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Communities Surrounding Closed Nuclear Power Plants Face Terrible Challenges Moving Forward

Jim Conca

The Nuclear Decommissioning Collaborative’s report on socioeconomic impacts of nuclear plant closures on host communities has some sobering thoughts. Big hurdles are a lack of a national plan and the lack of planning when it would do the most good. But it would be best not to close them at all.

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NDP victory positions B.C. to be a global climate leader

Clean Energy Canada

VICTORIA — Merran Smith, executive director at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to the outcome of the 2020 B.C. provincial election: “We would like to congratulate Premier John Horgan and the rest of the BC NDP team on their election victory Saturday night. “While voters surely found many reasons to re-elect this government, an important pillar of its first term in power was the CleanBC plan to re-establish the province as a national climate leader while strengthenin

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Lordstown finalizes SPAC deal, starts trading on NASDAQ

Charged

Lordstown Motors has completed its business combination with DiamondPeak Holdings, a special purpose acquisition company (SPAC). For those of you who haven’t been following the EV “stock market frenzy,” a merger with a SPAC is the currently fashionable way for a startup company to go public—it’s quicker and involves less paperwork than the traditional IPO.

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A Front-Row Seat for the Arctic’s Final Summers With Ice

Mr. Sustainability

Summary - Freaked out scientists and gleeful captains of fossil-fuel tankers are now sailing through climate history in the melting polar region. Physicist Stefanie Arndt claims the Northern Sea Rout will become ice-free this decade or the next one. This article is taken from Bloomberg. For the original, click here. Sailing through ice faster than ever before On a sparkling day in May, the nearly 300-meter-long tanker Christophe de Margerie set sail from the northern Russian port of Sabetta.

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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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Gather is a Film Worth Discussing

Green Living Guy

A while ago I wrote shout the plea of the Native American. We live in a world so conflicted and disingenuous. So let’s try to stay connected here. Please. I reported the following: RENEWABLE ENERGY FOR NATIVE AMERICANS FORT CHIPEWYAN, AB, Aug. 8, 2019/CNW/ – The Government of Canada is. The post Gather is a Film Worth Discussing appeared first on Green Living Guy.

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Event - DISTIBUTECH International 2021

Green Market Oracle

DISTRIBUTECH International 2021 will take place on MARCH 30 - APRIL 1, 2021 in Orlando Florida. It will occur side by side with POWERGEN International 2021. This conference will feature 12 hand-selected, timely and relevant topical tracks designed to keep your experience organized and productive. Conference tracks Asset Management C&I and Residential Customers Cyber-securing the Grid Data-driven Digital Utilities DERMS Distribution Automation Energy Storage Electric Vehicles and Beyond Grid

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Questions persist over giant Chinese soy trader’s traceability

Eco-Business

COFCO’s pledge to protect Brazil’s vast tropical savannah is welcome but looks less bold on closer inspection. Big companies have been known to dodge their pledges in the past. Several adopted promises to halt deforestation and promote product traceability by signing the 2014 UNDP-backed New York Declaration on Forests. Although Brazil was not a signatory, Cargill did sign.

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Why Sustainable Building Techniques Are the Future of Construction

Green Living Guy

Firstly, using of green building techniques is a fast-growing trend. That’s especially in the construction industry. Therefore, the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) certifies 2.2 million certified square feet per day. That’s according to the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) green building rating system. Cause the global market.

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Indian garment workers cover bosses' lockdown losses

Eco-Business

Indian garment workers say they are being made to compensate their bosses for the food, shelter and salary provided in the coronavirus lockdown.

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WaterWatch USA launches the Clean Drinking Water Project

Green Living Guy

Non-profit charity acting as a watchdog of drinking water across the United States. By conducting independent, third-party water testing for toxins and pollutants. WaterWatch USA, a startup non-profit, pending 501(c)(3), launched the Clean Drinking Water Project. Thereby they acted as a watchdog group for America’s drinking water. Similarly, they did.

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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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The AIIB’s transparency deficit

Eco-Business

Transparency and public participation are paramount in mitigating the environmental and social risks of large-scale infrastructure projects. But the Beijing-based Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank is not heeding the message.

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The Sierra Club's Top 20 Cool Schools

Green Market Oracle

Sierra has been ranking the environmental performance of colleges since 2006. Despite the additional complications posed by the coronavirus pandemic a record 312 institutions participated in Sierra's annual Cool Schools rankings in 2020. Many schools including the schools on this list have demonstrated that they are both resourcefulness innovative in their efforts to achieve their sustainability objectives.

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Are power hierarchies inevitable in human society?

Low Impact

Just to be clear, I’m only talking about institutional, power hierarchies here, not hierarchies based on beauty, knowledge, intelligence, ability, respect etc. Those hierarchies are inevitable, of course, and life would probably be quite boring without them. Also inevitable are social hierarchies that are based on personality, but not official power.

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Natural debate: Do forests grow better without our help?

Grist

This story was originally published by Yale Environment 360 and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. When Susan Cook-Patton was doing a postdoc in forest restoration at the Smithsonian Environmental Research Center in Maryland seven years ago, she says she helped plant 20,000 trees along Chesapeake Bay. It was a salutary lesson.

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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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Batteries Made With … Vanilla?

CleanTechnica

There's a new type of battery storage technology that has an interesting spice added into the mix — vanillin, which is the primary component of the extract of the vanilla bean.

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Is Tesla’s Full Self-Driving Rollout Scary?

CleanTechnica

Like I did when I discovered that Smart Summon was actually doing great back in October of last year, I wanted to dive into what we know about this Full Self-Driving (FSD) update now, and how we should all feel about it.

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Joe Biden: “Climate Change Is The Number One Issue Facing Humanity.”

CleanTechnica

Joe Biden shined on the Pod Save America event from Crooked Media this week. The agenda was climate change and renewable energy but the subtext was the fundamental decency he will bring to the Oval Office next January.

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Tesla Bears Prove Easy Q3 Math Is Hard

CleanTechnica

Congrats to Elon and the workers at Tesla for a record setting Q3, by almost every measure. I'll cover below what I feel are some of the financial highlights.

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Climate Disaster Risk Reduction & Managed Retreat, Part Two

CleanTechnica

In the second half of this two-part interview for our CleanTech Talk podcast interview series, Michael Barnard, Chief Strategist of TFIE Strategy Inc. and CleanTechnica contributor, and Anna Ziolecki and Brent Doberstein from the University of Waterloo, continue their talk about disaster risk reduction and managed retreat.

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Air Pollution A Major Driver of Ill Health Worldwide — New Report

CleanTechnica

Air pollution is now the world’s fourth-leading risk factor for early death according to the new State of Global Air Report released this week. The report, published annually by experts at the Health Effects Institute and Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation, summarizes our most current scientific understanding of the heavy burden that air pollution places on countries around the world.

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Tesla’s One Core Advantage

CleanTechnica

"If it ain't broke, don't fix it." That's a maxim that I imagine could get you fired from Tesla. Tesla is obsessively focused on "fixing" what is working fine but not working as well as it could be. Tesla is obsessively trying to take products and systems apart, whittle them down to their core.

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Lucid CEO Says Tesla Isn’t Their Main Competitor — Mercedes-Benz Is

CleanTechnica

In a recent interview with Yahoo! Finance's "On the Move," Peter Rawlinson, CEO of Lucid Motors, shared his thoughts on Lucid's main competition and the focus of Lucid.

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Tesla Insurance Could Be 30–40% Of The Value Of Tesla’s Car Business

CleanTechnica

In Tesla's Q3 earnings call the other day, Elon Musk touched upon some of the most valuable business units within Tesla. One of those was Tesla Insurance. He said, "Obviously, insurance is substantial. So insurance could very well be, I don't know, 30%, 40% of the value of the car business, frankly.".

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My Journey To Understanding Machine Learning, Autopilot, & FSD

CleanTechnica

Like in many families, my kids are doing remote learning during the COVID-19 pandemic. In theory, they're learning from the teachers during Zoom meetings and then turning their work.

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Tesla’s Piedmont Lithium Deal Stimulates More Investment

CleanTechnica

Earlier this month, Tesla and Piedmont Lithium signed a five-year agreement. In this agreement, Tesla will purchase spodumene concentrate (SC6), which is vital for manufacturing lithium-ion batteries.

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Climate Change Mitigation — Talking With Professors Doberstein & Ziolecki

CleanTechnica

In the first half of this two-part interview for our CleanTech Talk podcast interview series, Michael Barnard, Chief Strategist of TFIE Strategy Inc. and CleanTechnica contributor, and Anna Ziolecki and Brent Doberstein from the University of Waterloo, sit down to talk about disaster risk reduction and managed retreat.