Wed.Mar 09, 2022

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‘How We Survive’: Journalist-turned-VC Molly Wood on climate tech

GreenBiz

When it comes to the climate crisis, we need to explore all available solutions, even those that aren’t ‘perfect,’ says long-time radio journalist and podcaster Molly Wood.

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SEPA opens healthcare waste consultation

Envirotec Magazine

All those who collect, transport, store treat and dispose of healthcare waste are being encouraged to respond to a consultation on its storage and treatment from Scotland’s environmental regulator. The consultation opened on Friday 4 March and will run for eight weeks until 29 April 2022. The Scottish Environment Protection Agency’s (SEPA) proposed guidance, ‘Storage and treatment of healthcare waste: Appropriate measures and supporting guidance’, brings healthcare waste guidance in Scotland tog

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Guinness brews up new regenerative barley farming pilot in Ireland

GreenBiz

Brewing giant claims regenerative agriculture program is among largest in Ireland and can help tackle climate change and biodiversity loss.

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Sustainable solar oven allows rural communities to cook without coal or firewood

Envirotec Magazine

1. Cooking box 2. Data acquisition and solar tracking control unit 3. Parabolic collector/reflector 4. Stepper motor 5. Solar panel connected to battery (image credit: Clement A. Komolafe). A new design for a solar cooking system may help rural communities prepare food more sustainably, reports a new study. The materials used in this system should be easily accessible for people in places where there are few options besides burning wood or coal.

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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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Crop modeling can scale regenerative agriculture to address climate change

GreenBiz

Crop models simulate conditions in the soil and plants on the computer to avoid errors in the real world and hedge farmers’ risks.

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River level monitoring lowers bridge scour risk

Envirotec Magazine

Installation of the ecolog at Vales Burn. Engineers at Transport Scotland have investigated the potential for water level monitoring systems to help mitigate risks where transport infrastructure interacts with moving water. The trial was conducted at a bridge over Vales Burn near Hawick in Scotland, and the monitoring equipment was provided by OTT HydroMet.

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Synaptic Security: Real-Time CyberSecurity Solutions Stop Attacks and Saves on Resources

Green Business Bureau

Synaptic Security, Inc. provides active defense for the threat-specific attacks of ransomware, cryptojacking and data loss for Linux systems. Through their patent-pending threat detection algorithms that work with distributed machine learning and AI architectures, Synaptic streamlines security and operations for the world of Linux servers, stopping attacks as they happen and offering real-time remediation.

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The failed promise of ESG and the Wall Street Journal

GreenBiz

ESG strategies and green bond products have been dismissed as meaningless efforts to address climate change.

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McCARTHY BUILDING COMPANIES COMPLETES BIGHORN SOLAR PROJECT IN PUEBLO, COLORADO

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It is the first of two large-scale solar projects the company’s Renewable Energy & Storage Group is building in the area in conjunction with Lightsource bp, the project owner.

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Nutrien's Candace Laing on integrating DE&I into ESG goals

GreenBiz

This video is sponsored by Nutrien. Theresa Lieb, Food Systems Analyst at GreenBiz, interviewed Candace Laing, VP of Sustainability & Stakeholder Relations at Nutrien, during GreenBiz 22 (2/15/22-2/17/22).

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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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Agricultural Modernization and Its Environmental Impacts

Green Living Guy

Agriculture modernization has made incredible strides in creating a more efficient ad sustainable agricultural landscape across the globe. Farmworkers are not subjected to such rigorous working conditions, therefore lessening chronic musculoskeletal pain, all thanks to agricultural modernization. However, there are negative environmental impacts associated with modern agriculture, such as chemicals, ecosystem interruptions, and limited resources. […].

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Meta's Edward Palmieri on their 2030 carbon reduction and water conservation ambitions

GreenBiz

This video is sponsored by Meta. Dylan Siegler, VP & Sr Analyst of Sustainability at GreenBiz, interviewed Edward Palmieri, Director of Sustainability at Meta, during GreenBiz 22 (2/15/22-2/17/22).

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5 Easy Ways To Be Sustainable When Moving

Green Living Guy

Moving can be incredibly stressful, especially if you have a lot of stuff and have to do it in a short time span. It may seem impossible to consider the environment when you have a seemingly endless number of things to worry about. But if you know how much danger the planet is in right […]. The post 5 Easy Ways To Be Sustainable When Moving appeared first on Green Living Consultants, Companies, Electric Car Expert, Green Living, Electric Car News, New York, California, Florida, Missouri, T

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Keurig Dr Pepper's Whitney Kakos on advancing regenerative agriculture

GreenBiz

This video is sponsored by Keurig Dr Pepper. John Davies, Sr VP & Analyst at GreenBiz, interviewed Whitney Kakos, Director of Supply Chain Sustainability at Keurig Dr Pepper, during GreenBiz 22 (2/15/22-2/17/22).

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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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NEXT Energy Technologies and NSG Group to Collaborate on Transparent Solar Windows

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“We’ve informally collaborated with NEXT for several years, providing them with materials and technical feedback. We’re excited to announce our relationship and work even more closely with NEXT to introduce their unique PV coatings into some of our largest commercial building markets.

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Steelcase's Kim Dabbs on building cultures of innovation & ESG

GreenBiz

This video is sponsored by Steelcase. Dylan Siegler, VP & Sr Analyst of Sustainability at GreenBiz, interviewed Kim Dabbs, Global VP of Social Innovation & ESG Strategy at Steelcase, during GreenBiz 22 (2/15/22-2/17/22).

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Renewable technology innovation: measuring progress – IRENA

Smart Energy International

As clean energies grow in countries’ energy mixes, ongoing innovation is key for reducing costs and improving the performance. Research, development and demonstration of clean energies is common across countries and regions. However, with the limited availability of metrics, only a partial view of the outputs and outcomes are likely. In a new study, the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) has aimed to address this issue, gathering data on the costs and performance of selected renewable

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Pachama's Diego Saez-Gil on using tech to achieve quality carbon offsets

GreenBiz

This video is sponsored by Pachama. Jim Giles, VP of Net Zero at GreenBiz, interviewed Diego Saez-Gil, CEO of Pachama, during GreenBiz 22 (2/15/22-2/17/22).

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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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Rocsys to supply autonomous charging solutions for electric yard tractors at Port of Oakland

Charged

Rocsys , a maker of autonomous conductive charging solutions, has signed an agreement with marine terminal operator SSA Marine to supply ROC-1 autonomous charging systems, which will autonomously charge part of SSA Marine’s electric yard tractor fleet at the International Container Terminal at the Port of Oakland. Autonomous charging is designed to enable reliable and fast charging while reducing the wear and tear on charging cables and connectors.

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Verizon's Carrie Hughes on leveraging social innovation to advance sustainable business

GreenBiz

This video is sponsored by Verizon. Dylan Siegler, VP & Sr Analyst of Sustainability at GreenBiz, interviewed Carrie Hughes, Director of Social Innovation at Verizon, during GreenBiz 22 (2/15/22-2/17/22).

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Volvo Trucks claims the lead in Europe’s electric truck market

Charged

Sales of heavy-duty battery-electric trucks are starting to climb in Europe, and Volvo Trucks claims to have established a leading market share of 42% in 2021. The company took orders for more than 1,100 electric trucks worldwide. Volvo cites statistics from the market analysis group IHS Markit, which found that some 346 electric trucks (16 tons and over) were registered in Europe in 2021—an increase of 193% from 2020.

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EY's Jess Wollmuth on moving from ESG ambition to action

GreenBiz

This video is sponsored by EY. Grant Harrison, Green Finance & ESG Analyst at GreenBiz, interviewed Jess Wollmuth, Principal of Climate Change & Sustainability Services at EY, during GreenBiz 22 (2/15/22-2/17/22).

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Sumitomo Bakelite to unveil eAxle demonstrator?

Charged

After sharing some early technical findings at our Charged virtual conference , Sumitomo Bakelite has released additional information about its eAxle research project. Sumitomo is developing an 80 kg eAxle demonstrator that it expects to be finished in late Q1 of 2022. Based on the company’s plastics, the eAxle has stator encapsulation that replaces traditional paper insulation with over-molded thermally-conductive composite materials to reduce stator temperatures.

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American Forests's Wes Swaffar on how corporations can help save the whitebark pine

GreenBiz

This video is sponsored by American Forests. Jim Giles, VP of Net Zero at GreenBiz, interviewed Wes Swaffar, Director of Forest Restoration at American Forests, during GreenBiz 22 (2/15/22-2/17/22). View archived videos from the conference here: [link]. To find out how you or your company can help support this historic effort to save America's whitebark pine forests, visit www.americanforests.org or contact Lindsey Putz at corpdevelopment@americanforests.org.

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“Don’t walk away from the solar industry:” Opportunities ahead for rooftop PV, says analyst

Renew Economy

Appeal to Australian rooftop solar installers, spooked by forecasts of a contracting market and global supply-chain problems, to stay in the business. The post “Don’t walk away from the solar industry:” Opportunities ahead for rooftop PV, says analyst appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Anthesis's Tobias Parker on how SBTi's net zero standard impacts corporations

GreenBiz

This video is sponsored by Anthesis. John Davies, Sr VP & Analyst at GreenBiz, interviewed Tobias Parker, Director of Anthesis, during GreenBiz 22 (2/15/22-2/17/22).

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In-line inspection of EVs and components (Webinar)

Charged

Automated inspection plays a huge role in the manufacturing of electric vehicles. In-line machine vision systems allow manufacturers to ensure that they produce defect-free components at high rates of speed. These systems can also play a pivotal role in the actual assembly of EV components as they often guide robotic arms. Join this webinar session at our Spring Virtual Conference on EV Engineering, presented by Keyence, to learn how the latest cutting-edge technology in machine vision is used t

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Amgen's Sam Guhan on lessons learned from their carbon reduction programs

GreenBiz

This video is sponsored by Amgen. John Davies, Sr VP & Analyst at GreenBiz, interviewed Sam Guhan, VP of Global Engineering at Amgen, during GreenBiz 22 (2/15/22-2/17/22).

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TdVib works to commercialize acid-free process for recovering rare earths from electronic waste

Charged

Researchers at the Critical Materials Institute (CMI), a DOE Innovation Hub led by the Ames Laboratory, have developed a novel way to extract rare earth elements from the high-powered magnets in electronic waste, using a water-based process. Now Iowa-based electromagnetics specialist TdVib has licensed the technology, and hopes to commercialize it. Companies often shred items such as computer hard drives to protect the information on them.

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American Forests' Wes Swaffar on how corporations can help save the whitebark pine

GreenBiz

This video is sponsored by American Forests. Jim Giles, VP of Net Zero at GreenBiz, interviewed Wes Swaffar, Director of Forest Restoration at American Forests, during GreenBiz 22 (2/15/22-2/17/22). View archived videos from the conference here: [link]. To find out how you or your company can help support this historic effort to save America's whitebark pine forests, visit www.americanforests.org or contact Lindsey Putz at corpdevelopment@americanforests.org.

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“We cannot continue at our dozy pace:” Germany says it must transition at “Tesla speed”

Renew Economy

Germany's Green Party calls for doubling down on energy transition efforts – and to adopt "Tesla speed" as it shifts away from Russian fossil fuels. The post “We cannot continue at our dozy pace:” Germany says it must transition at “Tesla speed” appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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The 1,600 TWh Challenge: How Europe can survive without Russian Gas

Energy Central

It seems appropriate and somewhat ironic to start with a quote from Vladimir Lenin: “there are decades when nothing happens, and there are weeks when decades happen.” That certainly was true of the week gone by. This week I must address how Europe can survive without Russian gas next winter. The good news is it possible, the bad news is that it will be very expensive and.

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Fortescue Future Industries poaches RBA’s chief climate warrior as new CFO

Renew Economy

Andrew Forrest's green energy play Fortescue Future Industries names RBA deputy governor as its new chief financial officer. The post Fortescue Future Industries poaches RBA’s chief climate warrior as new CFO appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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