Mon.Aug 12, 2019

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Sculptural, tree-filled tower supports sustainable urbanism in Singapore

Inhabitat - Innovation

Designed with a mix of boutique retail and office spaces, the skyscraper champions the firm’s ideas of “sustainable urbanism.

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Between Cars And Micromobility Lies 'Minimobility' - A Self-Driving Transportation Revolution

Forbes Green Tech

Micromobility is great but limited. Cars with one person are ubiquitous and inefficient. The real self-driving transport revolution may come from "Minimobility" -- half width cars for 1-2 people that use half the energy, half the road and 1/5th the parking, and are more efficient than transit.

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As ocean temperatures rise, so does mercury exposure in seafood

Inhabitat - Innovation

In case there weren’t already enough reasons to limit global warming to less than 1.5 degrees Celsius, a new study released in Nature reveals that even a 1 degree increase in ocean temperatures leads to a significant increase in mercury exposure among fish — and the people that consume them.

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This Electric Vehicle Charger Disappears Into The Sidewalk When Not In Use

Forbes Green Tech

Installing electric vehicle chargers that pop up out of the sidewalk when you need them and then back down again when you don't is the idea behind the new UEOne from Urban Electric.

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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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5 Reasons to Include Solar in Your Capital Budget

Sun Valley Solar

It’s that time of year again when companies start planning their capital budget for the following year. While evaluating and incorporating needs are important, like replacement machinery, new plants, or new research and development projects, you shouldn't miss this opportunity to consider solar as a smart, long-term investment with immediate bottom line impact.

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Who’s bringing China its bacon now that it’s running low?

AFN Sustainable Protein

A worldwide pork deficit is impending and one virus is to blame. But who’s going to fill in the gaps? Meat giant Tyson’s latest earnings reveal it’s not them, with the US-China trade war largely to blame. Could they lose out to alternatives like Impossible Foods? Though harmless to humans, African Swine Fever (ASF) has the world’s top pork producer China reeling.

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Podcast - Bruno Sarda & CDP Are Pulling The World Back From The Brink Of Climate Change Disaster, Part 1

Forbes Green Tech

The eco-system, the economies and the responsibilities around carbon foot print is going to affect us all. Listen to the US president of CDP, Bruno Sarda as he talks about that future world ten years from now and what it is going to take to get there and beyond.

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Who’s bringing China its bacon now that it’s running low?

AFN Sustainable Protein

A worldwide pork deficit is impending and one virus is to blame. But who’s going to fill in the gaps? Meat giant Tyson’s latest earnings reveal it’s not them, with the US-China trade war largely to blame. Could they lose out to alternatives like Impossible Foods? The post Who’s bringing China its bacon now that it’s running low? appeared first on AgFunderNews.

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School in Pakistan Shines Light on the Power of Renewables

Green Market Oracle

Many of the 23 million Pakistani children who do not attend school work during the day. They cannot attend school at night because some of the places where these kids live do not have electricity. work during the day so they cannot attend school. In 2016 two schools in Faisalabad began offering night courses using electricity from solar energy to power lights, fans, and IT equipment.

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BNEF says corporate energy market is strong

Renewable Energy World

Coming on the heels of Gap’s announced 90-MW PPA with Enel Green Power, BloombergNEF released its 2H 2019 corporate energy market outlook in which it said that corporations signed contracts to purchase 8.6 GW of clean energy in 2019 through July, up from 7.2 GW at the same time last year.

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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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Beelines: a lovely example of Green Jujitsu

Terra Infirma

Recently, I’ve been looking enviously at the Manchester Beelines project to bring together 1000 miles of cycle routes across the Greater Manchester area. While the project itself is fantastic, I’m particularly taken with the branding. The worker bee has long been associated with the city, formalised as part of Manchester’s coat of arms in 1842.

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Vattenfall combines wind, solar, batteries in Netherlands energy park

Renewable Energy World

According to Vattenfall, the project will help provide less pronounced energy peaks and an overall more efficient use of energy infrastructure.

Energy 48
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Ethiopia’s Record-Breaking Day of Tree Planting

Unsustainable

Tree Planting: July 29th, 2019 – Ethiopia breaks the record for the most trees planted in a single day. (This article is reposted from The Earthbound Report, a blog which deftly addresses equity amongst all the world’s peoples, protection of all non-human life, and ethical responses to the challenges that face our planet.) words Jeremy Williams A hundred years ago Ethiopia was a forest nation, with over 40% of its land forested.

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We’re Hiring: Arizona Campus Ambassadors

Defend Our Future

DEFEND OUR FUTURE – ARIZONA CAMPUS AMBASSADOR. ABOUT DEFEND OUR FUTURE. As the Trump administration cedes climate leadership on the world stage, doubles down on its assault on bedrock environmental and public health protections, and undermines sound science to thwart commonsense policymaking, it is more important than ever to be involved in the fight against climate change.

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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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First major US offshore wind farm delayed by government

Renewable Energy World

The Trump administration cast the fate of the nation’s first major offshore wind farm into doubt by extending an environmental review for the $2.8 billion Vineyard Wind project off Massachusetts.