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Which of these 40 sustainability certifications is right for you?

GreenBiz

A guide to fellowships, school, classes and skills-based volunteering that can rocket-fuel your career.

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The Amazon is accelerating towards a point of no return

Inhabitat - Innovation

This report has shed light on the current state of the Amazon rainforest and the gravity of the deforestation taking place. The WWF is now warning that the Amazon is accelerating to a point of no return.

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Transport industry leaders share 2023 predictions for decarbonization

GreenBiz

In the race to net zero, what’s in store for transportation and mobility this year?

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Michelin HQ redesigned with public square, tropical gardens

Inhabitat - Innovation

The Carmes site of Clermont-Ferrand was purchased by Michelin in the 2000s, but recently received an update thanks to Encore Heureux Architectes, Construire and Base.

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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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What you really need to know about Scope 3 emissions and your business

GreenBiz

Sponsored: Learn why you need a Scope 3 emissions strategy now, how to engage suppliers and why measuring, managing and reducing those emissions are critical.

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Swap out single-use products that keep you buying for life

Inhabitat - Innovation

A lot of the single-use items we use today were not always one-use. In fact, it is only through industrial developments that took place within the last century that these items began to be produced as disposables.

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January is Vegan Dining Month in three US cities

Inhabitat - Innovation

I remember looking for vegan food in Las Vegas 20 years ago and being reduced to eating a Subway salad. Things have come a long way since then. Vegas vegan Diana Edelman can take some of the credit for recent improvements in the flashy city’s plant-based cuisine.

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2023: The year in preview

GreenBiz

A peek into what GreenBiz Group has got planned for the year just starting.

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Adidas TERREX opens its first retail store in Portland

Inhabitat - Innovation

When I asked my husband if he wanted to go check out the grand opening of Adidas TERREX's first-ever North American retail store in Portland, Oregon, he was game.

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Nth Cycle wins $2.15-million DOE grant for electro-extraction technology

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Nth Cycle , a metals processing and recycling technology company, has been awarded a $2.15-million grant from the DOE under the Battery Materials and Battery Manufacturing and Recycling Funding Opportunity (BMBMR) program. . According to the company, its low-emission refining technology, called electro-extraction, transforms the outputs of metal scrap, electronics recycling, untapped mining resources and waste from existing mines into critical minerals ready to be used in the production of lithi

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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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CTAs Green Grant Contributes $100K to Nevada Recipients Focused on Sustainability

Green Living Guy

Arlington, VA, January 3, 2023 – The Consumer Technology Association® (CTA) today announced the recipients of its CES 2023 Green Grant program, providing funding of $100K to three Nevada organizations focused on sustainability, including solar charging, student STEM gardens and a statewide tree planting program. CTA owns and produces CES® 2023, which returns to Las […].

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New York announces $23 million for transportation electrification initiatives

Charged

The state of New York has allocated $23 million in new funding for transportation electrification initiatives. The total includes: $8 million under the Direct Current Fast Charging program to install EV infrastructure in Buffalo, Rochester, and Syracuse, including in underserved communities; another $7 million in DCFC awards to ChargePoint and EvGateway to improve access in upstate New York; and $8 million for electric school buses and paratransit buses under the New York Truck Voucher Incentive

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Big ideas and predictions for ESG in 2023

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, Jan. 3 – ESG – for enterprise operations and investment decision-making that account for environmental, social and governance considerations – took a beating. The post Big ideas and predictions for ESG in 2023 appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Emporia Energy unveils new low-priced Level 2 charger

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Emporia Energy, a Colorado-based provider of home energy management technology (see our recent feature article ), is pushing the EVSE price envelope with a new Level 2 charger priced at $399. “Competing chargers with similar specs, warranty, safety certifications and customer ratings are selling on Amazon for as much as $750,” said Emporia CEO Shawn McLaughlin.

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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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Let’s Start Taking on solar’s cybersecurity challenges

Green Living Guy

Contributed by Guohui Yuan, Systems Integration Program Manager, U.S. Department of Energy Solar Energy Technologies Office Solar generation could provide nearly half of the nation’s electricity supply by 2050. Those solar power plants, including the power electronic devices that communicate with utility control and automation systems, could pose significant cybersecurity challenges to power system operation. […].

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Graphex and Northern Graphite partner to produce graphite anode material in North America

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Graphex Technologies, a processor of specialized natural graphite, has signed a letter of intent with Northern Graphite to aggregate Northern’s raw material supply capabilities with Graphex’s downstream processing expertise to deliver an end-to-end supply of graphite from mine to battery while on-shoring a critical mineral supply chain to North America.

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altE Store Announces 12th Annual Solar Conference

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Installers from across North America will come together in Boxborough, Mass., for three days of education and networking with industry leaders.

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2024 Volkswagen ID.7 revealed at CES (sort of)

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The Passat-sized battery-electric sedan will be sold in North America, Europe, and China. Volkswagen debuted the ID.7, the next new model in its growing range of “ID” battery-electric models today, in an event held before the doors of the huge Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas open to the public Thursday. The debut or “reveal” of a new car is a time-honored ritual in the auto industry.

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Immotor to Unveil New Portable Energy Storage Solutions at CES 2023

altenergymag

Immotor Technology announced that it will unveil its newest portable energy storage products at the 2023 Consumer Electronics Show (CES). The products will be presented alongside its award-winning battery-swapping stations, a part of its green mobility network platform, which has over one million accumulated rider users in China.

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Autofleet introduces self-serve EV Fleet Planning Simulator

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Software provider Autofleet created its new Fleet Planning Simulator to make it quick and easy to accurately plan the deployment of EVs and the build-out of charging infrastructure. The cloud-based platform is designed to enable fleet operators to simulate the addition of EVs into existing or new operations, optimize vehicle range, plan charging infrastructure, optimize fleet operations and run total-cost-of-ownership analysis.

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SolarEdge to Acquire Hark Systems, a European-Based Energy Analytics and IoT Company

altenergymag

Hark’s capabilities will expand SolarEdge’s global monitoring and energy management offering to the Commercial and Industrial segment

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AMPECO partners with Electric Miles to provide grid services in the UK

Charged

AMPECO says its recently announced partnership with Electric Miles will enable its UK-based charge point operators (CPOs) to leverage EV charging assets and participate in demand flexibility, helping to balance the electricity grid and reduce the use of costly and polluting forms of energy generation. The declining costs of renewables and energy storage have hastened the adoption of distributed energy resources, making demand-side flexibility the go-to solution to strengthen grids rather than tr

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89. Predictions for 2023 - Redefining Energy podcast

Energy Central

Happy new year 2023 to all our listeners. In this Episode, it is Nostradamus vs. Cassandra all over again: Laurent and Gerard review their 2022 predictions (Episode 65) and look forward to the future. How accurate were our two co-hosts’ predictions for 2022? The Energy Transition is not going to be a smooth ride The Hydro and water crisis The decade of geothermal Energy High.

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Q&A with American lithium battery maker KORE Power

Solar Power World

Just as the United States is entering a solar panel manufacturing renaissance thanks to manufacturing tax credits included in the Inflation Reduction Act, the domestic battery-making industry should see a similar boost. Battery cells, modules/packs and electrode materials will all receive some type of credit when made domestically. Thus far, primarily only major lithium battery… The post Q&A with American lithium battery maker KORE Power appeared first on Solar Power World.

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The Brief: The Liist of new impact funds, sustainable development in Nepal, solar refrigerators, ESG predictions for 2023

Impact Alpha

Happy New Year, Agents of Impact, and a warm welcome to all of the new subscribers who joined over the holidays. Please reach. The post The Brief: The Liist of new impact funds, sustainable development in Nepal, solar refrigerators, ESG predictions for 2023 appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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All new London minicabs must now be 'zero emission capable', TfL confirms

Business Green

New requirement for greener private hire vehicles came into force on 1 January in a bid to drive down costs, CO2 and air pollution. All new minicabs licensed in London for the first time must now be zero-emission-capable under regulations which have came into force at the start of January, as part of Transport for London's (TfL) drive to tackle toxic pollution and reduce CO2 from in the UK capital.

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Heard of “Net-Zero Oil” or “Carbon Negative” Bioenergy? In 2023 You Will

DeSmogBlog

Last year, we chased ambitious stories all along the climate spectrum. We investigated allegations of workers exposed to radioactive oilfield waste , reported from the frontlines of climate-fueled extreme weather and climate migration , expanded our coverage of the climate impact of agriculture , followed the ongoing buildout of LNG , and sent a team to COP27 , among other things.

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The Riddle Of Non-Nord Stream Return.

Energy Central

“Refrain from being tempted to resurrect a project with a corrupt geopolitical and immoral history that has the global economy mired in a crisis with no way out. ” - GERMÁN & CO Who oversees the human and economic calamity in which the world is immersed? image Shutterstock license right to Germán & Co. Thousands of Civilian.

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Report: Britain's renewables enjoy record 2022, but fossil fuels send energy prices surging

Business Green

Imperial College London analysis for 2022 points to record breaking year for green energy, but stresses need to 'break our addiction to fossil fuels'. Britain generated record-breaking levels of green energy in 2022, but the spiralling cost of fossil fuels led power prices to almost double during the period, independent research carried out by Imperial College London has revealed.

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What is the War in Ukraine Teaching Us About Our Reliance on Power Grids?

Energy Central

One lesson to learn from Russia’s attack on Ukraine’s power infrastructure is that electricity coming almost exclusively from a national operator over the grid can prove to be the Achilles’ heel for a country. In hindsight, when Ukraine back in 2017 was figuring out ways to disconnect from Russia’s power grid, it may have considered implementing a policy to.

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Survey: UK adults view sustainability as key to business success

Business Green

Bosch’s Tech Compass Report 2023 also suggests UK adults are among most optimistic worldwide about the economic benefits of green technologies such as climate engineering and hydrogen fuel cells. More than eight in 10 UK adults believe focusing on environmental sustainability can help deliver economic success for businesses, and that technology will have a key role to play in combating climate change, according to fresh survey findings released today.

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CTAs Green Grant Contributes $100K to Nevada Recipients Focused on Sustainability

Green Living Guy

Arlington, VA, January 3, 2023 – The Consumer Technology Association® (CTA) today announced the recipients of its CES 2023 Green Grant program. That’s providing funding of $100K to three Nevada organizations focused on sustainability. I mean the CTA includes funding solar charging, student STEM gardens and a statewide tree planting program.

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Rome flexibility project begins

Smart Energy International

RomeFlex, a flexibility project from Italian DSO Areti, has commenced. The project aims to drive smarter distribution networks in the city of Rome. According to the DSO, RomeFlex (Reshaping Operational MEthods to run grid FLEXibility) allows for the creation of a local flexibility market in some areas of the city. The project was developed in response to the Regulatory Authority for Energy, Networks and the Environment’s (ARERA’s) Resolution 352/21 , which aims to advance pilot projects th

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URGENT EMISSIONS REDUCTION UPDATES

Energy Central

The recently released United Nation Report on climate change concluded- “It’s now or never, if we want to limit global warming to 1.5°C (2.7°F); Without immediate and deep emissions reductions across all sectors, it will be impossible,” "Harmful carbon emissions from.