GreenBiz

JUNE 5, 2020

Discrimination in our food system is everybody's problem. Jim Giles. Fri, 06/05/2020 - 00:30. The team at GreenBiz started Food Weekly to track progress toward a better food system. But as protestors filled streets across America last week, I was reminded that a critical question about this effort often goes unasked: Better for whom? We have to ask this question because we can't assume that any progress we make will be inclusive.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JUNE 5, 2020

China's pollution levels are rising. Will Europe follow? Or will some countries take measures to preserve one of the few happy by-products of COVID-19?

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GreenBiz

JUNE 5, 2020

How racism manifests itself in clean energy. Sarah Golden. Fri, 06/05/2020 - 00:00. As our institutions strain under the uprising in cities across the country, I’ve been struggling to comprehend the depth of racism in America. I understand why these moments of police violence, the senseless destruction of black bodies caught on tape, would spark a fire that rages across this country.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JUNE 5, 2020

SPACE10 has created Bee Home, an open-source beehive design.

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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

GreenBiz

JUNE 5, 2020

Episode 223: Climate action and racial justice must converge, urban forest credits. Heather Clancy. Fri, 06/05/2020 - 02:00. Week in Review. Commentary on this week's news highlights begins at 13:00. This moment: An open letter to the GreenBiz community. Al Gore: Climate action is "bound together" with racial equality and liberation. How the Navajo got their day in the sun.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JUNE 5, 2020

For almost a decade, Heimplanet has offered adventure-seekers an option for quick and easy tent set up in a variety of environments. The company first released a line of inflatable tents in 2011; now, with summer 2020 approaching, Heimplanet is reminding outdoor enthusiasts that there has never been a better time to go camping.

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Innovation 212

Inhabitat - Innovation

JUNE 5, 2020

Virtual farmers markets have been online for a few years now, but the COVID-19 pandemic is giving them a boost.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 5, 2020

Renewables generation has proven largely resilient during the COVID-19 pandemic. Even as global electricity demand has declined, wind and solar PV penetration continues its growth in many regions. In the U.S. — one of the countries worst-affected by COVID-19 — wind and PV output is 10 percent higher on a year-to-date basis than in 2019. Keeping wind and PV plants operational requires a considerable effort.

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LA CleanTech Incubator

JUNE 5, 2020

How racism manifests in clean energy. Sarah Golden. Fri, 06/05/2020 - 00:00. As our institutions strain under the uprising in cities across the country, I’ve been struggling to comprehend the depth of racism in America. I understand why these moments of police violence, the senseless destruction of black bodies caught on tape, would spark a fire that rages across this country.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 5, 2020

We use the term “energy transition” to define markets, technology, business models. But what about people? The transition away from fossil fuels isn’t a nice-to-have. It’s a must-have. The hardest part isn’t building out the clean resources. It’s shutting down the dirty stuff at a pace the science demands. And that means disrupting entire classes of employment and communities that depend on fossil fuel extraction — in other words, helping people find wor

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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

JUNE 5, 2020

EarthX and National Geographic are hosting a digital conference that you can attend for free.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 5, 2020

Coronavirus has exposed an unsettling reality for black and brown people, who are dying at higher rates in the country’s most polluted communities. We’re suddenly talking again about structural racism in policing and criminal justice. But the story of race, energy and the environment is also very important to understanding the anger of the moment.

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Charged

JUNE 5, 2020

EV startup Polestar has begun production of its Polestar 2 in Luqiao, China, and hopes to begin deliveries this summer, starting in Europe and followed by China and North America. Now Polestar has announced a partnership with European public charging network Plugsurfing , which will give Polestar 2 drivers in Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK access to over 195,000 EV charging points across Europe, using the Plugsurfing charging key and app.

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altenergymag

JUNE 5, 2020

The Summit will establish what the future energy system will look like and offer companies, from across the asset spectrum, a definitive guide to their ET strategies via our bespoke digital conferencing platform and live broadcast.

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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.

Sustainability

Green Market Oracle

JUNE 5, 2020

Happy World Environment Day ! Today is the big day and there is a packed agenda spread across multiple time zones and languages. Today we will be celebrating with more than 150 virtual events including live concerts, speakers like Jane Goodall, film screenings, virtual journeys, expert panels. and so much more. Some additional highlights include Global Landscape Forum Bonn Digital Conference (see details below) and Unlocking Human Potential for Biodiversity Online Event.

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Charged

JUNE 5, 2020

Battery provider Octillion Power Systems will collaborate with Colorado-based Lightning Systems to produce Class 6 electric trucks (up to 12.5 tons) aimed at “middle-mile” delivery routes between warehouses and distribution centers. Lightning’s fuel cell-powered Class 6 truck offered by Plug Power will be available in the third quarter of 2020. Lightning’s all-electric version of the truck is also powered by Octillion’s batteries, which are offered in configurations of 96, 128, 160 and 192 kWh.

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Impact Alpha

JUNE 5, 2020

TGIF, Agents of Impact! Impact Briefing. On ImpactAlpha’s weekly podcast, guest host Monique Aiken leads a frank and personal discussion of the events triggered by the extrajudicial killing of George Floyd (see Agents of Justice, below). She is joined by Living Cities’ Demetric Duckett, Colonial Consulting’s Angela Metheny and Castleberry’s Donray Von.

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Defend Our Future

JUNE 5, 2020

This is all too familiar. A Black man was violently murdered by a white police officer. Environmental organizations have released statements — us included. But a statement decrying the violence is not enough. We need to do more. For the sake of George Floyd — and for all Black lives across this country — we need to take a hard look at the racial injustices happening in our country and take an active role in unraveling the structure that allows them to thrive.

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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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Impact Alpha

JUNE 5, 2020

ImpactAlpha, June 5 – Trauma and fatigue and frustration and grief and anger in the Black community poured into the streets this week. Anger about what happened to George Floyd and Breonna Taylor and Ahmaud Arbery, and what hadn’t happened to the police and perpetrators that killed them. The anger, too, civil-rights lawyer Bryan Stevenson. The post Agents of Justice are agents of impact appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Business Green

JUNE 5, 2020

Engine marker pledges to boost low-carbon technology R&D and reach net zero across its operations by the end of the decade, as it announces plans to cut 3,000 jobs across the UK amid coronavirus crisis. Rolls Royce has pledged to become a net zero carbon business by mid-century, while developing new products and technologies that allow the hard-to-abate aviation, power, shipping, and rail industries to decarbonise in the same time frame.

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Planet Pulse

JUNE 5, 2020

As announced earlier this year , Planet is once again partnering with Copernicus Masters , Europe’s leading innovation competition, to sponsor the See Change, Change the World challenge. The goal of the challenge is to find innovators interested in using Planet and Copernicus data to discover creative solutions to some of the world’s most pressing issues, from sustainable food systems, biodiversity, land use, urban farming, deforestation and more.

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Business Green

JUNE 5, 2020

World Green Building Council drive to decarbonise company buildings across the globe gathers pace. Almost 100 companies, states, and organisations have now committed to ensuring their buildings emit zero carbon emissions by 2030 or sooner, with the number signed up to the pledge near doubling since last year, the World Green Building Council (WorldGBC) announced today.

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altenergymag

JUNE 5, 2020

Cornwall Insight, an energy consultancy, research and analytics company, is pleased to announce its role in providing gas and electricity expertise to support the successful £60mn debt financing for Iona's GB Anaerobic Digestion renewable energy portfolio. It was announced that the financing was successful on 28 May 2020.

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Business Green

JUNE 5, 2020

Ocean Spray reveals how it was able to certify its cranberry crop as '100 per cent sustainable'. Cranberries are more than just an American Thanksgiving Day tradition; they also are a tradition of the American land. The crop is one of only three native cultivated fruits in North America. Because the plant is actually meant to grow in the natural environment, many growing and harvesting practices already help the surrounding land and could be considered sustainable, under normal conditions.

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Forbes Green Tech

JUNE 5, 2020

Move part of German government’s $150 billion post-Covid19 economic recovery plan.

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Business Green

JUNE 5, 2020

Business Secretary Alok Sharma also calls for 'global green recovery' as top government figures offer further signs the green economy could be set to benefit in economic stimulus plans. Top government figures have offered yet further strong signals that they view boosting the green economy as a top priority for the UK's Covid-19 recovery strategy, with Boris Johnson today urging investment in "industries, infrastructure and jobs that will endure any storm".

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Green Living Guy

JUNE 5, 2020

Let’s talk urban and coastal areas. They will get hurt by climate change first. Firstly, a mobile laboratory is going on the move. Thereby containing sensors that measure wind speed and direction. In addition air quality, precipitation, and other atmospheric variables. Most noteworthy, it’s being deployed in urban and coastal areas. Continue Reading.

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Business Green

JUNE 5, 2020

Party calls for green jobs blitz, as it launches month-long consultation that seeks views from businesses, industry groups, unions, workers, and campaigners on specific measures that can be taken to kick start a green recovery. The Labour Party has called for the UK to enlist a 'zero carbon army' of workers that can move the country closer to its climate goals, while tackling esclating unemployment.

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Green Living Guy

JUNE 5, 2020

In many areas of the United States, grid-tied solar arrays and power distribution aren’t always perfect. I just got solar panels on my roof and I’m one of the only in my area. In addition, it’s commonplace for rural areas to suffer frequent brownouts and outages. Again, it’s due to Continue Reading. The post Theoretically Speaking: Solar Homes and Businesses Strengthening the Grid appeared first on Green Living Guy.

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Sunrun

JUNE 5, 2020

Going solar in New Jersey is easy and affordable. A lot of that has to do with Sunrun! Thanks to our creation of solar-as-a-service, we’ve made it easier than ever to enjoy the power of solar energy in The Garden State. Nevertheless, we’ll be the first to admit that we’re not the only ones who have helped solar gain a stronger foothold here. As a homeowner in New Jersey, you’ve got the power to support solar’s growth.

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Green Living Guy

JUNE 5, 2020

First off! Here’s a picture of a Fiat 500e electric car I got at one of my auto shows! Although, I mention it because my friend just bought one in California! #fiat is bringing the battery electric zero-emission vehicle the Fiat 500e electric car To NY soon. So it’s got Continue Reading. The post Fiat 500e Electric Car appeared first on Green Living Guy.

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Business Green

JUNE 5, 2020

Energy giant signs up to EV100 and EP100 initiatives, as company beefs up Plan Zero decarbonisation strategy. Energy giant OVO has pledged to deploy a fully electric fleet and double its energy productivity by 2030, as the company today moved to strengthen its Plan Zero decarbonisation strategy. The firm marked World Environment Day by confirming it has joined The Climate Group's EV100 and EP100 campaigns, committing to transitioning its fleet to electric vehicles (EVs) by 2030 and installing ch

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Green Living Guy

JUNE 5, 2020

Award winning Portland, Oregon window inserts create comfort and energy savings (Portland, OR) — People are always either preparing their homes for summer, fall and winter. So Indow Window thermal inserts keep the warmth inside to create comfort and energy efficiency. No one needs to spend a fortune replacing beautiful Continue Reading. The post Energy efficient window inserts by Indow Windows keep you warm appeared first on Green Living Guy.

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