Fri.Aug 23, 2019

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Toxic chemicals can enter food through packaging, so we made a list

GreenBiz

Environmental NGO EDF has identified toxic chemicals of concern that must be addressed to ensure health and safety.

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Tesla solar panels now available to rent

Inhabitat - Innovation

If you’ve been looking to cut your electric bill down by installing solar panels but didn’t want to shell out the often-big price tag Tesla may have the answer – rent them. Tesla describes its solar panels as “low profile design with integrated front skirts and no visible mounting hardware,” according to its website. It’s hoping to offer homeowners a better option with renting the streamlined panels while boosting slow sales.

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Episode 185: Word games, cool planes , Nori's blockchain-driven carbon removal mission

GreenBiz

Plus, many of those food waste stats you've heard don't include what's discarded at the farm. Tune in to hear about both the problem, and potential solutions.

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$87M wildlife bridge in California will be a haven for mountain lions

Inhabitat - Innovation

Mountain lions in Southern California will have a safer place to roam by 2023 thanks to an $87 million bridge being designed northwest of Los Angeles and spread out above the busy 101 Highway.

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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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Molson Coors joins Science-Based Targets with 1.5C goal and new plastics strategy

GreenBiz

The beer giant is promising to cut emissions by 50 percent and ensure all packaging is reusable, recyclable, compostable or biodegradeable by 2025.

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This off-grid tiny cabin in the Australian wilderness is just what you need for a late summer getaway

Inhabitat - Innovation

If you've been stuck at your desk all summer, now is the perfect time for a little break, and this beautiful tiny cabin in Australia is just the place to get away from it all.

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This home made of broken bricks features a series of rolling green roofs

Inhabitat - Innovation

The house is both resilient against the severe climate and open to take advantage of the vast natural landscape that surrounds the building.

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The New Normal for the Grid: Batteries

GreenTechMedia

In nearly every corner of the country, energy storage projects are finding their way onto the grid — they’re getting bigger, cheaper, more diverse and even a little bit weirder. Most of all, they’re just becoming normal. This week, we’re talking about the new normal for power operations, which includes a lot of batteries. (And maybe some air tanks, water pumps and cranes too.).

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Giraffes win CITES protection

Inhabitat - Innovation

Delegates at the World Wildlife Conference in Geneva voted to list giraffes on Appendix II of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species (CITES).

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Sintavia: Innovation for Cleaner Manufacturing

Green Business Bureau

Since the dawn of the Industrial Revolution, manufacturing – while dramatically innovating and changing how we live and interact – has taken a bad rap for pollution and the environment. However, without a fossil-fuel economy, the world would be several steps back from where are today. But not every manufacturer is equal when it comes to dealing with the environmental impacts of their operations.

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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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MVRDV breaks ground on Pixel, a mixed-use development that embraces indoor-outdoor living

Inhabitat - Innovation

Designed to encourage community building and enjoyment of the outdoors, Pixel will comprise seven mid-rise towers of varying heights grouped around a central plaza.

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For $21 A Month, This Startup Will Offset Your Carbon Footprint

Forbes Green Tech

Wren, part of Y Combinator’s S19 class, is a subscription-based service for individuals that offsets carbon footprints by planting trees, protecting the rainforest or providing clean energy for refugees.

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Top 10 Economic Benefits of Converting to Solar Energy

Sunrun

Decisions we make as consumers have an impact on our lives and on the world around us. Going solar can affect the climate, the economy and our own pocket books. Here are 10 important benefits to home solar. Solar Controls Energy Costs 1. Solar can mean lower utility bills. Your local utility rates1 are probably higher than you’d like.2 Unfortunately, saving money by turning off the lights and easing back the AC may only go so far.

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14 Simple Strategies For Consumers To Avoid Cybercrime

Forbes Green Tech

Every time you log on to the internet, you are exposing yourself to potential cybercrime. Here are a few simple strategies to help consumers protect themselves from the exploits of cybercriminals.

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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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Alexander Dennis launches double-deck hybrid bus with extended electric range

Charged

British bus and coach manufacturer Alexander Dennis has launched the Enviro400ER Electric Range, a double-deck hybrid bus that can run up to three miles in electric mode. Built in partnership with BAE Systems, the Enviro400ER’s lithium nickel manganese cobalt battery has a capacity of 32 kWh. Arthur Whiteside, Managing Director of UK Sales at Alexander Dennis, said, “Improving air quality is on everyone’s agenda and Alexander Dennis supports these efforts with the market’s widest range of low- a

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European consortium develops advanced contamination-repellent solar panel coating

Solar Power World

A European consortium of partners has developed an easy-to-clean solar panel coating that repels environmental forces. SolarSharc was created by the Advanced Resins and Coatings Innovation Centre (a strategic partnership between London South Bank University and TWI), Opus Materials Technologies, Onyx Solar, CEA – LITEN, Millidyne and TWI. The partners successfully secured funding for their… The post European consortium develops advanced contamination-repellent solar panel coating appeared

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Major Fashion Companies Sign Pact Vowing To Reduce Industry’s Environmental Impact

Forbes Green Tech

Ahead of the G7 meeting in France this weekend, 32 major global fashion and textile companies, from H&M and Gap to Hermes and Chanel, signed a Fashion Pact, promising to work together to lower the fashion industry’s negative impact on the environment.

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Macron tells G7: Amazon rainforest fires are an 'international crisis'

Business Green

Fires currently ravaging the Brazilian rainforest should be top of the agenda at this weekend's G7 Summit, says French President, as debate over future trade deals intensifies.

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SolarEdge Expanding Activity and Presence in the Brazilian PV Market

altenergymag

New commercial and residential PV solutions to be presented at Intersolar South America

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A Tropical Depression May Form Within Days Off The U.S. Coast - Is Hurricane Season Awakening?

Forbes Green Tech

Meteorologists are watching something "tropical" off the coast of Florida. Will it strengthen to become Dorian?

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IKEA, Unilever, and BNP Paribas join business drive against inequality

Business Green

Business for Inclusive Growth (B4IG) coalition will launch at the G7 summit this weekend, warning inequalities around the world are economically-damaging.

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Follow the talent: Agents of Impact special report for Aug. 23

Impact Alpha

Greetings, Agents of Impact! Welcome to ImpactAlpha’s weekly “follow the talent” roundup of impact investing career moves, job openings, events and opportunities. Help the growing ImpactAlpha community follow your talent: Send job moves, mandates, event announcements and other news to editor@impactalpha.com. – Dennis Price, editorial director Agent of Impact Tala’s Shivani Siroya.

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Can Italy strike twice?

Renewable Energy World

Italy’s National Energy Strategy aims to increase wind and solar power’s share of gross final energy consumption by 2030. The country boasts a track record of meeting past renewables targets, but can it be successful once more? Stefania Belisario, associate director, Infrastructure, S&P Global Ratings, assesses the factors either driving or impeding progress.

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ImpactAlpha’s Big 7: Stakeholder capitalism, billion-dollar funds, Kiva’s inclusion protocol, impact policy incentives, Agent of Impact Shivani Siroya

Impact Alpha

TGIF, Agents of Impact! Stakes in the ground. The 50-year anomaly of “shareholder primacy” may be coming to an end. The shift makes even more salient the principles and practices pioneered by impact and sustainable investors and entrepreneurs (see No. 1, below). Big private equity firms, many of which are raising 10-figure impact funds, will The post ImpactAlpha’s Big 7: Stakeholder capitalism, billion-dollar funds, Kiva’s inclusion protocol, impact policy incentives, Agent of Impact Shivani Sir

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Largest Cherokee County wind farm now under construction

Renewable Energy World

After a 23-year wind farm construction hiatus, work on a 2nd Cherokee County wind farm has begun. Developed by San Diego based EDF Renewables, the 200-megawatt (MW) Glaciers Edge Wind Project north of Marcus is scheduled to be on line by the end of 2019.

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Media brief: The carbon price in B.C. and its impact on emissions, jobs and the economy

Clean Energy Canada

Carbon pricing is a regular feature of Canadian headlines, as parties and governments clash over the right to impose a price on pollution across Canada. Many of these discussions are centred around whether carbon pricing is genuinely effective at reducing emissions. But these arguments often misinterpret, or altogether miss, an important piece of Canadian carbon pricing evidence: B.C.

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Nine solar projects go live in Georgia

Renewable Energy World

Duke Energy Renewables, a subsidiary of Duke Energy, announced that nine solar projects developed with SolAmerica Energy totaling 14.1 megawatts (MW) have begun commercial operations across central Georgia under Georgia Power’s Renewable Energy Development Initiative. These projects bring Duke Energy Renewables, operating through its REC Solar business unit, to 27.4 MW of solar projects in Georgia.

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Increasing Wildfires are the New Abnormal

Green Market Oracle

It is with good reason that the fires in the Amazon are capturing headlines, but wildfires have burned all around the globe this year. What makes these events unique is their frequency, size and duration. Wildfire seasons are starting earlier and ending later. European heat waves ignited large wildfires in the winter and spring of 2019. In February hot temperatures sparked wildfires across western Europe and in April there were wildfires in Scotland, Norway and Sweden According to the Emergency

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Canada’s power grid is pretty clean. Here’s why it needs to be cleaner

Clean Energy Canada

When you ask people to imagine clean energy in Canada, most will picture spinning wind turbines, fields covered in solar panels or rushing dams. To which our organization, Clean Energy Canada, so often replies: actually, the clean-energy sector is bigger and broader than that. It includes the people who make our homes waste less energy: insulators and HVAC operators.

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Webinar: Resilient solar: How energy storage future-proofs solar and increases project value – September 17

Solar Power World

Tuesday, September 17, 2019 2 pm ET / 11 am PT Discover how energy storage makes solar more resilient, flexible, and valuable. Energy storage helps developers and EPCs capture more value from incentives, participate in energy markets, manage risk, and bring new solutions to customers. This webinar will cover: Key value streams of… The post Webinar: Resilient solar: How energy storage future-proofs solar and increases project value – September 17 appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Sustainability is a goal, not a cult

Terra Infirma

Zoe Williams in today’s Guardian has a pop at those criticising Prince Harry and Meghan for lecturing us on climate change and then jumping in a private jet for a holiday. I fully agree with Williams that the motivation of those attacking the Sussexes is dubious to say the least, but that doesn’t mean the criticism itself is invalid. As I wrote on Monday, I don’t think Greta Thunberg’s transatlantic sailing trip is the best awareness raising stunt for Sustainability (and,

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[Blog] Home Energy Magazine Starts a New Chapter

Home Energy

Bob Krell has joined the staff of the Building Performance Association to serve as Publisher of Home Energy Magazine. He will be stewarding a new direction for the publication as it becomes the journal for BPA members.

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4 Tips For Using Social Media Marketing For Your Green Business

Ecotech

One of the many benefits of joining EcoTech Visions through our membership is the access you have to expertise and resources to not just launch your green business but to continue to grow your business. Many first-time business owners spend a lot of time in marketing and promoting the launch of their company, but then fail to continue on with the effort, which limits the growth potential for the business.

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[Blog] How the U.S. Department of Energy?s Home Energy Score? Uses HPXML

Home Energy

The Energy Department recognizes the value that data standards and systems bring to the world of building energy efficiency. As such, its Building Technologies Office (BTO) has helped fund a variety of resources for commercial and residential building energy sectors to increase knowledge and value for energy efficiency – including.

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