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What This City Needs Is A Tagline. With A Capital “T.”

Michael Grossman

We got trouble! Right here in River City! With a capital T that rhymes with B, and that stands for brand positioning. Working with cleantech companies means I'm often in meetings with scientists and engineers. By nature, they are very analytical people, which is why they are excellent problem solvers. And in advanced mathematics, there is always a right answer and a wrong answer: Black and white.

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Big Oil’s Direct Responsibility For The Climate Emergency

Forbes Green Tech

Shutting down the oil industry is one of the most important tasks we as consumers can help bring about. We have to decarbonize our activities as much as we can, avoid using hydrocarbons; don’t invest in them, don’t finance them, and instead see them for what they really are: a cancer.

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Climate risk reporting: An essential tool for a net zero and resilient economy

Business Green

Introducing mandatory climate risk disclosure for businesses and investors is an essential part of achieving net zero emissions argues Nick Molho, executive director of the Aldersgate Group.

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Lead-Acid Batteries Are On A Path To Extinction

Forbes Green Tech

Lead-acid batteries have been the dominant rechargeable battery type for over a century, but its days of dominance are rapidly coming to an end.

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

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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Silent Power: Electric vans promise clean back up power for vulnerable customers

Business Green

Northern Powergrid launches pioneering smart grid trial, where electric vans replace diesel generators as back up power supplies.

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Sweden’s Uniti Points The Way To Affordable, Practical Electric Cars

Forbes Green Tech

Days after Dyson, Britain’s high-profile vacuum-cleaner maker, canceled its $2.

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Velocys unveils plans for negative emissions biofuel plant

Business Green

Technology is initially planned for a site in the US, but could also be used in the UK if a proposed plant is given the go-ahead, Velocys says.

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Event - Design Your Own Sustainable Home Workshop

Green Market Oracle

The Design Your Own Sustainable Home Workshop event will take place on Saturday November 16 to Sunday November 17, 2019, in Peterborough. The instructor is Chris Magwood an expert guide for this journey, having helped hundreds of owner-builders through the process of designing and building their dream green home. This is Endeavour’s most popular workshop.

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Lord Duncan: UK will 'walk the walk' on climate ahead of COP26

Business Green

Speaking at pre-COP talks in Costa Rica UK Climate Minister Lord Duncan urges other countries to step up their climate commitments.

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Bali mangrove bay is now a conservation zone

Eco-Business

The decision kills a US$2 billion plan to reclaim land in the mangrove-rich bay for a tourism development featuring hotels, restaurants, entertainment venues and a convention centre.

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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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Why this cold storage warehouse operator warmed up to artificial intelligence

Business Green

The energy team supercools its facilities to help offset energy costs, as intelligent software helps figure out when they should be switched back on.

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Protests, petitions as green spaces in Indian cities vanish

Eco-Business

As rising heat and floods batter some of the most densely populated cities in India, urban residents are rallying around fast disappearing green spaces.

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Sustainable bonds and green economy marks: London Stock Exchange beefs up sustainable investment offerings

Business Green

Initiatives aim to support companies with sustainable business models and investors who are increasingly focusing on environmental products and services.

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6th SEC-PSE Corporate Governance Forum

Eco-Business

The 6th SEC-PSE Corporate Governance Forum with the theme "Sustainable businesses: Taking the lead in achieving the Sustainable Development Goals" organised by the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) and The Philippine Stock Exchange, Inc.

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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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Circularity and the 45 per cent climate solution

Business Green

Can the circular economy close the gap on climate emissions? A new report says it can.

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[STAR+CCM+ Training] How to set up wind driven rain simulation for BCA Greenmark

Eco-Business

Siemens Authorized Channel Partner, BroadTech Engineering, will be running a 1-day Simcenter Star-CCM+ CFD Modeling and Simulation hands-on training session this coming 7th November 2019 at Siemens Center, Singapore.

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George P. Shultz To Republicans: Climate Action Is An Insurance Policy Reagan Would Like

Forbes Green Tech

When Ronald Reagan got behind the effort to prevent erosion of the ozone layer, there was much less scientific consensus than there is now about climate change.

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Biotech France 2020 International Conference and Exhibition

Eco-Business

Biotech France 2020 Conference will be held in Paris- France from 24 to 26June 2020. This international event will reflect the full diversity of current biotechnology science advances in research and practice that open opportunities for exploitation of knowledge, commercially or otherwise, together with news, discussion and comment on broader issues of general interest and concern.

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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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Universal Basic Income, Andrew Yang, the Green New Deal, & Tesla — CleanTech Talk with Mike Barnard

CleanTechnica

Mike has been a global technology strategist and architect for major global technology companies, and is considered an expert on many topics within the clean technology field. He has worked in almost every sector, including health care, automation, freight transportation and finance. Mike attributes this breadth of expertise to being a bit of a nerd, or “just a generally interested guy.

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Win A 2019 Tesla Model X From The Illinois Solar Energy Association!

CleanTechnica

Never fear, autumn is here and your new Tesla Model X awaits! Show off your green new look along with your orange, red, and yellow. Get where you need to go without generating any carbon emissions in a breeze. Enter to win the Tesla Model X today and contribute to a more-sustainable future for all.

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New Features Should Be Enjoyed Responsibly

CleanTechnica

Let's look at a hypothetical (but ridiculous) scenario. Somebody gives your kids backpacks with a bullet-resistant panel built inside. Whatever your feelings on that, your kids really like the backpacks for other reasons, so you decide to let them use them.

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Meet The New Toyota Mirai: Same As The Old Mirai, Only Different

CleanTechnica

The second generation Toyota Mirai will be unveiled October 24 at the Tokyo auto show. It features a next generation fuel cell and larger hydrogen storage tanks for a 30% increase in range.

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Could Banana Leaf Technology Squelch Our Use Of Single-Use Plastics?

CleanTechnica

Banana leaves that can replace plastic wrap and other plastic wraps -- one more attempt to save the planet from ourselves.

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Tesla Model Y Prototype Spotted On Road Near Tesla HQ (VIDEOS)

CleanTechnica

Model Y, the affordable, all-electric crossover from Tesla’s stable, is not expected to hit the roads until late 2020. But Tesla is already laying the groundwork for the model that will forever alter Tesla’s position in the automotive world.

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From Rajasthan To Mexico: Why Gender Matters At The Heart Of The Energy Transition

CleanTechnica

Since women are the primary users of energy, they are disproportionately vulnerable to climate change impacts. Energy policies failing to reach women are thus exacerbating potential climate risks for them. In addition, gender inequalities limit women’s access to finance streams, information or training for using sustainable energy sources. Taking a gender lens approach is thus crucial for minimizing such bias and ensuring equal access to energy for both women and men.