Wed.Aug 14, 2019

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World Water Week -- Can We Provide Everyone With Clean Water?

Jim Conca

4 billion people live under conditions of severe water scarcity at least one month of the year. We struggle to put programs in place to solve this problem, so NGOs and private companies, like PepsiCo, are essential, but we need so much more.

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Kids are hungry for books about eco-activists, in what publishers call 'the Greta effect'

Inhabitat - Innovation

The soaring popularity of the feisty, outspoken environmental advocate – who is only 16 – has caused a rise in young people seeking stories about saving the planet. Publishers coin the new trend the “Greta Thunberg Effect” and are turning around children’s book about climate change in record time. Publishers have pumped out books across a range of topics related to the environment, from endangered species to climate change, and sales have doubled in the last year, according to Nielsen.

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Fracking and Shale Drilling Caused Spike in Climate-Warming Methane Pollution, Says New Study

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 8 mins Climate-changing pollution reached unprecedented levels in 2018. That's both judged against the last 60 years of modern measurements and against 800,000 years of data culled from ice cores, according to the U.S. government’s State of the Climate report , which was published this week with the American Meteorological Society. That pollution creates a greenhouse effect that is over 42 percent stronger than it was in 1990, the report added.

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Coca-Cola to offer Dasani water in aluminum cans and bottles to reduce plastic waste

Inhabitat - Innovation

Could green be the new blue? The Dasani bottled water brand hopes so.

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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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Wet Bulb Globe Temperature Is Great For Heat Warnings - Why Don't We Use It?

Forbes Green Tech

Most people are familiar with the Heat Index but experts say Wet Bulb Globe Temperature is better. What is it and why isn't it used more often?

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Babylegs the inexpensive, educational way to monitor ocean plastic pollution

Inhabitat - Innovation

Do you have plastic in your nearby waterway? If you want to find out, you can collect a sample for testing using Babylegs, a trawl for monitoring ocean plastic.

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Greenery-filled renovation rethinks Indonesian colonial architecture

Inhabitat - Innovation

The house, which has been handed down three generations, has been updated to meet the needs of the new family while paying homage to historical elements.

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KORE Power Names Mark Hagedorn as VP of Operations; Completing Leadership Team in Advance of Production and Commercialization Efforts

altenergymag

KORE Power, a leading developer of high density, high voltage energy storage solutions has announced the appointment of Mark Hagedorn as VP of Operations. He will lead the organization's operational structure as it transitions from research and development to production and commercialization.

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Can GreenBelly meal bars power you through an outdoor adventure? We put them to the test

Inhabitat - Innovation

We tried three different GreenBelly meal bars to put the flavor and nutritional claims to the test.

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12 Business Use Cases For Edge Computing

Forbes Green Tech

Your business may be using the cloud, but are you leveraging edge computing, too? Here's what you need to know about this transformative technology.

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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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Solar Panel Installation Workshop Offers Real World Training

altenergymag

Recognizing the industry need for qualified photovoltaic installers, ETA® International will host a hands-on solar panel training and certification workshop at ETA headquarters September 9-13, 2019. Attendees will gain hands-on experience that will qualify them to sit for ETA’s Photovoltaic Installer (PV1) Level 1 certification exam, prepare them for entry-level work in the solar energy field and provide experience with an installation build of a small photovoltaic array.

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How New Technology Affects Our Consumption Of Art And Media

Forbes Green Tech

This article explores how new technology has changed the way we consume media and art. Today anyone with an internet connection has access to independent creators who would otherwise not be seen and this fact has profound impacts on what art and media means to our cultures.

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Cornwall Insight Ireland comments on the half-yearly Irish EV sales

altenergymag

Although the Irish passenger car market is down 7.36% on 2018 for the year-to-date (YTD), the sales for alternatively fuelled (BEV, PHEV and hybrid-electric) passenger cars have shown steady growth. A total of 9,582 alternatively fuelled vehicles have been sold for the YTD, a 69% increase on 2018's total.

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U.S. Energy Companies Are Not Winning The American Trade War With China

Forbes Green Tech

The latest set of counter offensives in the U.S.-Chinese trade war is adding to the anxieties of American energy enterprises, which could lose long-term oil and gas contracts and faith in American trade policy. China says it won’t fold.

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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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Windmill Blade Leading Edge Coating Protects Against Rain Erosion

altenergymag

Windmill blades are coated with one or more protective coatings to help them withstand the effects of erosion from rain, sand, hail, and dirt. In most cases, the full structure of the laminated reinforced blade is coated first with a standard two-component protective coating.

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Overtourism Calls For Creativity, Better Manners And Community Engagement

Forbes Green Tech

Executives attending Virtuoso Travel Week in Las Vegas discussed overtourism and potential solutions.

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Ubiquitous Energy Launches Transparent Solar Window Technology Research and Testing Program

altenergymag

The research program is being partially funded by a $3 million grant that Ubiquitous Energy was awarded from the California Energy Commission (BRIDGE).

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Bentley University Arena is a Model of Sustainability

Green Market Oracle

The environmentally sustainable multipurpose Bentley Arena at Bentley University is the first stand-alone ice arena to earn LEED platinum certification. It cuts the buildings carbon footprint in half compared to comparable traditional arenas and it also uses half the energy. The 76,000 square-foot highly efficient arena is lit by natural light and LED lighting and a 504-kilowatt rooftop solar array generate 40 percent of the building’s electricity needs.

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London finds no easy answers after once-in-a-decade blackout

Renewable Energy World

When two U.K. power plants shut down almost simultaneously in London’s first major blackout for a decade, it triggered a storm of questions about how to avoid another failure.

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SF Environment : Public Affairs Assistant Coordinator

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

Position : Public Affair’s Assistant Coordinator. Location : San Francisco. About : The San Francisco Department of the Environment (SF Environment) provides solutions that advance climate protection and enhance the quality of life for all San Franciscans. SF Environment is recognized worldwide for its environmental policies and programs, which center on achieving zero waste, reducing toxic chemical hazards, advancing environmental justice, promoting sustainable transportation modes, expan

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Who will benefit from the surge in behind-the-meter battery installations?

Renewable Energy World

The electric utility industry has been buffeted by two recent trends that threaten to upend the profitability, and in some cases the future viability of, those companies that are slow to adapt to a new, rapidly changing landscape. Specifically, in the past decade, the industry has had to grapple with both waning demand and the growth of distributed energy generation.

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Why A Business Incubator?

Ecotech

When Pandwe Gibson first came to Miami, she began promoting her idea for a green business incubator located in the city. Her goals were to create an all in one space for small businesses and entrepreneurs to transition from typical types of production and services into green, environmentally friendly options. Pandwe Gibson was well aware of the challenges facing entrepreneurs and small businesses in making this transition.

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SF Environment : Public Affairs Assistant Coordinator

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

Position : Public Affair’s Assistant Coordinator. Location : San Francisco. About : The San Francisco Department of the Environment (SF Environment) provides solutions that advance climate protection and enhance the quality of life for all San Franciscans. SF Environment is recognized worldwide for its environmental policies and programs, which center on achieving zero waste, reducing toxic chemical hazards, advancing environmental justice, promoting sustainable transportation modes, expan

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On the brink of blackouts, Texas makes case for power plant boom

Renewable Energy World

It may be time to start building power plants in Texas again.

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Ethanol Industry In Free Fall Since President Trump’s Inauguration

R-Squared Energy

Following Donald Trump’s election in 2016, ethanol producers rallied. Shares of ethanol suppliers Green Plains, REX American Resources and Pacific Ethanol all climbed by double digits in the weeks after the election. I felt like this celebration was premature. Two days after Donald Trump was inaugurated in 2017, I wrote Why The Ethanol Industry Should Fear President Trump.

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