Fri.Nov 20, 2020

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How Utah cities are pursuing 100% renewable energy

GreenBiz

How Utah cities are pursuing 100% renewable energy. Emily Elizabet…. Fri, 11/20/2020 - 01:00. In the absence of federal action on climate change in the United States, local communities have taken on the responsibility of reducing their greenhouse emissions. To date, more than 150 cities, counties and states across America have passed resolutions to commit to 100 percent net-renewable electricity in the coming years, defined as meeting the city’s total electricity demand with the gross amount of

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Indonesian eco village features rammed earth domes and ocean views

Inhabitat - Innovation

Dome Lombok enjoys stunning ocean views, permaculture gardens, a farm-to-table restaurant, an organic juice bar, an outdoor cinema and a swimming pool.

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The chef who wants diners to fund regenerative ag

GreenBiz

The chef who wants diners to fund regenerative ag. Jim Giles. Fri, 11/20/2020 - 01:30. "We have solutions that are bipartisan and cost the government $0.". That was the opening line of a message I received from award-winning chef Anthony Myint, who replied to my request for elevator pitches for president-elect Joe Biden. Myint went on to describe a scalable mechanism for capturing large amounts of carbon in agricultural soils that would, indeed, cost governments $0.

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What If Automakers Had Acted on Their Own Climate Science From 50 Years Ago?

GreenTechMedia

In the 1960s, scientists who worked for General Motors and Ford discovered that the exhaust from their cars was very likely changing the climate. They made presentations at conferences. They briefed senior executives. And then, they were publicly contradicted and their work was suppressed. We’ll talk to Maxine Joselow, the journalist who reported the story for E&E News over many months.

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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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Episode 246: Celebrating the sustainability profession, the 'clean fight'

GreenBiz

Episode 246: Celebrating the sustainability profession, the 'clean fight'. Heather Clancy. Fri, 11/20/2020 - 02:00. Week in Review. Stories discussed this week (3:45). Joe Biden’s environmental priorities: The first 100 days. How circular cities can put people first. With these emerging leaders, building the future of the clean economy starts now. Features.

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1% of global population causes 50% of all carbon pollution emitted by the aviation industry

Inhabitat - Innovation

Only 1% of people cause half of all aviation pollution globally. Super emitters pollute the environment at the expense of millions of people who do not fly.

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Renowned landscape architects unveil designs to save the Tidal Basin

Inhabitat - Innovation

The National Mall Tidal Basin is under threat from daily flooding. Experts are reimagining this iconic, beloved space for the future.

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Converging crises call for converging solutions

GreenBiz

Converging crises call for converging solutions. Sarah Golden. Fri, 11/20/2020 - 01:45. In the words of President-elect Joe Biden, America is facing four historic colliding crises: the economy; a pandemic; systemic racism; and climate chaos. . These aren’t four separate asteroids all coincidentally headed our way at once. They’re intertwined and part of the same challenges; they’re the consequence of decades of actions and inactions that are boiling over and activating one another.

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NOAA report shows climate change is killing Floridas coral reefs

Inhabitat - Innovation

The report shows that most corals are dying because of climate change and its effects.

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ING’s Ana Carolina Olivera on why sustainable business is better business

GreenBiz

ING’s Ana Carolina Olivera on why sustainable business is better business. This video is sponsored by ING. . “ING wants to help support companies that are struggling with sustainability practices to create a more inclusive approach where all factors can empower them to participate in sustainable finance. When a company embraces sustainability as part of their business strategy, they will consequently be managed more efficiently, have a more engaged workforce, and will be more connected to their

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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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Architects turn waste into trendy glamping shelters in Rotterdam

Inhabitat - Innovation

Sleep in a dumpster or a tiny home made of trash at Culture Campsite.

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Kwik-Lok’s Stephanie Paxton-Jackson on how small companies can use innovation to drive sustainability

GreenBiz

Kwik-Lok’s Stephanie Paxton-Jackson on how small companies can use innovation to drive sustainability. This video is sponsored by Kwik-Lok. . “As a plastics company, something that was really important for us to impact the world and have a lighter impact in places that we could.”. . John Davies, VP & Senior Analyst, Greenbiz interviewed Stephanie Paxton-Jackson, Co-owner, Kwik-Lok during VERGE 20, which took place 10/26-10/30/20.

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Report: Rapid Transport Decarbonization Means We’ve Probably Passed Peak Oil

GreenTechMedia

The global peak in oil consumption may already be past us, according to a new report from Carbon Tracker — and China and India's rapid transition to low carbon transport is the reason why. The report released Friday underscores the role that transportation in emerging economies will play in future oil demand, and how quickly falling battery costs and increasingly aggressive decarbonization policies are accelerating the shift from fossil-fueled to electric vehicles.

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Anne Alonzo on how Corteva Agriscience aims to increase the resilience of our global food systems

GreenBiz

Anne Alonzo on how Corteva Agriscience aims to increase the resilience of our global food systems. This video is sponsored by Corteva Agriscience. . . “These commitments that we've made are a direct result of the learnings that we had from our farmers, and we know that we can achieve these goals without sacrificing farmers’ productivity or profitability.”. .

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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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EU beverage carton recycling rate hits 51%

Envirotec Magazine

The latest figures on beverage carton recycling in the EU show that they have surpassed 50% for the first time. The recycling rate for beverage cartons in the EU28[1] rose to 51% in 2019, a rise of 2% on 2018 figures and a continued year-on-year increase. “We are pleased that the steady annual increase of the recycling rate for beverage cartons in 2019 surpassed 50%,” said Annick Carpentier, Director General of the Alliance for Beverage Cartons and the Environment (ACE) in Brussels.

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How Verizon’s Jim Gowen is creating, establishing and maintaining a sustainable supply chain

GreenBiz

How Verizon’s Jim Gowen is creating, establishing and maintaining a sustainable supply chain. This video is sponsored by Verizon. . . “Sustainability is not a competitive sport, but rather, a fan of collaboration.”. . Pete May, President and Co-Founder, Greenbiz, interviewed Jim Gowen, CSO, Verizon during VERGE 20, which took place 10/26-10/30/20.

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Decoding the New Energy Customer

GreenTechMedia

Every pathway toward economy-wide decarbonization drives straight through a dramatic transformation in the electricity sector. But so much of the discussion in that sector focuses on the supply side: how fast will wind and solar displace fossil fuels? What will happen with natural gas? But there's another important player in this game: the energy consumer.

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Boston Solar Named “Top Solar Contractor” for 5th Consecutive Year

altenergymag

Boston Solar has been named a 2020 Top Solar Contractor in Massachusetts by Solar Power World. It is the fifth consecutive year that the company has received this recognition.

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Iberdrola Guns for Green Hydrogen Leadership in Europe

GreenTechMedia

Spanish utility Iberdrola is aiming to become one of Europe’s top green hydrogen producers with a 200-megawatt electrolyzer project and plans for 600 MW more. The 100-million-euro ($119 million) project builds on a 20-megawatt electrolyzer installation for Fertiberia, a fertilizer and industrial chemicals firm, which Iberdrola said would be the largest green hydrogen production system in Europe when it comes online about a year from now.

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Volvo to launch a range of electric trucks in Europe in 2021

Charged

Volvo Trucks plans to offer a complete range of all-electric heavy-duty trucks in Europe, starting in 2021. Sales will begin next year, and volume production will start in 2022. The company is now running tests of the electric heavy-duty Volvo FH, FM and FMX trucks, which are aimed at regional transport and urban construction applications. These trucks will have a gross combination weight of up to 44 tonnes, and a range of up to 300 km, depending on battery configuration.

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‘Historic’ Court Ruling Will Force France To Justify Its Climate Targets

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 5 mins A French court this week issued what climate campaigners are calling a “historic decision” in the fight to hold national governments accountable for insufficient action to address the climate crisis.

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Did poor Honda e sales spur the decision to buy EV credits from Tesla?

Charged

Emissions regulations in the EU are getting tighter, and the law provides for substantial fines for automakers that can’t comply—in some cases, as much as €2,375 per car sold. This is the reason that European EV sales have been soaring, and European automakers have a massive number of new electrified models in their pipelines (did you really think it was because car buyers were concerned about climate change?).

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Tackling a Locust Plague in the 21st Century: A Sustainability Issue

Unsustainable

In East Africa, experts are warning of new threat to food security, that of an unprecedented locust outbreak that began at the end of 2019. The post Tackling a Locust Plague in the 21st Century: A Sustainability Issue appeared first on Unsustainable.

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Degrees Episode 01: Steph Speirs

EDF + Business

Steph is a CEO who’s right in the mix with engaging customers. Steph Speirs is right in the middle of one of the most critical challenges of our time: the quest to move our energy economy away from fossil fuels and into systems that are clean, equitable, and renewable. Steph is the CEO and co-founder of Solstice, a dynamic startup that is working to bring solar energy to the 80% of Americans who are unable to install solar panels on their roofs.

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Justin Trudeau unveils new net zero plan for Canada

Business Green

Environmentalists welcome legislation but warn that a lack of penalties for failing to meet targets must be addressed as landmark bill makes its way through legislative process. Canada has tabled new legislation that will see the country formally commit to reaching net zero emissions by 2050, in line with its Paris Agreement commitments. The bill, introduced to Parliament yesterday by federal environment and climate change minister Jonathan Wilkinson, would require the government to set five-yea

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The Week in impact investing: Onward

Impact Alpha

TGIF, Agents of Impact! Impact On. Some investors go risk off. Others go impact on. ImpactAlpha launched our fall marketing campaign (and new.

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Tigo Energy Welcomes Dru Sutton as North America Sales Vice-President

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New Hire Represents Investment in Future Expansion

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Impact Briefing: Week of November 20th (podcast)

Impact Alpha

Host Monique Aiken recaps this week’s Agents of Impact Call on gender-smart investing and we go to South Africa to follow up with Secha Capital’s Kuhle Mnisi and Wukina’s Maureen Sibanda, this week’s Agents of Impact.

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All-Island Offshore and Onshore Renewables Conference, Ireland 2020

altenergymag

Natural Power is sponsoring the forthcoming All-Island Offshore and Onshore Renewables Conference being hosted jointly by IWEA and RenewableNI virtually on 26th and 27th November.

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Reports: GE mulls wind turbine factory in north east England

Business Green

US manufacturing giant said to be in talks to set up facility that would create 3,000 green jobs for the burgeoning offshore wind industry. GE is in talks to establish a wind turbine factory in north east England that could create at least 3,000 green jobs in the region to support the UK's burgeoning offshore wind industry, according to reports. The Financial Times reported today that the US energy and manufacturing giant is considering three locations in the region for the new factory, which wo

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5 Things To Remember When Looking For A Custom Battery Pack Supplier For Your Products

altenergymag

If you're looking for a reliable custom battery supplier for your product, here are five things you have to keep in mind.

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MINI’s 2020 Vision Urbanaut Is A Shape-Shifting, Driverless, Electric Shared Car

Forbes Green Tech

MINI’s 2020 Vision Urbanaut is an all-electric autonomous concept study that changes shape according to your mood to become a work station, a relaxing sanctuary and a space to communicate with the outside world.

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Arrival to list on New York stock exchange amid surging investor interest in EVs

Business Green

The move will provide around half a billion pounds in cash proceeds for the EV innovator, helping fund mass production at its microfactories planned to begin next year. UK electric vehicle (EV) start-up Arrival announced this week it will list on the New York Stock Exchange in a move that would value the company at more than £4bn. The move is expected to generate approximately £500m for the Banbury-based company, helping finance mass production of its first electric bus and van, slat

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Wukina’s Maureen Sibanda and Secha Capital’s Kuhle Mnisi

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, November 20 – Follow the women… to catalyze an economic recovery and unlock trillions in new consumer spending power. Tech-enabled startups are.