Fri.May 01, 2020

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There's a more sustainable way to deliver online grocery orders

GreenBiz

Many shoppers will find the process quicker and easier post-pandemic, which begs the need for more serious attention to the transportation footprint associated with getting groceries to consumers' front doors.

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Eco-friendly coffee range uses cork to reduce plastic waste

Inhabitat - Innovation

Make yourself a sustainable cup of coffee with design Samson Chung's Kork Kafeware collection, a range of eco-friendly cork coffee products.

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What Engie's tax equity deal tells us about financing renewables

GreenBiz

So far, money is still flowing into utility-scale deals but it's harder to come by for residential, distributed solar, commercial and industrial, and community solar projects.

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Peaceful floating villa in Australia runs on solar energy

Inhabitat - Innovation

Sail away from it all on a quiet, floating home north of Sydney's Palm Beach.

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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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Now more than ever, it seems we can't live without plastic

GreenBiz

Companies and governments are working to minimize environmental harm of plastic packaging and products, but they face a nuanced reality.

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Nina+Co sustainably furnishes a zero-waste London restaurant

Inhabitat - Innovation

Locally sourced and recycled materials by Nina+Co decorate the London location of Silo, a zero-waste restaurant focused on sustainability. Launched in Australia in 2011, Silo was heralded.

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LEED Gold-targeted library and community park has otherworldly appeal

Inhabitat - Innovation

Surrounded by walls of glass and solar shades, the green-roofed library is powered by geothermal energy and is expected to achieve LEED Gold certification.

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Episode 218: What's next for sustainability careers, capitalism in a 'world on fire'

GreenBiz

Plus, the role of sustainable finance in the COVID-19 recovery.

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New study takes nuanced look at bug decline

Inhabitat - Innovation

A new study ties together data from 166 surveys across 1,676 sites, drawing a detailed picture of the international insect community.

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Largest Solar Project in Eastern US Progresses Despite Market Uncertainty

GreenTechMedia

Mega-solar projects topping 500 megawatts have cropped up in many regions of the U.S., but land constraints have mostly kept such behemoths out of the Southeast — until now. Two weeks ago sPower secured tax equity financing for a 620-megawatt project it first proposed in 2018. The Utah-based developer says the Spotsylvania Solar Energy Center, which will be built in phases and finished in 2021, will be the largest solar plant east of the Rockies.

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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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Tesla Shifts Into Reverse As Elon Musk Says Share Price Too High Amid Wild Tweetstorm

Forbes Green Tech

The billionaire CEO issued a string of erratic comments, including lyrics from “The Star-Spangled Banner,” and plans to sell his possessions.

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Dutch Offshore Wind Tender Deadline Passes Amid Concerns of Depressed Interest

GreenTechMedia

The latest major offshore wind auction in Europe has concluded, the first to do so since the coronavirus pandemic took hold. The results, and the level of interest, could offer some guidance on the offshore sector’s resilience in the face of unprecedented uncertainty. It could also gauge the appetite of oil majors to take a piece of the offshore wind pie.

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Transforming Roofs into Power Plants Solaria® New PowerXT® Panel Achieves 400 Watts

Solar Power World

Solaria’s Pure Black™ Power XT 400W delivers beauty, power and performance. Available in DC and AC versions. By Suvi Sharma, CEO, Solaria Corporation When we started Solaria over twenty years ago, we didn’t presume to imagine a future where in 2020, we would be producing a 400-watt solar panel that looks like a beautiful sheet… The post Transforming Roofs into Power Plants <br><span style='color:#404040;font-weight:600;font-size:15px;'>Solaria® New PowerXT®

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What’s It Like to Be a Lawyer at an Environmental Nonprofit?

GreenTechMedia

In this Greentech Media series, we’re asking people with jobs in cleantech — from installing solar panels, to permitting wind projects, to promoting building energy efficiency software — to tell us what they really do all day. We hope this series can serve as a source of information and inspiration for recent graduates, cleantech professionals planning their careers or anyone who wants to transition into the industry.

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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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Solar Landscape takes solar installer training program to the web

Solar Power World

Solar Landscape, a New Jersey solar developer, completed its first online Solar Jobs Training Program this week in partnership with Edison Job Corps, a career technical training program administered by the U.S. Department of Labor that prepares 16 to 24 year-olds for employment and financial independence. The Solar Landscape-sponsored program will be held on a… The post Solar Landscape takes solar installer training program to the web appeared first on Solar Power World.

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California’s Plan to Equip Vulnerable Citizens With Batteries Stumbles Out of Gate

GreenTechMedia

California's plan to equip vulnerable citizens with batteries to keep the lights on during the upcoming fire season has gotten bogged down by bureaucracy, and coronavirus is making things worse. In a landmark move, California regulators last year redirected the Self-Generation Incentive Program (SGIP), the state’s main support mechanism for behind-the-meter batteries, to focus more than half of its $1.2 billion budget through 2024 on providing backup power to protect its most vulnerabl

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Promising lithium-sulfur active battery material made with low-cost liquid phase process

Charged

Scientists at the Toyohashi University of Technology have made an active sulfur material and carbon nanofiber (CNF) composite using a low-cost liquid phase process. Their paper, published in the American Chemical Society’s ACS Applied Energy Materials , claims that all-solid-state lithium-sulfur batteries using a sulfur-CNF composite material show higher discharge capacity and better cycle stability than lithium-ion batteries.

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The Week in impact investing: Mobilization

Impact Alpha

TGIF, Agents of Impact! 10x impact. Thanks to the hundreds of Agents of Impact who zoomed into The Call yesterday to accelerate #MainStreet and #FrontierFinance, #CatalyticCapital and #Systemic change. “@ImpactAlpha challenges #impact investors to scale up their efforts 10X. To which I say: Yes!” tweeted Blue Haven’s Liesel Pritzer Simmons, who called out cash transfers, voting rights, universal childcare.

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Building a sustainable EV battery supply chain: New Report

Charged

The transition to EVs frequently raises questions about the sustainability of batteries, from mining impacts to vehicle carbon emissions. To address these questions, the Center for Law, Energy & the Environment (CLEE) and the Natural Resource Governance Institute (NRGI) are conducting a research initiative focused on identifying strategies to improve sustainability and governance across the EV battery supply chain.

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Braided Reciprocity

Fairsnape

Whilst writing a technical built environment blog post on emerging from the crisis of lockdown, I tuned into a wonderful book group session on Zoom with Robin Wall Kimmerer and Robert Macfarlane , with Robin reading from her book Braiding Sweetgras s, an exploration of our sense of place, our sense of reciprocity with nature. Discussions between Robert, Robin and in the chat grounded on ‘reciprocity’ with nature, with place and with community, citing our 8pm UK hand clapping for key

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Ashville Hemp Project: Cultivating Benefits In Modern Organic, Regenerative Cannabis

Forbes Green Tech

Asheville Hemp Project is a farm-based hemp company cultivating the plants and making products to share the relaxing and also focused activity benefits of cannabis in a variety of forms. We use organic and regenerative farming practices, and modern manufacturing standards.

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Agents of Impact: Paul Farmer and Jim Yong Kim, Partners in Health

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, May 1 – Partners in Health earned its reputation battling tuberculosis and cholera in Haiti, HIV/AIDS in Rwanda and Ebola in West Africa. Now, the global nonprofit is bringing its model of people-powered community health to the COVID crisis in its home state of Massachusetts. Led by co-founders Paul (“Mountains Beyond Mountains”) Farmer and.

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Dominion Energy Virginia quadruples renewable commitment in response to new state policy

Solar Power World

Dominion Energy Virginia has quadrupled the amount of solar and wind generation in its 15-year, long-term integrated resource plan (IRP). The increase is driven, in part, by Governor Ralph Northam’s executive order on climate change and the Virginia Clean Economy Act passed by the General Assembly. Dominion Energy Virginia issued a request for proposals on… The post Dominion Energy Virginia quadruples renewable commitment in response to new state policy appeared first on Solar Power

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Wood Mackenzie: Will the Capital Pool Dry Up for Renewables? [GTM Squared]

GreenTechMedia

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CALSSA survey estimates 15,000 California solar and storage jobs lost due to COVID-19

Solar Power World

The California solar and energy storage industry has been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, forcing hundreds of local businesses to shed or furlough an estimated 15,000 clean energy jobs and implemented other measures to stay afloat. A new survey by the California Solar & Storage Association (CALSSA) details statewide impacts. “Our local businesses are… The post CALSSA survey estimates 15,000 California solar and storage jobs lost due to COVID-19 appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Should California Fast-Track Its 2021 Clean Energy Procurement to Help Storage Developers? [GTM Squared]

GreenTechMedia

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Three solar/storage startups selected for Shell Gamechanger Accelerator Powered by NREL

Solar Power World

The Shell GameChanger Accelerator Powered by NREL (GCxN) announced three new startups to participate in the program following a multistage competitive evaluation. GCxN provides promising cleantech startups with technical and capital resources to accelerate product commercialization while de-risking investment. The new companies represent the program’s third cohort and are focused on enabling more efficient and… The post Three solar/storage startups selected for Shell Gamechanger Accelerato

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Vattenfall plots district heating network powered by London waste

Business Green

Swedish energy giant strikes deal to tap waste heat generated at contentious London waste-to-energy plant and pipe it to 10,500 homes. Commercial and household rubbish could soon be heating tens of thousands of homes in South East London, thanks to a new partnership announced today between Swedish energy giant Vattenfall and the owner of a large waste-to-energy plant next to the Thames, Cory Riverside Energy.

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VW Group Design Boss Talks EVs, Future Cars And Design Post COVID-19

Forbes Green Tech

In an exclusive interview, Volkswagen Group’s executive design director Klaus Bischoff talks candidly about the VW ID electric cars and his new role conducting VW, Audi, Porsche, Bentley, Skoda, Seat, Lamborghini and Bugatti.

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Supporting Startups During COVID-19

Elemental Excelerator

During these challenging times, amid local and global shifts, we hope that you are all staying safe and healthy. And we are extra grateful for everything you do every day to take good care of your neighbors, our planet, and the places we call home. More than ever, innovators will play a critical role in making our cities, streets, farms, utilities, and communities cleaner, and more equitable and resilient.

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Webinar: The key to solar recovery & closing sales – Easy $0 down financing for nonprofits – May 19

Solar Power World

Tuesday, May 19th, 2020 2 pm ET / 11 am PT Join CollectiveSun, the only company in America that exclusively helps nonprofits and tax-exempt organizations fund solar projects, and Greenworks Lending, the nation’s largest provider of Commercial Property Assessed Clean Energy financing, for an in-depth training on how to sell solar to nonprofits, utilizing our… The post Webinar: The key to solar recovery & closing sales – Easy $0 down financing for nonprofits – May 19 appeare

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An Entrepreneurial Mindset is Vital During the COVID-19 Crisis: Thoughts From Our CEO

Elemental Excelerator

The past few weeks have brought many changes to our lives, but they have also brought opportunities to reflect on how we can improve our current system. As students of the COVID-19 crisis, we have been learning from innovators, entrepreneurs, businesses, musicians and artists about how to adapt to a new reality. We have observed a magical marrying of the entrepreneurial spirit that lives in all of us to tackle today’s most urgent challenges.

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Global Briefing: UN chief sets out case for green Covid-19 recovery

Business Green

Plus a round up of all the key green business from around the world this week. UN chief leads calls for green Covid-19 recovery. UN Secretary-General António Guterres has made his strongest call yet for global economic recovery efforts in the wake Covid-19 to focus on accelerating decarbonisation and boosting green growth, arguing national governments "must not lose sight" of climate change amid the current crisis.

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Nina+Co sustainably furnishes a zero-waste London restaurant

AGreenLiving

In an industry notorious for food waste, award-winning chef Douglas McMaster has achieved the seemingly unattainable — Silo , the world’s first zero-waste restaurant. For Silo’s second outpost in London, local interior design studio Nina+Co teamed up with McMaster to craft an interior that reinforces the restaurant’s sustainable ethos with locally sourced natural materials and innovative design aimed at minimizing environmental impact.

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