Tue.Nov 08, 2022

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Is bidirectional charging becoming more accessible?

GreenBiz

Widespread consumer adoption of bidirectional charging will require more affordable options. Sono Motors' upcoming electric vehicle — priced at less than $30,000 — might gain traction.

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Waste crime will not be solved by banning plastic exports, says recycling trade association

Envirotec Magazine

The Recycling Association has warned that waste crime will continue to happen, even if exports of plastics for recycling are banned. MPs on the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee have called for the Government to ban exports of recyclable plastics by 2027 and introduce measures to reduce them before then. But The Recycling Association has said this would be a huge mistake.

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How to turn trucks green, using low-emissions steel

GreenBiz

Given that steel accounts for around 8% of total global carbon dioxide emissions, finding cleaner ways to make it that are commercially viable is a vital task.

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Office in Vietnam beats the heat with its biophilic design

Inhabitat - Innovation

This building in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, was built on a T-junction with an open view of a public park and square. That all sounds lovely, but there was a huge problem: the sun.

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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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Accelerating climate-smart practices on U.S. dairy farms

GreenBiz

Sponsored: Navigating the challenges dairy farms face when it comes to adopting climate-smart technologies and practices.

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How to fight the fast fashion, textile waste crisis

Inhabitat - Innovation

From sourcing materials to manufacturing, clothing production equates to copious factory runoff into local waterways, toxic chemicals introduced to the environment and unused materials that are tossed aside.

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Tesla-backed startup is powering a microgrid in Africa

Inhabitat - Innovation

Tesla-backed start-up ZOLA Electric deployed a new solar and battery system to power two villages in Africa. The new system is known as INFINITY and generates sufficient power to power two villages with over 1,000 homes. The system will also supply power to schools and businesses in the villages.

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Sustainability work in progress

GreenBiz

The human resources department needs to get prepared for the coming influx of sustainability professions.

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How using space tech helps humanity move toward a sustainable future today

The Environmental Blog

On October 4, EOS Data Analytics, a global provider of AI-powered satellite imagery analytics, and Greenpeace Global Mapping Hub organized a webinar on applications of satellite remote sensing and imagery analytics in farming, environmental monitoring, and social and environmental initiatives. Since the discussed use cases are centered around the optimized use of resources, resource availability for meeting daily needs, and ecological integrity, the presenters reviewed them within the sustainabi

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VERGE 22’s Accelerate competition

GreenBiz

There were no losers at GreenBiz’s annual Accelerate pitch contest.

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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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Top surprising options to fuel-alternative cars for you

Inhabitat - Innovation

There are surprising alternatives to traditional fuel vehicles. Even EVs have some competition when it comes to sustainable alternative ways of powering vehicles. So why haven't you heard of many of them? Well, some are pretty strange. With the rise of EVs also came a burst of research into alternative fuels, and some never made it off the ground. Here are some of the top surprising alternatives to fuel-alternative cars and why you might (or might not) want to try them.

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COMSOL’s Multiphysics software adds tools for vehicle electrification

Charged

Mathematical modeling software company COMSOL has released version 6.1 of its Multiphysics software, and the latest version includes modules that add analysis tools for vehicle electrification projects. . “In the AC/DC Module, new functionality for rapid layout of motor windings and magnet arrays ensures a smooth workflow for electric motor design and analysis,” says the company.

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Tackling food waste in the U.S. no matter the season

Inhabitat - Innovation

Between Thanksgiving and New Year's, food waste increases by up to 25%. But why is there so much waste? What can we do about it? Keep reading to find out.

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Bosch begins motor production at Charleston plant, invests $260 million in expansion

Charged

Bosch has begun production of electric motors at its Charleston, South Carolina manufacturing facility. The company plans to invest an additional $260 million to further expand production of electrification products at the site. Bosch is producing rotors and stators, and assembling the motors, in a building where diesel powertrain components were once made.

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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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On.Energy on Pace to Become the Largest Energy Storage Developer for Airports in the Americas

altenergymag

Leading Battery Energy Storage System (BESS) provider adds 39 MWh of on-site battery storage, reducing annual carbon emissions by 46,000 kg and lowering utility bills by more than 25%

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What’s behind the rise in US gas production? ??

Energy Central

What’s behind the rise in US shale gas production? Since the pandemic, US gas and oil production have taken different trajectories: oil has not fully recovered, but gas is setting fresh highs. Here at Novi, we get asked questions about these types of trends all the time. Of course the first-order answer to “Why is gas production rising” is simply “prices are.

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Inclusive fintechs build on gains to help emerging market businesses weather the economic storm

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, November 8 – First it was Covid lockdowns. Then global supply-chain disruptions. Now, the rising cost of goods and interest rates is tightening. The post Inclusive fintechs build on gains to help emerging market businesses weather the economic storm appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Electrification’s Impact on CO2 and Air Quality

Energy Central

Electrification is a cornerstone in many economy-wide decarbonization plans. Driven by policy, technology, and consumer choice, there are expanding opportunities for electric end-use technologies in the building, industrial, and transport sectors. While studies have shown how electrification in these areas can help advance decarbonization goals, there is still much to learn about the impacts.

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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: Fintech data for impact, recycling tech opportunity, Egyptian savings circles, ESG attacks escalate, ‘climate-transition’ proteins

Impact Alpha

Greetings, Agents of Impact! A warm welcome to MBA students from nearly two dozen business schools around the world who signed up with. The post The Brief: Fintech data for impact, recycling tech opportunity, Egyptian savings circles, ESG attacks escalate, ‘climate-transition’ proteins appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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How climate change creates risks and opportunities for agricultural finance

EDF + Business

As climate change threatens agricultural production around the world, the agricultural finance institutions that work with farmers also face growing risk to their businesses — as well as untapped opportunities to help farmers prepare for climate impacts. A new report — The Impacts of Climate Change on Agricultural Finance — conducted by Environmental Defense Fund, analyzes survey responses from 167 agricultural finance institutions in North America, Europe and India.

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Climate funds deploy capital to waste-tech

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, November 8 — Nearly two billion tons of waste have been dumped in the air, oceans, soils and waterways this year. The. The post Climate funds deploy capital to waste-tech appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Intrigue as Webuild buys out cash-strapped Snowy 2.0 contractor partner in fire sale

Renew Economy

Cash-strapped contractor in delayed and over-budget Snowy 2.0 project is bought out by partner for a peppercorn sum. The post Intrigue as Webuild buys out cash-strapped Snowy 2.0 contractor partner in fire sale appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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EcoAct launches platform to assess organisations’ physical vulnerability to climate risks

altenergymag

The EcoAct Climate Risk Platform provides oversight of the exposure of an organisation's portfolio of physical sites to all 28 of the climate risks included in the EU taxonomy1, allowing users to explore different criticalities, climate scenarios and time horizons.

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Solar has a trust problem, but standardized datasets can help

Solar Power World

By Peter Cleveland, VP of EagleView Solar Solar has a trust problem that is largely driven by inaccuracies in data: designs that are inaccurate, costs that are inaccurate, and forecasts that don’t prove to be true. Luckily, this problem is solvable. Numerous other industries have coalesced around the need for standardized and accurate data. Among… The post Solar has a trust problem, but standardized datasets can help appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Stracker Solar receives Sustainable Business of the Year award

altenergymag

Stracker Solar has received the "2022 Sustainable Business of the Year" award at the Ashland Chamber of Commerce's 114th Annual Dinner. The prestigious event was held at the Ashland Hills Hotel & Suites with close to 200 local community and business leaders, including Senator Golden and Representative Marsh, in attendance.

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“Poisoning our planet:” Greenwashing, deception and loss and fairness at COP27

Renew Economy

UN Secretary General warns fossil fuel companies that using bogus ‘net-zero’ pledges to cover up massive fossil fuel expansion is “rank deception”. The post “Poisoning our planet:” Greenwashing, deception and loss and fairness at COP27 appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Create gardener’s “gold” from falling leaves

Greenability Magazine

Are you looking at a growing pile of fallen leaves? Here’s how to take advantage of this season’s gardener’s “gold,” get free fertilizer for next year’s garden, and help slow climate change by sequestering carbon in the soil. “This leaf season offers an opportunity to take action to slow global warming in our own yards,” says Marty Kraft, organizer of Johnson-Su Composter workshops in the KC metro area.

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Santos splits future energy team, commits to large scale fossil fuels “into the 2040s”

Renew Economy

Santos indicates its decarbonisation efforts continue to creep forward, but told investors it will replenish and sustain its large-scale fossil fuels projects into the 2040s. The post Santos splits future energy team, commits to large scale fossil fuels “into the 2040s” appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Solarplaza Summit Greece 2022

altenergymag

The 4th edition of Solarplaza Summit Greece (15 November 2022) will once again gather local and international solar PV market leaders to take stock of the challenges and opportunities of the maturing Greek solar PV. Some topics on the agenda, co-developed with our strategic partner HELPACO include an in-depth review of the tender system and regulations, key project development challenges, impactful policy changes, and a forthcoming regulatory framework for energy storage.

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Super fund Hesta aims to pump $100 million into Australian green hydrogen play

Renew Economy

Super fund investment could see the five green hydrogen projects reach financial close significantly faster than the expected 2023 deadline. The post Super fund Hesta aims to pump $100 million into Australian green hydrogen play appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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COP27: UK joins Global Offshore Wind Alliance

Business Green

Renewable UK CEO says decision represents a 'major vote of confidence' in the UK's offshore wind industry. The UK has announced it will join the Global Offshore Wind Alliance, an initiative launched last month that brings together politicians, the private sector, and other international organisations to accelerate deployment of offshore wind technologies around the world.

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Asia corporates turn to wind and solar deals as fossil fuel prices surge

Renew Economy

Growth in PPAs is led by solar and wind powerhouses India, Australia and Taiwan as renewables offer significantly cheaper alternative to fossil fuels. The post Asia corporates turn to wind and solar deals as fossil fuel prices surge appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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COP27: New Global Adaptation Agenda aims to establish climate resilience goals

Business Green

Agenda is billed as 'first comprehensive global plan' to rally companies, governments, and NGOs behind a shared set of adaptation best practices. The COP27 Presidency has today launched a new global plan that aims to mobilise state and non-state actors behind a shared set of climate adaptation goals for 2030 that span food and agriculture, water and nature, coasts and oceans, infrastructure, and human livelihoods.