GreenBiz

JUNE 30, 2021

Inside Hewlett Foundation’s plan to electrify all road transportation by 2050. Liz Morrison. Wed, 06/30/2021 - 02:00. Foundations , celebrity philanthropists and tech giants alike have announced plans this year, with grand sums of money attached, to combat climate change. What caught my eye about the Hewlett Foundation’s recently announced zero-emissions strategy is the specific focus on road transportation decarbonization. .

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

Hoplostethus crassispinus is related to the Orange Roughy, or deep sea perch. A rule that will allow deep seabed mining to start, even though environmental protections are not in place, was triggered in late June, exposing the deep ocean to potentially serious harm. The International Seabed Authority (ISA) , an intergovernmental agency tasked with regulating the seabed, has announced that the Pacific Island of Nauru has triggered a rule that would allow mining to commence in two years.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JUNE 30, 2021

According to the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA), there are known links between protected ecosystems, cattle ranching and the supply chain behind the beef sold in Colombia.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

Victoria Judd, a lawyer at Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP, considers the sustainability credentials of biomass, and what this bodes for its future. In the aftermath of BREXIT and in view of COP26 in Glasgow in November 2021, the UK has been focussing on decarbonisation in relation to its infrastructure and power offerings. Multiple initiatives have been launched: the UK Infrastructure Bank has been set up to prioritise investment in projects that tackle climate change, there are efforts to

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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.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JUNE 30, 2021

If you enjoyed building forts as a kid, you’re going to love the modular design of the Ekodome Geodesic Dome Kits.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

An aerial view of the caravan park site. A technology firm with expertise in the water and environmental sphere, Tricel completed a commercial sewage treatment plant installation for a holiday campsite in Skegness, Lincolnshire in April 2021. Here, the firm outlines what was involved. The parties. Blockfree Services operates in Lincolnshire and the surrounding areas and provides wastewater treatment solutions.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 30, 2021

Image credit: Carandoom , CC BY-ND 2.0 license. Intensive water management causing short-term gains but long-term damage to one of the most biodiverse regions in the world. An entire ecosystem of rare and endangered species along the streams and rivers of California is being threatened by the water management across the state, scientists have warned.

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The Environmental Blog

JUNE 30, 2021

Events make an impact – that’s the reason we have them. Why don’t you add a bit more to your event’s positive impact through actions that are thoughtful and reduce the negative impact on our environment? Here’s a quick look at a few tips that might help you. Supplies. Before buying anything, ask yourself if you really need it. For example, if you hold a lot of events outside, you might really need that custom tent.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JUNE 30, 2021

Google is seemingly everywhere, yet it considers the San José, California area home.

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altenergymag

JUNE 30, 2021

The Electric Motor Sales Market size is expected to be worth around US$ 240.5 billion by 2030, according to a new report by Vision Research Reports.

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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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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 30, 2021

The Case for Eco Friendly Plumbing. If you own and operate a plumbing business, it’s time to get serious about going green in order to stay ahead of the trend and secure your business for the future. The younger generation has demonstrated an increasing interest in environmental sustainability, seeing that 87% of consumers prioritize sustainable businesses.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JUNE 30, 2021

A new study is raising awareness of shade disparity.

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Charged

JUNE 30, 2021

The Spanish city of Zaragoza aspires to be a climate-neutral city, and its City Council recently took the decision that all new urban buses would be electric. The city currently has 4 zero-emissions buses and 111 hybrids, out of a fleet of about 470 vehicles. As Sustainable Bus reports, transit operator Avanza has ordered 68 electric buses from Spanish OEM Irizar.

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Impact Alpha

JUNE 30, 2021

ImpactAlpha, June 30 – The Flint water crisis was a wakeup call that safe drinking water is not a given, especially in underserved. The post Aquagenuity closes $1.7 million seed round to prevent water-related crises appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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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

JUNE 30, 2021

HPQ Silicon has announced that HPQ, PyroGenesis Canada and the Énergie Matériaux. Télécommunications Centre (ETM) of the Institut national de recherche scientifique (INRS) have set up a research project focused on the development of silicon-based materials as active anodes for lithium-ion batteries. HPQ and PyroGenesis will be responsible for the production of silicon materials from the PUREVAPTM Quartz Reduction Reactor and the PUREVAPTM Nano Silicon Reactor.

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altenergymag

JUNE 30, 2021

Electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE) supplies electricity to an electric vehicle (EV). Commonly called charging stations or charging docks, they provide electric power to the vehicle and use that to recharge the vehicle's batteries.

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Charged

JUNE 30, 2021

Hardware and software solution provider i-charging has announced that its blueberry line of fast chargers has completed CE certification. This certification, which affirms a product’s conformity with European health, safety and environmental protection standards, is mandatory in many countries, so the third-party tests that i-charging has now completed were essential for it to begin installations.

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altenergymag

JUNE 30, 2021

The Electric Vehicles Adhesives market size accounted at US$ 39.2 million in 2019 and expected to grow at a CAGR of 26.5% over the forecast period 2020 to 2027.

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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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Impact Alpha

JUNE 30, 2021

Greetings, Agents of Impact! Thank you to the hundreds of Agents of Impact who joined Call No. 29 yesterday to take up the. The post The Brief: Lisette Cooper walks the talk, J.P. Morgan acquires OpenInvest, COVID screening in India, local water-quality data, innovative gender financing appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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Sustainability Consulting

JUNE 30, 2021

Everyone loves a TED Talk. Here’s one of our favorites: The topic of climate change seems boring, technical and not relevant for the majority of people. And without understanding how it affects us as personally, in our own neighborhoods, people are not inspired to take action. The solution, according to Communications Specialist and Environmental Advocate John Marshall, is improving how we talk about climate change.

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 30, 2021

Greentown is proud to partner with IMPEL+ (Incubating Market-Propelled Entrepreneurial-Mindset at the Labs and Beyond) and the Department of Energy (DOE)’s Building Technologies Office, alongside our friends at Austin Technology Incubator (ATI), to foster a buildings innovation ecosystem across the country. Buildings consume almost 40 percent of our energy and produce more than 30 percent of the United States’ greenhouse gas emissions.

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Impact Alpha

JUNE 30, 2021

On a winter evening in early 2017, I met with a close friend, a former venture capital professional, for dinner in Harvard Square. The post Lisette Cooper: Shareholder activism for our daughters’ daughters appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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Low Impact

JUNE 30, 2021

This article explores the history of the legal rights of herbalists to practise, and looks particularly at the use of medicinal plants in wartime Britain. In 1512, under the rule of Henry VIII, an Act was passed that became known as the Herbalists’ Charter. It stated that: …it shall be lawful to every person being the King’s subject, having knowledge and experience of Herbs, Roots and Waters, or of operation of same, by speculation or practice of any part…of the King’s dominions, to practise, us

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 30, 2021

This year’s London Climate Action Week marks a key moment in the run-up to November’s COP26 in Glasgow. Running from June 26 – July 4, you could be forgiven for thinking it was a festival on “net zero”. Search its website for the term and a whole host of events and organisations pop up, such as “Bankers for Net Zero”, or “Get Net Zero Right”, a town hall debate promising a “frank conversation”.

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Business Green

JUNE 30, 2021

Ministers claim accelerated timeline for phasing out coal power will drive faster progress towards UK’s net zero goal and demonstrate climate leadership to other countries ahead of COP26. The government has confirmed it has brought forward the official date for the phase out of coal-fired electricity in the UK to October 2024, touting the move as evidence of the country's global leadership on power system decarbonisation.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 30, 2021

The Mayor of Rockford, Ill., this week joined community solar provider Nexamp and ComEd to launch Give-A-Ray, a new 15-year program to provide solar energy benefits and savings to low and moderate income customers in Rockford and the surrounding area for free. With the help of local support services, including the Rockford Housing Authority, outreach to potential participants is underway.

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Business Green

JUNE 30, 2021

Major project to deliver electric bus depot aims to provide template that could be replicated across Europe. The UK's largest electric vehicle (EV) charging hub will not just help power 300 electric buses in Glasgow, but could also showcase a funding model that should help turbocharge charging infrastructure development across Europe. That is plan being touted today by Macquarie's Green Investment Group (GIG) and charging infrastructure developer Heliox B.V., as they announced a new partnership

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Impact Alpha

JUNE 30, 2021

ImpactAlpha, June 30 – The Aspen Network of Development Entrepreneurs’ second slug of funding from its Advancing Women’s Empowerment Fund was awarded to three. The post ANDE’s Advancing Women’s Empowerment Fund awards $450,000 to three organizations in Africa appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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Business Green

JUNE 30, 2021

EXCLUSIVE: Online retailer publishes sustainability update, confirming carbon intensity fell 16 per cent last year as efforts to decarbonise fleets and shift to renewable energy gathered pace. Amazon has revealed that its absolute carbon emissions grew by nearly a fifth in 2020, hitting 60 million metric tonnes of carbon dioxide as demand for online shopping deliveries skyrocketed throughout the pandemic.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 30, 2021

Climate-tech start-up Electric Frog Company announced this week that it has provided free use of a Nissan LEAF electric vehicle (EV) to the Burrillville Wastewater Treatment Facility in Rhode Island, in a first use of a customer vehicle to support the New England electric grid. When not in use by Burrillville employees the EV will be plugged into a bidirectional charger and monitored by energy management software to transfer power back to the grid on 24-hour notice to help meet peak demand.

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altenergymag

JUNE 30, 2021

Precedence Research says the off-highway electric vehicle market could be worth US$ 17.5 billion in the next seven years, and grow at a CAGR of 21.4%.

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Living Green Technology

JUNE 30, 2021

If you compare your recent laptops to the ones you had five years ago, you will find a lot of differences in their hardware and software. For instance, Windows 8 or 7 are slightly slower in function than Windows 10, while the latest macOS has various design features that make data management easier. Similarly, you can also see more space and rapid processors in the newer models of laptops and computers.

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altenergymag

JUNE 30, 2021

Two-day virtual event will feature insights from the solar + storage industry’s top policy and financing experts

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