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What NOT to do on International Women’s Day

GreenBiz

How are you going to ensure your messaging and actions actually move the needle for gender equality?

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4 Ways Prefab Homes Give Rise To A Sustainable Future

The Environmental Blog

Prefab is short for prefabricated —essentially enough to begin foretelling this housing option’s benefits. Caring for the environment can be done in more than one way, and deciding on environmentally-friendly housing options is a major decision that’ll have effects in the long run. Prefab homes are the future of the environment, and they carry benefits for the residents and the world around them.

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How Food & Beverage Companies Can Achieve Net-Zero

GreenBiz

Most food and beverage companies want to improve their sustainability footprint, but also want to see accompanying improvements in their operations and bottom line, according to a study conducted by BNP Media’s Clear Seas Research for Black & Veatch. This research report outlines the study findings, including how organizations define sustainability, and how they can identify and implement the optimal mix of technologies, low-carbon fuels, and advanced process and recovery streams to meet holisti

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Change the way you bake to be more sustainable

Inhabitat - Innovation

What do we do in the winter? Bake. Bake for the new year, for Valentine’s Day, because we are cold, because we have been stuck in the house for two months due to poor weather.

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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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Sustainability gets schooled at work

GreenBiz

A new generation of corporate courses and trainings is educating employees about sustainability benefits and possibilities.

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Sponsored Content: Major WWTW project sees Gen-C upgrade six biogas engines in an industry first

Envirotec Magazine

James Thompson, Managing Director of Gen-C Gas engine upgrading specialist Gen-C is working with service provider WB Power Services (WBPS) to upgrade six biogas combined heat and power (CHP) engines at wastewater treatment sites across the north of England. As well as improving performance and reliability, the upgrades allow remote monitoring and operation of the engines, reducing maintenance costs and increasing uptime.

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Sponsored Content: Ashtead Technology partners with Gas Data to expand analyser fleet

Envirotec Magazine

Responding to a growing demand for portable, ATEX-certified environmental monitoring equipment, Ashtead Technology has announced a new partnership with Gas Data. The deal will significantly expand the range of applications for which Ashtead is able to offer gas monitors for either purchase or rental. The new Gas Data portable gas analysers include the GFM 400 series analysers, the Gazoscan and the Inspectra.

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Lush Magnesium Range collection soothes your body and mind

Inhabitat - Innovation

Lush, the innovative brand credited with developing the now ubiquitous bath bomb, has a new line of natural products aimed at pampering and pain relief.

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Iron Edison Launches the REVOLT4, a New UL1973 Listed Solar Battery

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Iron Edison Battery Company has a new solar battery called the REVOLT4. This new solar battery is UL 1973 listed for performance, safety and ease of installation through the electrical permitting process.

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Frito-Lay’s “sustainability showcase” features Tesla Semis, electric trucks, solar+storage

Charged

Frito-Lay, a division of PepsiCo, is transforming its Modesto, California, facility into “a showcase for sustainable manufacturing, warehousing and distribution technologies.” The 80-acre, 500,000-square-foot Modesto site, one of Frito-Lay’s largest manufacturing facilities in the US, features several classes of EVs, along with on-site solar energy generation, storage and EV charging stations.

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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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Canadian Solar's Subsidiary CSI Solar Plans Capacity Additions Across Its Solar and Battery Storage Supply Chain

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Under the Agreement, CSI Solar plans to add vertically integrated high efficiency wafer, cell, and module capacity, as well as battery system manufacturing capacity, in Yangzhou's clean energy manufacturing industrial park.

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DLR Institute leads project to research calcium-sulfur battery technology

Charged

DLR Stuttgart has announced that it will coordinate an effort to determine the potential of the so-called calcium-sulfur (Ca-S) battery as an alternative to lithium-ion batteries. The CaSino project, conducted by a consortium of five research institutions, two industrial companies and an industrial advisory board, is being funded with 3 million euros by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF).

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Powering whole homes with solar + storage is now possible — and smart

Solar Power World

By George Kuo, Senior Director, Product & Solutions, Americas, MSS Business Unit at Canadian Solar American homeowners were expected to have installed a record 5.6 GW of residential solar in 2022, according to BloombergNEF. While the residential storage market has been slower to take off, various factors may indicate that consumers could be willing to… The post Powering whole homes with solar + storage is now possible — and smart appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Kaluza launches V2X trial with Volkswagen Group UK

Charged

Bidirectional charging and Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) are two of the buzziest terms in the EV world these days—but the two aren’t quite the same thing. The former is an enabling technology for the latter, which is a package of applications that include using an EV as a backup power source and providing services to electric utilities for compensation.

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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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The Brief: Emerging-markets fund rebound, building trust in healthcare, investing in Appalachia, ESG emergency in Oklahoma

Impact Alpha

Greetings, Agents of Impact! ? Join Agents of Impact Call No. 48. Greater Share’s Dana Bezerra will drop in to ImpactAlpha’s call this. The post The Brief: Emerging-markets fund rebound, building trust in healthcare, investing in Appalachia, ESG emergency in Oklahoma appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Fraunhofer’s EKODA project aims to develop circular value creation

Charged

German research organization Fraunhofer has announced the launch of its EKODA project, which focuses on the mobility industry with the aim of addressing issues such as resource scarcity, rising prices of raw materials and energy, supply chain disruptions, and waste disposal. Its goal is to swap conventional recycling for what it calls a circular economy.

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Solar farms put cow comfort and crop yield ahead of harvesting electrons

Renew Economy

Spanish energy giant to build four small "agri-solar" farm projects that prioritise benefits to crops and and livestock over solar production. The post Solar farms put cow comfort and crop yield ahead of harvesting electrons appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Automobili Estrema’s electric hypercar does 0-200 mph in 10 seconds

Charged

The area around Modena, Italy has a long history of producing some of the world’s most famous and prestigious cars. A new resident of this storied region is Automobili Estrema , which was founded in 2020 by industry veteran Gianfranco Pizzuto, and counts several other illustrious automotive professionals among its execs. For its first product, the company aims to produce the world’s fastest and most powerful electric car.

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Unlocking smart meter data for research

Smart Energy International

James O’Toole explains how the UK’s Smart Energy Research Lab is enabling researcher access to smart meter data. With over 21 million smart gas and electric meters now in Great Britain’s homes, there is a growing wealth of half-hourly and daily domestic energy use data available to those who can access it. The Smart DCC – the national secure network for digital smart meters – is currently mainly used by energy suppliers and power network operators.

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Volkswagen and Enel X Way to deploy 3,000 high-power charging points in Italy

Charged

The Volkswagen Group and Enel X Way , the Enel Group’s company dedicated to electric mobility, have launched a joint venture called Ewiva, which aims to build a high-power charging (HPC) network of 3,000 charging points across Italy. At the moment, Ewiva boasts some 750 chargers, either in operation or awaiting activation, in 233 locations, and Enel X Way operates approximately 17,000.

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InterSolution 2023: Sungrow Debuts the Latest Residential Solar-Storage-EV Charging Solution for Benelux

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Sungrow, the global leading inverter and energy storage system solution supplier, made high-profile participation in InterSolution 2023 by debuting its latest residential solar-storage-EV charging integrated solution and showcasing the new commercial inverter SG125CX together with the Company's utility solution 1500V string inverter SG350HX, which help Benelux region achieve further economic decarbonization and reducing the dependence on the import of fossil fuels.

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How to use location analytics to optimize your public EV charging strategy and business models

Charged

As the transition to EV accelerates, the opportunities for charging operators to invest and build public charging infrastructure remain boundless. This market is set to grow exponentially as retailers, gas station owners and convenience stores also take advantage and install charging onsite to attract customers and create new revenue streams. However, there is no “one size fits all” for charging stations, as shifts in consumer demographics mean it’s vital for EV operators to be accurate in their

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Clean energy investment tops $US1 trillion, sits neck and neck with fossil fuels

Renew Economy

Bloomberg New energy Finance says investment in low carbon energy has hit a new high – and for the first time reached parity with capital invested in fossil fuels. The post Clean energy investment tops $US1 trillion, sits neck and neck with fossil fuels appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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BIOFUELS CONFERENCE

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Curtis & Wyss Group is pleased to invite you to the Biofuels Conference scheduled on April 27th-28th, 2023 in Barcelona, Spain. Do not miss the opportunity to join a range of topical sessions relating to the biofuels and bioenergy sector, emerging trends, biomass into biofuels and bioenergy, feedstock supply and conversion technologies for advanced biofuels, microalgae as a source of biofuels and bioenergy, techno-economic analysis and life cycle assessment and other!

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“A packet of poo tickets:” Barnaby’s beef with wind power goes nuclear

Renew Economy

Joyce attacks new wind project in NSW, one of the biggest in the state, and suggests a nuclear reactor would be a better idea. The post “A packet of poo tickets:” Barnaby’s beef with wind power goes nuclear appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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2nd PV Module Price Index by EnergyBin reveals opportunities for PV module repair and resale

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Today EnergyBin announced the release of their second annual (2022) PV Module Price Index for the Secondary Solar Market report. The PV module price index tracks wholesale pricing and supply of crystalline-silicon modules that have fallen out of traditional distribution channels, and as a result are listed for resale on the EnergyBin exchange.

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Sun Cable sale process kicks off, plays up Singapore link and green hydrogen

Renew Economy

Sun Cable sales process officially begins, with the salesman playing up both the proposed Singapore link and the strong demand for green hydrogen. The post Sun Cable sale process kicks off, plays up Singapore link and green hydrogen appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Addressing key issues in the LV distribution market

Smart Energy International

This interview highlights the main problems in the LV distribution energy market, especially regarding the DSO and resolutions, supported by the EU Clean Energy Package. Senior Vice President of Networked Energy Services Corporation, Mark Ossel, explains how using OSGP protocol provides greater insight into the dynamics of the LV Grid. View more content from Networked Energy Services here Watch the full video interview below.

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Vertical-axis floating offshore wind developer clears legal hurdle for turbine testing

Renew Economy

Swedish wind power company SeaTwirl has won the right to proceed with testing its floating vertical-axis wind turbine in a fjord off the coast of Norway. The post Vertical-axis floating offshore wind developer clears legal hurdle for turbine testing appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Natural Power appointed as owner’s engineer at Cushaling Wind Farm in Ireland

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Leading renewable energy consultancy and service provider, Natural Power, has commenced service delivery on the nine-turbine, 56MW, Cushaling Wind Farm in counties Offaly and Kildare, Ireland.

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Oil giant venture forges ahead with another big solar and battery project in NSW

Renew Economy

The solar arm of the global oil giant is advancing plans to build a 550MW solar farm with a 260MW/520MWh big battery – and sheep – in NSW. The post Oil giant venture forges ahead with another big solar and battery project in NSW appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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BREAKING: Entocycle lands $5m Series A from Climentum, Lowercarbon Capital to roll-out precision ag tech for insect farms

AFN Sustainable Protein

Entocycle , a UK startup that provides technologies and services for the insect farming industry, has secured $5 million in a Series A round from a pool of climate-positive institutional investors and athletes as angel investors. Leading the round was Climentum Capital , a climate-focused seed and Series A investor with offices in Berlin, Copenhagen and Stockholm.

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Synterex: Clinical Service Provider That Gives Back to the Environment and Society

Green Business Bureau

Synterex is a gold-level certified clinical solutions provider Synterex is a clinical solutions provider of publishing, clinical science, project management, medical and regulatory writing, and IT collaboration services – from process development and optimization to document production. Synterex has achieved Gold-level certification status at the Green Business Bureau , and as such, stands as a valued and model green business.

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Nearly half of UK SMEs have expressed a new interest in renewable energy sources, a GetApp report reveals.

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The results from GetApp's study reveal the detrimental impact the global energy crisis is having on small businesses whilst highlighting the ways companies are adapting through the use of renewable energy.

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