Wed.May 13, 2020

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Researchers Explore Low Doses Of Radiation To Treat Severe Coronavirus Cases

Jim Conca

Low-dose radiation to the lungs may be a good therapy to reduce the mortality rates from COVID-19. The virus causes a cytokine storm - an uncontrolled systemic inflammatory response of the body that floods the lungs and kills the patient. Low doses of radiation can reduce the storm.

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Whimsical, off-grid earthship is made out of reclaimed tires and bottles

Inhabitat - Innovation

It's not everyday that you get to stay in an earthship, but if you're able to travel to Ironbank, South Australia in the future, make sure to check out the amazing Earthship Ironbank.

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Here's what fringe consumers tell us about the post-pandemic marketplace

GreenBiz

Here's what fringe consumers tell us about the post-pandemic marketplace. Deonna Anderson. Wed, 05/13/2020 - 00:06. For years, communications firm Shelton Group has been gathering data about "fringe" consumers through intensive, manual social media analysis about both environmental and social sustainability. Why? Because while the fringe tends to be ahead of the curve when it comes to the trends, eventually some ideals of fringe consumers become mainstream.

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Eco-friendly Everlasting Forest Pavilion champions circular living in Bangkok

Inhabitat - Innovation

For this year’s Bangkok Design Week, Thai design firm Plural Designs created the Everlasting Forest Pavilion, a temporary structure built of biodegradable materials that promotes sustainable ideas and products to the public.

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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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How a Former McDonald’s Product Director Plans to Shake Up the EV Charging Sector

GreenTechMedia

Whether you’ve ordered a Dosa Masala burger in India, a Date and Custard pie in the United Arab Emirates, or a Filet-O-Fish, well anywhere, there’s a good chance you've used a McDonald’s self-service kiosk. The ubiquitous terminals are simple to use. That ubiquity and intuitiveness is very much absent from the electric vehicle charging landscape.

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This colorful prefab school was created in only 13 months

Inhabitat - Innovation

Crossboundaries has created the colorful Jinlong School, a prefab design built in only 13 months. The school will be housed in Shenzhen's Pingshan district.

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Spains first Passivhaus nursing home generates surplus energy

Inhabitat - Innovation

Built as an expansion of the nursing home that CSO Arquitectura had completed in 2005, the new addition provides additional bedrooms and stronger connections with the outdoors.

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Mapping the Post-COVID Future for Electric Cars, Behavior Change and Energy Demand

GreenTechMedia

We’re once again thinking through the practical and theoretical impacts of the pandemic on energy, in the near-term and well into the future. Shayle and Stephen talk with Ramez Naam , a futurist, science-fiction author and energy expert. Ramez joined The Interchange last August to talk about some future scenarios for energy. The world is a dramatically different place today, so we’re bringing him back to recalibrate our sights.

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Corporate Social Responsibility: The Power of Using Business as a Force for Good

Green Business Bureau

With consumers more careful than ever before about the companies they are buying from and with employees more meticulous about the organizations they are working for, businesses need to understand and embrace their role as agents of change within the society. It’s no longer only about the gains for the company or shareholders, but about seeing and using your business as a force for good.

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Renewable Yieldcos Take on New Light After Global Energy Shakeup

GreenTechMedia

U.S.-listed renewable energy yieldcos have fallen in and out fashion since they burst onto the markets early last decade. Where do they stand today as investors reassess the energy landscape in a post-coronavirus world? Leading yieldcos like NextEra Energy Partners, Terraform Power and Atlantica Yield all saw rapid rises in their share prices in late 2019 and early 2020.

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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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10x Challenge: Four ways to drive exponential growth in gender lens investing

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha’s David Bank challenged investors to “10x” impact investing, to grow total assets under management from billions to trillions and to develop “moonshot ideas” that could catalytically grow our impact. Solutions flowed in ranging from meeting the immediate needs of the crisis, to laying the foundations for long-term change around themes such as climate change, the.

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Iberdrola Buys 900MW Wind Portfolio as Coronavirus Investment Drive Ramps Up

GreenTechMedia

Iberdrola closed on two deals in the space of a week for wind projects in France and the U.K., including nearly 300 megawatts of operating capacity. The Spanish utility has promised to accelerate its investment plans in 2020, bringing forward procurement commitments and hiring 5,000 additional staff as part of its own coronavirus stimulus plan. That plan appears well underway.

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GIIN launches Response, Recovery and Resilience Investment Coalition

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, May 12 – The GIIN has launched the Response, Recovery and Resilience Investment Coalition. The ‘R3 Coalition’ aims to identify opportunities to invest in health interventions and access to capital and direct new capital to fill COVID financing gaps. The Global Impact Investing Network will coordinate deal flow across multiple networks, including Aspen Network.

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Electrifying Space Heating Will Require a Herculean Effort

GreenTechMedia

Current conversations around the energy transition often focus on the power and transportation sectors. But decarbonization of other sectors, such as heat, is also critical to meeting national and regional climate targets. Heat makes up 35 percent of global energy consumption, and when it comes to space heating, direct combustion of fossil fuels in buildings plays a dominant role across the globe and is a major source of greenhouse gas emissions.

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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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Architects squeeze 2 energy-efficient homes into a narrow infill lot in Toronto

Inhabitat - Innovation

Narrow lot? Not a problem!

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Seven future electric pickup trucks. Maybe.

Charged

Over the first 10 years of their existence, most modern battery-electric cars have been compact hatchbacks or Teslas. While a few are marketed as crossover utility vehicles, none have been the full-size pickup trucks that make up a huge and very profitable segment of US vehicle sales. That’s about to change. What follows is a list of battery-electric pickup models expected to go on sale in the US over the next two to three years.

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4 Green Car Buying Tips – U.S. Green Technology’s Green Guide

U.S. Green Technology

When buying a new green car, going green is a great idea. Vehicles produce a large percentage of the earth’s pollution [read more]. The post 4 Green Car Buying Tips – U.S. Green Technology’s Green Guide appeared first on U.S. Green Technology.

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SkySats 16-21 to Launch on SpaceX Falcon 9 Rideshare Missions

Planet Pulse

Planet is set to launch six more SkySat satellites (SkySats 16-21) into Low Earth Orbit this summer, rounding out the fleet of 15 SkySats already in operation. SkySats 1-15 operate in Sun Synchronous Orbits, a specific type of Low Earth Orbit that results in the Earth’s surface always being illuminated by the Sun at the same angle when the satellite is capturing imagery.

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What Michael Moore’s New Climate Documentary Gets Wrong About Renewables

Forbes Green Tech

This video polemic against the renewable energy industry, written and directed by long-time Michael Moore associate Jeff Gibbs, contends that the Earth has simply too many people. Along the way, it offers outdated views and no solutions.

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Purdue startup wins recognition, investments for technology on waste algae disposal

altenergymag

Gen3Bio Inc. has proprietary technology that redirects waste algae from an environmental hazard into profitable environmentally friendly products fully integrated into the circular economy. The startup has gained a $20,000 investment through the Elevate Nexus Regional Pre-Seed competition and a $20,000 pilot plant grant from The Water Council, with both announcements coming within weeks.

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Automating utility-scale solar vegetation management can increase profitability

Solar Power World

By Steve Arters, director of marketing, Renu Robotics Vegetation management at utility-scale solar power plants has always been a growing problem, especially seasonally (yes, pun intended). But with the evolution of AI technology, solar site management can be largely hands-off. Challenges of vegetation management Solar plants have two primary stakeholders: asset owners and O&M providers.… The post Automating utility-scale solar vegetation management can increase profitability appeared

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Turner Impact Capital points to COVID housing crisis with latest apartment acquisition

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, May 13 – Impact real estate investor Turner Capital Impact has acquired a 312-unit workforce housing complex in Irving, Texas, occupied by teachers, police officers, healthcare workers and other essential workers. “It’s more important than ever for families to have access to stable housing they can afford that doesn’t come at the expense of.

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E2 report: Nearly 600,000 clean energy jobs lost since pandemic began

Solar Power World

Nearly 600,000 U.S. clean energy workers have lost their jobs since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic after 447,208 new workers filed unemployment claims in April — tripling the claims filed in March. That’s according to a new analysis of unemployment data released today by E2 (Environmental Entrepreneurs), the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE),… The post E2 report: Nearly 600,000 clean energy jobs lost since pandemic began appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Retooling a shuttered factory to build electric trucks: Q&A with Lordstown Motors CEO Steve Burns

Charged

Will Ohio’s Voltage Valley energize a new era for the US auto industry? Big things are happening in the Mahoning Valley area of northeastern Ohio. The region, which centers on the city of Youngstown, was a booming center of steel production until the 1970s. Since then, like many other industrial hubs, the area has suffered from a long, gradual decline.

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Follow these measures to reduce your Electricity Bill

Econaur

When we make our own home, It is very important to think about the energy consumption for that. When we make home we already decide on all the external fittings and appliances that you would like to install. These might include things like fans, LED bulbs, curtains, cabinets and other furniture, but have you spared a moment to become aware of the materials used in your walls?

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Charged announces virtual conference on EV engineering

Charged

Since most of our favorite in-person conferences have been canceled or postponed indefinitely, Charged decided to organize a virtual conference on EV engineering September 1 – 3, 2020. The conference includes live webinar sessions and interactive Q&As, as well as new on-demand webinars and whitepaper downloads available in the weeks leading up to the live event.

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This Nigerian Company Is Using Light From The Sun To Fight Coronavirus Spread

Forbes Green Tech

In rural areas all of over the world, two things can be really scarce: reliable electricity and adequate healthcare. To help solve this, solar companies in Nigeria are pitching in to provide electricity to the front-line healthcare facilities fighting COVID-19. #globalsouthscience.

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Poll: Majority of British public support weekly car-free days in towns and cities

Business Green

Poll results come only days after the government instructed councils to reallocate space for cyclists and pedestrians in order to support social distancing as lockdown restrictions are gradually eased. The majority of the British public support proposals for weekly car-free days in town and city centres, according to poll results published yesterday.

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Dandelion Energy Launches New Health & Safety Procedures for Reopening

altenergymag

A Virtual Sales and Geothermal System Design Process, Social Distancing During Installations, and New Hygiene Guidelines Highlight New Health & Safety Procedures Put in Place by Dandelion Energy, New York’s # 1 Home Geothermal Company

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France targets startups for COVID relief

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, May 13 – HD Rain, a Paris-based startup that uses machine learning and tv satellite signals to offer low cost, high resolution weather forecasts, was raising a €1.2 million seed round and embarking on two client projects in Africa when the COVID crisis struck. Both activities ground to a halt. “I knew that without. The post France targets startups for COVID relief appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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COVID-19 impacts: reduction in inertia levels

altenergymag

Analysis by Cornwall Insight reveals that inertia* levels have been falling over time as the proportion of synchronous generation has declined.

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Intello Labs raises $5.9 million for quality-control in India’s food system

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, May 13 – Gurgaon-based Intello Labs uses an artificial intelligence-powered imaging system to scan food products as they move from farm to consumer in India’s fragmented food supply chains. Intello Labs aims to fight food waste and improve traceability. The startup’s Series A round was backed by Saama Capital, Singapore-based GROW and US-based SVG.

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Why We Have to Go Green During Coronavirus

Sustainability Consulting

With the economy under strain from COVID-19, can you afford to green your business right now? In fact, there has been no better time to consider the environmental impact of our businesses if we want to prevent future outbreaks like COVID-19. According to Sonia Shah, author of the 2017 book Pandemic , there is a direct correlation between outbreaks on the rise (dengue fever, Ebola, avian flu, Lyme Disease, SARS, MERS, and now COVID-19) and human development.

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The Hidden Pandemic Killing 8 Million A Year And Making COVID-19 Worse

Forbes Green Tech

Air pollution causes the deaths of over 8 million people each year. Poor air quality increases the risk of complications from COVID-19. Burning fossil fuels drives global warming and harms global health. It's time to stop using our atmosphere as a waste dump.