Mon.Dec 02, 2019

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How actor Michelle Pfeiffer championed the world's first circular fragrance line

GreenBiz

The first C2C- and EWG-certified fragrances were made with a unique startup-nonprofit-corporate collaboration. Here's what that means for the cosmetics industry at large.

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Students fight urban sprawl with a subdivision for two LEED Platinum houses

Inhabitat - Innovation

In an effort to fight urban sprawl and accommodate the growing population in Lawrence, Kansas, nonprofit Studio 804 has created a subdivision for two sustainable homes to show how urban density can be achieved in established neighborhoods.

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The circular economy can be a holistic approach to addressing climate change

GreenBiz

From fashion to household goods, industry leaders are using their tools and resources to eliminate the concept of waste.

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UK boards ignore climate change, says international research study

Envirotec Magazine

Almost half of UK boards spent zero hours discussing climate change this year. A third of UK boards feel little or no responsibility for climate change. Almost half of UK boards (46%) spent zero hours discussing climate change this year, and they are the least likely of all of the countries and regions studied in a new report to feel responsible for their impact on the climate – with almost a third (32%) feeling little or no responsibility.

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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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IKEA to invest $220 million into becoming 'climate positive'

GreenBiz

The investment will be focused on two areas — green energy and reforestation.

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Tesla Cybertruck is an electric pickup truck with Blade Runner appeal

Inhabitat - Innovation

Elon Musk has unveiled the Tesla Cybertruck, an impressive, unique and fully electric pickup truck.

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Patagonias Black Hole Bags are made from recycled plastic bottles

Inhabitat - Innovation

Patagonia is setting the bar for high-quality and sustainable products with its new line of bags made from recycled plastic bottles.

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Climate change and the new language of weather

GreenBiz

The weather outside is frightful. What, exactly, do we call it?

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Eco-friendly subscription boxes to gift this holiday season

Inhabitat - Innovation

Giving the gift of a subscription box can provide year-round enjoyment for any recipient.

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John Kern on driving Cisco's circular economy efforts forward

GreenBiz

John Kern, senior vice president of supply chain operations at Cisco Systems, said he wants "design for circular" to be a part of how the company operates. The company has started working across teams to make it so, he said. And Cisco recently started spending money and resources on developing a reverse logistics program to make it easier for customers to recycle items.

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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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Sigurd Larsen completes a luxurious, treetop hotel cabin in a Danish forest

Inhabitat - Innovation

The tiny treehouse is elevated 26 feet in the air and is accessible by a wooden bridge that leads directly into a stunning, luxurious interior.

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Installed solar capacity is now greater than oil in the United States

Solar Power World

According to a review by the SUN DAY Campaign of data just released by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) for the first three-quarters of 2019, solar and wind provided nearly six-times as much new generating capacity as natural gas in September. New capacity placed into service that month included 359 MW of wind and… The post Installed solar capacity is now greater than oil in the United States appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Ireland’s Gigawatt-Scale Tender Opens Door For Onshore Wind

GreenTechMedia

Ireland has launched the first round of its new renewable power auction process, with nearly 1 gigawatt of capacity available for onshore wind if it proves to be the lowest cost option. The Renewable Electricity Support Scheme ( RESS ) will look to support 12,000 gigawatt-hours of generation through four separate rounds. Onshore and offshore wind will compete with biomass, while solar bids will compete separately with 10 percent of the quota for RESS 1 carved out for a parallel solar tender.

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Cincinnati signs on for largest municipal solar array in the country

Solar Power World

The City of Cincinnati, Ohio, will construct the largest municipal solar array in the country to provide clean, renewable energy to all city facilities and serve the city’s residents through the Cincinnati Electric Aggregation Program. “Cities need to take action – and that’s exactly what Cincinnati is doing. We are spending money we would already… The post Cincinnati signs on for largest municipal solar array in the country appeared first on Solar Power World.

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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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Europe’s Offshore Wind Market Grapples With New Local Content Demands

GreenTechMedia

COPENHAGEN — Demands for local content and manufacturing are growing louder in many offshore wind markets, and that includes the world's most advanced and locally supplied market: Europe. Tensions around local content are likely to increase as deployment ramps up in new European markets, with France, Ireland, Poland and the Baltic countries adding to the current concentration of European activity in the U.K., Germany and the Benelux nations.

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The head and the heart: Why science and art should work together

Grist

It’s no secret that scientists often struggle to explain their research in the most approachable way. Beakers, lab coats, and thermal cyclers broadcast “competent,” but not exactly warm and relatable. Plenty of scientists have upended this stereotype — thanks, Bill Nye — but for some, communicating is like, um, rocket science. A recent report makes the case that collaborating with people who consider themselves artists — musicians, actors, wordsmiths — could help them out

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Editor picks for the Top Solar Products of 2019

Solar Power World

Innovation never sleeps in the solar industry, as evident in the swath of new products released in the past year. While tariffs may keep some products at a higher price, advances across the board to bring hard and soft costs down are making solar systems more affordable and efficient as possible. The SPW editors traveled… The post Editor picks for the Top Solar Products of 2019 appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Raptor Maps Uses AI to Maintain Solar PV Worldwide

Greentown Labs

From left: Raptor Maps’ Kira Ewanich, Austin Coffin, and CEO and co-founder Nikhil Vadhavkar. Raptor Maps uses artificial intelligence and thermal imaging to maintain two percent of solar panels worldwide—but its path there was far from linear. The team originally wanted to reduce the use of pesticides and fertilizers in agriculture by taking aerial thermal images.

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Ralph Lauren pledges to run on 100% renewable energy by 2025

Solar Power World

Ralph Lauren announced a series of pledges related to sustainability, including a commitment to power all of its globally owned and operated offices, distribution centers and stores with 100% renewable electricity by 2025 and join RE100, a group of the world’s most influential businesses committed to the use of renewable power. Building on the commitments… The post Ralph Lauren pledges to run on 100% renewable energy by 2025 appeared first on Solar Power World.

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The Imperial Oil Files: New Collection Adds to Climate and Energy Research Archives On Science and Denial

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 4 mins Today, DeSmog and the Climate Investigations Center are co-launching a large collection of documents from Exxon's Canadian subsidiary, Imperial Oil, that DeSmog collected from a company archive in Calgary over the past several years. These documents add new context to the groundbreaking investigative reporting by Inside Climate News , and the Columbia School of Journalism in partnership with the Los Angeles Times , that revealed the #ExxonKnew conspiracy.

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Overcoming Barriers to 100% Clean Energy, Part Two: The Bulk Electricity System

Forbes Green Tech

States and utilities across the U.S. are targeting 100% clean energy, but 100% clean requires a grid evolution. Here's how smart policy can overcome barriers on America's bulk electricity system.

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Years Before Exxon Valdez, Documents Show Exxon’s Imperial Oil Prioritized Public Image Over Spill Impacts

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 8 mins On February 4, 1970, the oil tanker SS Arrow was carrying a cargo of heavy bunker oil for Imperial Oil Limited when it encountered rough weather off the east coast of Canada. The ship’s captain had not sailed this route before and reportedly had no navigational charts. The ship itself had known problems with its navigation system.

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December solar policy snapshots A guide to recent legislation and research throughout the country.

Solar Power World

Study finds decarbonizing Colorado would also lower electric rates Denver, Colorado A new report found replacing Colorado’s aging coal plants with a mix of wind, solar-plus-storage and some natural gas, combined with electrifying transport and buildings, would reduce Colorado electric costs by more than 15% by 2040. Energy groups seek RFPs for solar-plus-storage resilience systems in… The post December solar policy snapshots <br><span style='color:#404040;font-weight

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New Documents Reveal Exxon-owned Canadian Oil Giant's Shifting Climate Change PR

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 9 mins It was 1971, less than a year after the world’s first Earth Day, and in Canada an oil giant was worried. “ Public concern regarding environmental problems is being translated into legislation rapidly,” Imperial Oil warned in an annual research planning document dated January of that year. “The present trend in legislation will require substantial expenditures to reduce emissions and waste discharge for all facilities and reduce the impact on the environment of the products we s

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Innergex secures PPA for 200-MW Ohio solar project

Solar Power World

Innergex Renewable Energy announced that a long-term PPA was signed with an investment grade rated U.S. corporation for its 200 MWAC Hillcrest solar photovoltaic project located in Brown County, Ohio. Sales under the PPA will start upon the facility reaching commercial operation, which is expected in 2020. “We are thrilled to have signed a PPA… The post Innergex secures PPA for 200-MW Ohio solar project appeared first on Solar Power World.

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What is it that really sets Tesla apart from the competition?

Forbes Green Tech

From a strictly technological point of view, the most surprising thing about owning a Tesla is not so much the driving experience, the performance or the looks, but instead the unprecedented feeling that the product you bought a while ago keeps improving over time through software upgrades.

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NextEra starts construction on largest solar project in Arkansas

Solar Power World

A subsidiary of NextEra Energy Resources and Entergy Arkansas announced the start of construction of Arkansas’ largest universal, utility-scale solar energy project — the Chicot Solar Energy Center. The Chicot Solar Energy Center, when complete, will be bigger than the Stuttgart Solar Energy Center, which came online in 2018 as the state’s largest universal solar… The post NextEra starts construction on largest solar project in Arkansas appeared first on Solar Power World.

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How Even Libertarians Can Tackle The Climate Crisis

Forbes Green Tech

The Environmental Law Institute compiled more than 1,500 adjustments to law that could reduce the nation’s collective carbon footprint, many of which call for repealing laws entirely.

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LADWP simplifies requirements for small solar projects

Solar Power World

Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) took a giant leap forward in rewriting their Electric Service Requirements, and the solar industry took a small step toward simplifying the installation of rooftop solar. This long overdue action by LADWP will reduce the cost of installing roof top solar in Los Angeles by $500 to… The post LADWP simplifies requirements for small solar projects appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Efacec to supply 95 charging stations to German state

Charged

Portuguese charging station manufacturer Efacec will supply 95 of its QC45 fast charging stations to the German state of Baden-Württemberg. The German government will invest €1.5 million ($1.65 million) in the project. The first of the charging stations has been installed in the town of Bad Urach. The QC45 has an output of 50 kW (DC) or 22 kVA (AC).

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Sol Systems completes 3-MW solar project for Under Armour

Solar Power World

Sol Systems, Under Armour and Greenbacker cut the ribbon on a newly completed 3-MW solar project in Capitol Heights, Maryland, on Friday, November 22. Joined by United States Senator Chris Van Hollen, Congressman Anthony Brown, and several Prince George’s County, Maryland officials, the ceremony cleared the way for the system to now begin powering two… The post Sol Systems completes 3-MW solar project for Under Armour appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Harlem Capital raises $40 million to ‘change the face of entrepreneurship’

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, Dec. 2 – New York-based venture firm Harlem Capital closed a $40 million fund to invest in U.S. companies led by women and founders of color. The venture firm is the latest to seek an edge by backing entrepreneurs often overlooked by traditional venture capital. “Our thesis is that women and minority founders are The post Harlem Capital raises $40 million to ‘change the face of entrepreneurship’ appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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EPRI awarded $10.7 million for research on increasing solar penetration

Solar Power World

The Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI) has been awarded $10.7 million in funding from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Solar Energy Technologies Office (SETO). The funding supports research and development to enhance the secure, resilient and reliable generation and integration of significantly more solar energy and to improve the affordability and performance of solar energy… The post EPRI awarded $10.7 million for research on increasing solar penetration appeared first on Sola

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Catalyzing finance for climate action in India: A Q&A with Tata Trusts’ Shloka Nath

Impact Alpha

Mumbai, Dec. 2 – Shloka Nath of Tata Trusts, one of India’s oldest philanthropies, is trying to reframe the climate challenge. “Climate change is not necessarily a doom-and-gloom story,” Nath said last week on the sidelines of the Sankalp Global Summit in Mumbai, where she spoke with India Development Review. Nath heads the India Climate Collaborative, The post Catalyzing finance for climate action in India: A Q&A with Tata Trusts’ Shloka Nath appeared first on ImpactAlpha.