Mon.Nov 16, 2020

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5 ways businesses can take action to reduce environmental racism

GreenBiz

5 ways businesses can take action to reduce environmental racism. Samantha Harris. Mon, 11/16/2020 - 00:20. For decades, Black, indigenous and people of color (BIPOC) in the United States have sought environmental justice as a civil right, but now, the grave disparities in environmental harms are coming into national prominence. This year’s COVID-19 crisis and racial justice movement have highlighted the systemic inequities in the U.S. and revealed how crises disproportionately affect certain po

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UK’s first hydrogen heating demonstration takes place in Northumberland

Envirotec Magazine

First houses heated by hydrogen gas are showcased, with the use of innovative prototype boilers. Boiler manufacturers Baxi Heating and Worcester Bosch have installed hydrogen burning boilers at ‘HyStreet’, in specially built demonstration houses at DNV GL’s specialist test site at Spadeadam in Northumberland. The site has been used to complete over 200 tests, researching and proving the safety of converting homes and gas networks to hydrogen.

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How effective stakeholder engagement shaped Samsonite’s ESG strategy

GreenBiz

How effective stakeholder engagement shaped Samsonite’s ESG strategy. Christine Rile…. Mon, 11/16/2020 - 01:00. In March, Samsonite announced "Our Responsible Journey," a new global sustainability strategy that outlines its commitments across four priority areas: Product Innovation; Carbon Action; Thriving Supply Chain; and Our People, including engagement, development, diversity and inclusion.

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Utility’s approach to explosion risk assessment wins construction industry award

Envirotec Magazine

An innovative, industry-leading digital approach to explosion risk assessment has seen a win for Yorkshire Water, which was named as Digital Initiative of the Year at the British Construction Industry Awards (BCIA). Judges commended the development and implementation of a digital model, in collaboration with Stantec, fed with geographic and risk data for Yorkshire Water’s catchment assets in compliance with the Dangerous Substances and Explosive Atmospheres Regulations (DSEAR).

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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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This nature center proves zero-energy is possible even in wintry Minnesota

Inhabitat - Innovation

Environmental stewardship comes alive in spectacular fashion at the new Westwood Hills Nature Center.

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Form Energy Raises Another $70M for Long Duration Storage

GreenTechMedia

Form Energy raised a $70 million Series C to scale its super-long duration energy storage technology. That investment was first reported by Reuters Friday, without naming the investors who participated. It brings Form Energy's total funds raised to around $120 million, a hefty sum for a novel technology that's still a few years away from its first commercial deployment.

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Renewables Buoy RWE and EDF as Clean Energy Outlook Brightens

GreenTechMedia

Two of Europe’s major utilities have demonstrated the signs of a post-coronavirus lockdown recovery, highlighted by growing renewables capacities. EDF and RWE both reported their Q3 results at the end of last week. While COVID-19 lockdowns have trimmed demand for electricity over the period, sustained renewables deployment and the associated revenue were bright spots for both companies.

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Jules Ferry School is a model for a sustainable learning environment

Inhabitat - Innovation

A school in France is showing the world how to use eco-friendly design to create much more than buildings.

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The Hype and Hope of Sahara Desert Green Hydrogen

GreenTechMedia

Desert energy is back. As the European Union sets its sights on a green hydrogen boom as part of its plans to meet decarbonization pledges and rebuild economies ravaged by the COVID-19 pandemic, North Africa has emerged as a possible source for a significant chunk of Europe’s future hydrogen supply. A 2020 version of the European Commission’s hydrogen strategy referenced a proposal that the EU could meet some of its future supply from neighboring countries such as Ukraine, as well as

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Robotics, Automation and Industry: Why Robots are Now a Good Thing

CleanTech Group

Since 1765, various industrial revolutions have dramatically changed the landscape of manufacturing, enabling scaled-up production that requires less and less manpower. Today, a.

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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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High carbon emissions predicted for Black Friday

Inhabitat - Innovation

Black Friday emissions are expected to equal carbon emissions from over 400 long flights.

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WIND POWER INDUSTRY CHALLENGED TO VALUE HUMAN INGENUITY ALONGSIDE ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

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• Industry insight report from ARMSA Academy proposes a new decision-making philosophy to unlock safer and more productive projects • Wind companies leaving money on the table by treating digitalisation as the sole route to project optimisation • Report marks official launch of ARMSA Academy, a digital performance support platform to help wind industry professionals reduce levelised costs

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Redress winner launches puffer jacket made of upcycled materials

Inhabitat - Innovation

This unique puffer jacket makes use of textile waste.

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Russelectric, A Siemens Business, to Exhibit at Microgrid 2020 Global Conference

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Advanced Microgrid Control solution will be highlighted at virtual booth

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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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Diesel Engine Giant Cummins Plans Hydrogen Future–With Trains Coming Before Trucks

Forbes Green Tech

The manufacturer of diesel engines for boats, heavy-duty pickups, delivery vehicles, buses and semis sees big opportunities for its hydrogen technology.

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QUARTERLY Report

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GCE believes that algae may be the way of the future, and with that research we have established a corporate vision: THROUGH THE GROWTH AND DEVELOPMENT OF ALGAE AND ITS' APPLICATIONS GCE WILL PROVIDE FOR PLANET CHANGING FOOD, FEED, PACKAGING AND CONSUMER PRODUCT SOLUTIONS THAT PROTECT OUR PLANET AND FEED OUR GROWING POPULATION.

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LEM introduces DC billing meter for EV chargers

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LEM, a global specialist in electrical measurement for industrial and automotive applications, has launched its new DC billing meter (DCBM), a compact billing solution for public DC fast chargers. The DCBM has a power measurement range from 25 kW to 600 kW, and is a legally certified meter that provides accurate customer billing. LEM’s new DCBM is compliant with Germany’s Eichrecht regulation, which requires that consumers are only charged for the DC power that’s supplied to the battery.

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The European Solar Prize Award 2020

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The success of the energy transition depends crucially on innovation and commitment from all parts of society. EUROSOLAR is proud to honor true changemakers of 2020 with the European Solar Prize. The Solar Prize is awarded to cities, communities, architects, municipal and private-sector companies, associations, organisations and cooperatives, journalists and citizens.

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‘Justice tech’ and edtech ventures selected for gener8tor social enterprise accelerator

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, November 16 — The Madison, Wis.-based gBeta Social Impact’s virtual accelerator is supporting 10 founders addressing equity in education and criminal justice.

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Just Two Weeks To Go Until the 2020 Energy from Waste Conference

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The annual Energy from Waste conference will take place in just two weeks' time, on 1st - 2nd December on SMi Group's Virtual Conference Platform

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Quebec’s gas car ban spotlights need for Canada-wide approach

Clean Energy Canada

OTTAWA — Joanna Kyriazis, senior policy advisor at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to Quebec’s decision to phase out the sale of gas cars as part of its 2030 Plan for a Green Economy : “We welcome Quebec’s newly released plan to build a clean economy, in particular, its decision to ban the sale of gas cars after 2035. The announcement joins a growing number of similar commitments from around the world, signalling that global transportation is headed in a zero-emissi

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With billions as bait, development financiers seek to hook private investors on gender-lens investing

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, November 16 – Private equity and venture capital fund managers have an added incentive to apply a “gender lens” in their investment.

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New Efficiency For Access Campaign Centers Off-Grid Appliances in COVID-19 Response

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Appliances are Vital makes the case for including low-energy, inclusive appliances in the global COVID-19 recovery effort.

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U.S. sustainable investing tops $17 trillion, a third of assets under management

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, Nov. 16 – U.S. investors added more than $5 trillion to environmental, social and governance, or ESG, strategies from the start of.

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DERConnect will enable researchers to test integration of renewable energy and EV batteries into the power grid

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The National Science Foundation has awarded $39 million to a team of engineers and computer scientists at the University of California San Diego to build a test bed to better understand how to integrate distributed energy sources and EV batteries into the power grid. “We will be replicating the entire California power grid on one campus,” said Jan Kleissl, a Professor at UC San Diego and the project’s principal investigator.

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5 Ways To Be a More Environmentally-Friendly Student

Green Living Guy

Climate change is a hot-button topic in today’s society. Politicians are using it as a club to beat each other’s agendas to the ground. Environmental activists are viewed as zealots, and climate-change deniers are not backing off an inch. But one fact remains clear in all this chaos: the environment. The post 5 Ways To Be a More Environmentally-Friendly Student appeared first on Green Living Guy.

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Buying A New Phone Every Year Makes Dollars But No Sense

Forbes Green Tech

(P)eople believe that true innovation is taking place.Here’s the secret though: releasing new models annually means that manufacturers don’t usually have time to make more than incremental improvements from year to year.

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ROUSH CleanTech provides Class 6 electric trucks to Penske

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ROUSH CleanTech, a provider of alternative fuel and electric propulsion technology for fleet vehicles, has inked a deal with Penske Truck Leasing to provide battery-electric vehicles based on the Ford F-650 for deployment across Southern California. The new EVs, which were built to Penske’s specifications, have a maximum speed of 65 mph and a 100-mile range.

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Reports: Canada set to table landmark net zero legislation

Business Green

Journey to net zero will not be easy for federal government, due to enormity of Canada's oil and gas sector and the decentralised nature of Canadian politics. Canada is poised to introduce legislation this week that would establish how the country can hit net zero emissions by mid-century, according to reports. The forthcoming bill is expected to formally commit the country to a net zero target, five years after Canada signed the Paris Agreement and pledged to work with other nations to cap glob

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‘Healthy living’ SPAC Better World Acquisition Corp. launches on Nasdaq

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, November 16 — A new special purpose acquisition company is looking to raise $110 million to acquire and take public a company.

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IPPR: Decarbonising homes in North England could deliver £3.85bn boost

Business Green

Green home upgrades in the region could create hundreds of thousands of jobs and drive down emissions, think tank estimates. Delivering green upgrades to homes across the North of England could create almost 190,000 new jobs both in the region and beyond, while providing a multi-billion pound boost to the economy each year and bolstering the UK's efforts to meet its net zero emissions goal, fresh research by IPPR suggests.

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Insights from Forbes Communication Council: How AI Can Fix the Broken Utility Marketplace

Bidgely

Recognizing that kWh are a commodity in the minds of most customers, many utilities have sought to extend and diversify their value proposition beyond electron supply as a means to deepen customer engagement and open new revenue channels. Using online marketplaces, utilities promote product and service offerings such as EV chargers, smart thermostats, PV panels, heat pumps, energy storage, HVAC maintenance and more.

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Shell and Exxon on the hunt for Billions in Green Subsidy

Mr. Sustainability

Summary - Four multinationals including Shell and Exxon aim to store CO? in an empty gas field off the Dutch coast and will apply for a subsidy at the end of this month. According to estimates, this subsidy could amount to around € 1.5 billion, which would cause other subsidies on ‘truly green projects’ to diminish. This article originates from the Financieel Dagblad and added upon.

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Insights from Forbes Communication Council: How AI Can Fix the Broken Utility Marketplace

Bidgely

Recognizing that kWh are a commodity in the minds of most customers, many utilities have sought to extend and diversify their value proposition beyond electron supply as a means to deepen customer engagement and open new revenue channels. Using online marketplaces, utilities promote product and service offerings such as EV chargers, smart thermostats, PV panels, heat pumps, energy storage, HVAC maintenance and more.