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25 badass women shaking up the climate movement in 2020

GreenBiz

In honor of International Women's Day, we recognize courageous executives, investor advocates and policy visionaries who are role models for any gender.

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Reima designs a traceable, recyclable jacket for kids

Inhabitat - Innovation

The stylish and sustainable outerwear is crafted from only one material type, recycled polyester, and comes with a tracking code for users to follow the product's journey throughout its recycling and reuse.

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Microgrids, indoor agriculture go together like peas and carrots

GreenBiz

Vertical farms can help produce food close to urban areas, but plant factories require a staggering amount of energy.

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Green-roofed Stonecrop home rises from rural English landscape

Inhabitat - Innovation

London-based architecture firm Featherstone Young recently completed Stonecrop, a new home in Rutland, East Midlands that’s also an example of how thoughtful architecture can draw new interest to declining rural communities. Topped with a sloping green roof that touches the ground, the sculptural building features two wings — one that houses the main living areas and the other for guest quarters — that wrap around a central courtyard.

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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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How ambitious is the 'carbon positive' pledge by Horizon Organic?

GreenBiz

The plan could shrink the dairy company's footprint by at least 30 percent by five years from now.

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Blackstone Buys NRStor C&I for Industrial Battery Development in Ontario and Beyond

GreenTechMedia

Private equity fund Blackstone Energy Partners has bought its way into the commercial and industrial energy storage market by acquiring Toronto-based NRStor C&I. The deal, announced Wednesday, gives Blackstone a portfolio of 200 megawatt-hours of customer-sited storage in operation, under construction or under contract. It marks a particular vote of confidence in the Ontario market, which has become one of the most dynamic regions in North America for large behind-the-meter storage.

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How to Make Your Coffee Habit More Sustainable

The Environmental Blog

Does the sound of starting your morning without a cup of coffee make you cringe? Well, trust that you are not alone. For many people, coffee is an indispensable ingredient in a successful and happy life. Unfortunately, as the western world’s appetite for coffee has only continued to grow, some of the practices surrounding these beloved roasted beans have become quite harmful to the environment.

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Episode 210: Ford's systemic sustainability, Project Drawdown's climate solutions update

GreenBiz

Plus, what do consumers think of the circular economy? ING executive Anne van Riel offers some perspective.

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Roaming shipping container museum brings contemporary art through Panama

Inhabitat - Innovation

The project helps bring certain works of art from the Museum of Contemporary Art throughout neighborhoods in Panama City.

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Food From Thin Air: The Forgotten Space Tech That Could Feed Planet Earth

Forbes Green Tech

Forgotten for half a decade, a microbial recipe for sustaining astronauts on long space missions might not only feed hundreds of millions of hungry people on Earth, but also hold the key to a truly carbon neutral, circular economy.

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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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Starbucks suspends personal cup use because of coronavirus

Inhabitat - Innovation

Starbucks is putting public health first until the coronavirus situation improves.

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FERC expects 50 GW of rewnewables to be added in next three years – far outpacing fossil fuels

Solar Power World

FERC released its year-end energy infrastructure report today, and initial analysis by the SUN DAY Campaign finds that renewable energy sources provided 57.26% of new U.S. electrical generating capacity added in 2019 — swamping new additions provided by coal, natural gas, oil and nuclear power combined. FERC’s latest monthly “Energy Infrastructure Update” report (with data… The post FERC expects 50 GW of rewnewables to be added in next three years – far outpacing fo

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LEED Gold-certified Azurmendi crowned Worlds Most Sustainable Restaurant

Inhabitat - Innovation

Three-star Michelin restaurant Azurmendi has once again been crowned the “World’s Most Sustainable Restaurant” by The World’s 50 Best Restaurants.

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Virginia’s 100% RPS bill heads to governor’s desk

Solar Power World

Today, national business group Advanced Energy Economy applauded the Virginia Senate for passing SB 851, the Virginia Clean Economy Act (VCEA), a bill that puts the Commonwealth on a historic path for 100% clean energy by 2045 while saving customers money, and creating tens of thousands of jobs. The Senate vote was 22-17 for SB… The post Virginia’s 100% RPS bill heads to governor’s desk appeared first on Solar Power World.

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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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Only the decisive survive. Will your business?

Impact Alpha

Over the past seven years, our venture funds have invested in more than 60 early- and growth-stage startups in emerging markets (ex. China). Many are thriving, some are challenged but still growing, and some are just hanging on. None have Softbank-level funding, yet. That means that the impending shock to the business climate of emerging. The post Only the decisive survive.

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Porsche opens 7 MW rapid charging park in Germany

Charged

Porsche Leipzig is expanding the charging infrastructure for EVs in central Germany with its new Porsche Turbo Charging park. Porsche claims that the 7 MW facility, which is supplied entirely by renewable energy sources, is Europe’s most powerful rapid charging park. The facility includes four 22 kW AC charging points, twelve publicly-available CCS2 350 kW DC rapid charging points, and six 350 kW internal charging stations.

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The Week in impact investing: Virtual reality

Impact Alpha

TGIF, Agents of Impact! The Week’s Big 6 1. An early effect of coronavirus: canceled conferences. The spread of COVID-19 has done what the climate crisis and street protests could not: grounded the spring circuit of impact investing conferences and events. The raft of conference cancellations will create something of a natural experiment: Just how necessary.

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Solar Photovoltaic Technology leading the Firms to Migrate towards Green Revolution

altenergymag

Photovoltaic technology is used in renewable energy systems range from small-scale systems for lighting and pumping to large-scale systems for whole buildings and utility-scale photovoltaic farms.

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Agent of Impact: Willemijn Verloop, Social Impact Ventures

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, March 6 – Social Impact Ventures’ €40 million fund was the biggest private impact fund in the Netherlands when it launched in 2015. Now, founder Willemijn Verloop, with her partner Machtelt Groothuis, is back in the market with an €80 million second fund to replicate and expand its impact investing model, which includes a. The post Agent of Impact: Willemijn Verloop, Social Impact Ventures appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Reports: Government to delay National Infrastructure Strategy to beef up net zero plans

Business Green

BBC reports that court ruling over Heathrow planning approval may require government to modify imminent National Infrastructure Strategy. The government's long-awaited National Infrastructure Strategy will not be published "alongside" the Budget next week as expected, so as to give Ministers more time to strengthen decarbonisation plans, according to media reports.

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Canadian Solar now also holds world-record efficiency for n-type P5 solar cell

Solar Power World

Canadian Solar announced its technology team set a world-record of 23.81% conversion efficiency for n-type large area multi-crystalline silicon solar cell. The record-setting n-type P5 cell conversion efficiency was recently tested and certified by Germany’s Institute für Solarenergieforschung GmbH (ISFH). This is the third time within a span of nine months that the company has set… The post Canadian Solar now also holds world-record efficiency for n-type P5 solar cell appeared first

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ALL-ENERGY 2019 AND SEC CHALK UP AN IMPRESSIVE WIN

altenergymag

All-Energy 2019 - the UK's largest renewable energy exhibition and conference - and Glasgow's Scottish Event Campus (SEC) have been awarded Best Business Event at the National Finals of this year's Scottish Thistle Awards National Final held on 5 March

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Danone ramps up recycled plastics across Evian and Volvic brands

Business Green

Both Evian and Volvic also set to become 'carbon neutral' in the UK in 2020, claims the French food and drinks giant. Danone is poised to boost the recycled content of its top selling UK water brands, promising that most Evian plastic bottles will be made from 100 per cent recycled plastic in the UK from next month, as both Evian and Volvic shift towards becoming 'carbon neutral' in 2020.

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Beware the ‘perfection or nothing’ delusion in Sustainability

Terra Infirma

Here’s a couple of arguments I’ve heard recently against moves towards a more Sustainable economy: Coal is needed for steel manufacture. Not everybody can cycle. Electric vehicles don’t have enough range for all uses. While they contain an element of truth, all of these arguments are built on the myth that unless greener options can universally replace the status quo, then they are useless.

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Civilization’s Most Important Financial Market

Forbes Green Tech

Many people have heard the term "cap-and-trade," but have no idea how the carbon credit offset markets function. They should learn - these markets represent the best chance for humanity's ability to thrive over the next century and to adapt to the sobering realities of climate change.

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Global Briefing: General Motors powers up $20bn EV investment plan

Business Green

Plus all the top green business news from around the world. 'All in': GM unveils fast-expanding EV fleet. US auto giant General Motors (GM) this week provided a wide-ranging update on its ambitious electric vehicle (EV) strategy, pledging to invest more than $20bn through to 2025 on its next generation all-electric and autonomous vehicles as it unveiled 11 new electric models at its annual 'EV Day'.

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Green-roofed Stonecrop home rises from rural English landscape

AGreenLiving

London-based architecture firm Featherstone Young recently completed Stonecrop, a new home in Rutland, East Midlands that’s also an example of how thoughtful architecture can draw new interest to declining rural communities. Topped with a sloping green roof that touches the ground, the sculptural building features two wings — one that houses the main living areas and the other for guest quarters — that wrap around a central courtyard.

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Meet the Asian women driving progressive change across the region

Eco-Business

Women have been at the forefront of the fight for global justice and human rights, but we don’t often hear their names in Asia. This International Women’s Day, Eco-Business celebrates the work of Asia’s unsung heroines.

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Roaming shipping container museum brings contemporary art through Panama

AGreenLiving

Panamanian architect Héctor Ayarza has figured out a cool and sustainable way to bring art to the masses. His fantastic Wandering Museum is a roaming structure made out of two reclaimed shipping containers. The project helps bring certain works of art from the Museum of Contemporary Art throughout neighborhoods in Panama City. The project began as a collaboration between the Panama City-based Museum of Contemporary Art and Ayarza.

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Hundreds of companies crack down on plastic from fast fashion to supermarkets and beyond

GreenBiz

The initial headline-grabbing pledges to phase out single use plastic may have become old news, but the new normal is seeing hundreds of companies quietly advance their plastic reduction strategies.

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25 badass women shaking up the climate movement in 2020

AGreenLiving

In honor of International Women’s Day, we recognize courageous executives, investor advocates and policy visionaries who are role models for any gender. Read more from the original source: 25 badass women shaking up the climate movement in 2020.

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Clean Energy Business Network Newsletter for March 6

CleanTech Alliance

Source: CEBN Newsletter, March 6, 2020 For this week, the Senate debates a major energy bill, CEBN’s clean energy funding sign on letter is still open, and $600K in cleantech funding is now up for grabs! FEATURED CONTENT For the first time in 12 years, Senators consider an energy billThe American Energy Innovation Act of 2020 includes dozens […].

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Earth911 Inspiration: Accepting Our Humanity — Albert Camus

AGreenLiving

This week’s quote is from author, philosopher, and Nobel laureate … The post Earth911 Inspiration: Accepting Our Humanity — Albert Camus appeared first on Earth911.com. See original here: Earth911 Inspiration: Accepting Our Humanity — Albert Camus.

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A conversation with Ford's sustainability leader

Business Green

How will the No. 2 American automaker focus on sustainability amidst restructuring and major transformation? About three months ago, Bob Holycross was promoted to become Ford's top environmental and safety officer, charged with implementing the automaker's sustainability practices, among other things. Even though Ford is facing both internal restructuring and as well as the massive transformation happening in the broader automotive industry, the company continues to make strong commitments to su