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David Crane is back, with a climate-tech SPAC

GreenBiz

David Crane is back, with a climate-tech SPAC. Heather Clancy. Thu, 10/08/2020 - 01:45. One of the hottest 2020 trends in raising capital is infiltrating climate-tech investing. . As of mid-September, the stock market had welcomed at least 82 initial public offerings this year by special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) — organizations that collectively raised more than $31 billion.

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Couple renovates 1975 Chevy van for minimalist living during pandemic

Inhabitat - Innovation

When Jenna Aldus and Colin Dierker found out that all of their classes were shifting online due to the pandemic, they decided to take full advantage of the newfound freedom. Both university students, the couple currently conducts their studies on the road in their new home-on-wheels, a renovated 1975 Chevy van named Nelly.

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This new cooling technology also prevents viral spread

GreenBiz

This new cooling technology also prevents viral spread. Gloria Oladipo. Thu, 10/08/2020 - 00:40. In the face of dangerous heat waves this summer, Americans have taken shelter in air-conditioned cooling centers. Normally, that would be a wise choice, but during a pandemic, indoor shelters present new risks. The same air conditioning systems that keep us cool recirculate air around us, potentially spreading the coronavirus.

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5 buildings on this Missouri campus just achieved LEED Platinum

Inhabitat - Innovation

This is quite the accomplishment for Washington University in St. Louis' Danforth Campus. The new accolades bring the total number of buildings with LEED Platinum designation to seven on the Danforth Campus. According to the school, the university’s green building design part of an overall sustainability.

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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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REPORT: Stimulus Investments in Advanced Energy Sector Would Deliver More Than $350 Billion to Illinois Economy

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Analysis shows $45 billion in stimulus investment would add $357 billion to Illinois' gross state product, an eight-fold return on investment, increase tax revenues, create millions of jobs, and deliver annual savings to consumers

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New Swedish grocery to price goods based on carbon footprint

Inhabitat - Innovation

Felix, a Swedish food brand, has opened a climate-conscious store that will guide buyers to make informed decisions when purchasing food items.

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Tasmanian devils reunited with their motherland after 3,000 years

Inhabitat - Innovation

For the first time in 3,000 years, Tasmanian devils have reunited with mainland Australia.

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Bridging the credit gap for India’s impact enterprises

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, October 8 – More than two million social enterprises and impact companies in India are delivering healthcare, expanding electricity beyond the grid and bringing tens of millions of unbanked adults into the financial system. Impact investors have invested billions of dollars in the form of equity. But debt capital has been in short supply.

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The best vegan snacks at Trader Joe's this fall

Inhabitat - Innovation

Here are some of Trader Joe's vegan fall foods to enjoy in chillier days ahead.

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Creative economy fund for underserved communities launches with an investment in Techstars

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, Oct. 8 – Concord, a music and theatrical publishing and management firm, has created a $10 million impact investment initiative to support music and theater enterprises in underserved communities. Its first move: a partnership with Techstars Music. Concord is committing to a $30,000 seed investment for each of the companies selected for Techstars’ 2021.

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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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Energy Toolbase Integrates its Controls Software with BYD's Energy Storage Solution

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BYD's integrated all-in-one energy storage solutions feature Lithium-ion Iron-Phosphate battery technology, paired with a bidirectional power conversion system (PCS), packaged into a modular system design for easy transportation, installation, and maintenance.

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Einride Launches Global Fleet Of Electric Robo Trucks

Forbes Green Tech

Swedish autonomous vehicle manufacturer Einride announced today the launch of the next generation of its driverless electric transport vehicles and said they will be available globally.

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EnergySage Releases Its Eleventh Solar Marketplace Intel Report™

altenergymag

According to new report, financial savings from residential battery installations has become a key driver of consumer interest in energy storage, second only to the desire for backup power

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Generate Capital forges $600 million partnership with sustainable energy financier Alturus

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, Oct. 8 – Generate will take an undisclosed minority stake in Boston-based Alturus and provide up to $600 million in financing for energy efficiency projects that the companies will own and operate. The deal was the first announced by Generate since its $1 billion funding haul in February. Both Generate and Alturus offer sustainable. The post Generate Capital forges $600 million partnership with sustainable energy financier Alturus appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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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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Planet Names Top Three Finalists Of The Copernicus Masters Planet Daily Change Challenge

Planet Pulse

Following a multi-phase evaluation this past summer, Planet is pleased to announce the top three finalists of our Copernicus Masters Planet Daily Change Challenge. The Copernicus Masters competition awards prizes to developers who leverage Earth observation data to solve important problems for business and society. . The three finalists and their proposed solutions demonstrate the diverse range of use cases and applications that can be built upon global satellite imagery.

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The Brief: Today’s Call: Solar financing for frontline clinics, India’s credit gap, the failure files, infrastructure-as-a-service, Google’s Black founders fund

Impact Alpha

Greetings, Agents of Impact! Hop on today’s Agents of Impact Call No. 24. We’ll explore financing solutions for clean, affordable and reliable solar power for frontline public health clinics in Africa and South Asia. The World Bank’s Raihan Elahi, Sustainable Energy for All’s Jem Porcaro, UBS’s Phyllis Costanza and Liebreich Associates’ Michael Liebreich join We.

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Sustainable Future Buildings : After the Post Covid Era

Econaur

Year 2020 will be the year called as the year for Phase Transition not only because of a fight from virus but also the Transition in various sectors and how it will be different with the future scenarios. Its impacts are felt in every facet of society, from an individual’s emotional and social health to the broader consequences felt in the built environment, i.e. in architecture.

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Solar Financing Activity Rebounds in Q3 2020 with $3.2 Billion in Corporate Funding, Reports Mercom Capital Group

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Total Corporate Funding in the Solar Sector Comes to $7.

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'Lead by example': EU urged to aim high with new 2030 emissions goal

Business Green

Business and civil society coalition representing €62tr investments call on EU Member States to raise 2030 CO2 target to at least 55 per cent below 1990 levels. Dozens of investors, businesses, NGOs and local and regional authorities have called on EU heads of state to adopt the "most ambitious" 2030 climate target possible, ahead of deliberations scheduled for next week.

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Projected to Add 175,000 Jobs Before COVID-19 Pandemic, Clean Energy Sector Enters Final Months of 2020 Down 478,000 Jobs

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• 40+ states continue to suffer double-digit unemployment in clean energy • 14% of sector’s workforce still jobless as industry nears slow season

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City of London eyes 800 green jobs as it maps path to net zero by 2040

Business Green

Governing body of UK capital's financial district lays out detailed decarbonisation and green investment roadmap. London's financial district placed itself at the epicentre of efforts to combat global heating yesterday as the City of London Corporation unveiled a radical new Climate Action Strategy designed to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2040, a decade ahead of the UK government goal.

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Holograms, CGI And Zendaya. Behind The Scenes Of The Green Carpet Fashion Awards

Forbes Green Tech

The awards, organized by the Italian fashion body Camera Nazionale della Moda Italiana and sustainability consultancy Eco-Age, celebrate those working towards a sustainable future both in front and behind the scenes of fashion but this year, that’s not all that is setting them apart.

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Survey: Businesses place higher importance on sustainability after Covid-19

Business Green

Carbon Trust's second annual survey on corporate attitudes towards sustainability reveals surge in engagement with climate action. The coronavirus pandemic has spurred a upswing in the emphasis businesses are placing on sustainability, new research commissioned by the Carbon Trust shows, with over 70 per cent of companies expecting environmental management and sustainability initiatives to become more important as a result of the Covid-19 crisis.

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Does Tesla plan to acquire a stake in LG’s battery business?

Charged

A recent report that Tesla is aiming to acquire a stake in LG’s soon-to-be-separate battery business sent shares in the Korean electronics giant soaring. However, it appears to be too early to tell if and how such an acquisition will take place. LG Chem announced in mid-September that it plans to spin off its battery business into a new company tentatively named LG Energy Solutions.

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Carbon accounting for the coronavirus era: EcoAct publishes framework for remote working emissions calculation

Business Green

Framework aims to plug growing 'remote working emissions gap' and prevent businesses from underreporting carbon produced by millions of employees working from home. With more than 14 million people now working from home and colder temperatures looming as winter beckons, businesses across the UK are at risk of underreporting their emissions if they do not update their carbon calculations to account for energy and electricity use incurred by employees not in the office.

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Swiss Army Knife of Storage: Capacity Will Dwarf All Other Uses [GTM Squared]

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Stranded assets: Report warns US oil majors are lagging European rivals in clean energy transition

Business Green

Latest study from Carbon Tracker shows that while US firms are particularly exposed, all oil and gas firms would face massive stranded asset risk in the event of a successful energy transition. US companies are lagging way behind their European rivals in adapting their business models to a low-carbon future which would see demand for fossil fuels drastically reduced, a new study released today by Carbon Tracker demonstrates.

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The market for air pollution sensors is skyrocketing. Here’s how innovators can capture this growth.

EDF + Business

Air pollution from rampant wildfires is causing millions to suffer in California and the Pacific Northwest. On top of that, air pollution causes and worsens conditions that make people more vulnerable to severe COVID-19. But here’s a lesser known fact: current disasters aside, nine out of 10 people regularly breathe polluted air, and the most vulnerable communities are often hit the hardest.

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Net Zero Festival: Vertical farming - food for thought in a net zero world?

Business Green

VIDEO: In the first of three Glimpses reports looking at potential net zero gamechangers, BusinessGreen looks at the role for vertical farming in delivering a more sustainable food system. One of the most devastating and direct ways in which the climate crisis impacts on society is on our food and farming system: water scarcity, drought and soil degredation are just a few of the problems that are being exacerbated by the planet's rising temperatures.

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What is Climatetech?

Greentown Labs

In November 2020, Greentown Labs will host its first-ever Climatetech Summit to dive into the technology, finance, policy, and justice needed to scale climate action. But what is climatetech? . Some say it’s a buzzword, and fear a return to the cleantech bubble. But more than a decade later, the world is in a very different place. The 2018 IPCC report stated that we have the next 12 (now 10) years to radically change course—from the top to bottom of our economy—a mobilization on the scale and ma

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Sir David Attenborough: Curb inequality and 'capitalist excess' to safeguard climate

Business Green

Veteran broadcaster calls for economic and societal shift in mindsets to avoid catastrophe in interview as £50m Earthshot Prize launches. Climate change can only be halted by curbing "the excesses the capitalist system has brought us", Sir David Attenborough has said, as he called for a radical shift in western value systems to deal with the world's multiple environmental crises.

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The Hill: Newsom’s EV executive order will help make California breathable again

LA CleanTech Incubator

Climate science has long warned us of the extreme heat and extreme fires that we are now facing on the West Coast. As tragically historic fires burn 4 million acres and repeated heat waves ravage our state, California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s (D) recent executive order on zero emission cars and trucks is the bold action required to tackle this climate crisis.

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'Limit the risk': BT's £55bn pension scheme sets 2035 net zero target

Business Green

The UK's largest pension fund promises to decarbonise its savers' investments within 15 years as it joins global Net Zero Asset Owner Alliance. BT's £55bn pension scheme - the largest in the UK - has pledged to decarbonise its portfolio within 15 years, as it today became the latest pension fund to commit to a net zero investment strategy in order to mitigate the financial risks from climate change.

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REC Group kicks off REConstruct program bringing clean energy to communities affected by natural disasters

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New program to fund solar power systems and installations for affected communities