Thu.Mar 16, 2023

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A shift to haggle-free PPAs

GreenBiz

Google and LevelTen Energy are rethinking the clean energy procurement process to make it smarter and faster

Energy 424
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More Sustainable (and Beautiful) Alternatives to a Grass Lawn

NRDC onEarth

Manicured turf grass lawns cover up to 50 million acres of land in America. But a new, no-mow movement is challenging this conformity—and helping the environment

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Why sustainability must play a major role in your boardroom today — and tomorrow

GreenBiz

We need to shape the boardrooms of the future by choice, not by chance

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Crypto Has a Climate Problem

NRDC onEarth

Digital currencies are booming. So are their emissions.

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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

Join Ayesha Choudhury, Senior Vice President, Head of Capital Markets at Infinium, to learn why we need eFuels in the carbon neutrality mix, how eFuels are produced, and how Infinium globally scales eFuel production to benefit society

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My beef with alternative meat? I like vegetables

GreenBiz

I would love to see chefs convenience eaters that vegetables are awesome by focusing on celebrating vegetables instead of only trying to mimic meat

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A Turning Point in the Fight to Protect New Mexico’s Greater Chaco Region

NRDC onEarth

The Biden administration’s proposal to prohibit new oil and gas leasing and drilling in the area comes after years of exploitation that’s had devastating health and cultural impacts on Indigenous communities

Health 209

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Continental and Infineon cooperate on server-based vehicle architectures

Charged

Automotive supplier Continental is collaborating with semiconductor manufacturer Infineon Technologies to develop server-based vehicle architectures.

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Top 5 Reasons Your Climate Tech Startup Must Create Content

Michael Grossman

Once upon a time, the Greeks created content, but it was known as lyric verse. The Egyptians created their content on papyrus while the Romans called content epic poems. Today, we lump all of these communication forms together under the guise of "content creation."

Startups 130
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Rich, Polluting Nations Still Owe the Developing World

NRDC onEarth

Here’s why follow-through on a $100 billion–per–year climate finance promise, from collecting data to determining success, remains complex but critical.

Pollution 184
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Top 5 Reasons Why Content Is King

Michael Grossman

Once upon a time, the Greeks created content, but it was known as lyric verse. The Egyptians created their content on papyrus while the Romans called content epic poems. Today, we lump all of these communication forms together under the guise of "content creation."

Startups 130
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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 Carbon Zero, Circular Economy, is easily the most profoundly important result of digital transformation. Industry 4.0 has a massively cumulative impact on dematerialization (in all forms) and resultant decarbonization (both emissions and embodied) throughout the economy. Join panelists Bruce Armstrong Taylor, Jimmy Jia, Fabienne Durand, and their moderator Roger Strukhoff as they discuss how bending the carbon/GHG heavy linear economy to the circular is one of the hidden benefits of digital disruption.

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A Once-Thriving Black-Owned Beach Is Returned to Its Rightful Owners

NRDC onEarth

The victory at California’s Bruce’s Beach, improperly seized 100 years ago, has reignited the conversation around land restitution for Black Americans

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Massachusetts Electric School Buses: A Cleaner, Greener Way to Learn

Green Living Guy

Massachusetts is making strides towards a greener future with the introduction of electric school buses. In a recent press release, Proterra announced that they had been awarded a contract with the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources (DOER) to provide electric school buses to the region.

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Big EV news from Volkswagen: raw material investments, Ontario battery plant, €25k EV for Europe

Charged

The Volkswagen Group has been flooding the zone with EV-related news of late. Last September, new CEO Oliver Blume revealed a 10-point plan to accelerate the EV transition, and we’re now seeing some concrete steps to make it a reality.

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Do We Exhale Carbon?

NRDC onEarth

Your bodily emissions have at most a negligible impact on climate change, and you may even be a modest carbon-sequestration device

Carbon 148
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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

Join our amazing panelists, Nik Gowing, Founder at Thinking the Unthinkable and International Broadcaster; Brenda Laurel, PhD, Principal, Neogaian Interactive; Sheridan Tatsuno, Principal, Dreamscape Global; Archie Kasnet, CEO, Regenerative; and Bruce Armstrong Taylor, The Climate 4.0 Project, to discuss how today's AR/VR and related AI-enabled technologies can be effectively applied, using data from such sources as NASA and NOAA, to both improve and accelerate urban sustainability planning and design.

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Comemso’s new testing solution for EV battery management systems

Charged

Comemso Electronics has announced a modular system for testing battery management systems (BMS), combined with a comprehensive new graphical interface for parameterization and visualization of the BMS test process.

Batteries 116
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Rich, Polluting Nations Still Owe the Developing World

NRDC onEarth

Here’s why follow-through on a $100 billion–per–year climate finance promise, from collecting data to determining success, remains complex but critical.

Pollution 148
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PG&E provides charging infrastructure for electric ferry

Charged

California ferry operator Angel Island plans to convert a vessel that ferries visitors to Angel Island State park to electric drive. The repowered ferry is to begin operation in 2024.

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Crypto Has a Climate Problem

NRDC onEarth

Digital currencies are booming. So are their emissions.

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A lifeline for pools? “Digital boilers” provide innovative rethink of waste heat reuse

Envirotec Magazine

Swimming pools threatened with closure because of skyrocketing heating bills could get a reprieve from a new technology for waste heat reuse that is being described as a potential game changer.

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A Turning Point in the Fight to Protect New Mexico’s Greater Chaco Region

NRDC onEarth

The Biden administration’s proposal to prohibit new oil and gas leasing and drilling in the area comes after years of exploitation that’s had devastating health and cultural impacts on Indigenous communities

Health 148
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Solar Power Market: The great move towards sustainable energy

altenergymag

The solar power market has become one of the most promising sources of clean energy in recent years. The global solar power market is poised to grow at a CAGR of 7.2% over the forecast period 2023 to 2030

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More Sustainable (and Beautiful) Alternatives to a Grass Lawn

NRDC onEarth

Manicured turf grass lawns cover up to 50 million acres of land in America. But a new, no-mow movement is challenging this conformity—and helping the environment

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Full Throttle: Nonprofit Investor Elemental Excelerator Accelerates $43 Million into Funding Gaps

Elemental Excelerator

San Francisco, CA (March 15, 2023) — Elemental Excelerator, a leading nonprofit climate tech investor, today announced it plans to infuse up to $43 million into climate tech startups focused on social impact.

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A Chemist Turned Community Builder

NRDC onEarth

Ticora V. Jones, the new head of NRDC’s Science Office, seeks to deepen the role of science across the organization and beyond.

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First round of $2.5 billion in EV charging infrastructure grants now available through CFI program

Charged

The Biden administration has provided more details on how the $2.5-billion Charging and Fueling Infrastructure (CFI) Discretionary Grant Program will be disbursed over five years. The first round of funding offers up to $700 million in fiscal years 2022 and 2023.

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A Chemist Turned Community Builder

NRDC onEarth

Ticora V. Jones, the new head of NRDC’s Science Office, seeks to deepen the role of science across the organization and beyond.

Organic 148
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Conservative MP Set to Pocket £153,600 from Fossil Fuel-Linked Firms

DeSmogBlog

Tory MP for The Wrekin, Mark Pritchard, stands to earn £153,600 in the next 12 months from three jobs with companies that have an interest in fossil fuels.

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Hanwha Solutions and Solarwatt enter into patent licensing agreement

altenergymag

The two companies reach an agreement permitting Solarwatt to continue selling and marketing solar products covered by the licensed patent EP ’689

Patents 111
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The Brief: Metrics Madness, Fink’s fine line on ESG, embedded finance in emerging markets, climate tech in Los Angeles, solar recycling, top impact CEOs

Impact Alpha

Greetings, Agents of Impact! It’s time for Metrics Madness. ImpactAlpha, in partnership with the Southern Reconstruction Fund, is kicking off a tournament to.

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Kseng Solar Supplied 37MW Ground Solar Mounting System in Japan

altenergymag

Recently, a 37MW ultra-high-voltage PV plant utilized Kseng Solar's aluminum solar mounting solution is under smooth installation. Located in Miyagi, Japan, the project has passed all strict standards by METI, began construction in August 2022 and is scheduled to be completed in May this year

Energy 109
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'Heat pumps work': Study confirms Air Source Heat Pumps three times more efficient than gas boilers

Business Green

Demand 101
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HJT solar module efficiency boost with new light redirecting film

altenergymag

Power improvement of 3.8% achieved in solar modules with silicon heterojunction cells (HJT) in combination with a new light redirecting film

Energy 104
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Accion Venture Lab bets on ‘embedded finance’ in India, Pakistan and Indonesia

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, March 16 – Lack of access to finance is a critical barrier to small business growth – and thus, to economic growth. The post Accion Venture Lab bets on ‘embedded finance’ in India, Pakistan and Indonesia appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

Asia 98
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Intersolar 2023: SolarEdge to present latest innovations for residential, commercial and utility-scale PV

altenergymag

- New capabilities for the SolarEdge Home integrated residential solution to be unveiled - Latest technology advances for commercial and utility-scale applications to be presented - High-profile partnerships and major business milestone to be announced at the show

Energy 100