GreenBiz

OCTOBER 2, 2020

A closed loop fashion system requires scaling solutions now, not later. Deonna Anderson. Fri, 10/02/2020 - 01:00. The fashion industry is damaging to the planet — it's responsible for 10 percent of the world's carbon emissions. But there are companies — both large and small — trying to solve this problem. Back in 2017, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation tapped on large brands such as Burberry, Gap and H&M to make fashion circular — ensuring that clothes are made from safe and renewable materials, e

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2020

A new study by an international team of environmental scientists in the Brazilian Amazon appears to show that redesigned conservation projects could deliver big gains for critical freshwater ecosystems – raising hopes for the futures of thousands of species. Although it occupies less than 1% of the Earth’s surface, freshwater hosts around 10% of all known species – including a third of all vertebrates.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 2, 2020

7 roles to create sustainable success. Ellen Weinreb. Fri, 10/02/2020 - 00:30. There is a lot of talk right now about systems change, and for good reason: With so many people experiencing the effects of several major crises — the pandemic, the recession, racism and the ongoing climate crisis — we have a narrow window of opportunity for change. As they say, a crisis is a terrible thing to waste.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Greenland's massive ice sheet is melting at a rate faster than experienced in the past 12,000 years, according to a new study in Nature. Published on Wednesday, the study, dubbed "Greenland Ice Sheet Will Exceed Holocene Values this Century," revealed that Greenland is already losing ice at a rate four times faster than any period in the past 11,700 years.

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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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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Get ready for the next wave of GMOs. Jim Giles. Fri, 10/02/2020 - 02:00. One summer day almost 20 years ago, a group of protestors arrived at a plot of genetically modified corn growing near the town of Montelimar in southern France. They were led by José Bové , a left-wing activist famous for his skirmishes with the law and his tremendous moustache.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 2, 2020

A clutch of wave power developers is hoping to shake off the technology’s forever-round-the-corner reputation with commercial-scale arrays that could be in the water next year. AW-Energy, a Finnish developer, is looking to deliver a commercial product called the WaveRoller in 2021. And CorPower Ocean, based in Sweden, is looking to test a commercial-scale system in the second half of next year, with a view to getting certified and warrantied wave energy converters onto the market by 2024.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Developed by architect and artist couple Jared and Carolina Della Valle, this stunning family retreat in the Hudson River Valley is driven by high sustainability standards. Located on 11 acres in Cold Spring, New York near where Carolina grew up, the house functions as a weekend escape for the family.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2020

England’s water and sewerage companies have received something of a mixed review in terms of environmental performance in the Environment Agency’s recent annual report on the topic , released on 2 October. The report said the number of serious water quality pollution incidents from water company sewerage and clean water assets had “plateaued”, with a slight improvement (52 incidents compared to 56 in 2018).

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Inhabitat - Innovation

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Refined, elemental and minimal: these words were the inspiration behind a recently completed net-zero home in West Seattle.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 2, 2020

California plans to ban new internal-combustion vehicles by 2035. But are electric vehicles ready to take their place? We know that there are dozens and dozens of more models of electric cars on the market. Ranges are increasing. Consumers like the driving experience. And total costs are creeping downward. But America’s electric vehicle market is anemic.

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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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Inhabitat - Innovation

OCTOBER 2, 2020

This off-grid cabin is a peaceful place for a former business executive to pen poetry.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2020

An updated renewable energy from waste manifesto has been released by Privilege Finance, following a series of monumental changes which have impacted the industry in 2020. Chris Winward, chief commercial officer at the specialist energy from waste funder, said the updated manifesto reviewed the industry’s progress from social, economic and environmental perspectives, and shared insight on the effect of government policy changes and Covid-19.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

OCTOBER 2, 2020

The new Global Forest Watch tracking system relies on citizen scientists like you to help protect rainforests.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2020

A new marina intended to help attract and preserve local ecosystems and wildlife while providing a scenic spot for boaters is being opened to the public on 12 October. Built in the heart of the Midlands countryside and situated on the Warwickshire Ring, Mancetter Marina’s unique, bowl-like shape allows for banks full of vegetation and wildlife, as well as surrounding views of Leicestershire, Staffordshire and Derbyshire, according to a group involved in its construction, civil engineering and ma

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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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altenergymag

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Leading renewable energy consultancy and service provider, Natural Power, was recently appointed by BayWa r.e. Wind LLC as Independent Engineer of Record for its 250-MW Amadeus Wind project located north of Rotan, Texas, which is currently under construction.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2020

A new not-for-profit organisation, Changing Streams, has been established by an entrepreneur from Liverpool in a bid to remove plastic from the construction industry. Neal Maxwell (pictured), who has worked in the construction industry for more than 30 years, founded the organisation alongside researchers from the University of Liverpool, after a trip to the Arctic left him appalled by the levels of plastic pollutants in the Arctic Ocean.

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altenergymag

OCTOBER 2, 2020

The licensed technology is for electrodes and foils for lithium ion batteries that are designed to break in a pre-defined geometry when the battery is physically damaged, effectively isolating the damaged part.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 2, 2020

The Planet Sustainability Summit will be convening on October 15th as part of the Explore 2020 conference. In a period of planetary crises and transformational change, the world needs to create pathways to more sustainable futures as never before. Meeting the challenge of climate change, reversing the loss of nature and fulfilling humanity’s needs for a just, healthy and prosperous future were already the 21st century’s defining challenges, even before major disruptions like COVID-19 entered the

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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

OCTOBER 2, 2020

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Charged

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Millbrook says it has increased the efficiency of its driveline and electric motor dynamometer testing services in the US, due to proactive preparation for lockdown and consistent customer communications. The company’s engineering team adapted to ensure that customers continued to receive test data as it was generated, changing the setup of Millbrook’s electric motor test stands so that long-term tests could be run remotely.

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Impact Alpha

OCTOBER 2, 2020

ImpactAlpha, Oct. 2 – Reduced bias. Increased performance. More impact. That’s the timely thesis of Illumen Capital, the impact investment fund-of-funds led by Daryn Dodson that this week closed on its $85 million first fund. Anchoring the fund are Ford Foundation, W.K. Kellogg Foundation, Weingart Foundation and Deutsche Bank. At least five family offices also backed.

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CleanTech Group

OCTOBER 2, 2020

The cost of wind and solar energy have dropped dramatically. But the entire energy system needs transformation. How does nuclear power become a.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 2, 2020

The university outlined a staggered approach to divestment through to 2030, and said it will invest instead in renewable energy. The University of Cambridge has committed to divest from all direct and indirect investments in fossil fuels by 2030, as the institution works towards its goal of reaching net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2038. The Cambridge University Endowment Fund (CUEF) - which at £3.5bn is one of the biggest of its kind in Europe - plans to ramp up investments in renewab

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Forbes Green Tech

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Deliveries of new Teslas were the highest in company history but output has to pick up steam to hit Musk’s loose target of 500,000 deliveries this year.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Pension provider also urges government to make it mandatory for all auto-enrollment pensions to reach net zero by 2050. Aviva has set a 2050 net-zero target for its own auto-enrolment (AE) default pension funds, and called on the government to make all AE default funds set the same goal. The provider said it is committed to making progress towards the 2050 net-zero target - which is aligned to the Paris Agreement and the UK government's target - as quickly as possible and is exploring the feasib

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altenergymag

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Statement from Gregory Wetstone, President and CEO of the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE):

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Business Green

OCTOBER 2, 2020

The mine will be operated by West Cumbria Mining and is expected to extract 2.4 million tonnes annually for use in industry, causing consternation among climate campaigners. Plans to build the UK's first new coal mine in 30 years have been given the green light by Cumbria county councillors, in a hugely controversial decision this afternoon that has provoked consternation among climate campaigners.

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Impact Alpha

OCTOBER 2, 2020

ImpactAlpha, Oct. 2 – Global efforts to turn back the tide of biodiversity loss may be missing the trees for the forest. The talk of this week’s United Nations biodiversity summit was the 30×30 pledge to double the Earth’s protected land and water to 30% by 2030. But it took activists like Soreng, a member. The post Agent of Impact: Archana Soreng, indigenous youth activist appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 2, 2020

The pilot is set to combine waste fly ash with captured CO2 to create manufactured aggregate for the construction industry. A UK firm pioneering carbon capture storage and utilisation (CCUS) technology is set to deploy its equipment for the first time at a Dutch power plant that generates energy from waste, it announced this week. Carbon8 Systems plans to run its first energy-from-waste (EfW) pilot project at a plant owned by Dutch firm AVR, the firm announced thon Wednesday.

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altenergymag

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Providence Water 100% Powered by Renewable Energy; Anticipates $25 million in energy cost savings

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Business Green

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Catch up on all the latest news, top speakers and in-depth discussion from day three of the world's first Net Zero Festival from BusinessGreen, featuring a host of events and panels focusing on the topic of culture. BusinessGreen brings you live coverage from day two of the Net Zero Festival , featuring a host of top business leaders, influential policymakers, academics and inspirational thinkers providing an invaluable guide to the economic and industrial revolution that will define the post-Co

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Greenland’s massive ice sheet is melting at a rate faster than experienced in the past 12,000 years, according to a new study in Nature. Published on Wednesday, the study, dubbed “Greenland Ice Sheet Will Exceed Holocene Values this Century,” revealed that Greenland is already losing ice at a rate four times faster than any period in the past 11,700 years.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Companies across the fashion industry have deployed pilots for circular - or more sustainable - products, but too often they stop there. The fashion industry is damaging to the planet - it's responsible for 10 per cent of the world's carbon emissions. But there are companies both large and small trying to solve this problem. Back in 2017, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation tapped on large brands such as Burberry, Gap and H&M to make fashion circular - ensuring that clothes are made from safe and

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