GreenBiz

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Mars claims palm oil is 'deforestation-free' after ditching hundreds of suppliers. Cecilia Keating. Wed, 10/07/2020 - 00:15. U.S. confectionary, food and pet care giant Mars claims to have eliminated deforestation from its palm oil supply chain after shrinking the number of mills it works with from 1,500 to a few hundred, it announced this week. The adoption of shorter, more transparent palm oil supply chains and working exclusively with suppliers that meet specific environmental, social and eth

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Inhabitat - Innovation

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Scientists are racing against time to create a COVID-19 vaccine, but the effects of this venture may cause irreversible harm for sharks. Conservationists estimate that preparing a coronavirus vaccine will require at least half a million sharks.

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OCTOBER 7, 2020

New leaders at Patagonia, McDonald's, Netflix. Elsa Wenzel. Wed, 10/07/2020 - 02:01. Heading into fall, this batch of career updates from the worlds of sustainability and business is somewhat top-heavy. It's not necessarily that the game of musical chairs has intensified in the C-suite, but you'll note major executive moves at big apparel, food, energy, finance and technology corporations, some of which have enlisted a chief sustainability officer (CSO) or equivalent for the first time.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 7, 2020

New research published by UK100, a group of mayors and local government leaders in late September appears to show that a “retrofit army” of nearly half a million builders, electricians and plumbers will be needed to meet the Government’s objective of becoming Net Zero by 2050. The figures are being published as a cross-party taskforce of 24 Mayors and local leaders, representing 24 million people across England have submitted a proposal to the Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, to unlock £100bn as part of

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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

OCTOBER 7, 2020

How the Produce Industry Built Resilience During Changing Times. The produce industry has long been building resiliency through sustainability strategies. Hear from members of the industry including Jeff Scott from Kwik Lok, Anabella De Freeman from Walmart and Mike Thomsen from Second Harvest Food Bank as they describe how the produce industry’s integration of sustainable practices have made their organizations more resilient – especially in times of great change like the COVID-19 pandemic.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Chicago-based Ross Barney Architects has given the iconic McDonald's at Walt Disney World Resort a sustainable makeover. This revamp aims to make McDonald's Disney flagship the first net-zero energy quick-service restaurant.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

OCTOBER 7, 2020

With the recent renovation and expansion, the energy-efficient venue is not only better equipped to withstand hurricanes but is now recognized as one of the most technologically advanced convention centers in the U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 7, 2020

The U.K. is putting together plans to scale its fleet of offshore wind projects from today's 10 gigawatts to 40 gigawatts by the end of the decade. This week, Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the next renewables auction round would support twice as much capacity as the last one. Offshore wind dominated the 2019 renewables tender, taking 5.5 GW of the 5.8 GW awarded.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

OCTOBER 7, 2020

We put Wisdom's zero-waste school supplies to the test, and they got an A+ for durability and functionality.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Business sectors such as multinational companies, BPO industries, government departments, etc. are the highest percentage of users of electronics. These cause them to be the most sectors with e-waste. What is e-waste? E-waste, or rather known as electronic waste, is a term used for end-of-life and old electronic appliances. These are appliances such as mobile phones, computers, televisions, laptops, DVD players, etc. which are disposed of by its original users (see more ).

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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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Inhabitat - Innovation

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Once current permits expire on November 30, companies will not be allowed to renew them.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 7, 2020

In this GTM series, we're asking people in cleantech to tell us what their jobs are like. We hope the series can serve as a source of information and inspiration for recent graduates, professionals planning their careers or anyone who wants to transition into the industry. We also hope it makes cleantech opportunities more visible and accessible to groups that are underrepresented in our growing industry, including women and people of color.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Civil engineering specialist Land & Water has won a contract to construct a new hydropower station at Caversham Weir in Reading on behalf of client Reading Hydro CBS. The project, which has a civil construction value at over £500,000 (full project value just under £1m) and is due to commence in October until February 2021, will harness the power of the River Thames through the construction of a structure that will house low-head hydro turbines.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 7, 2020

California’s two days of rolling blackouts in August were the result of disconnects between its existing grid reliability constructs and the needs of an increasingly solar-powered grid, and its failure to prepare for a Western U.S.-wide heatwave that undermined its reliance on out-of-state resources. Those are the key findings of a long-awaited “ root cause analysis ” from California’s grid operator and utility and energy regulators into the causes of its first rolling bl

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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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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 7, 2020

The Isle of Portland viewed from Portland Harbour (image credit: BennH ). The directors of Powerfuel Portland – a firm aiming to deliver a proposed Energy Recovery Facility (ERF) at Portland Port on the Isle of Portland in Dorset – have provided more details about how how it will be a net-zero carbon project for its operational lifetime (up to 30 years).

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 7, 2020

At a time when the U.S. renewables market is tilting increasingly toward solar, offshore wind and battery storage, newly launched developer Triple Oak Power is going old-school with a bet on the future of onshore wind. Triple Oak, based in Portland, Oregon and co-founded by former Avangrid Renewables executives, announced Tuesday that it has secured a capital commitment from EnCap Investments L.P. , a Houston-based private-equity firm that has historically focused on fossil fuels.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Water companies can expect increasing scrutiny into their environmental performance, Isle’s Zero Pollutions Conference heard. Water companies can expect increasing scrutiny into their environmental performance, as customer awareness of river and bathing water quality grows. This was among messages from Helen Wakeham, deputy director of water quality at the Environment Agency, during a keynote address at the Zero Pollutions Conference 2020, hosted by technology consultancy Isle.

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Solar Power World

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Solar Basics is a video series by Solar Power World created to help installers learn about the business, tools and tricks of the solar power trade. Inverters of the past simply fed solar power into the grid. Learn about all the added duties solar inverters have now in this Solar Basics video, based on the… The post Solar Basics: What are smart inverters?

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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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altenergymag

OCTOBER 7, 2020

The focus of the continuing All-Energy/Dcarbonise webinar series is on marine renewables on 14 October when ‘Greening the Blue Economy: Marine Energy' will be held at 14:00. Full details and free registration are at [link]. Seventeen webinars have been held since May; all are online enabling people to dip into them at any time.

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Impact Alpha

OCTOBER 7, 2020

ImpactAlpha, October 7 – Ÿnsect represents a trifecta of agrifood tech trends: alternative proteins, carbon offsets and novel farming systems. The France-based agtech company is expanding its high-tech vertical facility in Amiens, which recycles waste streams to raise mealworms for more sustainable fish and animal feed (see, “These insects feed fish that feed people”).

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altenergymag

OCTOBER 7, 2020

IMO FireRaptor RSD receives UL PVRSS (Photovoltaic Rapid Shutdown System) listing on the Fronius Primo family of solar inverters under UL1741 guidelines.

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Impact Alpha

OCTOBER 7, 2020

ImpactAlpha, Oct. 7 – When 181 members of the Business Roundtable signed on to a new statement of corporate purpose a year ago, little could they imagine how the COVID-19, racial justice, and climate crises would soon put their stakeholder-centric pledges to the test. A recent analysis of corporate behavior in the wake of the. The post Helping companies make good on their commitments to stakeholders appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 7, 2020

The most recent wildfires throughout western North America have re-emphasized the need for early wildfire detection and validation. Time and resources are in short supply for emergency responders, who have a short window to detect and assess wildfires to help prevent the most damage. “Time and resources are both in short supply during the critical first operational period,” says Chief Dave Winnacker of the Moraga Orinda Fire Department.

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Impact Alpha

OCTOBER 7, 2020

ImpactAlpha. Oct. 7 – The world’s largest fossil fuel funder said it would reduce financed emissions in line with Paris goals, promising more details in the spring. JPMorgan Chase will work with “clients, policymakers and advocates to transition our economy and turn the goals of Paris into a reality,” said co-president Daniel Pinto. A new. The post JPMorgan Chase will align financing strategy with Paris Agreement appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Forbes Green Tech

OCTOBER 7, 2020

The vice-presidential candidates went to their respective corners with Senator Kamala Harris touting green energy and jobs while Vice President Pence said a “Green New Deal” would damage the American economy.

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Impact Alpha

OCTOBER 7, 2020

The African villages where they’re located might be considered ‘the last mile.’ But the primary public health clinics in those villages are better called “front line.” Frontline health clinics are first responders in the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 as they were in the 2014 Ebola epidemic in Liberia and Sierra Leone and as they are. The post Inside the scramble for solar financing as frontline public health clinics confront COVID appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Fairsnape

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Having finally completed our HUMAN. NATURE. BUILT ENVIRONMENT Scale Jumping chapter together for the RESTORE WG5 publication yesterday , and then hosted a wonderful #ZoomRegenerative session last night that explored the regenerative mindful human-nature connection, this article is republished from The Conversation under a Creative Commons license.

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Charged

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Volvo Group subsidiary Mack Trucks has delivered a demonstration model of its Mack LR Electric to the New York City Department of Sanitation (DSNY), which will put it through real-world trials. DSNY, the world’s largest municipal sanitation department, collects some 12,000 tons of refuse and recyclables each day, using over 6,000 vehicles. The majority of the agency’s collection fleet is comprised of Mack vehicles.

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altenergymag

OCTOBER 7, 2020

CEA's PV Supplier Market Intelligence Report showcases large wafer adoption and other emerging technologies in the solar industry

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Impact Alpha

OCTOBER 7, 2020

ImpactAlpha, October 7 – Krishitantra’s Sandeep Kondaji was frustrated in getting timely soil data to help his uncle make decisions around fertilizer use on his farm. Kondaji launched Krishitantra in 2017 to develop a portable device to enable farmers to do rapid soil testing and avoid costly overuse of chemical treatments. The Mangalore-based company has.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Read time: 9 mins Nearly a year ago, the city of Palo Alto — home to Stanford University and the unofficial capital of Silicon Valley — joined a handful of other California cities in enacting an all-electric building mandate. City leaders touted the new law , which is intended to tightly restrict future use of natural gas-powered heating and cooling in new construction, as an important part of the city’s plan to slash greenhouse gas emissions 80 percent by 2030.

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Impact Alpha

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Greetings, Agents of Impact! Complete our five-minute survey. We want to hear from you to help us deliver even more value for your ImpactAlpha subscription. Complete our short survey by Thursday, Oct. 15 to win one of five free tickets to this month’s SOCAP Virtual, a $499 value. Take the survey. Featured: ImpactAlpha Original Inside. The post The Brief: Health clinic electrification, insect protein, India’s soil health, corporate energy retrofits, stakeholder capitalism tools, JPMorgan’s

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Project aims to develop Europe's largest joint hydrogen production and carbon capture project by 2026, according to partners. Plans to transform the carbon-intensive Humber region into the UK's first net zero carbon industrial hub took a major step forward today, after a coalition of the regoin's largest energy and industrial companies submitted a £75m bid to the government's Industrial Decarbonisation Challenge fund.

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