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Nature Has Economic Value That Needs To Be Valued

Jim Conca

The planet’s stock of natural assets is under threat by our changing climate and our wild destruction of habitats, and many stakeholders across the world are calling for protecting 30% of the Earth's surface. A new report by McKinsey & Company shows how. Think of it as a capital investment.

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Intergovernmental Panel Links Pandemic Risk To Meat Consumption

Forbes Green Tech

An intergovernmental panel has gone where most governments fear to tread, linking increasing risk of pandemics to human consumption of meat.

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Hurricane Zeta Leaves Thousands Without Power, Oily Mess On Heels of Laura and Delta in South Louisiana

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 7 mins “ I will evacuate next time a hurricane is forecast to hit the area,” Traditional Chief Shirell Parfait-Dardar of the Grand Caillou/Dulac Band of Biloxi- Chitimacha-Choctaw Tribe told me the day after Hurricane Zeta hit Louisiana’s coast on October 28. Like many in the storm’s path, she was caught off guard when the storm intensified just before slamming into the coast. .

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Fruit And Vegetable Spoilage Is A Hidden Cause Of Underdevelopment

Forbes Green Tech

Losses and waste in fruits and vegetables are the highest category of losses among all types of foods, with up to 60 per cent of all fruits and vegetables produced being lost or wasted each year. This is particularly severe among less developed countries.

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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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State Backers of Anti-Protest Bills Received Campaign Funding from Oil and Gas Industry, Report Finds

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 9 mins Politicians responsible for drafting laws criminalizing pipeline protests in Louisiana, West Virginia, and Minnesota did so after receiving significant funding from the fossil fuel industry, according to a new report by the Institute for Policy Studies , a progressive think tank based in Washington, D.C. The major pipelines studied in the report disproportionately impact historically disenfranchised communities who, in turn find themselves potentially targeted by the protest cr

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Prince William kicks off search for first Earthshot Prize winner

Business Green

High profile prize now open for nominations, having recruited over 100 partner organisations. More than 100 nominating partners across seven continents will today begin the search for the first winners of The Earthshot Prize , following last month's launch of the prestigious new environmental prize by Prince William and The Royal Foundation. Partners are now invited to submit nominations for those individuals, communities, businesses, and organisations whose solutions can deliver the most progre

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Faculty and Alumni Demand that University of Arizona Kick Koch Money Off Campus

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 5 mins This week, Kochs Off Campus!

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How The 2020 Election Result Will Affect Cleantech • 11/24/20

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

November 24, 2020. 5:00 PM – 6:00 PM PST. Virtual Event. Register. For the first time in a Presidential Election, climate change was used as a political issue to turn out the vote (source). And polls overwhelmingly indicate U.S. citizens recognize that climate change is real, it’s man made, and their politicians do something to address the crisis (source).

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Earth911 Reader: Your Quick Dose Of This Week’s Sustainability, Business and Science News

AGreenLiving

The Earth911 team combs news and research for interesting ideas … The post Earth911 Reader: Your Quick Dose Of This Week’s Sustainability, Business and Science News appeared first on Earth 911. Here is the original post: Earth911 Reader: Your Quick Dose Of This Week’s Sustainability, Business and Science News.

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A Look at Who Supports Biden and Who Supports Trump

Green Market Oracle

Trump is the most consistently unpopular president in the history of the republic. The most recent polls show the Biden leads trump by an average of 8.8 points nationally. This is the largest deficit by an incumbent president in decades. Biden has the support of Blacks, Latinos, women, seniors, independents and educated voters while Trump has Christian evangelicals, rural voters, older uneducated white men.

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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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Why EU Car Manufacturers Are Actually “Slow-Walking” 2020 EV Sales

CleanTechnica

This title may have caught you off-guard and made you do a double-take. After all, Europe is having a record, blowout, tremendously inspiring year for electric vehicle sales.

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Teardown Finds Tesla Is 6 Years (At Least) Ahead Of The Competition

CleanTechnica

After a full tear down of a Tesla Model 3, Asia Nikkei claims is at least years ahead of other automakers when it comes to designing and building the computers that will control the self driving cars of the future.

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You Can Now Buy An Electric Motorcoach

CleanTechnica

Lightning eMotors, previously called Lightning Systems, has been electrifying all manner of medium-duty and heavy-duty vehicles for years, and now it's doing so with motorcoaches.

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Ford Mustang Mach-E Will Get Hands-Free Driver Assist On Some Highways In A Year

CleanTechnica

Ford will be providing over-the-air software updates to its 2021 Ford F-150 and 2021 Ford Mustang Mach-E. in a year.

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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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Trump’s Failure To Save Coal Accompanied By Failure To Help Coal Workers Find New Careers

CleanTechnica

One of the major issues of the 2016 presidential campaign in the United States was the issue of the US coal industry.