GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Insights from green banking: What keeps customers from switching banks? Diane Osgood. Wed, 02/17/2021 - 00:05. ESG may be all the rage, but what about retail banking? The deposits you make at your retail bank for personal and business accounts sustain the bank’s ability to make loans and investments. Loans and investment fuel growth. Put simply, a bank’s capital can flow towards fossil fuels or renewable energy, towards local business loans or financing environmentally damaging projects.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Last year, the Global Forest Watch tracking system starting allowing people to help monitor deforestation in far-flung parts of the world while sitting at home with their laptop. But the satellite program had a flaw: perpetrators could hide behind cloud cover. The system recently announced a new upgrade that uses radar to see right through the clouds.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Developers must be supported if they are to protect biodiversity, according to surface water and drainage systems supplier ACO Water Management, following growing calls for construction projects to prioritise the protection of mainland species in the UK. A number of MPs, led by former Transport Secretary Chris Grayling, have made the case for hedgehogs to be added to Britain’s list of protected animals.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

The new Braunstein Taphouse can be moved should its harborside location become dangerous due to rising sea levels.

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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

Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

What is described as ‘the first cement-free ultra-low carbon concrete block’ was launched in the UK on 11 February, promising up to 73% CO2 savings compared to traditional concrete blocks. The new sustainable concrete block, Greenbloc , is being launched by CCP, part of SigmaRoc plc. It is said to provide an ultra-low carbon alternative to traditional cement-based concrete blocks, offering a route towards reducing construction’s reliance on cement – the world’s third highest source o

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Inhabitat - Innovation

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Foster + Partners has revealed designs for Lusail Towers, a sustainable landmark project in Qatar that targets 4 stars in the regional Global Sustainability Assessment System (GSAS).

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Inhabitat - Innovation

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

If you’re in the market for an ultra-luxurious, multipurpose adventure vehicle, this might be for you.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

If the U.S. converts to a carbon-free grid, millions of homeowners may wish to generate and store their own solar power. Companies are already jockeying over that potentially massive market — and the commercial contest revolves around safety. Tesla and LG Chem currently dominate the U.S. home battery market. Both use the lithium nickel manganese cobalt oxide (NMC) chemistry favored by the electric vehicle industry.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

POWERPASTE could be revolutionary for the transport sector.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

A new Quality Recycling Process (QRP) for flexible packaging, from CEFLEX (a consortium of European firms working on flexible packaging recycling) and its stakeholders, appears to demonstrate the viability of high value applications for recycled polymers from a mechanical recycling process. CEFLEX says the breakthrough process has been developed in the consortium’s Sustainable End Markets workstream.

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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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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Read time: 10 mins Fossil fuel industry supporters and climate deniers are pushing a new climate falsehood when it comes to renewable energy: that natural gas offers a more affordable future. And they’re focusing their misinformation campaign on New Jersey.

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altenergymag

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Project to Minimize the Water and Carbon Footprint of Lithium Extraction and Production to More Sustainably Power E-Mobility

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Impact Alpha

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

ImpactAlpha, February 17 — Reach Capital has raised $165 million for its latest fund to invest in early stage edtech companies. Reach Capital. The post Reach Capital closes $165 million fund for edtech startups appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

The Texas governor is calling for the resignation of Ercot leaders in the wake of the frigid temps and subsequent blackouts that ensued. Dangerous cold temps and no electricity are not a combination that anyone should have to endure. Well you know what? I think we should go higher. Let’s go above the head of the Texas governor and Ercot leaders and call for the resignation of the climate leaders.

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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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Charged

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Kia announced an update to its Plan S mid- to long-term roadmap at the company’s 2021 CEO Investor Day event. The new strategy features a renewed emphasis on the transition from ICE vehicles to electrified models. “Kia is being reborn in 2021 with a new logo, new design, and new corporate name,” said CEO Ho Sung Song. Kia says that by 2030, EVs, PHEVs and hybrids will make up 40 percent of all sales, with an annual sales target of 1.6 million units.

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altenergymag

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

The SolarWindow breakthrough announced today was achieved at the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) in Golden, Colorado through a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with SolarWindow.

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Impact Alpha

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

ImpactAlpha, Feb. 17 – Candidates in last year’s U.S. Senate race in Iowa were asked in a televised debate to cite the clearing. The post Farmers and ranchers harvest ‘soil carbon’ to meet rising corporate demand for emission offsets appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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altenergymag

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Developing advanced SCADA, EMS and DMS infrastructure to deliver intelligent monitoring and control of the evolving energy system. 24-25 March 2021. Swapcard Virtual Event Platform. The 5th annual NextGen SCADA Global 2021 virtual conference, exhibition and networking forum draws together SCADA system implementation leaders together with system integrator and technology innovators for a technically in-depth review of the latest SCADA infrastructure upgrade programmes worldwide.

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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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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

South Korea has unveiled a KRW 48.5 trillion ($43.2 billion) project to develop an 8.2GW wind complex offshore the Sinan County, South Jeolla Province. The project is said to be the world’s largest of its kind and forms part of the country’s efforts to support a green recovery. The agreement is said to involve 33 public and private entities, including Korea Electric Power Corp (KEPCO), equipment manufacturers such as Doosan Heavy Industries & Construction, and engineering and manufacturing c

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altenergymag

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Rise in demand for incineration process and growth in public WtE expenditure drive the growth of the global waste to energy market. Based on technology, the thermal segment dominated the market.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

The IPT Group, a holding company that owns wireless charging solution manufacturer IPT Technology, has acquired the inductive charging technology portfolio Primove from Bombardier. “By acquiring Primove we’re complementing our existing IP and product portfolio and speeding up our product-to-market plans,” says IPT CEO Richard van den Dool. Both IPT Technology and Primove are conducting various wireless charging pilots, prototypes and proofs of concept.

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altenergymag

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Clean battery developer EnZinc was awarded $450,000 to commercialize its rechargeable zinc batteries. Its zinc anode gives batteries three times the energy and double the lifespan of lead-acid batteries at a lower cost, is totally recyclable, and safer than either lead- or lithium-based batteries.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Read time: 6 mins An 18-month inquiry led by the province of Alberta into environmental groups opposed to Canadian tar sands is nearing completion, but a Canadian NGO wants the CA $3.5 million inquiry disbanded, alleging that it was improperly established to intimidate opponents of the fossil fuel industry.

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altenergymag

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Existing investors GV, NEA, Lennar Corporation, Collaborative Fund, Building Ventures, Catchlight Ventures and GroundUp also participated in round

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Low Impact

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

We explore the nuts and bolts of how to start a community garden with Ethical.net, this time tackling finding a site and first steps towards sourcing funding. How to find a site. Some community garden schemes begin because a piece of land in need of improvement has already been identified. In other instances, the idea for a community garden comes before a clear idea of where to put it.

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The City Fix

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

This is part two in a series on capacity development for city leaders. As the global urban population continues to grow rapidly, cities are being tasked with addressing a variety of needs – economic, social, political, environmental – with very. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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altenergymag

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Virtual reality means much more than video games, as when purchasing an electrical device you're invariably presented with a table featuring the part's working parameters and operational limits. Discovering these limits takes a lot of testing, so can simulations simplify this process? Here, Steve Hughes, managing director of power quality specialist REO UK, discusses the details that go into simulating, stress-testing and prototyping electrical components.

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Forbes Green Tech

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

The United States government should build a 50 megawatt fusion power plant to demonstrate the technology and set in motion a supply chain for future plants, according to the authors of a report released today by the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

A game of one-upmanship seems to be developing between America’s top two legacy automakers, and we’re cheering them on. In January, GM made a weaselly (but still significant) announcement of its “aspiration to eliminate tailpipe emissions from new light-duty vehicles by 2035.” A week later, Ford announced that it would double its planned investments in electrification.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Annual Monitoring Report adds to calls for government to deliver clearer delivery plans and more stable funding settlements for critical net zero infrastructure. The chorus of calls for the government to provide a more detailed plan for how it intends to deliver on its net zero targets and green recovery promises grew ever louder today, as the National Infrastructure Commission (NIC) published its annual report assessing progress against the UK's infrastructure goals.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

The city is exploring several strategies to cut emissions, but will depend on its investor-owned utility to achieve much of its ambitious new clean energy goal. As Des Moines leaders begin drafting plans for achieving the city’s ambitious new clean energy goals, one challenge looms above all: getting buy-in from the city’s investor-owned utility. Iowa’s most populous city passed a resolution last month calling for a transition to 100% carbon-free electricity community-wide by 2035.

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altenergymag

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Created by Lennar, SunStreet has a distinct understanding of homebuilding operations that has earned the company a reputation for being a proven leader in the residential solar market for homebuilders.

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Forbes Green Tech

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

The first full-line passenger EV to emerge from its Cologne, Germany, plant under the new strategy will arrive in two years, in 2023, with a second EV likely to come a year later.

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