Wed.May 01, 2019

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Best Practices for Managing Technological Change in The Utility Industry.

Varuna

The water utility industry is glacial in its adoption of technology. There is evidence of this in never-ending pilot projects with startups that lead nowhere and in product design crowdsourcing campaigns that take a year and end up with products that remind one of the failed healthcare.gov project. But change the industry must. The new type of consumer demands it (push) and it is what technology wants (pull).

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Climate Law Institute

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

Position: Clean Transportation Advocate/ Staff Attorney. Location: Sacramento, Oakland, or Los Angeles California. . Job Description: The Center for Biological Diversity seeks a full-time Clean Transportation Advocate/ Staff Attorney in our Climate Law Institute to join our bold and progressive campaign to advance the urgently needed transition away from fossil fuel vehicles to zero emissions transportation in California and around the country.

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Vanderful: An African Adventure for Education

Unsustainable

The Vanderful team plans to bring education and adventure to West Africa, after it captured their hearts during time spent teaching and living in Namibia. words Sally Fox , photographs Karin Retief and Vanderful Six weeks ago, Silent was terrified of the ocean. Not that you’d know it to see him now, poised on his surfboard, eyeing the approaching wave over his shoulder.

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Climate Law Institute

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

Position: Clean Transportation Advocate/ Staff Attorney. Location: Sacramento, Oakland, or Los Angeles California. . Job Description: The Center for Biological Diversity seeks a full-time Clean Transportation Advocate/ Staff Attorney in our Climate Law Institute to join our bold and progressive campaign to advance the urgently needed transition away from fossil fuel vehicles to zero emissions transportation in California and around the country.

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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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A Teenager’s Call to Enviromental Action

Unsustainable

This planet is our home, it gives us shelter, food, and nurtures us; yet we continue to destroy it. It’s time we acted on behalf of the environment. words and photographs Little Miss Expat Every day when we wake up, we breathe in clean air, we drink clean water, and yet we don’t think about the fact that one day there may not be clean air or clean water available to us.

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[Article] Ventilation and IAQ in New California Homes

Home Energy

Starting in the mid-2000s, the California Energy Commission funded several research studies (for example, Price, et al., 2007, and Offermann, 2009) that aimed to evaluate the potential indoor air quality (IAQ) impacts associated with envelope air sealing, and the potential to mitigate these through the use of mechanical ventilation systems.

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Corporate + Startup Partnerships: What Startups Need to Know

Greentown Labs

Tips for Startups. At Greentown Labs, we have the privilege of working with our corporate partners and startups within our Greentown Launch program to forge corporate partnerships. Our Senior Director of Strategic Partnerships, Katie MacDonald , has compiled a few lessons for startups pursuing corporate partnerships. Here they are in ‘Part 2’ of our two-part blog series focused on how to forge corporate + startup partnerships.

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Climate Change: Where Are We Now?

Unsustainable

Featured Photo: Harrison (coal-fired) Power Station, Haywood, West Virginia. Photo Credit: REUTERS While some politicians and citizens continue to deny the existence of man-made global warming, the evidence supporting it continues to grow. words by Henry Lewis Introduction As the clock continues ticking toward the collective future of the human species on planet Earth, there are still some among us who are either skeptics or out-right deniers of climate change.