GreenBiz

MAY 5, 2020

Sustainable infrastructure investments can aid the post-COVID recovery. Katherine Davisson. Tue, 05/05/2020 - 04:23. The economic fallout caused by the COVID-19 pandemic is forcing governments around the world to come up with policies for stimulating the global economy. Many are considering a tried-and-true method to boost economies in the short term and provide wide societal benefits in the long term: infrastructure investment.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

MAY 5, 2020

If tiny living and tropical locations are on your bucket list, this tiny home is for you! Dubbed the Oasis Tiny House, this design makes you feel right at home.

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GreenBiz

MAY 5, 2020

Local food, manufacturing and retail could see a revival as we strive for community resilience in the new normal.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

MAY 5, 2020

Tucked into the foothills of California's beloved Laurel Canyon, the Laurel Hills Residence by Assembledge+ is an exquisite example of modern, sustainable home design.

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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

MAY 5, 2020

The next major crisis facing the American people may be larger than the current pandemic. Here are five steps to take.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

MAY 5, 2020

Get to know Spottswoode, the award-winning, solar-powered winery that became one of the first organically-farmed estate vineyards in Napa Valley 35 years ago.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

MAY 5, 2020

While your home energy bill may have shot up while you shelter in place, the planet’s overall energy use has taken a significant downturn.

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GreenBiz

MAY 5, 2020

Between the COVID-19 pandemic and Netflix’s hit series "Tiger King," wildlife trade is occupying our collective psyche at a level never been seen before.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

MAY 5, 2020

This net-zero home is surrounded by gorgeous woodlands and overlooks a scenic river.

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GreenBiz

MAY 5, 2020

Cleaning up air pollution drives economic growth.

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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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GreenTechMedia

MAY 5, 2020

Vestas, the world’s leading manufacturer of wind turbines, reported a big loss for the first quarter of 2020 on Tuesday — but that doesn't tell the full story, with many other metrics looking positive. Costs, largely attributable to the indirect impact of coronavirus, dragged on what otherwise appears to be a solid quarter. Vestas posted a net quarterly loss of €80 million ($87 million), compared to a €25 million profit in the same period last year.

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GreenBiz

MAY 5, 2020

Cleaning up air pollution drives economic growth.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 5, 2020

Over the past few weeks the U.S. residential solar industry has seen layoffs, warnings of falling demand and a scramble to shift as much work as possible online. So far, many of the reports of pain have been anecdotal. But soon the industry’s public companies, including Sunnova, Sunrun, SunPower and Vivint Solar, will report their first set of earnings since the wide-ranging impacts of coronavirus landed in the U.S.

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Solar Power World

MAY 5, 2020

Abby Hopper and SEIA have been on a virtual listening tour since COVID-19 began. The group has set out to gather all the information possible from every sector of the solar industry in order to devise a policy plan to keep the industry alive during this devastating time. “Companies have been generous with their time… The post SEIA pushes for deadline extensions and direct pay to save the solar industry appeared first on Solar Power World.

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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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Impact Alpha

MAY 5, 2020

ImpactAlpha, May 5 – Forgiveness and patience are rarely taught in business schools as crucial investment tools. But such flexibility has become essential as impact investors navigate the new landscape of business shutdowns, lost revenues, supply-chain disruptions and market upheaval that has accompanied the COVID pandemic. And because the restructuring of loan payments and other terms.

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Forbes Green Tech

MAY 5, 2020

While energy demand has fallen by unprecedented levels, there's one sector still holding up: renewables. Will this last?

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Business Green

MAY 5, 2020

BNP Paribas, AXA, Danone, and Total among over 90 leading businesses to call on government to deliver recover plan that drives 'ecological transition'. Over 90 of France's largest businesses have issued a public call for the government to prioritise the country's 'ecological transition' in its economic recovery plans, reiterating their commitment to climate action.

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Forbes Green Tech

MAY 5, 2020

Gino Bartali was a three-time winner of the Giro d'Italia cycle race (1936, 1937 and 1946) and a two-time winner of the Tour de France (1938 and 1948) but what people in May 2000 didn’t find out until some years later was that the champion cyclist lived a secret life.

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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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Charged

MAY 5, 2020

GM is one of several automakers that had ambitious EV plans in the pipeline before the global health crisis hit. Now lockdowns are being lifted, but the outlook for the auto industry is bleak. Will GM’s EV programs fall victim to cost-cutting, as a planned Lincoln/Rivian collaboration already has? Ken Morris, a 31-year GM veteran who was recently named Vice President for Electric and Autonomous Vehicles, says no.

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Business Green

MAY 5, 2020

Christiana Figueres, Nick Stern, and Paul Polman lead renewed push for beefed up approach to nature-based emissions reductions. A group of leading academics, campaigners, and executives have this week issued a renewed call for governments to accelerate efforts to scale up the deployment of Nature-Based Solutions capable of simultaneously reducing carbon emissions and restoring natural habitats.

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Charged

MAY 5, 2020

LG Chem recently announced that it will invest 65 billion South Korean won ($54 million) by Q1 of next year to add 1,200 tons of carbon nanotube (CNT) production capacity to its Yeosu, South Korea plant. Once the expansion is made, the company will have a total production capacity of 1,700 tons. LG Chem says its making the new investment not only to target the global EV market, but also the growing CNT market for anode conductive additives in lithium-ion batteries, which can increase the batteri

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GatesNotes

MAY 5, 2020

This year’s graduates can help build a healthier, more equal world.

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altenergymag

MAY 5, 2020

CS Energy's new website focuses on the company's mission to deliver high-value projects to our customers with safety, quality, and certainty at the forefront.

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Solar Power World

MAY 5, 2020

Mortenson has begun building an 86-MWAC solar facility for Silicon Ranch in Jeff Davis County in Southeast Georgia. Once the project is completed, Silicon Ranch will provide the renewable power it generates at cost-competitive rates to Green Power EMC, the renewable energy supplier for 38 Georgia Electric Membership Corporations (EMCs) throughout the state.

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Impact Alpha

MAY 5, 2020

The future of work is here. With unemployment soaring and many jobs never coming back, long-forecast shifts in employment patterns that might have played out over a decade or more are snapping quickly into place. To adjust, millions of people in the U.S. and around the world will need retraining, certifications and other support to. The post Career impact bonds transfer risk to investors as the future of work arrives (podcast) appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Solar Power World

MAY 5, 2020

The American Solar Energy Society (ASES) is holding its first virtual conference, SOLAR 20/20: Renewable Energy Vision, June 24-25, 2020. Originally set in Washington D.C., participants will now be joining virtually and engaging in important discussions on policy, technological advances, finance, storage, grid interconnectivity, community solar, education and more.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 5, 2020

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Solar Power World

MAY 5, 2020

The rescheduled Midwest Solar Expo will return for its seventh year on June 15-17, 2020, as the solar industry’s first ever fully-immersive 3D virtual conference, becoming one of the world’s first B2B conferences to leverage event technology which captures the same conference experience as a live event. The Midwest’s flagship gathering of solar business leaders will… The post June’s Midwest Solar Expo will be a fully-immersive 3D virtual conference appeared first on Solar Power World

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altenergymag

MAY 5, 2020

Four-Year Commitment Diversifies Funding Resources for Homeowners Looking to Go Solar

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Solar Power World

MAY 5, 2020

The Renewable Energy Policy Pathways Report, released from the REBA Institute, finds that expanding competitive supply options appears to have the greatest technical potential to provide the fastest and most cost-effective path to increase customer renewable energy access. In addition, the expansion of utility subscription programs and renewable energy portfolio standards (RPS) can provide attractive near… The post New report outlines policy strategies to increase C&I solar developmen

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Forbes Green Tech

MAY 5, 2020

Investing in a green recovery from COVID-19 will deliver rapid short-term growth and long-term economic gains while also tackling climate change, according to a new study from Oxford University.

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Business Green

MAY 5, 2020

Vast swathes of the Tropics could end up as hot as the Sahara within 50 years unless emissions fall sharply, report warns. Areas of the planet that are currently home to one-third of the global population could become as hot as the hottest parts of the Sahara within 50 years, unless greenhouse gas emissions fall rapidly in the coming decades. That is the stark conclusion of a new international study published yesterday in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences based on worst

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Impact Alpha

MAY 5, 2020

Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: ImpactAlpha Original Investors that demonstrate flexibility and patience prove catalytic in COVID crisis. Forgiveness and patience are rarely taught as crucial investment tools in business school. But such flexibility has become essential as impact investors navigate the new landscape of business shutdowns, lost revenues, supply-chain disruptions and market upheaval that.

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