GreenBiz

JULY 22, 2020

Paul Polman: 'Businesses cannot succeed in societies that fail'. Deonna Anderson. Wed, 07/22/2020 - 01:30. As people across the United States and the world grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic and calls for racial justice, the business community has an integral role to play in both the dialogue and the solutions to these social issues. Last week, former Unilever CEO Paul Polman urged business leaders to be courageous in their response.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 22, 2020

U.K. smart storage startup Moixa has raised £4.6 million ($5.8 million) of funding, and aims to raise another £10 million by the end of the year, as it prepares to expand its energy storage management platform across the U.S. and Europe. Japanese conglomerate and battery maker Itochu, which is Moixa's partner in the Japanese market, led the Series C funding round.

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GreenBiz

JULY 22, 2020

What makes Al Gore hopeful: Tech innovation, science-based targets and the racial 'awakening'. Heather Clancy. Wed, 07/22/2020 - 02:00. Who is responsible for emissions? Where did they originate? How can we be sure? A global coalition fronted by former Vice President Al Gore promises granular insights and data into those sources — down to individual power plants, ships or factories.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JULY 22, 2020

Melting ice makes it harder for polar bears to capture food, leaving them vulnerable to extinction by the end of the century.

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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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GreenBiz

JULY 22, 2020

APM: An Overlooked First Step Toward Digital Transformations. Digital Transformation and Industry 4.0 are complex concepts, and many manufacturers struggle to sort through what it means and how to approach the topic. Meanwhile, manufacturing and process businesses continue to face ongoing labor crunches and a mass retirement wave (taking significant tribal knowledge with them), which add to the urgency and stress to understand the concept, develop a strategy, and take action to maintain or incr

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 22, 2020

Station A, a spinout of NRG Energy, has built a business collecting massive amounts of data on about 10 million commercial and industrial buildings across the U.S., and using it to assess their viability for solar PV, batteries and other distributed energy investments. On Wednesday, Station A announced it has raised $3 million in venture capital to expand its platform for connecting building owners with clean energy developers.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 22, 2020

What is a Gemba Walk. The Gemba walk is an exercise performed to closely observe and understand business processes and activities as they actually happen – as opposed to how the activities are ‘understood’ to work or ‘designed’ to work. The term Gemba is a Japanese word which translates to ‘the real place where value is created’. As a business concept, Gemba is most often used in lean process management, but has broad application in a variety of business contexts.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JULY 22, 2020

A new, nine-unit complex will bring zero-waste, energy-positive homes to the Walthamstow district.

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Charged

JULY 22, 2020

Tesla can’t seem to take a wrong turn these days—the company announced a second-quarter profit that sent the stock price soaring, and cleared the way for the California carmaker to be added to the S&P 500 stock index. Tesla has now been profitable for a full year on a GAAP basis, which is one of the criteria for inclusion in the S&P 500—an honor that will almost certainly lead to more stock-market gains.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JULY 22, 2020

More than 70% of this green property is landscaping.

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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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Forbes Green Tech

JULY 22, 2020

Millions of distributed solar panels and battery storage devices can collectively harness power and act as a "virtual power plant." Regulators now recognize this -- a move that can change the face of the energy landscape in the U.S.

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Impact Alpha

JULY 22, 2020

ImpactAlpha, July 22 – There is nothing surprising about the fact that Sir Ronald Cohen has written a book on impact. What is perhaps surprising is that it has taken so long for him to do so. Cohen has an extraordinary life story. He was born in Egypt to a Jewish family that was forced. The post Book review: Nick O’Donohoe on Sir Ronald Cohen’s Impact appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Planet Pulse

JULY 22, 2020

A new study led by researchers at Global Fishing Watch and published in Science Advances this week shows how Planet’s Dove and SkySat imagery, in concert with other innovative technologies, was utilized to reveal widespread illegal fishing in the waters between the Koreas, Japan and Russia. The study showed the value of satellite imagery for exposing “dark fleets”—fishing vessels that don’t broadcast their locations in public monitoring systems—which can take part in illegal, unreported, and unr

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Green Living Guy

JULY 22, 2020

Introduction: In the recent years, most of the people worldwide are shifting to photovoltaic energy systems. The system is famous for utilizing solar energy and converting it into electrical energy. The system comprises of some essential components to work, one of which is a solar cable. So a solar cable Continue Reading. The post Solar Cables: An Essential Component of Photovoltaic System appeared first on Green Living Guy.

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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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Charged

JULY 22, 2020

The European Commission has awarded an €11.8-million grant to the COBRA (CObalt-free Batteries for futuRe Automotive applications) project, which aims to develop next-generation cobalt-free batteries. The project started earlier this year and will run until January 2024. Dutch research organization TNO will collaborate in the development of cobalt-free EV batteries by validating battery cell improvements and developing control algorithms for battery packs.

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Impact Alpha

JULY 22, 2020

ImpactAlpha, July 22 – There are impact investments and then there are impact investments. The recent financing of Native American Natural Foods includes a host of terms that ensure the company stays Native-owned and that it continues to foster community health, security and opportunity. NANF got started in 2005 on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation.

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2020

Initiative aims to encourage banks to adopt credit and debit cards made from recycled, chlorine-free, biodegradable and ocean plastics. Mastercard has launched a directory of sustainable alternatives to non-recyclable and virgin plastic payment cards, in a bid to takle the mountain of plastic credit and debit cards which end up in landfill each year.

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Impact Alpha

JULY 22, 2020

ImpactAlpha, July 22 – Three startups and a university will receive the funds over two years to advance their solutions addressing pollution from agricultural and wastewater run-off, a major driver of algae blooms and dead zones. The Schmidt Family Foundation launched the program in 2015 to support and scale technologies addressing ocean health. The winners.

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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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altenergymag

JULY 22, 2020

National Clean Energy Week (NCEW) today announced that this year's events will focus on the strength of the clean energy sector and its contributions to building a stronger America.

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EDF + Business

JULY 22, 2020

Before COVID-19 became an all-consuming global priority, business and investor attention to environmental, social and governance (ESG) performance was surging, and thought leaders like Alan Murray (no relation) were redefining corporate leadership to include addressing big issues like climate change, and putting purpose on par with profit. The Business Roundtable’s updated statement on the purpose of a corporation and embrace of stakeholder capitalism raised expectations across the board.

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2020

Tech giant also touts further carbon removal efforts, $50m innovation investment, an expanded carbon tax, and a new 'sustainability calculator' for customers. Microsoft has announced a suite of new sustainability measures set to move the company closer to its aim of removing all the carbon it has produced over its lifespan by mid-century and becoming 'carbon negative' by 2030.

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altenergymag

JULY 22, 2020

Experience of doubling the world’s largest residential fleet of batteries drives international appetite for smart charging

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2020

Oil & Gas Technology Centre and Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult to team up on floating wind, blade recycling, and offshore platform decarbonisation. The Oil & Gas Technology Centre (OGTC) and the Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult (OREC) have teamed up to create the Energy Transition Alliance (ETA), a five-year collaboration geared at developing and scaling technologies required for the UK's transition to net zero.

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altenergymag

JULY 22, 2020

- LG Chem's RESU10H Combined with SolarEdge's Energy Hub Inverter and Backup Interface Provides More Backup Options for Homes - This New Compatibility Offers Flexible Home Back Up with Optimized Energy Loads and Effortless Installation.

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Impact Alpha

JULY 22, 2020

Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: ImpactAlpha Original A Native food company’s commitment to social mission attracts investors at last. There are impact investments and then there are impact investments. The recent financing of Native American Natural Foods includes a host of terms that ensure the company stays Native-owned and that it continues to foster community.

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altenergymag

JULY 22, 2020

Honeywell’s Experion Energy Program enables industrial customers to develop large-scale battery energy storage systems.

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CleanTech Group

JULY 22, 2020

In this three-part series we will tackle investing in regenerative agriculture. Part I will provide an overview, part 2 will look at key.

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altenergymag

JULY 22, 2020

The technology group Wärtsilä has been awarded a contract to deliver a state-of-the-art power plant and energy storage system to the US Virgin Islands Water and Power Authority (WAPA).

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2020

Company inks deals to use electricity from wind farms in Spain and Sweden to power aluminum packaging plant. Ball Corporation as struck two major wind power deals across Spain and Sweden to provide almost two-thirds of the electricity load required by its European aluminium beverage packaging plants, it announced yesterday. The US company has purchased a grand total of 93.4MW of onshore wind energy via virtual power purchase agreements (PPAs) split between Western Power Distribution's Corral Nue

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altenergymag

JULY 22, 2020

The unforeseeable global emergence of COVID-19 has reshaped much of society as we know it. As countries around the world responded to the pandemic, we saw a significant decline in carbon emissions globally — so much so that the International Energy Agency (IEA) anticipates an eight per cent drop in annual emissions in 2020. As the UK's lockdown eases, many leaders are calling for a green economic recovery that maintains lower emissions.

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Low Impact

JULY 22, 2020

Tempted to learn how to make your own shampoo bar? Here’s a great simple recipe from The Soap Kitchen, which combines nettle and neem oil. Shampoo bars are a great, simple lifestyle change to make in reducing your plastic waste and they’re arguably better for your hair! Here we share how to make your own neem and nettle shampoo bar. The Soap Kitchen has created a solid ‘cold process’ shampoo bar recipe using natural ingredients, including neem oil and nettle, to balance oily hair, promote

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altenergymag

JULY 22, 2020

A team of researchers from nanotechnology specialist Nextgen Nano may have found a new way of accelerating the development of high efficiency organic photovoltaic (OPV) technology. Nextgen Nano's latest research demonstrated that a relatively simple material, HSolar, was widely compatible as an interconnecting layer (ICL) with multiple solar cell materials in tandem solar cells.

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Forbes Green Tech

JULY 22, 2020

With low carbon aluminum flowing, EN+ Chairman Greg Barker and London Metal Exchange CEO Matt Chamberlain discuss what's next for the green metal and ESG programs.

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