GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Date/Time: October 7, 2021 (1-2PM ET / 10-11AM PT) The last five years have seen significant growth in the number of Americans who say they want to buy eco-friendly products — 42% as of January 2021, according to the latest Shelton Group research. There has also been significant growth in the number of people who can name — unaided — a brand they have intentionally purchased or intentionally stopped purchasing because of the company’s environmental or social record (26%).

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Inhabitat - Innovation

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

These companies honor that connection to the planet and its inhabitants, giving consumers a way to support native heritage while making purchasing decisions that protect the environment. Here are some Indigenous-owned brands you can support.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

From the Bank of England to the People’s Bank of China, monetary authorities of the world’s largest economies are gauging how climate change could rock the financial system.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

A report prepared by the Energy Department and National Renewable Energy Laboratory shows that the U.S. could increase its solar power generation from the current 3% to 40% by 2035. To achieve this feat, the federal government would need to invest less than $562 billion and support related policies.

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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.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Employee travel is one of the greatest contributors to corporate emissions, yet most firms aren’t taking real action to make such programs any greener.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The net-zero energy Singapore Pavilion at Expo 2020 Dubai advocates green architecture and showcases the possibilities of integrating nature within urban environments. Displaying lush greenery, digital solutions and art, the Pavilion exemplifies Singapore's vision of sustainable development to become a "City in Nature.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

A new office tower stands tall in Austin, and its sustainability features are breaking records. Indeed Tower, a recently completed AA office tower, earned 82 points toward a LEED v4 Core & Shell (CS) Platinum Certification.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Everyone, it seems, has a 9/11 story. Here's mine.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

California may risk its climate reform progress in the upcoming recall elections. On September 14, California residents will vote to either affirm Governor Gavin Newsom or elect a new governor. Many worry that a loss for Newsom would prove detrimental to both the state and national fights against climate change.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Plus, would you 'borrow' a shopping bag? Inside the Beyond the Bag program pilot.

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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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U.S. Green Technology

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Many of us aspire to live a greener, healthier lifestyle that leaves little to no trace on the world around us. Many of us also happen to be car owners and drivers, and as we all know, driving a car isn’t exactly an eco-friendly habit. In fact, motorized transportation is a significant contributor to air. The post Four Simple Steps to Environmentally Friendly Car Ownership appeared first on U.S.

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altenergymag

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The Society for Underwater Technology's (SUT) second virtual Offshore Wind Renewable Energy course, held in association with Cranfield University, will take place on 19-20 October over two online interactive 4-hour morning sessions.

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U.S. Green Technology

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Sustainability concepts are making an impact on research institutions. Not only does it lead to cost-cutting measures but sustainability can help minimize the impact that research projects have on the environment. As companies and organizations spend more on research and development each year, it has become even more crucial for research teams to embrace the.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Solid Power , a producer of all-solid-state EV batteries, plans to build a second Denver-area production facility in Thornton, Colorado. The new plant will expand Solid Power’s capacity to produce materials for its battery cells, including the ability to produce up to 30 metric tons of sulfide-based solid electrolyte material annually—a 25x throughput increase over current capacity.

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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.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Contributed by Rogér Baylon, Clean Energy Associates. Despite last year’s reinstatement of US tariffs on bifacial modules , solar developers are often considering bifacial modules for their utility-scale solar projects. But the promise of bifacials’ higher energy yield of 6% to 10% – or more – compared to traditional monofacial PERC technology comes at a higher dollar-per-watt module cost, as well as increased expenses for balance of system (BOS) and installation.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

For most car buyers, their technical automotive knowledge amounts to this: they know a car has an engine (or motor), and they want the biggest, most powerful one they can afford. Early-adopting EV buyers seem likely to be a little more knowledgeable, and Tesla is taking the unprecedented step of giving buyers a choice between two alternative battery chemistries.

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Impact Alpha

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

TGIF, Agents of Impact! ?? Crossing climate. Another day, another billion-dollar climate fund. The latest announcement ahead of this fall’s climate conferences: California. The post The Week in impact investing: The intersections appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

For the electrification of the automobile powertrain, new materials play a crucial role in enabling and facilitating a wide adoption of electromobility. Join this session at the Charged Virtual Conference on EV Engineering this Fall, presented by Huntsman Advanced Materials, to learn more about new materials serving as secondary insulation in the stator and rotor (e.g. facilitating new 800 V and ESM magnetless rotor designs).

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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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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

As the oil and gas industry achieves success in pushing the world towards widespread adoption of methane-based blue hydrogen, some unexpected voices are calling out the industry on its deception of selling blue hydrogen as an affordable and clean source of energy. . In August, Chris Jackson resigned as head of the UK Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Association, calling blue hydrogen an “expensive distraction.”.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Follow @EngelsAngle. Energy Vault's merger with Novus Capital Corporation II values the grid-scale energy storage provider at $1.1 billion, the company announced Thursday. The combined company is expected to trade on the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol "GWHR." Robert Piconi will lead the combined venture as chairman and CEO. Energy Vault's energy storage systems use gravity to store and release renewable energy on demand, giving grid-scale reliability to clean energy sources in place of

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Government plans to introduce legislation this year that mandates all new-builds with car parking space feature plug-ins. All homes and office buildings built in England will soon be equipped with electric car charge points, under proposals designed to ramp up the number of chargers across the country ahead of the 2030 phase out of new fossil fuel vehicles.

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Follow @EngelsAngle. Wind turbine manufacturer Goldwind has connected its 5-megawatt onshore test unit to the grid, as the company prepares to begin deliveries next year. Goldwind’s permanent magnet direct-drive (PMDD) onshore GW 5S Smart Wind Turbine features scaled rated power of 5.2 MW to 5.6 and 6 MW, a 165-meter rotor diameter, and hub heights that can range from 100-130 meters. “The GW 5S wind turbine is our most powerful onshore turbine to date that takes into account global w

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Fairsnape

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Delighted to release the first of our Zoom Regenerative in Conversation podcasts …. Mindful Spaces and Places. Sophie Lacey is a skilled copywriter and content writer with extensive experience in the promotion of health & wellbeing in the built environment, retail, homes & gardens, food & beverage, beauty and fashion. This podcast explores Sophie’s activities and perspective as a qualified meditation teacher across many areas, including mindfulness in nature, mindful spaces, biophili

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

As the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) begins to study transmission reform, a new report out today from ICF Resources and the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE) highlights the problem with transmission cost allocation today. The study essentially found that while the entire power system typically benefits from significant transmission upgrades, new wind and solar projects are being asked to foot nearly the entire bill when they want to connect to the grid.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Policymakers met with fossil fuel and biomass producers nine times as often as with their renewable energy counterparts, DeSmog can reveal, raising fresh concerns over the depth of the government’s commitments to reaching net zero emissions by 2050. Analysis of the government’s latest transparency data shows ministers at the Department for Business, Energy & Industrial Strategy (BEIS) held 130 one-on-one meetings with energy producers between July 22 2019 and March 18 2021, of which nearly h

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

A unit of East Coast renewable power generator Algonquin Power & Utilities Corp. is working on a new wind power project in Illinois. The 108-MW Shady Oaks II wind project is a collaboration of Liberty, a part of Algonquin, and JPMorgan Chase. Construction began this spring on the wind farm to feature 22 wind turbines in Lee County, Ill. JPMorgan Chase will purchase approximately 70% of the wind farm’s energy output, which will serve as the largest contribution to date toward JPMorgan Chase’s

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The UK’s Business Department and the country’s leading oil and gas industry body have both been accused of citing the Climate Change Committee “out of context” in a bid to justify new developments in the North Sea. Campaigners say the industry is “twisting the words” of the government’s independent climate advisers in a “shameless” attempt to promote its growth plans.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The final countdown to the Net Zero Festival 2021 has officially begun. After a long 18 months spent in various stages of Covid-19-driven lockdown, hundreds of leading lights of the green economy were finally able to once again meet face-to-face at yesterday's official launch event for the Net Zero Festival, which took place at London's Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET).

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Impact Alpha

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

ImpactAlpha, Sept. 10 – When you own everything, you don’t want everything to go to hell. That’s the simple concept behind the emerging doctrine. The post Universal Owners appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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LA CleanTech Incubator

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

A small city growing a big plan for zero emission mobility. Covering roughly five square miles in west Los Angeles County, with a population of nearly 40,000, Culver City was the first small city to join the Transportation Electrification Partnership (TEP) two years ago, with then Mayor Meghan Sahli-Wells stating, “Together, we can lead the. Read more » The post TEP Partner Spotlight: Culver City appeared first on LACI.

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Impact Alpha

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

ImpactAlpha, Sept. 10 – On this week’s podcast, host Monique Aiken and ImpactAlpha’s David Bank preview next week’s Agents of Impact call and sample. The post Impact Briefing: Week of September 10 appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

The 'buyback' scheme is part of the Swedish retail giant's effort to become a circular business by 2030. In the Conshohocken borough of Pennsylvania, IKEA is buying back furniture from customers. At least until later this month. The buyback program, part of the company's effort to become a circular business by 2030, is a pilot that started on 30 August and will run until 19 September.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Program Manager | Clean Energy Trust | Chicago. Program Manager – 501vc? Platform. The Program Manager role will help manage the execution of Clean Energy Trust’s entrepreneurial support programs, ecosystem development initiatives, corporate partnerships, and world-class events. The role will work across all aspects of Clean Energy Trust’s organization and with their key external stakeholders, which include startups, investors, universities, major corporations, government agenc

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