GreenBiz

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Small- and medium-sized enterprises have a huge role to play in the collective corporate effort to address the climate crisis.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 21, 2022

A flock of four female reindeer and a yearling with winter coats (image credit: Erik Ropstad). The North Pole is not what it once was. The Arctic is the area on the globe where temperatures are rising the fastest. On Svalbard, a Norwegian archipelago in the Arctic Ocean, this entails extended periods of mild weather. Precipitation comes as rain, snow melts, and then freezes again in colder periods.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Your Christmas tree is a product with an environmental footprint. Know the facts.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Food is central to our survival. However, with more than 50% of people living in cities, our immediate connection to food is dwindling as a species. Without immediate access to fresh food, much of the produce we eat in the U.S. is grown in other countries and picked underripe. However, even in cities, folks are finding their way around these issues and eating food straight from the source in a variety of ways.

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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

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Sponsored: The First Movers Coalition's unique partnership between government and corporations — including founding member Western Digital — is harnessing the purchasing power of companies to decarbonize the corporate ecosystem, unlock the untapped potential of emerging technologies and turn the tide of climate innovation.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

DECEMBER 21, 2022

A 1,000-mile wide storm is about to cause chaos across the U.S., driving up wind gusts, dropping temperatures and delaying flights — just in time for Christmas. Two scary words, “bomb” and “cyclone,” have been joined to describe this hideous storm system that only a weather fanatic could love.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

DECEMBER 21, 2022

What do you get when you combine an architect, a farmer, an artistic mindset and a pile of thick bark? If you’re farmer Robert Petterson and architect Ulf Mejergren, you get Pine Bark Hut.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 21, 2022

There's an emerging debate over the value of techno-centric solutions.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

DECEMBER 21, 2022

A new study shows that the leading U.S. state in eco-certified hotels is…Maryland! According to a study by Family Destinations Guide, Maryland is the only state with more than 10% of its hotels certified green.

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Charged

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Fleets tested Volvo VNR Electric Class 8 tractors for three years: Here’s what they learned. Large commercial trucks and other heavy equipment have run on diesel fuel for many decades now. Requirements for more aggressive emission after-treatment and the hardware to achieve that add cost and complexity for fleet operators. Rising fuel-economy standards during the 2020s will do the same.

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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

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Morrama designed sustainable new packaging for the restaurant chain Wagamama. The chain's ramen bowls can now be taken to-go with stackable bowls that keep crispy squid fresh while keeping excess materials out of the process. The familiar Wagamama gray has been replaced with a natural, light sandy color to reflect the move toward natural, sustainable materials.

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Charged

DECEMBER 21, 2022

New York City School Bus Umbrella Services (NYCSBUS) has selected The Mobility House to manage charging and vehicle-to-grid (V2G) operations for a major school bus electrification project. NYCSBUS, which received an $8-million grant from NYSERDA for the program, will use The Mobility House’s energy management system, ChargePilot, to optimize infrastructure planning and operation for 30 electric school buses deployed at the Bronx’s Zerega Avenue depot.

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altenergymag

DECEMBER 21, 2022

• The commissioning of these two solar plants will prevent the release of over 1.5 million metric tons of CO2 to the atmosphere • Thanks to this agreement, Soltec has an accumulated track record of 4.6 GW in Brazil.

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Charged

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Hyundai has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Korean EV battery manufacturer SK On, to secure a battery supply for the North American market. Under the MOU, SK On will supply batteries to Hyundai’s US plants after 2025, as the Korean automaker aims to bolster its EV presence and sales in the North American Market. The company hopes to sell 3.23 million EVs annually by 2030.

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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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Renew Economy

DECEMBER 21, 2022

How much water does it take to make green hydrogen – and can Australia source what it needs, sustainably, to become a hydrogen superpower? The post For Australia to be a green hydrogen superpower, first we must find enough water appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Impact Alpha

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Greetings, Agents of Impact! ? Hop on today’s Agents of Impact Call. Collaboration? Governance? Catalytic? On our last call of the year, we’ll. The post The Brief: Looking ahead to 2023: Abundance, ownership and inclusion appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

I live in South Louisiana on the front lines of the climate crisis and cover the fossil fuel industry and impacts related to the warming planet, so facing gaslighting is a regular occurrence for me. So it resonated with me that Merriam-Webster dictionary chose “gaslighting” as the word of the year. This year saw a 1,740 percent increase in lookups for gaslighting, according to a post by the dictionary company, which defines gaslighting as “the act or practice of grossly misleading someone especi

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Impact Alpha

DECEMBER 21, 2022

ImpactAlpha, Dec. 21 – Real solutions. Real revenues. Real places. While other investors chased inflated valuations in crypto and other tech fads, inclusive. The post Abundance, ownership and inclusion hold keys to shared prosperity in 2023 appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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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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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 21, 2022

In the spring of 2020, the European Union announced an ambitious plan to overhaul farming practices in fields and valleys across the continent. Named Farm to Fork, it calls for less fertiliser and pesticide use, and more organic production. Veteran sustainable food and farming experts welcomed the strategy as one that just might have a genuine shot at transforming the agriculture sector and result in better public health, contribute to ending the vertiginous decline of biodiversity, and lower gr

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Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Developer predicts use of more powerful turbines and optimised design will provide green power for an additional 700,000 homes. Offshore wind developer Vattenfall has today announced it is to boost the capacity for the new Norfolk Offshore Wind Zone by over 4.2GW, delivering enough clean power for an additional 700,000 homes. The boost in capacity takes the total number of homes that can provided with green energy from the zone to 4.6 million, making the site one of the largest offshore wind pro

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Spanish utility Endesa’s project Resisto is aimed to reduce the impact of meteorological phenomena on the electricity grid. Resisto, led by Endesa’s network subsidiary e-distribución, is proposing the development of predictive analysis and management solutions for weather events and other natural phenomena through the use of artificial intelligence as well as the deployment of sensors, thermal surveillance cameras, weather stations and a fleet of autonomous drones.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Rolling out heat pumps and other green home heating systems will be critical to combatting chronic air pollution across the UK, argues Conservative peer Lord Randall. Seventy years ago this month, London was brought to a standstill by the Great Smog. An unusually cold snap and windless conditions mixed with the vast quantities of pollution produced by open coal fires proved to be the perfect concoction to envelop London in a thick, dirty, foggy blanket for nearly a week.

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Energy Central

DECEMBER 21, 2022

From FORESIGHT Climate & Energy, Policy Dispatch is a podcast all about the policies that underpin the global energy transition. Gas heating is not an affordable heating option anymore. Instead, the demand and uptake of heat pumps in Europe’s building stock have seen a major surge in the past few months. Global heat pump sales rose 15% in 2021.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Treasury yesterday published technical note finalising details of its controversial new levy on clean electricity generators, sparking fresh warnings tax could undermine green investment. The government has confirmed the details for its controversial tax raid on clean power generators which will come into effect from next month, publishing a technical note setting out how the new Electricity Generator Levy will work.

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Energy Central

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Originally posted here. The year 2022 is primarily influenced by the Russian-Ukrainian war. The resulting geopolitical changes caused a state of emergency on the energy markets this year. However, the framework conditions for the energy industry will no longer be the same in the future either: Energy security, diversification as well as efficiency and savings measures are.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Self-growing shoes, clothing dyes made from food waste, and clothing traceability QR codes among winners from £100,000 Circular Fashion Innovators Fund. A clutch of innovative start-ups working to boost recycling, repair, reuse, and the environmental sustainability of clothing have been handed a share of £100,000 in grant funding from eBay UK and the British Fashion Council.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Spanish energy giant Iberdrola is at the forefront of promoting transparency with the development of blockchain based compliance system in Spain. The new blockchain application, which was initiated by Iberdrola, is aimed to enable the publication of companies’ compliance systems documentation and to facilitate the exchange of information during due diligence processes related to compliance risks in a reliable, simple and secure way.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 21, 2022

US manufacturing giant moves ahead of regulators by promising to phase-out harmful PFAS substances within three years. 3M has promised to stop making and using harmful 'forever chemicals' across its product portfolio by the end of 2025, with the manufacturing giant admitting growing regulatory, consumer, and investor concerns over the use of such substances have "increasingly weighed on our business results in recent years".

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The WCS Entrepreneur Circle (E-Circle) is a three-month cohort program designed for entrepreneurs who identify as women to communicate, reflect, and connect with each other. More than a mentorship program, the E-Circle offers you opportunities to commune with up to 11 fellow entrepreneurs, build relationships with leaders in this space, and collect new resources.

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Clean Energy Canada

DECEMBER 21, 2022

OTTAWA — Ekta Bibra, senior policy advisor at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to federal government’s new draft design of its regulated zero emission vehicle sales targets (also known as a zero-emission vehicle mandate): “When it comes to electric vehicles, one simple fact holds true around the world: countries with strong EV policies have more electric cars on the road.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The WCS Entrepreneur Circle (E-Circle) is a three-month cohort program designed for entrepreneurs who identify as women to communicate, reflect, and connect with each other. More than a mentorship program, the E-Circle offers you opportunities to commune with up to 11 fellow entrepreneurs, build relationships with leaders in this space, and collect new resources.

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Energy Central

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The Canadian government has proposed a significant tax credit for hydrogen production in the country - at least 40% if all conditions are met. Citing the Infrastructure Reduction Act in the US, the Department of Finance sees adoption of “competitive” measures as critical to make sure Canada is not “left behind” The government will shortly launch industry consultation.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

DECEMBER 21, 2022

The WCS Entrepreneur Circle (E-Circle) is a three-month cohort program designed for entrepreneurs who identify as women to communicate, reflect, and connect with each other. More than a mentorship program, the E-Circle offers you opportunities to commune with up to 11 fellow entrepreneurs, build relationships with leaders in this space, and collect new resources.

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