U.S. Green Technology

MARCH 6, 2021

Optimizing energy usage at home isn’t something that people think about often. If only people know how to conserve energy in their day-to-day lives, they’ll find that they’re spending less money on their energy bills. Plus, they’re also environment-friendly. That said, we have listed down how you can conserve energy while doing your daily chores: The post 7 Simple Ways to Conserve Energy While Doing Your Daily Chores appeared first on U.S.

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Forbes Green Tech

MARCH 6, 2021

With World’s Engineering Day and International Women’s Day separated by just a few days, Yewande Akinola wants to inspire women to challenge the statistics and enter the fields of engineering and sustainability.

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Grist

MARCH 6, 2021

This story was produced in collaboration with InvestigateWest. The heavy wind woke Niria Garcia about 5 a.m. It whipped against her home, leaving her restless as she fitfully tried to get a little more sleep. “Something doesn’t feel right,” Garcia thought to herself. On that day last September, a devastating fire ripped through Southern Oregon, whipped by those very winds that woke Garcia, a Xicana climate activist based in Talent, a town of about 6,500 people.

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Forbes Green Tech

MARCH 6, 2021

Recent guidance from the International Accounting Standards Board and the International Auditing and Assurance Standards Board give investors a powerful tool to ensure that companies and their auditors are taking the effects of climate change into account in the financial statements.

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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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Greenability Magazine

MARCH 6, 2021

When you’re ready to start decluttering, connect with Re.Use.Full, a new free service that will help you find the best places to donate your reusable clothes, electronics, home decor, tools, toys and much more. Re.Use.Full is an online service that will connect you with non-profit organizations that can use your reusable appliances, arts & craft supplies, baby items, bicycles, boats, books, building materials, clothing, electronics, furniture, gardening equipment, home décor, hygiene p

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Forbes Green Tech

MARCH 6, 2021

The price of EVs and the inability of many to obtain home charging could create a clear division where those with lower incomes will miss out on the huge benefits of electric driving for many years to come.

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GreenTech Gazette

MARCH 6, 2021

For years, Scotland has been as the ideal starting place for the development of tidal and wind-based power harnessing technologies. As a nation with plenty of water and wind to go around, Scotland has been the testing ground for many such systems for years. However, the agreement between Simec Atlantis Energy (SAE) with the Goto Island chain in Japan is a landmark moment for the industry.

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CleanTechnica

MARCH 6, 2021

As fossil fuel industry jobs falter, renewable energy offers hope for workers. An interview with the Natel Energy founder describes what the new landscape of energy employment can look like.

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CleanTechnica

MARCH 6, 2021

Someone especially focused on fully electric car sales in Europe has put together a site that tracks and shares fully electric vehicle (BEV) registration data from 9 European countries as it comes out. Running across the site recently, I decided to have some fun with the data by creating charts on specific stats or rankings […].

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CleanTechnica

MARCH 6, 2021

Following up on last month’s inaugural report on plugin vehicle market share in 6 major European markets and China, here’s a look at how much market share plugin vehicles had in Germany, France, the UK, the Netherlands, Norway, and Sweden in February, and also in January and February combined. (For now, China is excluded, because […].

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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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CleanTechnica

MARCH 6, 2021

Details about the ID. Buzz are emerging and Volkswagen is considering a luxury electric car that could change the way we use automobiles.

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CleanTechnica

MARCH 6, 2021

Originally published on WRI’s Resource Institute Blog. By Taryn Fransen and David Waskow A new UN report finds that countries’ emissions-reduction commitments under the Paris Agreement are falling far short of what’s needed to prevent the most dangerous impacts of climate change. It is imperative that countries that have not yet submitted their plans deliver much greater ambition this […].

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CleanTechnica

MARCH 6, 2021

Courtesy of Union Of Concerned Scientists. By Jacob Carter, Research scientist This week, the Department of the Interior (DOI) announced that it will be rescinding secretarial order 3369, which sidelined scientific research and its use in the agency’s decisions. Put in place by the previous administration, the secretarial order restricted decisionmakers at the DOI from using scientific […].

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CleanTechnica

MARCH 6, 2021

The Dutch plugin electric vehicle (PEV) market dropped 20% in February year over year (YoY), to 2,952 registrations, but that result wasn’t all that bad considering that the overall market fell even more (-26% YoY), placing last month’s PEV share at 14% (5.6% full electrics/BEV). That kept the 2021 year-to-date PEV share at 13% (4.1% […].

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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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CleanTechnica

MARCH 6, 2021

A few days ago, I spotted the following Reuters headline: “Exclusive: India woos Tesla with offer of cheaper production costs than China.” Intrigued, and thinking there was some real news on what Tesla is going to do in India, I opened the link and read through the story. However, the key point is that there’s […].

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CleanTechnica

MARCH 6, 2021

On Friday, Twitter users woke up to news that Elon Musk had died. The cause of death? A lithium battery he was handling at a Tesla facility exploded in his hands. As proof, many tweets had screenshots from reputable news outlets, and there was even a tweet from Grimes expressing grief that had supposedly been […].

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