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The pandemic is changing the dialogue about reusable packaging

GreenBiz

Latent distrust about safety won't disappear on its own, so advocates must prepare to double down on discussing the virtues of reusable bags, cups or containers.

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LEED Platinum Akademeia High School caters to millennials

Inhabitat - Innovation

Changing millenial needs inspired Medusa Group Architects' design for Akademeia High School, a Polish high school in Warsaw. As a result, their design of Akademeia High School, completed in 2015, encourages a welcoming and flexible “lifestyle atmosphere” where students would be encouraged to stay in school even after classes end.

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Hip hop can bring green issues to communities of color

GreenBiz

The environmental movement largely has failed to connect with people of color and marginalized urban communities. By confronting issues from contaminated water to climate change, hip hop music can help bridge that divide and bring home the realities of environmental injustice.

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Glowing Wishing Pavilion is made with 5,000 recycled plastic bricks

Inhabitat - Innovation

To celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival of 2019, Hong Kong studio Daydreamers Design crafted a glowing lantern-inspired pavilion that also raises awareness of environmental issues.

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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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Amid plunging stock prices, ESG leaders are holding their own

GreenBiz

The pandemic and economic meltdown are highlighting the importance of integrating environmental, social and governance analysis into investment strategies.

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UK bees and wildflowers thrive during lockdown

Inhabitat - Innovation

As people stay home, verges in the U.K. remain unmowed, allowing wildflowers and pollinators to thrive.

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Self-sustaining Shade House helps combat urban pollution

Inhabitat - Innovation

Ayutt and Associates has unveiled the Shade House, a massive three-story design with a perforated facade and pocket gardens to create a self-sustaining home.

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Coronavirus could trigger 'largest ever annual fall in CO2' in 2020

GreenBiz

But an analysis suggests the likely reduction in CO2 still would be far off goals of the Paris Agreement.

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‘Data Hive’ Opens for Solar, Battery Vendors in Silicon Valley

GreenTechMedia

Last year, we covered a pilot project from California community energy provider Silicon Valley Clean Energy and startup UtilityAPI, meant to make sharing smart meter data between customers and approved third-party companies as easy as a few clicks of a mouse, instead of the utility paperwork and waiting time-heavy ordeal it is today. Now that project, dubbed Data Hive, has officially launched amid a coronavirus pandemic that’s made doing business the old-fashioned way even more challenging

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Earth Day and the polling of America, 2020

GreenBiz

In the future, it seems, we’re all model green citizens, at least in our minds.

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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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Fostering and adopting pets during the pandemic

Inhabitat - Innovation

The pandemic has caused a spike in both animal adoptions and fosters

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Ecolog International and Centre for Organic Electronics at the University of Newcastle-Australia Signed a Strategic Memorandum of Understanding to Commercialize Printed Solar - A Revolutionary Low-cost, Ultra-lightweight and Highly Portable Solar Energy S

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- Ecolog Energy Solution™ (Powered by Printed Solar) aims at delivering solar energy with unprecedented affordability, ease of deployment and availability for all - The revolutionary technology is based on organic solar cells printed on an ultra-lightweight polymer film - Ecolog Energy Solution™ is set to disrupt the decentralized energy marketplace by printing energy and eliminating the need for consumers' upfront investment

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Big Banks Pull Financing, Prepare To Seize Assets From Collapsing Oil and Gas Industry

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 6 mins The finances of the oil and gas industry are so dismal that the major banks that have funded the money-losing fracking boom are now exploring taking the unusual step of taking over the oil companies that can not afford to pay back the bank’s loans. Reuters reported that banks are exploring the option of seizing oil company assets because the more traditional route of bankruptcy will result in huge losses for the banks — while seizing assets and holding them until oil prices inc

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Electric aircraft maker Lilium completes $240-million funding round

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Munich-based aviation company Lilium is developing an all-electric, vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft designed to serve regional air travel markets. The company recently completed a $240-million funding round led by Tencent, with participation from other existing investors, including Atomico, Freigeist and LGT. The new funds bring the total sum raised to date to over $340 million.

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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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Solar carport inverter installation requires pre-planning and safety precautions

Solar Power World

Installers have plenty of options when it comes to choosing an inverter for a solar carport project since they aren’t required to comply with rapid shutdown codes. Still, string inverters are the favorite choice for these installations for a number of reasons. Los Angeles-based installer American Solar Power (ASP) prefers to install string inverters in… The post Solar carport inverter installation requires pre-planning and safety precautions appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Long Exposed to Polluted Air, Louisiana’s Cancer Alley Residents Are Now in a COVID-19 Hotspot

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 10 mins Confirming fears, cases of COVID -19 have been spreading at an alarming rate in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley , an 80 mile stretch along the Mississippi River between New Orleans and Baton Rouge that is lined with refineries and petrochemical plants. . From a safe distance, I met with activists in St. James Parish and St. John the Baptist Parish, both located on the river’s banks and where predominantly black communities have been fighting for clean air for years.

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New Jersey’s Community Solar Pilot Could Set an Example for Accessibility — If It Succeeds [GTM Squared]

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HOMER Grid Users Can Now Design Custom Microgrid Control Strategies

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With these features, users can override the proprietary default control algorithm in HOMER Grid and write logic to determine when components of a hybrid power system—such as solar PV, batteries or grid power—should serve the electric load. Developers and researchers gain complete control over how their energy system is simulated.

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Governor Northam signs Virginia Clean Economy Act The new law sets 100% renewable goals and expands solar net metering.

Solar Power World

Governor Ralph Northam is accelerating Virginia’s transition to clean energy by signing the Virginia Clean Economy Act and by amending the Clean Energy and Community Flood Preparedness Act that requires Virginia to join the Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative. “These new clean energy laws propel Virginia to leadership among the states in fighting climate change,” said… The post Governor Northam signs Virginia Clean Economy Act <br><span style='color:#404040;font-weight:600;

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Audi plans battery assembly plant in Germany

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German automakers know they need to establish a European battery industry, and they’re taking steps to chip away at the stranglehold Asian firms have on the market. Audi is reportedly planning an assembly plant for EV battery packs near its plant in Ingolstadt, Germany. Electrive , citing the Korean blog Guru, tells us that Audi intends to assemble cells supplied by LG Chem into ready-to-install battery packs at the new plant.

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Suntuity Solar to sponsor free virtual training series for those interested in selling solar remotely

Solar Power World

Jordan Belfort, celebrity author and motivational speaker who inspired the film The Wolf of Wall Street, is scheduled to conduct a multi-episode virtual training series with a focus on teaching effective remote work strategies. The free Virtual Training Series, hosted by Suntuity Solar, was brought to fruition following a decision to cancel the previously-scheduled live… The post Suntuity Solar to sponsor free virtual training series for those interested in selling solar remotely appeared

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GM and Honda to jointly develop two new EVs for North America

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General Motors and Honda have agreed to jointly develop two all-new EVs—and not just for China! The two new models will be based on GM’s new global EV platform and Ultium batteries , and will be produced at GM plants in North America. They will bear Honda nameplates, and the exteriors and interiors will be designed exclusively by Honda. Sales are expected to begin in the 2024 model year in Honda’s US and Canadian markets.

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Webinar: From Search to Sold – 100% Digitally: How to Keep Business Coming In, When People Aren’t Going Out – May 5

Solar Power World

Tuesday, May 5, 2020 2 pm ET / 11 am PT So much has changed in the world during the past several weeks. Many solar businesses are faced with deciding if they should close their doors temporarily. There’s an increased urgency now to take every opportunity to increase online leads and interact with… The post Webinar: From Search to Sold – 100% Digitally: How to Keep Business Coming In, When People Aren’t Going Out – May 5 appeared first on Solar Power World.

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New report from Ricardo analyzes global fast charging market

Charged

A new report from engineering consultancy Ricardo describes the rapidly changing market for DC fast chargers, and the implications for vehicle makers, supply chains, charging infrastructure providers and equipment manufacturers. High Voltage and Fast Charging for Electric Vehicles is aimed at suppliers of charging equipment and on-board electric powertrain products, energy companies and infrastructure providers, and addresses the current state of fast charging from both technological and market

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Research: Covid-19 to accelerate global shift from planes to trains in 2020s

Business Green

Pandemic set to curb air travel growth 10 per cent over next decade as high speed rail flourishes, UBS analysis suggests. A long-term shift in attitudes around climate change, travel, and work triggered by the Covid-19 pandemic could serve to significantly curb aviation growth in the next decade, according to analysts at Swiss bank UBS. Research released last week by the financial giant forecasts global air travel growth for the decade between 2018 and 2028 could shrink 10 per cent compared to e

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We are all impact investors now: Three ways to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic

Impact Alpha

The unfolding human and economic toll from COVID-19 poses an enormous challenge to all businesses, large and small. A recent Dun & Bradstreet report found 94 percent of Fortune 1,000 companies are experiencing supply chain delays. Around the world, small businesses struggle to stay afloat as governments force closures of all but the most essential.

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Norway greenlights Equinor's 88MW floating wind project

Business Green

The wind array, set to come online in late 2022, will meet 35 per cent of the power needs of five offshore oil platforms, according to Equinor. Norway's petroleum ministry has approved plans for an 88MW floating wind project set to power state-backed oil company Equinor's offshore operations in the North Sea. The Hywind Tampen project, in the works since 2018 , will see 11 floating turbines constructed in water as deep as 300 metres, around 150km from the shore.

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HOMER Grid now allows C&I and utility users to create microgrid dispatch strategies

Solar Power World

HOMER Energy by UL recently released two powerful, customizable Controller APIs that give users the ability to create and simulate their own dispatch strategy in HOMER Grid, software for modeling the design of behind-the-meter distributed energy systems. With these features, users can override the proprietary default control algorithm in HOMER Grid and write logic to… The post HOMER Grid now allows C&I and utility users to create microgrid dispatch strategies appeared first on Solar P

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Nature can still become central to the world's thinking in 2020

Business Green

As resilience takes more prominence post-coronavirus, restoring nature will be of utmost importance, argues CISL's Dr Gemma Cranston. This year biodiversity was expected to move into the spotlight - with a 'new deal for nature' being laid out at the UN Convention on Biological Diversity conference in China. Now 2020 can only ever be the year when Covid-19 changed everything - threatening and taking lives, making us live and love differently, and jolting our economic stability.

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Your emergency COVID-19 plan for running the business What should you do now?

Solar Power World

By Jonathan Doochin, CEO of Soligent. Originally posted on soligent.net and reposted with permission. That story can be found here. We have watched unemployment jump to over 17 million people and climbing. Coronavirus is now thought to have an impact on all commerce through this September, if not through September 2021. As Bill Gates mentions… The post Your emergency COVID-19 plan for running the business <br><span style='color:#404040;font-weight:600;font-size:15px;'

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Iowa’s soy farmers to be paid for sustainable soil and water outcomes

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, April 14 – U.S. farmers plant more than 85 million acres of soybeans to supply animal feed, industrial biofuels and everyday food products. But soy farming is linked to deforestation, soil erosion and other negative environmental impacts. Agricultural giant Cargill and the Walton Family Foundation are partnering with the Iowa Soybean Association to encourage.

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Trade Commission finds JinkoSolar did not infringe on Q CELLS’s patent

Solar Power World

Global solar panel manufacturer JinkoSolar announced that the Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) in the U.S. International Trade Commission investigation into whether module competitors infringed on Hanwha Q CELLS’s manufacturing patent found that Jinko’s products do not infringe on the patent. ALJ MaryJoan McNamara issued an initial determination granting JinkoSolar’s motion for summary determination of non-infringement.… The post Trade Commission finds JinkoSolar did not in

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HyperSolar’s China Connections Accelerate Production of Renewable Solar Hydrogen Panels

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Company Working with Suzhou GH New Energy Technology Co. Ltd.

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Coronavirus Response: Businesses still need to social distance from carbon

Business Green

Businesses must continue to make the case for climate ambition and stand against regulatory rollbacks, argues Verisk Maplecroft's Will Nichols. "2020 was supposed to be a transformational year for the environment.". That's how we started Verisk Maplecroft's Environmental Risk Outlook just last month. And among the many reasons listed for why global environmental and climate change efforts are currently falling short, a "worldwide pandemic" was a notable absentee.

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