Sat.Nov 09, 2019

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How US colonialism affects Indigenous peoples’ stewardship and access to food

GreenBiz

From ceremonies to harvesting and food storage, to political leadership, to gender relations, indigenous groups have detailed understandings of how design societal institutions to support resilience. But colonialism changed that.

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The businesses that are — and are not — leading on climate change

EDF Voices

Continued commitment to the Paris accord is critical — but it’s also only one part of what's needed to fill the climate leadership void, build the clean energy economy and remain “in.”.

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Has Climate News Coverage Finally Turned a Corner?

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 6 mins By Mark Hertsgaard and Kyle Pope. This piece is published in partnership with Covering Climate Now , a global collaboration of more than 380 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story.

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Air Travel and Climate Change

Green Market Oracle

Air travel is a major source of climate change causing greenhouse gases. Every day, the FAA's Air Traffic Organization provides service to more than 44,000 flights and 2.7 million airline passengers across more than 29 million square miles of airspace. As reported by Vox , airlines carried 4.3 billion passengers in 2018, an increase of 38 million compared to the year before.

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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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'Slow steaming': Reducing ship speeds delivering multiple benefits, research finds

Business Green

Shipping industry should take forward proposals to cut the speed of ships at latest IMO meeting, campaigners say.

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How US colonialism affects Indigenous peoples’ stewardship and access to food

AGreenLiving

From ceremonies to harvesting and food storage, to political leadership, to gender relations, indigenous groups have detailed understandings of how design societal institutions to support resilience. But colonialism changed that. The rest is here: How US colonialism affects Indigenous peoples’ stewardship and access to food.

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How US colonialism affects Indigenous peoples’ stewardship and access to food

AGreenLiving

From ceremonies to harvesting and food storage, to political leadership, to gender relations, indigenous groups have detailed understandings of how design societal institutions to support resilience. But colonialism changed that. Read the original post: How US colonialism affects Indigenous peoples’ stewardship and access to food.

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Live Tesla Inside Out Podcast — November 24 in Sarasota, Florida

CleanTechnica

You might have seen my first two (or three) articles and videos/podcasts from our new Tesla Inside Out series. If you haven't, I highly recommend at least a perusal.

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Tesla Gigafactory Economies of Scale Just Starting to Show in Tesla Financials

CleanTechnica

The biggest threat to Tesla’s existence has not been the so-called “Tesla Killers” from the competition, but rather Tesla’s dependence on the capital markets to fund its growth. The lack of sustained profits made the company rely on financial markets to raise equity and debt at regular intervals to fund its operations.

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Tesla Inside Out, Part Deux — Tesla Stores, Early Deliveries, & Seeing Elon

CleanTechnica

Continuing our discussion of Tesla and David Havasi's long history at Tesla, we took up where we left off, talking about early Model S days at Tesla. At the time that, Tesla had a gigantic factory in Fremont with almost nothing in it other than big, wild dreams and post-apocalyptic images of Blade Runner and The Highlander flashing through their heads as they looked across the expansive space.

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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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Elon Musk Should Build Pumped Hydro With Tesla Energy, The Boring Co., & Coal Miners

CleanTechnica

Pumped hydro is a highly viable storage technology, it overlaps nicely with the characteristics of Tesla's existing battery technology, the Boring Company has high-speed tunneling equipment suitable for penstocks and there are a lot of excellent coal miners who could be repurposed close to home in the United States.

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Keeping Up With The Joneses, Energy Conservation Edition (#CleanTechnica Exclusive Interview)

CleanTechnica

Energy conservation peels itself off the wall and takes center stage in effort to maximize the carbon savings from renewable energy projects.

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SolarEdge Is Building Out A New Solution For EV Charger Load Sharing

CleanTechnica

CleanTechnica sat down with SolarEdge co-founder and VP of marketing and product strategy, Lior Handelsman, at SPI 2019 for a nice long chat about the company's new Smart Home tech. Along the way, Lior mentioned that SolarEdge is also developing intelligent, connected EV charging tech that will allow multiple charging stations on a single circuit to load balance between themselves without exceeding the capacity of the circuit.

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The Man & Machine Issue: Artificial Intelligence vs. Human Behavior

CleanTechnica

The world is currently discussing if artificial systems are good or bad, will help us or destroy us, and if they will ever function or not, and by doing that people make the mistake of actually trying to answer the wrong question. As of today, the biggest question about artificial intelligence is not the system [&hellip.

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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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Volkswagen Announces Pre-Production At Chinese Electric Vehicle factory

CleanTechnica

Volkswagen has announced that it has started pre-production of the Volkswagen ID at its first purely EV-focused factory in China.

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What Is Bright Yellow, Weighs 826 Tons, & Makes Electricity From Ocean Waves?

CleanTechnica

Ocean Energy is about to begin testing its OE 35 wave-powered electrical generator which weighs 826 tons and can supply enough electricity for a small town.

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Tesla Model 3 Most Efficient Electric Car In America, Roadster 2.0 Scale Model Now Available

CleanTechnica

The Tesla Model 3 Standard Range + is now the most efficient electric car sold in America according to the EPA. A exact scale model replica of the Roadster 2.0 is now available to order online from Tesla.