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The top 25 most sustainable fleets

GreenBiz

The top 25 most sustainable fleets. Katie Fehrenbacher. Mon, 10/26/2020 - 02:00. However you look at it, 2020 is a turning point for fleets. . Thanks to converging forces — including supportive policies, dropping battery costs and aggressive climate goals — transportation leaders at large and small organizations are increasingly turning to new zero-emission and low-carbon options that decarbonize fleets and in some cases save money.

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Scotland should follow on-demand bus schemes example of other UK regions, says charity

Envirotec Magazine

Similar schemes are up and running elsewhere, such as Go Coach in Kent (image credit: Editor 5807 ). Schemes which would see passengers order on-demand bus services should be introduced in Scotland, a leading mobility charity has said. The ‘flexible bus’ initiative would allow operators to use ‘Demand Responsive Technology’ which would link local buses with the people who need them.

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These changes to our food systems could improve human and planetary health

GreenBiz

These changes to our food systems could improve human and planetary health. Oliver Camp. Mon, 10/26/2020 - 01:30. On the recent World Food Day, the clarion call was clearer than ever: We must fix our food systems to improve human health, drive economic growth and save the planet from environmental collapse. The challenges facing us are wide-ranging.

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Comment: Never let a crisis go to waste

Envirotec Magazine

Aaron Baker of BGF. Quick thinking and agility has helped waste management companies survive and even prosper during lockdown, says Aaron Baker, an investor at BGF, an investment firm which has backed a number of firms in the waste sector. If the seriousness of the Covid-19 pandemic had been better understood back in January, when the outbreak appeared to be limited to Wuhan, it’s fair to say a lot of businesses would have made different decisions.

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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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BP, Shell, oil giants fund research into mobile carbon capture from ships at sea

GreenBiz

BP, Shell, oil giants fund research into mobile carbon capture from ships at sea. Michael Holder. Mon, 10/26/2020 - 00:05. A coalition of oil and gas majors are eyeing up the potential to capture carbon dioxide emissions from ships out at sea, teaming up with global tanker owner and operator Stena Bulk to evaluate the feasibility of technology they claim could play a key role in decarbonizing the hard-to-abate sector.

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So, What Exactly Is Long-Duration Energy Storage?

GreenTechMedia

Long-duration storage occupies an enviable position in the cleantech hype cycle. Its allure has proven more durable than energy blockchain, and its commercialization is further along than super-buzzy green hydrogen. Depending on who you talk to, long-duration storage technology can knock out coal and gas peaker plants, turn renewables into round-the-clock resources and generally pave the way for a carbon-free grid.

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Watt It Takes: Steph Speirs on Making Solar Accessible to All

GreenTechMedia

Solstice is a community solar company trying to make PV accessible to everyone. And that mission is influenced by CEO Steph Speirs' background. Steph grew up one of three kids in Hawaii. Her mom had immigrated from Korea. She knows what eviction feels like and what it’s like to skirt homelessness. And she knows how a poor credit score can sink a human being.

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Beautiful Washington bridge with lace-like metal walls shimmers at night

Inhabitat - Innovation

The newly completed bridge is now an iconic community asset that connects the elevated Grand Avenue Park with the city’s growing waterfront district.

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Report finds UK businesses struggling to implement sustainable mobile computing strategies

Envirotec Magazine

UK businesses are struggling to implement sustainable mobile computing strategies as rapidly changing requirements force half to switch their mobile computing devices before they are two years old, according to a 22 October report. IT decision makers were questioned about the importance of sustainable and environmentally-friendly practices in the purchase, operation and disposal of their mobile computing devices.

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Impossible Foods is testing revolutionary plant-based milk

Inhabitat - Innovation

Impossible Foods changed the game for meatless burgers. Now, it's working to do the same for plant-based milk.

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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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The importance of regulation and compliance in the disposal of your chemical waste

Envirotec Magazine

Waste management firm Chloros Environmental specialises in the disposal of hazardous waste and recycling solutions. Here, managing director Richard Hurdle offers a contemporary perspective on hazardous waste disposal. No matter where you are based, all business owners are legally obligated to follow certain business waste regulations. Chemical waste in particular can be harmful to health and the environment, and it’s crucial to understand the steps you need to follow to remain compliant.

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Regenerating Forests and Communities – Ejido Verde Makes the 2020 50 to Watch List

CleanTech Group

While taking a backseat to the health crisis in the last few months, climate change is increasingly shaping our daily experience with wildfires,

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Polluted Air and Water Is a Racial Justice Issue. Let’s Fight it that Way.

The City Fix

Around the world, communities of color and marginalized groups disproportionately feel the effects of pollution and other environmental impacts. Whether it’s residents living along the polluted Cooum River in Chennai, India; Louisiana’s petrochemical-dense Cancer Alley; Thailand’s toxic hot spot Map Ta Phut Industrial. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Renewables And Energy Storage Are Surging In Red States

Forbes Green Tech

The nation’s two largest coal-producing states, Wyoming and West Virginia, have entered the top ten in renewable energy and energy storage, respectively, according to a new report.

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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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A Right-Wing Think Tank Is Behind the Controversial Great Barrington Declaration Calling for COVID-19 Herd Immunity

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 12 mins An open letter that emerged earlier this month opposing COVID -19 shutdowns and calling for a “herd immunity” approach to addressing the coronavirus — which already has claimed over 220,000 American lives — is one of the latest examples of how right-wing ideology and think tanks that have long cultivated climate science denial are now engaging in COVID disinformation and promoting messaging dangerous to public health.

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Affordable and sustainable fashion trends for fall

Inhabitat - Innovation

Here's how to dress comfortably, stylishly and sustainably this fall.

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Hop a free ride to Election Day polls & Arrowhead

Greenability Magazine

This Election Day, all Kansas City metro voters can get a free bus, bike or streetcar ride to the polls on RideKC, and Jackson County residents can hop a free bus to Arrowhead Stadium to cast their ballots. RideKC and Vote KC have teamed up to ensure that all RideKC routes (including paratransit) serving Kansas City, Johnson County, Wyandotte County and Independence, MO will be free on Tuesday, November 3.

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Solid Power introduces all-solid-state lithium metal batteries

Charged

Solid Power has announced the production and delivery of the company’s first-generation multi-layer, multi-ampere-hour (Ah) all-solid-state lithium metal batteries. Solid-state batteries have long been thought of as the “Holy Grail” of EV battery technology, as the lithium metal anode provides more energy and range than today’s Li-ion design, and the solid electrolyte increases safety by eliminating the flammable liquid electrolyte, which also simplifies battery cooling.

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Lithium ion Battery Market is Estimated to Reach USD 76.80 Billion in 2024 | At a CAGR of 15.4%

altenergymag

As per a Forencis Research latest report, the The global lithium ion battery market is estimated to reach USD 76.80 Billion in 2024 at a CAGR of 15.4%.

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Community solar legislation opens new markets in the Northeast 2020 Regional Solar Policy Report

Solar Power World

COVID-19 has forced many Americans to be at home more than usual. Electric panel monitoring hardware provider Sense found that home energy demand increased 22% since the pandemic started. This correlated with a typical utility bill increase of $22 to $25 or even higher in states with steeper utility rates. One way for renters and… The post Community solar legislation opens new markets in the Northeast <br><span style='color:#404040;font-weight:600;font-size:15px;'>

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Competition for flexible asset PPA deals on the rise

altenergymag

The capacity of non-traditional flexible generation technologies is increasing substantially in GB, and in parallel, the market for trading and optimising such assets continues to develop. Cornwall Insight's latest research shows there is ~10.8GW* of operational flexible capacity across front-of-the-meter gas and diesel engines, battery storage, Open Cycle Gas Turbines (OCGTs) and Combined Heat and Power (CHP) technologies.

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Contractors Corner: Simple Solar

Solar Power World

With a name like Simple Solar, the going-solar process has to be as easy as possible for new customers. And that’s what the Missouri installer has done for its residential clients since 2017. Luke Arthur started Simple Solar after working at other installation companies and wanting to pare down all the extra noise. Sales calls… The post Contractors Corner: Simple Solar appeared first on Solar Power World.

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How place-based strategies in Virginia and other states are leveraging private capital for public good

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, Oct. 26 – Virginia Community Capital has turned a $15 million seed investment from the state in 2006 into more than $600 million in loan originations to finance thousands of affordable housing units, healthcare facilities, small farms, business and jobs. The community development financier is among the leaders of Virginia’s emerging impact investing ecosystem.

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BMW Concept i4 STAYS AHEAD IN STYLE

Green Living Guy

The BMW Concept i4 represents a look ahead to the BMW i4, slated to enter production in 2021 Especially as the BMW Group’s first all-electric model in the premium midsize class. It provides a whole new take on the dynamic excellence for which BMW. For BMW that means which is. The post BMW Concept i4 STAYS AHEAD IN STYLE appeared first on Green Living Guy.

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Natural Order Acquisition Corp. readies a SPAC to invest in alternative proteins

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, October 26 – Beyond Meat made a splash last year as the first of the “plant-based meat” companies to go public. Another one may soon hit the public markets via a special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC. Natural Order Acquisition Corp. is looking to raise $250 million to invest in “technologies and products related. The post Natural Order Acquisition Corp. readies a SPAC to invest in alternative proteins appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Investors urge major US polluters to clean up lobbying activities

Business Green

Climate Action 100+ investors write to 47 major US companies calling on them to ensure advocacy work aligns with the climate goals of the Paris Agreement. Carbon intensive companies in the US are facing growing pressure to clean up their lobbying acitivity, with a host of institutional investors today issuing an urgent call to 47 of the largest greenhouse gas emitters to disclose how their corporate advocacy aligns with the most ambitious climate goals of the Paris Agreement.

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Mastercard deposits $20 million through CNote’s network of community development financial institutions

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, October 26 – Mastercard’s has made a $20 million deposit with Oakland-based CNote to boost the lending power of community development financial institutions, or CDFIs, across the U.S. The financial services giant’s cash was invested in a CNote “Promise” account and will be deposited in $250,000 slugs across CNote’s network of CDFIs.

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Study: Forestry finance market could soar to $800bn as net zero goals multiply

Business Green

But supply chain deforestation threatens to undermine vast market potential for nature-based climate solutions, PRI warns. Corporate demand for carbon removal and offsetting will establish forests as a major new asset class that could generate $800bn annually for investors by mid-century, according to the UN's Principles for Responsible Investment (PRI).

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How This Company Plans To Put A Carbon Price Tag On Your Jeans And Sneakers

Forbes Green Tech

Much like calorie counts on menus and nutritional information on food packaging, could our purchases soon come with a CO2 tag displaying how much carbon they generated?

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Powering into the Future? UK nuclear strategy after Hitachi

Business Green

The government must rebalance nuclear's place in the energy portfolio and bring the public onside while there is still time, argues Bright Blue's Andrew Leming. Hitachi's withdrawal from proposed nuclear power sites in Anglesey and Oldbury last month dealt a sharp blow to the government's net zero emissions strategy. This decision comes almost two years after Toshiba formally withdrew from a proposed nuclear power site in Cumbria , one of several projects that the UK considered to be the next ge

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Residents of Shelby, OH Enjoying Benefits of Utility-Scale Solar Array

altenergymag

Small town solar is a growing trend with financial and environmental advantages for ratepayers.

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Microsoft to purchase cleaner jet fuel to offset employee travel on Alaska Airlines

Business Green

Microsoft plans to curb the emissions generated by employees flying from California to Washington by purchasing sustainable aviation fuel credits from fuel company SkyNRG. Microsoft has announced a new partnership with Alaska Airlines that will see the tech giant reduce the environmental impact of its business travel by procuring sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) to cover its employees' flights.

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New book tells the story of Tesla from its founding to the present

Charged

Tesla constantly works to make its products better, and the fertile mind of Elon Musk is constantly coming up with ideas for new products, new features and sometime even whole new companies. Furthermore, it sometimes seems that marketing-savvy Tesla shuffles things around just to keep its name in the headlines. All this makes the California carmaker the very definition of “a moving target” for journalists—even online blog posts can become outdated within days.

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COP26: Former world leaders urge UK for ambitious 2030 climate goal

Business Green

The Elders write to Boris Johnson arguing enhanced UK climate action 'would reverberate around the world' and set tone for COP26 next year. A clutch of influential former world leaders have urged the UK government to unleash an ambitious net zero plan ahead of next year's COP26 climate summit, arguing that the impact of doing so "would reverberate around the world and set the tone for an historic international moment in Glasgow next year".

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