and boardroom agenda.

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Impact Alpha

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The spread of COVID-19 and the economic devastation in its wake have shown just how necessary for-profit approaches are to serving the poor and vulnerable. In 1970, economist Milton Friedman’s landmark essay asserted that creating shareholder value is the sole purpose of a business—rejecting the idea that a business should promote “desirable ‘social’ ends.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Asset managers continue to provide an incomplete picture to investors about the risk posed to their investments by climate change, TCFD report warns. While a signficant and growing proportion of the global economy now recognises the need for corporate climate risk disclosures, there remains a significant gap between words and action, marked by a continued failure among asset managers to adequately relay climate risk data to their clients.

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Impact Alpha

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Impact Voices Financing small businesses in emerging markets: lessons from the COVID crisis. Three guest posts on ImpactAlpha show how the COVID crisis is driving changes in small business lending and impact investing that could outlast the pandemic. Non-bank lenders need capital to finance African small businesses rejected by banks.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 29, 2020

The UK could reach a 60 per cent renewable power system by 2025 were it to shift Covid-19 energy sector recovery funds from fossil fuels to green power, report concludes. Stimulus packages aimed at supporting the recovery of G20 countries' energy industries are heavily weighted in favour of fossil fuels, marking a significant "missed opportunity" to accelerate the transition to renewable power in the wake of Covid-19, research today has found.

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