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Championing diversity and inclusion requires courage, provocation, smart goals

GreenBiz

Cultivating a culture of inclusion is easier said than done even in organizations with mature programs. And with the workforce shifting dramatically in recent years given the rise in technology and four generations learning to work together, the task remains for most diversity and inclusion leaders, quite monumental.

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Brazilian home uses solar energy for 100% self-sufficiency

Inhabitat - Innovation

Brazilian firm 24 7 Arquitetura has set a stunning modern home into a challenging mountainous landscape in Brazil’s Nova Lima region. In addition to the home’s contemporary aesthetic, which is comprised of several exposed concrete blocks, the residence is completely self-sustaining thanks to its massive rooftop solar array that generates all the power the home needs.

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Provocations, diatribes and lessons in courage at GreenBiz 20

GreenBiz

A rich set of conversations, from animal welfare expert Temple Grandin to corporate philanthropy visionary Daniel Lee.

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Floating, nest-inspired Arctic Bath Hotel and Spa opens

Inhabitat - Innovation

One of the most eagerly-awaited floating hotels has finally opened their doors. Located on Sweden's remote Lule River, the Arctic Bath Hotel and Spa is a nest-inspired, circular building that floats on the water during the summer months and is suspended on top of the frozen lake during winter.

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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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Going green just got easier for Class B/C commercial buildings

GreenBiz

They can achieve 6 percent higher net operating incomes and $11 per square foot higher property values by investing in efficiency.

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Researcher creates drone system to give early warning on natural disasters and act as wifi hotspot

Envirotec Magazine

Dr Duong says he has developed a low cost system using drones that can fly over large areas, taking real-time measurements and providing information about weather conditions. A researcher at Queen’s University Belfast has invented a low cost telecommunication system using drones which provides early warning on natural disasters and acts as a wifi ‘hotspot’ when phone signal is disrupted during extreme weather such as earthquakes, tsunamis or hurricanes.

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Branching out for a new green revolution: Gene identified that improves yield of rice, say researchers

Envirotec Magazine

Soil Nitrogen Promotes Rice Branching: Nitrogen fertilizers (High N, right) increase the number of rice plant flowering branches (compared with Low N, left), thus boosting grain yield. The researchers say they have now discovered the underlying gene that controls this nitrogen-responsive increase in branch number (Photo credit: Kun Wu/Xiangdong Fu, Chinese Academy of Sciences).

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A GreenBiz 20 mantra: Sustainability’s next phase is about breaking down siloes

GreenBiz

But making this thinking a matter of second nature could take years, according to main-stage speakers at GreenBiz20.

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In Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, the Avant Cycle Cafe builds community

Inhabitat - Innovation

This cafe is also a bike shop that is strengthening a growing cycling community in Lake Geneva.

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UPS invests in electric vehicle pioneer Arrival, as delivery giant places order for 10,000 vans

GreenBiz

Arrival has emerged as a major player in the fast expanding commercial EV fleet market.

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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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Calamus unveils worlds safest e-bike at CES 2020

Inhabitat - Innovation

India-based startup Calamus recently unveiled the Calamus One Ultrabike, an electric bicycle that they claim is “the world’s safest and most advanced” of its kind. Integrated with elements typically only seen on motor vehicles, the innovative e-bicycle combines safety features and high-end tech into a sleek and beautifully designed package.

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Not pulp fiction: Absolut, Coca-Cola and the paper bottle project

GreenBiz

The two brands are part of a ‘pioneer community’ that also includes Carlsberg and L’Oreal.

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Century-old building is reborn as a LEED Platinum home in San Francisco

Inhabitat - Innovation

Architect Jonathan Feldman's pursuit of net-zero energy standards earned LEED Platinum certification for his own home.

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Equinor: Floating Wind Farms a Natural Fit for Oil and Gas Companies

GreenTechMedia

The cost of floating wind farms is on a steeper decline than that of traditional offshore wind, with the emerging sector increasingly attractive to oil and gas companies, said Sebastian Bringsværd, head of floating wind development at Norwegian energy giant Equinor. After years of industry anticipation, the floating wind market is finally gaining momentum in a commercially meaningful way.

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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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How Hydropower Can Be More Environmentally Friendly

U.S. Green Technology

One of the most difficult challenges in the environmental field is determining which source of energy will be the most beneficial. Unfortunately, even some of the safer options, like hydropower, still have adverse effects. Of all the available energy sources, experts want to find ones they can classify as renewable, clean and sustainable. While each.

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Total Buys Stake in 2GW Indian Solar Portfolio for $510M

GreenTechMedia

French oil major Total is making a gigawatt-scale entry into the Indian solar market. Total on Thursday announced plans to buy a half-stake in a 2.1-gigawatt portfolio of operating PV plants owned by Adani Green, a majority owned unit of the Adani conglomerate. Adani Green, one of India's leading solar developers, will transfer the solar assets to a new 50:50 joint venture in return for $510 million.

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ClipperCreek sells 90,000th charging station

Charged

EVSE manufacturer ClipperCreek is on a roll – the company recently produced its 90,000th charging station, an HCS-D40P model, at its manufacturing facility in Auburn, California. In addition to building chargers, the company is a Tier 2 OEM supplier for EV manufacturers, and provides circuit boards for the Level 1 chargers that come with new EVs.

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Nuro Claims A Self-Driving First: U.S. Approval To Deploy Toaster-Styled Delivery Bots

Forbes Green Tech

The tech startup created by two former Google engineers will deploy battery-powered R2 driverless delivery vehicles on public streets–little vans without steering wheels, pedals or side-mirrors

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New Cadillac EV to be based on flexible battery architecture

Charged

Speaking at a recent event for investors, GM President Mark Reuss confirmed that the company will unveil a new Cadillac EV in April, and predicted that Cadillac will offer “mostly electric vehicles by the end of this decade.”. The e-Caddy will be the first model built on GM’s next-generation electric architecture, which Reuss described as a flexible platform that will enable the production of a wide variety of models with different sizes of battery packs.

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How Renewable Energy Will Make All The Cheap Hydrogen We Need

Forbes Green Tech

The cost to produce and distribute hydrogen from clean energy sources will fall by as much as 50% over the next decade. To do so, investment must pour in while the production of electrolyzers must scale up.

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Canadian Town Evacuated After Another Oil Train Derails and Burns

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 3 mins Early in the morning of February 6, an oil train derailed and caught fire near Guernsey, Saskatchewan, resulting in the Canadian village's evacuation. This is the second oil train to derail and burn near Guernsey, following one in December that resulted in a fire and oil spill of 400,000 gallons.

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Cypress Creek completes 3-MW New York community solar project

Solar Power World

Generate and Cypress Creek Renewables are pleased to announce that Bogart Solar located in Greene County, New York has reached commercial operation. The 3-MW community solar project is the first of six New York solar projects (18 MW) acquired by Generate from leading solar developer Cypress Creek to reach this milestone. With support from Governor… The post Cypress Creek completes 3-MW New York community solar project appeared first on Solar Power World.

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A Solar CEO’s 2020 Forecast: Local Developers Continue to Shine

GreenTechMedia

When we started Sol Systems around a dinner table in 2008, PV modules cost $3/watt — and that was a recent breakthrough. Those same modules now cost 30-40 cents/watt and they are significantly more efficient. As we noted last year , solar energy technology continues its path to global dominance. Costs have fallen by 89 percent in the last decade, even as modules and balance of systems increase in efficiency.

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Circularity Challenge Spotlight: Interface Polymers

Greentown Labs

The Circularity Challenge is a six-month accelerator program designed to advance innovative solutions to enable a circular economy. The five participants are disrupting the plastics, energy storage, and recycling value chains. The Circularity Challenge is run by Greentown Launch —Greentown Labs’ internal accelerator—and BASF , and supported by Stanley Black & Decker.

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Newly Revealed Emails Highlight Coziness and Favors Between Local Officials, Jordan Cove LNG Backers

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 14 mins Emails exchanged between an Oregon county commissioner and Pembina, the parent company of the proposed $10 billion fossil fuel export terminal Jordan Cove, raise ethics issues and may create openings for legal challenges to key permits for the controversial Jordan Cove project. The emails , obtained via an open records request by the Energy and Policy Institute and shared with DeSmog, appear to show contacts between Pembina officials and Coos County commissioners — communicati

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Powerhouse solar shingle company RGS Energy files for bankruptcy

Solar Power World

One of America’s original solar companies is now no more. RGS Energy, which started as Real Goods Solar in 1978, has filed Chapter 7 bankruptcy. The veteran solar installer had in the last year shifted its focus to solar shingle installation after acquiring the license to Dow’s Powerhouse shingles in 2017. Dow’s product used thin-film… The post Powerhouse solar shingle company RGS Energy files for bankruptcy appeared first on Solar Power World.

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IBM and Daimler claim quantum leap in lithium-sulfur battery breakthrough

Charged

Electric vehicles may be the wave of the future, but each machine is only as good as its battery. A breakthrough in quantum computing from a Daimler-IBM collaboration may change the way we think about the power of lithium. Researchers are one step closer to creating cheaper, more powerful, longer lasting batteries accessible to a broad market. Modeling molecules isn’t just for biotech anymore – a recent study from Cornell University shows how simulating potential dipole moments in lithium-sulfur

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Module-level rapid shutdown: New requirements for fire safety

Solar Power World

Working in the solar industry, you’ve likely heard about rapid shutdown requirements. But what are they, do they apply to you, and do you know how to comply? Several states including California adopted newer rapid shutdown requirements starting in 2020, and many others had already adopted them prior to that point, so it’s important to… The post Module-level rapid shutdown: New requirements for fire safety appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Government unveils £50m plan to create England's 'first all-electric bus town'

Business Green

One council in England could secure up to £50m to switch all their local buses to run on batteries by 2025 through a new government competition. The government is offering up to £50m to create England's 'first all-electric bus town' as part of a new funding competition launched today that aims to catalyse the development of greener and more reliable local transport networks.

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SMA America launches UL 1741-certified Medium Voltage Power Station to the Americas

Solar Power World

SMA America has launched the Medium Voltage Power Station (MVPS) to the Americas market. This solution is the first time a fully containerized, turnkey system has been offered stateside. It also represents the industry’s only large-scale medium voltage PV power conversion station UL 1741 listed as a complete, assembled solution, creating greater interoperability and safety assurances… The post SMA America launches UL 1741-certified Medium Voltage Power Station to the Americas appeared firs

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DiDi to launch shared EV fleet in Mexico

Charged

Chinese ridesharing company DiDi Chuxing plans to launch a fleet of electrified vehicles in Mexico. The rollout will include over 700 EVs and hybrids from OEMs such as BYD and Renault. Of these, 200 EVs will be for the exclusive use of DiDi drivers. . DiDi claims to operate the world’s largest EV fleet, including nearly one million EVs in China.

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Polling: Environmental concern rises amid robust support for renewables

Business Green

YouGov poll indicates the environment is now the third top issue among voters behind health and Brexit. Public concern for the environment appears to still be on the rise, with the latest polling indicating green issues are currently more important than the economy to voters. A YouGov poll commissioned by The Times asked voters to name their top three most important issues facing the country, with environment coming in as the third top choice among voters, surging from 10th position in the same

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Tesla to buy batteries from CATL for China market

Charged

Recently, Tesla has indicated that it plans to diversify its battery supply for the Asian market, moving away from its near-total reliance on Panasonic. Now Contemporary Amperex Technology (CATL), China’s largest EV battery-maker, has confirmed the signing of a two-year supplier agreement with Tesla. The agreement does not specify the volume of cells to be sold.

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This Is An Insight Into Audi’s Progressive Future Design

Forbes Green Tech

From the e-tron production cars starting with the e-tron SUV, to the radical exploration of the AI: concept vehicles, Audi’s design strategist reveals the carmaker’s future vision

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