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Cricket roaster Ento to take on Beyond Meat after seed round

AFN Sustainable Protein

Watch out, Beyond Meat. Edible cricket farmer and roaster, ENTO, is coming for you with a bug-based burger patty. And it's probably healthier. The post Cricket roaster Ento to take on Beyond Meat after seed round appeared first on AFN by AgFunder.

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The Climate Investment That Promises 400 Percent Returns

Forbes Green Tech

Few investments produce returns as rich as climate adaptation does, even in the short term, but the pace of climate adaptation in the United States continues to lag the pace of climate change.

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Cricket roaster Ento to take on Beyond Meat after seed round

AFN Sustainable Protein

Malaysian edible cricket farmer and roaster Ento has secured a seed round, led by Singapore-based VC firm Rapzo Capital. Ento’s Founder & CEO Kevin Wu told AFN that the capital will be used to power the company’s expansion into Singapore, Indonesia and Thailand over the next 12 months. The round was oversubscribed. Ento’s Seed Round: All you need to know.

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Mobile Phones Are Driving A Solar Revolution In Papua New Guinea

Forbes Green Tech

Papua New Guinea has emerged as a leader in off grid solar installations. The country is turning to small-scale solar installations as a way to provide electricity for communities across the country with a new report by the IFC showing that installations have grown 68% per annum since 2012.

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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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ASDA trials pioneering plant-based food coating to slash waste

Business Green

Apeel claims its invisible, plant-based coating can treble the shelf life of fruit and vegetables.

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Leveraging The Diaspora For Sustainable Development

Forbes Green Tech

Multiculturalism and globalization have helped drive immigration and growth, but in some cases it has also caused brain-drain and damaged the economies of the emigrants’ home nations. The Caribbean has experienced widespread immigration and boasts a large diaspora worldwide.

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Bristol hunts for £1bn investment to deliver net zero goal

Business Green

The city wants to be a zero carbon city by 2030 but it needs cash to build out green energy projects.

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Event - Future Energy East Africa

Green Market Oracle

The Future Energy East Africa, will take place on September 17 – 18, 2019 at the Kenyatta International Convention Centre (KICC) in Nairobi, Kenya. This is the largest and longest running regional power conference and exhibition in East Africa. With over 400 regional conference delegates, this is the leading strategic energy conference and trade exhibition as well as a well-known and trusted brand.

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Charity shops team up to squeeze out rogue recyclers

Business Green

Major charity store chains have said they will only pass unsold stock on to accredited recyclers.

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Event - Building Sustainable Towns and Cities 2019

Green Market Oracle

The second edition of the Building Sustainable Towns and Cities Conference will take place on September 18, 2019 at the Holiday Inn in London, Kensington, United Kingdom. This conference will include topical conference program with 14 speakers, discussion opportunities, an exhibition, best practices as well as the latest updates on housing and development issues.

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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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Subsidy-free onshore wind is great news - but we need other ways to deploy more projects

Business Green

If the UK is to meet net zero at least cost it must open up more routes to market for onshore wind, argues RenewableUK's Rebecca Williams.

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Event - Ecocity World Summit 2019

Green Market Oracle

The Ecocity World Summit will take place October 7–11, 2019, at the Vancouver Convention Centre, the world’s first double LEED® Platinum certified convention centre. Ecocity 2019 is where breakthroughs and advances will be shared. At this summit Mayor Kennedy Stewart and a host of local, regional and global experts will come together to build the bridge to socially just and ecologically sustainable cities.

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The Tesla Model 3 Sell Vs EV Salesperson From Hell For The Rest Of Us (Chevy Bolt Edition)

Forbes Green Tech

I’ve met some pretty uninformed salespeople who have no place selling EVs.

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Climate change is degrading the liveability of developing Asia's cities

Eco-Business

Deteriorating air quality, heat waves and drought have driven down poorer Asian cities in a ranking of the world's most liveable cities. Sydney has risen up the ranks but Singapore and Hong Kong fall.

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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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Are we overestimating how much trees will help fight climate change?

Grist

This story was originally published by Undark and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Bob Marra navigated his way to the back of a dusty barn in Hamden, Connecticut, belonging to the state’s Agricultural Experiment Station. There, past piles of empty beehives, on a wall of metal shelves, were stacks of wooden disks — all that remains of 39 trees taken down in 2014 from Great Mountain Forest in the northwest corner of the state.

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Tesla battery experts describe million-mile cell in new paper

Charged

At the Tesla Autonomy Event in April, Elon Musk said the Disruptors of Detroit were working on a new battery pack that would last a cool million miles, and said it would be available next year. Now Tesla battery research partner Jeff Dahn and his team have released a paper in which they describe this million-mile battery cell. The new Li-ion battery cell features a next-generation “single crystal” NMC cathode and a new type of electrolyte.

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Why 2nd Half Of 2019 Will Be Better For Tesla Than 1st Half (Part 1)

CleanTechnica

Despite the many changes that Tesla made in the last six months — reducing prices multiple times, updating the lineup by adding more trims and pulling out a few, changing its profitability projections, and so on — there is one thing that Tesla has managed to hold onto: its delivery outlook for.

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Tesla China Fairy Tales For Bears & Bulls

CleanTechnica

What would a Tesla fairy tale in China look like? Well, that depends on whether you're a Tesla bear or Tesla bull. Let's have a look at two scenarios.

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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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Trump’s So-Called “Justice Department” Drops Anti-Trust Bomb On Car Companies

CleanTechnica

The US government has put car companies on notice that if they dare oppose the president's plan to roll back fuel economy standards, they will be accused of antitrust violations.

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Formula 1 Champion Nico Rosberg Offers To Drive The Tesla Model S Nürburgring Lap – Musk Accepts!

CleanTechnica

Nico Rosberg, 2016 Formula One champion, and huge fan of electric vehicles (EVs), has offered to pilot the Tesla Model S that Tesla is sending to the Nürburgring Nordschleife. Elon Musk has accepted the offer. This is a perfect fit for EV publicity and advocacy.

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Warren’s Climate Plan: Solid, But Sophisticated & Hard To Sell To Voters

CleanTechnica

Warren's climate plan is a progressive patriot's dream plan. Unions, supply management, the moonshot and WWII are all present. And jobs. Lots of jobs.

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Tesla Fanaticism … Old LEAF vs. New Model 3 … Tesla Semi Weight … Toothless Tesla Model 3 Dragon — #CleanTechnica Top 20

CleanTechnica

The most popular stories on CleanTechnica last week covered various angles of Tesla fandom and the anti-Tesla narrative. There were also some Tesla Model 3 reviews, Tesla and EV sales reports, and a few pieces on the electric non-Tesla competition. Two solar stories and one oil story also slipped into the top.

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Energy Transition Startups Shake Up The Business World

CleanTechnica

The shift to a low-carbon future is turning the economy inside out. Policy has a crucial role to play, but ultimately it is businesses that will make the energy transition happen. In Energiewende home country Germany, many startups are at the forefront of transformation by bringing novel business ideas to market and by snatching market share from incumbents in sectors such as renewables, heating, or mobility.