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Black farmers are rebuilding agriculture in coal country

GreenBiz

Jason Tartt saw opportunity in the terraced hillsides of his native West Virginia, both for restoring the land and for other Black farmers.

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IMMERST floating community is adaptable, modular and prefab

Inhabitat - Innovation

As buildable land becomes increasingly scarce, long-standing yacht company Stephens Waring Design has developed a new design concept called OASys (Ocean Architectural System), which could be the answer for coastline challenges like animal habitat conservation, erosion and lack of suitable development space.

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What you need to know about the new infrastructure law's climate provisions

GreenBiz

These five areas of grid and clean energy investments are receiving $1.2 Trillion in funding for everything from battery R&D to transmission lines to residential energy costs.

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Polar researchers discover enormous icefish nesting site

Inhabitat - Innovation

They have see-through skulls, transparent blood, and they built 60 million nests beneath the frigid waters of the Antarctic Sea. They’re Jonah’s icefish, and a polar research team has just discovered what might be their largest breeding colony in the world.

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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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The Future of Biomass: Today, Tomorrow and Beyond

GreenBiz

The climate crisis requires mass collaboration, and to-date, woody biomass is the only renewable, reliable, dispatchable combined heat and power (CHP) solution available.

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ExxonMobil plays dirty to deny role in the climate crisis

Inhabitat - Innovation

ExxonMobil has turned to intimidation in attempts to stop its critics from taking legal action. The giant oil company is trying to use an unusual Texas law to target critics outside the state. Exxon has asked the Texas Supreme Court to allow it to use rule 202 to take on California municipal officials.

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Ambitious new EV charging network launches in the US

Inhabitat - Innovation

Access to charging stations is one of the stumbling blocks for America's proposed electric vehicle future. Missouri-based EOS Linx found a way to combine its work in advertising, security, data analytics and renewable energy into an interesting package that could quickly boost EV drivers’ charging options.

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5 trends to watch in climate-aligned finance in 2022

GreenBiz

2021 showed that banks and investors can talk the talk. 2022 is the year to walk the walk.

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7 Ways to Make Your Ecommerce Business More Sustainable

U.S. Green Technology

Ecommerce is becoming an increasingly popular way to make money online. However, it also tends to produce the most carbon footprint in the digital age. Whether sustainability is part of your core values or not, it would help to be eco-friendly. For one, doing so allows you to win the support of eco-conscious consumers. Second, The post 7 Ways to Make Your Ecommerce Business More Sustainable appeared first on U.S.

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Dear CEO: Are you a dodo or a phoenix? Larry Fink wants to know

GreenBiz

What to make of the BlackRock CEO's annual letter.

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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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How Green Companies Can Use Search Engines To Find Customers

U.S. Green Technology

The use of search engines, in particular Google, has grown so universal that it is estimated that there are over 5 billion Google searches a day. For businesses, search engine marketing (SEM) has become a huge driver for site visits, customers, and revenue. But what about green companies? Can green companies use SEM to profitably. The post How Green Companies Can Use Search Engines To Find Customers appeared first on U.S.

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Airavat is a home in the clouds flowing with beauty

Inhabitat - Innovation

Airavat, a "home in the clouds," is a new creation by reD Architects on the outskirts of Mumbai that casts a striking complement to its natural surroundings.

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SMA America Confirms 25-year Design Life for Sunny Highpower PEAK3 Inverters

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The 25-year design life gives developers and owners the long-term security needed to realize the full potential of their plants

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BP says fast charging could soon be more profitable than selling gas

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The European oil companies BP , Shell and Total have been buying up assets in the EV charging value chain, and some suspect there’s a sinister strategy—could the oil barons monopolize public charging in key markets, jack up the prices, and kill the electric car once and for all? Maybe. But what if the companies find that selling electrons is more profitable than selling distilled dinosaurs?

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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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How Leadership Training Can Make You a Better Leader

U.S. Green Technology

Leadership training is of utmost importance to managers. While developing our leadership skills is of no doubt a continuous process, leaders must also invest in making themselves better leaders. Leadership courses and workshops will equip you with the necessary tools and knowledge to improve your ability as a leader and ensure that you are on. The post How Leadership Training Can Make You a Better Leader appeared first on U.S.

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Startup Safe-Li to commercialize new battery separator tech that prevents thermal runaway

Charged

Pennsylvania-based venture capital firm Green Swan Partners (GSP) has reached an agreement with Skysong Innovations , the technology transfer arm of Arizona State University (ASU), granting GSP the exclusive option to finalize commercial rights to ASU’s fire-safe battery technologies. The technologies were invented by ASU Regents’ Professor Dr. Jerry Lin, who is also the Chief Scientist of the startup Safe-Li, which will commercialize the technologies.

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Nobody is listening to climate scientists. What if they went on strike?

Grist

It’s been a wild start to 2022: Omicron cases are surging around the world, the oceans are hotter than ever , and a group of climate scientists are suggesting that the world’s leading global warming experts stop doing science. In an article published in the academic news outlet The Conversation last week (and in the academic journal Climate and Development last month ), three scientists from New Zealand, including a former lead author for the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, argued tha

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IonQ and Hyundai Motor Partner to Use Quantum Computing to Advance Effectiveness of Next-gen Batteries

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-Partnership will create largest battery chemistry model yet to be run on a quantum computer, simulating structure and energy of lithium oxide -Project lays the groundwork to improve performance, cost and safety of lithium batteries

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US electric school buses number over 1,700

Charged

California clean-energy agency CALSTART has released a new report, Zeroing in on Electric School Buses , which describes the current state of the elect. As of September 2021, there were 1,738 ESBs (every good public-sector report must introduce at least one new acronym) awarded, ordered, delivered and deployed across the US. In total, there are some 480,000 school buses in the US, and over 95% are powered by diesel.

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Engine No. 1 backs Taiwanese electric scooter maker Gogoro

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, January 19 – Taipei-based Gogoro builds zero-emission and electric smartscooters with swappable batteries. It recently brought its battery swapping stations to mainland. The post Engine No. 1 backs Taiwanese electric scooter maker Gogoro appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Hydrogen to clean up energy with $10 trillion spend – study

Smart Energy International

The hydrogen market will result in one of the largest disruptions to the energy sector in history and will help decarbonise the landscape, thanks to an anticipated $10 trillion spend to be made through 2050. This is according to a new report released by Rethink Energy, Hydrogen to clean up energy with $10 trillion spend. In the report, Rethink Energy predicts an over 95% decrease in hydrogen cost by 2050 compared to 2020 levels.

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Arya raises $60 million to expand agri-commerce for India’s smallholder farmers 

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, January 19 – Arya helps India’s smallholder farmers transport and store their crops and provides working capital until they sell their crops. The post Arya raises $60 million to expand agri-commerce for India’s smallholder farmers appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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THE SMARTER E EUROPE 2022: FOCUS ON GREEN HYDROGEN

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The smarter E Europe, the continent’s largest platform for the energy industry, welcomes increased efforts promoting green hydrogen, as recently announced by Robert Habeck, Federal Minister for Economic Affairs and Climate Action in Germany. Relevant subsidies, infrastructure and procurement have the potential to turn Germany into the “hydrogen hub” of Europe.

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The Brief: Institutional shifts (podcast), revenue-based financing in Mexico, e-scooters in Taiwan, small farms in India, Larry Fink’s conventional wisdom

Impact Alpha

Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Institutional Shift ‘Net-zero’ becomes ‘uh-oh’ and other sustainability trends to watch in 2022 (podcast). Getting to net-zero greenhouse. The post The Brief: Institutional shifts (podcast), revenue-based financing in Mexico, e-scooters in Taiwan, small farms in India, Larry Fink’s conventional wisdom appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Ransomware – how secure are your protection relays?

Smart Energy International

US security investigator Red Balloon Security has found security flaws in a protection relay and demonstrated vulnerability to ransomware attack. It is said that to protect from crime one needs to think like a criminal – and that is what the researchers at Red Balloon Security have done in a new investigation into protection relays, one of the commonly used embedded devices in power grids around the world.

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Aggreko Introduces New Ultra-Low Emissions Package for Energy Transition

altenergymag

The company’s newest power system cleans up to 99% of all controlled emissions, significantly reducing environmental footprint without interfering in operations.

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Net zero committed pensions pass £1tr milestone

Business Green

Make My Money Matter campaign announces that pension provides with £1tr in assets under management now have 'robust' net zero pledges in place. UK pension funds totalling £1tr of assets under management have now embraced 'robust' net zero commitments, according to a new analysis from the influential Make My Money Matter campaign. The campaign, which was set up by filmmaker Richard Curtis, said the number of major pension funds setting net zero targets had surged in the past year.

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8minute Solar Energy Closes $400 Million in Financing from EIG

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Reinforces 8minute’s position as a clean technology leader and signals a new phase of growth

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South Fork offshore wind project is cleared for construction

Renewable Energy World

South Fork Wind received approval of the project’s Construction and Operations Plan (COP) from the U.S. Department of the Interior’s Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM). The COP approval outlines the 132 MW project’s turbine spacing, the requirements on the construction methodology for all work occurring in federal ocean waters, and mitigation measures to protect marine habitats and species.

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AttaBox's Heartland® Polycarbonate Enclosures Now Feature the Reliable Protection of Robotically Applied Foam-In-Place Gaskets

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Maximum sealing integrity and reliable protection of all wiring, connections, instrumentation, and controls housed by Heartland® enclosures.

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What I will do after sabbatical

Mr. Sustainability

Why I quit my job almost instantly after my sabbatical (part 1/2), and what I will do after (part 3/4) Having time to think changes you. I do not recommend it for everyone. For those who are thinking about taking a sabbatical, let me tell you what could happen to you if you do. In part one of my ' after sabbatical report ', I explained what I learned and how it changed me.

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Point-of-use battery storage company Viridi closes $95m funding round

Renewable Energy World

Battery energy storage company Viridi Parente said it raised $94.695 million in a Series C funding round. The latest funding round boosts Viridi’s value to $700 million, and supports the company’s aim to manufacture point-of-use lithium-ion battery technology at scale. . The Series C round was led by existing investor B. Thomas Golisano, a philanthropist and founder of Patchex Inc.

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Why Words Matter in the Fight Against Climate Change

DeSmogBlog

By Tara Lohan , The Revelator. This story originally appeared in The Revelator and is part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story. Do we generate energy from windmills or wind turbines ? Your answer could say a lot about your views on climate change, explains Genevieve Guenther. Guenther used to be an English professor and literary critic, specializing in the Renaissance.

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Burns & McDonnell completes 60 MWh energy storage project in West Texas

Renewable Energy World

Engineering consulting firm Burns & McDonnell completed construction of three 10 MW/20 MWh lithium-ion battery energy storage systems in West Texas. Last May, the company was selected by LG Energy Solution and Sustainable Environmental Renewable (SER) Capital Partners to provide engineer-procure-construct (EPC) services for the projects, which consist of LG Chem battery racks populated with JH3 and JH4 modules.