GreenBiz

MARCH 18, 2021

Latin American e-commerce giant invests in Brazilian ecosystem restoration. Heather Clancy. Thu, 03/18/2021 - 01:00. The tech sector’s fascination with tree restoration as a climate solution apparently isn’t unique to U.S. companies. . Latin America’s largest e-commerce marketplace — Mercado Libre, a company with roughly twice the market capitalization of eBay at $78 billion — is putting part of the proceeds from its $400 million sustainability bond toward two forest restoration projects in the

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 18, 2021

Image credit: Alex Segre/Shutterstock. Explosive new QC legal opinion suggests estate agents, property websites, surveyors and conveyancers are now legally obliged to inform prospective buyers and renters of air pollution levels. Firm offering free air pollution rating system for every UK address, using 1.5 billion data points generated by Imperial College London.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

MARCH 18, 2021

New from Gomi, these wireless chargers made from recycled plastic waste promise 15W charging capabilities and even offer magnetic attachment to devices.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 18, 2021

A new report from power market analytics firm Aurora Energy Research suggests that increased deployment of (and continued improvements in) virtualisation technology could reduce potential future European computing emissions 55% by 2040. To put it another way, the use of virtualisation software (that allows for much more computation to be done with significantly less IT hardware), improved management and optimisation of operations, and hardware upgrades enable productivity and energy efficiency i

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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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Inhabitat - Innovation

MARCH 18, 2021

NetZero's mycelium orbs harness the power of fungi to reduce carbon in the environment. But the company isn't stopping there.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 18, 2021

An industry award programme for students has been relaunched with a new focus on rewarding innovative approaches and research into climate change solutions. The Climate Change Thought Leadership Award run by Privilege Finance, a specialist funder of climate change reduction projects, is now open to applications from undergraduate, masters, or PhD students at UK universities, until a closing date of 3 September 2021.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 18, 2021

Robert Lockyer, CEO of Delta Global. This Global Recycling Day (18 March), Robert Lockyer, CEO and founder of Delta Global, a sustainable packaging solutions provider for luxury fashion brands, discusses some of the ways in which he believes the industry is making great headway in terms of recyclability, as well as where more can still be done. Over recent years, as greater attention has been given to the climate crisis, we have seen some brands take the necessary steps to combat the issue.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

MARCH 18, 2021

Industrial architecture can be beautiful, too, as this innovative electrical substation in Tuscany proves.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 18, 2021

With the value of raw materials regularly increasing, M&E specifiers and contractors are being urged to consider traditional pipework alternatives in order to reduce risk of theft. One warning comes from polymer specialist REHAU, as it prepares to unveil a new piece of research highlighting copper theft as a significant problem among M&E professionals.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

MARCH 18, 2021

The SMART Tire Company has unveiled a new eco-friendly consumer bicycle tire derived from space science.

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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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altenergymag

MARCH 18, 2021

Crystalline Silicon Solar PV Module Market By Type, Application, Country and Manufacture - Industry Segment, Market Assessment, Competition Scenario and Forecast by 2030

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U.S. Green Technology

MARCH 18, 2021

Let’s face it: You hear about recycling being talked about all the time. You see the usual blue bins with the recycling logo on them, and you automatically know what that means. However, along with the widespread awareness of recycling comes many misconceptions and misunderstandings. It’s even gotten to the point where people are speculating. The post Don’t Let These 5 Myths Deter Your Recycling Efforts!

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Forbes Green Tech

MARCH 18, 2021

Ahead of Easter, the world's largest chocolate companies have been ranked for their performance on sustainability and human rights issues, turning up some concerning facts about (almost) everyone's favorite guilty pleasure.

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Charged

MARCH 18, 2021

The Government of Canada has announced an investment of $2.75 billion (Canadian) over five years to enhance public transit systems and switch them to electrical power, including support for the purchase of zero-emission transit and school buses. Among the providers of zero-emission transit solutions expected to benefit from the new investment are Nova Bus in Saint-Eustache, Lion Electric in Saint-Jérôme, GreenPower in Vancouver and New Flyer in Winnipeg.

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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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GreenBiz

MARCH 18, 2021

Intelex. taylor flores. Thu, 03/18/2021 - 21:38.

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Charged

MARCH 18, 2021

BMW’s i3 was a highly innovative vehicle when it went on the market in 2013, but to the disappointment of EV enthusiasts, the Bavarian automaker’s interest in electrification soon faded—it was only 7 years later that the company released another EV, the iX3, which still is not on sale in the US. Finally, at the BMW Group’s recent Annual Conference, we got a preview of the upcoming BMW i4, an electric 4-door Gran Coupé that is schedule to enter the market during the course of 2021.

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Impact Alpha

MARCH 18, 2021

As more Americans receive COVID-19 vaccinations and we look to rebuild our economy, mission investors have a chance to save local businesses and. The post These 12 impact funds are catalyzing transitions to employee ownership appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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Charged

MARCH 18, 2021

Ocean View School District in Oxnard, California, has selected The Mobility House to provide smart charging for the district’s new electric bus fleet project. The district has deployed four electric buses and four BTCPower chargers. The Mobility House’s energy management system, ChargePilot, will enable the district to harmonize its bus schedules, travel routes, battery life and local utility rates to minimize costs.

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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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altenergymag

MARCH 18, 2021

There is a strong strategic alignment and synergy between Ubiquitous Energy and ENEOS. UE is focused on developing new ways to reduce humanity’s carbon footprint by seamlessly integrating solar technology into everyday products and surfaces, without aesthetic compromises.

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Charged

MARCH 18, 2021

The US House of Representatives is currently considering the CLEAN Future Act , “a comprehensive and ambitious plan to ensure the United States acts aggressively to tackle the climate crisis in the 2020s and achieves net-zero greenhouse gas (GHG) pollution by no later than 2050.”. The targets, which include a 50% reduction in GHG emissions from 2005 levels by no later than 2030, come from the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

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The City Fix

MARCH 18, 2021

National governments face an enormous triple challenge right now: recovering from COVID-19, creating sustainable and inclusive development, and addressing the climate crisis. New research shows that focusing on cities is key to overcoming these challenges while generating considerable economic, social and environmental benefits. A. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Planet Pulse

MARCH 18, 2021

It’s with great pleasure that I announce that Kevin Weil is joining Planet as President of Product and Business. Planet had its best year yet in 2020 and we’re growing quickly! With nearly 200 satellites in orbit, our imagery tells a story of accelerating change around the world. Planet’s business is built around selling data and analytics that help customers make better decisions.

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Impact Alpha

MARCH 18, 2021

ImpactAlpha, March 18 – Bangalore-based Pixxel is launching its own hyperspectral satellites to improve analysis of ground-level crop and water information for the agriculture. The post Pixxel raises $7.3 million to launch satellites for agri-analytics appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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altenergymag

MARCH 18, 2021

NeoLith Energy’s differentiated direct lithium extraction process aims to enable a sustainable, efficient, and flexible lithium production ecosystem.

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Charged

MARCH 18, 2021

Kawasaki Heavy Industries has selected Corvus Energy to supply the energy storage system for Asahi Tanker’s zero-emissions electric e5 tanker, which is currently under construction. The battery-powered vessel was designed by e5 Lab, a consortium of Japanese shipping and maritime services companies, including Asahi Tanker, set up to build infrastructure services focused on electrically-powered vessels.

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Impact Alpha

MARCH 18, 2021

ImpactAlpha, March 18 – Technology is replacing people. Gig jobs are replacing full-time work. Unions are organizing (see, “Why pension funds and other Amazon. The post A grand challenge surfaces solutions to upskill Americans for the future of work appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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Forbes Green Tech

MARCH 18, 2021

The Science and Environment Unit of the BBC News has been accused of spreading falsehoods in a TV report on Low Traffic Neighbourhoods (LTNs) broadcast on March 17.

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Impact Alpha

MARCH 18, 2021

ImpactAlpha, March 18 – The New York-based crowdfunding portal was ready for the new crowdfunding rules that now allow companies to raise up. The post Republic rides growth of crowdfunding to its own $36 million financing appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 18, 2021

Black & Veatch announced today that it has been selected by Enegix Energy to perform feasibility studies central to the development of the world’s largest green hydrogen plant. When operational the Base One facility, in Ceará, Brazil could produce more than 600 million kilogrammes of green hydrogen annually. The highly ambitious new-build electrolysis facility will be powered entirely by renewable energy, initially 3.4 gigawatts of solar and onshore wind, which is why the hydrogen can be cal

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 18, 2021

Read time: 7 mins A whistleblower has alleged that the Falcon pipeline — a 98-mile-long fossil fuel pipeline that will soon feed Shell’s massive plastics manufacturing site under construction in western Pennsylvania — was built with defective protection against corrosion. That's according to public records obtained by the nonprofit FracTracker Alliance and which reveal that state regulators complained last year that federal authorities had failed to adequately investigate the reports of defects.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 18, 2021

Swell Energy this week announced the start of a residential solar plus storage program for homeowners in Queens, New York. The program will be deployed in partnership with Con Edison and aims to deliver 500-kW of capacity in the form of solar-powered home batteries to eligible customers creating an aggregated network of distributed energy resources.

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Impact Alpha

MARCH 18, 2021

ImpactAlpha, March 18 – A new tool created by impact holding company CoPeace assigns a score to athletes’ positive impacts, starting with NBA. The post Kevin Durant is the NBA’s top scorer… for impact appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2021

ClientEarth urges government to overhaul Clean Air Strategy as figures show UK is still off track for meeting a raft of legal targets. The government could yet again find itself in court over dangerous levels of air pollution, with the latest official data showing the UK is on track to miss legal targets for four out of five pollutants covered by a crucial piece of clean air legislation, ClientEarth has warned.

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