GreenBiz

JUNE 8, 2020

How sustainability professionals can uplift the black community. Jarami Bond. Mon, 06/08/2020 - 02:11. Dear Sustainability Community, I come to you again. It’s been three years since writing my first article for GreenBiz, " Why diversity is the key to unlocking sustainability." I provided a quick glimpse of the anxiety and pain that the black community feels daily and actionable steps that the sustainability community could take to advocate for diversity and stimulate unprecedented change.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JUNE 8, 2020

Located inside the Sian Ka'an Biosphere Reserve in the municipality of Tulum in the Mexican state of Quintana Roo, Casa Bautista is a private oasis hidden in the coastal rainforest and completely powered by solar and wind energy.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 8, 2020

How on-demand food delivery apps could encourage low-carbon food. Anna Zhang. Mon, 06/08/2020 - 02:00. The COVID-19 crisis has affected most aspects of daily life, including how we get our food. Because the COVID-19 response has restricted restaurants to pick-up and delivery orders in many areas, business for on-demand food delivery apps such as DoorDash, Grubhub, Seamless and Uber Eats has increased dramatically. .

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JUNE 8, 2020

MADAM has completed Ginkgo Forest Tea House, a timber tea house that rests peacefully among the ginkgo trees near Swan Lake.

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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.

Energy

GreenTechMedia

JUNE 8, 2020

Atom Power has raised $17.8 million to boost production of its all-digital circuit breakers and panels for high-stress industrial and commercial settings, from factories and data centers to large-scale electric vehicle charging systems. Friday's Series B round included strategic investors ABB Technology Ventures and Rockwell Automation, along with Atreides Management and Valor Equity Partners.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JUNE 8, 2020

Did you know that 85% of textiles end up in landfills? Son of a Tailor wants to change that.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JUNE 8, 2020

Atelier 360 has given Les Arcs - Bourg Saint Maurice funicular a green renovation that emphasizes panoramic views and passive cooling.

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Charged

JUNE 8, 2020

Remember battery swapping? Following Tesla’s abandonment of the concept , and the spectacular rise and fall of Better Place , most in the EV industry probably wrote it off as a failed transitional technology. However, over in China, NIO has been diligently improving its battery swapping technology. The company introduced its Power Swap system in December 2017, and opened its first battery swap station in Shenzhen in May 2018.

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Batteries Technology Government Energy 116

The City Fix

JUNE 8, 2020

Contrary to what many speculated, the number of confirmed COVID-19 cases in Ethiopia has been low so far. As of May 18, 2020, the Ministry of Health confirmed it had a total of 352 cases of COVID-19 of which 30%. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Charged

JUNE 8, 2020

Sponsored by Littelfuse. The adoption of electric and hybrid electric vehicles depends on a network of charging stations. Consumers don’t want to run out of juice in a place where they cannot recharge their vehicles. Adoption also depends on reductions in charging time, the goal being to get EV charging time on par with a conventional fill-up. This in turn depends on high-power charging stations having more than 50 kW of charging power which are relatively more expensive.

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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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Impact Alpha

JUNE 8, 2020

ImpactAlpha, June 8 – BioBot Analytics uses sensors in sewer systems to analyze the contents of city waste, helping them to track opioid use or spot pandemics. The women-led company has been working with cities to identify the scale of COVID-19 infections to inform re-opening plans. The funding round was led by MIT-affiliated venture firm. The post ‘Smart sewage’ startup raises $4.2 million to help track COVID-19 appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Charged

JUNE 8, 2020

Amid the hardships of the recent pandemic-inspired lockdowns, some saw signs of hope for the future in the clear skies and quiet streets. Could the views of distant mountains from Los Angeles to New Delhi be made permanent? The object lesson provided by the lockdowns was that, if we want cleaner air, we know how to get it. Alas, it seems that the dawn of a new Clean Air Age may have been just a fleeting dream.

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Forbes Green Tech

JUNE 8, 2020

Climate, economy and finance drivers are giving hydrogen energy unprecedented support.

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Impact Alpha

JUNE 8, 2020

ImpactAlpha, June 8 – Venture capitalists have long been criticized for funding mostly white, male founders. Just one percent of venture-backed founders are Black. With racial justice thrust into the national spotlight, some of the largest VC firms are starting to take action. Andreesen Horowitz launches donor-advised fund for diverse entrepreneurs.

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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.

Sustainability

Solar Power World

JUNE 8, 2020

The solar industry has been anticipating the release of Enphase’s Ensemble home energy management system with grid-forming technology since it was announced in May 2019. Soon after in-person training for the system officially started in Q1 of 2020, COVID-19 forced the nation into lockdown. The company had to pivot. “We got off to a great… The post Enphase Ensemble training goes virtual due to COVID-19 appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Charged

JUNE 8, 2020

AMTE Power and Britishvolt have announced plans to collaborate on what they call the UK’s first full-cycle battery cell “GigaPlant.” The parties have signed a memo of understanding (MoU) focused on the companies’ complementary ambitions to create and expand an onshore manufacturing supply chain. The collaboration would enable scalable production of a diverse portfolio of lithium-ion batteries.

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Econaur

JUNE 8, 2020

Changing the color of your homes is perhaps the fastest way of bringing in a complete makeover. With the rooms being just the same, repainting your home walls will feel like a completely different space and this, consequently, has been a favorite tool for both homeowners and interior decorators. However, it’s not as easy a choice when it comes to choosing the kind of paint you finally bring home.

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Business Green

JUNE 8, 2020

CDP beefs up non-disclosure campaign as investors publicly call on leading businesses to respond to their requests for climate-related information. Last Friday, the UN and the UK launched the high profile Race to Zero campaign with the news that around 1,000 corporates around the world have pledged to deliver net zero emissions by 2050 at the latest.

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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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E2 Environmental Entrepreneurs

JUNE 8, 2020

In a different career, as the Washington correspondent for the Atlanta Journal-Constitution newspaper, I was lucky enough to get to know civil rights icon U.S. Rep. John Lewis, who was marching for black lives and was a target for police brutality long before I or George Floyd or Ahmaud Arbery or Breonna Taylor was born. As I watch what’s happening in our world today, I’ve found myself reaching for inspiration in the life and words of Rep.

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altenergymag

JUNE 8, 2020

Palm Springs has installed more solar per capita than any other city in the continental United States, and Renova Energy has installed the most of any company there.

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Energy Energy 78

Forbes Green Tech

JUNE 8, 2020

Interest in Nikola's electric Badger pickup, an inflow of European investors and some short covering appear to have boosted the stock.

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Impact Alpha

JUNE 8, 2020

ImpactAlpha, June 8 – Back in 2016, Impact Investing Australia found just $1.2 billion impact-aligned investments across the country. Since that inaugural report, Australian investors have increased their allocations more than 16-fold to $20 billion. The sector is expected to grow to as much as $100 billion by 2025, according to Benchmarking Impact from the.

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Forbes Green Tech

JUNE 8, 2020

Measured policies will be needed to generate funds, accelerate investment and develop a globally competitive workforce to capitalise on the growth opportunities in the clean energy sector.

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Impact Alpha

JUNE 8, 2020

Greetings, Agents of Impact! The Call: Monitoring and managing for impact in the time of COVID. The challenges of the pandemic present opportunities for impact investors able to help firms maintain operations and jobs and contribute to a sustainable and inclusive recovery. The International Finance Corp.’s new report, “Growing Impact,” assesses the potential for positive impact in emerging.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 8, 2020

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Business Green

JUNE 8, 2020

The Times reports Elon Musk made a recent flying visit to the UK to inspect a potential site for a major new factory near Bristol. The UK government's plans to deliver a massive 'gigafactory' battery plant may have taken a step forward last week, after reports suggested Tesla is actively considering building a major new facility at a site near Bristol.

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altenergymag

JUNE 8, 2020

Recently, the 21.6MW solar project in Hiroshima, Japan, aluminum solar racking designed and provided by Antaisolar, is under installation after over 60 times of design modification.

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Business Green

JUNE 8, 2020

Alok Sharma to chair series of meetings with businesses, academics, and trade bodies, as government continues to work on green stimulus package. Business Secretary Alok Sharma will this week chair the first of a series of new 'recovery roundtables', bringing together businesses, trade bodies, and academics to discuss how to maximise the impact of the government's imminent economic recovery package.

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altenergymag

JUNE 8, 2020

REC Group, an international pioneering solar energy brand with Scandinavian heritage, is pleased to report that on June 3, 2020, the United States International Trade Commission (ITC) issued a Final Determination that REC Group's products do not infringe the asserted claims of Hanwha Q-Cells' U.S. Patent 9,893,215 ('215 patent). The Final Determination affirms the Initial Determination (Order No. 40) by the Administrative Law Judge (ALJ) dated April 10, 2020.

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Business Green

JUNE 8, 2020

The current crisis shows that properly understood, robust data is vital for making timely policy decisions, argues the EIC's Matthew Farrow. A few years ago I organised a workshop for EIC members with the Environment Agency on the challenge of managing the environmental impacts of shale sites. We had a good mix of EIC members there and during the coffee break I remember talking to the boss of a hazardous waste treatment firm - very much a no nonsense businessman.

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Forbes Green Tech

JUNE 8, 2020

They aren't hurricanes, but cloud systems with an "eye" appeared near California around Memorial Day. Here's why.

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Business Green

JUNE 8, 2020

Giant local authority pension fund uses World Environment Day to confirm progress is being made to curb carbon impact of investments. The Brunel Pension Partnership has reduced the carbon intensity of its active portfolios by seven per cent compared to its respective benchmarks, it revealed late last week. In its first responsible investment and stewardship outcomes report, the Local Government Pension Scheme (LGPS) pool also said at least 35 per cent of its cycle one infrastructure investments

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EDF + Business

JUNE 8, 2020

We’re back with the last in a two-part series on prospects for ESG and climate investing between EDF’s Ben Ratner and Brian Rice, a portfolio manager at California State Teachers’ Retirement Systems , the world’s largest educator-only pension fund with roughly $243 billion under management. Ben Ratner, Senior Director, EDF+Business. After exploring the importance of climate policy and net-zero corporate planning in the first Q&A , the discussion turns to oil and gas.

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