Wed.Nov 27, 2019

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These ultra-cool, vintage-style travel trailers can go off the grid for a week

Inhabitat - Innovation

Handcrafted in California by Bowlus Road Chief, these aluminum-clad travel trailers offer race car-inspired aerodynamics that provide the smoothest ride possible. Additionally, the incredible campers can even go off the grid for various periods of time before needing recharged.

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Looking at climate from the social angle

GreenBiz

An NFL fullback, teen activists, a National Geographic photographer and others provide provocative talks about critical equity-climate connections.

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Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture (PACT) Act is signed into law

Inhabitat - Innovation

In a bipartisan win, the Preventing Animal Cruelty and Torture (PACT) Act has been signed into law, making serious harm to “living non-human mammals, birds, reptiles or amphibians” a federal crime.

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Is 3D printing part of the future for meat alternatives?

GreenBiz

A new report shows how some companies and academic research labs are applying extrusion, 3D printing and cellular agriculture to produce meat alternatives.

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

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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Beachfront hotel in Costa Rica pays tribute to the land and its inhabitants

Inhabitat - Innovation

A new hotel, Hotel Nantipa, located in the Puntarenas area of Costa Rica, has been built with several sustainable features while also paying homage to the indigenous Chorotegan people who first inhabited the area. Designed by local firm Garnier Arquitectos, the hotel is integrated with water-saving systems, solar-powered water heaters, reclaimed building materials and more.

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Investigation reveals almost 130,000 tonnes of carpet incinerated annually

Envirotec Magazine

Carpet waste is a huge issue in UK, as an area the size of Birmingham is thrown away every year. Carpet Recycling UK, a trade association set up to encourage carpet recycling, oversees 73% of diverted carpet waste being sent to incineration at an approximate climate cost of £16.5 million a year to society. Less than 2% of carpet waste is actually recycled. 90% of British people have carpet in their homes and almost two-thirds want action by the UK government to address this waste stream, accordi

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How You Can Save Energy at Home

The Environmental Blog

Fuel is a precious resource that often comes at a cost to the planet. Everyone still needs to use that fuel to carry out their daily lives, so how can you reduce your consumption, change your life for the better and aim towards sustainability? There are a number of different ways that you can make a difference, save energy and reduce your own carbon footprint.

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Amsterdams new circular archives building sustainably generates all of its own energy

Inhabitat - Innovation

The city of Amsterdam has officially opened the Depot Amsterdam Noord, a new repository for the capital’s Stadsarchief city archives.

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Fight or switch? How the low-carbon transition is disrupting fossil fuel politics

GreenBiz

Global fossil fuel and overall energy consumption are still rising. But the new focus on them shows that the end is near.

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9 tips for eco-friendly Black Friday, Cyber Monday shopping

Inhabitat - Innovation

Follow these tips to take advantage of the seasonal deals without damaging the planet.

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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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Aerial map reveals Islington’s tree cover, and assists study into benefits of trees in urban spaces

Envirotec Magazine

Sun shines on the exterior of Sadler’s Wells dance theatre on Rosebery Avenue in Islington, North London. Treeconomics , a specialist in the use of trees to improve urban spaces, is taking advantage of a nationwide digital record of over 300 million trees created by aerial mapping company Bluesky. In what’s described as a landmark project for the London Borough of Islington, Treeconomics completed a study to measure and assess tree canopy cover and understand its impact on the urban

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Pennsylvania Communities Grow Wary of Worsening Air Pollution as Petrochemical Industry Arrives

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 9 mins While the Ohio River Valley, long home to the coal and steel industries, is no stranger to air pollution, the region’s natural gas boom and burgeoning petrochemical industry threaten to erase the gains of recent decades. Concerns about air quality, which has already begun declining nationally since 2016 , are growing rapidly for those living in the shadow of Shell’s $6 billion plastics plant under construction along the Ohio River in western Pennsylvania’s Beaver County.

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Europe’s First Merchant Offshore Wind Farm to Use Siemens Gamesa 11MW Turbines

GreenTechMedia

COPENHAGEN — Siemens Gamesa’s newly launched 11-megawatt turbines will be used for Europe’s first subsidy-free offshore wind farm. The announcement at the WindEurope Offshore 2019 event comes one day after Siemens Gamesa revealed that its Direct Drive Flex turbines could now be dialed up to 11 megawatts. The Hollandse Kust Zuid (HKZ) 1 & 2 projects, developed by Sweden's Vattenfall, will use an estimated 140 turbines off the Dutch coast, for a total project size of up t

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NYSEIA applauds NYSERDA plan to extend and expand NY-Sun program

Solar Power World

NYSERDA filed a petition with the Public Service Commission on November 25 to extend and expand the NY-Sun Program. Members of the New York Solar Energy Industries Association (NYSEIA) are encouraged by this action. Since 2014, NY-Sun has incentivized development of more than 1 GWDC of solar energy projects, helping to drive investment in the… The post NYSEIA applauds NYSERDA plan to extend and expand NY-Sun program appeared first on Solar Power World.

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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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Why Oil Demand Won’t Follow Coal’s Death Spiral

R-Squared Energy

After a steady rise that lasted nearly 50 years, U.S. coal consumption peaked about a decade ago. Since the peak in 2007, coal consumption in the U.S. has fallen an astounding 44%. There are two primary reasons behind coal’s death spiral. Both were aided by legislation aimed at reducing carbon dioxide emissions from power plants. The first was that the shale gas boom in the U.S. unleashed massive new supplies of cheap natural gas.

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Cleantech Expert Mitch Tyson Talks Customer Discovery with Circularity Challenge Startups

Greentown Labs

Mitch Tyson ’s Customer Discovery presentation is a rite of passage for Greentown Launch participants. . Greentown Labs’ internal accelerator Greentown Launch is our most comprehensive method of helping startups and corporates engage in ways that will help them both prosper. Customer discovery is crucial to this process, because if there’s no customer, there’s no business—no matter how impressive the startup’s technology is.

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How Solar Lights for Parking Lots Can Save Some Green

U.S. Green Technology

We’re sure you’re no stranger to solar energy; after all, solar power has been around for decades. It’s just that photovoltaics weren’t the most wallet-friendly up until recently, and solar still has a long way to go. There’s a specific application for solar, however, that can alter the overall carbon footprint and save thousands of.

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Bunq To Plant A Tree For Every €100 Spent With Metal Green Card

Forbes Green Tech

Marking Green Thursday, bunq today launches a limited-edition range of metal Green Cards and announces its partnership with Eden Reforestation Projects that will ensure that a mangrove tree is planted in Madagascar for every €100 spent.

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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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Building Efficiency and Occupant Well-Being Enhanced by Conectric and SenSING Collaboration

CleanTech San Diego

Cleantech San Diego member Conectric Networks is a San Diego-based wireless IoT start-up and recent awardee in the Southern California Energy Innovation Network , World Trade San Diego MetroConnect, OCTANe LaunchPad SBDC, and Telecom Industry Council Innovation Showcase accelerator programs and is actively pursuing global market expansions. Conectric and SenSING Private Limited have entered into a strategic agreement to collaborate on enhancing efficiency, comfort, well-being, and health of occ

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OVER 90 PERCENT ALREADY BOOKED: INTERSOLAR EUROPE 2020 REFLECTS EUROPE’S BOOMING SOLAR MARKET

altenergymag

Intersolar Europe will be held in conjunction with three other energy exhibitions from June 17 to 19, 2020 in Munich as part of The smarter E Europe, the continent’s largest platform for the energy industry.

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'Lightning rod issue': Leaked documents reveal US refusal to discuss climate change in trade talks

Business Green

Leaked documents reveal US officials would not accept references to climate change in any UK trade agreement.

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Will impact investing be swimming naked when the tide goes out? (podcast)

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, Nov. 27 – Even as Wall Street traders get ready to pop the Champagne corks on another year of record results, there are indicators that the bull market party won’t last forever. How impact investing will fare in the inevitable event of the next economic downturn is the topic of the most recent instalment of The post Will impact investing be swimming naked when the tide goes out?

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New Report Highlights Urgent Need For Clear Communication Around Sustainability

Forbes Green Tech

When it comes to sustainability, the issue is extremely complex and the language used is imperative to ensure a genuine and transparent message is put forward. A new report on the carpet recycling industry highlights a misleading message which was reported earlier this year.

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Total Inaugurates New Caledonia’s Largest Solar Power Plant With Energy Storage

altenergymag

Equipped with more than 58,000 solar panels, the plant has installed capacity of nearly 16 megawatts-peak (MWp), enough to cover the energy needs of over 21,000 residents of New Caledonia.

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The Brief: Impact in a downturn (podcast), impact-linked loan, peer-to-peer in Indonesian, edtech in Nigeria, blue bonds

Impact Alpha

Greetings, Agents of Impact! “You gotta be reading ImpactAlpha.” If your optimism makes you an outlier around the dinner table during this holiday season, feel free to blame us. As an ImpactAlpha reader, you’re not surprised by the recent embrace of “stakeholder capitalism.” You’re watching for “universal owners” of institutional capital to drive accountability for The post The Brief: Impact in a downturn (podcast), impact-linked loan, peer-to-peer in Indonesian, edtech in Nigeria, blue bonds ap

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Intersolar Mexico 2020

altenergymag

Intersolar Mexico sits at the cross-section of photovoltaics, solar heating & cooling technologies, and energy storage. The event serves as the industry's go-to source for invaluable technology trends and premier B2B contacts in the promising Mexican solar market. In its second edition from September 8-10, Intersolar Mexico together with the co-located THE GREEN EXPO® and AQUATECH will move to a new venue - Centro Citibanamex.

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Four Fossil Fuel Divestment Narratives and their Constituencies

Green Market Oracle

There are four major overlapping justifications for fossil fuel divestment. These four overlapping narratives are existential, moral and justice and economic, Each one of these four arguments has its own constituencies. 1. Existential; This discourse suggests that fossil fuel use must be eliminated as a leading cause of climate change which is a civilization ending event.

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Surge in demand for greener cars pushing up price of second-hand EVs

Business Green

Analysis from CarGurus finds some second-hand EVs have increased in value by as much as 18 per cent over the past 10 months.

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ees Europe 2020

altenergymag

ees Europe is the continent's largest and most international exhibition for batteries and energy storage systems.

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Are UK hydrogen trains moving out of the siding?

Business Green

Arup appointed to assess feasibility of hydrogen train projects for the UK rail network.

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Power2Drive Europe 2020

altenergymag

Power2Drive Europe is the international exhibition for charging infrastructure and e-mobility.

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How to count the carbon impact of your cloud computing

Business Green

techUK's Emma Fryer has some sage advice for companies which have outsourced their computing operations to the cloud.

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Power2Drive India 2020

altenergymag

Power2Drive India - India's premier exhibition for electric mobility and charging solutions