GreenBiz

MARCH 31, 2021

The Road to Powering Amazon on 100% Renewable Energy by 2025. Date/Time: April 29, 2021 (1-2PM ET / 10-11AM PT). Amazon has been investing in sustainability for many years. Back in 2014, Amazon started making major investments in renewable energy. Most recently the company committed to powering global operations on 100% renewable energy by 2025 as part of The Climate Pledge, a commitment to be net-zero carbon by 2040, 10 years ahead of the Paris Agreement.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

MARCH 31, 2021

Rolls-Royce, Tecnam and Scandinavia's largest airline, Widerøe, have entered into a partnership that will see the launch of an all-electric aircraft for passengers by 2026.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 31, 2021

How corporations can jump-start industrial electrification in the US. Ali Hasanbeigi. Wed, 03/31/2021 - 01:00. From cardboard boxes delivered to our doors to home appliances, nearly everything comes from industrial processes. Those processes use a lot of energy and largely come from fossil fuels; one-third of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions come from industry.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

MARCH 31, 2021

Washington D.C.’s Buzzard Point, a post-industrial stretch of waterfront at the intersection of the Anacostia and Potomac rivers, is getting a new lease on life with the recent opening of the Watermark.

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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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U.S. Green Technology

MARCH 31, 2021

Wood is a preferred choice for many when it comes to consumer products or building material. For starter, it is a natural resource which is renewable, has a low carbon footprint and recyclable. Moreover, there is an element of aestheticism and it can be used for artwork too. Consumers and manufacturers can play their part. The post 5 Types of Wood That Improve Sustainability appeared first on U.S.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

MARCH 31, 2021

On Monday, President Biden announced that he intends for the U.S. electricity sector to be carbon neutral by 2035. His sights are set on lots of wind energy and lots of jobs.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

MARCH 31, 2021

Award-winning glamping company AutoCamp has announced plans to bring its design-led Airstream suites and luxurious tent accommodations to three new iconic destinations.

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Charged

MARCH 31, 2021

Freudenberg Sealing Technologies has expanded its material testing capabilities to include performance and compatibility evaluations of the rubber, elastomers and thermoplastics used to seal and safely maintain lithium-ion batteries. The company has installed equipment and adopted new testing protocols in its Plymouth, Michigan Central Laboratory that will provide data on which materials optimally resist breakdown from constant exposure to harsh electrolytic solutions.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

MARCH 31, 2021

In the heart of Copenhagen, C.F. Møller Architects has completed the Carlsberg Central Office, a new office of the Carlsberg Group on the same hill that the world-famous Carlsberg Breweries was first established in 1847.

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Impact Alpha

MARCH 31, 2021

ImpactAlpha, March 31 — The Kampala-based social lender, which finances the purchase of motorcycle taxis for Ugandan and Kenyan “boda boda” drivers, is expanding. The post East Africa’s Tugende scores $3.6 million to expand micro-business lending appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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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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altenergymag

MARCH 31, 2021

Statement From Gregory Wetstone, President and CEO of the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE):

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Impact Alpha

MARCH 31, 2021

ImpactAlpha, Mar. 31 – Capital Impact Partners, a community development finance institution, has deep community roots. CDC, a nonprofit Small Business Administration lender, The post Alliance of Capital Impact Partners and CDC Small Business Finance creates community investing powerhouse appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 31, 2021

The competitive retail market subsidiary of American Electric Power is contracting with an independent firm which will develop an 80-MW solar plant in West Virginia. Under terms of the deal, Opdenergy will develop the solar project in Jefferson County. AEP Energy will take the energy generated to its customers through its Integrated Renewable Energy solution—a long-term, fixed price plan to support new and locally sourced clean energy.

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Impact Alpha

MARCH 31, 2021

ImpactAlpha, Mar. 31 – Ethic has raised $29 million to grow its customized sustainable portfolios for wealth advisors. The tech-driven asset management platform says. The post Ethic raises $29 million to grow customized sustainable portfolios for wealth advisors 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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Front And Centered

MARCH 31, 2021

As we close out Women’s History and connect to April preparations for Earth Day month, Front and Centered looks to the future as we are led by an incredible and growing number of BIPOC leaders who march on for Mother Earth: Yolanda Matthews, Rosalinda Guillen, Paulina Lopez, Jill Mangaliman, Susan Balbas, Ophelia Noble, Lilliane Ballesteros, and Rich Stolz.

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altenergymag

MARCH 31, 2021

Q CELLS took first place among all solar module manufacturers in the "Solar Technology" category 2021, and received top marks for overall satisfaction, willingness to recommend and re-selection. The award from the series "Germany's Most Popular Suppliers" is based on the ratings of more than 40,000 German consumers.

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GatesNotes

MARCH 31, 2021

The virus that causes COVID-19 is evolving, and it’s complicating our efforts to end the pandemic.

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altenergymag

MARCH 31, 2021

Bloom to Deploy More than 40 Megawatts of Energy in the Northeast under Distributed Energy Resource Program

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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

MARCH 31, 2021

Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: ImpactAlpha Original Transformation of electricity grids shows this isn’t your grandparents’ infrastructure upgrade. The giant infrastructure investment plan. The post The Brief: Electric network effects, custom portfolios, good green jobs, micro-business lending, community investing alliance appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2021

Hellman's commissioned research explores how households can take steps to tackle the 900 million tonne global food waste mountain produced in the home. Setting aside just one day a week to make a meal using solely ingredients already present in the kitchen could slash household food waste by a third, a new study has found - indicating that encouraging small behavioural changes can make significant inroads into shrinking the world's food waste mountain.

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Impact Alpha

MARCH 31, 2021

ImpactAlpha, March 31 — The global solar energy market is expected to reach $223.3 billion by 2026, up from $52.5 billion in 2018. The post FTC Solar files for an initial public offering appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2021

Update from NGO’s Global Forest Watch scheme highlights that deforestation of tropical forests crucial for biodiversity and storing carbon continue to rise. 2020 was meant to be a landmark year in the fight against deforestation, a year by which many companies, countries, and international organisations had pledged to halve or completely halt forest loss.

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Forbes Green Tech

MARCH 31, 2021

This article, the third in a series on sustainability-related intangibles, highlights leading practices and development areas in corporate and investor executive compensation ESG targets.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2021

The EAC has emphasised the potential of tidal power to both provide clean energy for the grid and provide broader economic benefits, in a letter sent to Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng. The government should step up support for the UK's nascent tidal energy industry, the Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) urged today in a letter sent to Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng, with support "likely to lead to a rapid fall in generating costs similar to, if not steeper than, the fall experienced in o

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Forbes Green Tech

MARCH 31, 2021

The $2 trillion plan to overhaul U. S. infrastructure could be what one analyst calls a “green tidal wave” for EV makers.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2021

The actively-managed equity fund will seek to invest in companies actively tackling climate change by furthering the low carbon transition, according to Aviva. Aviva is plotting the launch of an actively-managed equity fund it says will invest in the shares of companies across the globe that are actively seeking to respond to the climate crisis and build a lower carbon economy, it announced yesterday.

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Varuna

MARCH 31, 2021

In earlier days of software technology deployment to water utilities, vendors pushed for on-premise storage of data and technological tools (even software). Servers were deployed to give the engineers at the water utility a sense that their data was ‘secure’ and available at all times. The water system engineer was comfortable in this seeming middle ground between having all their technology and data ‘somewhere out there at someone else’s mercy’ and having full control.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2021

Investor appeal for capital intensive low-carbon activities risks being reduced if policy strategies overstate costs by assuming high interest rates, explains Prince of Wales’s Corporate Leaders Group' Beverley Cornaby. The UK is at a pivotal moment in developing the plans required to deliver its target of net zero emissions by 2050 at the very latest.

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altenergymag

MARCH 31, 2021

Q.PARTNERs can now redeem their Q.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2021

Tackling carbon border leakage and green trade tariffs are set to be high on the agenda of inaugural meeting of G7 ministers, according to reports. International Trade Secretary Liz Truss is to call for global trade tariffs for 'green' goods to be slashed at a high-profile meeting of G7 trade ministers being chaired by the UK today, according to reports.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MARCH 31, 2021

April 2021 Member of the Month: Joy Larson. How did you hear about WCS and what prompted you to join? I was looking specifically for a meetup group for women in STEM. I wanted a space to interact with professional peers I could relate to more readily. Being in cleantech, it is always fun to read the WCS newsletter and attend events where there are great women in leadership.

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Energy and Cleantech Council

MARCH 31, 2021

The White House this morning released a fact sheet on “ The American Jobs Plan ,” also known as President Biden’s infrastructure plan. There’s a lot in here (as there should be for a couple of trillion dollars!), so today I’ll focus on energy infrastructure. Here are the highlights: . $100B to “build a more resilient electric transmission system.

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Green Living Guy

MARCH 31, 2021

With the pandemic outbreak, the education system had to quickly switch to an online mode of learning. And there’s a chance that distance learning will stay with us for long and become the new normal with all the school closures – 124,000 schools across the United States had to stop. The post How to Make Distance Learning Sustainable appeared first on Green Living Guy.

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