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Energy's Future - Battery and Storage Technologies

Jim Conca

Battery technologies have to catch up with other new low-C tech, and V-flow batteries may be the breakthrough we need. They are fully containerized, nonflammable, compact, reusable over semi-infinite cycles, discharge 100% of the stored energy and do not degrade for more than 20 years.

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ESG performance also matters for pre-IPO companies

GreenBiz

Newly public companies, from Uber to Beyond Meat, are facing extra scrutiny on sustainability issues. Pre-IPO companies should pay attention.

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G7 summit: Fashion companies make a pact to protect the planet

Inhabitat - Innovation

Known as The Fashion Pact, a group of 32 major luxury brands, labels and companies, such as Adidas, Burberry, Kering, Hermes, Nike, Prada and Puma, shared its ideas to improve sustainability in the fashion industry at the G7 summit from August 24 to 26.

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Farmers are reaping the love of Campbell, Kellogg, Stonyfield and Molson Coors

GreenBiz

How big data and incentives are helping companies forge closer partnerships across agricultural supply chains.

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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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Engineers invent origami-inspired self-watering pots that are made from 100% recycled materials

Inhabitat - Innovation

Engineers design flat pack self-watering plant pot Related: + POTR POTS Via BBC POTR Pots, flat pack self-watering plant pot

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How intensifying tariffs heighten supply-chain risks

GreenBiz

Rapid changes to supply chains brought about by tariffs may expose companies to greater risks.

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Form Energy Raises $40M Series B for Super-Long-Duration Grid Storage

GreenTechMedia

Long-duration storage startup Form Energy thought that solving the problem of months-long grid storage would take a decade. But its last year of work advanced faster than expected. Based on that progress, the team of industry veterans has fast-tracked development and raised a $40 million Series B, co-founder Mateo Jaramillo told Greentech Media. Italian oil and gas major Eni signed on as lead investor, joined by Capricorn Investment Group and most of the existing investors from last year's $

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Cheer Project creates zero-waste products from pine needles

Inhabitat - Innovation

Cheer Prokect is a 100 percent bio-based and biodegradable material made from pine needles that can be incorporated into a variety of products.

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Online parts retailer releases survey on consumer e-waste negligence, and launches appliance repair initiative

Envirotec Magazine

A survey of 5,000 UK householders has found that the majority of Brits don’t attempt to fix perfectly repairable appliances – creating thousands of tonnes of unnecessary waste every year. Of the 1.4 million tonnes of e-waste binned in the UK every year, more than 70% is unaccounted for. The research, undertaken by online spare parts retailer eSpares, appears to confirm that consumers prefer to simply throw away their broken appliances, replacing them with new models and often ignoring the enviro

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Mixed-use complex aims to minimize heat gain with greenery in Saudi Arabia

Inhabitat - Innovation

Avci Architects has created an upscale, mixed-use complex in the coastal city of Al Khobar that is carefully oriented to maximize natural cooling.

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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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The Business Roundtable's new statement shows 200 CEOs are stuck in yesterday's CSR

GreenBiz

Plus, three ways that the CEOs could improve their new "Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation.".

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Chlorophyll Water – Good For the Mind, the Body, and the Planet

Green Business Bureau

If you’ve been around family or friends who are focused on living a healthier lifestyle or if you’ve been noticing more articles on “non-toxic” or “detoxing,” you’ve no doubt heard or read about the health benefits of chlorophyll. One impressive company, Chlorophyll Water , has captured this rapidly expanding market by combining the health benefits of vitamin-enhanced chlorophyll water with eco-friendly, sustainable, non-toxic bottles.

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Demand Response Rules Are Changing. MISO Shows How

GreenTechMedia

For independent system operators and regional transmission organizations (ISO/RTOs), the need to rely on distributed energy resources as a system resource is growing. Power systems governed by wholesale markets are evolving as traditional fuel-based generation retires. As a result, ISOs and RTOs are appealing to FERC to change the way demand response resources play in the market.

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Quantum Air orders 26 electric airplanes from Bye Aerospace

Charged

Air taxi operator Quantum Air has purchased 26 electric planes from Bye Aerospace , including 22 all-electric four-seat eFlyer 4s and 2 two-seat eFlyer 2s. Bye Aerospace will also deliver two future aircraft models currently under development. Bye aims to be the first FAA-certified all-electric plane in use for general aviation and flight training. In July, the company tested a new 90 kW Siemens SP70D production motor in its eFlyer 2.

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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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Hawaiian Electric Seeks Bids for 900MW of ‘Dispatchable Renewables’ and Storage

GreenTechMedia

Hawaiian Electric issued a long-awaited request for proposals on Thursday for about 900 megawatts of renewable energy and energy storage projects. It’s the utility’s second major round of contracts in the past year seeking to marry variable solar and wind power with the capacity and flexibility of batteries. But the Variable Renewable Dispatchable Generation and Energy Storage RFPs that opened on Thursday are a bit more complicated than their headline figures might indicate.

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Nine policy wonks on how to catalyze private capital for public good

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha’s What’s Next series, produced in partnership with the Global Impact Investing Network, provides a platform for practitioners and experts to reflect on the future of impact investing. ImpactAlpha, Aug. 26 – Impact investing is among the last of a vanishing species: a bipartisan issue. In the U.S., some of the few legislative achievements of the last The post Nine policy wonks on how to catalyze private capital for public good appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Merchant Solar and Wind: A Ticking Time Bomb?

GreenTechMedia

Since the dawn of grid-connected wind and solar, long-term power-purchase agreements were the financial glue that held projects together. Developers could rely on relatively simple multi-decade contracts, thanks in large part to policy that encouraged or mandated utilities to enter those agreements. Today, things are a lot more complicated. It’s much harder to secure a long-term PPA, so more wind and solar projects are getting exposed to the risks of the market.

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SatAgro: The Startup That’s Helping to Drive Digital Agriculture in Poland

Planet Pulse

Referred to by some as Europe’s “ new growth engine ,” Poland has gone through dramatic transformations in recent decades, while its economy grew by more than 50 percent since 2007, despite the global economic crisis. In the process, it has raised its profile as a major food supplier in Europe, with more than 60 percent of Poland’s land being farmland.

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Wind Developer Targets ‘Countercyclical’ Opportunity With Post-PTC Projects

GreenTechMedia

The U.S. wind market’s overwhelming focus is on the next few years, when the federal Production Tax Credit remains at or near its full value. Quietly, however, some developers have begun investing beyond the PTC horizon. “We see a little bit of a countercyclical opportunity because a lot of the large strategic investors — not all of them, but some — are really focused on the phaseout and not investing in greenfield [development],” said Michael Rucker, CEO of Scout C

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UK Climate Investments backs three renewable energy projects in South Africa

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, August 26 – South Africa is a laggard in the renewable energy transition. Today, the country is 90% coal-powered. By 2030, the South Africa wants to reduce coal’s role in its energy mix to 46% and boost clean and renewably-based generation to more than 30% (including hydro and nuclear power). UK Climate Investments is stepping The post UK Climate Investments backs three renewable energy projects in South Africa appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Hydrogen is expected to account for 10% of China’s energy network by 2050

Renewable Energy World

The Chinese government recently issued a whitepaper on the status and prospects of the hydrogen fuel and fuel cell sectors, indicating that energy derived from hydrogen will become an important part of the Chinese energy network.

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Boston Startup Puts A New Spin On Silk, Replacing Petrochemicals In Clothing And Skincare

Forbes Green Tech

Evolved by Nature has unlocked the potential of silk to provide finishes for clothing, like waterproofing and moisture management, previously supplied by petrochemicals, as well as using liquid, activated silk in skincare products.

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On David Koch’s Passing and the Koch Network’s Ongoing War on Clean Energy

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 4 mins Billionaire libertarian activist and oil industry tycoon David Koch died on Friday, leaving a toxic legacy that includes helping birth the climate denial movement, fighting against regulations that protect worker and public health, and — critical to our work here on DeSmog's KochvsClean project — helping fund and coordinate a decades-long attack on clean energy and low carbon energy solutions.

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Bay State Wind Submits Bid to Build Offshore Wind Farm in Massachusetts

altenergymag

-Ørsted and Eversource proposal leverages project maturity, holistic approach to development and local stakeholder engagement; -Provides strong economic benefits and clean and reliable green energy to Bay State residents

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The side of Paul Allen I wish more people knew about

GatesNotes

Bill Gates talks about Paul Allen at the Forbes Philanthropy Summit, where he was posthumously honored with the Lifetime Achievement Award for Philanthropy.

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STracker dual-axis solar trackers installed at Oregon museum

Solar Power World

The ScienceWorks Hands-on Museum in Ashland, Oregon, is now home to three of STracker’s Model S1B elevated solar trackers. The units are designed, fabricated and tested in Ashland and were chosen for this project for efficiency and ability to allow continued use of the ground below. The installation was completed in 15 days by Sharpe… The post STracker dual-axis solar trackers installed at Oregon museum appeared first on Solar Power World.

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How BBQ chicken can prepare you for life after high school

GatesNotes

Bill Gates met with 2019 Washington State Teacher of the Year, Robert Hand, who teaches his students how to take care of themselves after they graduate.

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B Corps to CEOs: Get to work

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, Aug. 26 – CEOs of Ben & Jerry’s, Danone, Sundial Brands, and 30 other certified “B Corps” called in a full-page ad in The New York Times for Business Roundtable CEOS to “work together to make real change happen.” Last week, nearly 200 CEOs declared their support for a new ethos of “stakeholder” capitalism that The post B Corps to CEOs: Get to work appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Kentucky Greenhouse Home To World's Largest LED Installation

Forbes Green Tech

AppHarvest is a little coy about some numbers, but has big plans for a greenhouse to open in 2020 in Eastern Kentucky.

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CARU snags €2.4 million for voice-command home sensors for seniors

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, August 26 – As Europe’s population ages, there’s a growing contingent of startups building tech solutions aiming to make it easier for people to maintain dignity and independence. The latest example? CARU, a Swiss “age tech” startup that is making voice-controlled sensors for assisted care facilities. CARU was started by Susanne Dröscher in 2017 with a The post CARU snags €2.4 million for voice-command home sensors for seniors appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Comment: Rail Industry Publication Attacks New York Times Over Lac-Mégantic Oil Train Tragedy

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 7 mins Six years after the oil train derailment and explosion in Lac-Mégantic, Quebec — which claimed 47 lives and destroyed the downtown of this small lakeside town — The New York Times reviewed what progress has been made since the disaster , with a headline that noted “Deadly Cargo Still Rides the Rails.”. However, Railway Age, the leading rail industry publication, attacked The Times' coverage in an incredibly flawed critique.

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Palladium makes two investments in Africa from its first impact fund

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, August 26 – Global consultancy Palladium has advised and moved capital towards impact initiatives for decades. Now it has launched its own fund to move more capital, targeting a $40 million raise to invest in small businesses in Africa. Palladium has also made its first two investments from the fund: a woman-owned shea nut harvesting The post Palladium makes two investments in Africa from its first impact fund appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Iceland banks over one million plastic bottles in a year of reverse vending

Business Green

Since May 2018 the retailer has collected more than one million plastic bottles from five stores, with 96 per cent of shoppers supporting a nationwide roll out of the deposit return scheme.

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Contractors Corner: Palmetto State Solar holds strong in the booming Carolinas market

Solar Power World

The Carolinas are having an extended moment in the solar industry. North Carolina is second in the nation for kilowatts installed and is a utility-scale solar powerhouse. South Carolina is quickly catching up, ranking 12th in the nation for solar kilowatts installed just in 2018 and actually surpassing its northern neighbor for total number of… The post Contractors Corner: Palmetto State Solar holds strong in the booming Carolinas market appeared first on Solar Power World.