GreenBiz

AUGUST 27, 2020

Despite record oil price fluctuations, circular plastic strategies prevail. Jesse Klein. Thu, 08/27/2020 - 01:45. The coronavirus pandemic threw almost every market into a tailspin, including the notoriously sensitive oil market. And when crude oil prices fell into negative territory in April, the recycled plastic industry experienced a reckoning. Would corporations still invest in relatively expensive circular plastic commitments if virgin plastic prices, closely tied to the petroleum industry,

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 27, 2020

Distributed solar and storage company SunPower and panel manufacturer Maxeon Solar Technologies finalized their split on Thursday. The transaction, first announced in November , will allow SunPower to focus on its core business of residential and commercial solar and storage sales while Maxeon will continue manufacturing the premium solar panels SunPower has come to be known for.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

AUGUST 27, 2020

Presented as a model for sustainable urban growth, the project champions local energy production, food production, energy efficiency and material reuse.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 27, 2020

During last week’s heat-wave-driven grid emergency in California, grid operator CAISO and the state’s utilities sent out desperate calls to demand response providers, behind-the-meter battery aggregators, electric-vehicle charging providers, microgrid operators and backup generator owners, seeking whatever help they could provide. The call was answered.

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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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Inhabitat - Innovation

AUGUST 27, 2020

Forget air-polluting boats or sitting in traffic on the highway. CrossWater is rethinking transportation.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 27, 2020

Multifamily housing is a hard nut to crack for solar and battery developers. Sonnen and Wasatch Group say that bundling the value of solar and storage for tenants, property owners, outside investors, utilities and grid operators can make it work. Now, one year after launching their first project in Utah , they’re bringing the model to California.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 27, 2020

Solar PV is now the dominant technology for new electricity generation capacity additions. That's a huge achievement, but it brings up the vital question of what will happen to all those panels when they reach the end of their useful life. In April, GTM reported on as-yet-unpublished research showing that solar panels can be landfilled without endangering human health.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

AUGUST 27, 2020

Painting one wind turbine blade black could reduce bird deaths at wind farms by up to 70%.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 27, 2020

Earlier this month, Washington, D.C.-based Pepco became the latest United States utility to seek out non-wires alternatives (NWAs) to address an upcoming constraint on its network. In early August, the Exelon subsidiary called on distributed energy developers and other stakeholders to propose alternatives to installing a fifth transformer at one of its substations.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

AUGUST 27, 2020

Norway is expanding oil drilling operations farther north into the Arctic.

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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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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 27, 2020

Read time: 10 mins Back in December 2019, two conspiratorial worldviews collided as, for the first time, QA non’s Q suggested his followers should question anew a topic that, by now, has been considered, and reconsidered, for decades: climate change. “ The Paris Agreement on Climate is Another Scam to Ripoff Taxpayers and Enrich the Politicians,” the Q-Drop (the term QA non followers use to refer to messages they believe come from some sort of government insider who signs messages with the lette

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Solar Power World

AUGUST 27, 2020

The ongoing debate of whether solar arrays installed on farms take that land out of production is being challenged by a 4.5-acre farm in Exeter, Rhode Island. Our Kids Farm partnered with renewable energy company Green Development to independently test the viability of growing crops underneath and near solar panels. “We really firmly believed that… The post Rhode Island farm finds dual-use solar array a viable means to grow crops appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Impact Alpha

AUGUST 27, 2020

ImpactAlpha, August 27 – By 2030, India will be home to more than 1.4 billion people who will collectively spend $1.6 trillion annually on food. City dwellers will outpace the rural population. A quarter of Indians will be part of the upper-middle class, demanding not only more protein in their diets, but more meat. For. The post Eight predictions for the future of Indian agriculture appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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altenergymag

AUGUST 27, 2020

Machine Learning Software Optimizes Energy Yield on Uneven Terrain and in Diffuse Light Conditions.

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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.

Sustainability

Impact Alpha

AUGUST 27, 2020

Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Agents of Impact Call Replay Rooting out racism as a systemic risk (audio). Investors have been talking about systemic risks at least since the Great Financial Crisis of 2008. More recently, climate change, income inequality and, suddenly, pandemics have been recognized as systemic risks as well. The current discourse on.

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altenergymag

AUGUST 27, 2020

EVBox, the leading provider of smart and scalable charging solutions for electric vehicles around the world, and The Mobility House, a technology leader on smart charging/V2G, have joined forces to work toward their vision of an emission-free future.

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Impact Alpha

AUGUST 27, 2020

ImpactAlpha, Aug. 27 – Investors have been talking about systemic risks at least since the Great Financial Crisis of 2008. More recently, climate change, income inequality and now, suddenly, pandemics have been recognized as systemic risks as well. The current discourse on racism uses systemic in a different way, recognizing the culture, policies and institutions.

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altenergymag

AUGUST 27, 2020

The new sensor model RG-9 uses beams of infrared light to detect rainfall. Consequently, the sensor is impervious to dirt, dust, insects, birds, and the other nuisances that can plague other sensors. The new sensor consumes very little power and is well suited to solar-powered applications.

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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 27, 2020

ImpactAlpha, Aug. 27 – The alt-meat market is less developed in China, but producers are racing to get a foothold in the world’s largest consumer market. Shenzhen-based Starfield derives protein from seaweed to make meat substitutes from burgers to mooncakes. Its Series A round was backed by Chinese investors including Sky9 Capital, Matrix Partners China.

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altenergymag

AUGUST 27, 2020

A zero maintenance and lower cost alternative to lithium-ion batteries, EnerVenue has discovered how to make metal-hydrogen battery technology available to large-scale stationary energy storage applications – even in the most challenging climates

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Business Green

AUGUST 27, 2020

Lowest winning bid for solar energy output in latest auction round easily beat the previous record, which was also set in Portugal a year earlier. A new world record for the lowest price of future solar power output was set this week, with winning bids in Portugal's latest mega-auction of clean energy contracts promising to deliver solar power from as little as €11.14 per megawatt hour (Mwh).

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altenergymag

AUGUST 27, 2020

A total of 315 MW of new solar and storage capacity will be developed by Q CELLS in Portugal, after the company secured half of the 12 allocated lots in the 700 MW auction round.

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Business Green

AUGUST 27, 2020

UN Secretary-General offers starkest criticism yet of the outlook for the coal sector, as he calls on India to end support for fossil fuels. Pressure is mounting on India over its continued support for coal, with both UN Secretary-General António Guterres and the CEOs of major Indian corporates uniting in calls for Prime Minister Narenda Modi to increasingly focus investment on clean energy and electric vehicles in the wake of the Covid-19 crisis.

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Forbes Green Tech

AUGUST 27, 2020

The ferocious demand to feed the 7.8 billion human population is wiping out life as species become functionally extinct on land and in the ocean: 60% of global biodiversity loss is due to land being used to produce farm animal feed.

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Business Green

AUGUST 27, 2020

The collaboration aims to provide financial actors with the information they need to allocate more resources towards sustainable business. A new collaboration between the Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI) and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) is to work to enhance the exchange of sustainability information between corporations and investors in a bid to help businesses better report on their environmental, social, and governance (ESG) performance, the bodies

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Impact Alpha

AUGUST 27, 2020

ImpactAlpha, Aug. 27 – The joining of the Los Angeles and Washington, D.C.-based community development financial institutions, or CDFIs, will create the largest Black-led depository institution in the U.S., with more than $1 billion in assets under management and $850 million in deposits. “The work of CDFIs has never been more urgent and necessary,” said.

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Business Green

AUGUST 27, 2020

Following government healthy eating guidelines could cut an individual's carbon emissions by almost a third, a new study has found. One objection to environmentally friendly diets is that by limiting specific sources of key nutritients, such as fish and dairy, people can risk undermining individual health even as they benefit the health of the planet.

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altenergymag

AUGUST 27, 2020

TZS Strategic Investment in Maxeon at Greater Than $1 Billion Valuation Repositions SunPower as U.S.

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Business Green

AUGUST 27, 2020

From street trees to green walls, nature-based approaches are shown to deliver significant environmental and economic benefits for developers and communities. Investors and businesses seeking guidance on how to harness nature based solutions to boost profits and meet sustainability objectives can draw on a new report, titled Nature based solutions to the climate crisis , published yesterday by the Manchester-based Ignition project.

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Solar Power World

AUGUST 27, 2020

Wednesday, September 23, 2020 2 pm ET / 11 am PT If 2020 has taught us anything, it’s that’s waste and inefficiency can kill your business. In this webinar, you’ll learn how the leading survey technology can save you money, protect you from accusations of damage, and give you data impossible to gather… The post Webinar: Cutting Creation Costs: How Fast, Comprehensive Data Will Perfect Your Survey Process – September 23 appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Business Green

AUGUST 27, 2020

Some of America's largest corporates are backing the launch of an ambitious new reforestation programme. This week marks the launch of the first regional chapter of the ambitious global movement to conserve, manage, restore and grow one trillion trees - a natural climate solution seen as critical for helping draw down the earth's carbon debt, and an idea that has been spreading like wildfire since it was planted in January in Davos, Switzerland.

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EDF Voices

AUGUST 27, 2020

15 years after Katrina and the need to restore Louisiana's wetlands has never been clearer.

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Business Green

AUGUST 27, 2020

Fairphone 3 Plus designed to increase the longevity of the ethical modular smartphone. Fairphone, the Dutch social enterprise that builds modular ethical smartphones, has announced a new version of its current Fairphone3 (FP3) model. The Fairphone3 Plus (FP3+) retains the same design as the existing model but features improved front and rear camera and audio modules with a larger proportion of post-consumer recycled plastics used in its manufacture.

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