GreenBiz

DECEMBER 21, 2020

The State of Green Business 2021. Date/Time: January 25, 2021 (1-2PM ET / 10-11AM PT). Following the challenging, turbulent year that was 2020, what is the state of sustainable business in 2021? Join us for the release of the 14th annual edition of State of Green Business, GreenBiz Group’s award-winning annual report. Each year, the report looks at key trends and metrics assessing how, and how much, companies are moving the needle on the world’s most pressing environmental challenges.

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Climate change Sustainability Demand Carbon 373

Inhabitat - Innovation

DECEMBER 21, 2020

A pilot project inspired by the pandemic, Dwelling on Wheels is the newest tiny home on wheels designed by Seattle-based firm, Modern Shed. The home features 220 square feet of space, solar power and has off-grid capabilities, all starting at $129,000.

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Solar Power 279

Charged

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Charging infrastructure giant ABB has established a new E-mobility Innovation Lab. The $10-million, 3,600-square-meter facility is based on the Delft University of Technology campus, in the Netherlands. It will house 120 specialists, who will work on next-generation solutions to drive ABB’s future e-mobility development. ABB strives to ensure seamless connections among vehicles, charging stations, charging networks, the grid, and the software systems that make it all work.

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Solar Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Innovation 137

Inhabitat - Innovation

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Drumroll, please… after much deliberation (and salivating), Inhabitat has chosen the winner and runners-up of our 2020 Vegan Holiday Recipe competition.

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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

Solar Power World

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Solar panels using larger wafers has been the big trend for 2020 and will change the market going forward in many ways — racking systems, design software and installation techniques will all have to adapt to differing solar panel sizes. These changes are more easily made in the utility-scale market, and that’s why large format… The post REC talks with Solar Power World about larger wafers entering the solar panel market appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Solar Power 133

Inhabitat - Innovation

DECEMBER 21, 2020

To hit net-zero carbon by 2050, the U.S. needs $2.5 trillion and committed leadership. Oh, and we need to start implementing massive changes now.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Zaha Hadid Architects has released renders for the future Shenzhen Science & Technology Museum, which will serve as a sustainable benchmark for civic architecture.

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Technology Carbon Sustainability 205

Impact Alpha

DECEMBER 21, 2020

ImpactAlpha, December 21 – The Renewables Infrastructure Group has secured a £500 million ($663 million) line of credit from a consortium of global. The post The Renewables Infrastructure Group secures £500 million ESG-linked line of credit appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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Energy Energy 124

Inhabitat - Innovation

DECEMBER 21, 2020

A recent study shows that wood-burning stoves can triple the level of particular matter in homes.

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Charged

DECEMBER 21, 2020

EVBox , a provider of charging hardware and software, has announced plans to go public through a merger with a company called TPG Pace Beneficial Finance (NYSE: TPGY). EVBox’s current owner, the French multinational utility ENGIE, will retain an ownership stake of over 40 percent, and will continue as a key partner of EVBox. The business combination values EVBox at an enterprise value of $969 million.

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North America Europe Automotive Electric vehicle 134

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.

Transportation

altenergymag

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Combined capabilities will provide C&I customers with integrated PV+EMS+ESS solutions for optimized business velocity, efficiency, and confidence, resulting in maximized project value and revenue potential

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Charged

DECEMBER 21, 2020

EV powertrain engineering specialist Drive System Design (DSD) has announced a strategic expansion of its test facilities, adding two additional test cells for high-performance hybrids and EVs. The first of the new facilities can deliver input torque up to 2,500 Nm at 2,100 rpm, 525 kW at 7,000 rpm, and 350 kW at 1,100 V of battery emulation. The new test cells complement existing DSD facilities, which include a 450 kW highly transient ETPS machine (Engine Torque Pulse Simulator) and three batte

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Demand Batteries Policy Government 124

Forbes Green Tech

DECEMBER 21, 2020

We are witnessing a convergence of politics, business, finance and technology in support of decarbonization. After decades of incremental and insufficient progress, a turning point is in the making. The decarbonization race is on.

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Politics Technology Innovation 114

altenergymag

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Congress has reached a bipartisan deal that contains important emergency relief measures for the renewable energy industry, including a two-year extension of the investment tax credit (important for solar power), a one-year extension of the production tax credit (important for wind power), and a new 30% investment tax credit for offshore wind projects that start construction through 2025.

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Packaging Wind power Solar Power Construction 100

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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Impact Alpha

DECEMBER 21, 2020

ImpactAlpha, December 21 – Brooklyn-based Jacmel Growth Partners was founded by Haitian-American Nick Jean-Baptiste, a former Wall Street banker, to support mid-size, family. The post Living Cities backs Black-led investment firm Jacmel Growth Partners appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Read time: 11 mins This year — with its converging crises, from the coronavirus pandemic to longstanding racial injustice to climate-related disasters — was also a remarkably active time for climate litigation. All around the world, communities, organizations, and especially young people turned to the courts in 2020 in strategic attempts to hold governments and polluting companies accountable for exacerbating the unfolding climate emergency.

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Fossil fuels Pollution Organic Government 99

Impact Alpha

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Power is critical to Africa’s development. At least 600 million people across the continent that don’t have access to affordable and reliable power. The post Financing for climate adaptation can drive Africa’s economic development and its net-zero goals appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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Greenability Magazine

DECEMBER 21, 2020

This holiday season get the family together for a socially distanced, outdoor gathering, and help the Audubon Society with its annual Christmas Bird Count. For 121 years, the Audubon Society has been counting winter birds at Christmas Bird Counts across the country. This year the gatherings may be smaller, but everyone can still participate from their own backyard or outside with a local group.

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Organic Climate change Resilience Sustainability 99

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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Impact Alpha

DECEMBER 21, 2020

ImpactAlpha, December 21 – Investment trusts in the U.K. are publicly listed companies that invest in other companies. British investment firm Schroders has. The post Schroders and Big Society Capital raise £75 million for public ‘social investment trust’ appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Wind power generation hit a new high of 17.3GW last week during short period when zero carbon electricity produced nearly three-quarters of output, National Grid ESO reveals. Wind power in Britain broke a yet another new record on Friday, when gusty winter weather saw the UK's growing fleet of onshore and offshore turbines produce nearly 17.3GW of power for the electricity grid, according to National Grid ESO.

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Impact Alpha

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Greetings, Agents of Impact! Call No. 26: Looking ahead to 2021. New year, new opportunities. Bring a prediction, a plan or even an. The post The Brief: Financing climate adaptation in Africa, linking ESG and credit, social investment trust IPO, Black-led funds, the Great Burp Forward (podcast) appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Cultivo aims to facilitate flow of private finance to nature-based solutions, by using cutting-edge technologies to identify projects with potential for strong natural capital returns. A fintech start-up is aiming to help finance the restoration of at least 3.5 million hectares of land within the next five years by using algorithms and remote sensor technologies to identify high-quality nature-based solutions that it will then package into investment products for financial institutions.

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Investment Biodiversity Agriculture Packaging 98

Greenability Magazine

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Did you know you can recycle razors, deodorant containers, toothpaste tubes and brushes, and waste from other personal care products? The Resilient Activist and Compost Collective KC are sponsoring a recycling drop-off site and pickup services. Personal care product waste will be collected by Compost Collective KC during regular pickup for current customers or at Kansas City’s Brookside Farmers’ Market during regular market hours.

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Recycling Recycling Waste Waste 90

Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Good Law Project and Ecotricity CEO Dale Vince threaten court action unless government reviews airports planning policy before the final approval process for third runway begins. Plans to build a third runway at Heathrow are potentially facing yet further legal obstacles, after campaigners vowed to take the government to court if it does not update its airport planning policy to take account of the UK's 2050 net zero emissions target.

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Government Law Policy Climate change 97

altenergymag

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Module-level Rapid Shutdown solution for SMA-powered solar arrays in the United States

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Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Banks Mining slams 'outrageous' decision to reject opencast coal mine project, but decision is warmly welcomed by climate campaigners. Proposals for a new opencast mine in Newcastle that would have seen hundreds of thousands of tonnes of coal and fireclay extracted for use in UK steel, cement and brick manufacturing have been unanimously rejected by the city council over environmental concerns.

Climate change 95

Climate change Biodiversity Government Investment 95

CleanTech Group

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Attractiveness Delivery-only kitchens could create a market worth $1 trillion by 2030. Research by UBS has claimed it is possible by 2030, more.

Agriculture 78

Agriculture 78

Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Bankers for Net Zero alliance convened by All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Fair Business Banking unveils framework for sector's role in accelerating UK decarbonisation. A new framework has been launched to guide UK banks' decarbonisation efforts in the lead up to next year's vital COP26 climate conference, focusing on fossil fuel divestment, climate-responsible advocacy, and net zero targets.

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Fossil fuels Climate change Investment Sustainability 91

GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 21, 2020

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altenergymag

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Some of the world’s largest wind asset owners engage in data sharing project to reduce dependency to OEMs and improve operations

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Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2020

The head of climate and energy at Ingka Group, which owns the majority of Ikea stores, sits down with BusinessGreen to discuss the company's sustainability plans and why investment now will secure the company's future profitability. A large part of Karol Gobczynski's working day is spent futuregazing. As head of energy and climate at Ingka Group, the Swedish company that owns most of Ikea's retail stores, his job involves poring over future energy scenarios and risk registers to strategise how t

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Terra Infirma

DECEMBER 21, 2020

© Ekaterina Vakhrameeva. The post After a hard, hard year, have yourself a merry little Christmas… appeared first on Terra Infirma.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Drumroll, please… after much deliberation (and salivating), Inhabitat has chosen the winner and runners-up of our 2020 Vegan Holiday Recipe competition. The winner receives our sustainable chef’s kit featuring the Ninja Foodi 2-Basket Air Fryer, Farberware Knife Set, Bamboo Cutting Board Set and a Stasher bag bundle. Because we were blown away by the creative submissions for this contest, we’ve decided to highlight some of our favorites, too.

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