GreenBiz

JANUARY 29, 2021

This acquisition could help make sustainable packaging the norm . Deonna Anderson. Fri, 01/29/2021 - 00:30. In Manteca, California, a small company is pioneering the creation and production of paper bottles for brands such as L'Oreal and Seventh Generation. Across the U.S. in St. Petersburg, Florida, a manufacturing giant is strategizing on design, development and packaging services for the likes of Apple, Cisco Systems and HP Inc.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 29, 2021

The Moorburg coal power station boasts an eventful inception, a landmark closure, and now, a bright future. It was opened in 2015 by Swedish utility Vattenfall on the banks of the Elbe river, just outside the German port city of Hamburg. Its planning and construction were drawn out amid fierce opposition. According to Clean Energy Wire , a local newspaper marked its first day of operations with the headline “Greetings From the Stone Age.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 29, 2021

Proposed model shows potential for circular practices in construction steel. Niraja Chopade. Fri, 01/29/2021 - 01:00. Contrary to popular belief, a profitable business model for reused construction steel is not nearly as impossible as one may believe. Steelmakers have almost perfected the "recycle" element of the four hierarchical elements of the circular economy — reduce, reuse, remanufacture and recycle — with steel recycling rates of almost 90 percent.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JANUARY 29, 2021

A new study published in Nature shows that sharks and rays are facing increased threats of extinction. Sharks alone have plummeted, largely due to overfishing.

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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

Forbes Green Tech

JANUARY 29, 2021

Billions of dollars have been poured into research and testing by companies like Waymo, Cruise, Amazon’s Zoox and TuSimple to teach cars and trucks how to drive. Up to now, transit has been an afterthought.

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Electricity Innovation Transportation Energy 144

Inhabitat - Innovation

JANUARY 29, 2021

Rather than spend the resources transplanting from greenhouse to field, Agrodome allows farmers to germinate directly into the soil.

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Soil 240

Inhabitat - Innovation

JANUARY 29, 2021

Studio CK Arquitetura has recently completed the Casa Doce Vida, a custom luxury home that emphasizes sustainable design.

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Forbes Green Tech

JANUARY 29, 2021

In a historic ruling against the oil giant Shell, the Court of Appeal in The Hague has found in favor of four Nigerian farmers along with environmental activists in an oil spill case that was first filed in 2008.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JANUARY 29, 2021

A minimalist vacation home overlooks the area where the ocean meets the St. Lawrence River.

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Charged

JANUARY 29, 2021

GM has thrown down the electric gauntlet to the auto industry, announcing plans to become carbon-neutral by 2040, and to set “science-based targets” to achieve carbon neutrality. GM worked with the Environmental Defense Fund to “develop a shared vision of an all-electric future and an aspiration to eliminate tailpipe emissions from new light-duty vehicles by 2035.”.

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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 City Fix

JANUARY 29, 2021

This is the first entry in a series on capacity development for city leaders. By 2050, the global urban population is expected to grow by 2.5 billion people, continuing a decades-long trend of urbanization. And as the number of people. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 29, 2021

Read time: 7 mins In 2019 and 2020, the Environmental Defense Fund ( EDF ) conducted three helicopter surveys over the oil fields of West Texas. Flying over flare stacks at more than three hundred oil and gas drilling sites, EDF staff used infrared cameras to document unlit flares whose methane pollution is invisible to the naked eye. Their survey found that roughly 1 in 10 flares in the Permian basin were either unlit or malfunctioning.

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Methane Pollution 109

Charged

JANUARY 29, 2021

Omni Powertrain has introduced a new series of parallel-shaft gearboxes that address cost, performance and packaging needs for off-highway applications, including turf equipment, mobile elevating work platforms, material handling and general construction equipment. The new gearboxes provide continuous torque output from 200 Nm to 3,000 Nm and reduction ratios from 15:1 to 60:1.

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Packaging Cooling Construction 105

altenergymag

JANUARY 29, 2021

OzEnergy and VSight signed a cooperation protocol on Augmented Reality (AR) applications for solar PV projects.

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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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Charged

JANUARY 29, 2021

Over the past couple of years, as Tesla rolled out a seemingly endless stream of new features for Models 3 and Y, folks have been saying that the two elders of the line-up were overdue for an update. Now Tesla has announced a sweeping new refresh for Models S and X, featuring an entirely new interior, powertrain updates, new prices and new trim options.

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Batteries Technology 104

Econaur

JANUARY 29, 2021

Builders all over the globe are gravitating towards greener technology methods that can make buildings energy-efficient and sustainable. Homeowners are also showing interest in projects that deploy raw material and construction techniques with a lower carbon footprint and that are not detrimental to the environment. These techniques are being extensively used in modern construction right from the Continue reading.

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Forbes Green Tech

JANUARY 29, 2021

Joe Biden has signed an executive order that will replace of the entire fleet of federal vehicles with US-built electric cars, vans and trucks. The greatest technological transition in history, the abandonment of fossil fuels and their replacement by electricity, is already here.

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Impact Alpha

JANUARY 29, 2021

Featured: Bill Winters, Standard Chartered. The post The Week in Impact Investing: Action appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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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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Business Green

JANUARY 29, 2021

Tesla profits, green Olympics, Canadian plastic, and all the green business news from around the world this week. Onshore wind energy scores lowest ever price through new Spanish auction. The Spanish government completed its latest renewable energy auction this month, securing 3GW of new projects, including a record low bid from an onshore wid developer of €20/MWh.

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altenergymag

JANUARY 29, 2021

Allied Tube & Conduit® Electrical Steel Conduit helps get the job done efficiently

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Electricity 108

CleanTech Group

JANUARY 29, 2021

Synthetic fibers, such as polyester and nylon, have a wide variety of uses in apparel and textile applications. Unfortunately, they are derived from.

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Business Green

JANUARY 29, 2021

Letter to Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick warns new mine would raise UK emissions and could find it has no domestic market for its coal from 2035 onwards. The Climate Change Committee (CCC) has entered the row over the government's failure to review planning approval for a new coal mine in Cumbria, warning Ministers that the project would increase UK emissions and risks creating a "negative impression" of the UK's climate priorities in the run up to the COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 29, 2021

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Business Green

JANUARY 29, 2021

News of tie-up prompted shares in Beyond Meat to jump 26 per cent to $199.38 on Tuesday. PepsiCo has announced plans to work with alternative meat company Beyond Meat to develop and sell snacks and drinks made from plant-based protein, in a deal that marks the latest endorsement of the booming plant-based food sector by a major food player. The joint venture, announced earlier this week, will see the California-based alternative meat company work with the owner of Lays, Cheetos, and Doritos to i

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 29, 2021

Boston, MA-based National Offshore Wind Research and Development Consortium this week announced Round One awards in the Offshore Wind Solicitation 1.0 for offshore wind technology research and development projects. “On behalf of the Consortium, I am excited to announce these awards,” said Carrie Cullen Hitt, Executive Director of the Consortium. “The awards reflect critical topics identified by industry to advance offshore wind development and the development of a US supply chain to support the

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Business Green

JANUARY 29, 2021

Campaigners welcome new ban on burning on blanket bog sites, but calls grow for government to extend the scope of planned legislation to include more types of peat and crackdown on peat-based composts. The government has announced a partial ban on peat burning in protected areas across England, representing a major win for environmental campaigners that have long campaigned for measures that end the routine and deliberate damage inflicted each year on some of the nation's largest natural carbon

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Forbes Green Tech

JANUARY 29, 2021

I am shifting my focus to three main areas for writing and research over the next year: 1) Post-Carbon Industry 2) Grid Evolution and Energy Efficiency 3) Agricultural Technology. Here’s what I mean by these terms and why they are so vitally important to civilization.

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Business Green

JANUARY 29, 2021

Climate Pledge Fund backs innovative US developer of green jet fuels. The aviation sector in a pandemic has 99 problems. And climate change remains a big one. The industry aims to build back better, aware that it's one of the few sectors that hasn't yet embraced electrification. The key solutions today are biofuels, only displacing a mere fraction of fossil fuels-based jet fuel, and offsets.

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altenergymag

JANUARY 29, 2021

An increase in demand for thermal energy storage systems in HVAC, government incentive programs for thermal energy storage systems are significantly influencing the demand for thermal energy storage systems in recent years.

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Green Living Guy

JANUARY 29, 2021

Living an environmental-friendly lifestyle is beneficial to man in many ways. It is an excellent way to suppress the recent climate change, which has been a cause for concern for man, as there is much evidence pointing to climate changes. Some of these facts seem reasonable to us, while some. The post 5 Environmentally-Friendly Choices To Make In 2021 appeared first on Green Living Guy.

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Impact Alpha

JANUARY 29, 2021

If putting a price on carbon is the key to getting to net-zero, Bill Winters – with an assist from Mark Carney –. The post Agent of Impact: Bill Winters, Standard Chartered appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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EDF Voices

JANUARY 29, 2021

There can be no doubt: The future of transportation, starting now, is electric.

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Forbes Green Tech

JANUARY 29, 2021

Amazon was the leading buyer of clean energy in 2020, announcing 35 separate clean energy PPAs in 2020, totalling 5.1GW.

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