Sat.Jun 27, 2020

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HP Sets Target to Reduce Single-use Plastic Packaging.

Green Living Guy

HP Sets Target to Reduce Single-use Plastic Packaging, Making Progress Toward Diversity Imperative! Sustainable Impact is HP’s commitment to create positive, lasting change for the planet. That’s for its people and our communities. HP meets this commitment through the actions of its employees. Also the technologies it designs. Moreover the Continue Reading.

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Why massive Saharan dust plumes are blowing into the US

Grist

This story was originally published by Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The pandemic is still raging, the Arctic is burning up , and microplastics are polluting every corner of the Earth , but do try to take a deep breath. Actually, belay that, especially if you live in the southern United States. A plume of dust thousands of miles long has blown from the Sahara across the Atlantic, suffocating Puerto Rico in a haze before continuing across the Gulf of Me

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Podcast Interview with Green Dreamer

Green Living Guy

What are some things we need to know about electric cars? How about knowing the future of renewable energy? Now what does it take to scale our audience size into the millions? All so that we can inspire and engage with more people with our work? First of all, Seth Continue Reading. The post Podcast Interview with Green Dreamer appeared first on Green Living Guy.

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Roaring Twenty-Twenties: Accelerating Energy Transition

Mr. Sustainability

A case to ‘recreate’ the technical and economic prosperity of the 1920s in the 2020s, by gradual divestment in ‘old’ energy systems and investment in ‘new’ renewable industries. It is summer 2020. We have ‘survived’ the first wave of Corona. The future is uncertain. Though the stock market is at an all-time high (weird), there is much talk about impending economic doom.

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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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Global Eco laws Grow but widespread failure enforcIng

Green Living Guy

First of all, the first-ever global assessment of environmental rule of law finds weak enforcement. Mind you it’s a global trend! Furthermore, that this lax enforcement is exacerbating environmental threats. All despite prolific growth in environmental laws and agencies worldwide. So expansion of laws and enforcement but doing nothing over Continue Reading.

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Florida Leading Large Solar Power Growth In US Southeast

CleanTechnica

The Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE) has been promoting and tracking clean energy in the US Southeast for many years. It now puts out an annual Solar in the Southeast report. Along with state comparisons on megawatts of solar installed, policy, and other matters, SACE actually calculates and shares installed solar capacity per customer for states and utilities.

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Tesla, Terafactories, & Lithium: Securing The Supply Chain

CleanTechnica

In a video by "EV Stock Channel" on YouTube, Ivan interviewed RK Equity’s Howard Klein on the topics of Tesla, terafactories, and lithium, along with the race to secure the supply chain. The video discusses why Tesla may get into mining.

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7 Bonus Solar + Storage Stories — Sonnen, Sunrun, Stem …

CleanTechnica

There's only so much time in the day — a lesson I seem intent on not learning. We've published many solar energy articles in the past month and many energy storage articles, but here are 7 more solar plus storage (solar+storage) articles we just couldn't dedicate full articles to.

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5 Bonus Battery Stories — Cobalt-Free Batteries, Battery Reuse …

CleanTechnica

Following up on 7 bonus solar + storage articles — very cool stories that we just didn't get to covering in standalone pieces — here are 5 bonus electric vehicle battery stories.

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California “Requires” Trucks Clean Up Their Act — But The Rule Is Late & Weak

CleanTechnica

California thinks it's strutting its stuff again and showing off its green leadership. Yesterday, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) proudly proclaimed that it was the first in the world to adopt a requirement that truck manufacturers switch from producing diesel trucks to producing zero-emissions trucks.

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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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The New 2021 Ford F-150 Hybrid — Ford Brought A Knife To A Gunfight

CleanTechnica

The press release doesn't even mention hybrid in the title or even as a heading. Wow, it doesn't even look like they are even trying to try and fool the public on this one. Then I found this bullet point.

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D.C. Attorney General Is Suing Oil & Gas Companies For Their Misinformation Campaigns

CleanTechnica

Attorney General Karl A. Racine of D.C is suing four of the largest oil and gas companies in the world. He spoke at a news conference and said that ExxonMobil, BP, Royal Dutch Shell, and Chevron have all violated the District's consumer protection law.

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The EV Revolution Is Happening Faster Than Expected

CleanTechnica

Don't believe commonly repeated anti-hype, nor the praised but far too timid aspirations of companies like Lyft. Over a year ago, I wrote an article predicting the transition happening around 2025. The EV revolution is happening faster than I expected in that article, and the next 5 years will show a dramatic shift.

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Follow The Money — Dutch Government’s Love Revealed, Big Business Over Clean Technology

CleanTechnica

The economic slowdown from the coronavirus has induced some governments to try to stimulate the economy. Two of the Dutch incentives are worth a closer look.

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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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Burger King Is More Proof That Tesla Doesn’t Need To Buy Ads #AutopilotWhopper

CleanTechnica

A Tesla Model 3 is featured in a new Burger King ad. (Though, the steering wheel tricked a few into thinking the next-gen Roadster was used.) Burger King tweeted, "Looks like AI even knows what you're in the mood for," along with a video of a Tesla on Autopilot. "Smart cars are smart enough to brake for a Whopper.".