Wed.Oct 23, 2019

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California pulls no punches on climate action

GreenBiz

Governor Gavin Newsom is unabashed about fighting climate impacts and the White House. He's got good company.

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Designer invents self-testing HIV kit made out of recycled plastic

Inhabitat - Innovation

One of the largest obstacles in HIV prevention is the lack of clinics and resources in developing countries around the world. Now, British product designer Hans Ramzan has unveiled a solution that could potentially save thousands of lives.

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How the cleanest U.S. cities are progressing toward zero carbon

GreenBiz

This article originally appeared on MeetingoftheMinds.org.

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MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple designs holiday retreats for an island community

Inhabitat - Innovation

Renowned for beautiful views, indigenous history, and a famous golf resort, Ontario’s Bigwin Island will also soon be home to a new planned community spearheaded by MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects, a Halifax-based studio that won the bid for the project with their contemporary and eco-friendly proposal. The first three cabins of the 40-unit community have recently been completed and feature a locally sourced natural materials palette, an oversized roof reminiscent of Muskoka’s historic cottag

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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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The new labeling scheme designed to help companies go carbon neutral

GreenBiz

Goods deemed “Climate Neutral” are coming to stores soon thanks to a user-friendly approach to carbon accounting.

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Pizza Hut is testing plant-based Incogmeato sausage pizzas served in round boxes

Inhabitat - Innovation

The plant-based meat wave is sweeping the nation, and Pizza Hut is the latest fast food franchise to join the meatless bandwagon.

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Norwegian Air introduces SkyBreathe app to help reduce annual CO2 emissions

Inhabitat - Innovation

True to its fame as Norway’s most sustainable airline and as the two-time International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) recipient of the “Most Fuel-Efficient Airline on Transatlantic Routes” award, Norwegian Air is ambitiously targeting a carbon emissions reduction of 140,000 tons per year. It will do so by leveraging the SkyBreathe fuel efficiency app.

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Tesla Q3: Slim Profits, Record Car Deliveries and Signs of Life in Solar Business

GreenTechMedia

Tesla broke a streak of disappointing results for both its automobile and solar businesses last quarter, according to the company's latest earnings report. Coming into the back half of 2019, Tesla needed to prove it could ramp vehicle deliveries after a slow start to the year. To meet the company’s annual delivery target it would have to reach or exceed 100,000 deliveries in each subsequent quarter.

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Edinburgh initiative brings nighttime visuals to on-street recycling

Envirotec Magazine

The eye-catching #Infinitinny installation which has been unveiled in St Andrew’s Square: Drinks containers appear in an iterative manner, once the installation has been switched on at nighttime. Bubble-blowing ?bins and an eye-catching art installation will appear in Edinburgh City Centre from Tuesday 22 October, as a new on-the-go recycling initiative is launched by environmental charity Hubbub and The City of Edinburgh Council.

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A Closer Look at Siemens Gamesa’s Deal for Senvion

GreenTechMedia

Out of this year’s collapse of German wind turbine manufacturer Senvion comes a major development in the wind turbine service industry. Earlier this week, Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy confirmed the purchase of Senvion’s European service fleet for €200 million ($222 million). The acquisition is expected to fully close by March 2020, and it will add nearly 9 gigawatts' worth of Senvion service contracts — and more than €200 million in associated annual services r

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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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A tour of Seattle Chocolate elicits a deep appreciation for cacao

Inhabitat - Innovation

A tour of the Seattle Chocolate factory helps visitors deepen their appreciation of one of the world’s favorite treats.

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How UK Fight for Offshore Wind Jobs Could Reset the Supply Chain

GreenTechMedia

The U.K.’s contracts for difference scheme has been praised for delivering projects at ever more competitive prices with investor-friendly guaranteed revenue. This has certainly proved the case for the scheme’s largest beneficiary, the offshore wind sector. But there is growing discontent, especially among trade unions , that developers awarded these 15-year deals from the U.K. government in Westminster are not doing enough for the local communities they impact.

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Terra Silva has $90 million in ‘catalytic capital’ for carbon reduction in tropical forests

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, October 23 – Forests are climate-negative technology at scale. So investments in tropical forests should be investment-ready, and fund managers able to tap the opportunity should be rolling in capital. But fund managers with an eye to conserving the world’s biggest carbon sink had had trouble getting traction. Terra Silva, a new $90 million fund The post Terra Silva has $90 million in ‘catalytic capital’ for carbon reduction in tropical forests appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Waterworld? Floating Cities Turn Hollywood Sci-fi Into Reality As Sea Levels Rise

Forbes Green Tech

Floating cities have now become real solutions to the global climate change crisis, and entrepreneurs have been scrambling to create the technology that will allow humanity to move out into the sea. Yes, it has really come to this.

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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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Electrify Canada to install chargers at Canadian Tire stores

Charged

Electrify Canada will install EV chargers at more than 20 Canadian Tire stores across the country. The charging stations will offer 150 to 350 kW DC fast chargers with liquid-cooled cables, and will be compatible with both CCS and CHAdeMO. Rob Barrosa, COO of Electrify Canada, said, “Canadian Tire is one of Canada’s most recognizable and trusted retailers, making this collaboration a natural fit.

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Report finds tribal utility-scale solar is booming in the Southwest

Solar Power World

Deals for utility-scale solar installations are accelerating on tribal lands in the Southwest U.S., according to a report published by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA). The report, “Tribal Utility-Scale Solar Initiatives Advance Across Southwest U.S.,” cites the emergence of battery-storage technology, state energy policy changes and the rapidly falling prices of… The post Report finds tribal utility-scale solar is booming in the Southwest appea

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Dalkia launches its energy solutions brand in the U.S.

altenergymag

Dalkia (EDF Group), one of the leaders in energy services, is continuing its international expansion and is bringing together its subsidiaries in the United States under its brand name.

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Is the Business Roundtable Statement Just Empty Rhetoric?

Andrew Winston

(I doubt many of my readers missed this news item, but late in August, the Business Roundtable — CEOs from the country’s biggest companies — put forward new principles of business. For the first time in decades, they said that shareholders were not the only stakeholder that mattered. Below was my take on it in HBR. After a couple of months reflection, I’m still unsure how much it all means, but it could be an important turning point for business and sustainability —

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Flexible Asset Power Purchase Agreement market is small but highly competitive

altenergymag

Research from Cornwall Insight's Flexible Asset Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) Market Report has allowed for a comparison between the different markets for PPAs for renewables and flexible assets. The below graph highlights that one of the primary differences between the two sectors is the size.

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Is the Business Roundtable Statement Just Empty Rhetoric?

Andrew Winston

(I doubt many of my readers missed this news item, but late in August, the Business Roundtable -- CEOs from the country's biggest companies -- put forward new principles of business. For the first time in decades, they said that shareholders were not the only stakeholder that mattered. Below was my take on it in HBR. After a couple of months reflection, I'm still unsure how much it all means, but it could be an important turning point for business and sustainability -- if we all hold our compani

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JinkoSolar Unveils New Tiger Module with Tiling Ribbon Technology at All-Energy Australia 2019

altenergymag

With module efficiency of 20.78%, the new Tiger module is capable of generating up to 460 Wp of peak power output which is suitable for both utility and rooftop installations.

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Show me the money: Overheard at SOCAP

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, October 23 – Agents of Impact are making news. Seated next to Prime Coalition’s Sarah Kearney, Packard Foundation’s Susan Phinney Silver announced a commitment to the Prime Impact Fund for early-stage climate innovation. “Now is the time to be bold and really push ourselves to make new and different types of investments in our fight The post Show me the money: Overheard at SOCAP appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Consumers Energy Collaborates With Sunverge for a Distributed Battery Storage Pilot

altenergymag

Consumers Energy’s residential battery storage pilot program is utilizing the Sunverge real-time DER Control and Aggregation Platform to test and measure how aggregated battery storage can offer benefits to Michigan’s electric grid and utility customers.

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The Biggest Threat To Climate Science Comes From Climate Advocates

Forbes Green Tech

In the past, threats to the legitimacy of climate science came almost exclusively from those opposed to action on climate change. Now that seems to be changing. Today, there is a new effort underway to delegitimize mainstream climate science, and it’s being waged by climate activists.

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Magment partners with EDAG to develop wireless concrete chargers

Charged

Munich-based startup Magment has partnered with EDAG, a development partner for automotive products and production, to develop wireless charging solutions for Cooperative Intelligent Transportation Systems (C-ITS). Magment is focused on developing and manufacturing wireless chargers using magnetized concrete. In the partnership, EDAG will focus on developing wireless charging products that use Magment’s magnetic materials for Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) and Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) applications

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Promethean Power Systems Brings Sustainable Dairy Chilling to Over 60K Dairy Farmers and Has Raised Most of its Series B

Greentown Labs

Photo courtesy of Promethean Power Systems. Imagine you’re a dairy farmer in a rural Indian village. Your village only gets seven hours of power a day, which isn’t enough to operate a traditional milk chiller to keep your milk from spoiling. . Diesel generators are a flawed option, since they’re expensive and harmful to the environment. So your milk has to travel many miles to a chilling center.

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New report: Business leaders want to (and can) do more to act on climate

EDF Voices

Under mounting pressure from stakeholders, CEOs have a huge opportunity to use their existing technology investments for both business and the planet.

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Facebook, under scrutiny in Washington DC, pledges $1 billion for affordable housing in California

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, Oct. 23 – Social media giant Facebook became the third tech company this year to commit capital to affordable housing in West Coast cities (Microsoft pledged $500 million in Seattle; Alphabet’s Google committed $1 billion in San Francisco). Today, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg will testify before Congress about allegations that Facebook allowed third-party advertisers to exclude The post Facebook, under scrutiny in Washington DC, pledges $1 billion for affordable housing in

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What Are the Key Technologies for Cleaning Our Water

U.S. Green Technology

As we approach 2020, humanity still has widespread difficulties meeting people’s need for clean water. This is true even in the U.S., where it’s a profitable commodity, but where we also use gallons to chase the homeless off our sidewalks. Homelessness exists everywhere in the world, and so does the unmet need for clean water. The post What Are the Key Technologies for Cleaning Our Water appeared first on U.S.

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The Brief: Tropical forest fund of funds, Locavesting on ImpactAlpha, Facebook’s housing pledge, sharia-compliant bonds, innovative Green Bay Packers

Impact Alpha

Greetings, Agents of Impact! Locavesting on ImpactAlpha. Local goes global. Journalist Amy Cortese, who literally wrote the book on “Locavesting,” has brought her local investing beat to ImpactAlpha. As Amy wrote to the Locavesting community yesterday, she joined up to marry “the grassroots perspective, energy and authenticity to the broader conversation around impact investing, just as capital is beginning to The post The Brief: Tropical forest fund of funds, Locavesting on ImpactAlpha, Faceboo

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Horne Brothers Construction completes 1-MW community solar project in North Carolina

Solar Power World

Horne Brothers Construction (HBC) has completed the civil and mechanical construction on a 1-MW community solar project in North Carolina for municipal utility Fayetteville Public Works Commission (PWC). Other local partners on the project include the NC State Clean Energy Technology Center, Dewberry and Directional Services. The project is located beside the Butler-Warner Generation Plant,… The post Horne Brothers Construction completes 1-MW community solar project in North Carolina appea

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EV Connect secures $12 million to scale cloud-based charging network software

Charged

EV Connect , which builds cloud-based software for managing charging networks, has closed a $12-million Series B funding round, led by Japanese conglomerate Mitsui & Co and Ecosystem Integrity Fund. This funding round brings the total capital raised by EV Connect to over $25 million. EV Connect is based on international open standards, so customers can use a wide range of charging equipment.

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Extreme Makeover: Power Plant Edition [GTM Squared]

GreenTechMedia

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Argonne develops electrolyte for next-gen lithium battery with silicon anodes

Charged

Researchers at the DOE’s Argonne National Laboratory have developed a new electrolyte mixture and a simple additive that could have a place in the next generation of lithium-ion batteries that feature silicon anodes. The report findings were published in July in the journal ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces. Scientists have long seen the silicon anode as the preeminent candidate to replace the current graphite anode.

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