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Building Back Better After Wildfire

GreenBiz

Building Back Better After Wildfire. Date/Time: March 9, 2021 (1-2PM ET / 10-11AM PT). In 2020, the western U.S. suffered its most devastating wildfire season to date — one that experts fear could be the new normal. What can corporations and others do to help grow back millions of acres of trees and prevent losing them to the ravages of climate change?

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Government touts £40m funding boost for heavy industry decarbonisation projects

Business Green

BEIS launches second round of grants from Industrial Energy Transformation Fund to support heavy industrial decarbonisation projects. The government is offering £40m of funding to help cut CO2 from the UK's most polluting industries, with businesses in energy-intensive sectors such as pharmaceuticals, steel, paper, and food and drink, able to apply for grants worth up to £14m each, it announced today.

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How Fossil Fuels Are Saving Lives In Developing Countries

R-Squared Energy

Over the past 20 years, renewable energy usage has exploded around the world. In general, there is a widespread belief that renewable is better for the planet. That is often true. But not always. Last week I interviewed James Rockall, who is the CEO of the World LPG Association based in Paris, France. Mr. Rockall highlighted a major global problem in which the fossil fuel solution is clearly better than the status quo.

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Sion Solar Electric Car Review

GreenTech Gazette

Electric cars are growing in popularity all the time, and this often means a range of cars coming on the market from brands you have never heard of before. While Sono Motors are a growing name, they are hardly one of the largest names in the automaker industry. However, with the release of their intriguing Sion solar electric car , you might be hearing a lot more of this brand to come in the many years that line down the road.

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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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Building Back Better After Wildfire

AGreenLiving

Building Back Better After Wildfire Date/Time: March 9, 2021 (1-2PM ET / 10-11AM PT) In 2020, the western U.S. suffered its most devastating wildfire season to date — one that experts fear could be the new normal. What can corporations and others do to help grow back millions of acres of trees and prevent losing them to the ravages of climate change?

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Study: Tesla Far Ahead In Online New Vehicle Sales

CleanTechnica

A new study by BearingPoint shows that Tesla dominates geographic availability and ease of online sales of new vehicles. The study evaluated the online offerings of automotive manufactures in the US, Europe, and China along with their "online sales readiness" in those markets.

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GM’s Electric Vehicle Strategy Takes Shape, And It’s All About That Fleet

CleanTechnica

GM's BrightDrop electric vehicle venture gets off to roaring start with Merchants Fleet hookup for thousands of electric delivery vans.

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Tesla: Efficiency Is Good

CleanTechnica

As I sat down to write part three in my series about why Tesla retail investors have an advantage, I wanted to address some of the comments from part two. In attempting to do so, I found that it was difficult to try to make my point quickly without sounding overly defensive, so instead of […].

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Improving The Acoustic Comfort Of The 2019 Tesla Model 3

CleanTechnica

The principle of acoustic attenuation is a measure of the energy loss of sound propagation in a given media. When sound propagates in a media, there is always thermal consumption of energy caused by the specific viscosity of that media. When soundproofing a car, the energy loss of vibrations originating from outside influence is exactly […].

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The EV Battery Supply Chain & Pricing — Nickel, Cobalt, & Lithium Trends (Part 2)

CleanTechnica

In the second half of this CleanTech Talk podcast interview, CleanTechnica CEO Zach Shahan continues his talk with Caspar Rawles, Head of Price Assessments at Benchmark Mineral Intelligence, to delve into the battery supply chain. You can listen to the full conversation in the embedded player below. Below that embedded SoundCloud player is a brief summarization […].

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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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A Differential Equation Governing Methane Concentration in the Atmosphere

CleanTechnica

Often one hears that methane (CH4) is many times worse than carbon dioxide (CO2) as a greenhouse gas.

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What’s Next for State Climate Action in the US? 7 Areas to Watch

CleanTechnica

Originally published on WRI’s Blog. By Devashree Saha, Tom Cyrs and Alex Rudee The Biden administration has committed to a historically ambitious climate agenda. We can expect a profound shift in U.S. federal climate policy — from one of continued domestic rollbacks and international disengagement, to one of forward progress and cooperation. This is critical, as it is not possible […].

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Survey Results Are Coming In: EV Charging At Multi-Family Properties

CleanTechnica

Calling all multi-family property owners and managers! If you own or manage multi-unit housing, we want to hear from you on the topic of electric vehicle (EV) charging. CleanTechnica is conducting a survey to see how EV charging is being handled among multi-family dwelling managers and owners. Our survey results thus far indicate that the […].

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Someone Agrees With Me On Tesla Seats! Sandy Munro!

CleanTechnica

Tesla vehicles have many nice features, but I’ve long thought that one of the most underrated features is the seats. I think since the first time I drove a Tesla Model 3, I’ve thought they are the best seats on the market — excluding, perhaps, the Mercedes S-Class seats that can give you a back […].

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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?