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This startup helps companies price carbon

GreenBiz

Sinai Technologies, which just raised $10 million in seed funding, is a part of a wave of software startups focused on carbon accounting.

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Student competition showcases innovative designs to reconnect people with nature

Envirotec Magazine

Environmental charity Hubbub has announced the winners of its 2021 sustainable design competition for students, Design By Nature. Students (and recent graduates) across the UK were challenged to get back to nature, with briefs inspired by the idea that ‘Good things happen when we connect people to nature’. The judges were looking for “the most insight-led, disruptive, collaborative and experimental ideas to bring to life and create real change” You can see the shortlisted entries her

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Floating like the wind to a clean energy transition

GreenBiz

Floating wind has the potential to make a huge contribution to filling the installed capacity gap in renewables and represents a game changer for the energy sector globally.

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Ice melt releases 'forever chemicals' into Arctic Ocean

Inhabitat - Innovation

A study by Lancaster University has found that seawater close to melting Arctic ice contains high concentrations of poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS).

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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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Dietary shifts must be part of 'game-changing' food systems solutions

GreenBiz

The United Nations Food Systems Summit is set for the fall but the pre-summit in Rome proved what's not going to be on the menu.

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This restaurant features a green terrace and organic garden

Inhabitat - Innovation

Created by Alfaro/Acevedo Arquitectura, Margot Restaurant in Argentina is a unique dining experience where the dining room and the open kitchen share a space.

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Enbridge Line 3 pipeline protestors brutally arrested

Inhabitat - Innovation

Last weekend, at least 20 people were arrested in Minnesota for protesting the proposed Enbridge Line 3 pipeline that would transport Canadian tar sands into the United States. The protestors have been fighting Canadian fossil fuel giant Enbridge for five years.

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Can this mineral help boost the carbon stored in oceans?

GreenBiz

Project Vesta’s plan for capturing CO2 emissions is to speed up one of earth’s naturally occurring reactions.

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Traumhaus Funari transforms an old military site into affordable housing

Inhabitat - Innovation

The neighborhood design takes a unique approach with a focus on green spaces and pedestrian access, while also creating affordable, diverse and individualized housing.

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How to protect the California grid from wildfire

GreenBiz

California needs to diversify its grid in order to make it more resilient to increasing wildfires.

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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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Effective Investments for Becoming More Sustainable at Home

The Environmental Blog

Sustainability continues to be an important topic today. Climate change and its effects seem to be popping up worldwide, making it imperative that households do something to help. The following are some effective investments to ensure sustainability at home. Upgrade to Solar Power. People use a lot of electricity, and it leads to some high bills. On top of that, the energy a household consumes contributes to climate change.

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New Day School by MMXVI makes use of existing residential building

Inhabitat - Innovation

MMXVI helped create a budget-friendly school that doubles as a community center in Orpund, Switzerland.

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Camden sensor network “aims to revolutionise understanding of air pollution in urban spaces”

Envirotec Magazine

The network will provide “unprecedented ultra-high definition visibility of local air pollution”, says Marc Ottolini, CEO of AirLabs. Fixed sensor network will seemingly provide at least 100x more data points and refresh 60x more regularly than existing air quality reference stations, to show a street by street picture of air quality in the area in real time.

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Developing Sustainable Packaging in the Food and Beverage Industry

U.S. Green Technology

Sustainable packaging is and will continue to be a pressing issue in today’s society. There are concerns regarding the packaging industry’s processes — using fossil fuel resources is unsustainable and more companies are looking into viable alternatives. Without proper packaging, it would be difficult to provide consumers with the items they need to survive.

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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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Carbon-capturing glasshouses grow greener tomatoes, says firm

Envirotec Magazine

The UK eats over 500,000 tonnes of fresh tomatoes each year but only grows 20% of them here, a state of affairs that commercial tomato-growing firm Sterling Suffolk says it is attempting to address using an unusual glasshouse technology to minimise the environmental impact of the activity. Based in Bamford, near Ipswich, Sterling Suffolk says its highly efficient, semi-closed glasshouses are the first of their kind in the UK, using “25% less energy per tonne of tomatoes than other conventi

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Thinner anode strips could lead to longer lithium metal battery life

Charged

Researchers from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have increased the lifetime of a lithium metal battery to a record 600 cycles. The research was done through DOE’s Innovation Center for Battery500 Consortium. The work was published in the journal Nature Energy. The PNNL team found a way to increase the battery’s lifetime using 20-micron-wide strips of lithium.

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Consultancy will deploy digital service to assess lifespan of offshore wind foundations

Envirotec Magazine

Engineering consultancy Arup is deploying a seemingly innovative digital service to monitor the remaining lifespan of offshore wind foundations at the London Array wind farm off the coast of Kent. Arup’s Life Extension and Asset Management Platform (LEAP) combines structural health monitoring and survey data to provide ongoing insight into the condition of foundations over their entire lifetime.

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Check out this case study on Lagunitas Brewing Company in California going solar

Solar Power World

After burning the Thanksgiving turkey in an attempt to brew his own beer, Tony Magee was asked to take his new-found interest outside of his Northern California home. Since 1993, he’s grown his hobby into one of the top solar powered craft breweries in the United States and his Lagunitas beers are now available in… The post Check out this case study on Lagunitas Brewing Company in California going solar appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Big four boiler manufacturers make hydrogen-ready price-promise

Envirotec Magazine

A hydrogen-ready boiler will apparently cost no more than its natural gas equivalent as a result of a new price-promise made in late July by the UK’s major boiler manufacturers. The boiler industry’s Big Four have come together for the first time in a joint initiative to help consumers reduce carbon emissions from home heating and hot water and assist delivering the UK’s net zero commitments.

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Planet Signs Multi-Year, Multi-Launch Rideshare Agreement with SpaceX

Planet Pulse

We’re thrilled to announce a multi-year, multi-launch agreement with SpaceX, solidifying them as our go-to-launch provider through the end of 2025. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 is the world’s most reliable and frequently-flown rocket that offers low-cost rideshare services, making SpaceX a natural choice for us. The first planned launch under this agreement is Flock 4x, 44 SuperDoves on the Falcon 9 Transporter-3 SSO rideshare mission scheduled for launch December 2021.

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4 keys to getting community buy-in for solar energy projects

Renewable Energy World

Contributed by Nathan Fabrick. President Biden was elected on promises that (among other things) he will launch a Clean Energy Revolution in the United States that would eventually help the country achieve the ambitious goal of net-zero carbon emissions by 2050. Rystad Energy has estimated that we would need about 13,412 square miles of land to install all the solar panels needed to help bring about this great transition from fossil fuels to renewable energy.

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Hyundai to test Class 8 fuel cell trucks at Port of Oakland

Charged

The nonprofit Center for Transportation and the Environment (CTE) has won a grant to support the deployment of 30 Hyundai XCIENT Class 8 hydrogen fuel cell electric trucks in northern California. The trucks will serve the Port of Oakland. Each has a range of over 400 miles, enough to make runs from Oakland to Sacramento, Stockton, Modesto or Fresno.

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Ørsted completes 130-turbine wind farm project in Texas

Renewable Energy World

Danish wind energy giant Ørsted announced the completion of its largest onshore wind project to date – the Western Trail Wind Farm, a 130-turbine, 367-megawatt project in North Texas. The company also secured long-term power purchase agreements with PepsiCo, Hormel Foods, and Nucor for much of the power generated from the project. Read more: Renewables became second-most prevalent U.S. electricity source in 2020, per EIA.

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ABB delivers chargers for Gridserve Electric Highway charging network

Charged

UK charging provider Gridserve is expanding and upgrading its network of public charging stations. The company says its Electric Highway will include coverage for 85 percent of the UK’s motorway network, plus towns and cities across the country. Gridserve will install ABB’s Ultrafast DC and Fast DC chargers at many of its sites. ABB’s Ultrafast DC 350 kW chargers will be installed at 50 of Gridserve’s new Electric Charging Hubs—between 6 and 12 charging units at each site.

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Europe’s largest energy storage project successfully connects to the grid

Renewable Energy World

Two years after a devastating blackout struck the United Kingdom, Europe’s largest energy storage project – the 100MW/100 MWh Minety plant – has been successfully grid-connected. The plant is designed for maximizing renewable energy assets and providing grid stability using Sungrow’s 1500V energy storage system solutions. Sungrow provided NCM and LFP battery energy storage systems, which the company says minimized the plant footprint and reduced system cost by 5%.

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Bulgarian Coal-Fired Power Plant May be Under-Reporting Its Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Investigation Finds

DeSmogBlog

By Eleonora Vio and Daniela Sala. The heart of Bobov Dol power plant is a hot, dark, noisy chamber. Lumps of coal litter the floor beside pools of oil and water leaking from decades-old machinery, relics of the Soviet era when workers flocked to build one of Bulgaria’s largest coal-fired facilities. Based in a major coal-mining district an hour’s drive southwest of Sofia, this facility is one of more than a dozen mines, power plants, and heating companies believed to be controlled by energy tyco

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Lightsource bp to power McDonald’s and eBay with Louisiana’s largest solar plant

Renewable Energy World

Energy company Lightsource bp has announced that it will be investing $300 million to develop what is claimed to be Louisiana’s largest solar energy project , 30 miles northwest of Baton Rouge in Pointe Coupee Parish. Construction of the 345MW project is expected to begin in the fall of 2021 for operations to begin in mid-2023. Once complete, the project will produce 600,000MWh of clean energy per annum, enough to power 59,000 US homes.

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APPG report opposing petrol and diesel car ban is paid for by freight and haulage industry

DeSmogBlog

A new report by backbench MPs opposing the UK government’s ban on new petrol and diesel cars from 2030 is funded by the freight and haulage industry, DeSmog can reveal. The report out today by the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Fair Fuel for UK Motorists and UK Hauliers attacks the cost of the ban, questions the science behind it, and warns of public unrest if it goes ahead.

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Green Mountain Energy applies to enter Arizona electricity market with 100% renewable energy

Renewable Energy World

Texas-based Green Mountain Energy has applied to enter Arizona’s electricity market, promising to offer residents the option to choose 100% renewable energy for their homes and businesses. Green Mountain Energy (GME) submitted its application to the Arizona Corporation Commission on Aug. 4 to provide regulated electric services. If approved, GME would become the first and only electricity provider to exclusively offer clean, renewable energy to customers in Arizona, according to the company.

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Carbon labelling start up promises to help cut food emissions step by step

Business Green

New company, Foodsteps, aims to provide labelling options for restaurants and manufacturers that highlight their products' climate impact. A new labelling scheme for food producers, restaurants, and retailers to easily calculate, reduce, and report on the environmental impact of their food has formally launched today. Foodsteps has debuted with a promise of becoming the first UK-based tech firm to provide carbon tracking and impact labelling to restaurants, caterers, and other food-related busin

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How To Become A Sustainable Business: Step 1 of the 10-Step Executive Sustainability Guide

Green Business Bureau

The Sustainable Business Journey. If your company is investing in green initiatives and working toward becoming a more sustainable company, you need a strategy, plan and a roadmap. A sustainable business journey starts with establishing a clear company purpose and mission, creating the right culture and engaging employees. This article provides a playbook for becoming an environmentally and socially responsible business.

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The State of Electric School Bus Adoption in the US

The City Fix

There are nearly half a million school buses in the United States that transport more than 20 million children to and from school. Some 95% of these school buses run on diesel, a known carcinogen, with air pollution inside buses. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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How To Become A Sustainable Business: Step 1 of the the 10-Step Executive Sustainability Guide

Green Business Bureau

The Sustainable Business Journey. If your company is investing in green initiatives and working toward becoming a more sustainable company, you need a strategy, plan and a roadmap. A sustainable business journey starts with establishing a clear company purpose and mission, creating the right culture and engaging employees. This article provides a playbook for becoming an environmentally and socially responsible business.

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Plant-based v2food secures €45m funding boost in support of global expansion plans

Business Green

Alternative meats market continues to sizzle with Australian brand completing latest high profile investment round. Australian alternative protein firm v2food has raised €45m in a round of investment aimed at bringing the company's plant-based 'meat' products to Europe and Asia. The company produces a range of plant-based meat products that it says enable "all consumers to make nutritious, affordable, environmentally friendly food choices".

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