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Delta lifts off with $1 billion pledge to become carbon neutral

GreenBiz

The airline plans to invest in aircraft renewal, sustainable jet fuel, weight reduction, and CO2 offsetting and sequestration projects.

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Home on a sloped ravine uses natural materials to blend into the landscape

Inhabitat - Innovation

Working directly with the nature-loving homeowners, the architects strategically focused on blending the minimalist home, which was built with natural materials, into the idyllic surroundings while reducing its impact as much as possible.

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Global search uncovers proven innovations in clean energy, climate solutions

GreenBiz

Inspiration from the longlist of finalists for this year’s Ashden Awards.

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Check out Glasir, the tree-shaped urban farming solution

Inhabitat - Innovation

In a bid to revolutionize agriculture, New York City and Bergen-based innovation studio Framlab has proposed Glasir, a community-based system for urban farming that combines the flexibility of modularity with aeroponics to vastly reduce the environmental footprint for growing food.

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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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General Mills, Danone dig deeper into regenerative agriculture with incentives, funding

GreenBiz

Food giants cultivate new pilots, new financing programs.

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Why the mystifying axolotl must be saved from extinction

Inhabitat - Innovation

Today’s axolotls are experiencing extirpation, but scientists and pet enthusiasts are saving them from true extinction. Why?

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How Siemens Gamesa Could Give Coal Plants a Second Life

GreenTechMedia

Ten years ago, Siemens Wind Power, as it was then known, started playing around with a concept for a thermal energy storage system. Last year, the wind turbine manufacturer now known as Siemens Gamesa plugged a 30-megawatt/130-megawatt-hour demonstration system into the grid at Hamburg harbor. By next year, it could be breathing new life into coal power plants that are currently scheduled for a date with a wrecking ball.

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Copia CEO Komal Ahmad: Waste less, feed more

GreenBiz

Copia Founder & CEO, Komal Ahmad speaks about the company's efforts to solve "the world's dumbest problem," and the link between food waste and hunger.

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CLT gives a sustainable community center in Copenhagen a welcoming feel

Inhabitat - Innovation

In the Copenhagen suburb of Brønshøj, local architectural practice NORD Architects has completed the Parish Center, a contemporary community center and place of worship that’s primarily built of cross-laminated timber to reduce the project’s carbon footprint. Selected for its renewable and durable features, cross-laminated timber has also been purposefully left exposed throughout the multifunctional building to lend a sense of welcoming and warmth to the interior.

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Learning from Aloha: Hawaii’s energy transformation

GreenBiz

The island is leaving fossil fuels and forging a path to a 100 percent clean energy economy.

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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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Marc Thorpe designs live/work buildings built from earth bricks

Inhabitat - Innovation

New York-based architecture studio Marc Thorpe Design has unveiled renderings for the Dakar Houses, a series of live/work spaces located on the outskirts of Senegalese capital for the artisans of furniture brand Moroso. Designed with compressed earth blocks, a common building material in western Senegal, the multipurpose units take inspiration from the local architectural vernacular.

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Dow CEO Jim Fitterling on leadership in a changing world

GreenBiz

Dow CEO Jim Fitterling speaks about the company's increasing focus on sustainability and efforts to create a circular plastics economy — designing materials for easy recycling, incentivizing collection in local communities across the country, and recognizing the true value of recycled and recyclable plastic by creating a market. From GreenBiz 20.

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UK firm partners with Siemens to advance production of energy-from-waste hybrid boiler

Envirotec Magazine

HERU founder Nik Spencer with the Hybrid Water Heating System. In what seems a major step of recognition for the HERU energy-from-waste domestic heating system – a widely lauded British Greentech innovation – the firm has announced a new partnership with Europe’s largest industrial manufacturing company, Siemens. The partnership will see Siemens support the production phase of the HERU Hybrid Water Heating System through sharing valuable knowledge and best practices currently used wi

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Bruno Sarda on leadership and insights from CDP’s A list

GreenBiz

2030 is a critical milestone for halting devastating climate change. With 10 years to halve global emissions, what are leading companies doing right now to fend off and prepare for the worst environmental consequences? In this talk, Bruno Sarda, president of CDP North America, shares exclusive insights from CDP’s latest data cycle, including key trends around the actions A-list companies are taking.

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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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Events will address current challenges in energy grid communication

Envirotec Magazine

Energy software provider COPA-DATA has announced the program for the first of four zenon “Energy Day” events planned for 2020. The firm has, so far, announced the North of England event, which will be held on Tuesday 10 March in Durham from the headquarters of energy membership association, NOF. The event will investigate current challenges in energy grid communication, commencing with a keynote speech on the IEC 61850 standard delivered by Jurgen Resch, Energy and Infrastructure Ind

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How roasters and retailers can support farmers and make coffee more sustainable

GreenBiz

Collective action is needed.

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Span, Smart Electrical Panel Startup, Lands LG Chem as Battery Partner

GreenTechMedia

Span.IO has a major new partner to bring its sleek, sensored and circuit-by-circuit remote-controllable electrical panels to market: lithium-ion battery giant LG Chem. On Thursday, LG Chem launched its new new " customizable backup ” solar-storage offering, which includes its RESU home batteries and a Span smart panel. The combined product is now available through both companies’ installer networks.

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Ecolab CEO Doug Baker on how business can drive positive change at scale

GreenBiz

Doug Baker shares his vision for how business can drive change that matters by delivering both economic and environmental benefits. From GreenBiz 20.

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How Clean Is Massachusetts’ Clean Peak Rule? Not So Much, New Study Says

GreenTechMedia

A promising new clean energy policy may not be as effective as promised, a group of researchers contend. The Clean Peak standard jumped from policy proposal to law of the land in Massachusetts in just a couple years. It compels electricity retailers to buy credits for clean power that can be delivered during the hours of peak grid demand. Properly timed renewables and demand response count; since wind and solar cannot dispatch on command, though, energy storage stands to play a major role.

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Augmented reality firms partnership to assist with management of water infrastructure

Envirotec Magazine

The development of Augmented Reality as a tool to manage and visualise hidden infrastructure assets is being addressed by a partnership between two technology companies, announced in January. MGISS, a UK geospatial specialist, has partnered with Canada based vGIS to “transform traditional GIS, BIM and CAD data into stunning Augmented Reality visualisations.” Augmented Reality provides an interactive experience of an environment where objects that reside in the real world, such as und

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Love the Reason to Celebrate EarthDay 2020

Fairsnape

The Ego Eco Seva thinking that many will have heard me talk & present on was developed from FutuREstorative and through COSTRestore. The Ego Eco phases are somewhat self explanatory, and Seva, taken from Sanskrit ‘serving others without reward’ is used as ‘doing the right thing because we are part of nature, not apart from’ This week I came across a brilliant Medium post from Ed Gillespie “ The End of ‘Saving the World’ ?

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Exposé Shows Rise of Heartland Institute’s Climate Denial Efforts Overseas, Using Dark Money and a YouTuber

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 9 mins A recent German news report has shed light on the inner workings of the Heartland Institute’ s international efforts to sow doubts about climate science using the dark money group Donors Trust. Part of those efforts include the climate science-denying organization touting its newest representative, a young German YouTube “influencer,” Naomi Seibt , whom Heartland markets as the deniers’ answer to breakout youth climate activist Greta Thunberg.

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Tesla to use prismatic cells for Chinese Model 3, says new report

Charged

From the beginning, Tesla’s use of readily available cylindrical battery cells gave it an advantage over other EV-makers, which used proprietary prismatic or pouch cells. In 2015, JB Straubel explained why Tesla was sticking with cylindrical cells , even though others found it a controversial decision. Over the years, many writers have noted Tesla’s battery tech advantages over would-be competitors – just this month, Cairn Energy Research Advisors called the company’s cylindrical cells “mo

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Wall-mounted solar mural depicts history of Texas school

Solar Power World

The Esperanza Peace and Justice Center, in collaboration with the Land Art Generator Initiative, South Texas Solar Systems and in partnership with the San Antonio Independent School District (SAISD), has installed the world’s first Land Art Generator Solar Mural artwork. The solar energy-producing artwork will be unveiled on the west-facing exterior wall of J.T.

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Motiv opens new California facility to service electric trucks and buses

Charged

Motiv Power Systems, maker of the EPIC all-electric chassis for buses and trucks, has opened a new facility in Stockton, California. The new location will serve as a pre-delivery inspection and service center for EVs built on its platform. Medium-duty trucks and buses are electrified by Motiv’s operating software and power electronics on popular Ford chassis, including the E-450 and F-59.

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The Brief: Latin American leadership, sustainable agriculture and aquaculture, investing in refugee solutions, Zebra cooperative

Impact Alpha

Greetings, Agent of Impact! Featured: ImpactAlpha Original Latin America’s impact investors lead the way at the Foro Latinoamericano de Inversión de Impacto. More than 600 impact investing doers and shapers are convening in Mérida, Mexico this week for the tenth Foro Latinoamericano de Inversión de Impacto, the biggest impact investing gathering in Latin America.

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Decreasing the risk of electrical shorts in Li-ion battery cells

Charged

Sponsored by Chroma System Solutions. On rare occasions, an electrical short can develop inside a cell after passing production tests. This is due to burrs or particles on the positive electrode reaching the negative electrode after inflation occurs. If these cells that are susceptible to failure pass through to the end user, the results could be catastrophic.

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Vote Solar calls for bold leadership to grow solar jobs in Massachusetts

Solar Power World

After two straight years of double-digit decline, a recent report from the Solar Foundation found a relatively modest gain in solar jobs in Massachusetts. The Solar Foundation’s 2019 National Solar Jobs Census noted that “policy uncertainty is still curtailing nonresidential development in Massachusetts,” which reinforces the need for bold leadership and legislative action this session… The post Vote Solar calls for bold leadership to grow solar jobs in Massachusetts appeared first on Sola

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Investing to integrate the growing wave of displaced people in Latin America

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, Feb. 20 – Migration and displacement are unfortunate growth sectors in Latin America. Migrants continue to flee the troubled ‘northern triangle’ of Honduras, Guatemala and El Salvador. With U.S. border policies stopping many Central American migrants at the border, Mexico is grappling with its own influx of refugees and immigrants. Further south, more than.

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Array Technologies introduces RapidClamp for single-bolt module installation in 11 seconds

altenergymag

Solar module installation in 11 seconds per module when utilizing First Solar Series 6 modules with SpeedSlotTM along with new RapidClampTM on DuraTrack® HZ v3 single-axis solar trackers.

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Is There a Role for 5G in the Water Utility Industry?

Varuna

In capturing data within the distribution edge of water utilities, through sensors or probes, some of the difficulties we hear from operations folk at these utilities include: The data transmission issues that lead to lost data or incomplete data which impacts the ability to make critical decisions, sometimes in real-time The power consumption issues that prevent the sensor devices from lasting for a decent amount of time in-situ Data security as critical infrastructure and asset data is transmi

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ABB strengthens grid stability and operational efficiency with Asset Performance Management solutions for power transformers

altenergymag

ABB’s Power Grids business has launched its APM Edge solution for transformers to accommodate the growing complexity of grid operations to safeguard energy reliability and resilience – all whilst reducing capital investment and operational expense.

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Kellogg's strengthens palm oil and deforestation policies after consumer pressure

Business Green

Cereal and snacks giant signs up independent auditor to oversee its palm oil supply chain efforts, and promises to work more closely with smallholders to boost efficiency. Kellogg's has agreed to strengthen its palm oil and deforestation policies in response to consumer pressure, pledging to source all its palm oil directly from sustainably certified estates and plantations, while stepping up efforts to ensure full traceability throughout its supply chain.

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Envision Solar Further Reduces the Time Required to Deploy Permanent EV Charging Infrastructure

altenergymag

The Company deploys an EV ARC™ unit for the city of Glendale, Arizona 9 days after receiving the order compared to 9 months average for grid tied EV charging infrastructure in that city

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