Mon.Nov 09, 2020

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International Marine Shipping Industry Considers Nuclear Propulsion

Jim Conca

The international shipping industry wants to reduce their rather large carbon footprint and are considering installing nuclear power in their increasingly large ships. It would save billions of barrels of oil per year. And they only have to adopt the Nuclear Navy’s protocols to be safe and easy.

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Collaborating with the ocean is essential to addressing climate change and environmental justice

GreenBiz

Collaborating with the ocean is essential to addressing climate change and environmental justice. "The potential for the “blue economy” — one that combines more thoughtful stewardship of the ocean’s resources and economic opportunity with a more pragmatic, respectful approach to protecting coastal ecosystems — is vast. But with more than $1.5 trillion in annual economic value linked to ocean-based activities, the time is right to place the world’s seas at the center of a climate-centric post-pan

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These are the winning environmental measures on ballots across the US

Inhabitat - Innovation

While it took a long time to determine the new president of the U.S., the environment was a clear winner in many smaller elections this year.

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How these 2 environmental justice leaders are connecting communities to the clean economy

GreenBiz

How these 2 environmental justice leaders are connecting communities to the clean economy. This frank conversation with two respected environmental justice leaders will explore how companies can become authentically involved in shaping economic and environmental development programs at the city and state level. This session was held at GreenBiz Group’s VERGE 20, October 26-30, 2020.

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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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Europe’s Energy Storage Market Is Fading, Right When It’s Needed Most

GreenTechMedia

European energy storage deployment is set to shrink compared to other global markets, even as the need for flexibility on the grid increases, according to new research from Wood Mackenzie. Europe is still plotting the course towards being net-zero by 2050, but no matter the shape it takes, it will surely involve hundreds of gigawatts of new renewable power capacity.

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VERGE Over / Under: Why now must be the golden age of decarbonization

GreenBiz

VERGE Over / Under: Why now must be the golden age of decarbonization. Sarah Golden, senior energy analyst and VERGE Energy chair at GreenBiz, shares her take on the most over- and under-hyped clean energy trends this year with the VERGE 20 audience. This segment aired at GreenBiz Group’s VERGE 20, October 26-30, 2020. Learn more about the event here: [link]. .

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How alt-protein companies Impossible Foods, Memphis Meats hope to reshape diets

GreenBiz

How alt-protein companies Impossible Foods, Memphis Meats hope to reshape diets. Holly Secon. Mon, 11/09/2020 - 01:00. By 2050, nearly 10 billion people will be on the planet. That’s about 2 billion more hungry mouths to feed. Figuring out the best way to feed everyone so they receive enough nutritious food, while using the planet’s finite resources sustainably, is a growing challenge.

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KUHS-LP, Arkansas' only solar-powered radio station

Inhabitat - Innovation

This radio station in Hot Springs, Arkansas is powered by solar energy and the community.

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IKEA says sustainable mobility is a business imperative

GreenBiz

IKEA says sustainable mobility is a business imperative. As companies around the world seek to tackle greenhouse gas emissions, mobility and logistics – including the movement of products and people in the supply chain — is emerging as a key new focus for meeting sustainability goals. But most transportation decarbonization strategies are siloed in company verticals and focused narrowly.

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Serif + Sero modular furniture is made of 100% upcycled cardboard

Inhabitat - Innovation

These cardboard furnishings can transform from coffee tables to bookshelves and more.

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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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Bill McKibben: ‘Pace is the most important variable right now in fighting climate change’

GreenBiz

Bill McKibben: ‘Pace is the most important variable right now in fighting climate change’. Climate change is a complex, interconnected and existential crisis. How we talk about it — the stories we tell, the facts we share, and the language we use — can make the difference between action and paralysis, hope and despair. In this conversation, Bill McKibben, author, activist and storyteller who has helped shape the climate movement, will illuminate the importance of getting the climate story right,

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SOLVING THE SA ENERGY CRISIS: INCREASING WIND ENERGY AND UPGRADING OVERHEAD LINES

altenergymag

Here, Dag Kirschke, Segment Owner Wind, at global technology company, Exel Composites, discusses how upgrading overhead conductors to those with composite cores can increase wind power transmission across the grid and help solve the energy crisis.

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Solar Energy for Residential Buildings: The Time is Now

CleanTech Group

For the past two decades, thousands of entrepreneurs have dived into the residential solar space hoping to become a market leader. Few have.

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YY Nation shoes are made from bamboo, algae, pineapple and sugarcane

Inhabitat - Innovation

This is how the world becomes better: one step at a time.

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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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Cornwall flexible energy trials prove success

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Centrica completes the Cornwall Local Energy Market (LEM), the UK's largest trial of energy flexibility, which saw over 200 homes and businesses trading stored renewable electricity.

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EV Showcase Pilot Project Findings can Accelerate the Adoption of EVs in the Workplace

LA CleanTech Incubator

By Zach Pettit, Pilots Analyst Since 2015, the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power (LADWP) in partnership with LACI has runs electric vehicle (EV) pilot projects at LADWP’s La Kretz Innovation Campus (LKIC), home to 32 EV chargers and a 178.5 kW solar carport. The project, better known as the “EV Showcase,” seeks to. Read more » The post EV Showcase Pilot Project Findings can Accelerate the Adoption of EVs in the Workplace appeared first on LACI.

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ESDEC ACQUIRES PANELCLAW

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Leading Global Rooftop Solar Mounting Solutions Company Adds North America’s #1 Commercial and Industrial Provider

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Jouley electric school buses arrive in Virginia as part of a V2G pilot

Charged

Bus operator Sonny Merryman, utility Dominion Energy, bus builder Thomas Built Buses and heavy-duty powertrain specialist Proterra recently hosted a celebration near Lynchburg, Virginia to officially introduce the Jouley electric school bus to public school officials from across the state. At the presentation ceremony, riders were pleasantly surprised by the silence that replaced the noise of a legacy diesel bus.

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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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Seizing Myanmar's Solar Opportunities - Myanmar Solar E-Expo 2021 is scheduled on 11-29 January, 2021

altenergymag

Myanmar Solar E-Expo 2021 co-located with APAC Solar Energy Digital Event 2021 Myanmar Chapter, which will be held online during 11-29 January, 2021, is the only online virtual exhibition platform optimized for connecting and online sourcing in Myanmar solar sector. Combining with Virtual Exhibition, Online Digital Event, Onsite Technical Seminar "Live Day", Myanmar Solar E-Expo 2021 is dedicated to break the shackles of your imagination and reality, and create limitless business opportunities f

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When to repower aging utility-scale solar projects

Solar Power World

By Thorsten Hoefer, product manager of repowering, SMA America As projects inevitably age, customers often ask, “When is the right time to repower?” The truth is, depending on the project circumstances, the answer might change. Here are some considerations to help project owners decide whether it is the right time to repower an aging solar… The post When to repower aging utility-scale solar projects appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Enphase Energy and Cutler Bay Solar Solutions Partner to Deliver 1.5 MWh of Battery Storage Systems to Florida Homes

altenergymag

Cutler Bay Solar Solutions was a lead installer in the Enphase Encharge storage system field testing program, providing technical and useability feedback directly to Enphase. Since its public release in late July 2020, Cutler Bay Solar Solutions has deployed more than 1.5 MWh of Encharge storage systems across 80 homes in the South Florida market.

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Fiat Chrysler CEO talks about electric pickup

Charged

Fiat Chrysler has long been a favorite whipping boy for EV journalists. Of the US Big Three, it’s been the proudest defender of the gas-powered status quo, joining GM in the fight against US emissions standards , and agreeing to pay Tesla hundreds of millions of euros in order to avoid producing EVs in Europe. However, perhaps we’ve been a bit too hard on poor Chrysler.

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Global Renewable Off-Grid Energy Harvesting Market Experts Says Growth After 2020 Till 2030 || CorPower Ocean, e-Wind, Eight19

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Renewable Off-Grid Energy Harvesting Market Experts Says Growth After 2020 Till 2030 || CorPower Ocean, e-Wind, Eight19

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PPG receives DOE funding for EV battery coating processes

Charged

PPG, a supplier of coatings and specialty materials, has received DOE funding for research into the use of two versatile, high-output processes for the production of Li-ion battery electrodes. The three-year, $2.2-million project—one of 13 selected through a DOE initiative focused on addressing engineering challenges for advanced battery materials and devices—will be conducted in collaboration with Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee.

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Mulch, compost & recycle your yard waste

Greenability Magazine

Are you looking at a growing pile of fallen leaves? Here’s how you can take advantage of this season’s gardener’s “gold” and get free nutrients for next year’s lawn and garden. Growing piles of leaves are “gold” for gardeners who take advantage of the free nutrients that can be mulched or composted to replenish lawns and gardens.

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WRAP: Over half of UK public concerned about 'severe' environmental cost of clothes

Business Green

Waste charity launches Textiles 2030 initiative to help fashion firms cut greenhouse gas emissions and foster development of circular economy practices. Concern among the UK public over the environmental cost of their clothes appears to have hit a high following the Covid-19 lockdown earlier this year according to a survey by WRAP, which is urging fashion retailers and manufacturers to confront their outsized environmental impact.

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Sungrow Announces Roadshow Debuting the Latest 1500V Outdoor Central Inverter Solutions in the United States

altenergymag

Sungrow, the global leading inverter solution for renewables, is launching roadshows spanning the United States, debuting the latest 1500V central and string inverter solutions tailored to North America. With products on display in a semi-truck, the 17-stop tour started from Denver on November 2 will last until the end of December.

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'Wake-up call': Palm oil industry failing on deforestation goals, ZSL analysis finds

Business Green

Most firms in palm oil supply chain - including major consumer goods giants - still do not report basic information on how they are monitoring deforestation, wildlife conservation charity finds. Many of the world's biggest palm oil producers, processers and traders are still failing to implement effective strategies to prevent the destruction of forests across the topics, despite many having adopted zero deforestation commitments, according to the Zoological Society of London (ZSL).

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Self-Driving Delivery Startup Nuro Raises $500 Million In Latest Funding

Forbes Green Tech

The California Department of Motor Vehicles in August issued Nuro a permit to test two R2s on certain roads in parts of Santa Clara and San Mateo counties in the Bay Area. They can run at a maximum speed of 25 miles per hour and only in fair weather where the speed limit is 35 mph or lower.

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'Enormous investment opportunity': Mark Carney task force unveils global carbon market blueprint

Business Green

Voluntary carbon market must grow 15-fold between 2019 and 2030 to deliver emissions sequestration and removal required to steer a 1.5C future, report warns. A major report has for the first time provided a snapshot into how a global carbon market capable of delivering the major emissions reductions required to meet climate goals could practically function, sketching out a set of proposals today aimed at mobilising billions of dollars of investment in nature-based emissions reduction programmes.

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How can we stay safe & not create PPE waste?

Greenability Magazine

As face masks become even more critical in fighting the spread of COVID-19, they are also taking a toll on our waste stream and the environment. A recent study in the journal Environmental Science & Technology found that we are using some 129-billion disposable masks and 65-billion disposable gloves every month around the world as we try to stay safe in the midst of the worst pandemic to hit the human race in a century.

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KPMG announces 2030 net zero goal

Business Green

KPMG has joined rivals PwC and Boston Consultancy Group in committing to reach net-zero emissions by 2030. KPMG pledged today to reach net zero carbon emissions by 2030, committing to a series of climate actions in support of a new 1.5C science based target that aims to halve the consultancy giant's direct and indirect greenhouse gas emissions by the end of the decade.

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Is focusing on forests the answer for companies racing to meet climate goals?

EDF + Business

This year we witnessed a flurry of ambitious corporate climate pledges. Included in the mix, were a handful of nature-based climate solutions, like reducing deforestation and investing in forest restoration, which are gaining traction as ways for companies to meet climate goals. Growing private sector climate and deforestation commitments show that the ambition is there.