GreenBiz

JUNE 17, 2020

Lyft plans to electrify all of its cars by 2030. Katie Fehrenbacher. Wed, 06/17/2020 - 10:00. In an unprecedented move, the ride-hailing company Lyft revealed Wednesday it plans to electrify every car on its platform — those owned by Lyft and rented to drivers as well as cars owned by drivers — by 2030. The decade-long goal could result in millions of electric vehicles purchased for ride-hailing operations, encourage greater electric vehicle charging deployments and motivate stronger city, state

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JUNE 17, 2020

New research shows that drawing energy from trees could help power future cities. By converting tree movements into energy, anemokinetics technology taps into the power available in nature.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 17, 2020

3 keys for scaling nature-based solutions for climate adaptation. Jonathan Cook. Wed, 06/17/2020 - 00:30. This article originally was published in World Resources Institute. In Indonesia, climate change is already a pernicious threat. More than 30 million people across northern Java suffer from coastal flooding and erosion related to more severe storms and sea level rise.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 17, 2020

Sunrun, the leading U.S. rooftop solar installer, finalized two utility partnerships to turn home batteries into miniature power plants. The company is signing up existing customers in Southern California Edison territory for a year-long demonstration, expected to launch by the end of the month. Participants will receive $250 for letting Sunrun control their batteries based on signals from SCE.

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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

JUNE 17, 2020

Dow’s Jim Fitterling on tackling plastic waste and the company’s sustainability goals. In a conversation with GreenBiz Executive Editor Joel Makower, Dow CEO Jim Fitterling details strategy for the company’s latest sustainability commitments — including being carbon neutral by 2050. “That includes looking at Scope 1 through 3 emissions. And also taking a look at some of the positive benefits our products bring to society,” Fitterling said, pointing to energy-efficient housing and reduction of gr

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JUNE 17, 2020

Summer is just around the corner, and that means it’s picnic season.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JUNE 17, 2020

Denmark’s NATURKRAFT officially opened to offer the public a new space for experiencing the “physical and aesthetic powers of nature.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 17, 2020

Lyft is going 100% electric. The rideshare company just pledged to transition every vehicle on its platform to an EV by 2030. But this decision isn’t as simple as buying a few new cars. It will require building out an entire ecosystem of electric vehicle infrastructure and incentives, and getting into the weeds on policy. On this episode of Political Climate , we speak to Lyft’s director of sustainability, Sam Arons, about this bold new strategy.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JUNE 17, 2020

The new building is an energy powerhouse and a new affordable housing community.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 17, 2020

Large-scale developer 8minute Solar Energy said this week it had signed its power purchase agreements with two Northern California community choice aggregators for a 250-megawatt solar project located in the state, including 150-megawatt hours of energy storage. 8minute, which develops solar and storage, has already inked deals for projects with all of California’s large investor-owned utilities, Pacific Gas & Electric, Southern California Edison and San Diego Electric & Gas.

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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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Charged

JUNE 17, 2020

An electric boat that can fly? Wow, has James Bond heard about this? The truth about the Candela Seven electric boat is a bit less exciting, but still pretty cool. The new EV can’t actually take to the sky, but it does rise above the water in order to decrease drag and increase range. Wing-shaped foils force the hull out of the water as the boat moves forward, which Candela says reduces energy consumption by 80 percent compared to an ordinary planing boat, and cuts fuel costs by 95 percent.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 17, 2020

Prices for utility-scale solar operations and maintenance contracts have dropped across the globe in recent years, driven by competitive auctions and fewer services being provided. But prices at the bottom of the range (approximately $3 to $5 per kilowatt per year) are not without their drawbacks, experts say. Cutting corners on the full “scope of service” contract, which includes site maintenance such as vegetation management and equipment checks, often leads to higher overall costs

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JUNE 17, 2020

This futuristic city district for Tencent will feature solar panels, green roofs, wetlands and more.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 17, 2020

Lyft is hailing a ride to an all-electric future. The rideshare company announced Wednesday that it is committing to have 100 percent electric vehicles on its platform by 2030, a move that seeks to get out ahead of new emissions regulations under development in California. "We are taking a big step forward, leading our industry and helping to meet the climate challenge that faces all of us," Sam Arons, director of sustainability at Lyft, said in an interview with Greentech Media.

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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

JUNE 17, 2020

ZF has announced that the production of its CeTrax electric drive will start in the third quarter of 2020. CeTrax will be ZF’s second electric drive to go into volume production. Bus builder Solaris has chosen CeTrax to power its new Urbino 15 LE electric bus. “CeTrax is another building block on the way to emission-free public transport, which ZF supports to the best of its ability,” says Dr.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 17, 2020

Pacific Gas & Electric is on the verge of escaping from its 18-month bankruptcy , only to begin a years-long effort to prevent a repeat of the disasters that pushed it into insolvency in the first place. U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali said this week that he plans to outline his plan to approve PG&E’s $59 billion Chapter 11 restructuring plan on Wednesday.

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Solar Power World

JUNE 17, 2020

By Aric Saunders, Executive Vice President for Sales, Electriq Power At the beginning of May, areas of California lifted restrictions on solar and storage installers, deeming them “essential workers.” With the majority of the state’s homeowners under stay-at-home orders during the pandemic, the necessity of reliable home power has become abundantly clear.

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Impact Alpha

JUNE 17, 2020

Falling prices for oil are accelerating the industry’s long-term decline. Falling costs for solar and wind power, in contrast, are accelerating the rise of renewables, which in turn is attracting continued interest from investors. The latest data point: Strong demand from pension funds and other institutional investors for Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners’ latest renewable energy fund, The post Shutdowns have not shut down renewable energy and green infrastructure investments appeared first on

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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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Forbes Green Tech

JUNE 17, 2020

The Hyundai-backed startup that's preparing to build electric delivery trucks for UPS wants to revamp the humble transit bus with a boxy model with a subway car-like interior designed to ease commuters’ health worries.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 17, 2020

Read time: 4 mins By Rachel Ramirez , Grist. This story originally appeared in Grist and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story. “ I can’t breathe.” These were among the final words that George Floyd and Eric Garner gasped before their deaths at the hands of white police officers.

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Green Living Guy

JUNE 17, 2020

Statement by Don Anair, Union of Concerned Scientists Published Jun 17, 2020 OAKLAND, Calif. (June 17, 2020)—The ride-hailing company Lyft has announced a plan to transition to all electric vehicles by 2030. This is an important step to minimize the climate and pollution impact of ride-hailing services, according to the Continue Reading. The post Lyft’s Electric-Vehicle Commitment a Valuable Step Toward Lowering Emissions appeared first on Green Living Guy.

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altenergymag

JUNE 17, 2020

WBE 2020 is expected to cover 40,000 m2 with an estimated 600+ Exhibitors. Up to now, over 380 world-renowned companies have confirmed their booth for 2020, partial leading brands, like CATL, BAK, Chilwee, BYD, Highstar, Great Power, Lishen, Sunwoda, Sinowatt, Cham Battery, Hange, Roofer, Joysun, BenQ, BTR, Fang'en, ETP, Superstar, Foryou, Decent, Tinci, Zhongtian Hongli, XCJ, SVOLT, Superior Graphite, Hesse Asia Ltd, etc.

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Forbes Green Tech

JUNE 17, 2020

Y Combinator's former president Sam Altman has teamed up with brothers Max and Jack to launch Apollo, a fund for startup "moonshot" projects.

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Business Green

JUNE 17, 2020

Logitech announces it is to work with a number of third parties to verify and validate carbon calculations, with the first wave of labels to feature on its gaming product range. Logitech has announced it intends to introduce carbon impact labelling across its entire product range, starting with its gaming products later this year. The Swiss technology conglomerate, which pledged last year to limit its carbon footprint in line with the Paris Agreement's 1.5C scenario, claims the move makes it the

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Charged

JUNE 17, 2020

Ford has announced that buyers of its upcoming Mustang Mach-E will receive a little welcome-to-electric-driving present: 250 kWh of complimentary charging at Electrify America fast charging stations. This amounts to from three to five full charges, depending on battery size. Mustang Mach-E customers also get two years of free charging at stations participating in the FordPass Charging Network.

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Business Green

JUNE 17, 2020

Owner of Waitrose and John Lewis reveals plans to build filling station for its growing fleet of biomethane trucks as it unveiled a fresh commitment to wean its entire transport fleet off fossil fuels by 2030. John Lewis Partnership has unveiled plans to build a new bio-methane gas filling station that would allow Waitrose lorries to run on fuels derived from food waste and other waste materials instead of diesel.

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Impact Alpha

JUNE 17, 2020

It feels like a hundred years ago that I first walked onto the vast trading floor of one of the world’s largest global investment banks. All I could think was, “Cool.” I was enthralled by the energy and intensity. There seemed to be important work being done and new insights being shared as salespeople, traders, The post Erika Karp: How I have invested in the road less traveled appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Business Green

JUNE 17, 2020

Footballer urges fans to back One Tree Planted campaign to help expand global forests. The Premier League is back and it could bring with it a windfall for the world's forests. Ahead of the league's recommencement this evening, Arsenal defender Hector Bellerin announced he has partnered with global charity One Tree Planted and is pledging to plant 3,000 trees for every Arsenal win during the remainder of the season.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 17, 2020

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altenergymag

JUNE 17, 2020

Solar Support, DEPCOM Power and Power Factor team up to help PV asset owners minimize losses from natural disasters

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Impact Alpha

JUNE 17, 2020

ImpactAlpha, June 17 – Instagram, Twitter and Uber investor Chris Sacca is back from his VC hiatus with a new family office focused on “technologies to reduce CO2 emissions, remove carbon from the atmosphere, and actively cool the planet,” reports Axios. Lowercarbon Capital, with tens of millions in assets, hasn’t yet accepted outside money “but.

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Sustainability Consulting

JUNE 17, 2020

Working from home is great for the environment by reducing air pollution, consuming fewer resources, generating less waste, and saving on electricity compared to working at an office. But have you considered the environmental impact of your home office? Here are seven ways to make your home environment healthier, save energy, and increase your productivity from writers Nidhi Parikh from Focus Boost and Rachel Buchanan from The Attic. 1.

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Impact Alpha

JUNE 17, 2020

ImpactAlpha, June 17 – Durham, N.C.-based BIOMILQ began tampering with the idea of a lab-grown baby formula alternative back in 2013, when “cellular” foods, like lab grown meat, were in their infancy. The company has raised its first institutional funding round to replicate human breast milk using mammary cells and eventually market the product as. The post BIOMILQ secures $3.5 million for “alt-breast milk,” grown in a lab appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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