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Government urged to make EVs more accessible for low income households

Business Green

New reports make the case for policies that help make electric vehicles accessible to all income levels by lowering the up-front cost of the technology and boosting second hand market.

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Preserving The Amazon Rainforest Is Ground Zero In The Battle To Defeat Climate Change

Forbes Green Tech

Ecuador is ground zero in the battle to protect the Amazon Rain Forest. It is doing its part but will the global community help?

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Webinar - Clean Energy and a Green New Deal for Alberta

Green Market Oracle

How best to tackle Western alienation? An ambitious, made-in-Canada Green New Deal. By investing in clean tech industries and renewable power - like Alberta’s burgeoning solar sector - we’ll create millions of good jobs in the energy provinces. Want to know how we’ll make it happen? Join our webinar on Wednesday, November 13, and we’ll let you in on our strategy for turning the Climate Majority into a Green New Deal that leaves no one behind.

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How Do You Fight Malaria In Tanzania? With Drones!

Forbes Green Tech

The project’s leaders say this is the first-time ever use of drones to apply a biological control agent against mosquitoes anywhere in the world.

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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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Abundance launches green social housing funding push

Business Green

Affordable and supported living social housing scheme to incorporate solar panels, ground-source heat pumps, and water efficiency features.

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Singapore's new waste app provides free door collection service to bypass contaminated recycling bins

Eco-Business

The mobile app from Sembcorp, called Ezi, aims to make recycling more convenient for residents in Singapore, where only 4 per cent of plastic waste is recycled.

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Indonesia re-exporting illegal waste to other countries, report finds

Eco-Business

A report by environmental groups says the Indonesian government is shipping containers of imported plastic waste from the U.S. to other countries instead of sending them back to the source as it claimed it would.

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Shipping efficiency rules and speed limits will cut CO2 - now nations must act

Business Green

Nations must avoid dangerous path of delay and take strong action on shipping CO2 this week, argues John Maggs of the Clean Shipping Coalition.

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From coffee to cosmetics, companies are looking for ways to protect the plants their products are made from

Eco-Business

As crop varieties disappear, boosting biodiversity becomes smart business.

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Bolt ride-hailing firm revs up €10m impact fund

Business Green

First transaction to fund forest creation project in Scotland.

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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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Diet for healthy people, healthy planet too costly for some

Eco-Business

At US$2.84 per head per day, the 'ideal diet' would be beyond reach for nearly 1.6 billion people, mostly in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, researchers say.

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Net zero by 2030: Landsec aligns carbon reduction goal with Paris Agreement

Business Green

Property firm is installing renewable energy and introducing a shadow carbon price in support of new targets.

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Nissan, Toyota, Infiniti, & MINI USA Sales Down In October & 2019; Hyundai, Kia, Honda, BMW, Genesis, & Volvo Sales Up

CleanTechnica

Tracking monthly US auto sales has been a fascinating endeavor this past year. Unfortunately, we don't get data from some brands — Tesla, all Ford Motor Company brands, GM brands, and Fiat Chrysler Automobiles brands, Jaguar Land Rover no longer report monthly sales. However, there are 17 brands that do report monthly US sales, so let's have a look at them.

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Teslas = 77.7% of US Electric Vehicle Sales

CleanTechnica

The US electric vehicle market. is not the most interesting. Unfortunately, we have only one mass-market electric vehicle on the market, and there are very few models available across the nation. Actually, aside from Tesla's offerings, I think only two fully electric models available at dealers practically anywhere are the Chevy Bolt and Nissan.

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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 & Model 3 Visual Comparison … Tesla 1-Pedal Driving … Potential 10,000/Month EVs — CleanTechnica Top 20

CleanTechnica

The most popular stories of the past week on CleanTechnica were led by a visual comparison of the Tesla Model 3 and Tesla Model Y, followed by Paul Fosse's early review of one-pedal driving in a Tesla Model 3 (following a recent software update many of us still haven't gotten). My second piece on non-Tesla electric vehicle models that might one day reach 10,000 sales a month was in third, and an answer to the never-ending question of whether Teslas work in snow was right behind it.

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Expert In Autonomous Flight Explains How It Compares To Tesla’s Full Self Driving — CleanTechnica Video Interview

CleanTechnica

There are about 100 companies out there developing eVTOL (electric vertical take off and landing) vehicles, but there are only a handful of companies developing the AI that will power them and one day turn them into robotaxis, autonomous delivery drones, and any other airborne function that does not require a pilot. One of the leaders in this field is Daedalean, a company best in Switzerland.

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3 Tesla Powerwalls + SunPower Solar = 33 Days “Off Grid” — CleanTechnica Interview

CleanTechnica

New York state resident Anthony Sicari has a home solar power and energy storage system that he used to power his home “off- grid” for 33 days. That's a bit more than one month of electricity self-generation, Tesla Powerwall battery storage, and consumption. To be extra clear, the home only used electricity from the solar panel & battery combination during that period, none from the utility.

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Australian Grid Hits 50% Renewables For First Time

CleanTechnica

For a brief 10 minute period last week, 5 Australian states were powered by more than 50% renewable energy. Despite the idiocy of the national government, renewables are becoming a bigger and bigger part of Australia's energy future.

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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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Volkswagen To Introduce ID. SPACE VIZZION At LA Auto Show November 19

CleanTechnica

Volkswagen will introduce the 7th electric car based on its MEB electric car platform at the LA auto show on November 19. It will feature a completely new interior design and up to 300 miles of range.

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Rising Seas, Melting Ice, Raging Fires — Why Didn’t Anybody Warn Us?

CleanTechnica

Are timid scientists to blame for not telling us years ago that rapid changes in the climate are possible, or are there other forces at work that made them more conservative in presenting their views?

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F-Waste Is A Huge Climate Issue: How Smart Businesses Are Solving It

CleanTechnica

Green Standards allows Fortune 500 companies to reduce their impact on the planet with sustainable office decommissioning. By taking gently used office furniture and upcycling, recycling, and donating to local non-profit organizations, this super green business has diverted nearly 58,000 tons of furniture waste (f-waste).

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Q&A With James Greenberger: Top Trends & New Innovations In Energy Storage

CleanTechnica

Rapid solar industry growth has powered the innovation and utilization of energy storage. Noticing the increasing integration and emerging complementary opportunities, the Intersolar North America team made a conscious decision to incorporate energy storage more fully into the 2020 event content. They recently interviewed James Greenberger, the Executive Director of NAATBatt International.

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Tesla Autopilot & Smart Summon Handle Construction Zone & Traffic Cones Like A Boss

CleanTechnica

Elon Musk and the Tesla software team are aiming to roll out all of the features of its Full Self-Driving package by the year-end, a tough goal but one that should be achievable with a little margin here and there. The latest version of the Tesla firmware update shows that the cars can now detect traffic cones.

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Clean Cooking: Let The Data Speak For Itself

CleanTechnica

Large-scale efforts and resources have been directed towards low- and middle-income countries to encourage individual households to adopt more efficient clean cooking solutions including improved cookstoves and cleaner fuels. While households initially express enthusiasm for their new stoves, they eventually abandon them.

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