Thu.Feb 11, 2021

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5 cool measurement tools attempting to quantify regenerative agriculture

GreenBiz

5 cool measurement tools attempting to quantify regenerative agriculture. Jesse Klein. Thu, 02/11/2021 - 00:05. Many practices are associated with regenerative agriculture — anything from no-till practices to pesticide-free farming. What’s more, the concept means different things for different crops in different regions. What is considered regenerative in one location might not qualify for the same label under other agricultural conditions. .

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Plus Power Breaks Open New England Market for Massive Batteries

GreenTechMedia

Battery plants have established themselves in the sunny Southwest, but this week was the first time they won big in New England. San Francisco-based developer Plus Power won two bids in the latest capacity auction held by the New England ISO, which operates the transmission grid and competitive power markets in six northeastern states. That means that these two battery plants offered a compelling enough price to edge out some fossil fuel plants for delivering power on demand.

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Mars, Cargill put nature regeneration goals alongside avoiding climate catastrophe

GreenBiz

Mars, Cargill put nature regeneration goals alongside avoiding climate catastrophe. Jesse Klein. Thu, 02/11/2021 - 01:00. Over 1,000 companies have committed to science-based targets for climate change, but the Science Based Targets Network (SBTN) thinks companies need to start making science-based commitments on nature as well as for climate. And they needed to start doing it yesterday.

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Trash Camo raises awareness and money to combat pollution

Inhabitat - Innovation

MayoFree, based out of Moscow since its 2019 launch, specializes in creative advertising, social projects and video-content production. Using these strengths, the team collaborated with non-profit eco-movement RosEco and Chiveskella, an ec?-activist fashion brand by upcycle-designer Nikolay Voznesensky, to produce Trash Camo.

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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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The world-changing potential of STEAM-powered youth

GreenBiz

The world-changing potential of STEAM-powered youth. Shana Rappaport. Thu, 02/11/2021 - 00:01. For more essays and articles by Shana Rapport, sign up for VERGE Weekly , one of our free newsletters. The last time I profiled a young technologist working to change the world, she went on to be honored as Time Magazine’s first Kid of the Year. Just sayin’ — we know how to spot a rising star.

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Climate change increases pollen and worsens allergies

Inhabitat - Innovation

You're not just imagining it. Allergy season has gotten a lot worse in the last 30 years, yet another distressing consequence of our warming planet.

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Studio Jencquel weaves reclaimed natural materials into a dreamy Balinese villa

Inhabitat - Innovation

Inspired by the Balinese vernacular, the luxury villa is a hybrid of Western and Eastern design influences and features modern amenities side by side with local craftsmanship.

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Bloom Energy Charts a Future in Hydrogen Fuel Cells, Electrolysis and Carbon Capture

GreenTechMedia

Bloom Energy reported record fourth-quarter and annual revenue on Wednesday and upped its target to reach profitability to 2021, a year ahead of schedule. A fourth-quarter sales surge brought annual fuel cell deliveries to 132.6 megawatts, while an effort to reduce costs improved its margins and strengthened its balance sheet, capping off what CEO K.R.

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From raising cows to growing veggies: ranchers go vegan

Inhabitat - Innovation

Richard and Cindy Traylor are part of a growing number of ranchers who have made the surprising switch to plant-based agriculture.

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Appalachian Fracking Boom Was a Jobs Bust, Finds New Report

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 7 mins The decade-long fracking boom in Appalachia has not led to significant job growth, and despite the region’s extraordinary levels of natural gas production, the industry’s promise of prosperity has “turned into almost nothing,” according to a new report. .

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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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Chevron spills 600 gallons of oil into San Francisco Bay

Inhabitat - Innovation

An oil spill at Chevron's oil refinery in Richmond, California has dumped approximately 600 gallons of petroleum into the San Francisco Bay.

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Study shows homeowners with PV are subsidizing their neighbors

Renewable Energy World

Value estimations for grid-tied photovoltaic systems (PV) prove solar panels are beneficial for utility companies and consumers alike. by Kelley Christensen. Beyond the environmental benefits and lower electric bills, it turns out installing solar panels on your house actually benefits your whole community. For years some utility companies have worried that solar panels drive up electric costs for people without panels.

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INTERSOLAR EUROPE 2021: AGRIVOLTAICS BRINGS TOGETHER AGRICULTURE AND POWER GENERATION

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Agrivoltaics involves the use of agricultural land to produce food and generate solar energy simultaneously. Conventional free-standing installations can also provide a valuable habitat for flora and fauna, which in turn promotes the acceptance of both the installations and the energy transition as a whole.

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A little incentive goes a long way to change lending for small farmers in Latin America

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, Feb. 11 – Change the incentives, change the results. Those results are dramatic for the $11.5 million in loans that agricultural lender Root. The post A little incentive goes a long way to change lending for small farmers in Latin America appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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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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DOE announces additional $47 million for transformational energy technology projects

Charged

The DOE has announced $47 million in new funding for seven projects as part of the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy’s (ARPA-E) Seeding Critical Advances for Leading Energy technologies with Untapped Potential (SCALEUP) program. These selections bring total SCALEUP program funding to over $70 million, building on $24 million in previously announced SCALEUP “Fast Track” selections.

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Indian government-backs social impact bond to improve public health services

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, February 11 — A public entity in the Indian city of Pune is partnering with the United Nations Development Programme on a. The post Indian government-backs social impact bond to improve public health services appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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Ballard Signs Joint Development Agreement with Chart Industries For Heavy-Duty Mobility Onboard Hydrogen Solutions

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VANCOUVER, CANADA and ATLANTA, U.S. - Ballard Power Systems (NASDAQ: BLDP; TSX: BLDP) today announced that it has signed a non-binding Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Chart Industries, Inc. ("Chart"; www.chartindustries.com; NYSE: GTLS) - a leading diversified global manufacturer of highly engineered equipment for the industrial gas and clean energy industries - for the joint development of integrated system solutions that include a fuel cell engine with onboard liquid hydrogen ("LH2") st

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Workers Lab nurtures innovations for vulnerable workers

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, Feb. 11 – It’s a tale of two pandemics. Employees able to work from home have been shielded from both the virus. The post Workers Lab nurtures innovations for vulnerable workers appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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Shell’s 'Delusional' Net Zero Strategy Commits $8 Billion to Fossil Fuels

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 4 mins Shell’s new net zero strategy is “grotesque” and includes an “impossible” reliance on tree-planting, campaigners have claimed. The oil major today revealed an “accelerated” strategy to reduce oil production and decarbonise its products by 2050.

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How Apeel Founder James Rogers First Found His Innovative Billion-Dollar Idea

Forbes Green Tech

Apeel Founder James Rogers is one of the few entrepreneurs to have beaten the odds, taking his garage-experiment to create a plant-based preservative coating for fruit and vegetables to billion-dollar heights.

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In a Breakout Year, LineVision Advances its Mission of Unlocking Grid Capacity

Greentown Labs

Like most companies, LineVision faced unprecedented headwinds in the Spring of 2020. The transmission line-monitoring startup saw its electric utility customers bracing for a period of economic uncertainty, and its team had to transition to remote work while adjusting to the realities of a pandemic. It hardly seemed like the start of a year for stunning growth, but that’s exactly what it turned into for LineVision.

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LG RELEASES ALL-NEW SOLAR MODULES AND, UPGRADES OTHER PANELS FOR 2021

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Catering to Green Homebuilders, New 66-Cell Panels and Enhanced High-Performance Modules Increase Energy Output for Residential and Commercial Markets

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MISO report concludes upwards of 50% renewables is achievable with careful planning

Renewable Energy World

Yesterday, the Midcontinent Independent System Operator (MISO) published the Renewable Integration Impact Assessment (RIIA) , an analysis that evaluates increasing amounts of wind and solar resources within the MISO grid and the broader bulk electric system. RIIA represents the culmination of more than four years of analysis as well as significant input from stakeholders.

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Cost of biodiversity action will double if delayed until 2030, researchers warn

Business Green

Rate of endemic species' extinction could be slashed by a quarter if action is taken now, but policy delays will make this outcome more difficult to achieve and twice as expensive, report warns. Putting off action to protect biodiversity will double the cost and result in the extinction of many more species when compared to acting now to curb global impacts, according to sobering findings published by Vivid Economics and the Natural History Museum this morning.

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How Pioneering Solar Tech Aims To Bring Energy To Gaza’s Refugees

Forbes Green Tech

Palestinian families in the blackout-stricken Gaza Strip could soon see the benefits of a cutting edge solar energy system being developed by engineers at the University of Birmingham in the U.K.

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The inside story of the Net Zero Asset Owners Alliance

Business Green

The move to bring together many of the world's top investors in support of the net zero transition has quickly emerged as a 'gold standard' for how to drive climate action, but how did it come about and what will it do next? The Net Zero Asset Owners Alliance - described recently by UN General Secretary António Guterres as the "gold standard" for net zero commitments - was born in New York in September 2019.

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How virtual power plants will help the UK meet its net zero targets

Renewable Energy World

by Emma Davidson, Head of Strategy and Energy-as-a-Service at SSE Distributed Energy. The integration of power generators and users in the form of Virtual Power Plants (VPPs) is set to become an increasingly important part of the UK’s energy system. By pulling together the output of disparate power generating/using units such as small, decentralized power producers and on-site renewable sources such as wind and solar, VPPs are carving themselves a key role in bringing higher efficiency and more

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Green uniforms: David Luke Schoolwear completes 1,000-panel rooftop solar plant

Business Green

Solar plant at uniform provider's Manchester headquarters made possible by green loan from HSBC. David Luke Schoolwear, one of the UK's biggest school uniform providers, has installed more than 1,000 solar panels on the rooftop of its headquarters in Manchester, in a move designed to slash energy bill costs and curb its environmental footprint. The completion of the project was announced this week by HSBC, which provided the family-run business with a "six-figure" loan to finance the clean energ

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Colin Kaepernick teams up with The Najafi Cos. to form a SPAC

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, February 11 — Former NFL quarterback and civil rights activist Colin Kaepernick is teaming up with a private equity firm founded by. The post Colin Kaepernick teams up with The Najafi Cos. to form a SPAC appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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Tory backbenchers to push for ambitious net zero policy ahead of COP26

Business Green

Conservative Environment Network launches Net Zero Champions initiative backed by 25 MPs. A group of Conservative backbenchers have teamed up to champion a series of net zero policy interventions spanning the full breadth of the green economy, in bid to encourage the government to deliver a fresh wave of ambitious climate policy measures in the run up to the critical COP26 climate summit in November.

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Big Tech Looks To Hydrogen For Backup Generation At Data Centers

Forbes Green Tech

Backup generation has been an increasingly important consideration for utilities, private companies, and regulators alike.

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The Brief: Outcome payments in Latin America, social impact bond in India, Kaepernick’s SPAC, clean steel, innovations for workers

Impact Alpha

Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: ImpactAlpha Original A little incentive goes a long way to change lending for small farmers in Latin America. The post The Brief: Outcome payments in Latin America, social impact bond in India, Kaepernick’s SPAC, clean steel, innovations for workers appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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BASF advances renewable energy commitment with wind and solar power contracts

altenergymag

• Wind power agreement at two Texas sites will add 35 MW to BASF’s renewable energy supply; solar power at 55MW is the ‘cherry on top’ • Up to 90% of the sites’ purchased power from wind and solar farms

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'Destination 2050': European aviation players aim to chart pathway to net zero emissions

Business Green

Airlines, manufacturers, air traffic controllers, and airports claim that reducing net CO2 emissions to zero by 2050 from flights within and departing from the European Economic Area, Britain, and Switzerland is possible. Europe's largest aviation associations have published a roadmap for how the carbon-intensive industry could achieve carbon neutrality by mid-century, a vision that combines technological innovations, sustainable aviation fuels, enhanced air traffic management, and taxing airlin