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The textile companies creating material change

GreenBiz

The textile companies creating material change. Liesl Truscott. Wed, 05/26/2021 - 09:01. How to make the best of a challenging year? While the lasting impacts of COVID on industry may take years to accurately assess, one thing we can see right now is how the pandemic has focused the textile industry’s attention on sustainability. Globally, with both the COP26 on Climate Change and COP15 on Biological Diversity happening this year, the urgency couldn’t be more clear.

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Magical Thinking In America – Not Just About Nuclear

Jim Conca

Many of us are shocked at the number of people in America that believe in things that just aren’t real. That a third of Americans believe that extraterrestrials have visited or are visiting the Earth or that only a third absolutely do not believe in ghosts or in telepathy, is worrisome.

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A food forest emerges in LA's famous Venice neighborhood

Inhabitat - Innovation

Community “food forests” are popping up around cities and towns across the U.S., including one on Glencoe Avenue in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Venice.

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Boston Solar Recognized with 2021 Guildmaster Award

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Boston Solar of Woburn, MA has been recognized with the 2021 Guildmaster Award from GuildQuality for demonstrating exemplary customer service within the residential construction industry.

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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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Climate change threatens ancient Sulawesi cave art

Inhabitat - Innovation

A hand-drawn warty pig has adorned a cave wall in southern Sulawesi, Indonesia, for more than 45,500 years. But now, the porcine image is deteriorating thanks to climate change, according to a new study published in Nature.

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Sponsored content: SEEPEX big pumps with maintain-in-place technology

Envirotec Magazine

SEEPEX Rotor Joint Access technology provides quick and easy access to the rotor-side joint. “Smart Maintenance. Fast and Simple” SEEPEX, a global leader in the design, manufacture and application of progressive cavity (PC) pumps, macerators and digital technology, says it is continuing to extend its world-class portfolio of maintain-in-place pump technologies.

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Graphene acid helps remove heavy metal pollutants from water

Envirotec Magazine

The ideal crystalline structure of graphene is a hexagonal grid. Image courtesy of AlexanderAlUS (additional image credit: CORE-Materials , CC BY-SA 2.0 license ). Researchers at Palacký University Olomouc in the Czech Republic, have seemingly shown that graphene decorated with carboxylic groups extract has the potential to remove different types of metallic pollutant from water.

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Yellowstone National Park heats up at the fastest rate in 1,250 years

Inhabitat - Innovation

Temperatures in Yellowstone are rising faster than ever.

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Sponsored Content: A new level of enhanced, reliable protection against VOCs

Envirotec Magazine

Offering a new level of enhanced, reliable protection against VOCs with the first 11.7 Cub personal solution from ION Science. In a 2018 report from the UN, it was revealed that a worker dies every 30 seconds due to exposure to toxic gases in the workplace. That such statistics still exist today is one of the reasons ION Science is working hard to create protective technologies for workers against VOC exposure.

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Sacramento Valley Station focuses on locals and the environment

Inhabitat - Innovation

A zero-emissions transit hub is proposed for Sacramento, California.

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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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LG ELECTRONICS AND SENSE ANNOUNCE COLLABORATION ON AI-DRIVEN HOME SOLAR AND USAGE MONITORING

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LG Solar and the Sense Solar Home Energy Monitor Provide Solar Output Data, Detailed Home Energy Usage, Costs; Embedded Advanced Metering Data Transmits Wirelessly to Smartphone

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4 Steps towards Being a More Sustainable Business

U.S. Green Technology

In this day and age, being sustainable and green isn’t considered to be particularly innovative or creative anymore. So many businesses are investing time and energy into becoming more energy-efficient and sustainable than ever, and the whole sustainability movement is constantly getting bigger and bigger. What this means is that your business needs to become.

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The plan to turn coal country into a rare earth powerhouse

Grist

At an abandoned coal mine just outside the city of Gillette, Wyoming, construction crews are getting ready to break ground on a 10,000-square-foot building that will house state-of-the-art laboratories and manufacturing plants. Among the projects at the facility, known as the Wyoming Innovation Center , will be a pilot plant that aims to takes coal ash — the sooty, toxic waste left behind after coal is burned for energy — and use it to extract rare earths, elements that play an essential role in

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ROCSYS raises an additional $6.3 million for its robotic EV charging solutions

Charged

How will self-driving EVs charge themselves without human intervention? The Dutch firm ROCSYS believes its robotic charging system is the answer. The company recently raised $6.3 million from exisiting investors Forward.One and Superangel in a new funding round. ROCSYS will use the new funding to scale up its activities throughout Europe and to launch a North American business unit.

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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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Kohler Power Launches New Clean Energy Line: KOHLER Power Reserve Energy Storage System

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Kohler Power, a global leader in power generation and energy solutions, announces its expanded clean energy offering with the launch of KOHLER Power Reserve energy storage systems – another milestone in Kohler Co.'s global initiative to support sustainability innovations and drive continual improvement within the housing industry.

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The Reconstruction: How the legacy of Black Wall Street and the Tulsa Race Massacre is shaping a more just future

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, May 26 – Nearly 100 years ago, on May 31, 1921, Oklahoma’s Tulsa Tribune released a falsified news story describing an accusation by. The post The Reconstruction: How the legacy of Black Wall Street and the Tulsa Race Massacre is shaping a more just future appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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DC fast charger for electric boats deployed in Norwegian harbor

Charged

Norway is the world’s EV capital, and it’s not just land vehicles that are going electric. A couple of electric utilities and an electric boat manufacturer have teamed up to install a fast charger for boats at the harbor of Floro on the country’s rugged west coast. The new charger uses a high-performance cable and plug system from Swiss cable maker BRUGG eConnect and offers a charging rate of 150 kW.

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Exxon’s shareholder drama is only beginning of the endgame for oil giant

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, May 26 – It’s showtime. ExxonMobil faces restive investors today in a test for CEO Darren Woods and his strategy for the. The post Exxon’s shareholder drama is only beginning of the endgame for oil giant appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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SEIA Amps Up Storage Advocacy

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The venture, called the Storage Advocacy Network, will be a formal branch of SEIA and serve as a national and state advocacy voice for energy storage. Storage is a multibillion-dollar piece of the cleantech sector, but companies need strong policy leadership to make sure they can maximize their growth in the solar sector and beyond.

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Porsche Taycan EV on course to outsell the classic 911

Charged

For those who were wondering whether Porsche buyers would embrace an electric car, here’s your answer: last quarter, sales of the new Taycan EV were only a hair below sales of the iconic 911 model. Porsche delivered 9,072 Taycans during the first quarter of 2021, trailing the 911 by 61 units. Porsche unveiled the Taycan, which many consider to be the first viable competitor to Tesla’s Model S, in 2019.

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Q CELLS recognized as Top Performer by PVEL for sixth consecutive year

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The Company’s Q.PEAK DUO module series was rated as a Top Performer in the 2021 PV Module Reliability Scorecard published by PVEL, marking the sixth consecutive year of Q CELLS’ Top Performer status.

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Allison Transmission to supply Emergency One with electric axles

Charged

Allison Transmission and Emergency One have agreed to integrate the Allison eGen Power 100D electric axle into Emergency One’s fire rescue and emergency vehicle platform. This builds on a successful current relationship, under which 90% of the units Emergency One sells are equipped with an Allison automatic transmission. The eGen Power 100D electric axle, the first in a new lineup of electric axles, integrates two high-speed electric motors and a multi-speed transmission, eliminating the need fo

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Boviet Solar State-of-the-art Solar Panels Rated Top Performer in 2021 PVEL Scorecard 3rd Year in a Row

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Boviet Solar Technology Co. Ltd. has been rated a Top Performer in PV Evolution Labs' (PVEL) PV Module Reliability Scorecard for the third year in a row, and has modules listed in all of the Scorecard's Top Performer categories.

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LISC closes $250 million Black Economic Development Fund to catalyze capital for racial equity

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, May 26 — The vehicle’s objectives: Increasing access to capital for businesses that support economic growth in Black communities. Strengthening local Black. The post LISC closes $250 million Black Economic Development Fund to catalyze capital for racial equity appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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Silfab Solar Modules Secure “Top Performer” Rating for PVEL 2021 Scorecard

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Silfab Solar, North America’s leading PV manufacturer, earned a “top performer” rating under the rigorous PV Evolution Labs testing, the company announced today.

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Explore 2021: Discover the Power of Global Connection

Planet Pulse

After a challenging year, Planet is looking ahead to bring together our global community. Today, we’re excited to announce that Planet Explore 2021 will be held virtually on October 12-13. Like years past, Explore is free to attend, and you can register today ! . At last year’s Explore 2020 , we welcomed more than 3,000 attendees and were joined by a stellar roster of speakers ( Al Gore , Dr.

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Stahlin Announces Availability of New Safety Yellow PushButton Enclosures

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Stahlin® Enclosures announces the availability of new Safety Yellow PushButton Enclosures available in one and two hole configurations with either 22mm or 30mm diameter holes

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New Mexico Stuck With $8 billion in Cleanup for Oil Wells, Highlighting Dangers From Fossil Fuel Dependence

DeSmogBlog

New Mexico is facing more than $8 billion in cleanup costs for oil and gas wells, an enormous liability that taxpayers could be left to pick up if drillers go out of business or walk away from their obligations. Cleaning up old wells at the end of their operating lives can be expensive, and typically states require drillers to cover part of the cleanup cost at the outset, known as financial assurance requirements.

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Designing for Next-Generation Technologies: Utility-Scale Trends A Top Solar Contractors Roundtable

Solar Power World

Join Solar Power World and Top Solar Contractors as we have a roundtable discussion on the best business practices the installation community has adopted for the utility-scale market. The utility-scale solar market may seem like an assembly line of tried-and-true installation methods, but most of the industry’s technology advances first arrive on our largest projects.… The post Designing for Next-Generation Technologies: Utility-Scale Trends <br><span style='color:#404040;

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‘Landslide Victory for Climate Justice’: Court Rules Shell Must Cut CO2 Emissions 45 Percent by 2030

DeSmogBlog

By Jessica Corbett at Common Dreams. Climate campaigners worldwide are celebrating after a Dutch court on Wednesday ordered fossil fuel giant Royal Dutch Shell to cut its carbon emissions 45% by 2030, compared with 2019 levels—a historic ruling that activists hope is just the beginning of holding the oil and gas industry accountable for driving the climate emergency. “This is a landslide victory for climate justice,” said Sara Shaw of Friends of the Earth International (FOEI). “

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Shareholders and courts notch historic climate wins against Big Oil

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, May 26 – Big Oil is taking a big climate beating from shareholders and in the courts today. A Dutch court ordered Royal. The post Shareholders and courts notch historic climate wins against Big Oil appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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Bayer Joins Greentown Labs’ Corporate Partner Network

Greentown Labs

World-leading life science company will engage directly with climatetech startups to advance agriculture technology. Somerville, Mass., May 26, 2021 — Greentown Labs , the largest climatetech startup incubator in North America, today announced Bayer as the newest member of its growing corporate partner network. Bayer , headquartered in Leverkusen, Germany, is a multinational life science company with core competencies in the areas of health care and agriculture.

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Transforming Customer Segmentation with the Power of AI

Bidgely

Learn more about how you can integrate Bidgely’s AI-powered customer profiling and segmentation capability into your operations to generate greater ROI from your AMI investment by downloading our Data Science Lab’s AI-Powered Customer Segmentation for Utilities white paper. Transforming Customer Segmentation with the Power of AI. Historically, one of the greatest challenges to successful demand side management (DSM) and other customer-centric programs has been that when it comes to making better

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I'm an Asian American environmentalist. My story is a familiar one.

EDF Voices

Asian American and Pacific Islander communities are valuable and necessary allies in the fight to address the climate crisis — allies who could wield the kind of political power key to environmental progress.