GreenBiz

MARCH 26, 2021

Episode 261: Sea changes, strategy shifts. Heather Clancy. Fri, 03/26/2021 - 02:00. Week in Review. Stories discussed this week (4:22). How infrastructure is banking on green banks. Unilever sets out net-zero plan for shareholder vote. Power struggle: The looming high-tech battery crisis. Features. A new wave for ocean adaptation? (19:30). Oceanographer John Englander chats with Senior Editor Deonna Anderson about his upcoming book, " Moving to Higher Ground: Rising Sea Level and the Path Forwar

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Inhabitat - Innovation

MARCH 26, 2021

A recent paper published in Frontiers in Veterinary Science has established that there is a connection between deforestation and the occurrence of zoonotic and vector-borne diseases.

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The Environmental Blog

MARCH 26, 2021

Water treatment is a process the vast majority of us give very little thought to. We turn on the faucetor flush the toilet and out it comes, ready to hydrate us or wash away our waste. But before it reaches that stage, it will have gone through a lot to ensure it is safe to use in our homes. It’s a vital component of everyday life – after all, water makes up around 60% of the average human body – while it’s essential that there is enough clean water to sustain our vast and complex ecosystems.

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Technology Waste Waste Organic 195

Inhabitat - Innovation

MARCH 26, 2021

Currently under construction, this new civic center will soon offer a stunning new hub for contemporary creativity in Zhuhai.

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Construction Energy Energy 265

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.

Energy

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MARCH 26, 2021

Stackable energy storage solution provides homes, businesses and communities with safe, reliable electricity on demand

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Energy Energy Demand Electricity 205

Inhabitat - Innovation

MARCH 26, 2021

IUCN now ranks African forest elephants as critically endangered and African savanna elephants as endangered.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

MARCH 26, 2021

Hop into the season with a plan for plastic-free meals, egg hunts and baskets.

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Plastics 273

Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 26, 2021

Northern gannets fishing in the North Sea. Ministers have been urged to prioritise finding ways to boost funding for research into environmental impacts of offshore wind farms on marine life. More must be done to explore and mitigate possible negative impacts of large-scale developments in the North Sea, the House of Lords EU Environment sub-committee has said in a letter to Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng and Environment Secretary George Eustice.

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Wind power Climate change 130

Inhabitat - Innovation

MARCH 26, 2021

Chewing gum: it's a type of plastic pollution that we’re just not talking about enough.

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Plastics Pollution 239

Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 26, 2021

Miscanthus grass grown as a crop for biofuels. Some grasses are a sustainable energy source that could be a driving force towards achieving net zero carbon emissions, according to new research that appears to demonstrate their resilience to harsh growing environments. The Miscanthus genus of grasses, commonly used to add movement and texture to gardens, could quickly become the first choice for biofuel production, according to a new study that shows these grasses can be grown in lower agricultur

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Biotechnology Resilience Agriculture Soil 130

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.

Transportation

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MARCH 26, 2021

The market research company Ceresana has examined the rapidly growing European market for electrically powered passenger cars, i.e. battery electric vehicles (BEV) and plug-in hybrid vehicles (PHEV).

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 26, 2021

The recycled materials are being used initially on Super Duty F-250 trucks. Ford is teaming up with HP in a bid to reuse spent 3D printed powders and parts, closing the loop and turning them into injection molded vehicle parts – described as an industry first. The firms say the resulting injection molded parts are better for the environment with no compromise in the durability and quality standards Ford and its customers demand.

Automotive 130

Automotive Waste Waste Recycled materials 130

Charged

MARCH 26, 2021

Sion Power , a specialist in lithium-metal batteries, has announced advancements in its Licerion-EV cell, achieving 400 Wh/kg (700 Wh/L) in a large-format 17 Ah pouch cell. Sion is producing the cells at its facility in Tucson, Arizona, by stacking electrodes with an approximate size of 100 mm x 100 mm on pilot systems. Scaling to useful cell sizes is a challenge for high-energy battery technologies.

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Lithium Automotive Batteries Technology 139

Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 26, 2021

The first responder training is designed to support anyone who attends – or provides information about – chemical incidents. Environmental risk reduction specialist Adler and Allan has partnered with the National Chemical Emergency Centre (NCEC) to provide training for its employees to deal with hazardous material incidents. The training is said to be equal to that given to emergency responders from the fire and rescue service.

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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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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 26, 2021

American multinational technology company Apple has announced that its 2020 green bonds will support the installation of 1.2 GW of renewable energy capacity. The company funded 17 green bond projects, from the $4.7 billion in green bond funding the company issued since 2016. From its green bond portfolio, Apple has so far allocated $2.8 billion to projects.

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Solar Energy Monitor Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Carbon-neutral 135

Charged

MARCH 26, 2021

Fifteen public buses in Vancouver, Canada, will be fitted with BAE Systems’ Series-EV electric propulsion system. Series-EV integrates electric motors, controls and batteries. The latest version of the system uses fewer, lighter, and more compact components compared to the previous generation. It’s designed to be easy to install and extremely efficient.

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Electricity Transportation Batteries 135

The City Fix

MARCH 26, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted public transportation as an essential service for the functioning of all cities. But especially for many women, the closures and general instability of public transit systems have meant loss of access to services and customers. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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altenergymag

MARCH 26, 2021

Optimized for quick and easy installation, suitability to numerous rooftop properties, and boasting excellent aerodynamics, the Q.FLAT-G6 lets solar power shine atop the blank canvas of a flat rooftop.

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Europe Solar Power 120

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?

Carbon

Charged

MARCH 26, 2021

Ricardo has opened a new Electrified Propulsion Research Centre at its Shoreham Technical Centre in West Sussex. The £5.5-million research facility was designed to enable the development of the next generation of EVs, from component-level subsystems to fully integrated powertrains. Managing Director Steve Dyke said, “We continue to consolidate our position as a trusted engineering partner delivering clean, efficient and integrated propulsion and energy systems across all modes of transport.

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Transportation Technology Sustainability Energy 120

Low Impact

MARCH 26, 2021

With a host of already endangered heritage crafts at even greater risk as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic, what does the future hold and how can we play a part in helping heritage crafts survive and even thrive? Sophie Paterson explores. At first glance, crafts are riding a wave of new-found popularity as a burgeoning number of us knitted, crocheted, spoon-carved and rag-rugged our way through successive Covid-19 lockdowns.

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Impact Alpha

MARCH 26, 2021

ImpactAlpha, March 26 – Venture capitalists love to invest in disruption. Arlan Hamitlon is disrupting venture capital. She created Backstage Capital in 2015. The post Arlen Hamilton, Backstage Capital appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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Grist

MARCH 26, 2021

To avoid the most disastrous sea-level rise, storms, heat waves, and drought, the best available science says that greenhouse gas emissions must be cut in half in the next decade or so and brought to net-zero by the middle of the century. But even if global leaders acted to cut emissions at that breakneck pace — which none currently has — many of those catastrophic outcomes could still occur.

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Ethics Climate change Medicine Sea level rise 110

Impact Alpha

MARCH 26, 2021

TGIF, Agents of Impact! Impact Briefing. On this week’s podcast, ImpactAlpha reporter Jessica Pothering joins host Monique Aiken to discuss how African entrepreneurs. The post The Week in Impact Investing: Going direct appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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Investment 111

Grist

MARCH 26, 2021

Andri Snær Magnason, the Icelandic writer and poet famous for writing a memorial to a dying glacier, has spent the last decade searching for the right words to capture a problem as big as the overheating planet. For most people, what climate change really means for humanity’s future hasn’t sunk in yet; otherwise, he reasons, everyone would be clamoring for action.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 26, 2021

Renewable developers have another option to interconnect their projects sitting in the regional transmission organizations queue. LineVision’s dynamic line ratings and SmartWires’s SmartValve lead the charge on providing options to increase the existing transmission capacity by 40%. The trick is more transmission owners need to adopt these new technologies in place of transmission lines and new substations.

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Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Technology 100

altenergymag

MARCH 26, 2021

Innovative and Flexible IEC certified TS4-A-O Supports Modules and Inverters around the World

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Innovation 133

DeSmogBlog

MARCH 26, 2021

Read time: 11 mins Developing new shale gas fields in Appalachia “may not end up being profitable” in the years ahead according to a new report. In addition, the associated petrochemical buildout that the region has pinned its hopes on as the future of natural gas is “unlikely,” the report states.

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Clean Energy Canada

MARCH 26, 2021

VICTORIA — Merran Smith, executive director at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to the release of B.C.’s sectoral climate targets as required by the provincial Climate Change Accountability Act: “For the first time ever, B.C. has established sectoral emissions targets. And while these new targets neither increase nor decrease the province’s larger 2030 climate target, they do provide a more detailed roadmap for where B.C. will decarbonize its economy over the next de

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Business Green

MARCH 26, 2021

Net zero transition promises major jobs boost but poses risks for high carbon regions in the Midlands, North, and Scotland, according to a wide-ranging new analysis. Setting the UK on a net zero pathway could create up to 1.7 million new green jobs over the coming decade while adding a £330bn boost to the economy, but major policy challenges remain if the government is to engineer a smooth and fair transition for workers in high carbon industries.

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altenergymag

MARCH 26, 2021

Redwood Materials makes a significant strategic investment in ERI; JB Straubel will join ERI’s Board

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Recycling Recycling Batteries Investment 113

Forbes Green Tech

MARCH 26, 2021

Investors who are becoming increasingly concerned about environmental, social and governance (ESG) risks, are pressuring oil and gas companies to dramatically reduce their output of carbon dioxide (CO?) and other potent greenhouse gases.

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altenergymag

MARCH 26, 2021

Industry veterans join strategy, sales and regulatory teams

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Energy Energy 126

Business Green

MARCH 26, 2021

SMMT CEO Mike Hawes warns the EV revolution has so far been for 'fleets, not families' and has called on the government to improve its support for private buyers. The government is facing fresh calls from the auto industry to introduce more generous incentives to drive consumer uptake of electric vehicles (EVs), in the wake of new statistics that underscore how fleet and corporate buyers are almost twice as likely to switch to electric models than private customers.

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