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We Are Entering The Biggest Technological Transition In History

Forbes Green Tech

The magnitude of the change required by the United States if it is to reduce its emissions in order to comply with the Paris Agreement is huge… but it is fundamental if we are to have a bright, clean future.

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The Mobility House to provide charging management for Austrian Post’s EV fleet

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Austria’s postal service has selected The Mobility House to support its rapidly-growing EV fleet with intelligent charging. The agency, which aims to eliminate its delivery emissions by 2030, will deploy The Mobility House’s ChargePilot Charging and Energy Management solution across some 2,400 AC and DC charging stations in 130 depot locations. Austrian Post’s EV fleet, said to be Austria’s largest, currently serves about 80 percent of postal delivery districts throughout the country.

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Water Day: Prince of Wales kicks off water-focused climate finance drive

Business Green

Water Aid-led Resilient Water Accelerator launched as UN-backed Race to Zero campaign urges water utilities around the world to commit to net zero emissions. The Prince of Wales has today launched a new initiative geared at fast tracking finance for improving water services in water-stressed regions in Africa and South East Asia. Dubbed the Resilient Water Accelerator, the programme aims to select six locations for support by September this year, before then starting work in January 2022, accord

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Kia reveals first images of its new EV6 ahead of this month’s launch

Charged

Kia has revealed the first images of the exterior and interior design of EV6, the automaker’s first dedicated battery electric vehicle, ahead of the car’s world premiere scheduled for later this month. The new model is based on Kia’s new Electric-Global Modular Platform (E-GMP), and features “a distinctive crossover-inspired design.” It’s the result of a collaborative effort among Kia’s three global design studios in Korea, Germany and California.

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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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New £20m competition aims to chart a greener future for UK shipping

Business Green

New Department for Transport initiative will support development of zero emission vessels and infrastructure that can propel decarbonisation of shipping. The government has called on shipbuilders, shipping firms, ports, scientists, and academics to submit proposals to a new competition for innovative technologies that can chart a greener future for the UK's shipping sector.

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Former Reddit CEO Crashes Bill Gates’ AMA To Correct Him On Solar Desalination

Forbes Green Tech

Freshwater scarcity is “a problem that will likely be completely resolved in the next 10-20 years," says former Reddit CEO.

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New money stories: the eleven dollar bill

Low Impact

I’m writing a book – published by Chelsea Green next January – about the possibility of building a new economy around a moneyless, mutual credit core, at a time when money is going to be scarce. I’m often told that the best way to get new ideas across is with a story. So I’m trying to think of stories that can help beginners to understand the concept of mutual credit, and to get the penny to drop that we can take control of money away from banks – we don’t have to have a money system that

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Fossil fuel non-proliferation treaty—a call to disarm

Eco-Business

Campaigners hope to end the expansion of fossil fuels across the world and wind down existing production by getting countries to sign up to a new international accord.

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'Build back greener': Government announces £54m funding boost for electric trucks and hydrogen buses

Business Green

Three projects across the UK aimed at cutting emissions from heavy transport to share government-led funding. A trio of projects from across the UK designed to slash emissions from the road transport sector have been awarded a share of £54m of new funding, as the government looks to accelerate the development of zero emission trucks and buses.

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Cloud technology could be the most disruptive digital tool for empowering ASEAN's vulnerable communities

Eco-Business

Cloud technology plays a crucial role in modernising and empowering communities across Southeast Asia, according to a report by Eco-Business Research.

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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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Malawi: Traditional Basketry Offering an Ethical and Cheap Alternative to Plastics

Unsustainable

In Malawi, where a recent ban on single-use plastics has forced people to think outside the box, there is a growing resurgence of an almost-forgotten technique. The post Malawi: Traditional Basketry Offering an Ethical and Cheap Alternative to Plastics appeared first on unsustainable.

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Nature left alone offers more than if we exploit it

Eco-Business

Save nature, save money. It’s a simple argument. Wilderness cleared and ploughed offers us less than nature left alone.

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Is The NSA Screwing Tesla?

CleanTechnica

Elon Musk recently denied that Tesla vehicles were used to spy on foreign governments after the vehicles were banned from Chinese military bases and other sensitive sites. Other reporting indicates that even the off-duty use of Tesla vehicles is being restricted for key personnel, because the Chinese government suspects that the company’s vehicles were already […].

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PwC decarbonisation expert Jatin Sarvaiya joins American Bureau of Shipping as sustainability manager

Eco-Business

Jatin Sarvaiya, a decarbonisation and climate risk strategist for professional services firm PricewaterhouseCoopers, has joined Amiercan Bureau of Shipping as sustainability manager.

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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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I Agree With Bernie’s Core Message, & With Elon Musk’s Push For Universal Basic Income (UBI)

CleanTechnica

I love Bernie Sanders*. I love his overall mission, his personality, and his superb messaging skills — which I’ve said before are probably the best in the Democratic Party (if you want to say he’s in the Democratic Party). That’s why, after seeing the same surprising and counterproductive attack thrown at Elon Musk a few […].

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Chevron Allegedly Holds A Man In His House For Almost Two Years

CleanTechnica

A recent story in Esquire paints an awful picture of corporate-government corruption. In it, they interview Steven Donziger, a lawyer and environmental activist who has been under house arrest for almost two years. Why? Because Chevron’s lawyers were assigned by a New York federal judge to prosecute him after he won against Chevron in a […].

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Rivian Planning 10,000 New EV Chargers By 2023

CleanTechnica

Rivian is planning to install 10,000 new EV chargers, “Rivian Waypoint chargers,” in the US and Canada by 2023. These will be Level 2 AC chargers, not the DC fast chargers in Rivian’s Adventure Network. The Level 2 AC chargers charge more slowly than fast chargers, but they will be operational for all vehicles with […].

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Lithium & Other Battery Mineral Experts: 30–50% EV Market Share in 2030 = Upper Limit

CleanTechnica

I’ve spoken to half a dozen or so EV battery mineral experts in the past several months with one prime objective: understanding how much battery mineral supply can ramp up by 2030 and what that means for potential market share of electric vehicles in the overall auto market. Naturally, my top hope would be getting […].

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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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BMW Is Finally “Ready To Compete With Tesla,” Media Outlet Reports — But Is That The Right Framing?

CleanTechnica

BMW’s new EVs are “ready to compete with Tesla,” Inverse has claimed. The article noted that BMW took some time away from EVs but has recently returned to the EV space with a new EV that is “ready to take on the Audi, Jaguar, and Mercedes-Benz luxury EVs already on the market — and, of […].

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A Volkswagen T2 Camper Van’s Electric Conversion — Part 6

CleanTechnica

This series is the result of conversations with Kit Lacey about his entrepreneurship in converting classic cars to electric propulsion. Kit’s UK-based company is called eDub Services. I encouraged Kit to share the concrete information on his rebuilds with CleanTechnica in his own words. This is the final part of the series on his first […].

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$98 Million Solar Farm Pitched In Louisiana

CleanTechnica

A $98 million solar farm in Morehouse Parish is looking for tax breaks for manufacturing renewable power, The Advocate reports. This information came from an advance notification filed with Louisiana’s economic development office. Bayou Galion Solar Projfect LLC, which is a subsidiary of Recurrent Energy Development Holdings, proposed building a 98.1-megawatt solar farm on 1,000 […].

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Have Rosy Forecasts About the Legacy Energy Industry Created a Financial Bubble?

CleanTechnica

Originally published on EV Annex. By Charles Morris We’ve been hearing a lot lately about a “bubble” in Tesla and other EV-related stocks. However, a new report from the independent think tank RethinkX argues that a far larger and more dangerous bubble now exists around conventional coal, gas, nuclear and hydroelectric energy assets. The authors of the […].

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Big Oil’s Lies About Pollution Health Risks Contributed To Millions Of Deaths

CleanTechnica

For decades, major oil companies have known about the health risks from fine particulates but worked diligently to keep that knowledge secret.

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