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12 women cultivating sustainable food systems in 2023

GreenBiz

It's the annual list of badass women in food. Here's a dozen women to inspire your 2023.

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Weird infected fish appear in New Zealand prompt warning

Inhabitat - Innovation

Along New Zealand's northeast coast there have been concerns over the occurrence of mysteriously infected fish. There have been reported spotting mushy milk-colored flesh fish along the coast. The cause of the situation is still not known but fishers warn that eating such fish could lead to health problems.

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2023: Another big year for climate policy

GreenBiz

To have a shot at avoiding catastrophic climate change, the U.S. and the world need to move even faster, and companies can help in several ways.

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Essential Guide to WEEE Compliance

The Environmental Blog

The EU has issued a legal directive on waste electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE). This should motivate the European industry to reduce pollution and conserve resources. This will enable the EU recycling industry to advance and strengthen its action plan. Waste and pollution are pressing issues in the EU. By 2024, the EU will reach 12 million tons of trash in one year.

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

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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Nature’s safety in numbers

GreenBiz

Guidance on corporate targets and measurement is coming for the land sector after the announcement of qualitative global commitments.

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Here are 12 ways to feed the world sustainably

Inhabitat - Innovation

Global warming and poor farming practices are destroying nutrient-rich soil and raising temperatures to the point many crops can’t survive.

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Lively Root ships fresh plants to your home

Inhabitat - Innovation

The concept is simple -- grow plants and create the opportunity for a greener lifestyle. Lively Root's mission is to do just that.

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The end of energy-as-usual

GreenBiz

The future cannot look like the past

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Museum roof in the Netherlands resembles a parachute

Inhabitat - Innovation

In Amsterdam, the Freedom Museum in Groesbeek has been awarded a prestigious award for its building design -- the Architecture MasterPrize for 2022.

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EverCharge opens new EVSE factory in Hayward, California

Charged

EverCharge , a provider of EV charging equipment for fleets and multi-family homes, is opening a new 30,000-square-foot production factory in Hayward, California. Expected to be completed by early 2023, the new facility is part of the company’s plans to double its factory workforce by mid-2023. The Hayward location was chosen for its surrounding business community and talent pool and for its proximity to Highway 880.

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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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Smart hydrogen gas network to trial in northern England

Smart Energy International

British gas network operator Northern Gas Networks is to host a novel gas carbon neutral pre-heating solution using AI and hydrogen storage technology. The trial, which will take place at Northern Gas Networks’ Low Thornley research site near Gateshead in northeast England, is aimed to investigate new, less carbon intensive ways of pre-heating gas for transportation.

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Dow launches a new series of liquid silicone rubbers  

Charged

Multinational chemical producer Dow has introduced a new range of primerless, self-adhesive, self-lubricating liquid silicone rubbers. The new SILASTIC SA 994X LSR series is designed for two-component injection molding with thermoplastic substrates, and is geared toward the mobility and transportation industries. The new product range is intended for automotive applications that include connector seals, battery vent gaskets and radiator gasket seals for electric and hybrid vehicles as well as en

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The Brief: Electrifying New York’s ‘dollar vans,’ biodiversity startups in Indonesia, affordable school loans in India, sexy circular strategies

Impact Alpha

Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: E-Mobility Electrifying ‘dollar vans’ to boost livelihoods and cut carbon in New York’s transit deserts. Along Flatbush Ave. The post The Brief: Electrifying New York’s ‘dollar vans,’ biodiversity startups in Indonesia, affordable school loans in India, sexy circular strategies appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Electric Ram 1500 Revolution BEV Concept pickup truck revealed at CES

Charged

It’s reportedly close in exterior design to the production model we’ll see within months. Ram Trucks, the US truck arm of global automaker Stellantis , took the wraps off what it called the Ram 1500 Revolution BEV Concept truck on Thursday at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The production version of this fully electric, full-size pickup truck will be revealed within months, with sales to start during 2024, most likely in the second half of the year.

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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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NRG Systems Provides Monitoring Solutions for Canada’s Largest Solar Farm

altenergymag

The turnkey systems will help ensure the 465 MW Travers Solar Project is on track to meet energy production targets.

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Vertical farm fail, a unique agtech SPAC: AFN’s best read of 2022

AFN Sustainable Protein

As we reflect on the year just gone, we wanted to have a look back at the articles reported by AFN ‘s team of journalists that were the most popular among our readers as a potential signal for trends as we enter 2023. The top five articles of the year include a vertical farming failure, a SPAC from one of the fathers of agtech, genetic modification controversy, indoor farmed wheat, and funding for one of regenerative agriculture’s leaders.

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PVinsights: Polysilicon and Wafer Tumble More Than 20% in Downbeat Start to 2023

altenergymag

Polysilicon prices declined more than 20% on Wednesday, leaving them on track for the biggest weekly fall in a decade, as record-high China stockpiles intensified worries that Chinese suppliers' plans to expand capacity will enhance massive supplies already in the market. In particular, mono-grade polysilicon prices headed sharply lower this week, logging two-year lows and marking their entry into a bear market, as worries about a slowdown in polysilicon demand persist on the back of the rising

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It’s time to update your residential solar marketing in light of new grid issues

Solar Power World

By Alex Bazhinov, Founder and President of Lumin Using and paying for electricity used to be simple; just find your nearest home power outlet — maybe spend a few minutes searching for that elusive charging cable — and juice up. Enjoy a continual stream of available power from your local utility with a fairly consistent,… The post It’s time to update your residential solar marketing in light of new grid issues appeared first on Solar Power World.

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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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'Allowing the grid to do more with less': Britain's smart meter network grows by over a third in 2022

Business Green

Network operator DCC estimates Britain's smart meters helped homes and businesses save 700,000 tonnes of CO2 last year. The Data Communications Company's (DCC) saw another 6.3 million smart meters connected to the nationwide network last year, which the firm said would provide a significant increase in energy-use data to build a greener, more efficient electricity system. national smart meter network grew by more than 6.3 million meters last year, reflecting an increase of 37 per cent, providing

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How Long Will It Take the Aviation Industry to Reach Net Zero?

Energy Central

Can the aviation industry ever reach net zero emissions? It might happen within the next few decades but will require some innovative engineering. What sustainability challenges is the sector facing, and what solutions are on the horizon? Challenges Facing Net Zero Emissions Goals in Aviation Many industries are setting net zero emissions goals today, particularly those in the.

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Three ways product resale is making the circular economy sexy

Impact Alpha

You and me baby, we’re nothing but animals trying to deny our preternatural reuse instincts by confining ourselves to linear economy rules. And. The post Three ways product resale is making the circular economy sexy appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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UK sets zero carbon power record - yet again

Business Green

National Grid ESO confirms record for share of power provided by renewables and nuclear has been broken for the second time inside a week. National Grid ESO has confirmed the UK has again set a record for the share of power sources from zero carbon sources, after yesterday saw a period when over 87 per cent of electricity on the grid came from renewables and nuclear sources.

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Cleanup Day • 3.4.23

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

WCS Cleanup Day Saturday, March 4 9am local time Los Angeles | San Jose | Phoenix | Denver Join our mission to #keepearthclean and sign up for a WCS Cleanup Day at the location nearest to you! Join our mission to keep Earth clean and sign up for a WCS Cleanup Day at the location nearest to you! We’ll be in several cities cleaning along with the community and having fun doing it.

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EVs Early Winter 2023

Energy Central

It’s a busy time in the electric vehicle (EV) Market. My last post on this was under a month ago, but new, and significant information has been coming in at a rapid pace, and I’m expecting more before the posting date. In EVs Early Winter we will cover the following subjects: A major new award for Ford’s Lightning The Next EV-SUV rollout for Ford?

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Eneco contracts compressed air energy storage

Smart Energy International

Dutch energy supplier Eneco has contracted with Corre Energy for the full capacity of its proposed compressed air storage (CAES) project near Groningen. The proposed facility at Zuidwending, about 35km southeast of Groningen, will utilise salt caverns for the storage of compressed air to provide a full compression capacity of 220MW and production capacity of 320MW.

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Reverse Pitch • 3.9.23

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

Reverse Pitch Thursday, March 9th 12pm PST | 3pm EST Flip That Script! Sustainability Business Supporters, Investors, and Other Funders Will Be (Virtually) Pitching To YOU. We’re flipping the script! A couple dozen folks from the entrepreneur support, investor, and banking community who prioritize sustainability and environmental solution businesses will be pitching to WCS founders, entrepreneurs, and innovators.

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Sufficiency, sustainability, and circularity of critical materials for clean hydrogen

Energy Central

Effective global decarbonization will require an array of solutions across a portfolio of low-carbon resources. One such solution is developing clean hydrogen. This unique fuel has the potential to minimize climate change impacts, helping decarbonize hard-to-abate sectors such as heavy industry and global transport, while also promoting energy security, sustainable growth, and job creation.

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Electrifying ‘dollar vans’ to boost livelihoods and cut carbon in New York’s transit deserts

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, January 5 — Along Flatbush Ave. in Brooklyn, several informal “dollar vans” pass by for every city bus. The rides are more. The post Electrifying ‘dollar vans’ to boost livelihoods and cut carbon in New York’s transit deserts appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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How Rapid Urbanization in Africa Compounds Water Challenges

The City Fix

Africa’s population is growing faster than any other continent’s and its urban population is expected to more than double by 2050. This urban rapid growth, which is mostly sprawling “horizontal” growth, as the World Resources Report: Towards a More Equal City shows, is combining with climate.

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New ship design capable of supplying H2 using green ammonia emerges

Energy Central

Dreyfus Ports and Logistics (LDPL), has developed an innovative vessel design capable of storing and supplying hydrogen using green ammonia.

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Energy Toolbase and Sunshine Deploy Storage System with Acumen EMS™ at Pharmaceutical Lab in Costa Rica

altenergymag

Energy Toolbase expands Acumen EMS™ control software into Central America

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Arise, Sir Alok: A green guide to the New Years Honours List 2023

Business Green

BusinessGreen provides an all-you-need-to-know breakdown of the individuals who were this week awarded gongs for services to the environment, clean innovation, net zero, and sustainability. COP26 President Alok Sharma, biodiversity economist Sir Partha Dasgupta, and WWF UK boss Tanya Steele were among the sizeable cohort of individuals working on environmental and climate issues to be recognised in King Charles III's first New Year's honours list.

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Houston effort to host HyVelocity hydrogen hub gets U.S. push

Energy Central

Houston-area leaders seeking to make the city one of the nation's designated hydrogen hubs have received a push from the U.S. Energy Department. The department's Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations received 79 "concept papers" from groups seeking to host one of the six to 10 hubs, and 33, including Houston's, have been officially encouraged.