Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Waste concrete from demolished buildings is to be reinvented and made into new custom-made outdoor memorials and public garden furniture with the help of 3D printing, in a new £6m project. Currently, around 65 million tonnes of demolition waste enters landfill across north west Europe (NWE) each year, whilst demand on natural resources for the production of new building materials remains high.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Insiders predict agricultural companies could become major adopters of solar power in Africa as farmers seek to improve the cost and reliability of energy supplies. According to a report from GreenCape, a non-profit organization, the market for renewable energy in agriculture last year was worth up to 960 million South African Rand ($61 million at today’s rates) in South Africa alone.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

The Gare Maritime railway station in Brussels has seen a huge transformation. The building, formerly one of Europe's largest railway stations for goods, has been renovated into a new city district shopping and event development made of cross-laminated timber.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

A seemingly ground-breaking project to create a circular end-of-life supply chain for the electric vehicle industry is being led by EMR Metals Recycling. The project has won grant support from the UK Government’s Advanced Propulsion Centre. RECOVAS is a partnership between EMR, three major vehicle manufacturers (Bentley Motors, BMW and Jaguar Land Rover), the University of Warwick, the Health and Safety Executive, the UK Battery Industrialisation Centre, Autocraft Solutions Group, Connected Ener

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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.

Energy

altenergymag

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

GP JOULE Canada Corp. completes construction of Alberta's first merchant PV project. The EPC and racking company partnered with developer Elemental Energy and the local community to safely install the 25MW system, on time and on budget — despite COVID-19 restrictions. Prioritizing community engagement, the project created 100 local construction jobs and employed regional subcontractors and services to install the bi-facial PV system.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Prime Roots is offering veganized Thanksgiving favorites, including garlicky mashed potatoes, balsamic and bacon Brussels sprouts and, of course, turkey.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

The winning design features a zero-emission, air-purifying airport not for planes, but for flying cars.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

The U.S. residential solar industry has continued to regain momentum after a challenging spring season due to the coronavirus. On top of demand recovery, strong asset performance throughout the pandemic has proven that residential solar is primed for further investment from a variety of capital sources. Attractive financing options — in particular, solar loans — have greatly contributed to the market recovery.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

To stay within a tight budget, the architects employed sustainable, low-tech strategies.

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altenergymag

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

TROES Corp. launched a commercialized Micro-Grid Battery Energy Storage System at Sky Clean Energy's jobsite in Markham. Sky Clean Energy (a Sky Solar company) is a full turnkey renewable energy developer. The 100kWh/30kW BESS is integrated in a Vehicle to Grid Hybrid Power Conversion System (V2G HPCS).

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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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Inhabitat - Innovation

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Bacardi is bringing some good cheer to this rough year.

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U.S. Green Technology

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Everyone loves the holiday season, and many people greatly anticipate this time of year, but the holidays are often associated with less than green habits. Decorating the house, cooking a family dinner, decorating the tree, stuffing stockings, exchanging gifts, and more are all pillars of the holiday season, but we typically don’t think about how. The post Tips to Make Your Holidays a Little Greener appeared first on U.S.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Read time: 15 mins This article was published as part of the launch of DeSmog’s Agribusiness Database , where you can find a record of companies and organisations’ current messaging on climate change, lobbying around climate action, and histories of climate science denial. “ Like a pandemic, climate change is an inevitable threat that we must address before it is too late,” reads a June 2020 statement.

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altenergymag

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

100-Day Plan details pathway to unlocking economic growth, achieving rapid renewable energy deployment to reach clean energy and climate targets

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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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Forbes Green Tech

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Renewable energy is now cheap and ready for prime time. That is — if like Michael Polsky — you don’t mind angering farmers and chopping up a few bald eagles.

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Solar Power World

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

By Rebecca Chilton, director, project finance; and Erica Reidy, associate director of project finance, Leyline Renewable Capital Recent protests over the deaths of countless Black men, women and children in America have brought a reckoning on race to our country. Unjust systems of power exist all around us, and the renewable energy industry is no… The post Guest column: Addressing racial injustice in the renewable energy industry appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

S&P Dow Jones Indices has announced that Tesla will be added to the benchmark S&P 500 index. “TSLA will be added to the S&P 500 effective prior to the open of trading on Monday, December 21, to coincide with the December quarterly rebalancing effective date,” the financial institution drily proclaimed. The California carmaker’s market cap long ago passed the threshold for inclusion in the S&P 500 (the current minimum is $8.2 billion).

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altenergymag

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Switch2 Energy has been appointed to the ProcurePublic framework to supply heat network metering, billing and interface equipment to the public sector across the UK.

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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 Power World

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

By Bogdan Zlatkov, senior content marketing manager, Aurora Solar Battery storage is becoming increasingly popular, and while most installers offer storage as part of their solar solutions, many don’t have a clear process for how to quote and sell storage. In Greentech Media’s recent webinar, “How to Grow Your Solar Business with Storage (Backed by Data),”… The post 3 ways to market and sell solar + storage more successfully appeared first on Solar Power World.

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altenergymag

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

In a letter delivered to U.S. House and Senate leadership today, 45 organizations and companies spanning the environmental, conservation, clean energy, public health and faith communities are urging support for clean energy and clean transportation in must-pass legislation this year.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Nissan has become the latest automaker to announce a regional phase-out of gas-only cars (Honda recently announced it would sell only hybrids and EVs in Europe after 2022). Now Nissan says all models sold in China will be either electric or hybrid by 2025. The Japanese automaker will introduce nine electrified (EV or hybrid) models in China by that date.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Read time: 8 mins A new paper published Tuesday, November 17, by the conservative think tank the Competitive Enterprise Institute ( CEI ), raises environmental concerns with electric vehicles in what appears to be the latest attempt by organizations associated with fossil fuel funding to pump the brakes on the transportation sector’s transition away from petroleum and towards cleaner electricity.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Carbon capture, hydrogen, nuclear, EVs, and renewables all set to benefit from £12bn government stimulus plan, but critics warn funding falls well short of the level required to trigger a green recovery. Boris Johnson has unveiled his much-vaunted 10-point green recovery plan, promising a multi-billion pound package of investment across the green economy designed to create an estimated 250,000 new jobs in the carbon capture, electric vehicle, nuclear, hydrogen and renewables sectors.

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Impact Alpha

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

ImpactAlpha, November 17 – Venture capital, private equity and debt firms raised $4.8 billion for strategies focused on gender equity in 2019, up.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Green business groups and campaigners welcome the government's renewed focus on the net zero transition, but warn plan lacks long-term policies and sufficient funding in key areas. This evening Boris Johnson unveiled the government's much anticipated 10 Point Plan for a Green Industrial Revolution, promising to deliver £12bn of funding in a bid to unlock £36bn of private sector investment in the net zero transition.

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Impact Alpha

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

As we move beyond a difficult election cycle, it is time to focus on an ambitious community investment agenda that has a meaningful.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Consumer goods giant launches 'Future Foods' initiative, geared at meeting the growing global appetite for sustainable food products. Unilever has announced plans to dramatically increase sales of plant-based meat and dairy alternatives over the next seven years, as part of a new sustainability programme designed to shrink the environmental footprint of its food brands.

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GatesNotes

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

More data sharing will accelerate progress towards an Alzheimer’s breakthrough.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Green groups warn new carbon regulation for the shipping sector will fail to cap industry emissions and thus undermine global climate goals. The International Maritime Organisation (IMO) has been accused of undermining global climate goals, after it formally approved shipping emissions regulations this afternoon that green groups have warned will allow the sector's annual greenhouse gas emissions to keep rising over the coming decade.

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Impact Alpha

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

ImpactAlpha, November 17 — The private equity giant’s $1.3 billion Global Impact Fund, which closed earlier this year, made an undisclosed investment in.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Initiative that invites businesses to double their energy productivity reveals huge scale of emissions and energy cost savings already being realised. A group of just 33 businesses have delivered carbon emissions savings totalling one billion metric tons in recent years - more than three times the annual emissions of the UK - thanks to investment in energy efficiency measures.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Ultracapacitor manufacturer Skeleton Technologies has announced the completion of a €41.3-million financing round. All the company’s existing investors participated in the equity raise, and were joined by European entrepreneurs and international investors. Skeleton CEO Taavi Madiberk said,?“The roadmap to zero emissions needs innovation and a mix of enabling technologies.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Could we be on the cusp of a circular pee-conomy? It's likely that most of the food you'll eat today was not farmed sustainably. The global system of food production is the largest human influence on the planet's natural cycles of nitrogen and phosphorus. How much crops can grow is limited by the amount of these two elements in the soil, so they're applied as fertilisers.

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