Sat.Aug 10, 2019

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What Happens When Former Bertone, Mercedes And GM Designers Take On The Piano? This Exxeo, A Hybrid Piano Disrupting Classic Codes

Forbes Green Tech

The Exxeo is a hybrid grand piano, made using carbon fiber, crafted with hand-stitched leather and designed by former Bertone, Mercedes-Benz and GM designers to evoke the spirit of the Golden Age of the motor car and disrupt the traditional piano world

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Another Death in Louisiana’s Cancer Alley Brings Environmental Activists Together to Honor One of Their Own

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 7 mins On August 7, after Geraldine Mayho’s funeral, her body was laid to rest in the St. James Catholic Cemetery in southern Louisiana, across the street from a cluster of oil storage tanks. The tanks are like those that surround the Burton Lane neighborhood in St. James where she had lived, and are emblematic of the type of polluting industry she spent her last years rallying against.

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European Issuers Could Send Global Green Bond Market Soaring Past $200B

Forbes Green Tech

Corporate and sovereign debt issuers seen driving growth in the global green issuance market.

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Funding for Annual UN Climate Talks Plummets as Mining Companies Slash Contributions — Reports

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 5 mins Funding arrangements for the upcoming UN climate conference may be in disarray after local reports suggested contributions from the local mining industry to the Chilean authorities were to be slashed. Chile's Tele 13 Radio journalist Paula Comondari reported on Wednesday that the national Mining Council's expected $10 million funding package for the UN ’s 25th Conference of the Parties ( COP25 ) was to be slashed to just $2 million.

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

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.

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Addressing Biodiversity Loss: The Convention on Biological Diversity

Green Market Oracle

Efforts are underway to try to counter humanities genocide against the natural world. Unless we act in a timely fashion to prevent further destruction of biodiversity entire ecosystems are at risk of collapse. According to a recent IPBES report human activity (eg climate change causing emissions, habitat loss and pollution) could result in the demise of up to one million species in the next 20 years.

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AWEA statement on Vineyard Wind delay

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Alaska, barren of sea ice, saw its hottest July in 125 years

Grist

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A heat wave pulsating through the Arctic helped push Alaska to its warmest month ever recorded in July, with the state’s vast coastline left completely barren of sea ice. Alaska’s average temperature in July was a record 58.1 degrees F (14.5 degrees C), nearly 1 degree F above the previous monthly high set in July 2004, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administra