GreenBiz

AUGUST 19, 2020

What the urban exodus in San Francisco bodes for car dependency and public transit. Katie Fehrenbacher. Wed, 08/19/2020 - 01:45. For someone living in San Francisco for over a decade, the latest numbers showing an exodus from the notoriously hard-to-live-in city are jaw-dropping. Housing vacancies are skyrocketing. Rent prices are dropping. Parking spots in my neighborhood are suddenly empty.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

AUGUST 19, 2020

While the news often mentions the terrible things in the sea, such as gyres of plastic and other trash, the oceans also hold an extremely valuable resource: seaweed. This renewable and easily harvestable organism is used for everything from food to spa treatments to a possible COVID-19 medicine.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 19, 2020

thinkPARALLAX. taylor flores. Wed, 08/19/2020 - 13:03. thinkPARALLAX is a branding and communications agency on a mission to better the world by articulating and amplifying our clients’ impact. As a team of values-driven strategists, designers, and storytellers, we give meaning and voice to brands’ sustainability initiatives. Through strategic storytelling we harness the support of stakeholders to drive systemic change and long-term success.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

AUGUST 19, 2020

On Sunday, August 16, Death Valley reached 130°F.

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Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.

Energy

GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 19, 2020

After a massive heat wave in California that led grid operator CAISO to order its first rolling blackouts since the 2001 energy crisis on Friday and Saturday, the state has thus far managed to avoid further forced outages. Although temperatures dropped a bit on Monday, California still faces excessive heat warnings similar to those issued last week, driving air-conditioning demand.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

AUGUST 19, 2020

Tres Amores is a contemporary home with spectacular ocean and mountain views.

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Impact Alpha

AUGUST 19, 2020

ImpactAlpha, August 19 – Globally, agrifood tech ventures raised $21.6 billion sector last year. Yet in an entire decade, 242 known agriculture-related deals in Africa raised only $616 million, according to “Mapping Agriculture Investing in Africa” from Village Capital. Agriculture accounts for 40% of Africa’s GDP and employs 70% of its workforce.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

AUGUST 19, 2020

Live Well. Live Sustainably.

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Impact Alpha

AUGUST 19, 2020

ImpactAlpha, Aug. 19, 2020 –– Arlington, Va.-based Capital Impact Partners, a community-development real estate lender, and CDC Small Business Finance in San Diego are teaming up to boost community financing in Los Angeles, Detroit, and the Washington, D.C. area. The three-city pilot is backed by $6 million in grants from JPMorgan Chase and the Heron.

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altenergymag

AUGUST 19, 2020

Enerparc and OzEnergy -who is sole registered partner of Enerparc in Turkey- completed an 1173 kWp rooftop solar power plant for Gamateks, the leading local textile manufacturer of Turkey. PV plant installed on the rooftop of the Gamateks facility -as a part of 10 MWp portfolio- which is located in Denizli, Turkey. Izmir based experienced company OzEnergy completed project as the main contractor and German solar energy giant Enerparc was the EPC-M contractor of the project.

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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.

Transportation

The City Fix

AUGUST 19, 2020

Companies like Toyota, Nikola and H2X are doubling down on hydrogen fuel cell vehicles and positioning them as alternatives to their more popular zero-emission counterparts, battery electric vehicles. These companies and some advocates believe fuel cell vehicles could be key to. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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altenergymag

AUGUST 19, 2020

POWER has made the decision for the Distributed Energy Conference to take place virtually, October 19-22, 2020, keeping the health and safety of participants as a priority. The virtual event will be called the Distributed Energy Experience and will take place completely online, allowing access to a larger audience.

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Planet Pulse

AUGUST 19, 2020

On July 25, 2020, the Japanese-owned bulk carrier MV Wakashio ran aground on a coral reef off the coast of Mauritius, spilling at least 1,000 tons of oil and endangering some of the world’s most pristine coral reefs and lagoons. Twenty-three days later, the spill continues to threaten the reefs, human well-being and livelihoods, and many rare species along the coast, engulfing UNESCO-designated marine parks and protected mangrove forests alike.

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Impact Alpha

AUGUST 19, 2020

Unimaginable catastrophes can and do happen if we don’t work to prevent them. Climate change, COVID-19 and, most recently, the accidental detonation of ammonium nitrate that leveled Beirut’s port area, are all evidence of that. They are also evidence of the fact that government alone cannot be counted on to have the competence, political will. The post Yes, impact investments can reduce the threat of nuclear weapons appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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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.

Sustainability

DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 19, 2020

Read time: 4 mins Advocates for holding fossil fuel companies accountable in court for the substantial costs of climate change are urging New Jersey to sue oil majors like ExxonMobil, as over a dozen municipal and state governments have done over the past three years. A month after a New Jersey senate committee passed a resolution calling on the state to take this kind of legal action, New Jersey’s Monmouth University hosted a virtual panel discussion on Wednesday, August 19 titled “Accountabili

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Impact Alpha

AUGUST 19, 2020

Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Impact Voices Yes, impact investments can reduce the threat of nuclear weapons. If you thought climate action or, say, pandemic prevention pre-COVID, were underfunded, consider that effectively no impact investors target nuclear threat reduction in their investment strategies. While the chance of nuclear conflict remains low in the short-term, odds.

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Planet Pulse

AUGUST 19, 2020

This is the fourth installment in our Stellar Minds series, where we profile Planet’s extraordinary employees and their accomplishments. Keep checking our blog for upcoming features on some of the most remarkable people in aerospace today. This week, we’re talking to space systems engineer Natasha Nogueira, one of the stellar minds responsible for the success of our SkySats, including Skysats 19-21, launched yesterday.

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Business Green

AUGUST 19, 2020

Activist group to carry out ''a series of escalating actions' against The World cruise liner, currently moored in Cornwall. A group of Extinction Rebellion (XR) campaigners have turned their focus towards highlighting the degradation of marine ecosystems, sparking a seafaring offshoot of the influential pressure group which aims to target its activitism against the luxury cruise industry.

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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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altenergymag

AUGUST 19, 2020

The aviation industry is synonymous with producing high volumes of carbon emissions. In 2019, flights produced 915 million tonnes of carbon dioxide (CO2) according to the Air Transport Action Group (ATAG). As such, making air transport ‘green' has become a top political priority, with the UK Government recently announcing funding to support these efforts.

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Business Green

AUGUST 19, 2020

The retailer's innovative furniture rental service is being offered in partnership with Fat Llama. John Lewis has become the latest firm to embrace the sharing economy, this week launching a new furniture rental service enabling its customers to hire out sofas, desks, dining tables and chairs. Being launched initially in London with a view to expansion elsewhere in the UK, the rental system is being run in partnership with online rental marketplace Fat Llama, which also already runs the 'Flex Re

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Mr. Sustainability

AUGUST 19, 2020

Summary - Semi-transparent solarpanels can prove to be a game-changer in the businessmodel of greenhouses. This article is taken from Gizmodo. For the original, click here. In a future world, leafy vegetables may not be grown in rows of crops under the sun. Instead, they may be grown indoors beneath tinted semi-transparent solar panels that will allow farmers to grow food and produce energy.

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Business Green

AUGUST 19, 2020

Of seven counties surveyed by Vattenfall, however, UK was the only outlier, where residents now view epidemics as a bigger threat than the climate crisis. Most Europeans still view climate change as the biggest issue facing humanity, even despite an inevitable surge in concern over the threat of epidemics in the wake of Covid-19, a new survey commissioned by Swedish energy giant Vattenfall has found.

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Low Impact

AUGUST 19, 2020

Sean Fagan of Pioneer Bushcraft sets out how to make a walking staff, and why they’re the best friend to have with you in the great outdoors. Easy and quick to make, a good walking staff can be made from start to finish in as little as 5-10 minutes. I’m a big fan of walking staffs, and for good reason – the benefits are many. Here are a few….

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Charged

AUGUST 19, 2020

Bentley Motors has concluded a three-year research study intended to transform EV powertrains, using a fully integrated e-axle that doesn’t use rare earth magnets. Bentley’s OCTOPUS (Optimised Components, Test and simulatiOn, toolkits for Powertrains which integrate Ultra high-speed motor Solutions) study led to an electric drive system that eliminates the need for both rare earth magnets and copper windings, delivering a package that the company says is both cost-effective and recyc

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Forbes Green Tech

AUGUST 19, 2020

At all levels, the industry is seeking answers to the million-dollar question: how is the current predicament impacting the greentech landscape?

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Charged

AUGUST 19, 2020

UK charging network operator Drive Energi has sparked a deal with Greene King, a chain of 2,700 pubs, restaurants and hotels across the UK, to roll out DC rapid chargers. The first locations are to go live in the North West region before the end of 2020. A wider roll-out will take place in phases across the UK over the next three years. The Tritium 50 kW DC charge points will be powered by renewable energy.

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Business Green

AUGUST 19, 2020

The Crown Estate grants leasing rights to 96MW Erebus floating wind demonstration project, a joint venture between Total and Simply Blue Energy. Wales' first floating wind project took a major step forward this week, after the Crown Estate awarded seabed rights to developers to build the 96MW demonstration project in the Celtic Sea. If final planning consent is granted, the Erebus project would be installed approximately 44km from the shore and will allow developer Blue Gem Wind - a joint ventur

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 19, 2020

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Business Green

AUGUST 19, 2020

Government sets out plan to establish business models and funding mechanisms to deliver carbon capture and storage at scale in the 2020s. The government has offered the firmest indication yet of its vision for the development of carbon capture storage and utilisation (CCUS) over the next decade, as it this week fired the starting gun towards building what will be key pillar of the UK's 2050 net zero strategy.

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altenergymag

AUGUST 19, 2020

-Clean Energy Facility Capable of Powering an Average of 30,000 Texas Homes Annually -174 Power Global Affiliate Chariot Energy Commits to Purchasing Nearly 20% of Oberon Output

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Charged

AUGUST 19, 2020

Utility holding company Xcel Energy, which serves customers in Colorado, Michigan, Minnesota, New Mexico, the Dakotas, Texas and Wisconsin, is hoping to have 1.5 million EVs in its service areas by 2030. This would represent 20% of all vehicles on the road, or about 30 times the number today. Xcel estimates that deploying 1.5 million EVs would reduce carbon emissions by nearly 5 million tons annually, or about three tons per vehicle.

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Sustainability Consulting

AUGUST 19, 2020

Updated from an earlier post. Change is difficult. This might be the understatement of the year as 2020 has been rocked with massive adjustments to our daily lives due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Changes in the workplace, from shifting to remote work or adapting to a new sustainability policy, are more challenging than ever before. For companies implementing their sustainability strategies, it’s important to understand that even positive changes like greening your office, and its effects on office

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altenergymag

AUGUST 19, 2020

We look forward to joining forces in Texas to build battery energy storage for ERCOT’s needs. With today’s increasing penetration of renewable energy, it’s an ideal time for projects such as this to optimize the grid. We are experiencing a Change in Power.

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