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What the global energy crisis teaches us about clean energy

GreenBiz

One thing these shortages have in common: They’re related to fossil fuels extracted in other countries than where they’re needed.

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Cooking inspiration from vegan recipes all over the world

Inhabitat - Innovation

Nearly every healthy diet on the planet points towards a heavy emphasis on plant-based whole foods. Whether that means adopting a vegetarian lifestyle, making one meatless meal each week, or taking away all animal products in favor of vegan eating, every step is a step towards a healthier body and planet.

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Soil health practices are paying off

GreenBiz

A new report shows that regenerative agriculture practices are good for incomes, soil health and the environment.

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Coffee prices spike, thanks to climate change

Inhabitat - Innovation

If melting polar ice caps and a deforested Amazon seem too far away to be real, many consumers may soon get an up-close and personal taste of climate change in their coffee cups. Coffee bean prices are about to spike.

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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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Investors to high impact companies: Set your science-based climate goals

GreenBiz

Around 220 financial institutions from across 26 countries are targeting their demands at 1,600 companies with a collective market capitalization of over $41 trillion.

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French school is a model for clean-air learning environment

Inhabitat - Innovation

Completed in summer 2020, the Simone de Beauvoir School in Drancy, France placed an architectural focus on spatial aspects, function and sustainability. Architects from Bond Society and Daudré-Vignier & Associés collaborated on a brand new elementary school, including 10 classrooms, gathering spaces, a restaurant and playground.

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Permeability and lightness combine in this biophilic design

Inhabitat - Innovation

Nestled within a close-knit community in Petaling Jaya, Malaysia, is an impressive three-bedroom residential establishment hinged on the concepts of permeability, lightness and sustainability. The one-of-a-kind architectural testbed offers 3,300 square feet of living area based around common areas analogous to a village design.

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The challenge of circularity in a growth-based economy

GreenBiz

What will it take for more companies to be circular?

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Hawaii's Klauea Volcano erupts, creates lake of lava

Inhabitat - Innovation

On Wednesday, one of the most active volcanoes on Earth erupted. The U.S. Geological Survey has confirmed that the K?lauea volcano in Hawaii has formed a sizeable lake of lava.

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Episode 287: Paul Polman on being 'net positive'

GreenBiz

Plus, the clean energy transition offers an unparalleled to bring diversity into the energy workforce.

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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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$1 trillion opportunity for mass-scale forest restoration, says report

Envirotec Magazine

Image credit: Bureau of Land Management , CC BY 2.0 license ). Global forest restoration could generate approximately US$1 trillion in new revenues for landowners over the coming decades, according to a new report by analysts Frontier Economics and reforestation firm Terraformation. The business case for landowners to restore degraded lands, or create new forests, has grown increasingly strong due to the advancement of carbon markets, the proliferation of global climate commitments, and the adva

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How to Open Your Small Business to Eco-Friendly Ideas

U.S. Green Technology

The concept of green business opens up a vast source of ideas and inspiration which can be combined to unbelievable benefits. Apart from providing financial means, it’s a strong foothold against environmental pollution, carbon emissions and other plagues of the modern society. On the other hand, rapidly-advancing technology is giving us sophisticated tools and practices.

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A WEEE dram? Extracting metals from electronics waste using whiskey co-products

Envirotec Magazine

A filtration system fuelled by whisky co-products is being developed by researchers to sustainably extract rare and valuable metals – including gold, silver, and palladium – from waste electronics using a new combined biological and chemical approach. The consortium of organisations – comprising of Aberdeen-based environmental tech company, SEM ; WEEE Scotland , the waste services provider; the University of Edinburgh; and the Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Centre (IBioIC) – has apparently

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Shining example: Mines Press, a New York print firm, deploys Community Solar plus Storage

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Ballston Lake, New York - A Westchester printing and gift manufacturing company is working towards a more sustainable future after agreeing to a long-term solar plus battery storage agreement with Centrica Business Solutions.

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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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World’s longest subsea interconnector powers up between the UK and Norway

Envirotec Magazine

The possibility of sharing renewable energy between the UK and Norway appears to have taken a significant step forward with the commissioning of the world’s longest subsea electricity interconnector. National Grid’s €1.6 billion North Sea Link (NSL) a joint venture with Norwegian system operator Statnett, starts commercial operation on 1 October, marking what is being described as a major milestone in the UK’s journey to net zero.

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Introducing the First Solar-Specific Data Logger from NRG Systems

altenergymag

LOGR-S is an advanced data logging system for post-construction resource monitoring of utility-scale PV plants.

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New UN tool maps floods worldwide since 1985, to street level

Envirotec Magazine

A new public tool is said to generate instant, accurate street-level-resolution maps of floods worldwide since 1985. It is hoped the free online World Flood Mapping Tool will help all countries but especially those in the global south, where flood risk maps are rare and often badly out of date. Created by the UN University’s Institute for Water, Environment and Health in Hamilton, Canada, with support from Google, MapBox and other partners listed below, the tool lets users adjust variables to he

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Massachusetts finds early success with behind-the-meter energy storage program

Renewable Energy World

Follow @EngelsAngle. Massachusetts has found early success with its behind-the-meter energy storage incentive program. The ConnectedSolutions program compensates residential and commercial customers for allowing utilities to draw from energy from their grid-connected batteries and/or to curtail energy use via smart thermostats or electric vehicle charging at times of peak electric demand.

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Medical drugs harmful to invertebrates in UK waterways

Envirotec Magazine

Anodonta cygnea (image credit: Alexander Mrkvicka, CC BY-SA 3.0 via Wikimedia Commons license). Wildlife charity Buglife is attempting to raise awareness of the occurrence of medical drugs in UK rivers, and the threat this presents to freshwater life. The charity warns that drugs including painkillers, anti-inflammatories, and antidepressants may contribute to the decline of freshwater invertebrates – like snails, shrimps, and mussels – by altering reproduction, behaviour, and develo

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The Week in impact investing: Outcomes

Impact Alpha

TGIF, Agents of Impact! ?? Next Call: Black tech, green solutions. “We need to have founders and investors who have relationships with the. The post The Week in impact investing: Outcomes appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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GreenPower delivers 10 electric Cab and Chassis units to WeShip

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GreenPower Motor Company (NASDAQ: GP), a manufacturer of medium- and heavy-duty EVs, has delivered 10 units of its EV Star Cab and Chassis to shipping service WeShip. The two companies secured California HVIP vouchers in the amount of $66,000 per vehicle, and GreenPower provided lease financing to fund the remainder of the purchase price. GreenPower’s EV Star Cab and Chassis accommodates a wide variety of mid- and last-mile vehicles, combining a body of the customer’s choosing with GreenPower’s

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SSE Renewables enters Japanese offshore wind market

Renewable Energy World

SSE Renewables has signed an agreement with Japanese renewable energy developer, Pacifico Energy, to create a joint ownership company that will pursue offshore wind energy development in Japan. The creation of the joint ownership company involves the acquisition by SSE Renewables of an 80% stake in an offshore wind development platform from Pacifico Energy and is aligned with SSE Renewables’ expansion strategy.

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Volvo Trucks and AMPLY Power collaborate on charge management programs for electric truck fleets

Charged

Charging and energy management provider AMPLY Power is collaborating with Volvo Trucks North America on customer programs to maximize uptime and cost savings for electric Class 8 heavy-duty truck fleets. The companies are now working on projects with two heavy-duty electric truck fleets. One of these is Manhattan Beer Distributors, one of the largest beverage distributors in the country.

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Midwest states form coalition to accelerate EV adoption

Renewable Energy World

Follow @EngelsAngle. The governors of Illinois, Indiana, Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin signed a memorandum of understanding Thursday to form the Regional Electric Vehicle Midwest Coalition -- an effort designed to accelerate the adoption of electric vehicles and deployment of charging infrastructure. REV Midwest will coordinate on regional EV infrastructure strategies and siting to spur medium and heavy-duty fleet electrification, evaluate challenges and opportunities of manufacturing, and

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ABB Launches the World’s Fastest Electric Car Charger

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-Can deliver 100km of range in less than three minutes -Only charger designed explicitly to charge up to four vehicles at once -Ideal for refueling stations, urban charging stations, retail parking and fleet applications

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Feds want to know who’s behind solar tariff push

Renewable Energy World

Follow @EngelsAngle. A group of anonymous solar companies will be forced to identify themselves in order for the U.S. Dept. of Commerce to consider implementing tariffs on cells and modules imported from Thailand, Malaysia, and Vietnam. The group -- known only as the American Solar Manufacturers Against Chinese Circumvention -- alleges that the countries are circumventing the antidumping duty and countervailing duty orders (AD/CVD) on solar cells and modules from China.

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The Call No. 31: Making sense of the ABCs of measurement to optimize for impact (video)

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, Oct. 1 – Metrics. Standards. Dimensions. Frameworks. SDGs. Cathy Clark of the Center for the Advancement of Social Entrepreneurship at Duke University’s Fuqua. The post The Call No. 31: Making sense of the ABCs of measurement to optimize for impact (video) appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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10-9-8-7-6-5-4. IT’S COUNTDOWN TIME TO ‘DCARBONISE WEEK: VIRTUAL SUSTAINABILITY SUMMIT’

altenergymag

The need to decarbonise is imperative; the clock is ticking. The pre-COP26 ‘Dcarbonise Week: Virtual Sustainability Summit' (4-8 October) is crammed full of ‘where we are', ‘where we need to go', ‘what we need to do' information for those involved with renewable and low carbon energy generation and use; with marine science and use of the oceans; the travel industry; and farming.

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Who pays and who benefits from a massive expansion of solar power?

Renewable Energy World

Felix Mormann , Texas A&M University. Electricity generation produces a quarter of U.S. greenhouse gas emissions that drive climate change. The electric grid also is highly vulnerable to climate change effects, such as more frequent and severe droughts , hurricanes and other extreme weather events. For both of these reasons, the power sector is central to the Biden administration’s climate policy.

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Impact Briefing: Week of October 1

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, Oct. 1 – On this week’s podcast, host Brian Walsh is joined by John Cochrane from the U.S. Impact Investing Alliance to. The post Impact Briefing: Week of October 1 appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Vineyard Wind Announces Partnership with Crowley, City of Salem to Transform Harbor into Offshore Wind Port

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Under the terms of the proposed agreement, Crowley, through its New Energy subsidiary Crowley Wind Services, will purchase the 42 acres surrounding Salem Harbor Station and will serve as the long-term offshore wind port operator for the site.

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Ocean Freight Container Tracking – Exploring The Benefits of GPS Systems

U.S. Green Technology

There are quite a few ways of tracking ocean freight containers, but using GPS is unarguably the best since it offers status updates in real-time regardless of where the container is. GPS tracking helps to ensure the security of the cargo and know its location so that you know if it has departed from its. The post Ocean Freight Container Tracking – Exploring The Benefits of GPS Systems appeared first on U.S.

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Oraan’s Halima Iqbal and Farwah Tapal: Digitizing women’s savings circles in Pakistan

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, October 1 – Halima Iqbal didn’t plan to start her own fintech company when she returned to Pakistan in 2018, after years. The post Oraan’s Halima Iqbal and Farwah Tapal: Digitizing women’s savings circles in Pakistan appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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New HIU lithium-metal battery boasts 560 Wh/kg specific energy

Charged

Researchers at the Karlsruhe Technology Institute and the Helmholtz Institute Ulm (HIU) have developed a new lithium-metal battery that offers a specific energy of 560 Wh/kg with good stability. The researchers used a low-cobalt, nickel-rich layered cathode (NCM88), which offers high energy density. With the commonly used organic electrolyte LP30, however, the stability is unacceptable.

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