Mon.Dec 09, 2019

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As the climate crisis grows, Big Oil finds itself over a barrel

GreenBiz

The sector is facing strong headwinds from activists, investors and governments, pitting the companies’ relentless growth ambitions against the worsening signs of climate change.

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Artist unveils sand-covered traffic jam on Miami beach to protest climate change

Inhabitat - Innovation

Leandro Erlich has unveiled his largest art installation yet — a collection of more than 60 "vehicles" made of sand that are stuck in a traffic jam on Miami Beach.

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6 inexpensive things cities can do to become more sustainable

GreenBiz

Comprehensive plans are great, but small, low-budget changes can make a big difference, too.

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How to make zero-waste decorations for the holidays

Inhabitat - Innovation

Find out how to make zero-waste decorations and create less trash during the holidays.

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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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Can a new wave of laser and aerial imagery technologies slash methane emissions?

GreenBiz

Along Colorado’s Front Range, researchers are working to develop new ways of detecting methane leaks, using everything from lasers to light aircraft to drones. Their technologies could curb a potent contributor to climate change, while saving industry billions of dollars in lost gas.

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Why Flexible Gas Generation Must Be Part of Deep Decarbonization

GreenTechMedia

Thanks to generous feed-in tariffs and other incentives, Germany’s wind and solar installations have soared over the past two decades to the point that renewables could cover half of the country’s electricity demand. But given technology and market conditions, a substantial portion of renewable power, primarily wind, is pushed to other European countries at peak times as baseload coal must stay online.

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A forgotten railway takes on new life as a new cultural destination in France

Inhabitat - Innovation

Redeveloped with curving, ribbon-like sheets of Corten steel, the area takes on new, artistic life while the dismantled tracks have been adapted for the enjoyment of cyclists and pedestrians alike.

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Investor interest fuels SASB adoption, inspires new GRI tax disclosure standard

GreenBiz

The argument for discussing financial metrics alongside environmental, social and governance data gains new supporters.

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Climate change set to devastate regional fisheries and cause reef tourism revenue losses of over 90%

Envirotec Magazine

Disinfection system installed at a facility owned by South East Water. Adaptive management processes must be fast tracked by world leaders. Unabated climate change could cause coral reef tourism revenue losses of over 90%, while some West African countries are forecast to see fish stocks decline by 85% [1], according to a supposedly first-of-its-kind analysis [2] into country-by-country climate impacts on key ocean sectors, published on 6 December as world leaders gathered at the UN climate chan

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Why Is Wind + Storage Getting Short Shrift?

GreenTechMedia

Chandu Visweswariah is founding president and CEO of Utopus Insights, a New York-based energy analytics company acquired last year by Vestas. Competitive markets are wonderful crucibles of innovation. With decades of accumulated manufacturing experience for portable electronics, lithium-ion battery prices have steadily dropped. As a result, larger battery products for electric cars and buses have emerged, making them more affordable and paving the way for grid applications.

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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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Proprietary formulation improves river pollution measures in SĂŁo Paulo

Envirotec Magazine

Part of SĂŁo Paulo’s River Pinheiros in Brazil, where the FOG Stop formulation has been deployed to tackle pollution. On the initiative of the Secretariat of Environment of the State of SĂŁo Paulo, Brazil, a trial of the FOG Stop formulation – from water and wastewater treatment firm Next Filtration – has seemingly proven that it can make significant improvements to a heavily polluted and foul-smelling stretch of the River Pinheiros.

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MVRDV's garden oasis in Utrecht includes a green-roofed convention center

Inhabitat - Innovation

MVRDV has unveiled designs to transform the underutilized area on the west side of Utrecht’s central station into “a garden in the city” with a new, green-roofed Jaarbeurs convention center.

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5 Tips to Make Your Home Energy Efficient

U.S. Green Technology

How to be More Energy Efficient at Home You have just received your monthly utilities bill and it is higher than the month before. Even though you have paid these bills without any hassle, you really do not like paying high energy cost unnecessarily, especially if you can cut the cost by as much as. The post 5 Tips to Make Your Home Energy Efficient appeared first on U.S.

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Brick cladding conceals a family home's sophisticated, zero-energy systems

Inhabitat - Innovation

Although brick homes are certainly nothing new, the respected building material is having somewhat of a renaissance moment.

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How Digital Transformation will Bend the Curve of the Linear Economy Toward the Circular

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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VW hires EV West to retrofit e-Golf powertrain to Type 2 Bus

Charged

VW of America recently commissioned California-based EV conversion specialist EV West to construct an electrified VW Type 2 Bus to showcase the company’s e-Golf powertrain. The stock powertrain and 35.8 kWh battery system from the donor 2017 e-Golf gives the e-Bus an approximate range of 125 miles. The powertrain will reside in the rear compartment of the e-Bus, which was previously occupied by the stock air-cooled 60 hp four-cylinder engine.

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You Can't Say You Haven't Been Warned

Green Market Oracle

Despite an unremitting stream of warnings and studies we still are not doing what we must to protect the natural world and keep temperatures from warming beyond critical upper temperature limits. We were warned about our impact on nature seven years ago in the GEO-5 report. Undeterred we continued to perpetrate genocide against nature. In 2012 scientists warned us that our oceans are dying but we did not respond.

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How to maximize solar installation value using inverter clipping

Solar Power World

By Terence Parker, Application Engineer, Ginlong Solis Inverter clipping, or “inverter saturation,” occurs when DC power from a PV array exceeds an inverter’s maximum input rating. The inverter may adjust the DC voltage to reduce input power, increasing voltage and reducing DC current. Alternatively, the inverter may restrict or throttle the inverter’s AC output.

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Tagup Transforms Critical Infrastructure Management with Predictive Data

Greentown Labs

Tagup CEO Jon Garrity. A Q&A with CEO and Co-founder Jon Garrity. Tagup has been an active part of the Greentown Labs community for years. The predictive asset management company participated in the incubator’s first Greentown Launch accelerator, PROPEL , in 2015, which led to a pilot project and purchase order for two of the participating startups—including Tagup.

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NHR introduces 600-volt auto-transformer for 9300 series of battery testers

Charged

NH Research (NHR), a provider of power testing systems, has introduced a 600-volt input auto-transformer for the Canadian market for its 9300 series of DC sources. The 9300 Series is a regenerative, bi-directional DC source that EV and energy storage designers can use as a battery test system, battery emulator, or regenerative DC load. Designers can scale the modular system up to 2.4 MW in 100 kW building blocks, offering a wide operating envelope.

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Carbon Majors Can Be Held Liable for Human Rights Violations, Philippines Commission Rules

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 5 mins By Isabella Kaminski, Climate Liability News. Originally published on Climate Liability News. The world’s biggest polluters could be held legally liable for their contributions to climate change, a major national inquiry into the links between climate and human rights has concluded.

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New Jersey approves new solar incentive program to replace SRECs

Solar Power World

The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU) last week approved a new solar incentive program to aid in the transition from the current Solar Renewable Energy Certificate (SREC) Program. The Transition Incentive will serve as a bridge between the legacy SREC program and a yet-to-be determined successor incentive program and will consist of factorized,… The post New Jersey approves new solar incentive program to replace SRECs appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Fraunhofer developing die-cast aluminum coils for e-motors

Charged

Researchers at Germany’s esteemed Fraunhofer research organization have developed a casting technique to produce lightweight aluminum windings with a higher groove fill factor than conventional copper wire. The coils are composed of cast aluminum, and are based on a flat conductor arrangement, which leads to a higher slot fill factor and thus better use of the available installation space.

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Focus on accountability as India’s social stock exchange takes shape

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, Dec. 9 – India’s social stock exchange is expected to take the form of an electronic fundraising platform regulated by the Securities and Exchange Board of India that lists both social enterprises and voluntary organizations. The exchange in India promises to diversify capital sources available to more than two million social enterprises across the country.

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What The 3Ps Of The Triple Bottom Line Really Mean

Forbes Green Tech

The triple bottomline of people, planet and profit is 25 years old. As its originator John Elkington suggests, it is time for a revisit. This is what the 3Ps really mean.

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Greenbacker and Encore Renewable Energy Announce Vermont Solar Portfolio Financing

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The portfolio consists of 14 projects located throughout Vermont that are or will be contracted with various utilities, municipalities, universities, and other businesses through 25-year offtake agreements.

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Greta Thunberg Unimpressed As World Leaders Gather At Madrid Climate Talks

Forbes Green Tech

Politicians from around the world gathered in Madrid today in an effort to agree some of the most contentious issues in the global fight against climate change, while activists and experts criticized what they see as a sluggish and ineffectual response by the international community.

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Hitachi starts mass production of 800-volt EV inverter

Charged

Hitachi Automotive Systems is starting mass production of its 800-volt, high-output EV inverter. The company says that, thanks to its strong cooling performance, the new inverter delivers twice the voltage and 2.7 times the power density of previous generations. Most EVs are based on a 400-volt system, so in order to increase driving range, additional batteries with parallel connections are required.

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Generation Z Fears Climate Change More Than Anything Else

Forbes Green Tech

Climate change tops the list of vital challenges of our time, say young people interviewed by Amnesty International.

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U.S. senators repeat call for ban on Huawei solar inverters

Solar Power World

A group of ten bipartisan senators including Marco Rubio (R-FL), Susan Collins (R-ME) and Joe Manchin (D-WV) sent a letter to the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), calling on it to take steps to combat the national security threat posed by Huawei’s entry into the U.S. solar market. Some senators who signed the latest letter… The post U.S. senators repeat call for ban on Huawei solar inverters appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Europe Lags Behind U.S. In Carbon Capture And Storage

Forbes Green Tech

A new report launched today by the think tank Global CCS Institute shows that carbon capture and storage has seen growing momentum in 2019, but Europe remains behind the US.

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Ginlong Solis storage inverter now compatible with LG Chem battery RESU

Solar Power World

Ginlong Technologies announced that its Solis storage inverter is now compatible with LG home battery RESU. The Solis Residential Hybrid Inverter (RHI) now is fully compatible with LG RESU 48V line-ups to provide stable, reliable home energy storage. With this partnership, Ginlong is offering more choices to customers in the U.S., Europe, Australia and other… The post Ginlong Solis storage inverter now compatible with LG Chem battery RESU appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Apeel rolls out waste-busting food coating in Europe

Business Green

US firm has inked deals with supplier for German retailer Edeka and Denmark's Salling Group to coat fresh produce with edible peel, keeping it fresh for longer.

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Greenbacker, Encore Renewable Energy partner on 14 new Vermont solar projects

Solar Power World

Greenbacker Renewable Energy Company announced that, through a wholly-owned subsidiary, it signed the rights to purchase a 27.7-MWDC, 14-project solar portfolio from Encore Renewable Energy and closed a $4 million equipment loan facility with Encore to support safe harbor efforts ahead of the investment tax credit (ITC) phase-down scheduled for the end of the year.… The post Greenbacker, Encore Renewable Energy partner on 14 new Vermont solar projects appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Plexo Capital seeks “inclusion alpha” with new $42.5 million fund

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, December 9 – Lo Toney was still a partner at GV (formerly Google Ventures) when he started Plexo. The GV spinout invests in early-stage ventures and funds led by women and people from minority backgrounds. Plexo’s thesis is that in the absence of data for underserved markets, investing in diverse founders and investment managers The post Plexo Capital seeks “inclusion alpha” with new $42.5 million fund appeared first on ImpactAlpha.