Wed.Aug 04, 2021

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3 ways your organization can embrace a net-zero mindset

GreenBiz

Making the transition will require new approaches for hiring, governance and R&D. Here’s how companies such as Walmart, Shopify, Just Salad and Allbirds are approaching the challenge.

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Sierra Nevada red fox to be listed as an endangered species

Inhabitat - Innovation

The Sierra Nevada red fox is to be listed as an endangered species following a decision by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service on Tuesday.

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To sell EVs, are automakers ready to ditch dealerships?

GreenBiz

Dealership employees are extremely under-equipped with knowledge about available current financial incentives, charging infrastructure and other information specific to EV ownership.

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Will Lagos be submerged by 2100?

Inhabitat - Innovation

Lagos, a city of 24 million on Nigeria's Atlantic coast, experiences devastating floods annually. Sea rise will make that oh so much worse.

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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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The U.S. can cut emissions by transforming industrial clusters

GreenBiz

Clusters, or areas with a many companies providing similar goods and services, can give the U.S. monopolies of scale for cutting emissions.

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Upper Los Angeles River Plan wins award for inclusive, sustainable design

Inhabitat - Innovation

The influential Upper Los Angeles River and Tributaries Revitalization Plan (ULART) has earned the prestigious global 2021 AZ Award from Azure Magazine.

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Kitchen Garden Textiles makes farm-to-table linens

Inhabitat - Innovation

These plant-based towels, aprons, tea bags and more by Kitchen Garden Textiles do the job without any environmental damage.

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Why food production is as dangerous for the planet as fossil fuels

GreenBiz

Traditional food production is causing cataphoric losses to nature.

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New web-based tool targets water leaks

Envirotec Magazine

The colour coded map helps the district manager to monitor the overall situation at a glance and to target and prioritise interventions. It shows the level of criticality of each DMA on a green-yellow-red scale with each DMA represented by a polygon. By identifying and targeting water leakages quickly at a local level, a new tool developed by engineering consultancy HR Wallingford will seemingly assist water companies to deliver on their regulatory targets to reduce reported leakage levels.

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You’ve set a bold climate goal, so now what?

GreenBiz

Sponsored: Neste North America’s Sustainability Manager explains how to set bold climate goals by embracing a variety of solutions and measuring the impact.

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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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AttaBox Polycarbonate Enclosures Now Available in Color

altenergymag

AttaBox® Heartland Series Enclosures are now available in color in a wide range of sizes from 6" x 6" to 20" x 16".

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Famous Amsterdam canal gets a 3D-printed smart bridge

Inhabitat - Innovation

Amsterdam’s oldest neighborhood is getting a high-tech upgrade.

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Tigo Energy Unveils Energy Intelligence Platform to Simplify Fleet Management

altenergymag

Comprehensive management software designed to help solar installers around the world save time and money

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How To Lower Your Home’s Power Bill

Green Living Guy

Electricity is an important utility, to say the least. It is arguably the bedrock of modern civilization, and it is necessary for a vast percentage of modern luxuries. However, electricity costs money, and taking full advantage of modern conveniences without the proper considerations can be quite expensive. Finding ways to cut costs on your electric […].

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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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Europe's Largest Energy Storage Project Comes into Commercial Operation -- Utilizing Sungrow Energy Storage System

altenergymag

Europe's largest energy storage project, the 100MW/100MWh Minety plant with Sungrow's 1500V energy storage system solutions has been successfully grid-connected, designed for facilitating grid stability and maximizing the utilization of renewable energy.

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How Businesses Cut Energy and Fuel Usage

Green Living Guy

In less than a decade, the typical small business startup has changed a lot. Modern companies tend to have fewer workers, take up less office space (if any) and use less energy. The human imagination continued to come up with ways to get by with less fuel and energy. Especially when entrepreneurs make that philosophy […]. The post How Businesses Cut Energy and Fuel Usage appeared first on Green Living Guy.

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Top 3 trends augmenting concentrated solar power market share by 2027

altenergymag

There is a huge demand for energy as well as medium and large-scale investments towards the usage of solar generation farms. Effective energy usage has drifted consumer tendencies and regulatory policies towards the deployment of solar technologies.

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6 Eco-friendly Things That You Didn’t Know About

Green Living Guy

The twenty-first century or the modern age has blessed its people with many boons. Today, you live in an age where you can make miracles just by sitting at home. Thanks to technology and innovation to provide humans with such advantages. But, with the boons come the bays. As times and technology has advanced, mother earth […]. The post 6 Eco-friendly Things That You Didn’t Know About appeared first on Green Living Guy.

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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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E-Fuel Market Size, Share & Growth Analysis, 2021-2027 | Eternity Insights

altenergymag

E-Fuel Market Size, Share & Growth Analysis By Type (E Diesel, E Gasoline, Ethanol, Hydrogen), By Application (Portable, Stationary, Transportation), By State Of Fuel (Liquid Fuel, Gas Fuel), And Regional Forecast, 2021-2027

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The Northeast’s hemlock trees face extinction. A tiny fly could save them.

Grist

It’s a warm day in early June, and researcher Nicholas Dietschler is standing in front of an eastern hemlock sapling about a quarter of a mile up a steep ridge in New York’s Catskill Mountains. The evergreen is not looking good. Its lower branches are brittle and dead. Its upper limbs are balding. Dietschler visually scans the tree’s stubby needles.

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Exro says its Coil Driver tech can reduce EVSE cost and complexity

Charged

Power electronics specialist Exro Technologies has announced a new application for its patented Coil Driver technology, which it says could dramatically reduce the cost and complexity associated with deploying EV infrastructure at scale. According to Exro, EVs currently require three different types of power electronics components to power the vehicles and charge the batteries: a motor drive, an on-board charger and an external DC fast charger.

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Everything You Need to Know About CBD in Canada

Green Living Guy

There has been quite a debate on the legalization of CBD in countries across the world. While some have accepted it and deemed it fit for consumption for medicinal and recreational purposes, others are still on the fence. Research studies carried out on CBD have brought various unpleasant truths to the surface that are only […]. The post Everything You Need to Know About CBD in Canada appeared first on Green Living Guy.

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Lilium secures order from Brazilian airline for 220 electric jets

Charged

Azul, a Brazilian airline that serves 110 destinations and operates a fleet of more than 160 aircraft, has ordered 220 electric aircraft from Lilium in a $1-billion commercial deal and strategic alliance. The companies aim to establish a co-branded network in Brazil. Azul will operate and maintain the Lilium Jet fleet, and Lilium will provide an aircraft health monitoring platform, replacement batteries and other custom spare parts.

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12 Small Changes That Will Make Your House More Eco-Friendly

Green Living Guy

We are within the midst of a climate crisis — it’s not ‘climate change, the change is here, and we’re now during a crisis. Scientists are now saying that we’re in “uncharted territory” due to the billions of tonnes of CO2 that we pump into the atmosphere per annum. Without a doubt, the overwhelming majority of […]. The post 12 Small Changes That Will Make Your House More Eco-Friendly appeared first on Green Living Guy.

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Shell to install 800 chargers at Waitrose UK supermarkets

Charged

Oil companies (we’ll consider using the term “energy companies” when products other than petroleum make up at least half their revenues) are starting to invest in EV charging , and Shell is at the forefront of this trend. Now the company is expanding its partnership with the UK supermarket chain Waitrose. The companies are targeting the installation of 800 Shell Recharge public charging points at up to 100 Waitrose locations across the UK by 2025.

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7 Tips For Throwing An Eco-Friendly Celebration

Green Living Guy

Everyone wants to be the talk of the town when they finally decide to host a party where they invite their friends and favorite family members. In most cases, people will go out of their way to impress those in attendance. But what is more important when hosting a party? Well, it all depends on […]. The post 7 Tips For Throwing An Eco-Friendly Celebration appeared first on Green Living Guy.

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Proterra to supply battery tech to ROUSH CleanTech for next-gen Ford F-650 electric truck

Charged

Commercial EV innovator Proterra (NASDAQ: PTRA) builds electric buses, and also provides its powertrain technology to other OEMs under its Proterra Powered business unit. The company’s latest collaboration is with ROUSH CleanTech, a firm that’s involved with several aspects of electrification, including production design, functional performance validation, compliance testing, assembly setup and vehicle second-stage manufacturing.

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First half of 2021 sees record investment in renewable energy

Renewable Energy World

More money was invested in renewable energy in the first six months of 2021 than the first half of any other year, according to tracking by BloombergNEF. But analysts still say “immediate” funding is needed to reach global net-zero emissions goals. Globally, $174 billion of new investment was made in renewable energy capacity, equity raised by specialist companies, and related areas, like storage, through June – a 2% increase from the same period last year.

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New paper examines environmental impact of brine-based lithium extraction

Charged

A new paper from Argonne National Laboratory (ANL) analyzes the process of extracting lithium from brine. In ?“ Energy, Greenhouse Gas, and Water Life Cycle Analysis of Lithium Carbonate and Lithium Hydroxide Monohydrate from Brine and Ore Resources and Their Use in Lithium Ion Battery Cathodes and Lithium Ion Batteries ,” published in the journal Resources, Conservation & Recycling, the researchers explain how they modeled brine-based lithium extracted from the Salar de Atacama, a large sal

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Solar Basics (At Home!): What you need to know about solar panel backsheets

Solar Power World

Solar Basics is a video series by Solar Power World created to help installers learn about the business, tools and tricks of the solar power trade. In all climates and in all types of solar modules, premature degradation can be, to a great extent, attributed to a faulty backsheet. Solar Power World breaks down what… The post Solar Basics (At Home!

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Daikin’s new AC refrigerant features lower boiling point, could boost EV range

Charged

Japanese air conditioner manufacturer Daikin Industries has developed a refrigerant specifically for EVs, and plans to commercialize the product by 2025, according to a report by Nikkei Asia. At present, the most common refrigerant for use in EV air conditioners is R-1234yf, sold under the names Opteon YF by Chemours and as Solstice YF by Honeywell.

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Ways to keep your child busy this summer

U.S. Green Technology

1. Activity ideas When we talk about the different summer activities, parents often get confused with the idea of planning to keep their children active. Actually, summer is the perfect time to teach your children to different types of activities and games. You should use your creative imagination in coming up with fun and interesting. The post Ways to keep your child busy this summer appeared first on U.S.

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Faraday Institution develops ultrasonic recycling method

Charged

Faraday Institution researchers working on the recycling of lithium-ion batteries at the Universities of Leicester and Birmingham have developed a new method to recover materials from end-of-life EV batteries. The new process uses ultrasonic waves to separate valuable material from the electrodes. The researchers say it delivers a higher purity of recovered materials compared to current separation methods.

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