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Governments need to find better ways to finance a resilient tomorrow

GreenBiz

In order to prepare for more climate disruption, the United States and others will have to "raise unprecedented amounts of money to cope with the impacts of climate change.".

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Saving Delhi From The Toxic Smog: Regulations Have Failed But Financial Incentives Could Work

Forbes Green Tech

The November smog is caused by the burning of paddy stubble in Delhi's neighboring states. For farmers, burning is a cost-effective way to clear the field. Mechanized removal is expensive. Governmental subsidies can motivate farmers to switch from burning to mechanized removal.

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Green Jobs Emploment Opportunities

Green Market Oracle

The green jobs boom comprises both the public and the private sectors. Current and future employment opportunities include urban growers, water quality technicians, clean car engineers, recyclers, natural scientists, and green builders. Green jobs are in high demand and that demand will only increase. The number of green economy jobs has been growing for years.

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Governments need to find better ways to finance a resilient tomorrow

AGreenLiving

In order to prepare for more climate disruption, the United States and others will have to “raise unprecedented amounts of money to cope with the impacts of climate change.” Here is the original post: Governments need to find better ways to finance a resilient tomorrow.

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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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Tesla Model 3 Revenue Laps USA Small & Midsize Luxury Competitors — Q3 2019 CleanTechnica Report

CleanTechnica

The above graph is to scale. Due to the superior sales of the Model 3 and similar price, the Model 3 revenue laps competitor revenues. How much does it lap competitors? More than 7× as much when compared to the Acura TLX revenue, as one stark example.

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Tesla Eye Candy: South Florida “Tesla Cars & Coffee” Event

CleanTechnica

Signature Custom Wraps recently held a "Cars and Coffee" event for Tesla owners — EVANNEX was a proud sponsor and excited attendee! Local owners from all over the state of Florida came out to enjoy coffee, cookies, and some the most tricked-out Teslas in the area. There was a raffle with EVANNEX products, a Tesla Wall Charger, and many other fun goodies.

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UK Halts All Fracking Operations In The Country

CleanTechnica

The UK has imposed a moratorium on shale gas fracking in the country effective immediately, dealing a stunning blow to the shale gas industry.

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All Eyes On New Community Solar Power Program In Wappingers Falls, New York

CleanTechnica

The village of Wappingers Falls, New York, is looking to a new community solar power program for sustainable economic development.

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Arcimoto’s Fun EV Is A Blast To Ride

CleanTechnica

I've had a love affair with Arcimoto for the past 6 years, but don't tell my wife. It's true, I knew Arcimoto was the right company when I first saw it at the Los Angeles Auto Show in 2013. I became convinced when I visited the company's headquarters.

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Indigenous Peoples & Clean Energy: A CleanTechnica Exclusive

CleanTechnica

How can renewable energy, indigenous people, and human rights coalesce.

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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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US & Canada Low-Carbon Transformation Requires Solutions To 4 Major Challenges – Part 1

CleanTechnica

This is the first in the series of articles on barriers to rapid climate responses in governments and business, and how they might be overcome.

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Entrepreneurs Lead The Charge When It Comes To Fixing Climate Change

CleanTechnica

Entrepreneurs lead the charge when it comes to fixing climate change! See how companies and teams from around the world are innovating climate change solutions at the coming Climate Launchpad event, happening 14-15 November 2019 in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

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Tesla One-Pedal Driving Update — In A Word, Perfecter

CleanTechnica

Last night before going to bed I noticed one of my friends on Twitter (Sofiaan) was getting a new software update (2019.36.1). I read a little about it and then I noticed I got it too! I set it to install and went to sleep. When I woke up, I took Henry for a spin to try out the new features. Before I give you my impressions, I'll go over the 4 enhancements.

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Tesla Model Y Prototype Spotted, NHTSA Looking Into Tesla Battery Fires As Trolls Swarm

CleanTechnica

There is good news and bad news in the Teslasverse today. Click to read all the news while it is news.

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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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Turning Landfill Gas Into Renewable Natural Gas

CleanTechnica

Landfill gas is created by landfills, which account for 16% of the human-caused (anthropogenic) methane emissions in America. This is not what many people worry about when they think of greenhouse gases, it's important. Thanks to the work of many nonprofits, government programs, and corporations that work in the transportation industry, though, we have a way to use this gas to help lower emissions.

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The Game Changers Film Hits Men Where It Hurts Most ??

CleanTechnica

Every few years there is a new documentary focused on the personal and planetary benefits of eating a plant-based or vegan diet.

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EV Motor Control 101

CleanTechnica

Editor's Note: The team at Mountain Pass Performance are doing some truly cutting edge work and research on EV motor controls. They put together a comprehensive post on EV motors with some help from Chris Brune at Rinehart Motion Systems and were nice enough to let us repost it here. .

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Utility Adds 2.5 MW Of Demand Response Capabilities With Very Unusual “Batteries”

CleanTechnica

Hawaiian Electric (HECO) recently added 2.5MW of grid services to its grid, allowing it to store energy during peak solar and wind production periods, and did so without any traditional batteries, flywheels, or pumped hydro. Even better, the hardware required is very minimal, and in fact, most of it already exists in every residential grid in the world.