Sat.Sep 21, 2019

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Amazon Finally Reacts To The Climate Emergency: Too Little, TooLate?

Forbes Green Tech

Amazon’s decision to react to the climate emergency is good news, and if it pressures other companies to follow its lead, so much the better. But the company took three years for this, and one can only wonder at the wisdom of keeping silent in this way and the damage it has done to its image.

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Q&A: Michael Mann on Coverage Since 'Climategate'

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 9 mins By Brendan Fitzgerald, CJR. This story originally appeared in Columbia Journalism Review ( CJR ). It is republished here as part of DeSmog's partnership with Covering Climate Now , a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story. Michael Mann's work as a press critic began in earnest a decade ago.

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No One Seemed To Notice Greta Thunberg’s Critique Of The Green New Deal

Forbes Green Tech

"We cannot make 'deals' with physics," the Swedish teen activist said.

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L'Oreal, Salesforce, Nestle, and many more commit to 1.5C targets

Business Green

UN confirms 87 of the world's largest companies have committed to emissions targets in line with 1.5C warming trajectory.

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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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Event - World Congress on Green Chemistry and Recycling

Green Market Oracle

The 6th World Congress on Green Chemistry and Recycling will take place on October 14 and 15, 2019 in Seoul, South Korea. The theme of the Congress is Advancements in Recycling for a Sustainable Future. This event will include speakers, exhibitions and workshops from leading experts who will share their knowledge and their research in recycling and environmental sciences.

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Sodexo, Electrolux, L'Oreal and many more ramp up climate commitments to 1.5C pathway

Business Green

UN confirms 87 of the world's largest companies have committed to emissions targets in line with 1.5C warming trajectory.

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Labour unveils plans for NHS Green New Deal

Business Green

Lower emissions from the health service will not only benefit the climate but also offer greater therapeutic value to patients and help to aid recovery, Labour says.

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Tesla vs Porsche EV Rivalry Accelerates the Death of Fossil Vehicles

CleanTechnica

Whilst seemingly irrelevant to everyday driving, the ongoing competition between Tesla and Porsche over EV performance supremacy is quickly demonstrating that fossil sports cars are becoming obsolete — an important symbolic milestone for the EV revolution which will have repercussions in higher volume segments. If Porsche wants its Taycan to keep pace with the Tesla Model S Plaid, Porsche will have to allow it to outperform the company's current flagship Panamera combustion sedan.

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Honda Accord & Toyota Camry Buyers — What The Heck Are You Doing?

CleanTechnica

Honda and Toyota have been smart, logical choices for American car buyers for decades. Once upon a time, they were the new kids on the block and they had to prove themselves with strong "performance for the money" or "value for the money" propositions. They did so, repeatedly, and they grew their market shares as a result.

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Daedalean & The AI That Knows Where Not To Land

CleanTechnica

As someone who has recently became an owner of a fairly light and harmless drone, I know that almost everywhere in the world laws about it are absolutely bonkers. In my home country of the Netherlands, I can’t even fly it in my own backyard. Ironically, the King of the Netherlands, Willem-Alexander, may or may not have even gotten a fine for buying a small drone and flying it in his own backyard because the law states that no one may fly above property of Dutch royalty.

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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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Urban Air Mobility Investment To Top $318 Billion By 2020

CleanTechnica

A little while back, the Vertical Flight Society announced a partnership with Nexa Advisors to determine urban air mobility (UAM) investments by 2020. The report shows that industry revenue is projected to top $318 billion by then.

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2015 BMW i3 REx Goes Long Distance To Find The Heart Of America — Florida To The Appalachians, Day 1

CleanTechnica

To begin, I want to thank my personal patron saint of long-distance small-EV travel, Zachary Shahan. He plotted my trip for me from charger to charger since my MacBook Air took a hiatus and blacked out on me the morning I left the Sunshine State for the Appalachians in a small 2015 BMW i3 REx. My travel log lost, Zach kept me abreast of each charging location on my phone, and updated them as the trip went along and plans changed.

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2019 Beginner’s Guide To Full Self Flying, & How It’s Not Like Full Self Driving

CleanTechnica

We are almost constantly referencing autonomous vehicles. Some say we’re almost there. However, that concerns autonomy on the roads — what about autonomy in the skies? No, I don’t mean the autopilot that large airplanes have used for years. I mean *full self flying*.

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Climate Catastrophe Protests — In The Netherlands, The Kids Take Politicians Back To School

CleanTechnica

This week, schoolchildren and adults all over Europe and Australia are protesting government inaction on climate change. In the US, large portions of half the population are also protesting and the other half of the population is still deciding whether they “want” to believe in it — or, in the more advanced stages, whether to believe in the severity of the problem.

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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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Tesla Model 3 Takes #1 Spot In Dutch Auto Market

CleanTechnica

At the end of August, Tesla reached the #3 spot in terms of 2019 Dutch auto sales, as Zach wrote yesterday. That was a memorable achievement for a model that started deliveries only halfway through February in earnest. But we also have September sales data for the top 3 automobiles, and September is a last-month-of-quarter month. All Tesla watchers know what that entails — the end-of-quarter delivery rush that Tesla still hasn't gotten rid of.

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New Orleans Tesla Service Center Is Close To Ready

CleanTechnica

Tesla's New Orleans service center may soon be here. Right now, it's in "coming soon" mode on the Tesla website. In 2018, The Times-Picayune first reported that Tesla would opening a service center in New Orleans. Tesla is renovating an existing warehouse lot on Tchoupitoulas Street to provide space for new vehicles ready for delivery. In plans Tesla filed with the city, the center will perform maintenance and repair services for Tesla vehicles and be a delivery point for new vehicle orders.

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California Is Investing $95 Million Into Clean Transportation

CleanTechnica

California has announced that it is investing $95 million into clean transportation with several goals in mind, including helping those living in disadvantaged communities get access to clean transportation.

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Tesla Accessories for the Model 3, Model S, and Model X

CleanTechnica

EV Items makes cool accessories for your Tesla Model S, Model X, and Model 3, and is offering a special discount to our readers.

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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?