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Save on Your Energy Bill with These Fun Household Activities

The Environmental Blog

Saving money isn’t always fun. Being environmentally responsible can sometimes feel more like a chore than a privilege. Try walking around with a handful of messy food you are trying to eat while juggling a purse, shopping bags, and a plastic bottle of water. When it is time to throw some of that stuff away, you look around and see only one trash can that happens to be the wrong kind.

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ESA and NASA join forces in a bid to better understand climate change

Envirotec Magazine

To address climate change, decision-makers need accurate information on how our world is changing now, and also what may happen in the future. A sound knowledge of how Earth behaves as one system is the foundation to all of this – and the pieces of this complex puzzle come largely from satellites orbiting our planet. To ensure that data from Earth-observing satellites are used to their best advantage, further science and, ultimately, bring the most benefit to humankind, ESA and NASA have formed

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Dragonflies are losing their color due to climate change

Inhabitat - Innovation

A new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Science shows that dragonflies are losing key features due to climate change. The study has established that global warming is causing male dragonflies to lose their color, a feature used to attract mates.

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VERGE Net Zero Free Online Event

GreenBiz

VERGE Net Zero Free Online Event. isa stamos. Tue, 07/13/2021 - 13:19. Join us July 27-28, 2021 to accelerate a climate-positive future. Register Today. center_wrapped. carbon-orange.

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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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A tropical forest will soon grow in Helsinki and provide all the citys heat

Inhabitat - Innovation

Hot Heart is a series of islands that store thermal energy and can support tropical forest ecosystems from all over the world.

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Daniel Burger Hired as Solar Product Engineer

altenergymag

In his newly created position, Dan is responsible for creating and managing technical support for rooftop solar and pipe support products, including product design, testing, and voice of customer feedback.

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6 Ways Heat Pumps can Make Your Home More Eco-Friendly

U.S. Green Technology

There is no denying that “sustainability” is the buzzword of the year. So much so that almost everyone (including businesses) is doing something to join the bandwagon. But whether you are taking small or big steps, we salute you for doing your best to reduce your carbon footprint. Who knows? You might have been doing. The post 6 Ways Heat Pumps can Make Your Home More Eco-Friendly appeared first on U.S.

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The Uni Villa is a tiny eco-resort that can thrive anywhere

Inhabitat - Innovation

How many people wish they had their own little retreat? Studio Puisto has developed a new, modular accommodation that it believes would make it easier for people to open a small, sustainable resort anywhere.

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Pandemic air quality due to weather, not just lockdowns

Envirotec Magazine

New research suggests meteorology plays an out-sized role over the short term. Image credit: Edinburghcitymom/Shutterstock.com Edinburgh city centre in May 2020. Headlines proclaiming Covid lockdowns drastically reduced pollution were mostly referring to nitrogen dioxide, NO2, a reactive gas emitted from burning fuel. There had been less understanding of how lockdowns affected PM2.5, tiny particulate matter that can penetrate a person’s lungs, leading to a host of health problems, includin

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The Cantilever House combats a hot climate with sustainable design

Inhabitat - Innovation

Located in Delhi, India, the Cantilever House uses thoughtful design to reduce the building’s environmental impact and respond to the harsh North Indian climate.

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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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Farming Industry Exploring Energy Storage Solutions

U.S. Green Technology

Last year, the solar industry experienced a significant increase in sales and production. The expansion of accessible, renewable energy aligns with President Biden’s climate change prevention goals. He established the Build Back Better plan upon entering office, setting an ambitious carbon neutrality objective. The plan delivered two trillion dollars to the clean energy sector, extending.

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How the Climate Conversation Changed in 2021

Planet Pulse

This is the most important year for climate action since the Paris Climate Agreement was passed in 2015. National governments are strengthening their national climate action plans; companies, cities and communities are setting more ambitious targets; global financial markets are beginning to demand significant decarbonization; and the world is gearing up for the most important climate negotiations of this decade, in Glasgow, Scotland at the upcoming UN Climate Change Conference (COP26) .

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Battery installations in Australia up 20%, here’s why

Renewable Energy World

Last year the number of residential battery systems installed in Australia increased by 20%. The 31,000 battery systems that were installed is a remarkable number, considering Australia entered a recession in September last year for the first time in almost 30 years. This article considers some of the key drivers behind the growing market adoption of small-scale battery storage systems in the Australian market.

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The era of diversity disclosure in asset management has begun. Will actual diversity follow?

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, June 13 – “The asset management industry has a lot of work to do to increase racial and gender diversity,” says Gary Gensler, The post The era of diversity disclosure in asset management has begun. Will actual diversity follow? appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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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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LevelTen Energy and World Kinect Energy Services Partner to Help Organizations Source Renewable Energy and Reach Carbon Reduction Targets Faster

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New collaboration enables World Kinect Energy Services to source renewable power purchase agreements for its clients, including many organizations with large energy footprints

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Wood building fund aims to cut construction carbon in Europe

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, July 13 — Construction of buildings was responsible for 38% of global greenhouse gas emissions in 2020. Real estate developers in Europe. The post Wood building fund aims to cut construction carbon in Europe appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Guest Column: Solar and sustainability in schools

Solar Power World

By Scott Downie, Principal, Spiezle Architectural Group Learning happens in schools every day, but school buildings themselves are not always considered active participants in the learning process. Students carry computers in their pockets more powerful than the ones used to land on the moon; information on any topic is accessible in an instant and education… The post Guest Column: Solar and sustainability in schools appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Enel X collaborates with Biogen to electrify employee vehicle fleet

Charged

Charging management specialist Enel X is working with Biogen (Nasdaq: BIIB) to electrify the biotechnology company’s employee vehicle fleet. Biogen has committed to convert its global fleet of over 1,000 vehicles to EVs by 2025. Biogen will provide employees with Enel X JuiceBox smart home charging stations, enabling employees to charge company EVs at home, where more than 80% of EV charging typically takes place.

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Massive 50-GW wind, solar, hydrogen power plant with unique ownership model announced in Australia

Renewable Energy World

An international consortium made up of InterContinental Energy, CWP Global and Mirning Green Energy Limited, announced today an integrated green fuels mega project in the South-East of Western Australia. When fully operational, the Western Green Energy Hub (WGEH) could produce up to 50 gigawatts of hybrid wind and solar power over 15,000-square-kilometres in South-East Western Australia, across the Shires of Dundas and the City of Kalgoorlie-Boulder.

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LGT’s Lightrock closes $900 million fund for tech-driven impact

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, July 13 — LGT, the $272 billion private banking and asset management firm of the royal family of Liechtenstein, launched Lightrock in. The post LGT’s Lightrock closes $900 million fund for tech-driven impact appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Sacramento public-private partnership builds DC fast charging hub at light rail station park-and-ride

Charged

The Sacramento Regional Transit District (SacRT), in cooperation with the Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD), and GiddyUp EV, is building a new high-speed charging hub at the Power Inn light rail station. The facility, which is to go live in October, is expected to be one of the largest charging hubs in the state when fully built out. SacRT is developing Mobility Hubs at light rail stations to add amenities and e-mobility options for transit users and transit-oriented development.

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Race for better lithium batteries accelerates with two big raises

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, July 13 – Batteries are big as startups and investors bet on the low-carbon energy transition. SES, based near Boston, scored $100. The post Race for better lithium batteries accelerates with two big raises appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Explore the prairie at Sweet Sounds of Summer

Greenability Magazine

Stroll through a tallgrass prairie full of wildflowers and native grasses, and enjoy live bluegrass music at the Sweet Sounds of Summer prairie tour. Explore a wide variety of native plants at the home of Laurie Brown in Liberty, MO from 6 – 9 p.m. on Friday, July 16. The event includes refreshments and a silent auction in support of Green Works KC.

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From COVID to climate, G20 countries look to catalyze capital for urgent action

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, July 13 – The global effort on COVID vaccines does not bode well for the massive mobilization needed to avert climate catastrophe. The post From COVID to climate, G20 countries look to catalyze capital for urgent action appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Fossil fuel power generation has peaked worldwide, think tanks claim

Business Green

Emerging economies on course to 'leapfrog' fossil fuel power infrastructure and move straight to renewables-dominated grids, according to new analysis from Carbon Tracker and India's CEEW. Fossil fuel electricity generation has now peaked worldwide, as emerging economies increasingly seize the economic and societal benefits of low-cost renewable energy sources, according to influential think tank Carbon Tracker and India's Council on Energy, Environment and Water (CEEW).

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The Brief: Diversity disclosure, global impact tech, sustainable wood, battery race, committing the G20, leading Living Cities

Impact Alpha

Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Returns on Inclusion The era of diversity disclosure in asset management has begun. Will actual diversity follow? “The. The post The Brief: Diversity disclosure, global impact tech, sustainable wood, battery race, committing the G20, leading Living Cities appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Future Energy Scenarios 2021: Power generation in Britain could be emissions net negative by 2034

Business Green

Detailed and joined-up policies, behaviour change, 'whole system' infrastructure investment, and holistic energy market reform are all critical to achieving net zero emissions, report warns. The latest edition of National Grid ESO's Future Energy Scenarios (FES) 2021 predicts there are a number of ways that power generation in Britain could become emissions net negative by 2034 helping to put the UK on track to become a net zero emission economy by mid-century.

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IDC MarketScape Names Bidgely a Leader in Worldwide Digital Customer Engagement Solutions for Utilities

Bidgely

IDC has released its Worldwide Digital Customer Engagement Solutions for Utilities – 2021 Vendor Assessment MarketScape report and named Bidgely to its top tier “Leader” category — one of only three vendors worldwide to earn that distinction. The report was designed to provide energy utilities around the globe with insight into the current capabilities and future strategies of digital customer engagement (DCE) software vendors as a guide for end-to-end digital customer engagement sol

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'Extremely disappointing': Water sector failing on pollution goals, Environment Agency warns

Business Green

None of England's nine water and sewerage firms achieved all environmental expectations between 2015 and 2020, watchdog reveals. England's water industry continues to face serious questions over its environmental record, with many firms still failing to live up to their regulatory responsibilities governing sewage spills and pollution incidents, according to the Environment Agency's (EA) latest assessment of the sector today.

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Clean jet fuel needs to be more like a microwave oven

GatesNotes

Introducing a new way to invest in clean energy innovation.

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It's easy being green: Harnessing the power of local people to finance green solutions in cities

Business Green

City and local governments have an increasing abundance of options for accessing long-term, cost-effective finance for green investment, explains Dr Jeremy Gorelick from the Green Finance Institute (GFI). Almost a decade ago, countries around the world began to develop their Nationally Determined Contributions (or NDCs) as part of their responses to climate change, and as a contribution to achieve the global targets set out in the Paris Agreement.

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Who faces the highest risk of deadly heat?

Unsustainable

It is consistently people of colour that bear the burden of risk. And that means that preventing runaway climate change will also avert an epic racial injustice.

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NatWest launches carbon footprint tracker for its mobile banking app

Business Green

High street bank claims feature built by carbon tracking export CoGo is a first for a UK bank. NatWest has launched a new carbon calculator tool that allows its customers to see the carbon emissions associated with their daily spending. Following a successful pilot, the feature will be rolled out to roughly eight million people who use NatWest's mobile app, the bank announced today.

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HydroLand acquires two North Carolina hydroelectric facilities

Renewable Energy World

HydroLand has acquired two small run-of-river hydroelectric facilities from Northbrook Carolina Hydro II LLC: 980-kW Bryson Hydroelectric Project and 1.04-MW Franklin Hydroelectric Project. “ Since our acquisition of the Enel portfolio , we have been executing our plan to modernize and upgrade acquired hydroelectric facilities while building our portfolio with new acquisitions,” said Cory Lagerstrom, chief executive officer of HydroLand. “These two North Carolina facilities are