Tue.Oct 29, 2019

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The Ocean Cleanup reveals the Interceptor to remove plastic pollution from rivers

Inhabitat - Innovation

After recently announcing its first success at collecting plastic waste from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, The Ocean Cleanup team is widening efforts by addressing the main entry point of litter — rivers.

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Behind those hookups between carbontech firms, oil and gas majors

GreenBiz

In the spotlight: the burgeoning relationship between direct air capture firm Carbon Engineering and Oxy Low Carbon Ventures.

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Automatic, soil-less garden system lets you grow 76 plants in your own home

Inhabitat - Innovation

One of the biggest complaints about urban living is the lack of space to grow your own veggies, but this automatic home garden can fit in nearly any kitchen space.

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Pulling Water Right Out Of The Sky

Jim Conca

Billions of people spend several hours/day searching for water. So if we could pull water right out of thin air, it would go a long way to achieving global peace and ending global poverty. That’s what a new technology does - called WEDEW and uses biomass gasification to form water and electricity.

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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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Logistics leaders suggest quickest routes for decarbonizing shipping

GreenBiz

Customer advocacy, creative partnerships are helping companies such as UPS and Maersk make their way around detours.

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Could energy-storage-as-a-service be key to cutting carbon emissions?

Envirotec Magazine

Battery storage at a solar farm with switchgear. Energy storage can help mitigate climate change, but it is still on low levels and needs to triple by 2050 to keep global warming below 2°C. To do this we need to look at innovative ways of speeding up the process. With a new report, infrastructure firm Sweco is asking: Could energy-storage-as-a-service be one of the solutions?

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Sponsored content: Wind of change blows through EfW emissions

Envirotec Magazine

Nighttime view of a waste incineration plant in Oberhausen, Germany. John Whitehurst, UK business manager with minerals and lime producer Lhoist, offers predictions on how new recycling and reuse targets will affect the types of waste being produced. He considers future challenges and opportunities for the energy-from-waste (EfW) sector. No-one likes to see waste being burnt and even policymakers tend to view this as a necessary evil.

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Logistics leaders suggest quickest routes for decarbonizing shipping and shipping

GreenBiz

Customer advocacy, creative partnerships are helping companies such as UPS and Maersk make their way around detours.

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Ice melt uncovers five new islands in the Russian Arctic

Inhabitat - Innovation

Five new Russian islands have emerged from the mass melting of glaciers and sea ice in the Arctic region.

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To achieve a clean, inclusive economy, we must center the most marginalized

GreenBiz

Intentional planning is the only way to create a clean and inclusive economy.

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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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This Dark Beacon warns of the dangers of sea level rise

Inhabitat - Innovation

Set atop a small hill overlooking the old harbor, the installation — titled the Dark Beacon — is placed close to an existing lighthouse that serves as a counterpoint to the pavilion; whereas the lighthouse warns of immediate dangers, the Dark Beacon warns of future dangers.

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Britons put planet before profit in their personal savings and expect more action from pension funds and banks, says survey

Envirotec Magazine

Brits want their pensions and investments to minimise climate impacts and support a sustainable economy; far more than those who only seek to maximise financial returns – reveals new survey by environmental lawyers ClientEarth, released on 30 October. More than two-thirds of the British public (70%) believe the climate emergency demands a more urgent response and almost as many say it is now the biggest issue facing humankind (63%).

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Giant glowing letters wrap MVRDV's bold WERK12 building in Munich

Inhabitat - Innovation

Combining playful design with contemporary architecture, Dutch firm MVRDV has just completed WERK12, a mixed-use development near Munich’s East Station that catches the eye with its bold and expressive art facade. Lifting verbal expressions from German versions of Donald Duck comics, the facade is punctuated with 5-meter-tall lettering that spell out words like ‘WOW’ and ‘HMPH.

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Coming Soon to an RTO Near You: Google

GreenTechMedia

Last month Google quietly joined the Midcontinent Independent System Operator, its second official membership to a regional transmission organization (RTO) after joining the Southwest Power Pool last May. Google was already a significant buyer of renewable energy in both of those markets. But becoming a full-blown member indicates the sway the tech behemoth hopes to wield in future wholesale market decisions.

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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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Polling Experts Bash Koch-Funded Electric Car Survey as 'Highly Biased' and 'Highly Misleading'

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 9 mins Fossil fuel interests appear intent on swaying public opinion about the electric vehicle tax credit, based on recent polling on the policy. A deeper look at these efforts reveals oil and gas funding behind the groups conducting the polls and blatant bias in the polling methodology, according to experts. . Survey results commissioned and publicized by the American Energy Alliance ( AEA ) seem on their surface to indicate that a majority of respondents are not thrilled about s

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Clean Energy Will Continue To Hit Dirty Power As Costs Continue To Fall

Forbes Green Tech

The price of wind and solar power continue to fall, with offshore wind posting the most impressive cost reductions and solar PV and onshore wind now as cheap as any other source of power in California, China and parts of Europe.

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Moving from community development to community wealth

Impact Alpha

With inequality at an all-time high, cities are rethinking their decades-old approach to community revitalization. A “quiet revolution” is transforming their work, particularly in underinvested urban areas, according to a new report. Out: top-down, one-size-fits-all, debt and subsidy-dependent solutions. In: locally-driven, collaborative solutions that foster community ownership and prosperity.

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Working Toward Planetary Scale Location Insights

Planet Pulse

Recent innovations in agile aerospace have created unique offerings in high cadence satellite imagery. While this is of immense interest to imagery analysts, a significant portion of GIS professionals and geo-data scientists work less with raster data (AKA imagery) and more with point and vector data. Planet operates the world’s largest constellation of earth observation satellites providing near-daily coverage of the entirety of Earth’s landmass.

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Impact investing’s road to relevance led through Santiago – until it didn’t

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, Oct. 29 – The fall circuit of major impact investing conferences was supposed to end next month in Santiago. Then the capital of Chile erupted with street protests over prices and services. The Global Steering Group on Impact Investing, or GSG, on Monday canceled plans to hold its fifth annual “summit” in Santiago, citing The post Impact investing’s road to relevance led through Santiago – until it didn’t appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Empower Energies and Hannon Armstrong to Jointly Invest in Commercial & Industrial Solar

altenergymag

Empower Energies, a leading renewable energy development and financing company, and Hannon Armstrong (NYSE: HASI), a leading investor in climate change solutions, today announced they will jointly invest in renewable energy projects in the commercial & industrial (C&I) and municipal, university, school and hospital (MUSH) markets across the United States.

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Sustainable Food Innovation – New Perspectives from Cleantech Forum Asia

CleanTech Group

Recently, at Cleantech Forum Asia we ran two panels in the agriculture and food sector; one focused on alternative proteins and the other.

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" Global Clean Energy Third Quarter Update "

altenergymag

The Algae REIT facility will be producing product for a nearly zero carbon base system. Electricity will be produced by solar panels, which research is being done that algae application could increase efficiency by a factor of 5. The only ongoing carbon usage will be the trucking of product to market. The company is pleased with its progress especially when you take in the consideration that this format is the first of its kind in terms of tapping the capital's mark and the continued upward tren

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Green Tech vs. Fossil Fuel Jobs: Which Are You More Likely to Land?

U.S. Green Technology

Green tech jobs happen to be more plentiful than fossil fuel jobs today. (Image from [link] Question for you: Are you more likely to find a job in fossil fuels or in green technology? The answer may surprise you. Yes, the green tech industry is “greener” — or newer — than that for fossil fuels. The post Green Tech vs. Fossil Fuel Jobs: Which Are You More Likely to Land?

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Local flexibility: The key to the future of networks

altenergymag

The first in a series of research papers from Cornwall Insight in partnership with Complete Strategy and Shakespeare Martineau, has just been released. The Future of Networks - Setting the scene, describes the progress so far in establishing regional flexibility markets, and highlights the key opportunities and challenges for the future.

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New study helps regions find their renewable energy soul mates

Grist

The climate crisis is an intricate and multifaceted problem, but by now most of us understand the essence of the thing: emissions bad, renewables good. A new study from Harvard’s Center for Climate, Health, and the Global Environment puts a fresh twist on that well-worn equation. Turns out, it’s not enough to grab a handful of renewable energy projects from a clean energy grab-bag and scatter them across the United States like wildflower seeds.

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Ballard Receives PO From Anglo American for 900kW of Fuel Cell Modules to Support Mining Truck Demonstration Project

altenergymag

Ballard Power Systems today announced receipt of a purchase order for 9 of its FCveloCity®-HD 100 kilowatt (kW) fuel cell modules from Anglo American's platinum business, the world's largest platinum group metals mining company

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U.S. Light Energy breaks ground on another New York community solar project

Solar Power World

U.S. Light Energy executives along with local, state and federal representatives and project partners held a groundbreaking event in Denmark, New York, to officially launch construction of the Denmark Community Solar Project — Lewis County’s first community solar initiative. Last week, the company announced it completed another community solar project on the other side of… The post U.S.

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More than 70 Associations Back Renewable Energy Extension Act

altenergymag

More than 70 organizations representing farmers, homebuilders, environmental groups, electric cooperatives and a variety of other industries sent a letter to Congress urging them to pass the Renewable Energy Extension Act.

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The Brief: Popular protests, Twiga’s smallholder shift, Total’s carbon neutrality fund, community wealth models, Saudi spotlight

Impact Alpha

Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: ImpactAlpha Original Impact investing’s road to relevance led through Santiago – until it didn’t. The fall circuit of impact investing conferences was supposed to end next month in Santiago. Then the capital of Chile erupted with street protests over prices and services. The Global Steering Group on Impact Investing, or GSG, The post The Brief: Popular protests, Twiga’s smallholder shift, Total’s carbon neutrality fund, community wealth models, Saudi spotli

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For biggest public health benefit, Harvard says more solar should be installed in Great Lakes, Mid-Atlantic regions

Solar Power World

A new Harvard study shows that to achieve the biggest improvements in public health and the greatest benefits from renewable energy, wind turbines should be installed in the Upper Midwest and solar power should be installed in the Great Lakes and Mid-Atlantic regions. When adjusting for energy produced, the benefits ranged from $28 per MWh… The post For biggest public health benefit, Harvard says more solar should be installed in Great Lakes, Mid-Atlantic regions appeared first on Solar Po

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Bitrode introduces new high-voltage battery pack testing system

Charged

Bitrode , which manufacturers equipment for the charging and testing of batteries, has added a new high-voltage battery testing system to its line of FTF High Power Packing and Testing systems. The new FTF-HV high voltage test system can handle 1,500 volts and 600 amps per channel and boasts a max power capability of 450 kW. The system features two circuits, but can handle four, thereby bumping up the max current to 1,200 amps and max power to 900 kW.

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35-MW SunPower solar system will power Chevron oil field

Solar Power World

SunPower announced construction is underway on the Lost Hills Solar Project. The 35-MW system will feature Performance Series solar panels assembled in Hillsboro, Oregon, and deliver low-carbon electricity to Chevron’s Lost Hills oil field in Kern County, California, under a power purchase agreement. Over the project’s term of up to 20 years, it is estimated… The post 35-MW SunPower solar system will power Chevron oil field appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Impact washing in the desert

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, Oct. 29 – The controversial Future Investment Initiative in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia gets underway today. The secret agenda (until yesterday) of the Saudi investment conference is full of legacy investment firms now trotting out impact investment products. Last year, business and investment leaders largely boycotted “Davos in the Desert,” after Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin The post Impact washing in the desert appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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SunPower Building New 35-Megawatt DC Solar Project to Supply Renewable Energy to Chevron's Lost Hills Oil Field

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Largest Solar Electric System in California's Net Energy Metering Program Once Fully Operational