Fri.Jul 10, 2020

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20 must-read books about food systems

GreenBiz

20 must-read books about food systems. Danielle Nierenberg. Fri, 07/10/2020 - 00:50. With record high unemployment , a reeling global economy and concerns of food shortages , the world as we know it is changing. But even as these shifts expose inequities in the health and food systems, many experts hope that the current moment offers an opportunity to build a new, more sustainable food system.

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Feeding The Planet Isn’t Science Fiction - It’s Cultivated Meat

Jim Conca

Combine animal stem cells with nutrients, salts, pH buffers, and growth factor in science-fiction-like vats and you get actual meat without growing the whole animal. It’s called cultivated meat production and will probably meet the world’s meat requirements in a decade or so.

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‘Enormous Step’ for Energy Storage as Court Upholds FERC Order 841, Opening Wholesale Markets

GreenTechMedia

In a victory for the energy storage industry, a federal appeals court has upheld Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s Order 841 , clearing the way for transmission grid operators across the country to open their markets to energy storage, including aggregated batteries connected at the distribution grid or behind customers’ meters. Friday’s court opinion ( PDF ) declared that FERC has jurisdiction over how energy storage interacts with the interstate transmission markets it r

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Vermont Food Scrap Ban requires residents, businesses to compost

Inhabitat - Innovation

Too lazy to carry your banana peel or avocado pit to your compost bin? You’re breaking the law, at least in Vermont.

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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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Germany’s Fallen ‘Solar Valley’ Sees New Life as Meyer Burger Buys Former SolarWorld Factory

GreenTechMedia

Once bustling with PV research and manufacturing, Germany's "Solar Valley" fell quiet in recent years as China gained control of the global PV manufacturing sector. But the fabled valley may soon spring back to life. Switzerland's Meyer Burger, a long-time supplier of high-tech machinery to solar manufacturers, has acquired a former SolarWorld factory and revealed plans to nurture what could become a 5-gigawatt European PV manufacturing hub in central Germany.

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Wood lattice walls ventilate this beautiful Costa Rica home

Inhabitat - Innovation

Perched in the mountains of Nosara, a surfing paradise on the Nicoya Peninsula of Costa Rica, Casa Guayacán boasts a beautiful ocean view and a tranquil setting. A stunning example of sustainable architecture in a tropical setting, this home being designed by two talented professional architects comes as no surprise.

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Rocket Crafters creates safer, greener hybrid rocket engine technology

Inhabitat - Innovation

3D-printing technology has made this company's dream a reality.

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Latin America’s 17 Million Domestic Workers Need Better Transit. Direct Lines Can Help.

The City Fix

Like workers in many other sectors, hundreds of thousands of domestic workers have been fired from their jobs around the world during the COVID-19 pandemic. But as economies have begun to reopen, many are returning to work, facing not only. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Applying rock dust to farms could boost carbon sequestration

Inhabitat - Innovation

Enhanced rock weathering could curb climate change.

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Ruling Upholds FERC Order to Include Energy Storage in Wholesale Electricity Markets

altenergymag

Following is a statement from Katherine Gensler, vice president of regulatory affairs at the Solar Energy Industries Association, on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit’s decision upholding the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission’s (FERC’s) Order No.

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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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New metro stations extend sustainable, site-sensitive transit in Denmark

Inhabitat - Innovation

Cobe and Arup have teamed up on two new metro stations in northern Copenhagen.

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CALSSA launches Virtual Product Expo Series

altenergymag

CALSSA’s Product Expo Series is meant to solve this problem by mimicking the conversations you’d have on the trade show floor without leaving your desk. The series is designed to give attendees exposure to each company’s latest and greatest in a short period of time while keeping the experience simple, no-nonsense, affordable and accessible.

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Eco-Friendly Products in Window and Door Segments

Econaur

Design trends in nonresidential buildings are increasingly making energy efficiency and environmental friendliness a priority. In few markets is this more evident than in the commercial window and door market. How is the commercial market different from the residential market? The residential market is more directly impacted by building standards, such as those of the IGBC, GRIHA & LEED program.

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Some clean energy employees are returning to work, but sector’s full recovery unlikely if Congress doesn’t act

altenergymag

• 106,300 clean energy workers returned to their jobs in June. • 514,200 clean energy workers remain jobless in wake of COVID-19 • Troubling signs cloud clean energy sector’s outlook; stimulus needed now.

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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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Rivian Snags $2.5 Billion From T. Rowe Price, Amazon To Take On Tesla In Electric Trucks

Forbes Green Tech

The fast-moving EV company has amassed $5.4 billion, the biggest cash hoard of any electric vehicle startup ahead of production.

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Eco-Friendly Alternatives to Everyday Items

Green Living Guy

Our plastic water bottles are in the ocean. That’s enough to say out planet stands before massive challenges. That’s as we overspend its limited natural resources. We also contribute to the growing global warming issue. Not only that, but humans are also suffering. Combining toxic exposure caused by pollution. Then Continue Reading. The post Eco-Friendly Alternatives to Everyday Items appeared first on Green Living Guy.

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Mercedes Design Chief Gorden Wagener Would Like To Make The Marque The Most Loved Lifestyle Brand. This Is How

Forbes Green Tech

As chief design officer for Daimler AG, Gorden Wagener has the complex task of directing the design for Mercedes, Smart, AMG, Maybach and the new EQ electric sub-brand. He explains his mission.

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New Trade and Agriculture Commission fuels green group's post-Brexit fears

Business Green

Government insists new group will help ensure 'environmental standards in food production are not undermined', but big green NGOs appear to have been frozen out of influential body. The government has today announced the formation of a new Trade and Agriculture Commission, tasked with advising the government on how to ensure the farming sector "remains competitive and that animal welfare and environmental standards in food production are not undermined" as new trade deals are sought.

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Grid Edge Mega-Trends: Bridging the Distributed Energy-Wholesale Market Divide [GTM Squared]

GreenTechMedia

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ACORE Commends Decision to Uphold FERC Order No. 841 on Energy Storage

altenergymag

Following is a statement from American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) President and CEO Gregory Wetstone on today's decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to uphold FERC Order No.

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The Week in impact investing: Toppled

Impact Alpha

TGIF, Agents of Impact! Toppled icons. Along with historical statues, this week saw the toppling of other archaic icons of an order in decline. Investors and activists took sledgehammers to two fossil fuel pipelines, as Dominion Energy and Duke Energy walked away from the Atlantic Coast Pipeline and a federal judge ordered the emptying of. The post The Week in impact investing: Toppled appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Why companies need to invest in clean delivery amid pandemic online shopping

EDF + Business

COVID-19 means a lot more online shopping, which means a lot more delivery trucks that could contribute to a lot more air pollution in our neighborhoods. As coronavirus shut down the economy, some regions saw a drop in air pollution. But as economic activity picks up, so does pollution — and if the habit of doing more shopping online persists, we could end up with worse air quality from fleets of diesel-powered delivery trucks.

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M&G Real Estate plots pathway to net zero by 2050

Business Green

Global real estate investor says it is "repositioning its business" to meet its new decarbonisation goals, which include reducing 'corporate emissions' to net zero by 2030 and carbon neutrality across its portfolio twenty years later. M&G Real Estate has committed to achieving net zero emissions first across its operations by 2030, and then across its entire portfolio by mid-century.

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Applying rock dust to farms could boost carbon sequestration

AGreenLiving

A report in the journal Nature has revealed that enhanced rock weathering (ERW) could help slow climate change by sucking carbon dioxide from the atmosphere. This process involves spreading rock dust on farmland to help absorb atmospheric carbon dioxide. When rocks, such as basalt and other silicates, are crushed and added to the soil, they dissolve and react with carbon dioxide, forming carbonates and lock carbon dioxide.

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Member Profile #4- Leif Elgethun, Retrolux

CleanTech Alliance

CleanTech Alliance member Leif Elgethun shares how his company Retrolux is adapting to and overcoming the challenges presented by the COVID-19 pandemic. In an effort to inspire and connect our members in these difficult times, the CleanTech Alliance is publishing a series of profiles to highlight how are members are adjusting to this new normal. […].

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Vermont Food Scrap Ban requires residents, businesses to compost

AGreenLiving

Too lazy to carry your banana peel or avocado pit to your compost bin? You’re breaking the law, at least in Vermont. The Green Mountain State is the first state to pass a law requiring businesses and residents to compost. Anything that was once alive — including orange rinds, bones, egg shells, coffee grounds, grass and leaves — are banned from Vermont landfills as of July 1.

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Schadenfreude is a dish best served warm

Business Green

The UK's most prominent source of climate change denial' is soliciting donations, but, argues Andrew Warren, its influence is waning. Four months into the lockdown and there is yet another begging-letter email, predicting dire outcomes for one and all were it not for the sender's brave efforts - efforts that can be supported via PayPal transfer, or cheque if you take a more old school approach to your financial affairs.

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New metro stations extend sustainable, site-sensitive transit in Denmark

AGreenLiving

Copenhagen-based architecture firm Cobe teamed up with Arup on the recently completed Orientkaj and Nordhavn — two new metro stations that connect Copenhagen’s northern docklands with the city center. Developed as part of one of the largest urban regeneration projects in Northern Europe, the metro stations aim to revitalize the post-industrial area with a passenger-focused design and appearance reflective of the urban areas they serve.

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Learn how Proterra designs, tests, and manufacturers battery systems for rugged heavy-duty EVs (Free Webcast)

Charged

In less than 2 years, the engineering team at Proterra designed, tested, and manufactured an industry-leading HD battery system that powered a vehicle that broke the world record for farthest distance traveled by an electric vehicle on a single charge. ‍ In a new webcast session announced this week at the Charged Virtual Conference on EV Engineering , Thomas Blazak, Proterra’s Director of Test & Validation, Battery Engineering, will discuss how the engineering team was able to

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Earth911 Inspiration: Nature Is Hinting at Us

AGreenLiving

Today’s quote is from American poet Robert Frost, who wrote: … The post Earth911 Inspiration: Nature Is Hinting at Us appeared first on Earth 911. More: Earth911 Inspiration: Nature Is Hinting at Us.

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As Pandemic Toll Rises, Science Deniers in Louisiana Shun Masks, Comparing Health Measures to Nazi Germany

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 10 mins Science denial in America didn’t begin with the Trump administration, but under the leadership of President Trump, it has blossomed. From the climate crisis to the COVID -19 pandemic , this rejection of scientific authority has become a hallmark of and cultural signal among many in conservative circles. This phenomenon has been on recent display in Louisiana, where a clear anti-mask sentiment has emerged in the streets and online even as COVID -19 cases rise.

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Rocket Crafters creates safer, greener hybrid rocket engine technology

AGreenLiving

Rocket Crafters, an aerospace company based in Florida, is patenting its hybrid rocket engine technology. The engine, which the company described as throttle-able, affordable, reliable and 3D-printed, is said to be a milestone in the world of rocket science. For many years, rocket scientists have been trying to develop a hybrid engine — unsuccessfully.

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Global Briefing: US banking giants launch Center for Climate Aligned Finance

Business Green

Rocky Mountain Institute partners with top banks to deliver new Center for Climate-Aligned Finance. Four of the world's largest banks - Wells Fargo, Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan Chase, and Bank of America - have teamed up with leading US environmental non-profit The Rocky Mountain Institute (RMI) to launch a new Center for Climate-Aligned Finance. The new unit will act as a hub to help encourage collaboration as a growing number of financial institutions pledge to bring their portfolios and investmen

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Vermont Food Scrap Ban requires residents, businesses to compost

AGreenLiving

Too lazy to carry your banana peel or avocado pit to your compost bin? You’re breaking the law, at least in Vermont. The Green Mountain State is the first state to pass a law requiring businesses and residents to compost. Anything that was once alive — including orange rinds, bones, egg shells, coffee grounds, grass and leaves — are banned from Vermont landfills as of July 1.

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