Mon.Dec 05, 2022

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Why I’m becoming a climate optimist

GreenBiz

Whether for selfish or moral reasons, the greater mobilization of coalitions that can yield climate progress is an essential reaffirmation of our common humanity and the ability of people to govern themselves.

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Global standard for biodiversity impacts moves a step closer

Envirotec Magazine

Judy Kuszewski is Chair of the Global Sustainability Standards Board (GSSB), which is responsible for setting the GRI Standards. A proposed reporting standard that seeks to unlock accountability for the impacts organizations have on the natural world, informing the global response to a deepening biodiversity crisis, has been made available. A public comment period for the exposure draft of the revised GRI Biodiversity Standard is underway, with feedback sought so that the final standard delivers

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Maker's Mark's case for business conservation of nature

GreenBiz

The bourbon company is investing in trees and other crop species to ensure the whiskey sector's viability for decades to come.

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WRAP updates voluntary agreements, outlining circularity vision for food, plastic and textiles

Envirotec Magazine

We will not tackle the climate crisis without changing our consumption systems, says group, whose voluntary agreements aim to lead industry response. Climate action NGO WRAP published annual updates of its voluntary agreements for the food, plastics and textiles sectors on 1 December. The publication came with a stark warning that while the UK is making some progress in tackling key environmental issues, a lot more collaboration and action is needed from businesses to achieve the level of change

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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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Build business resilience with climate-adaptive infrastructure

GreenBiz

Sponsored: Our global climate crisis deepens on the need for cleaner, resilient versions of essential systems that keep business operational.

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UK government announces funding for green installers training

Envirotec Magazine

Thousands of training courses will be rolled out across England to grow a skilled workforce of heat pump and energy efficiency installers, said the UK government as it announced winners of its Home Decarbonisation Skills Training competition. “Shining a light on the huge scope for economic growth and job creation in the green energy sector, the £9.2 million funding will offer free and heavily subsidised training opportunities for installers of clean heating and energy efficiency measures.&

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Woodlands conservation charity opens applications for scientific research programme

Envirotec Magazine

Time is running out to apply for the latest round of Woodland Trust grants which could fund research to help solve the climate and nature crisis. The UK’s largest woodland conservation charity is inviting bids for funding for a variety of projects that will address its key conservation priorities within the next two years. The 2022 Research Grant Call is open until 23 December 2022, with funding of between £20,000 and £60,000 available for projects relevant to the conservation of UK woods and tr

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In a world upside down, boards must drive stakeholder capitalism

GreenBiz

Corporate and political leadership towards a better, more sustainable world means taking difficult and sometimes unpopular decisions.

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Electric dreams: Innovators step up at the Scottish Green Energy Awards in Edinburgh

Envirotec Magazine

The UK’s first all-electric intercity bus service drove off with a top prize at the Scottish Green Energy Awards on 1 December. Ember, whose low-emission coaches can complete a 130-mile round trip to Edinburgh and Dundee on one charge, were proud winners of the Carbon Reduction Award. Scottish Renewables’ flagship event returned to the EICC in Edinburgh where more than 1,200 guests celebrated Scotland’s renewable energy industry and applauded the 13 award winners who were recognised for their ac

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8 Ways A Thermostat Can Help You Save Money

U.S. Green Technology

Can a thermostat help you save money? Yes. How? Google analysis reveals that nest thermostats tend to save about 10-15% on their heating and cooling costs. Simply by pressing a button, you can command and regulate your heating and cooling system to your satisfaction. Investing in home automation is a smart move if you want. The post 8 Ways A Thermostat Can Help You Save Money appeared first on U.S.

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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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Are climate activists spreading the right type of message?

Inhabitat - Innovation

With the right pieces in place, the activist can then step into the role of reformer where they work alongside policymakers to change laws and institutional policies.

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What Happens In A Blower Door Test?

U.S. Green Technology

Leakage in exterior building enclosures waste energy and can impact your health and well-being. When there are cracks and gaps in the air barrier and other connections of your home, then they can cause several detrimental issues. These gaps not only allow warm or cold air, contaminants, and moisture to get in, but they are. The post What Happens In A Blower Door Test?

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Triple Zero is going above and beyond decarbonizing

Inhabitat - Innovation

NREP has just unveiled the world's most sustainable warehouse, a net zero emissions building that achieves net zero without external offsets. The 20,000 square-meter building in Sweden will be the first logistics building in the world to achieve 100 percent CO2 neutrality over its lifecycle.

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Building a Sustainable Lifestyle the Simple Way

Green Living Guy

If you want to make your lifestyle more sustainable than it is now, there’s good news. It’s not necessary to turn your world upside-down to achieve the noble goal of living in a more responsible way. In fact, it’s the small changes that can add up to major transformations and deliver excellent results. Most start […]. The post Building a Sustainable Lifestyle the Simple Way appeared first on The Green Living Guy.

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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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Nearly 20% California water supply has extreme shortages

Inhabitat - Innovation

Most of California's water agencies have said that they have sufficient supply for the next seven months. However, a recent state report shows that almost 20% of the agencies could run out of supply soon.

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How Cities Can Build Food System Resilience

The City Fix

Let’s not forget what we learned during 2020 about the fragility of our food supply chains:?the prevailing, globalized model is as fragile as a spider web. It can shatter into dangling threads in times of crisis, such as a pandemic.

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Formr furniture gives people and the planet a second chance

Inhabitat - Innovation

Formr is all about second chances -- literally. The furniture and home decor company’s mission is to give a second chance to both formerly incarcerated people and construction waste.

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Improving speed to market: Navigating EV assembly challenges

Charged

The electric vehicle (EV) revolution gains more momentum every day, driving change to automotive manufacturing in unprecedented ways. With rapidly growing demand comes the need to rapidly scale assembly operations — and that can create significant challenges. Vehicle manufacturers constantly seek new, more productive automation technologies to boost their quality and productivity.

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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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Yellowstone supervolcano has more magma than thought before

Inhabitat - Innovation

We already knew it was a supervolcano. But now Yellowstone National Park’s volcano is wowing scientists by containing way more magma than previously thought.

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Long term fix to fossil fuel crisis is faster switch to renewables, not price caps

Renew Economy

Putting in motion already-proposed plans combined with targeted green energy policies is the route out of the current crisis. The post Long term fix to fossil fuel crisis is faster switch to renewables, not price caps appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Canadian Solar Signs 256 MW Module Supply Contract for the First Two Largest Solar Projects with Private PPAs in South Africa

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The two solar projects are 126 MWp and 130 MWp each in size, located in South Africa's North West Province. Both projects are developed and will be operated by SOLA Group and its partners. Construction started in October 2022, and commercial operation is planned for the first quarter of 2024.

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Ampaire receives $9-million ARPA-E grant to develop hybrid-electric aircraft systems

Charged

Ampaire, a manufacturer of electrified aircraft, has received a $9-million grant from the DOE’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) SCALEUP program, which it will use for the development of FAA-certified hybrid subsystems. The company is currently using a converted hybrid Cessna 337 Skymaster aircraft—dubbed the ARPA-E Bird—as a test bed for the development of subsystems in the powertrain control, propulsion motor drive and thermal-runaway-protected energy storage system area

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Pro-ESG forces rally to confront backlash against corporate accountability, workers rights and risk management

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, Dec. 5 – It took a while, but advocates for the integration of environmental, social and governance factors in investment decisions are. The post Pro-ESG forces rally to confront backlash against corporate accountability, workers rights and risk management appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Fortescue opens WA’s first green hydrogen refuelling station for fleet of Toyota Mirais

Renew Economy

Fortescue Future Industries opens Western Australia’s first green hydrogen refuelling station to power its fleet of 12 Toyota Mirai fuel cell cars. The post Fortescue opens WA’s first green hydrogen refuelling station for fleet of Toyota Mirais appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Gasunie set to oversee North Sea hydrogen network plan

Energy Central

Gasunie set to oversee North Sea hydrogen network plan AMSTERDAM -The Dutch government on Friday said it would appoint gas grid operator Gasunie to oversee plans to develop a hydrogen network in the North Sea, Energy Minister Rob Jetten said Friday in a letter to parliament. The Dutch government is due on Dec. 8 to hold a parliamentary debate on ambitious.

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Collapse of contractor puts more question marks over giant Snowy 2.0 project

Renew Economy

Snowy 2.0 project - already steeped in controversy - faces further question marks after collapse of one of its two main contractors. The post Collapse of contractor puts more question marks over giant Snowy 2.0 project appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Meet the new Greenability publisher

Greenability Magazine

After 15 years of publishing Greenability , I am excited to announce that Tina Moessner will be the new owner/publisher, and I will be retiring. Tina brings more than 10 years of experience in environmental sustainability leadership, including three years as Greenability’s operations manager. In 2015, she was instrumental in Greenability’s transition from a paper magazine to an online publication.

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Bowen says coal and gas price caps won’t derail Labor’s 82 per cent renewables target

Renew Economy

Bowen says any move to lower prices of coal and gas supplies will not derail the federal government's ambitions to reach 82 per cent renewables by 2030. The post Bowen says coal and gas price caps won’t derail Labor’s 82 per cent renewables target appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Solar Power World editors pick the Top Solar Products of 2022

Solar Power World

The editorial team at Solar Power World had the great opportunity to mingle with 27,000 friends at this year’s RE+ tradeshow in Anaheim, California. Besides stopping by happy hours and food truck lunches, we filled our time visiting as many booths as possible to check out the newest products on display. The solar and storage… The post Solar Power World editors pick the Top Solar Products of 2022 appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Rush to rooftop solar doubles sales for Australia’s only PV manufacturer

Renew Economy

Tindo Solar says sales have doubled over the past two months, as consumers seek out rooftop PV as a long-term solution to soaring power prices. The post Rush to rooftop solar doubles sales for Australia’s only PV manufacturer appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Poll: Two thirds of Tory voters back lifting of onshore wind farm ban

Business Green

Latest evidence of support for onshore renewables development comes as government faces further splits over controversial coal mine planning decision. Nearly two thirds of Conservative voters support the development of new onshore wind turbines, even near to their homes, according to the latest poll to reveal overwhelming public backing for onshore renewables projects.

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WA clears way for grid and land deals to fast-track wind, solar and hydrogen plans

Renew Economy

WA seeks to fast track investment in major renewable projects and clear the way for huge green hydrogen projects. The post WA clears way for grid and land deals to fast-track wind, solar and hydrogen plans appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Study: Nature impacts remain 'blind spot' for major corporates

Business Green

Analysis from World Benchmarking Allliance finds just five per cent of large businesses understand their impact on nature. Corporates' understanding of their impact on nature continues to lag far behind their understanding of their climate impact, according to a new report from the World Benchmarking Alliance. The global business group today published its new Nature Benchmark , just days ahead of the report being presented at the COP15 Biodiversity Summit in Montreal which kicks off on Wednesday