Mon.Feb 03, 2020

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How leading companies use LinkedIn to promote sustainability messages

GreenBiz

Telling your story should be easy with so many social media platforms available. Success lies in selecting the best channel and using tactics specific to sustainability messaging.

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Futuristic, seashell-inspired home is clad in reclaimed wood

Inhabitat - Innovation

With its tubular volume and light-inviting cutouts, the design for the Scandinavian Seashell Home was not only inspired by nature, but also counts on several sustainable features, such as reclaimed wood cladding, to reduce its environmental impact.

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Dollar General, Sephora, Lowe's among 7 most improved retailers addressing toxic chemicals

GreenBiz

Sales of products marketed as sustainable are growing 5.6 times faster than conventionally marketed products.

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Portugal-based nonprofit refurbishes old buildings with natural insulation

Inhabitat - Innovation

Critical Concrete promotes green architecture and social action through summer school programs that refurbish a home for a family in need every year.

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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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Trend: Last-mile transportation inches closer to home

GreenBiz

Last-mile freight is a major contributor to local air pollution, often in disadvantaged communities. But there’s some good news amidst all this urban doom and gloom.

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New film showcases solutions for Baltic Sea eutrophication

Envirotec Magazine

Vantaanjoki, Finland, one of three river basins used in case-study form in the 18-minute film. Launch of documentary on innovations for recycling nutrients from agriculture and wastewater. A short film Sea of Opportunity , launched on 30 January, presents three innovative technologies that can recapture phosphorus and nitrogen for reuse in agriculture: BioPhree, from Aquacare in the Netherlands; Ultra from TerraNova in Germany; and Ravita from HSY in Finland.

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ZHA unveils LEED Gold-targeted OPPO headquarters in Shenzhen

Inhabitat - Innovation

Defined by the firm’s signature curvilinear features, the new office complex will comprise four interconnected towers with rounded shapes evocative of giant missiles.

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How companies can embrace circularity in their material sourcing strategies

GreenBiz

Incorporating recycled materials into product collections is a good start.

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This modular, shipping container home was completed in 2 months

Inhabitat - Innovation

Shipping containers helped this family build a dream vacation home on a tight budget.

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Introducing … VERGE Food

GreenBiz

The latest addition to our annual VERGE conference promises to serve up a full plate of issues and solutions.

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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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Utility trials surfboard-based inspection device

Envirotec Magazine

A simple surfboard has been turned into a state-of-the-art automated inspection device to gather information on the condition of infrastructure vital to the supply of Edinburgh’s drinking water, according to Scottish Water. The utility says it worked with partners to develop the unique device to make it significantly safer, quicker, easier, and cheaper to detect and analyse cracks and other faults on hard-to-reach assets.

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Midwestern Utility Evergy Pledges Carbon Cuts in Line With Paris Accord

GreenTechMedia

Evergy has become the latest utility to pledge to long-term carbon cuts even though the states it serves, Kansas and Missouri, aren’t demanding them. On Friday, the 1-million-customer utility, formed last year by the merger of Westar Energy and Kansas City Power & Light parent company Great Plains Energy, announced plans to cut carbon emission by 80 percent from 2005 levels by 2050.

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Retailers to collect waste electricals and lamps

Envirotec Magazine

A lamp recycling point. Defra has confirmed that from the end of 2020, most retailers will be required to provide in-store WEEE takeback. Recolight – a specialist in compliance for producers of lighting and other electrical systems – has welcomed the decision. The new requirement will apply to all retailers and wholesalers with annual sales of electrical items above £100,000.

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The UK’s Offshore Wind Program Is Working Well. Time for an Overhaul?

GreenTechMedia

GLASGOW — The U.K.'s contracts for difference program for offshore wind would seem by most measures to be working very well. Over the past decade, contracts for difference have supported 10 gigawatts of offshore wind deployment, including 5.5 gigawatts in last year's round, while driving prices to subsidy-free levels. The CFD program is now being replicated in emerging renewables markets.

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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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Easier to understand recycling labelling welcomed by The Recycling Association

Envirotec Magazine

The new packaging labels introduced by the On-Pack Recycling Label (OPRL) organisation. Easier to understand recycling labelling has been welcomed by The Recycling Association. Under new rules developed by OPRL, packaging labels will state ‘Recycle’ or ‘Don’t Recycle’ The Recycling Association chief executive Simon Ellin said: “This move by OPRL means recycling will be much easier to understand for the public. “Once the upcoming Environment Bill is published, hopefu

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Egyptian pavilion proposal for 2020 Venice Biennale targets climate change

Inhabitat - Innovation

The pavilion concept addresses climate change and biodiversity risks.

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Antarctica’s glaciers are melting so fast, you can swim in them. In a Speedo.

Grist

Even as someone who spends most of her time thinking about climate change, it’s easy for me to forget about the looming danger of changes happening at the bottom of the earth. But Lewis Pugh, a British endurance swimmer and ocean advocate, doesn’t want anyone to forget about the melting glaciers of Antarctica, and to get our attention, he decided to go for a swim.

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The Future Of US Solar Is Bright

Forbes Green Tech

All in all, the future of solar is bright. Most major studies show solar expanding significantly as costs decline and societies use their values to drive their energy choices.

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Hyundai releases details of 2020 IONIQ Electric

Charged

Hyundai’s 2020 IONIQ Electric will start at $33,045 for the SE model and $38,615 for the Limited model. The automaker has revealed a number of improvements over previous models, including 36 percent more energy storage capacity and 37 percent more driving range. The 2020 IONIQ Electric offers 170 miles of range, 134 horsepower, and 218 pound-feet of torque.

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Stem Confirms It’s Looking for Potential Buyers

GreenTechMedia

Bay-Area startup Stem used to sell standalone batteries to save businesses money on their utility bills. Now the company increasingly reaches customers through channel partners in the solar industry, and that shift may strengthen its position in recently revealed sales talks. Energy finance publication SparkSpread reported last week that Stem was seeking a buyer with the help of Morgan Stanley and Greentech Capital Advisors, with bids due recently.

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Toyota And Panasonic Launch Joint Venture To Make Electric Car Batteries

Forbes Green Tech

The partnership is important for Panasonic, which has been the exclusive battery supplier to Tesla. While Panasonic announced Monday that its battery production for Tesla posted its first profitable quarter, it needs to expand its customer base.

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Kula Bio Promotes Environmental Stewardship with its Game-changing Biofertilizer

Greentown Labs

Kula Bio’s liquid biofertilizer, ready to be applied to crops at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. If you’re a farmer, you have two mediocre fertilizer options. You can go with a conventional fertilizer—which is inexpensive and precise, but contaminates water and involves a production process with significant greenhouse gas emissions. Or, you can go the organic fertilizer route—which is better for the environment, but is expensive and has unpredictable yields.

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How ‘Just Mercy’ producer Scott Budnick is leveraging box-office appeal for social impact

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, Feb. 3 – Filling theaters for the new justice and redemption movie Just Mercy isn’t the end game for executive producer Scott Budnick. “It’s where we start,” he says. The true story of lawyer and activist Bryan Stevenson, who has helped hundreds of wrongfully convicted death row inmates gain their freedom, Just Mercy stars Michael The post How ‘Just Mercy’ producer Scott Budnick is leveraging box-office appeal for social impact appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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POWERHOME installs 428-panel solar array at Michigan car dealership

Solar Power World

POWERHOME Solar completed the installation of 428 solar panels on LaFontaine Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram of Fenton, Michigan. The array is expected to produce nearly 180,000 kWh annually and will reduce the dealership’s electricity needs by 60% in its first year. “My mom, Maureen LaFontaine, was a true pioneer in terms of our dealerships focusing… The post POWERHOME installs 428-panel solar array at Michigan car dealership appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Peak Permian Oil Production May Arrive Much Sooner Than Expected

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 9 mins In mid-January, Adam Waterous, who operates the private equity firm Waterous Energy Fund, made a prediction about the crown jewel of the U.S. shale oil industry, the Permian shale play that straddles Texas and New Mexico. “ We think we are at or near peak Permian,” Waterous told Bloomberg. “The North American oil market has been grossly overcapitalized, which is not sustainable.”.

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AKASOL supplies battery packs for German fuel cell trains

Charged

AKASOL is slated to provide battery tech (including cables and temperature regulation equipment) to a fleet of more than 40 Alstom trains in Germany’s Lower Saxony and Rhine/Main transit regions. Supplying such a quantity of fuel cell-powered trains is a major deal for AKASOL, who stands to make tens of millions of Euros while expanding its operations and customer base.

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Natural Power approved as a NYSERDA FlexTech consultant in New York

altenergymag

Leading renewable energy consultancy and service provider, Natural Power, has been approved by the New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) as a FlexTech consultant to help businesses plan clean energy strategies.

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Here’s Why Tesla Stock Just Surged Past A Record $900 Per Share

Forbes Green Tech

Tesla shares are up 106% so far in 2020 alone.

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February solar policy snapshots A guide to recent legislation and research throughout the country.

Solar Power World

SACE applauds South Carolina solar rate reversal, but says more changes required Columbia, South Carolina The South Carolina PSC raised the solar rates utilities must pay independent solar producers after initially approving the lowest rates in the nation. The Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE) lobbied for the new, higher rates so solar developers could… The post February solar policy snapshots <br><span style='color:#404040;font-weight:600;font-size:15px;'>

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Stellar Solar Showcasing Service & Commercial Construction Management Capabilities at Intersolar North America Show in San Diego, February 4-6, 2020

altenergymag

The award-winning Oceanside, California headquartered residential and commercial solar installer to display their world-class service and commercial construction offerings to an international audience in booth #747

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Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick: Zero carbon should be standard for new homes by 2025

Business Green

Minister argues built and natural environments should 'work in harmony' as he welcomes new building Commission report. Zero carbon homes should be built as standard in England within the next five years "as we learn again how our built and natural environments can work in harmony", Housing Secretary Robert Jenrick has said, as he welcomed the findings of a government-appointed commission on the future of housing.

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EcoFasten debuts click-in-place solar roof mount in U.S. market

Solar Power World

EcoFasten, a solar mounting hardware company and part of Esdec U.S., is making its rail-based, click-in-place ClickFit Rooftop Solar System available to all installers in the United States. Parent company Esdec popularized ClickFit in Europe before entering the U.S. solar market in 2018. Known for speedy installs with its “click-in” technology, EcoFasten has already received… The post EcoFasten debuts click-in-place solar roof mount in U.S. market appeared first on Solar Power

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Scientists Need Futurists To Help Them Plan The Energy System

Forbes Green Tech

“A lot of the things we think of as unpredictable, people did predict,” one expert said at a National Academies forum on energy-system planning.

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Indiana utility signs 100-MWac solar PPA with Capital Dynamics

Solar Power World

Capital Dynamics, an independent global private asset management firm, announced that its subsidiary Clean Energy Infrastructure (CEI) has signed a long-term power purchase agreement (PPA) with Indiana Municipal Power Agency (IMPA) in coordination with Tenaska. Under the terms of the PPA, IMPA will purchase 100 MWac of the power generated by a CEI-owned greenfield solar… The post Indiana utility signs 100-MWac solar PPA with Capital Dynamics appeared first on Solar Power World.