Fri.Jan 15, 2021

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5 radical visions for a 2050 food system

GreenBiz

5 radical visions for a 2050 food system. Jim Giles. Fri, 01/15/2021 - 01:30. Just over a year ago, the Rockefeller Foundation put out a global call for proposals for radical reform of our food systems. More than 1,300 teams from 119 countries responded. The pile of submissions was whittled down to 79 semifinalists and then, last week, to 10 "bold ideas for tackling some of the world’s most pressing food systems challenges.

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Little Things You Can Do To Live More Sustainably

The Environmental Blog

With the environment in a bit of a crisis right now, it’s essential that we all do our bit to try and help the planet. By living more sustainably , we can hopefully stop the situation from getting out of control before it’s too late. Of course, not everyone wants to completely overhaul their life for the sake of the planet. Some people need to be eased into this new way of living by taking one small step at a time.

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New York City’s Biggest Power Producer Aims to Import Renewable Energy From Upstate

GreenTechMedia

After losing out on an early opportunity to build New York state's biggest battery, the owner of New York City's biggest power plant is taking steps to import renewable electricity generated upstate. The Ravenswood Generating Station is undergoing a strategic shift to carry out the transition to clean energy called for by Gov. Andrew Cuomo and the New York legislature.

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Stefano Boeri Architetti designs prefab COVID-19 vaccination centers for Italy

Inhabitat - Innovation

All aspects of the project, which was completed free of charge, are united by a floral logo of a pink primrose and the motto “With a flower, Italy comes back to life.

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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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Spanish city of Valencia pilots public chargers in lampposts

Charged

Cities in Europe and elsewhere are being forced to come up with some innovative public charging solutions. Faced with the task of providing charging to residents who do not have assigned parking spaces, they need chargers that can be installed in large numbers throughout city centers, without consuming valuable space on already-crowded streets and sidewalks.

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A micro-house offers a formerly homeless resident both privacy and connection

Inhabitat - Innovation

In working closely with the client, the architects crafted a home that respected her desires for privacy without compromising a sense of community.

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Bro.do x Mylea Better Shoes are made from mushroom leather

Inhabitat - Innovation

As the fashion world looks for alternatives to plastic and leather, mycelium is rising to the top of the material supply chain.

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New magnetic material could improve EV motor efficiency

Charged

Toshiba has developed a new magnetic material with characteristics that could improve motor efficiency at low cost. Motors account for approximately half of the world’s electric power consumption. Toshiba says its new material boosts energy conversion efficiency when used as the wedges in motors, particularly in medium-to-large induction motors.

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Former Michigan governor charged for role in Flint water crisis

Inhabitat - Innovation

Seven years after the infamous Flint, Michigan water crisis, former governor Rick Snyder was charged Wednesday for his part in the environmental disaster.

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Motiv Power Systems secures $20 million in new financing

Charged

Commercial EV-builder Motiv Power Systems has secured $20 million in financing from investment firm Crescent Cove Advisors, and expects to raise additional funding at the close of the Series C funding round now in progress. Motiv plans to use the new capital to scale operational and manufacturing capabilities to meet growing demand. Motiv’s EPIC product line is aimed at medium-duty fleets, and is available for multiple configurations, including step vans, box trucks, work trucks, shuttle buses,

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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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All -Tesla Ride Share Company Aims To Clear The Air

Forbes Green Tech

After suffering a serious illness and giving up law school in California, Raven Hernandez went back to her hometown of Nashville and started an all-EV ride share company, where every car is a Tesla.

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Trends in hybrid and electric mobility in commercial transportation

Charged

Experts predict that by 2040, most forms of transportation will leverage electric motors or cleaner sources of fuel to meet heightened emissions standards. As electrification expands across multiple industries, it must adapt to diverging requirements and unique challenges. Industrial and commercial transportation is a great example with longer routes, ranges or exposure to harsh environments.

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Oil Industry’s Public Climate Denial Campaign Dates Back to at Least 1980, Nearly a Decade Earlier Than Previously Thought

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 6 mins The American Petroleum Institute ( API ), the leading oil and gas industry trade group, publicly pushed misleading information on climate change as early as 1980 – much earlier than previously thought – according to newly discovered archival documents.

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Energy Flexibility: Emerging Revenue Opportunities for the 2020s

CleanTech Group

For a rising number of days each year, countries are beginning to deal with the next big challenge in the clean energy transition.

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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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Agents of Impact: Georgia’s organizers

Impact Alpha

“Welcome to the New Georgia,” proclaimed Senator-elect Raphael Warnock. “It is more diverse, and it’s more inclusive. And it readily embraces the future.”. The post Agents of Impact: Georgia’s organizers appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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Total Quits Fossil Fuel Lobby Group the American Petroleum Institute Over Climate Change

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 3 mins French oil giant Total announced on Friday that it would not renew its membership to the American Petroleum Institute ( API ), a stunning blow to the oil industry’s most powerful business lobby. Total pointed to its differences with API over climate policy as its main motivation.

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Lidar Enabled Wind Turbine Technology Increases Speed to Market While Reducing Both Mass and Cost of the Turbine

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Ocean Tomo Bid-Ask™ Market announces a LIDAR technology auction that reduces wind-power generation costs by improving turbine performance in the design process resulting in a 5-10% projected CapEx advantage.

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Scaling up sustainable finance: How can investors accelerate the net zero transition?

Business Green

As the sustainable finance sector booms, asset managers and owners are under increasing pressure to use their financial clout to steer a greener future. 2020 was the year much of the investment community really started to reckon with the role it needs to play in driving the transition towards a net zero economy. Membership of the UN-backed Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance coalition snowballed, a new Net Zero Asset Managers Initiative was launched , and some of the world's largest asset managers shi

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Impact Briefing: Week of January 15

Impact Alpha

On this week’s podcast, host Monique Aiken engaged Frontline Solutions’ Jessica Barron and Marion Johnson on the political power of women of color. The post Impact Briefing: Week of January 15 appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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Mars and DHL plot £350m UK logistics hubs to slash one million road miles

Business Green

Partnership will see two state-of-the-art warehouses build in East London and Midlands partly powered by on-site solar. Mars has teamed up with delivery giant DHL to invest £350m in two state-of-the-art warehouses in Midlands and East London, in a move the firms estimate could remove one million road miles per year from the US food giant's operations.

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Do we really need the Terra Carta?

Terra Infirma

I was on a Zoom call yesterday with a business associate about a potential collaborative project, when she asked me what I thought of the Terra Carta. I was vaguely aware that Prince Charles had launched a new Sustainability initiative of that name, but that I hadn’t actually read it. She seemed a little surprised by this, and I was a tad embarrassed at not being on top of it, but the reason why I wasn’t is that there are a gazillion different initiatives you can sign up to, some bet

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The Week in Impact Investing: Repudiation

Impact Alpha

Featured: The Week's Agents of Impact: Georgia's organizers. The post The Week in Impact Investing: Repudiation appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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Smart home energy market the focus of new consumer protection drive

Business Green

Citizens Advice teams up with energy industry groups to try and identify any gaps in consumer protections for burgeoning flexible home energy market. A drive to help protect consumers from potential risks in the burgeoning market for domestic clean energy technologies, such as batteries, heat pumps, smart appliances, and electric vehicles, has been launched by Citizens Advice alongside trade bodies Energy UK and the Association for Decentralised Energy (ADE).

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Thirteen Predictions For 2021 In Sustainability Private Equity (Part Two)

Forbes Green Tech

The pension fund et al backers of the venture capital industry (the limited partners, or “LPs”) are all asking for more exposure to ESG. If the economic recovery continues, the capital should be flowing into these funds, and those funds will then start putting that capital to work.

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Drax launches green skills drive to 'boost social mobility for one million people'

Business Green

Energy firm joins Social Mobility Pledge led by former education secretary Justine Greening in bid to help plug green skills gap and support disadvantaged communities. Drax has set out a new ambition to "boost social mobility" for one million people in the UK by 2025, this week unveiling a plan to improve green skills, education, employability, and opportunities for people from disadvantaged backgrounds and in under-invested areas of the country over the next five years.

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Paper-Free Isn’t Enough: The Keys To Sustainable Web Design For Every Business

Forbes Green Tech

Tom Greenwood is a “sustainability nut” with a new book about sustainable web design principles all businesses can—and should—embrace to address the outsize environmental impact caused by our cloud-based work and home lives.

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Aegon commits to net zero across its default pension funds by 2050

Business Green

The pension provider is also aiming to slash the carbon emissions in its default pension funds in half by 2030, covering around £10bn of assets. Aegon UK is aiming to slash the carbon emissions in its default pension funds in half by 2030, as part of a longer-term plan announced yesterday to reach net zero across its £10bn portfolio by the middle of the century.

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How Is Hemp Good For The Planet?

Green Living Guy

Our actions contribute directly or indirectly to ecosystem losses. Safeguarding our planet is essential to sustain life. So often, we hear words like “eco-friendly,” “green practices,” “sustainable development,” and so on. From industrial to agricultural practices, everything requires transformation to sustain our ecosystem. Recently, discussions are rife regarding how industrial.

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'Economically feasible': New study maps how China could shift from coal to green energy in the 2020s

Business Green

Green electrification drive over next 10 years critical to the world's largest emitter decarbonising its power grid by mid-century, according to new analysis from Energy Transitions Commission and Rocky Mountain Institute. China must electrify as much of its economy as possible and generate almost all its electricity from zero carbon sources to meet its 2060 carbon neutrality goal, according to joint research released today by the Energy Transitions Commission (ETC) and US environmental group Ro

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The Morning After: Here’s The Worst Of CES 2021

Forbes Green Tech

It’s incredible to see what kind of powerful and ingenious tools humanity can create.

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From taxes to targets: How can the UK curb its offshore carbon emissions?

Business Green

Major report makes the case for new carbon tax on imported goods and goods, as the Environment Secretary reveals the UK's climate targets could eventually cover carbon embodied in imported goods. Imported emissions have always been a hugely contentious issue, with campaigners maintaining national carbon targets should cover emissions arising from the manufacture of products produced abroad for the UK market.

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Bro.do x Mylea Better Shoes are made from mushroom leather

AGreenLiving

As the fashion world looks for alternatives to plastic and leather, mycelium is rising to the top of the material supply chain. Derived from fungi, including mushrooms, mycelium is actually the underground network of filaments called hyphae. Mycelium has been under the microscope as an option for sustainable construction, but one company is now focusing on it as the answer to replace leather in fashion.

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Global Briefing: Saudi Arabia plots car-free city stretching 100 miles

Business Green

Plus Danish diets, China climate policy signals, and all the top green business news from around the world this week. Saudi Arabia touts plans for 100-mile-long car-free city. Saudi Arabia's Crown Prince Muhammed bin Salman has unveiled ambitious plans for a linear car-free city designed to produce zero carbon emissions, with construction earmarked to begin during the first quarter of this year.

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A micro-house offers a formerly homeless resident both privacy and connection

AGreenLiving

Austin-based Mckinney York Architects has completed its second micro-house for the Community First! Village , a program by Mobile Loaves & Fishes to uplift people experiencing chronic homelessness in Austin with affordable, sustainable tiny homes. As with the firm’s first project for the community, Mckinney York Architects teamed up with Bailey Eliot Construction to design, underwrite and build a permanent new home for a Community First!