Thu.Jul 09, 2020

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How tree-planting startup Propagate Ventures monetizes land conservation

GreenBiz

How tree-planting startup Propagate Ventures monetizes land conservation. Heather Clancy. Thu, 07/09/2020 - 01:30. Earlier this year, when I was chatting with venture capitalist Nancy Pfund of DBL Partners about which new areas of climate solutions were intriguing to her, she pointed to business models that had the potential to monetize land conservation.

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How to Reduce Food Waste at Home?

The Environmental Blog

The amount of food that gets wasted or spoiled daily is enough to feed 20% of the world population say, experts. Food wastage is not only a problem of undeveloped countries, the United States and the UK also struggle with food wastage. There is a difference between food spoilage and wastage. The term food spoilage occurs before food is processed why wastage occurs when the food gets to the supply chain and still don’t get consumed.

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Innovation in Forest Carbon Solutions

GreenBiz

Innovation in Forest Carbon Solutions. Join us for a conversation on the role of forests in addressing climate change and how technology can make forest carbon projects more credible. In this one-hour webcast, GreenBiz Editorial Director Heather Clancy will moderate a discussion of World Resources Institute Deputy Director of Forests Fred Stolle, Verra Chief Innovation Officer Toby Janson-Smith, Pachama CEO Diego Saez-Gil, and Microsoft Carbon Program Manager Liz Willmott on key trends in the us

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Virtually visit these 10 farm sanctuaries on July 25

Inhabitat - Innovation

On July 25, animal lovers are invited to participate in a virtual animal sanctuary tour that will let them peek into 10 American sanctuaries. The Great Farm Sanctuary Tour, organized by Lancaster Farm Sanctuary in Pennsylvania, will raise money to help these nonprofits continue caring for their rescued animals.

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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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Essential Cleaning Services for Retirement Communities

The Environmental Blog

Retirement communities have become quite popular for older individuals to reside in who need additional care that their family members are unable to provide. One major selling point of retirement communities to both seniors and their families is how clean the retirement community is and whether it has the image of offering a very high quality of life.

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Solar-powered luxury home celebrates contemporary style at Lake Huron

Inhabitat - Innovation

A gorgeous, energy-efficient home sits on the banks of Lake Huron.

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Two young architects travel the Arctic in a repurposed lifeboat

Inhabitat - Innovation

This is a tale of determination, exploration and sustainability.

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PacifiCorp Opens 4.3GW Renewables and Storage Procurement

GreenTechMedia

PacifiCorp has opened bids for up to 4.3 gigawatts of solar, wind and battery storage projects, part of a massive clean energy growth plan that will open the utility's six-state territory to third-party renewable energy developers. This week's all-source request for proposals ( RFP ) puts hard details to the procurement plan released this spring , calling for a mix of renewables and energy storage that can be built in time to capture the value of federal wind and solar tax credits.

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San Francisco is set to lose the majority of its bus lines

Inhabitat - Innovation

Up to 40 out of 68 bus routes could permanently close.

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Poll: British Columbians want climate and clean energy at the centre of B.C.’s recovery plan

Clean Energy Canada

Most British Columbians see the province’s post-COVID economic recovery as an opportunity to increase the B.C. government’s climate efforts through investments in clean energy and technology—and believe doing so would likely be to our economic benefit. As the government surveys British Columbians to help shape its recovery plan, new polling from Stratcom and Clean Energy Canada offers insight into how many would like to see things unfold.

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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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The Future Of EV Charging May Be At 50KW, Not The ‘Gasoline Thinking’ of 250KW

Forbes Green Tech

Carmakers and charging stations have been engaging in a “mine’s bigger than yours” competition with their high speed DC charging stations. But perhaps this is "gasoline thinking" and smaller is better?

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Even impact investors are fleeing risk in the face of the global pandemic

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, July 9 – One in five impact investors are retreating – cutting back commitments – in response to the COVID crisis. “Most investors are currently in ‘risk-off’ postures, meaning that they are trying to reduce portfolio risks and are therefore looking at fund opportunities that are either inherently low-risk (cash equivalents, fixed income, etc.).

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TRENDS AND TECHNOLOGIES AT THE FIRST INTERSOLAR INNOVATION DAY

altenergymag

Attendees of the first Intersolar Innovation Day 2020 can look forward to learning about the latest technologies in the global solar industry, hearing from top-level speakers and viewing product presentations. Plus, they will be able to take advantage of networking opportunities with company representatives and solar experts.

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Are Smart Homes the Key to Saving the World?

U.S. Green Technology

Smart technology has changed the way people go about their daily lives. These devices provide convenience and luxury for mobile devices and residences. However, smart homes are now delivering a new benefit — a positive environmental impact. With climate change in full force, smart advancements are necessary to offset the impact. Smart homes can contribute.

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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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Proximity Finance secures $14 million for loans to Myanmar’s farmers

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, June 9 – Nearly 40% of Myanmar’s rural population lives in poverty. Proximity Finance, the microfinance arm of agriculture services provider Proximity Designs, offers flexible, low-interest loans to the country’s smallholder farmers. Approximately 60% of its clients are women. The investment from Finnfund, Nordic Microfinance Initiative, and France’s Proparco will help Proximity triple the.

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An Innovative Approach: Digital Marketing Within the Solar and Storage Sectors

altenergymag

With the Solar & Storage DigiCon in the starting blocks (official launch on July 15, 2020), the initiators Joint Forces for Solar and the International Battery and Energy Storage Alliance – IBESA are building one of the most important platforms for digital marketing of the industry.

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Make a statement with Serendipitous Project's eco-friendly jewelry

Inhabitat - Innovation

This jewelry is sustainable and affordable.

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Total Corporate Funding for Solar Sector Reaches $4.5 Billion

altenergymag

Mercom has just released its 1H 2020 Solar Funding and M&A report. The findings in this in-depth report can support a stand-alone story or add to the foundation of your reporting for any of your solar or clean energy stories. Some of the key findings from today's report include: Total Corporate Funding (including venture capital funding, public market, and debt financing) in Solar Sector reached $4.5 Billion in 1H 2020 There were 25 solar corporate M&A transactions Solar project acquisition acti

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Circontrol adds contactless card payment to its European charging stations

Charged

As human contact becomes passé, contactless bank card payments are surging in popularity. Barcelona-based Circontrol has become the latest charging provider to add a contactless payment system to its public chargers. The company has already implemented the contactless payment system on its 400 fast chargers in the UK, and is now rolling it out in other European countries.

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Energy Transfer Launches Appeals Following Court Order to Shut Down Dakota Access Pipeline

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 8 mins On Monday, July 6, a federal judge ordered the shutdown of the Dakota Access pipeline ( DAPL ) by August 5. The move follows a March judgment that ordered the pipeline to undergo a more thorough environmental review. However, Energy Transfer, the pipeline's parent company, later revealed that the company was continuing to offer deals to oil companies to ship their product on DAPL during times when the pipeline is slated to be shut down.

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MPs warn parts of England face 'serious risk' of running out of water within 20 years

Business Green

Select committee delivers damning assessment of government's "lack of leadership" when it comes to managing England's water supply, warning that public awareness campaigns and better oversight over companies water leakage performance is needed. There is a "serious risk" that some parts of England will run out of water within the next 20 years, the Public Accounts Committee has today warned.

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Webinar Launch of ACORE’s New Report: Expectations for Renewable Energy Finance in 2020-2023

altenergymag

In addition to the survey findings, speakers on the webinar will discuss the health of the renewable sector and potential pathways toward achieving ACORE’s $1T 2030 goal of reaching $1 trillion in U.S. private sector investment in renewable energy and enabling grid technologies by 2030.

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U.S. Dominance In The Natural Gas Sector Is Growing

R-Squared Energy

This article is the third in a series on the BP Statistical Review of World Energy 2020. The Review provides a comprehensive picture of supply and demand for major energy sources on a country-level basis. Previous articles covered overall energy consumption and petroleum supply and demand. Today, I want to cover the production and consumption of natural gas.

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For Peats Sake …

Fairsnape

Notes and thoughts from attending the informative XR For Peats Sake hosted by XR Morecambe Bay via Zoom yesterday evening, leading the event Si Thomas, Peatland Restoration Officer, Cumbria Wildlife Trust. Key and important ‘peat’ messages from Si Thomas included. Over 40% of our green house gas emissions come from degraded peat Restoring our peatland habitat would give 37% of the mitigation need to meet Paris Agreement by 2030.

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The Brief: Generational opportunity, Catholic lens investing, lending to farmers in Myanmar, access to capital in Zambia, ESG hedge fund, pandemic risk-off

Impact Alpha

Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: ImpactAlpha Original Generation Investment Management: COVID-19 creates a generational opportunity for sustainability. Where we live. How we work. What we want – and what we need. The severe health and economic impacts of the global pandemic in the short term are accelerating long-term trends that, with decisive action, could make.

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Motiv Power Systems delivers 9 electric trucks to Sacramento Community Resource Project

Charged

Motiv Power Systems has delivered 9 electric box trucks to Sacramento’s non-profit Community Resource Project (CRP). The e-trucks will be used to provide home energy audits, weatherization and HVAC services to low-income residents in an area where air quality is some of the worst in the country. Motiv’s all-electric chassis and software platform is designed to make it easy for fleets to electrify medium-duty trucks and buses.

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Top 5 US Storage Owners: NextEra Saw the Potential Early and Never Stopped Building [GTM Squared]

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How Social Distancing is Shifting Hospices Toward Digital Marketing

U.S. Green Technology

Social Distancing Shifts Hospices Toward Digital Marketing The current COVID-19 pandemic has affected every aspect of life. Every industry has been forced to adapt to shelter in place and social distancing orders. The healthcare industry is no exception and has received more of the burden than other sectors. Providers still must care for their patients.

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Customers face rising energy bills due to increase in subsidy scheme costs

altenergymag

Research from Cornwall Insight's 'Third-Party Charges forecast' highlights that as a result of the COVID-19 lockdown, the total cost of renewable subsidy schemes* is forecast to rise above £10bn in 2020-21. The £/MWh impact on suppliers is expected to be around 5.4% higher due to COVID-19 related effects and top £40/MWh in total.

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Danfoss Editron provides powertrain for hybrid crew transfer vessels to serve offshore wind farm

Charged

Danfoss Editron, a manufacturer of hybrid and electric powertrain systems for off-highway and marine markets, has secured an order from Danish shipbuilder and operator MHO-Co to deliver drivetrain systems for two hybrid crew transfer vessels (CTVs). CTVs are used to transport technicians and other personnel to and from offshore wind farms. MHO-Co’s two CTVs, specifically designed to work in the offshore wind sector, will serve Ørsted’s Hornsea Two offshore wind farm, which will be located 55 mil

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'Build back greener': Environment Agency debuts new five year plan

Business Green

EA2025 strategy vows to strengthen UK climate resilience and enhance natural habitats in pursuit of net zero goals, as Flood Re warns flood mitigation efforts must continue to evolve. The Environment Agency has today published a new five year plan, detailing how the body plans to embed fundamental changes to its operating model that can help embed some of the environmental benefits seen during the coronavirus crisis.

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The emerging “non-utilities”—EVs are helping new players in the energy marketplace.

Charged

Gordon Feller serves on the boards of several non-profit organizations focused on the future of greener mobility. He formerly served as President Obama’s appointee to a US Federal Commission established to assess emerging energy-focused digital technologies. Dramatic pricing changes, shifting cost structures, new demand curves and technologies that enable efficient decentralization are driving a dramatic shakeup of the energy marketplace, and new participants are adapting in their own ways.

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Those net-zero building commitments are adding up

Business Green

The coronavirus crisis has not slowed the growing momentum behind the net zero building trend. The COVID-19 outbreak has many office buildings sitting idly, without employees streaming in every morning and out every afternoon. While lockdowns briefly decreased global carbon emissions about 17 per cent, this was mostly due to transportation, flights and commuting grinding to halt.

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The Coretec Group Secures Manufacturing Partnership with Evonik Industries

altenergymag

The Coretec Group, Inc announced that it has entered into a supply partnership with Evonik Industries, a world leader in specialty chemicals.