Tue.Oct 12, 2021

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Educating girls: The overlooked solution to climate change

GreenBiz

Sponsored: To solve the climate crisis, accelerating education and digital equity for women and girls may be the best place to start.

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Furniture made from the sea plant eelgrass

Inhabitat - Innovation

Natural material selection for products can provide a low environmental impact and carbon emission concern. Architect and designer David Thulstrup incorporated this idea into his recent exhibit called the MOMENTUM collection.

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Remora is ready to roll with carbon capture for trucks

GreenBiz

The startup has a long list of multibillion-dollar logistics corporations signed up as pilot accounts, including Ryder.

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This indoor garden grows microgreens in one week

Inhabitat - Innovation

It’s no surprise that growing your own food is the healthiest option for you and the planet. Garden fresh greens cut promptly before eating have the highest nutritional value.

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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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Why saving peatlands can help stabilize the climate

GreenBiz

Peatlands make up 3 percent of the earth’s landscape, yet absorb large amounts of carbon and harbor surprising biodiversity.

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Red Sea oil tanker could cause eco-catastrophe any second now

Inhabitat - Innovation

The U.N., the government of Yemen and Houthi rebels have been in talks about how to handle the FSO Safer. Meanwhile, the enormous floating oil storage vessel remains abandoned in the Red Sea, threatening a massive oil leak.

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Black and White Beach House employs climate-ready architecture

Inhabitat - Innovation

With construction earning the unwanted title of a top-ranking dirty industry, architecture focused on energy efficiency, natural materials and durability even in the face of natural disasters is a win for the environment and the home or business owner.

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How DFW aims to catalyze climate action for the airport industry

GreenBiz

One airport's efforts to embed sustainability have taken off.

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Crayfish interbreeding causing the extinction of native species

Inhabitat - Innovation

In a new study conducted by Illinois Natural History Survey, scientists discovered by chance that the virile crayfish species, faxonius virilis, are interbreeding with native crayfish in the Current River in Missouri, leading to disruptions in the ecosystem. The study, published in the Journal Aquatic Invasions, also mentioned the species are going through biological inversion that may lead to the extinction of native species.

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How the U.S. can achieve climate commitments

GreenBiz

It's time to embrace an all-of-society strategy.

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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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Majority of companies to miss net-zero targets, analysis shows

Envirotec Magazine

Corporate commitments to net-zero accelerated over the last two years, with almost one-third (30%) of Europe’s largest listed companies now having pledged to reach net-zero by 2050, according to a new study by consultancy firm Accenture. The study, “ Reaching Net Zero by 2050 ,” analyzed data from more than 1,000 listed companies across Europe’s major stock indexes, finding that setting targets helps accelerate the transition to net-zero — i.e., where a company reduces its emissions of CO2 and o

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WattBuy Secures $10 Million to Drive Clean Energy Innovation

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WattBuy has announced a $10 million expansion of their Series A raise, led by SE Ventures (the venture capital fund backed by Schneider Electric) and MCJ Collective (the climate tech fund created by Runkeeper founder Jason Jacobs). The company will soon launch a new solar service that provides residents across the country with community and rooftop solar options.

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A nature-based adaptive approach to boosting coral restoration

Envirotec Magazine

Coral restoration by means of nurseries-based coral growing. For this, typically coral larvae are allowed to settle on an artificial structure or substrate to grow to a certain size in nurseries in a benign environment, after which they can be transplanted to the reef site targeted for restoration (photo credit: Anna Roik). Coral reefs are rapidly degrading all over the world due to climate change and human activity.

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The Importance Of Natural Light In Home Design

U.S. Green Technology

Home Design Tips And And What To Avoid If you are planning to build a new home or even remodel an existing home then reading this article about home design tips and what to avoid will definitely help you. This is a brief guide that will provide you with some basic information about home. The post The Importance Of Natural Light In Home Design appeared first on U.S.

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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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Comment: Puzzling out a solution to plastic and POPs

Envirotec Magazine

In-feed plastics ready for processing at the Axion facility in Salford. The material is converted into a proprietary recycled polymer. Growing pressure to transition to the circular economy and the desire to eliminate legacy additives is proving to be a conundrum for the plastics recycling sector. Richard McKinlay, Head of Consulting at resource recovery specialist Axion, offers a few thoughts.

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Corporate Sustainability Training: An Executive Guide

Green Business Bureau

Do any of these situations sound familiar? You are a business that is interested in sustainability but doesn’t know how to start. Or you have tried a few initiatives, such as recycling, here and there, but you haven’t really gotten things going. Or you have one or several teams who have taken on sustainability in their departments, and you see promise in broadening that effort throughout your company.

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Can we hit the 2035 clean electricity target? Experts offer their two cents

Envirotec Magazine

Prime Minister Boris Johnson has announced plans to eliminate fossil fuels from UK electricity production by 2035. Speaking at the conservative conference in Manchester on 4 October, the PM talked of plans to move away from the UK’s reliance on carbon in the UK’s energy production, something he asserted would safeguard against future price surges.

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Planet Introduces New High Resolution Pelican Satellites and Fusion with SAR

Planet Pulse

This morning at our Explore 2021 user conference, we announced two major new products: Pelican, a next-generation fleet of satellites for very high resolution imagery that will begin launching next year and be operational in 2023, and Fusion with SAR, a cutting-edge data enhancement to our existing Fusion Monitoring product. . When fully operational, the Pelican constellation replenishes and upgrades Planet’s existing high resolution SkySat fleet with better resolution, more frequent image revis

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Net zero transport plans need to include life-cycle energy and GHG emissions, says study

Envirotec Magazine

Government policy should increase its focus on the well-to-wheel (WTW) greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions and overall energy efficiency performance of new fuels for transport, according to a new study by Zemo Partnership (formerly LowCVP). While hydrogen, electric and renewable fuels (produced from waste-based feedstocks) can all radically cut emissions compared with their diesel-powered counterparts, there are major variations in their effectiveness and efficiency in terms of cutting emissions depe

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Tesla expected to (finally) release a CCS adapter in the US

Charged

The War of the Charging Standards will only truly be over when any EV can use any public charging station. Tesla is taking another step toward that glad day by releasing a CCS-to-Tesla plug adapter to markets outside of Europe. When Tesla launched Model 3 and Supercharger V3 in Europe, it moved to make CCS its charging standard, adding CCS to new Model 3s and introducing a CCS adapter for Model S and Model X owners.

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Hazardous chemicals content listed in new EU-wide products database

Envirotec Magazine

It’s now possible to access data from the EU’s first public database of substances of very high concern in products, or SCIP. The aim is to help consumers make more informed purchasing choices and help waste operators further develop the re-use of articles and the recycling of materials. Around 6000 companies from across the EU have so far complied with this new duty to notify ECHA – the European Chemicals Agency – about products containing substances of very high concern, SVHC

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Planet Appoints Andrew Zolli As Chief Impact Officer As It Accelerates Investment In Sustainability

Planet Pulse

I’m proud to announce that Planet has appointed Andrew Zolli as Planet’s new Chief Impact Officer. . Planet’s purpose is to use space to help life on Earth. Our data, platforms, and services are powerful tools for addressing critical planetary challenges including climate change, sustainable development, human rights, and humanitarian emergencies. For the past eight years, Andrew has been a principal architect of Planet’s efforts in these areas, developing programs that have helped address ever

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Biogas trade association hosts side event at COP26, exploring short-lived climate pollutants

Envirotec Magazine

Three weeks away from the 26th Conference of the Parties ( COP26 ), the World Biogas Association (WBA) is preparing to travel to Glasgow to represent the global biogas industry at the UN Climate Summit and demonstrate the value of the biogas industry in tackling climate change. As Official Observers of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) , WBA will not only be able to attend COP26, but also to access a restricted area – the Blue Zone – where the negotia

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New battery inspection technologies: X-ray CT and Microscopy

Charged

Battery manufacturers face quality and process control challenges when battery components need to be inspected without being destroyed. The cells are inspected to map the electrode’s microstructure in 3D, the heterogeneities, foil stacking, welding joints, contacts, and their effect on battery aging and performance through several cycles of charging and discharging.

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Skylights made of ASCA® organic solar cells: The Netherlands Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai opens for visitors

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The Netherlands Pavilion for the World Expo 2020 in Dubai has opened its doors on the 1st of October. From now on and onwards for six months, guests from all around the world can visit the unique installation in the Sustainability District. Solar designer Marjan van Aubel Studio created the pavilion's colourful solar-paneled roof whose skylights are made of transparent organic photovoltaic cells (OPV) from ASCA.

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Omidyar Network commits $10 million in grants for reimagining capitalism

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, October 12 — Markets can be, and are being, reshaped by movements, policies and investments. Omidyar Network, which has spun off a. The post Omidyar Network commits $10 million in grants for reimagining capitalism appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Northvolt to invest $750 million to expand Swedish battery lab

Charged

Battery manufacturer Northvolt plans to invest $750 million to expand its laboratory facility in Sweden in order to meet soaring demand for lithium-ion batteries. Northvolt says it plans to set up the “first R&D campus covering the entire battery ecosystem.”. The order of the day in Europe is to quickly expand domestic battery capacity to try to wrest at least part of the market from giant Asian players such as CATL , LG Chem and Panasonic.

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Creating the Future of Cities with Regenerative Placemaking

The City Fix

This past year has been one of deep transformation, as we continue to live through one of the most influential events in human history. Amid the global pandemic, the social and racial inequality gap continues to widen. And the world’s. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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BYD and Levo Mobility collaborate to finance and deploy up to 5,000 V2G-equipped EVs

Charged

BYD has partnered with Levo Mobility, a joint venture of Nuvve Holding, Stonepeak Partners and Evolve Transition Infrastructure, to integrate Nuvve’s V2G technology with BYD EVs. The companies plan to deploy up to 5,000 V2G-equipped EVs over the next five years. Nuvve’s V2G technology uses bidirectional charging stations to enable EVs to discharge energy from their battery packs to the power grid as needed to help balance temporary spikes in electricity demand.

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Solar’s ITC needs an update

Renewable Energy World

The opportunity to encourage clean energy adoption via roof replacements is enormous, and the potential positive impact on the climate crisis is significant. Congress created the solar investment tax credit (ITC) in 2006 to spur solar energy growth in America and drive economic gains through the creation of new, clean manufacturing and construction jobs.

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Tesla announces ludicrous number of quarterly deliveries in China

Charged

We already knew things were hopping for Tesla in China. Tesla-watchers predicted that Chinese sales would prove to be a big part of the company’s all-time record deliveries in Q3 ,and Elon Musk confirmed it at the shareholders meeting, announcing that Gigafactory Shanghai had surpassed the Fremont factory in production volume. (We also suspected that the company didn’t build that gigantic new delivery center in Beijing just for fun.).

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Scotland’s largest offshore wind farm installs first turbine foundation

Renewable Energy World

Follow @EngelsAngle. The first turbine jacket foundation has been installed at the 1.1 gigawatt Seagreen Offshore Wind Farm project site offshore Scotland. The $4 billion Seagreen Offshore Wind Project, a joint venture between TotalEnergies and SSE Renewables, is Scotland's largest and the world's deepest, fixed-bottom offshore wind farm. The jacket foundation installation marks the first-ever gigawatt-scale deployment of suction caisson technology to fix offshore wind turbine foundations to the

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Fluke FEV100 adapter tests EV charging stations without an EV

Charged

The new Fluke FEV100 Electric Vehicle Charging Station Test Adapter tests the safety and performance of Level 1 or Level 2 charging stations with type 1 connectors. The Fluke FEV100 simulates the presence of an EV, allowing technicians to test the charging station in combination with appropriate test instruments, such as digital multimeters and ScopeMeters.

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Bloomberg Philanthropies Commits $25M to Accelerate Satellite Technologies That Pinpoint Methane Emitters to Turbocharge Fight Against Climate Change

Planet Pulse

New funding builds on unique partnership to tackle potent methane emissions between Bloomberg Philanthropies, Carbon Mapper, Planet, the State of California, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory, the University of Arizona, Arizona State University (ASU), High Tide Foundation, and RMI . Investment will monitor, report, and verify collective climate actions in support of the Global Methane Pledge.

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