GreenBiz

AUGUST 7, 2020

Planting tiny urban forests can boost biodiversity and fight climate change. Alex Thornton. Fri, 08/07/2020 - 00:30. How much space do you think you need to grow a forest? If your answer is bigger than a couple of tennis courts, think again. Miniature forests are springing up on patches of land in urban areas around the world, often planted by local community groups using a method inspired by Japanese temples.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 7, 2020

Tony Seba gets a lot of things right. The world-renowned thought leader, entrepreneur, educator and author accurately predicted the rapid decline in solar photovoltaic costs and lithium ion batteries. He also predicted the collapse of the coal industry and oil prices. Now, he’s out with a new book, “ Rethinking Humanity ,” that predicts the 2020s will be “the most disruptive decade in history” — not just in terms of energy technology, but across every major in

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Inhabitat - Innovation

AUGUST 7, 2020

Who says that beauty has to hurt the Earth? Many less harmful options exist, and FOReT proves this with its line of sustainable, eco-friendly cork jewelry.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 7, 2020

John Powers is the co-founder and CEO of Extensible Energy, a load-flexibility software company. *. We are in the middle of the most remarkable transformation in the history of the electricity grid — from dirty and centralized to clean, distributed, and digital. Many policymakers and pundits believe that if only we had enough batteries, we could adapt to this new mix of generation resources and continue to pretend that nothing but a few operating conventions have changed.

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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 7, 2020

BP is slashing its fossil fuel production in favor of clean energy investments.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 7, 2020

We may be facing one of the worst economic downturns in American history, but it hasn’t stopped the surge in battery storage development. We’re constantly hearing phrases like “world’s largest” and “record-breaking” as new gigawatt-scale projects are unveiled weekly. Small-scale batteries are being attached to more than one-third of residential solar systems for leading installers, making distributed batteries a staple of home energy offerings.

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altenergymag

AUGUST 7, 2020

Ascent MS optimizes power delivery and lowers costs for crystalline silicon PECVD processes in the production of solar cells

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Inhabitat - Innovation

AUGUST 7, 2020

Inhabitat talks with three veterinarians on how to prepare pets for a return to "normal.

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The City Fix

AUGUST 7, 2020

While announcing a stimulus package of INR 20 lakh crore ($260 billion) in his address to the nation on May 12, India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi urged citizens to make use of the opportunity provided by the COVID-19 pandemic to. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Mosaic

AUGUST 7, 2020

The killing of George Floyd in May has renewed focus on the struggle to overcome the long history of systemic racism and injustice in America. We stand with SEIA and so many of our partners in the solar and home improvement industries in clearly stating: Black Lives Matter. This has been a time of learning, as well as action, for us as individuals and for Mosaic as a company.

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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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Charged

AUGUST 7, 2020

MAHLE has introduced a new condenser for EVs that’s designed to ensure the battery is cooled during fast charging, protecting it from thermal damage. MAHLE’s new condenser also provides passenger compartment cooling capacity. “Battery cooling is crucial for the performance of electric vehicles. In developing our new condenser, we were able to draw on our many years of expertise in thermal management,” explains Laurent Art, Director of Advanced Engineering Thermal Management.

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altenergymag

AUGUST 7, 2020

Creating Visible Connections Between Solar Energy & Artistic Expression

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Charged

AUGUST 7, 2020

The Center for Transportation and the Environment (CTE), a non-profit transportation advocacy group, has released a new Guidebook for Deploying Zero-Emission Transit Buses. The guide, authored by CTE staff members Meredith Linscott and Amy Posner, highlights key considerations for deployments of zero-emission buses and charging infrastructure. The guidebook is designed to educate transit agencies on current best practices for zero-emission bus deployments, and to encourage other non-profit and e

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Business Green

AUGUST 7, 2020

Deal to enable rollout of 100 EV charging hubs hailed as an example of 'private sector green recovery at its most promising'. The EV Network (EVN) revealed today it had clinched £50m of investment from Sustainable Development Capital to fund the roll out 100 high-powered electric vehicle (EV) charging hubs across the UK. The £50m commitment is the initial stage of an investment programme that could see the clean energy investor pump up to £200m into the charging network develop

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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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Charged

AUGUST 7, 2020

Infineon Technologies has introduced the HybridPACK DC6i, a new IGBT power module tailored to the needs of EV traction inverters in the 80 kW to 100 kW power class. It combines Infineon’s EDT2 IGBTs with package technologies for compactness, thermal management at reduced material cost and easy installation. Within Infineon’s portfolio, the HybridPACK DC6i is positioned between the HybridPACK1 family and the more powerful HybridPACK Drive family.

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altenergymag

AUGUST 7, 2020

Q CELLS has signed an agreement to purchase a 100% stake in Geli, a leading energy storage solutions and software provider. The acquisition marks Q CELLS’ expansion into the U.S. solar + storage market beyond existing solutions in Europe and Australia.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 7, 2020

Read time: 1 min You thought you knew the story of climate denial, but what about its connection to cigarette filter tips or public broadcasting? Listen to the Drilled podcast and you’ll learn fascinating new details about the propaganda campaign of the century: the creation of climate denial.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 7, 2020

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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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Forbes Green Tech

AUGUST 7, 2020

An innovative fintech startup is building a platform that has the potential to shift commodity production paradigms out of the 19th century and into the 21st while cutting global greenhouse gas emissions nearly overnight. Their CEO convinced me that Big Data can create a Big Paradigm Shift.

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Business Green

AUGUST 7, 2020

All the green business news from around the world this week. Study: Global lockdowns likely to curb temperatures by just 0.01C by 2030. A new study published in the journal Nature Climate Change has warned that the sharp reductions in greenhouse gas emissions experienced this year as a result of the coronavirus crisis are likely to a "negligible" impact on temperatures.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 7, 2020

London-based energy company BP has announced plans to reduce its oil and gas production by 40% and invest $5 billion dollars into clean energy strategies by 2030. The move is part of BP’s ambitious plan that will see zero-carbon emissions from the company by 2050. This announcement comes amidst concerns of reduced oil prices across the world caused by the coronavirus pandemic.

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Business Green

AUGUST 7, 2020

German carmaker urges governments to 'prioritise' plug-in hybrid vehicles as it launches its urban emissions-saving software, as the UK gears up to include PHEVs in its ban on internal combustion engines by 2035. More than 10,000 plug-in hybrids (PHEVs) manufactured by BMW will be able to automatically switch to battery power when they enter low emissions zones in London and Birmingham from today.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 7, 2020

International design practice Lissoni & Partners’ architecture, landscape architecture and masterplanning department Lissoni Casal Ribeiro has unveiled Skylines, a proposal for a futuristic, self-sufficient skyscraper. Developed for the Skyhive 2020 Skyscraper Challenge, the conceptual design is, in essence, a vertical city housed within a super-tall tower with mixed programming that includes residences, office spaces, a university, secondary schools, hydroponic farming, sports facilities, a

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Eco-Business

AUGUST 7, 2020

Covid-19 is focusing attention on the risks of aerosols containing microorganisms or biological material.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 7, 2020

Keep ahead of the crowd with Earth911 Reader, a curated … The post Earth911 Reader: Amazon Packaging, BP Bails on Oil, Glacier Mass-loss, and More appeared first on Earth 911. See the rest here: Earth911 Reader: Amazon Packaging, BP Bails on Oil, Glacier Mass-loss, and More.

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Business Green

AUGUST 7, 2020

A major new report from the Environmental Defense Fund asks some challenging questions about the limited progress the agricultural sector has made in tackling its out-sized climate and biodiversity impacts - and offers some invaluable guidance on how up its sustainability efforts. As the modern world strives to break its 100 year addiction to fossil fuel-based energy, there are still fundamental areas of our lives that present huge obstacles if nations are to deliver on their net zero emissions

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 7, 2020

If Jack Frost is nipping at your nose this winter, you’re probably reaching for that favorite hot beverage to warm your bones on frigid days. But what to do with all those spent coffee grounds and tea bags? From cleaning your furniture to shining… Read more from the original source: 10 Ways To Reuse Coffee Grounds and Tea Bags.

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Grist

AUGUST 7, 2020

English teenager Harriet Forster had a lot of free time this spring when the COVID-19 pandemic caused the cancelation of her university entrance exams. She decided to start scrounging up mobility and air-quality data from around the world with her dad, Piers Forster, a climate scientist at Leeds University. A father-daughter scientific collaboration was born that would produce, in a paper published Friday , the most-detailed picture of quarantine’s effect on global warming to date.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 7, 2020

Between nonstop news and social media use, we’re all too familiar with the effects of COVID-19 on humans around the world. But the lives of our furry friends have also been impacted in ways large and small. Whether your dog is bummed because admirers can’t pet her during walks or your cat is alarmed by your 24/7 work-from-home presence, nobody has escaped the impact of the pandemic.

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Business Green

AUGUST 7, 2020

The tech giant is looking to turn the Just Transition concept into a clean energy investment reality. There were plenty of juicy news tidbits in Microsoft's recent progress report about its goal to become carbon negative over the next decade. But its new goal to link at least 500MW of forthcoming solar energy contracts to environmental justice considerations is bold for many reasons.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 7, 2020

Mining for metals and gems often harms the environment — to say nothing of the leather, ivory regularly used to produce accessories. But who says that beauty has to hurt the Earth? Many less harmful options exist, and FOReT proves this with its line of sustainable, eco-friendly cork jewelry. FOReT keeps nature in mind and centers sustainable philosophies through every stage of production.

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Business Green

AUGUST 7, 2020

Some of America's largest retailers have teamed up to help accelerate efforts to curb plastic bag waste. Single-use plastic shopping bags are a real problem. They take decades to break down but nearly 100 billion of them are used in the United States every year to cart away goods from retailers. Fewer than 10 per cent of those are recycled - often winding up in landfills and waterways because many recyclers don't accept them.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 7, 2020

Planting tiny urban forests can boost biodiversity and fight climate change Alex Thornton Fri, 08/07/2020 – 00:30 How much space do you think you need to grow a forest? If your answer is bigger than a couple of tennis courts, think again. Miniature forests are springing up on patches of land in urban areas around the world, often planted by local community groups using a method inspired by Japanese temples.

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