Thu.Jan 16, 2020

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From sustainable to regenerative: bold business moves to transform the agriculture system

GreenBiz

Regenerative practices could bring huge win-wins for farmers, food companies and the environment, implementing them will involve overcoming wide-ranging barrier.

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What will the city of the future look like?

The Environmental Blog

Flying cars, companion robots, cell phones embedded in the palm of your hand, McDonald’s home delivery … we all once wondered what the city ??of the future would look like. We live in an increasingly urban world marked by technologies to which we never imagined having access only a few years earlier. Science fiction films not only entertain us, but also direct our imagination towards this vision of a utopian city where everything would be automated.

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Microsoft’s quest to go ‘carbon negative’ inspires $1B fund

GreenBiz

Bold new commitment will see the tech giant charge an internal carbon fee not just on emissions from its direct operations, but on those of its supply chain.

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Is 2020 the year of the electric car?

The Environmental Blog

According the Guardian, 2020 is set to be the year that the electric car, or EV as they’re more commonly known, takes over the European car market.At a surface level observation, the EV offers countless advantages over its traditional petrol and diesel counterparts, but are the limitations which have held it back in the past finally done with? There’s no doubt the EV is becoming a bigger part of daily life.

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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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New tool from Ellen MacArthur Foundation aims to help companies measure circularity

GreenBiz

Circulytics was created to go where no other business service has gone before, in terms of exploring and advancing circularity at every level.

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Stunning, sustainable lodge blends into beautiful landscape

Inhabitat - Innovation

Romanian architecture firm BLIPSZ has created a near-autonomous holiday home that combines the charms of rural Transylvanian architecture with a sustainable and contemporary design aesthetic.

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Transparent, prefab tiny cabin offers the best views of the Italian Alps

Inhabitat - Innovation

If you need a little getaway, there is a beautiful, tiny cabin retreat in the Italian Alps calling your name.

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PG&E’s failures are spurring a movement toward electric cooperatives

GreenBiz

Beacause they directly serve the interests of ratepayers, co-ops often can invest more quickly in new technologies and approaches.

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Canada’s e-Zn Raises Millions to Commercialize Long-Duration Zinc Energy Storage

GreenTechMedia

Canadian startup e-Zn has raised money to store clean energy far longer than currently available batteries allow, using cheap and abundant zinc. On Wednesday, the company received CAD $2 million ($1.5 million) in non-dilutive grant funding from Sustainable Development Technology Canada, a federally funded body charged with vetting and funding cleantech hardware innovation.

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Raining fire: It’s time for a tech reckoning

GreenBiz

There remains such a disconnect between what the world needs and what Silicon Valley is producing.

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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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Immersive, dystopian exhibit shows what life could be like post-climate change

Inhabitat - Innovation

As a wake up call to the possible effects of global warming, Superflux has created immersive art that explores the possible consequences of sea level rise for city dwellers in coastal areas.

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Leap Lands Investment Package to Grow Behind-the-Meter Load Flexibility Business

GreenTechMedia

San Francisco-based startup Leap has raised $8.2 million in equity and debt, aimed at expanding its business of linking megawatts of flexible behind-the-meter load to grid market opportunities in California. Thursday’s equity investment was led by Union Square Partners, the first energy investment for the Boston-based venture firm; it was joined by existing investors including Congruent Ventures, SunPower co-founder Tom Dinwoodie, former SunPower CEO Howard Wenger, and Grid Singularity fou

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Children hurt after Delta jet dumps fuel on schools

Inhabitat - Innovation

On January 14, a Delta jet malfunctioned, dumping jet fuel over Los Angeles area schools. The incident affected over 50 people, including students from Park Avenue Elementary, San Gabriel Elementary, Graham Elementary, Tweedy Elementary, 93rd Street Elementary and Jordan High School.

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Germany Seals $45B Coal Phase-Out Deal

GreenTechMedia

Germany's federal and state governments agreed Thursday on the tricky terms of the country's coal phase-out , with the total bill set to run to €40 billion ($44.6 billion) as hard-hit regions are compensated for their social and economic contributions to the energy transition. Although long a global leader in renewable energy, Germany still relies on coal for 30 percent of its power generation today.

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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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MaKaela Carter, The Fraser Team – Keller Williams Realty Partners, Inc.

Green Business Bureau

As real estate markets across the country continue to ebb and flow, one thing that is impacting and influencing the market is the buyer demographic. The millennial population currently makes up over 50% of the overall workforce, and that number will rapidly increase over the next 5-10 years, and we already know that nearly 80% of those individuals are looking to work for and with companies that document and promote positive environmental and sustainability credentials.

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12 surprising things that arent vegan

Inhabitat - Innovation

It’s hard sticking to a vegan lifestyle.

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Devil in the Details for World’s Largest Coal Investor

GreenTechMedia

This week BlackRock, the world’s largest investor in coal, added its name to a list of 117 globally significant financial institutions with a coal-exclusion policy. The move sends a loud signal to markets about the risk of the world’s dirtiest fossil fuel. But it’s the first, not the last step toward limiting BlackRock's coal exposure.

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RapidEye Constellation to be Retired in 2020

Planet Pulse

It’s with mixed sentiments that we share that Planet’s RapidEye constellation will be retired at the end of March 2020. After 11 years of faithfully gathering imagery, it has aged gracefully, to say the least. RapidEye has gone above and beyond, making invaluable contributions to our global Earth observation dataset since being acquired from BlackBridge in 2015.

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Australia’s Fire-Hit Grid Braces for an Even Bigger Threat

GreenTechMedia

Bushfires that have razed more than 10 million hectares and killed more than a billion animals are also threatening Australia’s grid, but they're not what Australian network operators fear most. “What's an issue more is that we’re experiencing extremely hot weather, which leads to an increase in demand for running air conditioners,” said Dr.

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YouTube Still Monetizing, Promoting Climate Science Denial, Report Finds

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 8 mins You don’t have to look far to find misinformation about climate science continuing to spread online through prominent social media channels like YouTube. That’s despite the overwhelming scientific consensus that humans are driving the climate crisis. A new report by the global activist NGO Avaaz reveals that, despite YouTube’s pledge to combat misinformation, the popular video site owned by Google has failed to crack down on this problem when it comes to climate change.

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Wood Mackenzie’s Key Takeaways From the Grid Edge in Q4

GreenTechMedia

Last year, utilities, grid operators and grid edge vendors all continued to grapple with their evolving roles in delivering and managing power. The grid edge space witnessed major transformations in 2019 right up through the end of Q4. In a new report , Wood Mackenzie grid edge analysts reflect on key events in the last months of 2019. Some of the highlights: Progress in transportation electrification.

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New guide outlines ways to include low-income customers in utility solar programs

Solar Power World

Low-income solar rights advocates released “Principles and Recommendations for Utility Participation in Solar Programs for Low-Income Customers” as part of an ongoing campaign to ensure that local, clean, affordable solar energy is available to everyone, regardless of their income level or housing type. “Clean energy should be for everyone, and with a few strategic shifts,… The post New guide outlines ways to include low-income customers in utility solar programs appeared first

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Making Industrial Facilities Sustainable

U.S. Green Technology

Consumers have numerous ways to practice sustainable lifestyles. They can participate in community recycling programs, grow food in backyard gardens and shop at thrift stores rather than buying new clothes to refresh their wardrobes. However, there’s also been a push in the business world to increase the sustainability of industrial facilities.

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Will BlackRock’s Climate Move Cause a Domino Effect?

EDF + Business

By Tom Murray This isn’t the first time that BlackRock CEO Larry Fink’s annual letters to CEOs and clients addressed climate risk and the need for urgent action from the public and private sector. But it is the first time we’ve seen a commitment and a plan for making climate change and sustainability central to the way that BlackRock manages risk, designs products and portfolios, and engages with companies to improve disclosure and accelerate progress towards the goals of the Paris Agreement.

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What is a solar tracker and how does it work?

Solar Power World

Manufacturers are constantly making incremental improvements to their solar panels to create a higher energy yield per unit than previous and competing models. Another proven way to increase system output is by using trackers, which, unlike fixed-tilt ground-mount systems, make solar panels follow the sun’s path throughout the day. There are two main types of… The post What is a solar tracker and how does it work?

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How To Go Solar Like A Badger

Forbes Green Tech

The recognizable brand, with the colorful graphics depicting the most charismatic, fun-loving and friendly badgers, is committing to onsite renewable energy.

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Understanding Liens and Selling Your Solar Home

Mosaic

Selling a home can be a complicated process. Between scheduling showings, trying to get the best sale price, handling any costly repairs and improvements, and the often-emotional process of moving, it’s a lot to deal with. The last thing you want is a call from your buyer’s mortgage lender saying they can’t proceed because they believe there’s a lien on your property—and it’s related to the loan you took out to install your solar panels.

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The Story Behind Lotus Design And The Electric Hypercar Evija Effect

Forbes Green Tech

As Lotus Cars prepares for the production of its first electric hypercar Evija, I catch up with design director Russell Carr to understand the “Evija effect” and how he sees the halo car and Geely’s huge investment help shape the British heritage sports car brand.

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UNIRAC, SOLAR STACK DEAL WILL TAKE NON-PENETRATING SOLAR MOUNTING SYSTEM GLOBAL

altenergymag

Unirac, Inc., North America’s leading manufacturer of PV mounting systems, and Solar Stack, a Florida-based manufacturer of an innovative, non-ballasted, non-penetrating solar mounting solution, have announced an exclusive global license deal for the Solar Stack product. With the signing of this technology deal, the two companies are poised to expand on the momentum set by the founders of Solar Stack.

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Entrepreneurial Singularity: Marrying Technology and Human Virtues

Forbes Green Tech

Mona Hamdy builds businesses to solve socio-economic problems. “I try to find a way to preserve a bit of these great things that make us human using the best technology and innovation our age has to offer. There is hope for our world and our species. I suspect there always will be.

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Combating the Biodiversity Crisis and Learning to Live in Harmony with Nature

Green Market Oracle

We are facing a biodiversity crises and the actions we take this year will determine the fate of life on Earth. Humans have altered three quarters of the land and two thirds of the seas and in the process we are destroying the natural world and driving mass extinction. The combination of habitat loss, pollution, exploitation of natural resources, population growth, environmental degradation, and climate change have pushed the creatures that inhabit this planet to the brink.

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Entrepreneurial Singularity: Marrying Technology and Human Virtues

Forbes Green Tech

Mona Hamdy builds businesses to solve socio-economic problems. “I try to find a way to preserve a bit of these great things that make us human using the best technology and innovation our age has to offer. There is hope for our world and our species. I suspect there always will be.

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Q&A with Jeremy Grantham: Hold fossil fuel companies to account and make them ‘pariahs’

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, Jan. 16 – Jeremy Grantham called the Japanese bubble of the 1980s, the tech bubble of the 2000s, and the housing bubble of 2008. The British-born value investor has been warning of the risks of climate change long before it was fashionable. At this week’s Conservation Finance conference at Credit Suisse in New York, The post Q&A with Jeremy Grantham: Hold fossil fuel companies to account and make them ‘pariahs’ appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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The Climate Leadership Race: Microsoft’s Climate Moonshot and Amazon’s Climate Pledge

Forbes Green Tech

Microsoft has committed to ambitious climate targets, particularly in the realm of greening the supply chain. It has pledged to remove its historical emissions from the atmosphere. Yet, it continues to assist fossil fuel firms, which raises doubts about its climate commitment.