Thu.Jun 20, 2019

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Food and Climate -- It's Not Just About Hamburgers

Jim Conca

Where you get your food really matters to the climate. The carbon footprint of one cup of coffee may be fifteen times that of one made from a different crop of beans. The same with a hamburger. We need to change farming practices and replace a lot, not all, of our beef with plant-based protein.

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How To Read The European Union's New Guidelines On Sustainable Investing

Forbes Green Tech

This week, a group of experts released the EU Taxonomy, a classification tool to help investors and companies analyze the sustainability of potential investments and engage in two-way dialogue with investees on sustainability. Here is how to use the taxonomy, its implications, and what to expect.

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Solar industry, advocates hail New York passage of ambitious climate bill

Renewable Energy World

New York’s Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act passed the Assembly early in the morning of June 20 and will now await the governor’s signature. Solar advocates praised the state legislature’s adoption of long anticipated legislation that will require at least 70 percent of electric generation come from renewable sources by 2030 and providing needed funding to low-income and environmental justice communities.

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A Note from Defend’s New Project Director, on Defend’s Mission and What Comes Next

Defend Our Future

Hey everyone! My name is Matt Oberhoffner, and I’m honored to introduce myself as the project director of Defend Our Future. I’ve spent the last four years working at Environmental Defense Fund, just down the hall from the Defend team, on a host of climate policy and politics initiatives (you can read more about me here , if you like!) but now I’m working with Defend directly.

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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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Bloomberg predicts wind and solar will power half the world and bag $9 trillion investment

Renewable Energy World

Wind or solar now represent the least expensive option for adding new power generation capacity in approximately two-thirds of the world.

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Ensemble Energy: Data Engineering Intern

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

Data Engineering Intern. Location: Palo Alto, Ca. Ensemble Energy is an exciting startup in industrial IoT space focused on energy. Our mission is to accelerate the clean energy revolution by making it more competitive using the power of data. Ensemble’s AI enabled SaaS platform provides prescriptive analytics to power plant operators by combining the power of machine learning, big data, and deep domain expertise.

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Ensemble Energy: Full Stack/IoT Intern

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

Full Stack/IoT Intern. Location: Palo Alto, Ca. Ensemble Energy is an exciting startup in industrial IoT space focused on energy. Our mission is to accelerate the clean energy revolution by making it more competitive using the power of data. Ensemble’s AI enabled SaaS platform provides prescriptive analytics to power plant operators by combining the power of machine learning, big data, and deep domain expertise.

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EPA finalizes Affordable Clean Energy rule, repeals Clean Power Plan

Renewable Energy World

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued the Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) rule and simultaneously repealed the Clean Power Plan (CPP).

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Ensemble Energy: Data Science Intern

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

Data Science Intern. Location: Palo Alto, Ca. Ensemble Energy is an exciting startup in industrial IoT space focused on energy. Our mission is to accelerate the clean energy revolution by making it more competitive using the power of data. Ensemble’s AI enabled SaaS platform provides prescriptive analytics to power plant operators by combining the power of machine learning, big data, and deep domain expertise.

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Corani seeking financing to develop 147-MW Banda Azul hydro project in Bolivia

Renewable Energy World

Jose Maria Romay, general manager of Corani (a subsidiary of Ende), has announced the company is seeking financing from Latin American development bank CAF and French development agency AFD for the 147-MW Banda Azul hydro project.

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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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Ensemble Energy: Data Engineering Intern

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

Data Engineering Intern. Location: Palo Alto, Ca. Ensemble Energy is an exciting startup in industrial IoT space focused on energy. Our mission is to accelerate the clean energy revolution by making it more competitive using the power of data. Ensemble’s AI enabled SaaS platform provides prescriptive analytics to power plant operators by combining the power of machine learning, big data, and deep domain expertise.

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10 companies to offer scooters during Chicago’s summer pilot program that starts Saturday

LA CleanTech Incubator

Electric shared scooters are coming to the city Saturday, and 10 companies have been chosen to take part in the four-month pilot program. The post 10 companies to offer scooters during Chicago’s summer pilot program that starts Saturday appeared first on LACI.

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Ensemble Energy: Full Stack/IoT Intern

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

Full Stack/IoT Intern. Location: Palo Alto, Ca. Ensemble Energy is an exciting startup in industrial IoT space focused on energy. Our mission is to accelerate the clean energy revolution by making it more competitive using the power of data. Ensemble’s AI enabled SaaS platform provides prescriptive analytics to power plant operators by combining the power of machine learning, big data, and deep domain expertise.

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(Re)Branding Utilities

Varuna

The Value of Brand It’s not news, or it shouldn’t be, that there is economic value in creating a strong brand. According to the Economist , brands account for more than 30% of the stock value of companies in the S&P 500 Index. And McKinsey suggests that a brand with a strong reputation generate 31% more return to shareholders than the MSCI World average.

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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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Ensemble Energy: Data Science Intern

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

Data Science Intern. Location: Palo Alto, Ca. Ensemble Energy is an exciting startup in industrial IoT space focused on energy. Our mission is to accelerate the clean energy revolution by making it more competitive using the power of data. Ensemble’s AI enabled SaaS platform provides prescriptive analytics to power plant operators by combining the power of machine learning, big data, and deep domain expertise.

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(Re)Branding Utilities

Seyi Fabode

<a href=” [link] ">Logo vector created by rawpixel.com?—? www.freepik.com </a> The Value of Brand It’s not news, or it shouldn’t be, that there is economic value in creating a strong brand. According to the Economist , brands account for more than 30% of the stock value of companies in the S&P 500 Index. And McKinsey suggests that a brand with a strong reputation generate 31% more return to shareholders than the MSCI World average.

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Building Power and Community at the (Student) Presidential Leadership Summit

Defend Our Future

Defend Our Future co-hosted a series of panels and conversations on climate policy, building power and advancing environmental issues on college campuses and beyond. We again partnered with the National Campus Leadership Council (think the Conference of Mayors, but for student body presidents) who brought more than 100 student leaders from across the country to Washington, DC, for a three-day Presidential Leadership Summit on some of the issues impacting young leaders – affordable education, civ

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