GreenBiz

MAY 29, 2020

The COVID-19 recovery requires a resilient circular economy. Jocelyn Bleriot. Fri, 05/29/2020 - 01:00. The COVID-19 crisis has disastrous human and economic consequences, revealing our system’s exposure to a variety of risks. The call for a more resilient, circular and low-carbon economic model has garnered support from a growing number of businesses and governments over the past few years, and appears today more relevant than ever.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

MAY 29, 2020

Thanks to Containerwerk, a local building firm that specializes in upgrading used shipping containers with a new and unique insulation process, the My Home housing project offers a sustainable alternative to traditional building techniques.

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GreenBiz

MAY 29, 2020

Demystifying the ‘Absolute Zero’ concept. Heather Clancy. Fri, 05/29/2020 - 02:15. If your sustainability team has regular debates about how to label or describe its various initiatives, it’s not alone. The nuances of all the various adjectives and descriptors that are used to describe climate action — from "science-based" to "net zero" to "carbon negative" — are enough to make heads spin, especially for those who spend their professional lives worrying about how to communicate these concepts.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

MAY 29, 2020

If a glimpse into history is on your bucket list, a stay at the soon-to-open Nobu hotel in Poland can help put a check in that column.

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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.

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GreenBiz

MAY 29, 2020

Can companies rely on regenerative agriculture's carbon removal impact? Jim Giles. Fri, 05/29/2020 - 01:30. Amid the recent headline-grabbing investments in food ventures, one event went largely unnoticed: FedEx’s involvement in a $200 million raise by Indigo Ag, a company that provides services and data to farmers. Why would a delivery behemoth invest in an outfit that sells seeds?

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 29, 2020

Cleve Hill, the U.K.'s largest-ever solar project, received its government planning approvals this week. The question is how the 350-megawatt development proceeds from here in a large-scale solar market that has all but died out. Located in southeastern England, along the North Kent coast, Cleve Hill is under development by Hive Energy and Wirsol.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 29, 2020

Pacific Gas & Electric is on the cusp of ending its year-and-a-half stint in bankruptcy. But whether it can successfully rebuild its finances and make its power grid safer without drastically raising rates on millions of customers is far from clear. On Thursday, the California Public Utilities Commission approved PG&E’s $58 billion bankruptcy plan.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

MAY 29, 2020

The National Park Service and U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are easing hunting rules on some of Alaska's national preserves and at the Kenai National Wildlife Refuge. Conservation groups have criticized the new rules as cruel and extreme.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 29, 2020

Utility National Grid on Friday released results of the second phase of an extended solar interconnection study that has entangled nearly 1 gigawatt of projects in Massachusetts over the last year, and stymied development for some. Over 300 megawatts of projects may move forward without additional costs, the utility said, while another 90 megawatts of distributed solar projects will require developers to shoulder some transmission-level investments in order to connect projects to the grid.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

MAY 29, 2020

A recent passion project with a dedication to earth-friendly practices resulted in the conversion of a historical landscape into the Delas Frères Winery in the Rhone Valley, France.

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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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GreenTechMedia

MAY 29, 2020

In this Greentech Media series, we’re asking people with jobs in cleantech — from installing solar panels, to permitting wind projects, to promoting building energy efficiency software — to tell us what they really do all day. We hope this series can serve as a source of information and inspiration for recent graduates, cleantech professionals planning their careers or anyone who wants to transition into the industry.

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Impact Alpha

MAY 29, 2020

ImpactAlpha, May 29 – Venture capital seems optimized to fund Instagram, not impact. Rather than bemoan the capital gap, Sarah Kearney bulldozed through it. Kearney founded Prime Coalition in 2014 to execute a blueprint for driving capital to early-stage technologies that can take big bites out of carbon emissions and help forestall the worst impacts.

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altenergymag

MAY 29, 2020

Excelsior, through its North American Renewable Energy Fund, will acquire the projects into its portfolio upon start of construction, with Unico Solar overseeing construction and asset management while maintaining a minority equity position.

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Impact Alpha

MAY 29, 2020

Constraints breed creativity. Investors with the determination (or mandate) to keep capital flowing through the COVID crisis are turning physical constraints into opportunities to address long-standing inefficiencies and biases in due diligence processes. Emerging tools and strategies give us a glimpse of what a better investment process might look like.

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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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Business Green

MAY 29, 2020

International Energy Agency and Imperial College London research further underlines strong investment case underpinning renewables sector. Shares in renewables firms have "significantly" outperformed fossil fuel stocks in the US, UK, Germany, and France over the past decade and displayed far more resilience to the disruption caused by the coronavirus pandemic since the turn of the year, a study led by the International Energy Agency (IEA) has found.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 29, 2020

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Business Green

MAY 29, 2020

Octopus Energy and charging technology specialist Ohme confirm some EV drivers were paid £5 last weekend, as they charged 600 miles worth of electricity - enough to drive from London to County Durham and back. Electric vehicle (EV) drivers were paid to charge their cars last weekend, as electricity prices turned negative over much of the long Bank Holiday weekend, operators have revealed.

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altenergymag

MAY 29, 2020

The Company’s Q PEAK DUO and Q.PLUS DUO module series were rated as a Top Performer in the 2020 PV Module Reliability Scorecard published by PVEL and DNV GL, marking the fifth consecutive year of Q CELLS’ Top Performer status.

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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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Business Green

MAY 29, 2020

UN approves UK and Italian request for high profile Summit to be postponed by a full year, as co-hosts announce new 'Friends of COP' advisory board. The UN COP26 Climate Summit has been officially rescheduled for November next year, after the UN approved plans from the UK and Italian co-hosts for the high profile conference to be delayed by a full year in response to the on-going coronavirus pandemic.

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altenergymag

MAY 29, 2020

Venair Group is an international leader in manufacturing silicone hoses and special pieces of silicone. We provide complete custom design services for all kinds of applications for fuel cells.

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Business Green

MAY 29, 2020

Influential agency urged by almost 70 leaders across business, finance, civil society, policy and research to give 1.5C scenario a more prominent focus in upcoming special report. Dozens of business leaders, climate advocates, investors, and researchers have urged the International Energy Agency (IEA) to align its energy system projections with the Paris Agreement's 1.5C scenario ahead of an upcoming report that is set to guide governments' coronavirus recovery efforts.

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altenergymag

MAY 29, 2020

Tiling ribbon could play a role to extend the power class beyond 500Wp. Compared to the conventional interconnection method, tiling ribbon process has a seamless welding and much larger effective inner space, which translates into more performance and drive current.

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Clean Energy Canada

MAY 29, 2020

Clean Energy Canada is a climate and clean energy program within the Morris J. Wosk Centre for Dialogue at Simon Fraser University. Through media briefs, we aim to provide journalists with useful factual and contextual information related to Canada’s clean energy transition. Please use this as a resource, and let us know if there are any topics that you would like to see for future media briefs. .

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Business Green

MAY 29, 2020

Plus all the top green business news from around the world. Magnix and AeroTEC successfully complete first electric US test flight. The fledgling zero emission aviation sector took another step forward this week, with the successful completion of the first test flight undertake by an ell-electric Cessna light aircraft. US tech firms Magnix and AeroTEC completed a 30 minute inaugural flight at Moses Lake in central Washington state, having installed MagniX's 750-horsepower Magni500 propulsion sys

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Forbes Green Tech

MAY 29, 2020

The process patented by Los Alamos uses a by-product of ethanol production, letting America's love of fueling vehicles with corn fuel even more dangerous vehicles.

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altenergymag

MAY 29, 2020

Enables remote monitoring of all power system functions

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Business Green

MAY 29, 2020

How does 'absolute zero' differ from 'net zero', and does it matter? If your sustainability team has regular debates about how to label or describe its various initiatives, it's not alone. The nuances of all the various adjectives and descriptors that are used to describe climate action - from "science-based" to "net zero" to "carbon negative" - are enough to make heads spin, especially for those who spend their professional lives worrying about how to communicate these concepts.

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Forbes Green Tech

MAY 29, 2020

Discovering new meaning to the plant through the path of intrinsic plant medicine is important to these two leaders in the space.

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altenergymag

MAY 29, 2020

COMPANIES JOIN FORCES TO OFFER EQUIPMENT REQUIRED TO MEET. GOVERNMENT ELECTRIFICATION MANDATES.

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Business Green

MAY 29, 2020

The pandemic has exposed the fragility of UK food supply chains, and decisions made now could either increase or reduce future risk, argues WWF UK CEO Tanya Steele. In the last few months we have all witnessed first-hand the impact of enormous shocks on our complicated global food supply chains. Here in the UK, as we've queued in the supermarket or searched online, we have all become more conscious of how fragile our supply of food really is.

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altenergymag

MAY 29, 2020

Ideal for high-efficiency cleaning of high-pressure boilers

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MAY 29, 2020

Sales & Business Development Associate | SPAN | San Francisco. The Role We’ve developed a fantastic product for residential solar + storage customers, have seen strong initial commercial traction, and are looking to rapidly grow revenue by expanding our Sales & Business Development team. Span is seeking a Sales & Business Development Associate to source, sell to, and grow relationships with our solar installer partners as well as new emerging sales channels like custom home builders.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 29, 2020

A recent passion project with a dedication to earth-friendly practices resulted in the conversion of a historical landscape into the Delas Frères Winery in the Rhone Valley, France. Farming in the area is almost as old as the land itself. In fact, the terraced hills above Tain l’Hermitage have been cultivated since Roman times. However, the modern setting is more urban than rustic, making it an unlikely choice for a winery.

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