GreenBiz

MARCH 15, 2021

A Circular Economy for Plastics: How Companies are Moving from Strategy to Action. Date/Time: April 1, 2021 (1-2PM ET / 10-11AM PT). As plastic waste continues to threaten the globe, companies are making ambitious commitments and joining with partners to do their part. This new class of plastics goals include designing for recyclability, investing in recycling infrastructure and exploring material innovations, charting and reporting progress and helping to bring more partners in to drive collect

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Inhabitat - Innovation

MARCH 15, 2021

With the National Plastic Plan, Australia aims to address challenges with biodegradable, recyclable and compostable plastics.

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altenergymag

MARCH 15, 2021

UK based battery manufacturer AMTE Power and Sheffield-based Faradion Ltd., the world leader in sodium-ion battery technology, have announced a collaboration which combines Faradion's IP with AMTE Power's design and manufacturing capabilities.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

MARCH 15, 2021

Beijing's New China International Exhibition Center — the largest international exhibition center in China — is set to become even larger with Zaha Hadid Architects' competition-winning Phase II designs.

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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

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MARCH 15, 2021

The inclusion of a special new perovskite layer has enabled scientists to create a “spin-polarized LED” without needing a magnetic field or extremely low temperatures, potentially clearing the path to a raft of novel technologies.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

MARCH 15, 2021

On the edge of the beautiful South Luangwa National Park in Zambia, social enterprise Tribal Textiles has made significant strides in uplifting a small rural community with eco-friendly and ethically crafted textiles.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

MARCH 15, 2021

Owls will no longer be forced into show biz in live Harry Potter productions.

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U.S. Green Technology

MARCH 15, 2021

Becoming more eco-friendly can often be much more challenging than it appears. It’s a complete lifestyle change that requires you to be more conscious about everything you do – how you shop, how you cook, how you do your laundry, how you vacation. Going all in and trying to make your household 100% sustainable can. The post 5 Small Steps to Make Your Household More Sustainable appeared first on U.S.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

MARCH 15, 2021

Edward J. Ray Hall will be built from mass timber and topped with solar panels.

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Charged

MARCH 15, 2021

Scientists at Stanford University are harnessing machine learning (ML) to design better batteries. In addition to using ML to speed up scientific analysis by looking for patterns in data, the researchers combined it with knowledge gained from experiments and equations guided by physics to discover and explain a process that shortens the lifetimes of fast-charging lithium-ion batteries. “It was the first time this approach, known as scientific machine learning , has been applied to battery

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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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Impact Alpha

MARCH 15, 2021

ImpactAlpha, March 15 – Savannah Fund backs Africa-based tech startups “that create jobs and make an impact.” For its second fund, the Mauritius-based investment. The post Savannah Fund reaches first close on Africa tech seed fund appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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Charged

MARCH 15, 2021

Bringing a new vehicle into production is an undertaking that has bankrupted many a would-be automaker. EV trend-setter Tesla started out with just one low-volume model, and narrowly survived the experience. Electric truck startup Rivian Automotive plans to launch three new vehicles in the space of a few months. Rivian-watchers say the company is counting on the delivery van it’s building for Amazon to deliver revenue as it brings its electric pickup and SUV into a rapidly-heating market.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 15, 2021

Read time: 17 mins On December 21, 2020, environmental crimes investigators in the western Argentine province of Neuquén carried out a raid against a company that handles fracking waste in the heart of the Vaca Muerta shale basin, a booming oil and gas field in northern Patagonia. They seized a cache of documents, and opened an investigation into the potential illegal handling of massive volumes of fracking waste.

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Impact Alpha

MARCH 15, 2021

ImpactAlpha, March 15 – The SPAC craze is one reaction to the costly and fraught process of taking a company public. A less. The post New crowdfunding rules set to boost investment in diverse startups and founders 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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MARCH 15, 2021

Global Bioful Energy Market Report 2019 - Market Size, Share, Price, Trend and Forecast is a professional and in-depth study on the current state of the global Bioful Energy industry.

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Impact Alpha

MARCH 15, 2021

ImpactAlpha, March 15 – Listings of special purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs, hit a record in February, raising more than $27 billion. Venture capital. The post General Catalyst aims latest SPAC at Black tech founders appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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altenergymag

MARCH 15, 2021

According to Gilberto Peixoto, director of implementation of the Sol do Sertão Complex, there are eight solar PV plants that is generating more than 4,000 job (directly and indirectly) creations throughout its works.

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Impact Alpha

MARCH 15, 2021

Regulation Crowdfunding allows startup founders to raise capital from unaccredited investors as well as accredited investors, and publicly promote their offerings. Part of the. The post Rule changes could spur $1 billion in crowdfunded investment appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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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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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 15, 2021

U.S. Senators Susan Collins and Angus King announced that Ocean Renewable Power Company (ORPC) in Portland, Ore., has been awarded $3,615,260 to build, test and operate a modular current energy converter to improve the next generation of river-powered turbines. This competitive funding was awarded through the U.S. Department of Energy’s (DOE) Water Power Technologies Office.

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Charged

MARCH 15, 2021

Sponsored by Zeiss. Volkswagen and ZEISS are working together to solve challenges. The Volkswagen components plant in Salzgitter manufactures important components for the APP 310, an electric drive which will make electromobility accessible to a wide range of customers starting this year. The drive’s innovative hairpin stator concept presented entirely new challenges for quality assurance.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 15, 2021

EV Connect, a California-based software-as-a-service company, announced that it is collaborating with the Indiana-based Battery Innovation Center (BIC) and Energy Systems Network (ESN) to deploy Indiana’s first large-scale Vehicle-to-Grid capable charging system to support school bus fleet, HD truck, and other customer segment applications. EV Connect provided the electric vehicle charging management and a 500-kW bi-directional bus-scale superchargers from Rhombus.

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Charged

MARCH 15, 2021

Gatik’s mission is to deliver goods using autonomous vehicles. With a fleet of light- and medium-duty trucks, it focuses on short-haul B2B logistics for the retail industry. The company has an existing partnership with Walmart, for which it operates multi-temperature box trucks on autonomous short runs. Now Gatik , which has offices in Palo Alto and Toronto, has introduced an Electric Autonomous Box Truck that it produced collaboration with VIA Motors.

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Forbes Green Tech

MARCH 15, 2021

It’s like something out of a Hollywood blockbuster: a secret Arctic military base has revealed clues indicating a global threat to humanity. Except in this case, the warning comes from hard science fact.

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altenergymag

MARCH 15, 2021

Institutional and governance reform forms a major part of the energy white paper. Industry commentators have proposed various ideas, including popular concepts such as a system architect. This was backed by attendees of Cornwall Insight's 'Financing net zero business forum', who agreed that the sector needs a system architect.

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Charged

MARCH 15, 2021

Dutch battery tech scale-up E-magy has raised €5 million in a new funding round led by venture capital fund SHIFT Invest. The Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs and Climate Policy also committed an innovation credit to accelerate the development of E-magy’s technology. E-magy designs and manufactures nano-porous silicon material for lithium-ion batteries.

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Impact Alpha

MARCH 15, 2021

Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: ImpactAlpha Original New crowdfunding rules set to boost investment in diverse startups and founders. The SPAC craze is. The post The Brief: Crowdfunding takeoff, SPAC for Black tech founders, African seed fund, climate tech ventures, stock-exchange faceoff appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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Charged

MARCH 15, 2021

Highland Electric Transportation, a provider of turnkey fleet solutions to school districts and fleet managers, has raised $253 million in a financing round led by Vision Ridge Partners. Highland provides its fleet customers with a full-service solution—it owns and maintains the vehicles under an all-inclusive transportation-as-a-service model. The Massachusetts-based company owns and operates EVs manufactured by Thomas Built Buses and powered by Proterra.

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Business Green

MARCH 15, 2021

Oddbox is aiming to save 35,000 tonnes of fruit and veg from going to landfill by 2035. Surplus fruit and veg distributor Oddbox has announced it is conducting a thorough rebrand that will give the green innovator a new look and an enhanced customer experience that includes distributing recipe suggestions from Oddbox suppliers and customers in each box.

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Impact Alpha

MARCH 15, 2021

Impak Battles, an ImpactAlpha series with impak, a Montreal-based impact ratings agency, assesses the positive and negative impact of corporate operations. The agency. The post Corporate impact face-off: Euronext NV vs. Deutsche Börse appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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Solar Power World

MARCH 15, 2021

By Brian Pullin, partner, Husch Blackwell LLP A recent Texas case, Lyle v. Midway Solar, S.W. 3d, 2020 WL 7769632 (Tex. App. Ct., El Paso 83rd Dist. 2020), addressed a challenge that many solar developers wrestle with: how to handle mineral owners. A mineral owner has the right to use minerals found beneath a plot of land. The… The post Do you know who owns the land under your solar project?

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 15, 2021

The technology group Wärtsilä announced today that it will supply its energy storage technology for two 200-MW projects in southern Texas, USA. The megawatt-hour rating of the facilities was not available at press time. Wärtsilä has also signed ten-year guaranteed asset performance agreements for the installations. The order was placed by Able Grid Energy Solutions, a utility-scale energy storage project development arm of MAP RE/ES, one of North America’s leading investors in modern energy proj

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Forbes Green Tech

MARCH 15, 2021

Tesla doesn’t have a president, COO or CTO, but it has roles no other company in the S&P 500 can claim.

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Business Green

MARCH 15, 2021

Bloomberg reports discussions about a new domestic insulation programme are underway in the top echelons of government as fresh research highlights low-carbon home retrofits could generate hundreds of thousands of jobs. Prime Minister Boris Johnson and Business Secretary Kwasi Kwarteng are said to be pushing for a new green homes retrofit programme in the wake of the recent decision to slash funding for the Green Homes Grant, according to reports.

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