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What you should know about carbon removal purchase agreements

GreenBiz

The industry recognizes the need to share lessons, which is one reason you’ve seen companies including Microsoft, Shopify and Swiss Re all publish playbooks about how they are selecting and valuing projects that have verifiable permanence.

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This apple factory turned artist ranch is a budding community

Inhabitat - Innovation

This is the story of how a decommissioned apple processing facility became a modern rural retreat. Created by Best Practice Architecture, Cloud Ranch is an amazing combination of the old and the new.

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How employee health and well-being fit into the ESG wheelhouse

GreenBiz

The workforce of the future has identified a culture of health as a key factor in career decisions, and investors are increasingly aware that good health is smart business.

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Massive greenhouse wins award for sustainable design

Inhabitat - Innovation

The Global Flora Conservatory at Wellesley College already holds several design awards, including the 2021 Architizer A+ Awards Jury Winner for Architecture + New Technology. After several years of planning and construction, it is nearly complete.

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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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How US cities and corporations can collaborate on clean energy

GreenBiz

Companies and cities should work together on renewables to get the most benefits, share knowledge across the public/private divide and ensure equality for communities.

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Morgenfarm proposes vertical farms to replace Berlins Autobahn

Inhabitat - Innovation

Morgenfarm offers a utopian vision for Berlin’s infrastructure where toxic fumes are replaced by green space and healthy vegetables.

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US and China make big climate pledges at UN General Assembly

Inhabitat - Innovation

Two of the world's largest economies — and by far the largest carbon contributors — have committed to stop financing the climate crisis. On Tuesday at the U.N. General Assembly in New York, the U.S. and China pledged to cut off financing for activities that fuel the climate crisis.

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ESG is under attack, and that’s a good thing

GreenBiz

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McDonalds Happy Meal toys to get more sustainable by 2025

Inhabitat - Innovation

Young activists know that today's plastic toys are tomorrow's non-recyclable waste. In response, McDonald’s is making its Happy Meal toys more sustainable.

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The value-add of tackling the Scope 3 emissions conundrum

Envirotec Magazine

Harriet Assem is Technical Director, ESG and Sustainability at ITPEnergised. Harriet Assem from technology and environmental planning advisory firm ITPEnergised offers a few thoughts on tackling one of the less well understood elements of emissions reduction, and one that is essential to achieving net zero goals. With tackling climate change top of the global agenda, we’re seeing companies around the world making great strides in reducing their Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions.

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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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Replate and Green Business Bureau Partner Together to Help Businesses Reduce Food Waste and Support the Planet

Green Business Bureau

Green Business Bureau (GBB) has partnered with Replate to offer members a food recovery service and an additional initiative for reducing their carbon footprint and achieving green business certification. Replate is a food rescue organization that leverages technology and logistics to match surplus food from businesses with communities in need. Through these efforts, companies reduce waste, mitigate climate change, and counter food insecurity.

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Firms win funding for EV battery management advance

Envirotec Magazine

Conceptual view of electric vehicle battery system. A project aims to create new algorithms which will estimate the Remaining Useful Life (RUL) in an Electric Vehicle (EV) battery, with the firms behind it suggesting it could contribute to the UK becoming a supplier of the most advanced Battery Management Systems (BMS) in the world. Funding from the Faraday Battery Challenge has been forthcoming for the project, a collaborative effort between EV software specialist Eatron Technologies and WMG (a

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Food Rescue: Save Food the Same Way You Order It – With a Click!

Green Business Bureau

Sometimes it’s inconvenient to do the right thing. Recycling requires work. Composting can be messy. Think about how long boxes of clothes stay in your car before they make it to Goodwill? A month… if you’re proactive! Climate change requires our urgent attention however, and most of these efforts are imperative, food rescue being a primary example.

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Statement: Signed Bill Opens California Doors to Offshore Wind

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State Legislation Calls for State Offshore Wind Goals, Follows BOEM Advancing Two Areas for Lease

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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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Culture trip through Frankfurt am Main in the MINI Cooper SE

Green Living Guy

Frankfurt. Just like New York’s famous district, Hesse’s largest city, Frankfurt am Main, has much more to offer than money trading and investment advice. Culture, for example. And that can be wonderfully experienced in the MINI Cooper SE (fuel consumption combined: 0.0 l/100 km; electricity consumption combined: 17.6 – 15.2 kWh/100 km according to WLTP, 16.1 […].

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All new London buses to be zero-emission

Charged

Sadiq Khan, the Mayor of London, has announced that all new Transport for London (TfL) buses will be carbon-neutral. TfL has committed to only ordering zero-emission buses from now on, and says that by the end of next year, ten percent of London’s buses will be zero-emission. “London will no longer procure new diesel or hybrid buses, and will only procure zero-emission buses,” the Mayor announced, adding that London’s chronic air pollution is “a shameful health crisis.”.

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5 Things a Greenhouse Grower Can Do To Improve Energy Efficiency

Green Living Guy

Greenhouse operations involve a considerable amount of energy consumption that can also adversely affect your utility bills. There are various ways that greenhouse growers can implement energy-efficient methods in their greenhouses. Doing this will help lower your energy bills. Let’s have a look at five things a greenhouse grower can do to improve energy efficiency. 1. […].

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Africa’s eco start-ups seek to turn the tide on plastic pollution

Impact Alpha

When a problem is on your doorstep, it’s only natural to be compelled to find a solution. Over the past years, demand for. The post Africa’s eco start-ups seek to turn the tide on plastic pollution appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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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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Tigo Energy Launches Residential Inverter and Battery Storage Solution Under the Energy Intelligence Brand

altenergymag

MLPE leader builds on Tigo Enhanced partnerships to deliver a comprehensive, installer-friendly residential solar-plus-storage solution for the U.S. market.

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How Long Island could become a green hydrogen hub

Renewable Energy World

New York-based National Grid US envisions a “hydrogen hub” on Long Island that it says will help the state and city meet net-zero carbon goals in the coming decades. The utility shared those goals and ideas as part of Climate Week NYC. National Grid US had developed a vision highlighting Long Island as an ideal location to cluster hydrogen production, storage, and demand.

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Wallbox to establish EVSE manufacturing facility in Arlington, Texas

Charged

EVSE manufacturer Wallbox has selected Arlington, Texas as the location of its first US manufacturing facility. The 130,000-square-foot plant will have enough capacity to support Wallbox’s expansion plans in North America for the next decade. Wallbox expects to manufacture a total of 290,000 units annually at this facility by 2027, and reach its full capacity of 500,000 units by 2030.

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Investigation into Texas freeze highlights natural gas failures, frequency of cold weather events

Renewable Energy World

Follow @EngelsAngle. Preliminary findings of a joint investigation into the freeze that left millions in Texas without power for days last February highlighted an increasing frequency of extreme cold weather events, as well as the devastation caused by the failure of natural gas-fired plants. The joint report issued by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) cited freezing and natural gas fuel supply issues, including the fai

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INTERSOLAR EUROPE CONFERENCE 2021: A FOCUS ON NEW PHOTOVOLTAICS AND STORAGE TECHNOLOGIES

altenergymag

At the Intersolar Europe Conference, the specialist conference taking place in parallel with the exhibition, there will be two joint sessions with the ees Europe Conference, where high-caliber presenters will be discussing the integration of PV and storage systems.

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ACCURE raises $8 million to scale its battery analytics software

Charged

ACCURE , a software and AI battery analytics company based in Aachen, Germany, has received $8 million in Series A funding from Blue Bear Capital, Capnamic Ventures and 42CAP. ACCURE’s software is designed to empower battery manufacturers and operators to monitor battery health and safety in real time throughout an asset’s life cycle, enabling companies to predict safety incidents before they happen and optimize performance in the field without technical modifications or physically touching the

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Solarwatt opens three new production facilities for energy storage and solar modules

altenergymag

• Official opening ceremony with Saxony's Minister President Michael Kretschmer. and other guests of honour • State-of-the-art module production line with a production capacity of. 300 megawatt peak • Inauguration of two new energy storage production lines • Solarwatt to invest around 100 million euros in further development.

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Microsoft and Truist Financial anchor federal fund for community banks with $120 million

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, Sept. 23 – Microsoft and Truist Financial are anchoring a new federal fund for community banks. The Mission-Driven Bank Fund from the Federal. The post Microsoft and Truist Financial anchor federal fund for community banks with $120 million appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Salt River Project connects 25 MW energy storage facility to Arizona grid

Renewable Energy World

Arizona-based municipal utility Salt River Project connected its largest battery storage facility into the grid this month. SRP has placed the 25-MW energy storage facility into service at its Bolster Substation, which is adjacent to the gas-fired Agua Fria Generating Station. The fully charged battery site can power about 5,600 homes for close to four hours, according to reports.

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The sky-high value of cutting methane emissions is attracting policymakers – and investors

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, Sept. 23 – Carbon dioxide has gotten most of the attention in the fight against climate change. But it is another compound, The post The sky-high value of cutting methane emissions is attracting policymakers – and investors appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Top Climatetech Investors Discuss the IPCC Report’s Call to Action

Greentown Labs

The recent landmark IPCC report highlights the urgent need for collaborative climate action in order to reach net-zero emissions by 2050. With billions of dollars already flowing into climatetech, investors have a big role to play in driving the energy transition and negating the effects of climate change. So what does this mean for climatetech startups and the investors who have the resources to help scale their technologies, and where may the biggest opportunities lie?

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Uganda’s gnuGrid pivots from solar data to financial data

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, September 23 – Kampala-based gnuGrid launched in 2019 as a data and payments intermediary for home solar providers and microgrid operators and. The post Uganda’s gnuGrid pivots from solar data to financial data appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Planet’s Data Helps Establish Scientific Rigor for SMARTFARM Carbon Monitoring Program

Planet Pulse

The U.S. Corn Belt produces around 30% of all the corn and soybeans grown globally. These two crops, alongside rice and sorghum, makeup a large portion of biofuel crop yields within the U.S. and provide a low-carbon alternative to traditional fuel sources (coal and oil). Not only does this incredibly productive landscape provide this alternative, but research reveals that this agricultural land has immense potential to mitigate emissions through sustainable management and carbon monitoring prac

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GE selected to supply solar power stations for 1.3 GW of projects in Turkey

Renewable Energy World

Follow @EngelsAngle. GE Renewable Energy has been selected by Kaylon to deliver solar power stations for 1.3 GW of projects in Turkey, the company announced Thursday. GE will supply its FLEXINVERTER* solar power stations to the 270 MW Karapinar phase II-A and 810 MW Karapinar phase II-B solar plants, in addition to the power stations already commissioned at the 267 MW Karapinar phase I solar plant.

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University of Bath to offer every fresher climate change training

Business Green

In partnership with the Carbon Literacy Project, the university will offer students access to a climate course during their induction. The University of Bath has today announced the launch of a major new carbon literacy training programme, in partnership with the Carbon Literacy Project, that will be available to new and returning students during their induction to the University this month.