Thu.Dec 22, 2022

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Sustainable aviation fuel offers flight path to net-zero air travel

GreenBiz

It will take long-term, coordinated action from airlines, aircraft manufacturers, fuel producers, airports and governments for zero-emissions flight to really take off.

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This is how the agriculture industry impacts deforestation

Inhabitat - Innovation

Today, the global food system supports the livelihoods of 600 million farmers and employs almost one-third of the global workforce. However, the agriculture industry is one of the largest contributors to global greenhouse gases worldwide.

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Agriculture is a solution to reach a net zero economy

GreenBiz

Investors need to shift their focus to agriculture and smart-farming to create the next tech boom and fight climate change.

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New solar-powered robots will clean up Argentina's waterways

Inhabitat - Innovation

Argentina is planning to send solar-powered robots out to clean its dirty harbors. If it works, the self-propelled robots may make a big dent in the country’s plastic pollution problem.

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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 sets Amazon’s cloud water strategy apart

GreenBiz

Like rivals Microsoft and Google, Amazon Web Services has set a goal to become ‘water positive’ in its data center operations, but it’s expressing progress in a different way.

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A magnificent home that opens to the air and sun

Inhabitat - Innovation

In the Czech Republic, on the edge of the Krivoklat woods, a residential area known for weekend cottages has a new renovated home. The floor plan is a quarter circle with walls made of concrete blocks. Rounded walls and ceiling were constructed of wood in this redesign that opens the home to the southwest garden.

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Why Prefab Construction Is A Sustainable Choice

The Environmental Blog

assembly of a prefabricated timber house. Since today’s customers are more interested in making environmentally responsible choices, it makes sense for the corporate sector to increase its involvement in green practices. In the construction industry, stakeholders are also going green. Prefabricated constructions are becoming increasingly popular as a manifestation of this rising environmental consciousness among consumers.

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EUROPARC to turn European Parliament building into gardens

Inhabitat - Innovation

Belgium's Paul-Henri SPAAK building that serves the European Parliament will get a refresh by a design collective called EUROPARC to promote the values of democracy and circular construction.

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How To Reduce Lagoon Pollution

The Environmental Blog

Over the past years, lagoons have been under constant threat. One of the main threats to lagoons is pollution. The industrial and community wastewater discharge, irresponsible use of agricultural chemicals, land-based pollutants carried by storm water runoff, and the growth of tourism activities all contribute to the pollution of lagoons. These contributing factors put the balance of the lagoon ecosystem in jeopardy.

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The Regional Court of Düsseldorf grants Hanwha Solutions’ application for a preliminary injunction for patent infringement against Trina Solar

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Parent company of Qcells successfully alleges in preliminary injunction proceedings to German court that Trina Solar GmbH is unlawfully importing and selling solar modules in Germany that infringe Qcells’ patented technology.

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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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Using ESG and impact to sort leaders from laggards in 2023

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, Dec. 22 – It’s not about the scores. It’s about the solutions. ESG – shorthand for the consideration of environmental, social and governance considerations. The post Using ESG and impact to sort leaders from laggards in 2023 appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Splitvolt unveils its next-gen Splitter Switch for affordable Level 2 home EV charging

Charged

EVSE manufacturer Splitvolt has unveiled its next-generation Splitter Switch. The newest iteration of the Splitter Switch features a more stylized look, new components and cETLus safety certification. Splitvolt says its Splitter Switch is designed to make home EV charging simple, affordable and safe by automatically sharing an existing 30 A dryer circuit instead of requiring a new Level 2 circuit to charge an EV at home.

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The Brief: Looking Ahead to 2023: ESG to Impact

Impact Alpha

Greetings, Agents of Impact! Thanks to all those who turned out for our lively year-end call to debate the word(s) of the year. The post The Brief: Looking Ahead to 2023: ESG to Impact appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Engineers find a novel way to control dendrite propagation in solid-state batteries

Charged

Solid-state batteries are a major focus for battery researchers, as they could offer weight and size reductions, as well as greater safety, compared to current Li-ion designs. However, they have a major drawback: dendrites, root-like structures that build up on the lithium surface and penetrate the solid electrolyte, eventually crossing from one electrode to the other and shorting out the cell.

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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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'An amazing year': Scotland sees renewables generation soar 55 per cent

Business Green

Government data confirms surge in wind and solar generation during July and September. Renewable energy generation in Scotland during the third quarter of the year rose a massive 55 per cent year-on-year, according to new figures from the Scottish government released yesterday. The data for the period from July to September shows that a combination of increased capacity and higher wind, solar, and hydro output resulted in a sharp rise in clean power generation.

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Ford invests an additional £125 million in Halewood plant to scale up UK EV production

Charged

Ford has invested an additional £125 million in its Halewood plant in the UK, bringing the total investment to almost £380 million and increasing its capacity by 70%. This latest investment secures employment for another 500 people and increases annual production from 250,000 to 420,000 units, says the company. Ford hopes to sell 600,000 EVs in Europe by 2026, meaning roughly 70% of them will be powered by components produced in Halewood.

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Pennsylvania Lets Polluter Resume Drilling in Protected Zone, Outraging Residents in Fracking’s ‘Ground Zero’

DeSmogBlog

By Audrey Carleton, Capital & Main. On the same day that the Pennsylvania Attorney General’s Office reached a plea agreement with an energy company on charges of environmental crimes dating back more than a decade in the town of Dimock, state regulators quietly signed a consent order allowing the company to drill beneath an area that had been subject to a 12-year moratorium on such activity.

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UK awards Electrified Automation £6 million to develop its motor manufacturing process

Charged

Electrified Automation , a robotic technology specialist based in England, has been awarded £6 million in government funding to develop its process for manufacturing electric motors. The grant was awarded through the Advanced Propulsion Centre (APC) Collaborative Research and Development program, which supports the development of innovative low- and zero-carbon automotive technology.

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Christmas trees: Fun holiday tradition or selfish ritualised eco-terrorism?

Business Green

Your Christmas tree is a product with an environmental footprint - Know the facts. It was early December, and that meant it was time to get the annual Christmas tree. We always go to a Christmas tree farm about 45 minutes away, where we buy hot chocolate for the kids, select and cut our tree, and make a whole day of it. Like many environmentally conscious individuals, I wondered: Are we doing something environmentally dubious here or is this all-harmless fun?

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Solid State Battery Breakthrough

Energy Central

Lithium-ion designs that are currently used in EVs use a lithium compound for the cathode, graphite for the anode and a liquid electrolyte. About ten years ago several companies started working on an anode that was made from metallic lithium (rather than a lithium compound as is used in the cathode) and also used a solid-state separator (rather than a liquid electrolyte).

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Octopus Energy invests in Spanish renewables developer FFNEV

Business Green

Generation arm of UK energy giant plots expansion of wind and solar capacity in Spain, Portugal, and beyond. Octopus Energy's renewables generation arm has expanded its interests in Spain, yesterday announcing an undisclosed level of investment in green energy developer FF New Energy Ventures (FFNEV) as part of plans to expand its presence in Iberia.

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Recalibration, Recommitment, Renewal: Top 10 Posts for 2022

The City Fix

Just as cities were hoping to emerge from two years of a pandemic, 2022 provided a new round of disruption, thanks to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and new economic, political and climate disruption. Oh, and COVID-19 is still here. This.

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Sweden’s Falbygdens Energi Nät to increase speed of DER grid connections

Smart Energy International

Swedish supplier Falbygdens Energi is deploying digital solutions to reduce the waiting time for grid connections for industry, renewable energy and electric vehicle charging. Falbygdens Energi, which supplies electricity in the western Sweden city of Falköping, is partnering with technology provider Plexigrid to deploy and advance flexibility solutions to enable new grid connections more rapidly.

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Green Hydrogen Africa | EIB

Energy Central

Green Hydrogen Africa | EIB Harnessing Africa’s solar energy to produce 50 million tons of green hydrogen a year by 2035 can help secure global energy supply, create jobs, decarbonize heavy industry, enhance global competitiveness and transform access to clean water and sustainable energy. The analysis has been commissioned by the European Investment Bank, the.

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Ancillary services in Europe – ‘timid evolution’

Smart Energy International

smartEn’s new ancillary services map indicates that interest remains in Europe in opening different markets to demand side flexibility but progress is mixed. In some countries, home to the more innovative TSOs, progress is localised but in others it remains slow, according to the organisation, which last assessed the region’s balancing markets in 2018.

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Your Mail Truck Is Going Electric

Energy Central

Flying cars? Not yet. Vehicles with fewer greenhouse gases than their gasoline-powered counterparts, even when taking into account emissions from the power plants that provide their electricity? Yep.

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Renault breaks silos in the automotive industry to achieve circular goals

Business Green

What will it take to get to 'car-to-car' recycling? After a pandemic-induced hiatus, auto shows have returned with a newfound focus on the inevitable electric future of the automotive industry, and this year's Paris Motor Show was no different. This year's show in October, with the theme 'The Revolution Is On', saw the debut of sleek new electric SUVs from industry giants such as US-based Jeep and electric urban mobility solutions from young startups such as Tel Aviv-based City Transformer.

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Hydrogen Technology Expo North America 2023

Energy Central

Hydrogen Technology Expo is North America's must-attend exhibition and conference that is exclusively dedicated to discussing advanced technologies for the hydrogen and fuel cell industry. The event brings together the entire hydrogen value chain to focus on developing solutions and innovations for low-carbon hydrogen production, efficient storage and distribution as well as applications.

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From waste to jet fuel: Government awards £165m to five SAF projects

Business Green

Projects across the UK set to produce over 300,000 tonnes of sustainable aviation fuel. The government has today taken another step forward in its plans to deliver a net zero emission aviation industry, announcing five sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) firms are to share £165m of funding to help deliver their first commercial scale production plants.

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Craft a cute little Christmas village with old cardboard

Inhabitat - Innovation

The holidays are upon us. It’s a special time of the year to enjoy the company of family and friends, bake up treats and create crafting memories. Whether the entire family takes part or it’s a passion project for one, this DIY village is sure to ramp up the holiday spirit.

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Pret A Manger to shrink number of veggie stores in post-Covid strategy revamp

Business Green

Sandwich chain, which recently closed four Veggie Pret branches, says many customers 'may not see themselves as full time vegetarians'. Pret A Manger is shutting the majority of its vegetarian-only branches across the UK to concentrate instead on expanding its veggie and vegan menu offerings across its more than 450 stores worldwide, the high street sandwich chain confirmed today.

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EIB study highlights Africa’s green hydrogen potential

Energy Central

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Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis - Africa could produce €1 trillion of green hydrogen a year, study says

Global Renewable News

Africa has the potential to produce 1 trillion.

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Five options for restoring global biodiversity after the UN agreement

Eco-Business

Not everyone is happy with the COP15 agreement to protect nature. Thankfully, research has revealed a lot about the best ways to revive and strengthen biodiversity.