Envirotec Magazine

MAY 7, 2021

A length of steel pipe and a heart monitor are the unlikely tools underpinning new research which suggests that trees may work together to form resource-sharing networks, helping the group collectively overcome environmental challenges. The findings, laid out in a paper published on 3 May in Communications Biology , seem to offer fresh insight into how forests around the world might adapt to the increasing environmental stresses of climate change.

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The Environmental Blog

MAY 7, 2021

Many of us care about the environment – some of us even go beyond the extra mile and take the effort to donate towards conservation groups and make important lifestyle changes to help clean up the planet. However, what if the problem is closer to home than we think? Before we clean the planet, it’s important for us to take a look at how we clean our homes.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 7, 2021

How are data science techniques helping us better understand the microbial universe of the soil? Anthony Finbow of Eagle Genomics – a firm working at the intersection of biology, data science and bioinformatics – explains, and relates how this knowledge provides a more solid underpinning for sustainable agricultural innovation. Over-reliance on nitrogen fertilizers is leading to the collapse of soil biodiversity.

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GreenBiz

MAY 7, 2021

Quantis CEO Dimitri Caudrelier on why courage is the critical driver of a planetary economy. This video is sponsored by Quantis. Sarah Golden, Senior Energy Analyst & VERGE Energy Chair at GreenBiz, interviewed Dimitri Caudrelier, CEO of Quantis, on April 19, 2021. taylor flores. Fri, 05/07/2021 - 20:34. Featured. Off.

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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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Inhabitat - Innovation

MAY 7, 2021

Impossible Foods has received the USDA's child nutrition (CN) label. Now the door is open to bring plant-based meats to schools, thus upping kids’ awareness of how animal agriculture speeds up climate change.

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GreenBiz

MAY 7, 2021

PwC's Sara DeSmith on the evolving landscape of ESG. This video is sponsored by PwC. Pete May, President & Co-Founder of GreenBiz, interviewed Sara DeSmith, ESG Assurance Leader of Digital, Assurance and Transparency Practice at PwC during GreenFin 21 (April 13-14, 2021). View archived videos from the conference here: [link]. taylor flores. Fri, 05/07/2021 - 09:29.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 7, 2021

Plans by Southern Water to build a £600 million desalination plant in the New Forest have come under fire from conservationists and other local groups. The proposed plant is to be built on land near the utility’s wastewater treatment works at Ashlett Creek, near Fawley in Hampshire. If completed, it will extract salt water from the Solent and discharge brine back into the sea.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

MAY 7, 2021

La Maison Connectée was engineered for reduced energy use and is equipped with an intelligent home automation system.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 7, 2021

The US Department of Energy’s Loan Programs Office might be the most talked about -- and yet least understood -- part of the federal government’s efforts to support climate tech. It has already invested more than $35 billion in everything from Tesla's first big factory to the first two nuclear reactors to begin construction in the U.S. in more than 30 years.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

MAY 7, 2021

NOAA has just released its newest U.S. Climate Normals report.

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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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U.S. Green Technology

MAY 7, 2021

If it’s time to replace your old furnace, consider getting an energy-efficient one that will save you money and help the environment. Products that are Energy Star-certified are great options. To make the best choice, consider models with the following features. Heat Pumps A heat pump can efficiently warm your home by moving the air. The post Making Home Furnaces Eco-Friendly and Energy-Efficient appeared first on U.S.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

MAY 7, 2021

Saratov has announced the two winning designs in an international competition to redesign its city center.

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Charged

MAY 7, 2021

Group14 Technologies , a provider of silicon-carbon composite materials for lithium-ion markets, has launched its first commercial-scale US factory to meet the demand for lithium-silicon anode materials. The 27,000-square- foot facility, located at Group14 HQ in Woodinville, Washington, will house a new R&D center and corporate offices, and is the first of several planned commercial manufacturing sites.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 7, 2021

by Kathiann M. Kowalski, Energy News Network. Roughly four-fifths of U.S. coal plants are either scheduled to close by 2025 or now cost more to operate than new nearby solar or wind power would, new research shows. The May 5 analysis comes from Energy Innovation: Policy & Technology, based in San Francisco. The work highlights the accelerating pace of the clean energy transition, even aside from the social costs of coal plant pollution.

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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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Charged

MAY 7, 2021

Russian truck manufacturer KAMAZ has opened a plant to produce electric buses on the property of the Sokolniki Car Repair and Construction Plant (SVARZ) in Moscow. An assembly line designed to produce up to 500 electric buses per year will operate at SVARZ as the first stage. In the second stage, KAMAZ will construct another building of about 3,000 square meters, which will allow the company to manufacture 200 more electric buses per year.

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altenergymag

MAY 7, 2021

UK businesses are set to invest £15.8bn in the electrification of their vehicle fleets over the next year, a 50% uplift on their spending during the previous 12 months, according to new data.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 7, 2021

by Kathiann M. Kowalski, Energy News Network. Roughly four-fifths of U.S. coal plants are either scheduled to close by 2025 or now cost more to operate than new nearby solar or wind power would, new research shows. The May 5 analysis comes from Energy Innovation: Policy & Technology, based in San Francisco. The work highlights the accelerating pace of the clean energy transition, even aside from the social costs of coal plant pollution.

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Charged

MAY 7, 2021

Ola Electric runs a major ride-hailing platform that operates on 3 continents, and it will soon be manufacturing 2-wheeled EVs at its Futurefactory in Tamil Nadu, India. Now the company has revealed plans to provide charging for its upcoming Ola Scooter and other vehicles through the new Ola Hypercharger Network. Ola says its Hypercharger Network will be “the widest and densest electric two-wheeler charging network in the world, with more than 100,000 charging points across 400 cities.

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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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Solar Power World

MAY 7, 2021

By Andrew Tang, Vice President, Energy Storage and Optimization at Wärtsilä Energy With more opportunities to sell energy into new energy markets, energy developers are thinking creatively about wasted energy and harnessing greater efficiency. There are two important evolutions in energy storage technology that solar power producers are opting for when purchasing new systems: solar… The post Wärtsilä case study: DC-coupled energy storage systems ideal for real-time trading appeared first o

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altenergymag

MAY 7, 2021

Electrical Distributor Installs Commercial Solar with Tigo Optimizers on Central Brazilian Headquarters

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Charged

MAY 7, 2021

As demand for EVs escalates, the supply of batteries could become a bottleneck. Global firms are collectively planning to build 80 new battery gigafactories (sorry Tesla, but everyone’s calling them that now). A new report sponsored by ABB Robotics and authored by the automotive intelligence unit of Ultima Media suggests that this won’t be sufficient.

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Mr. Sustainability

MAY 7, 2021

Flind is a dashboard that gives you insights on your vessel’s energy consumption and emissions. For free We all know that the maritime world is transforming. The US is calling for shipping to have zero emissions by 2050. You probably know all this already. If you are reading this, chances are you are working in the maritime industry and are frustrated.

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Grist

MAY 7, 2021

This story was originally published by Wired and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. As massive bushfires raged across eastern Australia in January 2020, a deadly haze settled over Melbourne, an obvious signal for residents to stay indoors. Bouncing over their heads, though, was a less conspicuous signal: Cellular data was flying through the air in an odd pattern, one that scientists may be able to use to better understand and predict severe smoke events in the future.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 7, 2021

The European Commission has approved, under EU State aid rules, a Danish aid scheme to support electricity production from renewable sources: onshore and offshore wind, wave power plants, hydroelectric power plants and solar PV. The measure will help Denmark reach its renewable energy targets without unduly distorting competition and will contribute to the European objective of achieving climate neutrality by 2050.

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Business Green

MAY 7, 2021

Macquarie, Asian Development Bank, and Church of Scotland all strengthen their restrictions on fossil fuel investments. The shift away from fossil fuels among major financial firms and institutions worldwide continues to gain momentum, with Macquarie, the Asian Development Bank, and the Church of Scotland all strengthening their investment policies governing coal, oil and gas assets today.

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CleanTech Group

MAY 7, 2021

New Demands in Construction Drive Innovation Demand for new structures, buildings and housing continues unabated. This inevitably places pressure on the workforce and.

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Business Green

MAY 7, 2021

With G7 and COP26 fast approaching, Environmental Audit Committee chair Philip Dunne argues the government must adopt a solutions-driven approach to environmental policy. Over the course of the last Parliament the Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) held the government's feet to the fire on some of the most pressing, and topical, environmental issues of the day.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 7, 2021

Hoosier Solar Holdings said last week that it is developing solar power facilities in economically distressed, rural communities across Indiana that have been designated as Qualified Opportunity Zones. Several solar and battery storage projects that collectively have a potential capcity of more than 1,600 megawatts (1.6 GW) are currently in active development, said the company.

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Business Green

MAY 7, 2021

Proposals unveiled by Defra aim to improve consistency and frequency of recycling in England. The government has announced plans for a major shake-up of England bin collections that it claims will boost recycling rates by making it simpler for households and businesses to ensure materials are recycled. A major consultation into recycling collection launched by the Department for Food, Environment and Rural Affairs (Defra) this morning aims to make it easier for households across the country to r

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Impact Alpha

MAY 7, 2021

ImpactAlpha, May 7 – The desperate citizen response to India’s COVID catastrophe is a poor substitute for the full-scale mobilization that might have been. The post India’s citizen-responders appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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Business Green

MAY 7, 2021

Kitchen and laundry appliance company announces it will curb emissions generated by products for first time. Household appliance manufacturer Whirlpool Corporation has vowed to achieve net zero emissions across its plants and operations by 2030, arguing that tackling climate change is core to its brand mission to "improve life at home". The maker of KitchenAid, Maytag, and Brastemp products announced earlier this week it would reduce its direct emissions to net zero by switching its global plant

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Green Living Guy

MAY 7, 2021

People today are increasingly dedicated to preserving a healthy planet not only for today but for generations to come. If you’d like to help create a better world but get overwhelmed just thinking about how massive the challenges are, relax and breathe easy. A few simple changes around your home can make a surprisingly big impact on the environment.

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Business Green

MAY 7, 2021

First of what promises to be thousands of fast charge points installed at a Shell forecourt as part of major new partnership. Electric vehicle (EV) charging specialist Osprey Charging Network is today celebrating after successfully installing its first Shell Recharge EV charge point at Shell Hovefield service station. The installation is part of a partnership between the two companies in support of Shell's goal of developing an EV charging network for Shell dealer sites across England, Scotland

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