Fri.Oct 11, 2019

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Can we use nature to mitigate wildfire risk?

GreenBiz

As wildfire season heightens, The Nature Conservancy is developing and implementing a new strategy to fight back.

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Zaha Hadid Architects completes futuristic, energy-saving airport in Beijing

Inhabitat - Innovation

Seamlessly integrated into the city’s expanding transportation network, the new airport is defined by dramatic sweeping curves, an abundance of interior daylighting and energy-saving systems that include photovoltaic panels and a rainwater harvesting system.

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A climate advocate walks into an oil industry summit.

GreenBiz

Our energy analyst was invited to a petroleum conference. Here's what happened next.

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This furniture collection is made from repurposed military parachutes

Inhabitat - Innovation

Innovative design firms Layer and RÆBURN have teamed up again to create the Canopy Collection, a series of chairs and screens made out of former military parachutes.

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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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Circular cities: The state of the art

GreenBiz

What happens when cities think in loops.

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Designers aim to reduce the waste and impact of airlines

Inhabitat - Innovation

This exhibit is a concept design that could change the way we travel, or at least the environmental impact when we do.

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Archstorming announces winning proposals for a school made of recycled plastic in Mexico

Inhabitat - Innovation

From 230 submissions, an international jury selected three winning projects that draw attention to the problem of plastic waste in Mexico and found imaginative ways to reuse common plastic objects.

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Carlsberg moves a step closer to creating the world’s first ‘paper’ beer bottle

Envirotec Magazine

Danish brewer reveals research prototypes for the ‘Green Fibre Bottle’ – containing beer for the first time. At the C40 World Mayors Summit in Copenhagen (11 October), Carlsberg Group provided an update on its journey to create the world’s first ‘paper’ beer bottle made from sustainably-sourced wood fibres that is seemingly both 100% bio-based and fully recyclable.

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Federal agencies propose designated marine habitat to help protect Pacific humpback whales

Inhabitat - Innovation

Earlier this week, three federal government agencies — the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS), the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the Commerce Department — jointly proposed the creation of a critical marine habitat for Pacific humpback whales.

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Birds benefiting from climate change may find their boost short-lived

Envirotec Magazine

Cuckoos were among the bird species examined in the study (image credit: Ben Andrew). Conservationists have seemingly been flummoxed by studies which show climate change is having a stronger effect upon bird species which benefit from climate change compared to those which suffer negative impacts. The authors of a major study investigating 525 bird species over 30 years and across two continents believe there could be a time lag in the response of populations to climate change, creating an ‘exti

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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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Equinor Gives Nod to 88MW Floating Wind Farm

GreenTechMedia

Norwegian oil giant Equinor and a group of partners have greenlighted an 88-megawatt floating offshore wind farm, set for completion in 2022. The Hywind Tampen project will serve five oil and gas platforms in Norway's part of the North Sea. Equinor and its partners on those oil fields signed off Friday on the NOK 5 billion ($560 million) investment, equivalent to around $6.4 million per megawatt.

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Episode 192: Ex-Google X engineer Tom Chi on planetary generation, Citi adds CSO role

GreenBiz

Also, this week on the Week in Review: regulation looms and vehicle-grid integration progresses.

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Massachusetts Regulators Audit National Grid Over Concerns with Management

GreenTechMedia

The Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities (DPU) launched an investigation into utility National Grid in a filing published late last month, which it says will “address the efficiencies of operations and productivity of National Grid’s management and personnel.” The probe comes amid a controversial " cluster study " on distributed generation from the utility, which has added a dash of chaos to the state's solar development goals.

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EV/HEV traction motor encapsulation with Demak Group technologies

Charged

Sponsored by The Demak Group. The Demak Group is a global leader in the resin dispensing field. Since 1984, Demak has been innovating and manufacturing state-of-the-art machines for the meter and mixing of epoxy, polyurethane, polybutadiene and silicon resins, designed specifically for encapsulation, gluing, insulation, and industrial components sealing.

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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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Solar Energy World Changes Floridians’ Misperceptions About Solar, Hires Locally to Fulfill Increasing Demand

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Although Florida is the "Sunshine State" some residents still don't know all of the benefits of going solar. Solar Energy World (SEW) is investing in Florida's clean energy future by educating ratepayers about the value of solar power. Headquartered in Maryland, Solar Energy World opened in Tampa in June 2019. Its rapid growth there has led to expansion into Orlando.

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Dyson drops out of the EV race

Charged

The commercialization of new technologies often follows a trajectory that looks something like this: a startup brings the new tech to market, surprising everyone and catapulting it to corporate stardom; industry incumbents realize they need to embrace the new tech, but find themselves unable to do so, thanks to the pesky Innovator’s Dilemma; other startups, and companies in other industries, decide to get into the new tech too, saying “How hard can it be?”.

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The Week in impact investing: Expanding the mission

Impact Alpha

TGIF, Agents of Impact! Mid-conference-season breather. We’re taking a Brief break on Monday for the holiday here in the U.S. We’ll be back in your inbox Tuesday, Oct. 15. – The ImpactAlpha team The Week’s Agent of Impact Agent of Impact: John O’Shaughnessy, Franciscan Sisters of Mary. John O’Shaughnessy walked away from his first Social Capital Markets, The post The Week in impact investing: Expanding the mission appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Enel X and Washington utilities to add 550 Juicebox chargers to grid

Charged

Enel X, formerly EnerNOC and now the energy services arm of Italian energy company Enel, has partnered with two Washington utilities, Puget Sound Energy (PSE) and Seattle City Light, to launch new smart charging programs in the Bellevue and Seattle areas. In total, the two projects will provide more than 550 Enel X JuiceBox smart chargers to residential customers.

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Agent of Impact: John O’Shaughnessy, Franciscan Sisters of Mary

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, Oct. 11 – John O’Shaughnessy walked away from his first Social Capital Markets, or SOCAP, conference with a sense of shared values with impact investors in attendance. “This was our community, faith-based or not,” he told ImpactAlpha. “It didn’t, quite frankly, matter.” O’Shaughnessy, for more than 25 years the CEO and CFO of the Franciscan The post Agent of Impact: John O’Shaughnessy, Franciscan Sisters of Mary appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Hanergy’s Renewable Energy Center Becomes the World’s First Certified LEED Zero Carbon Building

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As one of the most influential green building organizations in the world, USGBC (United States Green Building Council) has been committed to promoting the “greening” process of the global construction industry, with its LEED (Leadership in Energy & Environmental Design) certification system considered the most authoritative and most widely used green building certification system in the world.

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FPL SolarTogether community solar program expanded to include low-income families

Solar Power World

The Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE) and Vote Solar have joined with Florida Power & Light to refine the company’s SolarTogether program design to include a low-income component and request Florida Public Service Commission approval. Other supporters of FPL SolarTogether include Sustainable Florida, Broward College, Florida Atlantic University, 7-Eleven, the counties of Brevard, Broward… The post FPL SolarTogether community solar program expanded to include low-income families

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Siemens Gamesa CEO calls on students to choose science to halt climate change as new report highlights social benefits of wind energy

altenergymag

• Call to action to society comes at launch of new wind energy report highlighting significant social, health and economic benefits of accelerated drive to renewable energy • Markus Tacke identifies students’ lack of interest in STEM (science, technology, engineering and mathematics) as a potential obstacle to fighting climate change in the near future.

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Digging Into NYISO’s Carbon Pricing Plan [GTM Squared]

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Vietnam Wind Expo 2020

altenergymag

Co-located with 2nd Vietnam Wind Energy Summit 2020 10-11 March, 2020 | Melia Hotel, Hanoi, Vietnam Website: www.neoventurecorp.

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Why only green capitalism can save the planet

Terra Infirma

One of the great pervading myths of the climate debate is that climate change is being driven solely by global capitalism/consumerism/neoliberalism and that only some form of socialism can stop it. Certainly the left are more receptive to listening to the scientific message, whereas free market think tanks are often crucibles of climate change denial and associated misinformation, seeing the climate movement as looming socialism in disguise.

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The world is uniting to help this group

GatesNotes

Bill Gates delivers a speech at the Global Fund Replenishment conference in France.

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Toyota Announces Disappointing Robo-Shuttle Service For 2020 Olympics

Forbes Green Tech

Toyota promised years ago it would have self-driving service at the 2020 Olympics. Instead, it has announced a very low speed athlete's shuttle with a human attendant on board, something that others had built by 2014. Where is Toyota in the robocar race?

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Queen's Speech: Green business hopes build for beefed up Environment Bill

Business Green

The long-awaited Environment Bill is expected to set out details of UK's post-Brexit green regulatory regime - and sources expect a 'thundering big bill'.

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Revamped Toyota Mirai Hydrogen Fuel Cell Sedan Arrives In Late 2020, Now With Style

Forbes Green Tech

Toyota will launch an all-new, more stylish Mirai fuel cell sedan in late 2021 with 30% more range.

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Enel targets clean energy and climate action with €2.5bn SDG-linked bond

Business Green

Italian gas and power giant places its first bond on the European market linked to two of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals.

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Carbon Reduction Resulting from the Climate Platforms of each of the Four Canadian Federal Parties (CBC)

Green Market Oracle

Source: Confronting carbon - Comparing carbon platforms (CBC) Subscribe in a reader

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Dyson abandons electric vehicle dream

Business Green

Electric car 'simply not commercially viable' for the firm, says founder James Dyson.

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Zaha Hadid Architects completes futuristic, energy-saving airport in Beijing

AGreenLiving

China has officially opened the Beijing Daxing International Airport, a futuristic transit hub designed by Zaha Hadid Architects with the world’s biggest terminal spanning 700,000 square meters. Seamlessly integrated into the city’s expanding transportation network, the new airport is defined by dramatic sweeping curves, an abundance of interior daylighting and energy-saving systems that include photovoltaic panels and a rainwater harvesting system.

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Environment Agency targets net zero by 2030

Business Green

Regulator aims to become net zero by 2030 and is looking at moving to 'absolute zero' by 2050.

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