DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 7, 2019

Read time: 8 mins A scheme to abolish the Department of Energy ( DOE ) helped spur a failed 1980 Libertarian Party presidential bid — and in the process laid the groundwork for Charles and David Koch's powerful network of influence — as documents from a newly published archive show. The documents in the new KochDocs.org archive include a relatively little-noticed column penned by fossil fuel industrialist Charles Koch for the Libertarian Review in August 1977, in which Charles, who had served

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CleanTech Group

AUGUST 7, 2019

Agriculture & Food: Inari, a developer of genetic engineering tools for the agricultural sector, raised $89 million in growth equity. Investors included Flagship Pioneering, Investment Corporation of Dubai, EDBI and Acre Venture Partners. The new round of capital will be used to further the company’s computational and genomic tools, as well as accelerate the […].

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 7, 2019

Read time: 2 mins The Koch Network Database is a new resource library built by DeSmog to assist journalists, academic researchers, and the public to learn more about the backgrounds of individuals and organizations associated with billionaire fossil fuel industrialists Charles Koch and David Koch 's free market approach to a broad spectrum of civic issues. .

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Andrew Winston

AUGUST 7, 2019

[Hi all, Happy summer. I haven’t written as much this year (i’m hoping it’s quality over quantity?), but I haven’t posted some of the articles I did write to my blog in awhile. Here’s one from my MIT SMR column from a few months back on megatrends and the next 10-11 years. Enjoy.]. Where will we be in 2030? I don’t usually play the futurist game — I’m more of a “presentist,” looking at the data we have right now on fast-moving megatrends that shape the world today.

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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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altenergymag

AUGUST 7, 2019

Partnership focuses on solar loan originations, helping to accelerate the growth of solar energy systems, batteries and related clean energy solutions for US homeowners

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Andrew Winston

AUGUST 7, 2019

[Hi all, Happy summer. I haven't written as much this year (i'm hoping it's quality over quantity?), but I haven't posted some of the articles I did write to my blog in awhile. Here's one from my MIT SMR column from a few months back on megatrends and the next 10-11 years. Enjoy.]. Where will we be in 2030? I don’t usually play the futurist game — I’m more of a “presentist,” looking at the data we have right now on fast-moving megatrends that shape the world today.

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Forbes Green Tech

AUGUST 7, 2019

A diverse set of suppliers in the transport and logistics ecosystem are developing and deploying innovative technologies to make shipping more flexible, efficient, and sustainable. As a result, some traditional business models are being disrupted and others are likely to be completely upended.

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Greentown Labs

AUGUST 7, 2019

Corporate entities have become critical stakeholders in the cleantech startup ecosystem—they’re starting funds, acquiring startups, and providing pathways to market for innovations in need of customers. We sat down with our Advisory Board to discuss their advice for startups looking to take advantage of the resources and opportunities corporate partnership might offer their company.

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Forbes Green Tech

AUGUST 7, 2019

The nonprofit consumer group wants NHTSA to do more to inform carbuyers about defect investigations and scrutinize company crash safety claims.

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altenergymag

AUGUST 7, 2019

Upgraded solution features SunSpec rapid shutdown technology and enhanced feature set

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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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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 7, 2019

Dustin Yellin, a Brooklyn, N.Y.-based artist whose intricate 3D photomontages adorn the likes of New York’s Lincoln Center, wants to draw your gaze to climate change. Not in a subtle way, either. He plans to stand an oil supertanker on its end in the ground—a structure soaring 1,000 feet into the air.

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Mosaic

AUGUST 7, 2019

Partnership focuses on solar loan originations, helping to accelerate the growth of solar energy systems, batteries and related clean energy solutions for US homeowners. OAKLAND, Calif. , Aug. 7, 2019 /PRNewswire/ — Mosaic, a leading provider of affordable solar financing solutions for homeowners, announced today a new strategic loan origination partnership with SunTrust Bank that will accelerate the growth of the installation of solar energy systems, batteries and related clean energy s

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 7, 2019

The US Energy Information Administration (EIA) has released its Short Term Energy Outlook for 2019 and we have summarized the key highlights for you below.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 7, 2019

Each year the Green Market Oracle (GMO) publishes a series of posts addressing a wide range of green school related subjects. In addition to green buildings, this series has reviewed hundreds of sustainability-focused schools and accreditation. Last year the ninth edition of the GMO Green School Series included 15 posts and articles bringing the total to more than 400.

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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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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 7, 2019

California, long a progressive leader on renewable energy and climate change mitigation, has neglected a key market segment for renewable energy: the “community-scale,” or “wholesale distributed generation” (DG), market. This market segment is defined as projects below 20 megawatts that connect to the distribution grid and export power to the grid for sale.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

AUGUST 7, 2019

Thursday, August 22, 2019. 5:30 PM– 8:30 PM PST. Bar Bocce at 1250 Bridgeway, Sausalito , CA. *Become a WCS Member for 30% off this and all events. Click here for more information. *Members – Use your promo code found in your welcome email. WCS is joining forces with Marin Energy & Transportation Group for our first-ever happy hour event in the North Bay.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 7, 2019

The round was led by Ecosystem Integrity Fund with participation from Equinor Energy Ventures and Evergy Ventures.

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Ecotech

AUGUST 7, 2019

Recycling has become a normal part of our lives now. Unfortunately, many items that we intended for the recycling center have also ended up in the landfill due to contamination. To ensure that our recycled items are being used to create other materials, we need to keep our recycle bins free from contaminants. Have you made any of the following mistakes?

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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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EDF + Business

AUGUST 7, 2019

By Derek Walker This article originally appeared in The Environmental Forum. It is a political reality that Corporate America has tremendous influence in Congress – and many companies have used this power to oppose environmental regulations and strong action on climate change. But the activities of the past two months suggest this is starting to change, which is great news given the urgency of the climate crisis.

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Unsustainable

AUGUST 7, 2019

Does the question of Legalising Cannabis, and the arguments for and against it, create an unnecessary distraction from world hunger and the climate crisis? words Jesi, of IncomesCo Cannabis, also known as marijuana or weed, has long held the attention of academia and policy makers on the question of whether its legalisation would be beneficial or detrimental for social values, public health and average income.

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