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Aligning Action with Ambition: How Leadership Companies Approach Audacious Sustainability Goals

GreenBiz

Aligning Action with Ambition: How Leadership Companies Approach Audacious Sustainability Goals. The pressure is on when it comes to sustainability in the private sector. No longer is it sufficient to announce new ambitions. Now, driven by new reporting requirements in the form of TCFD, new regulatory regimes being enacted by the EU, increasing shareholder and consumer pressure around the pace of climate change, companies are being asked to not only set goals – but to share detailed plans about

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"Climate-neutral" Spiral Tower lets you see the city from new heights

Inhabitat - Innovation

A Dutch consortium of companies has teamed up to propose an ambitious city landmark — the Spiral Tower, an eco-friendly urban attraction, could be the "world's first climate-neutral high-rise attraction." KCI, Bosch Rexroth, HILLEBRAND and NorthernLight collaborated on the unique project that not only serves as an observation tower but also generates renewable energy.

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Tesla's co-founder is pioneering a circular system for electric vehicle batteries

GreenBiz

Tesla's co-founder is pioneering a circular system for electric vehicle batteries. Katie Fehrenbacher. Wed, 09/02/2020 - 01:30. This week, I've been thinking a lot about electric vehicle batteries and the massive potential for battery recycling and reuse. As the market for electric vehicles takes off, that means eventually hundreds of millions of EV batteries will be in use and then face end of life.

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Arctic wildfires are emitting 35% more carbon compared to 2019

Inhabitat - Innovation

Wildfires are causing more carbon emissions in the first eight months of 2020 than they did in all of 2019.

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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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Clean Air in California? Easier Than You May Think!

GreenBiz

Clean Air in California? Easier Than You May Think! In the run up to California Clean Air Day, join GreenBiz for a conversation about some of the available and affordable solutions that are delivering a real lasting impact in California’s fight against air pollution and climate change. . Certain regions in the United States, particularly in California, continue to face an air pollution crisis.

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Renewable energy lab glows like a lantern in Germany

Inhabitat - Innovation

The project is a massive testing lab for new energy systems as part of a scheme to move Germany towards greater adoption of renewable energy.

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New green technology could harvest body heat as energy

Inhabitat - Innovation

What if you could charge your phone with body heat?

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Prefabricated, luxury eco-pod sits high in the Swiss Alps

Inhabitat - Innovation

Chill out at Zen Suite, an eco-pod with sweeping views of the Rhône Valley.

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BlackRock: The case for impact in public equities

Impact Alpha

Public equity markets have historically been overlooked in the impact investing space, traditionally a domain for credit and private market financing. We see public equities playing a growing and indispensable role in the impact ecosystem. A common question in the industry is: how exactly can investing in public equities create impact? At BlackRock, our Active.

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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 Basics: How to keep solar tracker systems running smoothly

Solar Power World

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. Mounting solar panels on tracking systems instead of fixed-tilt racking increases the energy yield of a project. But more moving parts means different O&M considerations must be made for… The post Solar Basics: How to keep solar tracker systems running smoothly appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Priscilla Chan and Mark Zuckerberg commit $300 million to safe, fair elections

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, September 2 – Two impact investors sounded off in ImpactAlpha this week about the importance of securing the fairness of the November U.S. election (see, “How impact investors can help ensure racial justice includes electoral justice,” and “Impact investors have a role to play in preventing worst-case election scenarios”). Now comes the Facebook founder.

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Bollinger Motors explores a new market with the DELIVER-E delivery van concept

Charged

When Robert Bollinger founded Bollinger Motors in 2015, he did not follow the typical EV startup formula. There were no former Tesla executives and no deep-pocketed Chinese investors, and the strategy was not to build a luxury sedan, but rather a rough-and-ready electric work truck. With a no-nonsense design, powerful specs and a $125,000 price tag, Bollinger’s B1 Sport Utility Truck and B2 Pickup Truck are clearly not aimed at the mass market, but at truck connoisseurs.

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Hoboken, New Jersey Sues Oil Industry for Climate Impacts From its 'Deceptive Actions'

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 5 mins New Jersey has now joined the wave of lawsuits seeking to hold the fossil fuel industry accountable for climate impacts. The city of Hoboken today filed a case against major oil and gas companies and the American Petroleum Institute ( API ) , a powerful industry trade group which has played a major role in promoting “uncertainty” about climate science.

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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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REMOVAL OF SUSTAINABILITY FROM PLANNING REQUIREMENTS ‘A RETROGRADE STEP FOR SCOTLAND’

altenergymag

Rules supporting sustainable development in Scotland will be removed under new Scottish Government proposals - harming renewable energy deployment and the country's efforts to tackle the climate emergency.

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Planet Hack 2020: Our Annual Hackathon Goes Virtual

Planet Pulse

At Planet, our mission is to make change visible, accessible and actionable. In 2017 we achieved that by building the world’s largest satellite constellation that images the entire Earth’s landmass every day. Three years later, our platform continues to grow as we develop new ways for people to harness the power of our unprecedented dataset: tools like Planet Analytics leverage deep learning to make unique insights accessible to users around the world.

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Teardown expert Sandy Munro compares 10 leading EV motors in new video

Charged

Auto manufacturing expert Sandy Munro knows what makes cars tick. For years, he and his company have performed teardowns, taking new cars apart and analyzing every little bracket and screw—what it’s made of, who made it, and how much it cost. This week at the Charged Virtual Conference on EV Engineering, Sandy compared an assortment of electric motors used in current production EVs: the Jaguar I-PACE, Tesla Model 3, Audi e-tron, BMW i3, Chevy Bolt, Chevy Volt, Nissan LEAF and Toyota Prius.

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How to lead your team through uncertain times

Solar Power World

By Wendy Sheaffer, Chief Product Officer, The Omnia Group Economic hard times, a country in turmoil and the continuing fear of the pandemic have threatened businesses on many levels. Leading through uncertain times is tough even for the most experienced leaders. Though no one is immune to feelings of apprehension, there are ways to guide others… The post How to lead your team through uncertain times appeared first on Solar Power World.

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City of Unalaska Inks Power Purchase Agreement for Geothermal Power

altenergymag

Unalaska is located along the sea lanes of the great circle route connecting North America to Asia. As a result, its Bering Sea location is home to the International Port of Dutch Harbor, recognized also as the top US fishing port in the US.

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Wildfires are getting worse. Will forests start to burn themselves out?

Grist

Thousands of lightning strikes have put California under a “ fire siege ” since mid-August, setting parched grasses, shrubs, and trees ablaze across the state. Last week, when word got out that wildfires had entered Big Basin Redwoods State Park, many feared for the fate of its namesake redwood forest. But by Friday, those fears were dispelled. The “Mother of the Forest” and other ancient trees remained healthy.

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3 Hurdles to Racial Justice in Clean Energy – and 3 Ways U.S. Cities Can Overcome Them

The City Fix

For years, city governments in the United States have taken the lead on committing to climate action, with more than 165 cities aiming for 100% community-wide clean energy. But whether ambitious goals translate to ambitious action is another question altogether, and. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Mark Carney launches drive to develop global market for CO2 offsets

Business Green

Figures from BP, Shell, Unilever, Nestlé and BlackRock among members of new Taskforce on Scaling Voluntary Carbon Markets. A host of top figures from business, finance, and academia led by former Bank of England Governor Mark Carney have announced a global Taskforce to accelerate the development of voluntary carbon markets across the private sector, ahead of anticipated surge in demand for CO2 offsets as the net zero transition gathers pace.

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Tesla has a huge team of “Jedi engineers” working on Autopilot

Charged

Tesla’s Autopilot is designed to seem simple, smooth and effortless to the driver. We all understand that there’s a tremendous amount of work going on behind the scenes, but few realize how many highly skilled people are working on this ever-evolving system. CleanTechnica ’s Zachary Shahan was fortunate to score an interview with Elon Musk, who was keen to share the credit with the large and diverse Autopilot team.

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Multimillion pound prize announced for first zero carbon transatlantic passenger flight

Business Green

Sustainability consultancy Carbon Footprint debuts new challenge prize, as Boeing launches next phase of green R&D programme. A new competition launched this week is set to reward the next great leap forward in sustainable flight, offering a cash prize expected to be in the millions of pounds for the first zero carbon transatlantic passenger flight between London and New York.

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Classic Customizers To Produce Tesla-Powered Defender

Forbes Green Tech

A Florida-based company that specializes in customizing classic Land Rovers, and in particular, Defenders, is getting set to build the first electric Defender in the U. S. powered by a Tesla drivetrain.

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Report: Circular construction practices could cut CO2 in half

Business Green

Implementing net zero-aligned circular economy approaches to infrastructure and construction could cut costs and boost resilience, according to AECOM. The UK's infrastructure and construction sector has the potential to cut its carbon emissions in half, reducing costs in the process, by adopting net zero emission-aligned circular economy approaches that would drive the wider use of low carbon materials, according to research by multinational engineering firm AECOM.

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Largest Battery Energy Storage Project in Southern California Starts Construction

altenergymag

100-Megawatt Ventura Energy Storage on the Way to Helping California Grid

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Bonn Challenge: Land restoration pledges reach 210 million hectares worldwide

Business Green

Global initiative celebrates milestone, but warns governments are undervaluing benefits of nature-based climate solutions for cutting CO2 and boosting economies. More than 210 million hectares of degraded land worldwide is now being targeted for restoration or reforestation under the Bonn Challenge, a major global initiative which claims nature-based climate solutions are playing a crucial yet undervalued role in boosting biodiversity, capturing CO2, and driving economic benefits.

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Natural Gas Is Core To The New Energy Economy — The One Created By Joe Biden

Forbes Green Tech

Joe Biden spearheaded the New Energy Economy — the one that relies on clean energy, including natural gas. As such, the former Vice President would never ban fracking but he would closely monitor it.

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Climate risk: Amazon, Allianz, Microsoft, and S&P Global join open data initiative

Business Green

Linux Foundation spearheads new drive to harness AI and open source data to combat climate risk. A clutch of global corporates including Amazon, Allianz, Microsoft, and S&P Global are leading a new initiative to harness AI, open source analytics and open data to help better manage climate risks and take advantage of the opportunities offered by the net zero transition, the companies announced yesterday.

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Graphic designers on Instagram during COVID-19 – Curating news feeds that matter

U.S. Green Technology

The novel coronavirus appeared suddenly and have created havoc worldwide. Until now, the common people, business houses, brands, and freelance artists have crossed through the stages of complete lockdown, partial lockdown, unlock, and re-lockdowns. The government and the medical fraternity are still trying to arrive at a best-case scenario that will help in flattening the.

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The Brief: BlackRock’s case for impact in public equities, Oakland’s Black business fund, digitizing small businesses in Indonesia, AXA’s multi-asset impact fund

Impact Alpha

Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Impact Voices BlackRock: The case for impact in public equities. Why should impact investors grapple with public equity markets? Because that’s where the money is, as Willie Sutton might have put it. “The global need for impact capital is an order of magnitude greater than what could conceivably be provided.

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Ingka Group pledges €600m sustainable investment drive to meet IKEA green goals

Business Green

Investments are expected in renewable energy, innovative start-ups and the sustainability of stores, warehouses and products. IKEA stores owner Ingka Group is to invest €600m in sustainability projects over the coming 12 months, as it works to meet IKEA's commitment to become climate positive by 2030, the multinational announced yesterday. The investments are likely to be equally split between renewable energy, innovative start-up projects, and work to make its stores and warehouses more su

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Oakland Black Business Fund launches with COVID relief funding

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, September 2 – Oakland Black Business Fund, a new nonprofit investment fund, aims to help Black-owned businesses weather and recover from the COVID economic storm. Its broader vision is to seed economic opportunity and wealth creation for Oakland’s Black residents through business advice, grants, investment and real estate. OBBF has raised $150,000 to start.