Sat.Aug 24, 2019

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Shell installs first ABB EV fast charger in Singapore

Charged

Shell subsidiary Greenlots has installed an ABB DC fast charger in Singapore, the first of 10 to be installed at Shell stations in the country over the next few months. Singapore has amped up its efforts to establish an EV infrastructure in anticipation of increased demand. In October, it attracted Dyson to open an EV factory site in the country. Though currently headquartered in Los Angeles, Greenlots was founded in Singapore over a decade ago.

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If You Want To Save The Planet, Wear Your Food Waste

Forbes Green Tech

There is a supply gap for eco-friendly products in Africa. Most are imported and therefore out of the reach of the average consumer. A team of young Kenyans wants to change that by developing the country's first locally-produced, eco-friendly shoe.

Waste 79
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Business Sustainability Management (Online Short Course) - University of Cambridge

Green Market Oracle

A certificate from the University of Cambridge Institute for Sustainability Leadership will give you the skills to argue the business case, develop integrated plans and implement strategies. This flexible eight week online course is offered in weekly modules, that can be completed in 8-12 hours per week. The course will provide you with a deep understanding of the impact of current global economic, social, and environmental pressures.

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Energy Storage Developer Buy Texas Windfarms With Major Battery Retrofit Planned

Forbes Green Tech

A U.S.-based energy storage developer has bought itself a 149MW portfolio of wind farms in North Texas, a deal that could well be a sign of things to come.

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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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Understanding Christians’ Climate Views Can Lead to Better Conversations About the Environment

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 5 mins By Emma Frances Bloomfield , University of Nevada, Las Vegas. In their second round of debates, Democratic presidential candidates called for aggressive measures to slow climate change. As Washington Gov. Jay Inslee has said , “We are the first generation to feel the sting of climate change, and we are the last generation that can do something about it.”.

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Seeking An Alternative To China (Per Today’s Imperial Order)

CleanTechnica

Today, all great American companies received orders from the Chosen One, Imperial President-For-Life Donald J. Trump, on Twitter. In order to comply with His Majesty's wishes, I will lead CleanTechnica's effort to start looking for an alternative to China. Thus far, my extensive research has borne out several great alternatives, which I will discuss below.

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New Design For Next Generation Organic Solar Cells Is A 2-For-1

CleanTechnica

Researchers at Columbia University are hot on the trail of new low cost, high efficiency organic solar cells with a two-for-one twist.

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A Tale Of Two EVs

CleanTechnica

It was nearly a year ago that I wrote an article on CleanTechnica about taking a 300 mile journey in a relatively short-range car, the Peugeot iOn, which is capable of only 50 to 70 miles at the absolute most on a single charge. The idea behind it was to say to people, “Look at me doing this. If I can do it in this little car, anyone can make use of an EV for a longer journey, especially a modern EV with 100 to 300 miles of range.

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New Ad Campaign Part Of $2 Billion Effort To Promote Electric Cars

CleanTechnica

While Volkswagen's dieselgate fiasco has been really disappointing, a recent development could be a pivot in the right direction. As part of the settlement, the company has launched its Electrify America “Normal Now” ad campaign as part of a $2 billion investment to encourage the adoption of zero-emission vehicles. The campaign looks to normalize the ownership of electric cars in an attempt to increase EV adoption.

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Small & Micro EVs Would Sell & Work Better If They Didn’t Look Funny

CleanTechnica

As good as small EVs like the Smart (and its motorcycle-engined gas predecessors) do their jobs, they just aren't that appealing. They are built as tall as a more traditional compact hatchback, but much shorter and narrower. I'm sure the reason they're built this way is for ease of entry and exit and other utilitarian purposes, but it gives them a poor drag coefficient along with the odd looks.

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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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Way To Dump All The Good News About Wind Power On A Friday Afternoon, DOE

CleanTechnica

Three new reports from the Department of Energy chart the rise of wind power in the USA, undercutting the Commander-in-Chief's promises to coal miners.

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Tesla’s Game Of Pennies Is A Game Of $$Billions$$

CleanTechnica

Last year, discussing Tesla's challenge producing a $35,000 Model 3, CEO Elon Musk used the phrase "game of pennies" to highlight their efforts to bring down costs one step at a time, in every little way possible. Those pennies at up when on the scale of hundreds of thousands or even millions of cars per year.

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Tesla Model 3 vs. Toyota Camry Cost of Ownership … Range Lost On Parked Model 3 … Tesla Service FTW — #CleanTechnica Top 20

CleanTechnica

The most popular CleanTechnica articles of the past week were led by (yet another) total cost of ownership analysis comparing the Tesla Model 3 and Toyota Camry. A couple of us here at CleanTechnica had previously published our own 5 year cost of ownership comparisons between these cars, but this one came from Loup Ventures, "a research-driven venture capital firm based in Minneapolis and New York investing in frontier technology.

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Volkswagen ID. BUGGY Debuts At Pebble Beach

CleanTechnica

The Volkswagen ID. BUGGY concept turned heads at Pebble Beach recently. Will it ever make it into production? The company says "maybe.".

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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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What Are The Chances One Or More Legacy Automakers Will Fail?

CleanTechnica

Recently, an article about Sandy Munro's most recent interview was posted on CleanTechnica. The article and video are very interesting in quite a few ways. I commented with my thoughts and the replies convinced me to write this article.

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Tesla Full Self Driving & The Infamous 80–20 Rule

CleanTechnica

For people working in software development, like I used to do, the 80–20 rule is infamous. It states that about 80% of the job is done in the first 20% of the time. The last 20% of the development will take about 80% of the time.

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The Best Electric Vans — CleanTech Talk with Tomek Ga?

CleanTechnica

In this episode of our CleanTech Talk podcast interview series, Zach Shahan sits down with Tomek Gac, Co-Founder of Tesla Shuttle and founder and CEO of Quriers.pl and Energia S?onca, to discuss the successes, challenges, and future of electric delivery vehicles.