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How can sustainability execs leverage Biden’s policy agenda?    

GreenBiz

How can sustainability execs leverage Biden’s policy agenda? . Dawn Rittenhouse. Mon, 03/29/2021 - 00:15. Well before Jan. 20, when President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris took the oath of office, they made it clear they would start their terms with a clear policy agenda that addressed seven areas : COVID-19. climate change. racial equity. economic recovery. health care. immigration. restoring America’s global standing.

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No waste, no carbon, no wonder this net-zero home breaks the mold

Inhabitat - Innovation

When the Baboolals looked around their North Carolina community, they saw what many people see in their local areas: cookie-cutter houses that consume excess energy. A desire to break free from this mold is how their journey to create a net-zero house began.

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Tips for auditing an ethical supply chain

GreenBiz

Tips for auditing an ethical supply chain. Jerome Brustlein. Mon, 03/29/2021 - 00:01. Many serious concerns have hung over the supply chains of global corporations for decades, ranging from human rights issues to lack of transparency about sourcing and other matters. In the jewelry industry, the issues have ranged from unsafe mining practices and child labor to money laundering through the supply chains themselves. .

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Tidal turbines power electric vehicles on Scotland's Yell Island

Inhabitat - Innovation

As countries around the world increasingly embrace electric vehicles, charging is top of mind. In Scotland, the island of Yell is powering its EVs with tidal energy.

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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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ACORE Applauds Biden Administration Plan to Catalyze Offshore Wind

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Following is a statement from Gregory Wetstone, President and CEO of the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE), on the plan the Biden administration released today to support offshore wind development:

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Staxxiom promises eco-friendly furnishings that click together in 2 minutes

Inhabitat - Innovation

Furniture startup Staxxiom has unveiled a sneak peek of its new “no tools, no hassle” furniture products, a line of patented click-to-assemble furnishings built from natural, eco-friendly materials.

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Passive House-certified residence frames ski resort views in Utah

Inhabitat - Innovation

When a family decided to relocate from Silicon Valley to the Utah ski town of Park City, they tapped local design studio Klima Architecture to realize their dream of an energy-efficient home.

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Idaho waste hauler deploys BYD/Amrep electric refuse trucks

Charged

J&M Sanitation, a waste and recycling collection company serving Kuna, Idaho, has deployed two all-electric Class 8 refuse trucks. J&M boasts that it’s the first company in the state to operate electric refuse trucks. The BYD 8R heavy-duty trucks feature a proprietary electric propulsion system designed by BYD specifically for refuse collection.

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Bald eagle population bounces back from brink of extinction

Inhabitat - Innovation

The once shrinking population of bald eagles has quadrupled over the past 12 years, according to a new survey conducted by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.

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Understanding the Fossil Fuel Industry's Legacy of White Supremacy

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 10 mins In December, The New York Times published a story revealing how ExxonMobil and other oil companies had paid a public relations firm named FTI to build “news” and information websites falsely suggesting grassroots support for the fossil fuel industry and its initiatives. ExxonMobil, which didn’t speak with Times reporter (and my former coworker) Hiroko Tabuchi for the story, responded by trying to smear the messenger.

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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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HIGHLIGHTS FROM ANNUAL REPORT FOR PERIOD ENDING DEC.31, 2020

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Global Clean Energy is a public company trading on the OTC: Pink Markets. The company over the last 10 years has worked on technologies for the conversion of waste to biofuels. We have developed the ability to do so, yet the company has had continued problems with long term financing and now with the economy and the direction it is heading, biofuels are nearly impossible to profitably bring to market.

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Circontrol’s new Raption 100 kW fast charger

Charged

EVSE manufacturer Circontrol has launched a 100 kW fast charger, the Raption 100. The new model retains the design and most of the features of its predecessor, the Raption 50, which Circontrol introduced three years ago. Circontrol’s Raption chargers use a modular architecture, which allows for scalable power levels of 25 kW, 50 kW or 100 kW, depending on contracted power and installation requirements.

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Greenwood scores $40 million from top financial institutions to bank Black and Latino Americans

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, March 29 — Greenwood, Black-led neobank founded by former Atlanta mayor Andrew Young, rapper Michael ‘Killer Mike’ Render, and Bounce TV’s Ryan. The post Greenwood scores $40 million from top financial institutions to bank Black and Latino Americans appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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dSPACE charging station emulation solution accelerates EV development

Charged

dSPACE has introduced its Smart Charging Station Emulator, which emulates charging stations with a power level of up to 85 kW. This enables EV and battery manufacturers to test their new products with different technical charging standards and protocols, simulate a large number of faults, and develop them in line with the requirements of international markets.

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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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Gender-lens fund WIC Capital backs Senegalese bakery

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, March 29 – Dakar-based WIC Capital invested in Les Ateliers de Corinne, a woman-led bakery in Dakar that hosts cooking workshops. The investment. The post Gender-lens fund WIC Capital backs Senegalese bakery appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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‘The Urgency Is Immense’: Wind And Solar Power Double In 5 Years, But Countries Are Clinging To Coal

Forbes Green Tech

The world has doubled its wind and solar energy generation in five years, but countries are refusing to let go of fossil fuels, presenting a serious threat to climate targets, a new report has revealed.

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Offshore wind in the US advances with 30-GW commitment from government

Renewable Energy World

During a government-sponsored forum today, the US Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland joined the Secretaries of Energy, Commerce, and Transportation along with representatives from states, the offshore wind industry, and members of the labor community to identify solutions to the greatest challenges facing the development of U.S. offshore wind. The event included a commitment by Interior, Energy and Commerce to establish a target to deploy 30 GW of offshore wind by 2030, which is expected to c

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LACI Welcomes Next Cohort of Cleantech Startups Into Incubation Program

LA CleanTech Incubator

Today, thirteen startups join Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator’s (LACI) second cohort of its flagship Incubation program which helps founders grow their company and impact in Greater Los Angeles and beyond. From utilizing software analytics to reduce traffic congestion to diverting over 5 tons of waste from landfills using a rental clothing membership model, Incubation Cohort.

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An equitable and reliable solar power grid for farmers

Solar Power World

By Praveen Jain, IEEE Medal in Power Engineering recipient Born in rural India and being at the global forefront of technology over the past 40 years, I can say with certainty that farmers in many countries are not seeing the true benefits of solar power. Possibly the biggest and best benefit of solar power for farmers… The post An equitable and reliable solar power grid for farmers appeared first on Solar Power World.

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New survey shows solar installer confidence increased 60% in 2020

Renewable Energy World

Today, EnergySage and NABCEP released the results of the sixth annual Solar Installer Survey , which they say is the largest and most comprehensive business survey of solar companies nationwide. Over 650 residential and commercial installers across the country participated in this year’s survey, which was fielded and authored by EnergySage in partnership with the North American Board of Certified Energy Practitioners (NABCEP).

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EnergySage and NABCEP Release Findings of 2020 Solar Installer Survey; Industry confidence hits all-time high despite pandemic

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Industry confidence among installers increased 60% in 2020 compared to 2019, with just 2% expressing significantly less confidence

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Contractor’s Corner: Sunrise Power Solutions

Solar Power World

A Generation180 report released in 2020 found that 7,332 public and private K-12 schools in the United States had solar power. Seems like a lot, but that’s only 5.5% of schools across the country. Educational institutions are a segment of the commercial solar market ripe with opportunity. In this episode of the Contractor’s Corner podcast,… The post Contractor’s Corner: Sunrise Power Solutions appeared first on Solar Power World.

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The Reconstruction: Overcoming racial bias to optimize asset management for returns – and impact

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, Mar. 29 – Money managers at the world’s sovereign wealth and pension funds and university and foundation endowments seek to optimize portfolios to. The post The Reconstruction: Overcoming racial bias to optimize asset management for returns – and impact appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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Sandy Munro discusses next-generation EV technologies at Charged Virtual Conference on EV Engineering

Charged

Following his two informative presentations at our September conference comparing 10 leading EV motors and Tesla’s inverter technology versus other BEVs , Sandy Munro returns to the Charged Virtual Conference on EV Engineering, April 19-22, 2021. For many years, Munro & Associates has been performing teardowns—taking cars apart to find out what their components are, where they come from and how much they cost—and selling enormous, highly technical reports to automotive companies.

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Scottish generator’s transmission network charges continue to rise

altenergymag

Further research into National Grid's 5-year view of Transmission Network Use of System (TNUoS) charges by Cornwall Insight highlights, annual TNUoS costs for a typical 40MW onshore wind site in Northern Scotland are forecast to rise to £1.28mn by 2025-26. This is an increase of 180% in nine years where costs stood at £0.46mn in 2016-17.

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Uber Green: EV-only service goes live in London

Business Green

Uber has launched a dedicated EV service in London, dubbed Uber Green, which it aims to have live across 60 European cities before the end of the year. Londoners looking to shrink their carbon footprints have a new tool at their disposal from today, as Uber Green launches in the UK capital, allowing passengers to select a fully electric vehicle (EV) through the ubiquitous ride-hailing app.

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Intengine and Green Business Bureau Join Forces

Green Business Bureau

Today, we are proud to officially announce our partnership with Intengine.com. GBB members can market themselves on the Intengine marketplace. Intengine helps people find and buy from socially and environmentally responsible businesses. By joining Intengine, our Green Business Bureau members can connect with other sustainable businesses and market their products and services on the Intengine marketplace, the world’s most comprehensive and relevant database of responsible businesses.

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Greener TV: ITV and Sky announce raft of climate initiatives

Business Green

The British broadcasters, who are both committed to reach net zero by 2030, have announced ambitious new climate initiatives in the past week. Two of the UK's biggest media companies have launched high profile new climate initiatives in the past week, seeking to both slash their own greenhouse gas emissions and encourage their viewers to do the same.

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Sustainability Performance Benchmarking: Executive Guide To Becoming A Sustainable Business – Step 3

Green Business Bureau

The Playbook for Becoming a Sustainable Business. If your company is working toward improving its sustainability performance, you need a strategy, plan and roadmap. There are ten steps we’ve defined at Green Business Bureau to gear your company’s purpose, culture, focus and actions towards sustainability. The steps below were summarized in Executive Guide for Becoming a Sustainable Business – Step 1 : Step 1: Define your vision, mission and values.

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How wind and solar drove a record fall in coal power in 2020 - and why it's nowhere near enough

Business Green

Analysis from energy think tank Ember celebrates a record fall in coal-fired power generation through 2020, but warns the global energy system remains far from alignment with the goals of the Paris Agreement. Wind and solar soared to new generation heights during 2020, contributing to a record fall in global coal-fired power generation of over four per cent, new research released today reveals.

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As It Undergoes Transformation, U.S. Power Grid Embraces AI

Forbes Green Tech

With its ability to process large volumes of data to come up with solutions to complex problems, artificial intelligence (AI) technology is helping to guide the transformation of the electric grid. Industry experts agree that AI will be necessary to form the basis of the smart grid of the future.

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NFU: British farmers stepping up net zero investments despite industry uncertainty

Business Green

A new 'confidence survey' from the NFU has found British farmers are increasing investments in soil health, tree planting, renewable energy generation, and energy efficiency. A growing number of UK farmers are planning sustainability investments that will help align their practices with the net zero transition and contribute to nationwide efforts to drive down greenhouse gas emissions, new research from the National Farmers' Union (NFU) has revealed.

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New Bills In U.S. Senate Would Bolster Efforts To Store Carbon Underground

Forbes Green Tech

One new bill introduced this week would strengthen an existing tax credit known as 45Q that lets companies take a deduction for every ton of carbon sequestered from the air and stored underground.

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This machine in Texas could suck up companies’ carbon emissions — if they pay

Grist

To burnish their green credentials, companies have long paid to plant trees or protect forests in the hopes that nature will absorb their greenhouse gas emissions. Shopify, the Canadian company that runs e-commerce sites, wants to take a more hands-on approach — by paying a Texas venture to pull carbon dioxide from the sky and store it underground.

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