GreenBiz

AUGUST 31, 2020

Circular economy startups compete at Circularity 2020, taking on shoes to shelf-life. Holly Secon. Mon, 08/31/2020 - 01:00. A circular economy is urgently required for the shift to a more sustainable planet. But it will take new, innovative ideas to build a global system that uses and reuses all of the resources within it and moves us away from the deeply entrenched extractive system under which the modern world functions.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

AUGUST 31, 2020

Following Hurricane Laura's landfall, BioLab caught fire, unleashing chlorine gas over a small community.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 31, 2020

Carbon marketplace hawks credits in businesses that store CO2 with their products. Gloria Oladipo. Mon, 08/31/2020 - 05:00. As corporate interest in carbon removal options grows, Puro.earth , a startup from Finland, is offering a twist on carbon marketplaces. Instead of selling and trading credits related to nature-based solutions, its exchange features industrial businesses that store carbon dioxide in products such as biochar, timber construction and other building materials.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

AUGUST 31, 2020

The largest Passive House building in the world is set to welcome its first tenants this October.

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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

GreenBiz

AUGUST 31, 2020

In the next round of stimulus aid, corporate America needs to stand up for climate science. Mindy S. Lubber. Mon, 08/31/2020 - 00:45. With Congress gearing up for another trillion-dollar round of economic relief that will set the strategic direction of the U.S. economy for years to come, it’s time for corporate America to stand up and be clear about the economy it wants and needs to prosper. .

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Fossil fuels Climate change Policy Politics 418

Inhabitat - Innovation

AUGUST 31, 2020

After an oil spill in early August, 40 dolphins have turned up dead in Mauritius.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

AUGUST 31, 2020

Haeckels has developed a zero-waste option that solves both the waste issue and those under-eye bags.

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Waste Waste 223

GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 31, 2020

The growth of distributed energy resources such as rooftop solar, behind-the-meter batteries, electric vehicle chargers and intelligent load controls is changing the world of building energy management and pushing the world’s biggest building technology and controls vendors to buy up software that can offer them greater control over these grid edge resources.

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Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 130

altenergymag

AUGUST 31, 2020

The government's ban on foreign-made drones for use in critical infrastructure, as well as the concern of private corporations concerned about security have brought the need for secure, U.S. based drone and software solutions to the forefront of the energy sector. In an effort to provide farther-reaching solutions for both government and private commercial clients seeking to source secure, U.S. made software/hardware, Union Robotics has teamed up with U.S. based software developer, Solex, to off

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Government Energy Energy 121

GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 31, 2020

A new study of 3,000 power companies across the globe has found that only a handful have been cutting their fossil fuel capacity over the last two decades. Much of the new renewable capacity being built around the world is being offset by new coal and gas capacity, leaving the global generation mix more or less how it was in 2000. Even those utilities and independent power producers (IPPs) prioritizing renewables are adding further natural gas and coal capacity, in most cases.

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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.

Transportation

Inhabitat - Innovation

AUGUST 31, 2020

Just because summer is winding down doesn’t mean your gardening has to.

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altenergymag

AUGUST 31, 2020

Decentralization, decarbonization, digitalization and the emergence of new business models will shape the global power sector

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Impact Alpha

AUGUST 31, 2020

ImpactAlpha, Aug. 31 – Small business relief funding efforts are bogged down in Washington. But a growing network of state governments and private funders are backing community-based lenders to provide critical capital for small businesses trying to recover from the COVID crisis. The California Rebuilding Fund, greenlighted by state officials last week, boosts the lending.

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Government 126

altenergymag

AUGUST 31, 2020

With a maximum output power of 366 volt-amperes (VA) and 96.5% EU efficiency, Enphase IQ 7A microinverters can generate up to 14% more power than any previous Enphase IQ microinverters.

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Energy Energy 112

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.

Sustainability

Impact Alpha

AUGUST 31, 2020

ImpactAlpha, Aug. 31 – Blue Like an Orange, a $200 million structured debt fund, extended BRL 30 million (about $5.5 million) to Placi Cuidados Extensivos, which is developing the market for “transitional” health care in Brazil. Placi offers an alternative between acute hospital care and homecare, a new concept in Brazil, for patients needing rehabilitation.

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Health Investment 105

Greentown Labs

AUGUST 31, 2020

Dr. Atyia Martin has worn many hats—there’s her emergency management hat, her diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) hat, her public health hat, even her FBI hat! When she speaks, it’s clear how her varied experiences have synthesized into what she says are the two throughlines of her career: people and equity. Martin is the CEO and founder of All Aces, Inc. , a partner to organizations in cultivating racial equity.

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Impact Alpha

AUGUST 31, 2020

ImpactAlpha, August 31 – Quito-based INSOTEC provides loans and credit to Ecuador’s micro-business owners and smallholder farmers. Its $58 million loan book serves roughly 18,000 borrowers. A $3 million investment from the Agri-Business Capital Fund, or ABC Fund, will aid farmers in the COVID recovery (see, “Emerging markets Agri-Business Capital Fund secures €50 million“).

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Investment 100

Mr. Sustainability

AUGUST 31, 2020

Summary - A new “wave” of economic disruption and societal change is upon us, driven by renewable energy technologies. Covid-19 acts as an catalyst for this transformation. This article is taken from The Conversation. For the original, click here. Creative destruction “is the essential fact about capitalism”, wrote the great Austrian economist Joseph Schumpeter in 1942.

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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

AUGUST 31, 2020

Greetings, Agents of Impact! ImpactAlpha joins the chorus of voices celebrating the life of actor Chadwick Boseman. Wakanda, the mythical African country led by King T’Challa, Boseman’s character in Black Panther, “is a magnificent vision of a black technological and economic power, absent of financial hardship, and designed to realize the immense potential of each.

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Technology 98

Charged

AUGUST 31, 2020

Tesla is increasing its focus on perfecting its manufacturing process. As Zachary Shahan writes in a recent CleanTechnica article, “the machine that builds the machine” just may be Elon Musk’s favorite phrase these days. In fact, Musk expects Tesla’s manufacturing prowess to give it an edge over other EV-makers. “Tesla’s long-term competitive advantage will be manufacturing,” he told Shahan.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 31, 2020

Read time: 9 mins By Karen Savage, Climate Docket. Originally published on Climate Docket. Pennie Opal Plant spent much of last weekend anxiously scanning the horizon for smoke from California’s growing wildfires, packing and repacking treasured items into her car, and trying to decide which to bring if she needed to evacuate. Plant, the co-founder of Idle No More SF Bay, a group led by Indigenous women dedicated to climate activism, is no stranger to climate-fueled disasters, including Californ

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Climate change 85

Impact Alpha

AUGUST 31, 2020

ImpactAlpha, August 31 – Crowdcube, the U.K.-based equity crowdfunding platform, isn’t exclusively focused on impact. But its new offering, which allows early investors to sell their stakes to other interested investors, could help entrepreneurs raise capital by drawing more investors to the platform (see, “Equity crowdfunding changes who gets financed”).

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Europe 82

Solar Power World

AUGUST 31, 2020

Coronavirus may have temporarily interrupted solar installation schedules, but one thing it didn’t touch was technology innovation and R&D. The summer of 2020 saw a number of solar panel manufacturers announce new models surpassing 500 W. With 350-W panels generally seen as amazingly powerful just three years ago, many companies are jumping to new extremes… The post Big-wafer solar panels aren’t quite ready for their residential debut appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Forbes Green Tech

AUGUST 31, 2020

“In the 21st century, your supply chain is your brand,”says Killian Stokes, university lecturer and co-founder of Moyee Coffee Ireland, a greentech coffee company with big ambitions – to disrupt the industry’s global business model.

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Blockchain Innovation 79

Charged

AUGUST 31, 2020

Charged is hosting a virtual conference on EV engineering this week that’s free to attend. The conference includes live webinar sessions with interactive Q&As and on-demand webinars. Just like the content Charged brings you every day, conference topics will span the entire EV engineering supply chain and ecosystem including motor and power electronics design and manufacturing, cell development, battery systems, testing, powertrains, thermal management, circuit protection, wire and cable, EMI

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Business Green

AUGUST 31, 2020

The current crisis should support and accelerate many trends and themes integral to sustainability, writes Liontrust's Peter Michaelis. We believe the Covid-19 pandemic will result in changes to how society behaves and ultimately ease the transition to a more sustainable world. What one small strand of replicating protein has laid bare, alongside the climate emergency and societal issues such as the Black Lives Matter movement, are the critical challenges to our prevailing model of capitalism.

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Solar Power World

AUGUST 31, 2020

Tuesday, September 29, 2020 4 pm ET / 1 pm PT Solar asset management is challenging, with a seemingly continual increase in responsibilities and regulations – don’t let your solar and weather data be one of them. In this webinar, Solcast CTO Dr. Nick Engerer will present a vision for affordable, easily accessible… The post Webinar: Simplifying solar asset management with fast, easy & affordable irradiance data services – September 29 appeared first on Solar Power Wor

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Solar Power 73

Business Green

AUGUST 31, 2020

Just 10 per cent of global utility firms prioritising renewables over fossil fuel investments, University of Oxford research finds. Energy utility companies around the world are continuing to invest heavily in fossil fuel-based power generation, advancing strategies that threaten to undermine the transition to net zero emissions and blow a hole in the Paris Agreement's goal of limiting global warming to 1.5C, a major new study has found.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 31, 2020

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Clean Energy Trust

AUGUST 31, 2020

MITO Material Solutions announced an oversubscribed $1M Series Seed funding round led Dipalo Ventures and Clean Energy Trust today. MITO Material Solutions is a cutting edge developer of additives that enable polymer manufacturers to enhance product performance. This investment follows MITO Materials receipt of more than $1.1 million in R&D grants from the National Science Foundation and participation in the Heritage Group Hardtech Accelerator powered by Techstars in late 2019.

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Energy Energy Electric vehicle Investment 52

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

AUGUST 31, 2020

Energy & Blockchain + IoT Internship | EDF Innovation lab | Los Altos, CA. Title: Energy & Blockchain + IoT Internship. Organization: EDF Innovation Lab. Location: 4300 El Camino Real, Los Altos (remote). Application closing: July 31, 2020 (or until filled). Duration: 2-3 months full time during summer or part-time during the year . Internship Description .

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IoT Blockchain Energy Energy 40

GreenBiz

AUGUST 31, 2020

What does 'climate risk' actually mean? Joel Makower. Mon, 08/31/2020 - 02:11. If you stick around the world of sustainable business long enough, you’re sure to see an immutable march of memes — terms that rise up and become popularized, often without agreed-upon definitions. Then, over time, they become used, and overused, to the point where they lose much of their meaning.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

AUGUST 31, 2020

Energy & Blockchain + IoT Internship | EDF Innovation lab | Los Altos, CA. Title: Energy & Blockchain + IoT Internship. Organization: EDF Innovation Lab. Location: 4300 El Camino Real, Los Altos (remote). Application closing: July 31, 2020 (or until filled). Duration: 2-3 months full time during summer or part-time during the year . Internship Description .

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