Tue.Nov 29, 2022

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What the world thinks about the new US electric vehicle tax plan

GreenBiz

Several countries and automakers have called for reforms to the IRA, with opponents arguing that the EV credit could significantly disrupt the sector — and potentially violate free trade rules.

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Whole Foods stop selling lobsters to save endangered whales

Inhabitat - Innovation

The U.S. retail giant Whole Foods has decided to stop selling Maine lobsters across its stores. The store said that the decision came following a move by several sustainability organizations to halt endorsement of the U.S. lobster fishing industry.

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Schneider’s all-electric truck fleet expands

GreenBiz

The logistics and carrier business is working to address its own Scope 1 emissions, which in turn will help other companies manage their Scope 3 emissions.

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A bed and breakfast vegan treasure in Washington

Inhabitat - Innovation

As traveling vegans know, it’s often hard to find plant-based food outside of big cities. But in the small town of Kettle Falls, Washington, a vegan encountering Gardenview Estate B&B might think that they’re dreaming, or experiencing a mirage. Not only is Gardenview a vegan establishment, but it sits on a huge, gorgeous and historic property full of wildlife.

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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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What today’s chief sustainability officer needs

GreenBiz

Sponsored: Digital technology can free up your CSO to focus on strategic impacts by automating ESG data collection and reporting activities.

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3D printed furniture designs by a collaboration of designers

Inhabitat - Innovation

Art is an ever-evolving means of evoking emotion and conversations. The collaboration on display at the Solana Embassy in the Wynwood District at 215 NW 24th St. in Miami from Nov. 29 through Dec. 13 is a perfect example of this point.

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Experience Earth in a whole new way with David Attenborough

Inhabitat - Innovation

If you’ve been to a big city in the last few years, chances are you went to an immersive Van Gogh experience, or at least saw massive ads for one. Now the BBC and David Attenborough plan to do the same thing for our planet. BBC Earth Experience will introduce viewers to parts of their home planet they’ve probably never seen.

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Huge wind farm that Angus Taylor rejected marks its official opening

Renew Economy

The 227MW Collector wind farm has celebrated its official opening in the New South Wales Tablelands. Local MP Angus Taylor did not attend. The post Huge wind farm that Angus Taylor rejected marks its official opening appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Canoo to build EV battery module manufacturing facility in Oklahoma

Charged

Canoo plans to build a battery module manufacturing facility at MidAmerica Industrial Park in Pryor, Oklahoma. Once built, the facility will be capable of producing approximately 3,200 MWh worth of battery modules per year. Canoo selected the location due to its proximity to a facility owned by battery cell partner Panasonic, and to Canoo’s future Mega-Micro factory.

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Are hybrid or electric cars better for the environment?

Inhabitat - Innovation

Here's how to figure out whether a hybrid or EV is cleaner for the environment.

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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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Domino’s to roll out nationwide fleet of 800 Chevy Bolts

Charged

Depending on where you live, you might soon have another excuse for ordering pizza instead of cooking—it’s good for the planet! (Well, maybe.). Domino’s Pizza has announced a new order of 800 2023 Chevy Bolt EVs. Over 100 of the custom-branded Bolts will arrive at “select franchise and corporate stores throughout the US” this month, and an additional 700 will join the fleet in the coming months.

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An Exciting Journey: Sungrow Celebrates Its 25th Anniversary

altenergymag

This year, Sungrow is celebrating the 25th anniversary of its dedicated endeavor. In 1997, renewable energy was a niche energy source. Many people didn't believe that it could replace fossil fuels. Today, renewable energy is becoming an affordable, reliable, and cost-competitive energy source and a contributor to global carbon neutrality.

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SK Signet to build EV fast charger manufacturing facility in Plano, Texas

Charged

EV charging station manufacturer SK Signet, a subsidiary of South Korean conglomerate the SK Group, has announced plans to build a new EV charger manufacturing facility in Plano, Texas. At the new plant, SK Signet will produce a range of fast-charging solutions, including UL-certified chargers and power cabinets offering power levels up to 350 kW. The facility, SK Signet’s first in the US, will cover 136,200 square feet, and is expected to be operating at full capacity of 10,000 fast chargers pe

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Solar Spotlight: Understanding the carport market

Solar Power World

The solar carport market is expanding, meaning this high-profile racking is entering new territories. Canopies are viable structures for energy resiliency; they can deploy atop parking lots and commercial garages and are more frequently meeting financing requirements for power purchase agreements. We’re joined by Finn Findley, CEO, and Danny Kraft, director of customer development, at… The post Solar Spotlight: Understanding the carport market appeared first on Solar Power World.

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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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New battery structure relies on internal thermal modulation to increase charging speed

Charged

A team of researchers at Penn State has developed a new battery structure that uses internal thermal modulation to optimize battery temperature, which could lead to faster charging times. The researchers describe their work in “ Fast charging of energy-dense lithium-ion batteries ,” published in Nature. Batteries operate most efficiently in an optimal temperature environment, as team leader Chao-Yang Wang explained.

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Toussaint Bailey, Uplifting Capital: Bringing ‘the quietly bothered’ into impact investing (podcast)

Impact Alpha

Between the true believers in investing for impact and those that, for whatever reason, have their heels dug in, there are the “quietly. The post Toussaint Bailey, Uplifting Capital: Bringing ‘the quietly bothered’ into impact investing (podcast) appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Data Program Continues to Use High-Resolution Satellite Imagery to Help Fight Deforestation and Combat Climate Change

Planet Pulse

The NICFI Satellite Data Program continues to serve a diverse community of users that are putting high-resolution satellite imagery to work in helping fight deforestation and combat climate change. This quarter, we conducted our third user survey of Level 1 users. We received over 400 responses from users, detailing their feedback, user stories, and more!

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The Brief: Onboarding impact investors, Evercare’s exit in Kenya, supply-chain financing in Nigeria, cities as carbon sinks, innovative finance playbook

Impact Alpha

Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Agents of Impact Podcast Toussaint Bailey: Bringing ‘the quietly bothered’ into impact investing. Between the true believers in. The post The Brief: Onboarding impact investors, Evercare’s exit in Kenya, supply-chain financing in Nigeria, cities as carbon sinks, innovative finance playbook appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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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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Leading ‘Sustainable’ Investment Funds Backing Fossil Fuels, Research Finds

DeSmogBlog

Major investment funds available to UK consumers are marketing themselves as “sustainable” and “ethical” while financing fossil fuel companies, research has found. Numerous asset managers are using “green” terms in their branding despite investing in oil giants, with the worst performer being a fund managed by BlackRock, a report by the Ethical Consumer magazine shows.

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Kenya’s Metro Group buys Evercare’s stake in Nairobi hospitals

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, November 29 – The Evercare Health Fund, managed by TPG Rise since the liquidation of the troubled Abraaj Group in 2019, has sold its. The post Kenya’s Metro Group buys Evercare’s stake in Nairobi hospitals appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Preservan Wood Rot Repair: A Sustainable Leader In Home Window, Door, and Siding Projects

Green Business Bureau

Wood rot repair service that preserves our built environment. Preservan is a home improvement franchise that specializes in wood rot repair. The business uses their industry-leading epoxy treatment to preserve garage doors, columns, sidings, trim, and decorative moldings by preventing rot and decay. Preservan is a model sustainable business, one that holds environmental and social responsibility with high regard.

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Leveraging AMI Data for Successful Time-Based Rate Implementation, Load Shaping, and CX

Bidgely

AMI-Informed TOU Rate Programs in Practice: EV TOU Rates. Effective load-shaping tools are becoming increasingly important as utilities continue to innovate their operations to maintain system-wide resiliency in response to evolving supply and increasing demand. This urgent need to shift load is one of the major factors driving the transition from flat, volumetric rates to time-based residential rate structures that incentivize consumers to align their energy use with times of greatest supply an

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Shop local & handcrafted at 12 holiday pop-ups

Greenability Magazine

This holiday season shop for local, handcrafted, eco-friendly and fair-trade gifts at a dozen pop-up sales, holiday fairs and farmers’ markets throughout the Kansas City / Lawrence area. Here are some great options: KC CLAY GUILD HOLIDAY SALE POTTERY TOUR. Friday, December 2, 5 – 9 p.m. Saturday, December 3, 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Sunday, December 4, 11 a.m. – 3 p.m.

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Why growing numbers of firms think mandatory biodiversity risk reporting is needed

Business Green

Results of CDP's latest climate questionnaire reveal growing concern about nature risks is not yet translating into real-world actions from businesses. As governments prepare to weigh proposals for mandatory corporate nature disclosure rules at the COP15 Biodiversity Summit next week, the latest data from environmental disclosure platform CDP has highlighted the shortfalls of the currently purely voluntary approach.

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Australia faces critical skill shortages for wind, solar, storage and hydrogen projects

Renew Economy

Australia must start planning now to ensure it can meet the huge labour and skills needs of its ambitious plans for renewables and green hydrogen projects. The post Australia faces critical skill shortages for wind, solar, storage and hydrogen projects appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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SMA and Powin to Partner on Master Supply and Services Agreement

altenergymag

The Two-Year Effort Will Drive Efficiency, Collaboration for Both Companies

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Rio Tinto plans another two large solar farms and 200MWh battery storage in Pilbara

Renew Economy

Rio Tinto kick starts $3 billion renewable plan in Pilbara with two 100MW solar farms and 200MWh of battery storage. The post Rio Tinto plans another two large solar farms and 200MWh battery storage in Pilbara appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Astronergy continues to improve n-type TOPCon products

altenergymag

As the PV market is seeing the blooming of various newly developed n-type cell products, more tech problems need to be solved by all firms related, Sheng He – Astronergy cell R&D director said at the virtual conference held by TaiyangNews on Nov. 23. His presentation made clear that Astronergy is working on n-type TOPCon products.

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Why are Custom Silicone Products the Best Option?

U.S. Green Technology

Silicone products can be found in almost every room of the house, from kitchen utensils to children’s toys to health care products. The reasons for this are two-fold: silicone is incredibly flexible and durable, making it the perfect material for all kinds of purposes, and silicon molding can produce customized silicone products that fit your. The post Why are Custom Silicone Products the Best Option?

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WA’s largest wind farm launches new company to expand clean energy portfolio

Renew Economy

Owners of biggest wind farm in Western Australia create new company to pursue new projects and expansion opportunities. The post WA’s largest wind farm launches new company to expand clean energy portfolio appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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ImpactAlpha Open: ESG and crypto + three drivers of ‘inclusion alpha’

Impact Alpha

Hi there, Agents of Impact! Welcome to this week’s edition of ImpactAlpha Open, our free weekly roundup of news, views and trends from ImpactAlpha and elsewhere to. The post ImpactAlpha Open: ESG and crypto + three drivers of ‘inclusion alpha’ appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Green and health groups lodge legal complaint over missing government targets

Business Green

National Trust, RSPB, and ZSL among coalition of groups backing complaint to the Office of Environmental Protection over government’s failure to set new set of legal green targets. The government is facing yet more legal action over its environmental strategy, after a coalition of green and health groups today formally submitted a complaint to the Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) alleging Defra has acted unlawfully by missing the legal deadline to set new targets through the Environment

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Recent Deals – 29 November

CleanTech Group

From photocatalyst technology for chemical manufacturing and virtual power plant programs, to returnable glass bottles – find insight on the latest cleantech delas.