Fri.Dec 27, 2019

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A Christmas Light

Jim Conca

‘Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house No electrons were flowing, through even my mouse; All devices were plugged by the chimney with care, With the hope that St. Nikola Tesla would share.

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2030 goals: Mattel aims for 100% recycled and recyclable toys

GreenBiz

Firm behind Barbie, Hot Wheels and Fisher-Price plans to launch first toy made from and packaged in green materials in early 2020.

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Dropps offers chemical-, dye- and plastic-free laundry and dishwashing products

Inhabitat - Innovation

In a world where it’s becoming increasingly difficult to find products free of harsh chemicals, it’s refreshing to discover a company focused on creating simple household supplies that do the job without endangering the health of humans or the planet. Dropps considers it their mission to provide safer cleaning products, minus bulky packaging and unnecessary ingredients.

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Corporate sustainability leaders share excitements, fears for 2020

GreenBiz

Companies across industries put the impetus on ESG action in the New Year.

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

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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Gorgeous tiny home thrives in the California sunshine

Inhabitat - Innovation

The Noyer is a surprisingly spacious tiny home with sleek interiors designed for a client in California.

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Tech Companies Downshift Ambitions for Electric Vehicle Manufacturing

GreenTechMedia

Technology companies continued to curb their ambitions for manufacturing electric vehicles in 2019. At one point, Apple was reportedly planning to launch an electric vehicle by 2019 , but after much hype around its secretive initiative called Project Titan, the iPhone maker shifted gears on EVs several years ago. While Apple continues to file automotive-related patents, its efforts now appear focused on infotainment and autonomous driving software rather than building a car from scratch.

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Challenges Remain in Understanding Energy Storage as an Investment

GreenTechMedia

Energy storage is a rapidly growing segment of the clean energy sector, and prices are dropping fast. Yet many are still struggling to understand how to value energy storage as an investment. As a growing number of cities, states and businesses commit to 100 percent clean energy, storage is already playing a pivotal role in determining how they will meet these targets.

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How Bike Lanes Are Transforming Paris

Forbes Green Tech

Bicycle use is soaring in the French capitol; cars are in decline, and there are big plans to extend the city's growing network.

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We wore Allbirds' Tree Runners around the world here's how they performed

Inhabitat - Innovation

Shoes made from wood pulp that are actually comfortable? Count us in!

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A Look Back at Some of DeSmog's Major Investigations of 2019

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 8 mins As 2019 comes to a close, DeSmog is reflecting on another year that featured high-impact investigations and accountability reporting by our team of journalists about the reckless fossil fuel industry. From new revelations regarding dangerous fossil fuel infrastructure, to new documents shedding light on early efforts to undermine climate science and exert industry influence over climate and energy policy, the past year was filled with exceptional investigative work by DeSmog.

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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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Predictable and Rare Climate Impacts in 2019

Green Market Oracle

This year there were a slew of predictable climate related events. There were also some rare global warming impacts including massive volumes of ice melt in Greenland and tropical cyclones that intensified at one of the fastest rates ever observed. According to the IPCC ice is melting and sea levels are rising at an accelerated rate. A quick review of temperature records tell us what we need to know.

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Gentherm and GM find microclimate comfort system reduces energy use up to 69% in cold weather

Charged

Gentherm, a developer of thermal management technologies, has published the results of a study it performed in partnership with GM to understand the real-world effectiveness of a ‘microclimate’ comfort system in reducing energy use in EVs. The study found that Gentherm’s ClimateSense microclimate comfort system increases driving range and energy savings.

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Is Extreme Cold In Alaska This Week That Unusual? - The Answer Might Surprise You

Forbes Green Tech

The science (and irony) of extreme cold in Alaska this week.

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Dropps offers chemical-, dye- and plastic-free laundry and dishwashing products

AGreenLiving

In a world where it’s becoming increasingly difficult to find products free of harsh chemicals, it’s refreshing to discover a company focused on creating simple household supplies that do the job without endangering the health of humans or the planet. Dropps’ mission is to provide safer cleaning products minus bulky, wasteful packaging and unnecessary ingredients.

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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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Grading My 2019 Energy Sector Predictions

R-Squared Energy

At the beginning of each year, I make several predictions about the energy sector for the upcoming year. You can see those predictions and read the context at Energy Sector Predictions For 2019. There is still a week left in 2019, but I believe there is enough available information to gauge the accuracy of these predictions. As always, I provided predictions that are specific and measurable.

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Gorgeous tiny home thrives in the California sunshine

AGreenLiving

Already well-known for its all-weather tiny home designs , Canadian studio Minimaliste is back with one breezy home for a client in California who dreamed of having a compact living space that is both comfy and mobile. The Noyer is a 331-square-foot tiny home on wheels that has a spectacular interior comprised of a living room, an office space, a kitchen, a bathroom with a composting toilet and a spacious sleeping loft.

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Travis Scott Squads Up In The Tesla Cybertruck & ATV — New Music Video

CleanTechnica

Travis Scott has a new music video out and guess what's in it? You probably already know thanks to Viv* sharing the clip with everyone on Twitter. Tesla's Cybertruck and ATV as well as The Boring Company's "Not a flame thrower" make an appearance.

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2030 goals: Mattel aims for 100% recycled and recyclable toys

AGreenLiving

Firm behind Barbie, Hot Wheels and Fisher-Price plans to launch first toy made from and packaged in green materials in early 2020. Go here to see the original: 2030 goals: Mattel aims for 100% recycled and recyclable toys.

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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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Electric Vehicle Ownership: Purchasing vs. Leasing

CleanTechnica

For our new report, Electric Car Drivers: Demands, Desires & Dreams (2019), we investigated whether EV drivers bought their cars new, bought them used, or leased them. The split was interesting. We then dug in deeper as well, for the first time ever, to learn a bit more about the cars they replaced, and why they went electric.

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Corporate sustainability leaders share excitements, fears for 2020

AGreenLiving

Companies across industries put the impetus on ESG action in the New Year. Go here to read the rest: Corporate sustainability leaders share excitements, fears for 2020.

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Charging Automation: Charging Startup ROCSYS Finishes Seed Investment Round

CleanTechnica

I am always saying how easy charging is. Well, in the Netherlands, ROCSYS, a charging automation company, just made it even simpler.

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We wore Allbirds’ Tree Runners around the world here’s how they performed

AGreenLiving

Shoes made from wood pulp that are actually comfortable? Count us in! Allbirds took the internet by storm after its Wool Runners, made using New Zealand merino wool and tested by numerous consumers, were deemed “the world’s most comfortable shoes” by almost everyone. After selling 1 million pairs of shoes just two years after officially launching in March 2016, the brand developed a cult following pursued by celebrities like Leonardo DiCaprio and former President Barack Obama.

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Piaggio Launches Electric Ape w/ Battery Swap Tech

CleanTechnica

The Piaggio Ape (that's "app-eh," not "ape") E-City will feature a long flat battery mounted low in the chassis. That design will help the three-wheeler to maximize interior cargo volume while also aiding in dynamic handling. That's because the heavy battery will help naturally lower the E-City's center of gravity.

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Green Roof Policies Are a Growing Trend

AGreenLiving

In 2009, the Canadian city of Toronto, Ontario passed the … The post Green Roof Policies Are a Growing Trend appeared first on Earth911.com. Read more here: Green Roof Policies Are a Growing Trend.

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Tesla Romance Mode Shenanigans

CleanTechnica

In a recent Scent Wedge product ad, Tesla Romance Mode is featured, and it's pretty adorable.

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Volkswagen Unveils Automatic EV Chargers For Parking Garages

CleanTechnica

Volkswagen is working on an automated EV charging system for parking garages to solve the conundrum of where to charge your electric car when you have no access to a charger of your own.

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How Would Warren & Sanders Pay For A Green New Deal?

CleanTechnica

Clean, renewable energy means big changes for the way that the US funds the energy sector.

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Turkey Jumps Into The EV Market

CleanTechnica

Turkey jumps into the EV market by unveiling its first "fully" domestically made electric vehicle, with goals of producing up to 175,000 EVs a year. This will cost around $3.7 billion over the next 13 years. This is refreshing to see — another country getting more serious about electric vehicles.

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Industry Analysts Expect EV Sales To Soar In UK & EU Beginning In 2020

CleanTechnica

Analysts in Europe and the UK say 2020 will be the "Year Of The Electric Car" as sales grow following the introduction of several new models.

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UK Renewables Outperform Gas For First Quarter Ever

CleanTechnica

New figures from the UK Government published just before Christmas showed that renewable energy generation across the country generated a record quarterly amount of electricity between July and September, outperforming natural gas for the first time ever. .

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Cleaning Up Clean Meat: How Future Fields Is Replacing Fetal Bovine Serum

CleanTechnica

Future Fields is a startup working to produce a clean and affordable alternative to FBS, and wants to share it with the entire cellular agriculture industry. By focusing on the growth media, the company hopes to accelerate the growth and innovation of all clean meat startups. We spoke with Future Fields Co-Founder & Product Lead, Lejjy Gafour, to learn more about the company's work and its plans for the future.

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Rivian’s Tank Turn Is More Than A Silly Stunt

CleanTechnica

We awoke Christmas morning to a cool surprise from Rivian: its trucks and SUVs are going to be capable of tank turns! The short video was widely shared, but few people seemed to understand that it's actually a useful feature.

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FERC Sides With Fossil Fuels In Forcing Renewables To Match Prices

CleanTechnica

The US Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) announced a directive just a few days before Christmas which will require PJM Interconnection to raise prices of wind and solar power to be in line with the cost of fossil fuels.