Thu.May 21, 2020

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Why Nature?s Path went ?regenerative organic?

GreenBiz

Why Nature’s Path went ‘regenerative organic’. Heather Clancy. Thu, 05/21/2020 - 00:46. The term "regenerative agriculture" has become two of the biggest buzzwords in nature-based climate solutions. But how many farms and food companies can say they follow both regenerative and organic practices? Canadian cereal and snack company Nature’s Path — the largest organic breakfast and snack company in North America — hopes to get more agricultural organizations focused on the nuances of those adjectiv

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US renewables hit milestone in surpassing coal output

Inhabitat - Innovation

Both the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) and the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysts (IEEFA) have revealed that, from March 25th through May 3rd, utility-scale solar, wind and hydropower collectively generated more electricity than coal! This record 40-day timespan has edged over 2019's run of 38 days when U.S. renewables first beat coal last year.

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Amazon Clicks Buy on 615 Megawatts of Large-Scale Solar

GreenTechMedia

Amazon will add 615 megawatts of solar projects to its existing and announced renewables portfolio of more than 2.9 gigawatts, the technology and shipping giant said on Thursday. The projects will go up across the world — in Australia, China and the United States — to power Amazon’s shipping warehouses and data centers. Amazon did not say who would develop the projects and declined to comment on what companies were involved in the installations.

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Architects design COVID-19 mobile testing labs for underserved communities

Inhabitat - Innovation

Perkins and Will is teaming up with multiple designers to find ways to reuse buses as mobile testing labs.

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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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Automating Agriculture: Innovations in Farm Robots

CleanTech Group

Recent COVID experience has heightened concerns about food security and its supply chains. This is largely due to workforce-related issues, particularly worker availability.

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Tiny minimalist cabin in the Pyrenees uses natural materials

Inhabitat - Innovation

Don't let the simple aesthetic of this cabin fool you! The Weekend Shelter by Agora Arquitectura conceals a powerhouse of passive design.

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AKA Patagonia pays tribute to the Chilean landscape with low-impact construction

Inhabitat - Innovation

The hotel boasts views of volcanoes, mountains and glaciers.

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HEVO to Launch US Manufacturing for Wireless Electric Vehicle Charger

GreenTechMedia

Wireless electric vehicle charging carries a whiff of the future, akin to flying cars. But HEVO, a Brooklyn-based startup, aims to make it part of the present by emerging from obscurity with a commercially ready wireless charger this year. The company has designed a ground-mounted pad that beams electricity up to a car-mounted receiver to wirelessly charge it.

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Crowds fill national park for Yellowstone reopening

Inhabitat - Innovation

As visitors poured in on May 18, cars with license plates from all over the country filled parking lots and hardly a mask was in sight.

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PG&E’s Plan to Mitigate Blackouts This Wildfire Season: Lots More Diesel Generators

GreenTechMedia

Pacific Gas & Electric is turning to a decidedly low-tech solution to keep its customers’ lights on for this year’s coming fire season: mobile diesel generators. The bankrupt utility is struggling to secure its grid from causing more deadly wildfires and has been stymied in attempts to set up natural-gas-backed microgrids to power substations during fire-prevention blackouts.

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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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Enel Green Power Fuels Recovery by Connecting Three New Wind Farms in North America

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-Enel Green Power North America has begun operating a 50 MW expansion to the High Lonesome wind farm in Texas, increasing the project’s total capacity to 500 MW -The 105 MW Riverview and 29.4 MW Castle Rock Ridge II wind farms in Alberta, Canada are connected and delivering energy to the power grid.

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Leaked Document Lifts Lid on EU’s Green Deal ‘Recovery’ Package

GreenTechMedia

The European Union is planning a 15-gigawatt renewable energy tender and auctions for green hydrogen projects as part of a trillion-dollar Green Deal package, according to draft proposals leaked this week. First revealed in December 2019 , the EU's Green Deal was initially structured as a roadmap for the bloc to achieve its goal of net-zero status by 2050.

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Colombia?s New National Urban Mobility Policy Is Mostly a Good Thing

The City Fix

In the midst of COVID-19 precautions that have curtailed movement around the world, Colombia has released a new national road map for urban and regional mobility. It sends a powerful policy message that cities are saved by providing adequate access. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Marine Sector Turns to Ammonia to Decarbonize Shipping

GreenTechMedia

The shipping industry is charting a new route toward cutting fossil fuel use in ocean-going vessels: ammonia. To date, no ammonia-fueled ships have been built, but that’s not stopping companies including Equinor, MAN Energy Solutions and Wärtsilä from rushing to help bring ammonia-fueled ships to market. Moves to adapt engines and ship designs to ammonia fuel are driven by a 2018 International Maritime Organisation (IMO) commitment to cut international shipping’s annual gre

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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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Amazon signs on for another 410 MW of solar in United States

Solar Power World

Amazon’s commitment to reach 80% renewable energy by 2024 and 100% renewable energy by 2030 is still on track, with the company announcing five new projects in China, Australia and the United States. In addition to a 100-MW solar project in China and a 105-MW solar project in Australia, Amazon will build two solar projects… The post Amazon signs on for another 410 MW of solar in United States appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Why Innovation Is Key to Accelerating Battery Storage Growth

GreenTechMedia

By any measure, 2019 was a breakout year for energy storage in the U.S. Fueled by improved economics, increased demand for resilience, and the ever-increasing integration of intermittent renewable generation, energy storage installations hit an all-time high of 522 megawatts/1,113 megawatt-hours last year. Though coronavirus-related supply chain disruptions, macroeconomic damage and uncertainty have lowered 2020 installation forecasts, analysts remain bullish on the longer-term prospects of stor

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Lordstown announces exclusive licensing agreement with Elaphe for in-wheel hub motors

Charged

Lordstown Motors has announced an exclusive licensing agreement with Elaphe Propulsion Technologies. Elaphe will develop the in-wheel motor that will be used in Lordstown’s upcoming Endurance pickup truck—the motors will be built by Lordstown employees at the company’s Ohio headquarters. Initial setup of the 20,000-square-foot production line has already begun.

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How Cannabis Coevolved With Humanity, And Could Save It

Forbes Green Tech

As we face unprecedented hurdles amid the COVID-19 pandemic, it's time to re-embrace our oldest allies on this planet, including history's most useful plant.

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Sygic navigation solution integrates payment for charging

Charged

Slovakian mobile navigation vendor Sygic has added an EV Mode to its flagship Sygic GPS Navigation product. The new mode, which is available for free, allows users to plan routes with compatible charging points, get real-time data from charging stations, and process payments without the need for additional applications. Sygic’s EV Mode allows EV drivers to choose their car model from a database of plug-in vehicles with predefined specifications, including charging capacity, average consumption a

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Trina Solar believes its oversized, third-cut-cell modules pave the way for 600-W solar panels

Solar Power World

Trina Solar has published a technology white paper on its previously announced 500-W bifacial Vertex solar panels. According to the white paper, the technology behind the Vertex holds great potential for realizing 600-W and higher power outputs based on its product design and manufacturing. Trina Solar is using a third-cut solar cell using oversized 210-mm… The post Trina Solar believes its oversized, third-cut-cell modules pave the way for 600-W solar panels appeared first on Solar Power

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Are Tesla?s Models 3 and Y already capable of bidirectional charging?

Charged

As EV adoption increases, we’re hearing a lot of news about bidirectional charging, which supports vehicle-to-grid (V2G) applications and other nifty stuff. In January, Wallbox announced what appears to be the first bidirectional charger for the home market. Fermata Energy has several V2X projects in the works, including a partnership with Nissan. And ORNL recently demonstrated bi-directional wireless charging, using a UPS delivery van.

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Renewable generator revenues fall due to COVID-19 lockdown

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Research from Cornwall Insight's Green Power Forecast reveals there has been a sharp decline in generator revenues. Solar and wind technologies have been particularly impacted by low demand levels due to the COVID-19 lockdown.

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Innovative CDFIs scale up to help underserved communities move from relief to recovery?

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, May 21 – Community development financial institutions are an overnight sensation 30 years in the making. As the depth of the COVID crisis becomes clear, community development financial institutions are ‘having a moment’ as a financial lifeline for small businesses and nonprofits in low-income, rural and minority communities.

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Inovateus installs solar projects for six Ohio school districts

Solar Power World

Inovateus Solar, a Midwest solar developer, and En-Trust, an energy service and finance company for K-12 education, are collaborating on a portfolio of solar and energy efficiency projects for six Ohio school districts. When completed in 2020, the initial ten solar and energy efficiency improvements will provide an average of 25% annual utility savings for… The post Inovateus installs solar projects for six Ohio school districts appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Plastics Crisis: Quantifying Data for Transparency

CleanTech Group

By 2050, the weight of all the plastic in our oceans could exceed the weight of all its fish, according to estimates made.

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Realizing the risk of ignoring shareholder climate resolutions

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, May 21 – Massive flooding in Midland, Michigan on Wednesday threatened to release chemicals from a Dow chemical complex, where products ranging from Saran Wrap to Agent Orange have been produced over years, and an adjacent Superfund site. It’s the kind of nightmare scenario that imperils public health as well as corporate value, and. The post Realizing the risk of ignoring shareholder climate resolutions appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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National Carbon Capture Center expands testing of carbon capture for negative carbon technologies

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Southern Company-managed research facility also plans new focus on carbon utilization and direct air capture technologies

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New Chinese wireless charging standard incorporates WiTricity’s technology

Charged

After years of development, China recently announced a new national standard for wireless EV charging. Wireless charging is expected to be an important enabler for autonomous vehicles, and standardization is critical to ensure that wireless charging is interoperable across different vehicles and charging equipment. The new GuoBiao (GB) standard relies on technology developed by WiTricity , an MIT spin-out that was founded in 2007.

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The Brief: The Call: 10x community capital, innovative CDFIs, Dutch impact fund of funds, Africa?s cold chain, COVID bridge-financing, flood of climate-risk warnings

Impact Alpha

Greetings, Agents of Impact! Hop on The Call. Today’s Agents of Impact Call No. 17 will explore ways to increase by 10x or more the recovery capital for small businesses and nonprofits, especially in underserved communities. Calvert Impact Capital’s Beth Bafford, Community Reinvestment Fund’s Patrick Davis and Trufund’s James Bason will detail one such “community recovery vehicle” (see below).

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'Farming is going to have to change': NFU President Minette Batters on net zero, changing diets, and Brexit

Business Green

Net zero can help farmers 'build a better, climate smart business' Batters tells BusinessGreen, but major challenges lie ahead. When the National Farmers Union announced its ambition to achieve net zero greenhouse gas emissions across the industry by 2040, it took many by surprise. After all, this was back in January 2019 , a full six months before the UK became the first major economy in the world to legislate to deliver net zero emissions, setting a target date for full decarbonisation that fa

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What Does A Hydrogen City Look Like?

Forbes Green Tech

Generally, a hydrogen city can be defined as any city that is integrating hydrogen into its economy and infrastructure to reduce carbon emissions.

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Wire Group raises ?25 million for Netherlands-based impact fund of funds

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, May 21 – Dutch impact advisor Wire Group launched its first fund last year, after 10 years helping European family offices develop impact investing strategies and doing individual deals (see, “Wire Group’s new impact fund-of-funds offers global footprint for Dutch family offices“). It has raised €25 million toward a €60 million goal.

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Leaked EU green recovery plan targets building efficiency, hydrogen, transport, and renewables

Business Green

A leaked version of the European Commission's green recovery plan suggests the bloc will focus on ramping up hydrogen production and expanding renewables capacity, as well renovating Europe's housing stock and decarbonising transport systems, as its attempts to revive the bloc's coronavirus-stricken economy. A draft document of an official plan set to be published on 27 May sheds light on what types of low-carbon investments the EU intends to prioritise through its heavily-trailed green recovery

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SunPower offering U.S. veterans $1,000 rebate to go solar

Solar Power World

In honor of Memorial Day, SunPower is now offering an ongoing exclusive $1,000 home solar VISA Reward Card Rebate for veterans and people currently on active military duty. This incentive for current and former members of all branches of the U.S. military is a way to serve those who’ve dedicated their lives to serving the… The post SunPower offering U.S. veterans $1,000 rebate to go solar appeared first on Solar Power World.