GreenBiz

DECEMBER 7, 2020

How do you avoid getting distracted and stay focused on the mission? Trisa Thompson. Mon, 12/07/2020 - 00:10. Much has been said, and will be said, about 2020. The word "unprecedented" has been used an unprecedented number of times. We are constantly bombarded by the media, whether it be about politics, COVID-19 or the state of the economy. The media barely lets an hour pass without reporting another late-breaking story.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Fiction writing students learn about the handful of archetypal plots, including man versus nature. But a plot about humans who set out to ruin the water, air, soil and planet that sustained their life would just be stupid, right?

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 7, 2020

HSBC invests in world’s first ‘reef credit’ system. Jesse Klein. Mon, 12/07/2020 - 01:45. Traditionally, offset markets have been focused on credits for atmospheric carbon sequestration or restoration projects. But there are many other ways industrial and agricultural operations harm the planet. Australian-based environmental project developer GreenCollar decided to tackle one problem by creating a new type of credit to address an environmental issue very close to its country’s heart: the degrad

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Inhabitat - Innovation

DECEMBER 7, 2020

With its newest release, Nike focuses on respecting the outdoors from start to finish. This effort shows, with 85% of the pieces in the latest Nike ACG apparel collection containing more than 90% recycled content.

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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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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Nestlé digs deeper into regenerative ag, puts $3.6B behind net-zero plan. Heather Clancy. Mon, 12/07/2020 - 02:00. The world’s largest food company, Nestlé, last week said it plans to spend roughly $3.6 billion over the next five years to meet its net-zero by 2050 aspirations. But CEO Mark Schneider took pains to position this investment as one that will be "earnings-neutral.".

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Inhabitat - Innovation

DECEMBER 7, 2020

May we have the envelope, please? Let's see who this year's top plastic polluters are.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Solar panels, gardens and green roofs earned EcoResponsive Environments a win at the Royal Institute of British Architects's Vision of the Future competition. EcoResponsive Environments' winning entry earned praise for its integration of eco-friendly landscape management practices, food production and intergenerational living for both social and environmental sustainability.

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The Environmental Blog

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Accurate and reliable temperature control is essential across multiple industries and various applications. For operations to run smoothly and safely, it’s necessary to monitor and measure temperatures, adhering to industry requirements and environmental factors. You’ll find temperature controllers in research laboratories, product development centres, processing plants, and many other industry applications.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Six months after inking California’s largest single energy storage procurement, utility Southern California Edison has added another three massive utility-scale battery projects to its portfolio—plus a behind-the-meter battery project with Sunrun. Monday’s new contracts includes 585 megawatts of lithium-ion batteries: NextEra Energy’s 325-MW Desert Peak project, Recurrent Energy’s 200-MW Crimson project, and 174 Power Global / Hanwha Group’s 60-MW Eldorado Val

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altenergymag

DECEMBER 7, 2020

The projects are part of an 18-project, 54 MW portfolio sold to Clearway in 2019 under a master purchase agreement with Cypress Creek Renewables, which acted as the originator and early-stage developer for the majority of Clearway’s Illinois community solar portfolio.

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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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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 7, 2020

A $100 million investment in residential demand response is redefining what "infrastructure" can be. Infrastructure funds typically invest in tangible things, involving steel and concrete. More recently, they have ventured into new items, like distributed batteries in commercial real estate, as with Stem and AMS. But startup OhmConnect just closed a deal with Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners, a firm backed by Alphabet and the Ontario Teachers Pension Plan, that pledges to temporarily reduce home

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 7, 2020

NM Group , a 2019 EIC and Utility Week Network Awards finalist, optimizes electricity network performance through the use of remote sensing and 3D visualization. With detailed geospatial data, NM Group conducts computer-based analysis to determine transmission line integrity and onsite conditions. In the last two years alone, NM Group has modeled approximately 45,000 miles of overhead lines for vegetation management purposes.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 7, 2020

A big part of the world’s electricity decarbonization challenge lies in expanding transmission capacity for wind and solar power — and according to energy experts, Europe and the U.S. are falling behind on that task. Solving this problem will require a lot of new transmission on land and at sea. But using existing grid infrastructure more efficiently could help as well.

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Solar Power World

DECEMBER 7, 2020

By Elliott J. Williams, Adam D. Schurle and Morten A. Lund, Stoel Rives Trying to look ahead into 2021 is a study in uncertainty. Uncertainty has always been a fixture in the solar and wind industries, and the past few years have been spectacularly unpredictable, but uncertainty may be the defining feature for any prediction… The post The status of solar and wind tax credits and tariffs as we enter 2021 appeared first on Solar Power World.

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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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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Prospects for carbon capture received a boost in September when the International Energy Agency (IEA) said the emerging technology is “ critical ” to a clean-energy transition. But experts consulted by GTM have acknowledged there is scant likelihood of scaling carbon-capture technologies to meaningful levels without a radical increase in carbon pricing around the world.

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Charged

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Daimler Trucks North America and Portland General Electric have announced the co-development of a large public charging site for medium- and heavy-duty commercial EVs. The facility, to be called Electric Island, is now under construction near Daimler Trucks headquarters in Portland. It’s designed to support up to 9 charging stations with charging levels of up to one megawatt by spring of 2021.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Here are plenty of sustainable gifts to give your coworkers this holiday season.

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Charged

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Volkswagen has begun construction of a Battery Engineering Lab at its Chattanooga Engineering and Planning Center. The $22-million facility will test and validate EV cells and battery packs for the North American region. The new lab will join VW’s under-construction EV production expansion and battery pack assembly facility to form the company’s hub for EV production and engineering.

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Forbes Green Tech

DECEMBER 7, 2020

China has been using factory farming of some animals, particularly pigs, to scale up food production. At the same time, new technologies are being used to grow meat in laboratories. Which one of the two approaches is more reasonable? Will we accept it if the survival of the planet depends on it?

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Charged

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Broader collaboration among key stakeholders and a new generation of finance solutions will be needed to electrify trucks and buses at scale by 2050, according to a new report released by the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF), MJ Bradley and Vivid Economics. The authors of “ Financing the Transition ” interviewed more than 30 fleet operators, as well as finance professionals and EV public policy experts.

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altenergymag

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Job creation in the pipeline as SolarisKit joins accelerator programme at Dundee's Michelin Scotland Innovation Parc to fast-track production of its flat-packable solar thermal collector The Cleantech innovator is one of eight start-ups from across Scotland to benefit from the innovative accelerator to help lead the charge for sustainable mobility and low carbon energy.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Annual Climate Change Performance Index points to mixed progress among world's 58 highest emitters. None of the world's 58 highest greenhouse gas emitting countries are on a decarbonisation pathway compatible with the Paris Agreement, even if emissions are falling in more than half of those surveyed. That is the headline conclusion from a major new analysis released today that points to mixed progress in the global effort to tackle the climate crisis.

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Impact Alpha

DECEMBER 7, 2020

ImpactAlpha, December 7 — The Johannesburg-based impact investing firm made the first investments from its planned $30 million fund in green energy startup.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2020

A UK-EU trade deal hangs in the balance as diplomats battle to resolve the irresolvable conundrum created by the UK's desire to maintain access to the world's largest market without abiding by its rules. Brexit has always been about one thing and one thing alone: sovereignty and what you do with it. Sure, the referendum was won with a pretty toxic side order of anti-immigration sentiment, nativist posturing, and elite-bashing rhetoric that exploited decades of simmering political alienation and

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Bidgely

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Customer engagement driven by utilities is experiencing renewed momentum in Europe as Covid-19 has resulted in many citizens occupying their homes for significantly more hours of the day. As the northern hemisphere heads toward winter and cold weather drives up gas and electricity consumption for heating, timely and highly personalized digital engagement will be critical for energy retailers to mitigate the impact of customer credit risk.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Iberdrola, Ørsted, ACWA Power, CWP Renewables, Envision, Yara and Snam lead UN-backed drive to halve cost of hydrogen by 2026. A major UN-backed drive to rapidly scale-up global green hydrogen capacity 50-fold over the next six years while halving production costs has won the backing of a host of global energy giants, including Iberdrola, Ørsted, ACWA Power, CWP Renewables, Envision, Yara, and Snam.

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Bidgely

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Customer engagement driven by utilities is experiencing renewed momentum in Europe as Covid-19 has resulted in many citizens occupying their homes for significantly more hours of the day. As the northern hemisphere heads toward winter and cold weather drives up gas and electricity consumption for heating, timely and highly personalized digital engagement will be critical for energy retailers to mitigate the impact of customer credit risk.

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Sun Valley Solar

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Another year has come and gone and brought with it unprecedented challenges and extraordinary growth, not just for the overall solar industry, but also for us at Sun Valley Solar Solutions. We set a company record for the number of megawatts we installed in 2020 and were honored to help companies like Voya Financial, Marabella at ASU, and Fox Glen Apartments make the switch to clean, affordable solar energy.

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Fairsnape

DECEMBER 7, 2020

A Spotify playlist for Zoom Regenerative? When producing FutuREStorative a few years back, I included a music playlist that in some way, over the years had inspired my sustainability thinking. Pan forward to 2020 and alongside the emergent regenerative agenda there is a wonderful collection & collaboration of artists whose work and passion resonates with the zoom regenerative themes, particular on connectivity with nature and the need for a just climate, social and cultural future.

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Impact Alpha

DECEMBER 7, 2020

ImpactAlpha, December 7 — Environmental impact bonds reward investors for backing green infrastructure projects that achieve positive environmental outcomes (see, “Atlanta raises $14.

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GatesNotes

DECEMBER 7, 2020

In the fourth episode of our podcast, we debate whether people should be optimistic about preventing a climate disaster.

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Impact Alpha

DECEMBER 7, 2020

ImpactAlpha, December 7 — The world’s largest healthcare company by revenue made a multi-million-dollar investment in Maycomb Capital’s Community Outcomes Fund to finance.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 7, 2020

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Impact Alpha

DECEMBER 7, 2020

ImpactAlpha, December 7 – The borrowers are small-scale ranchers, sustainable farmers and food entrepreneurs across more than a dozen tribal nations across the.

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