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How the water sector's digital transformation will help achieve SDG 6

GreenBiz

The water sector is now in the early but accelerating stages of learning the value of adopting digital technologies to solve water scarcity and quality issues.

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Playing in the Plants is growing Milwaukee's vegan scene

Inhabitat - Innovation

When people think of Wisconsin, cheese comes to mind before vegan delicacies. Restaurant collective Playing in the Plants is bringing exciting new plant-based outlets to Milwaukee.

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Deutsche Bahn orders 44 Stadler battery-electric trains

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DB Regio, a subsidiary of Deutsche Bahn which operates regional and commuter train services in Germany, has ordered 44 battery-electric Flirt Akku multiple units from Swiss manufacturer Stadler. The first of the 44 multiple units are to go into passenger service on eight routes in the Pfalz region December 2025, and the diesel trains currently in use are to be replaced by the end of 2026.

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Shopping mall design creates a balance with light and dark

Inhabitat - Innovation

The best architecture blurs the lines between the outdoors and the inside space, marrying together elements of nature at every interior turn. Developers from 10 Design kept this concept in the forefront while completing Jinwan Mall, a new lakefront shopping mall in Zhuhai.

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

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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ImpactAlpha’s Holiday List No. 1: Highlights from a year of podcasts

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, Dec. 24 – “Too often impact investing is heavy on the investing and diet on the impact,” tweeted the Surdna Foundation’s Mekaelia Davis, The post ImpactAlpha’s Holiday List No. 1: Highlights from a year of podcasts appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Rum and beach bag collaboration is ending plastic pollution

Inhabitat - Innovation

What do you get when you combine companies who are passionate about ocean conservation with beach-inspired products? A collaboration that adds up to rum, beach bags and benefits to the environment.

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Looking through a gender lens can help guide climate investments

Renewable Energy World

By Sarah Casey, Portfolio Director, Climate Council. Applying a climate lens to investing is, today, not an unfamiliar notion. Given that “environmental” is a central pillar of ESG (environmental, social, and corporate governance), reporting on climate and integrating it into business and investment decisions has had a lot of attention in recent years.

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OBE Power selects Driivz platform for its charging network

Charged

OBE Power, which operates a private network of smart, distributed EV chargers, plans to adopt Driivz’s end-to-end charging and energy management platform. Miami-based OBE Power offers an owner-operated Charging as a Service (CaaS) business model for host customers and charge point operators, including software that enables cross-platform integration, fleet operations and Vehicle to Grid (V2G) connectivity.

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A Nordic energy giant shows how a carbon turnaround happens

Business Green

Offshore wind energy powerhouse Orsted demonstrates that a pivot away from fossil fuels is possible. The first, biggest step to slowing climate change is switching electricity generation from coal and gas to wind and sun. This needs to happen fast, with coal phased out no later than 2030 and gas not far behind. Once this largest source of carbon emissions is greened up, the second-largest, transportation, can tap renewable energy via electric vehicles.

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Shopping mall design creates a balance with light and dark

AGreenLiving

The best architecture blurs the lines between the outdoors and the inside space, marrying together elements of nature at every interior turn. Developers from 10 Design kept this concept in the forefront while completing Jinwan Mall, a new lakefront shopping mall in Zhuhai. The 117,000 square meters Jinwan Mall covers all the bases for a modern shopping center with striking visual appeal and function.

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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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Road Tripping with an Electric Vehicle: An Ultimate Guide

The Environmental Blog

Road tripping is a quintessential American experience. The open road, the beautiful scenery, and the freedom to go wherever you want without being tied down by a schedule make it an unforgettable adventure for anyone with a sense of wanderlust. And now, thanks to advances in electric vehicle technology, even more people can enjoy this classic pastime!

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Rum and beach bag collaboration is ending plastic pollution

AGreenLiving

What do you get when you combine companies who are passionate about ocean conservation with beach-inspired products? A collaboration that adds up to rum, beach bags and benefits to the environment. Mount Gay Rum, the oldest running rum distillery in the world, paired up with Sea Bags, a Portland, Maine-based company who has been making totes and bags from recycled sail cloth since 2006.

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How Cleantech Saved The Day At My Uncle’s Funeral

CleanTechnica

Readers who follow CleanTechnica closely may have noticed that I haven’t written as much this month as usual. The newest variant of the COVID-19 virus (which I prefer to call the Xi variant, but that’s another story) managed to find its way to my uncle. He was fully vaccinated, boosted, and was extremely careful to […].

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4 Breathing Techniques to Rejuvenate the Spirit

AGreenLiving

Let’s face it. Life can be stressful and even overwhelming at times. It is essential… The post 4 Breathing Techniques to Rejuvenate the Spirit appeared first on Earth911. Original post: 4 Breathing Techniques to Rejuvenate the Spirit.

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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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“Chemical Recycling” — A Summer of Disillusionment

CleanTechnica

By Tessa Wardle What is “Chemical Recycling”? As a student in the public health field, I have been disappointed by the concept of plastic “chemical recycling” (also called advanced recycling, chemical conversion, molecular conversion, or conversion technologies). At first, I was thrilled to hear about a possible solution to the plastic waste crisis in the form of […].

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Playing in the Plants is growing Milwaukee’s vegan scene

AGreenLiving

When people think of Wisconsin , cheese comes to mind before vegan delicacies. Restaurant collective Playing in the Plants is bringing exciting new plant-based outlets to Milwaukee. On The Bus in the popular Milwaukee Public Market features sandwiches, vegan burgers, smoothies and perhaps Milwaukee’s best vegan ice cream. Sugar Cube Donuts is a pop-up that serves Milwaukeeans giant square-shaped vegan donuts.

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Brandenburg Coal Mine Uses 171 Times More Water Than Tesla’s Giga Berlin Will Need

CleanTechnica

Environmental groups in Germany seem to really care about the usage of water near Tesla’s Giga Berlin, and are especially concerned with how much water Tesla will use. Let’s hope they have that same energy for the LEAG coal mine, which uses more water than Tesla needs for Giga Berlin. Teslarati recently noted that Tesla […].

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How the water sector’s digital transformation will help achieve SDG 6

AGreenLiving

The water sector is now in the early but accelerating stages of learning the value of adopting digital technologies to solve water scarcity and quality issues. Read the original here: How the water sector’s digital transformation will help achieve SDG 6.

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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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Tesla Helped China Cut Carbon Emissions By 855,878 Tons From January–November 2021

CleanTechnica

On Christmas Eve, Tesla China released its year-to-date new energy contribution report, Gasgoo reports. The report noted that Tesla helped China reduce carbon emission by 855,878 tons during the first 11 months of this year. Tesla’s report added that over 500,000 Chinese Tesla owners collectively accumulated 3.72 billion kilometers of driving during the past 11 […].

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Indian Cities Struggling for Clean Air

CleanTechnica

By Anjali Jaiswal, Jessica Korsh, and Polash Mukerjee With dangerously high air pollution levels and continued respiratory threats from COVID-19, the need to protect public health in India is urgent. Aiming to fight air pollution, India’s environment minister Bhupendar Yadav recently announced plans to scale clean air programs to a national mission, “Clean Air for All.

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Thinking Global, Acting Local: How To Get Clean Tech Into Every Community

CleanTechnica

We say it here at CleanTechnica all the time — The Future is Now. We have all the solutions we really need to fix the climate crisis. The tech, the economics, the “curb appeal” … it’s all there. So why isn’t it happening everywhere, all the time? One of the key remaining obstacles is community […].

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Lying Liars & The Lies They Tell About Electric Cars

CleanTechnica

Researchers at Yale have examined the claim that EV supply chain emissions cancel out the environmental benefits of driving electric and determined it is false.

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New Clean Energy Office Targets Rural Areas: Heads Up, Joe Manchin

CleanTechnica

The US Department of Energy has apparently had enough of West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin and his love affair with fossil energy. The agency has just created a new $20 billion Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations, aimed at scaling up big solutions to climate problems with a focus on rural communities and environmental justice. Almost […].

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Lessons Learned From Driving Around The UK Coastline In An Audi e-tron

CleanTechnica

Road trips are the highlight of the year for a lot of families. As the transition to electric vehicles gains momentum, many people wonder how easy is it to do their normal road trips in the age of electric vehicles. Of course, there are now a lot more EV models to choose from these days […].

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Biden Administration Climate Actions This Week = Approval Of Two Big Solar Projects

CleanTechnica

A third solar project is nearly at the approval stage, too -- underscoring the Department of Interior’s commitment to promoting onshore renewable energy production.

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Travels With Wylie — My Tesla Model Y Goes On Its First Road Trip

CleanTechnica

Wylie, my Tesla Model Y, went for its first road trip this week. The car has a lot still to teach me.

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Yet Another Horror Story At A Ford Dealership For A Mustang Mach-E Buyer

CleanTechnica

Before I get into this story, this isn’t the followup to Joe’s experience at a Ford dealership. Joe actually reached out to me with a followup, but I wanted to allow the dealership some time to at least keep their promise to Joe. However, another EV buyer reached out to CleanTechnica and shared her story […].