GreenBiz

JULY 6, 2020

It will take personal sustainability to meet the global challenges we face. Chris Gaither. Mon, 07/06/2020 - 02:15. Earth Day, when we remember the planet’s fragility and resilience, was when I finally understood that I had nothing left to give. It was April 2017. After two decades of striving in my career, I had risen to a role of great impact: a director on Apple’s Environment, Policy and Social Initiatives team.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JULY 6, 2020

BARBIZON’s timber construction would be integrated with shared green spaces to encourage neighborly relations and to offset the urban heat island effect.

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GreenBiz

JULY 6, 2020

What role does ESG play in the 'new normal'? Janine Guillot. Mon, 07/06/2020 - 01:25. Facing existential crisis, it’s only natural that our perspective will change — for better and for worse. In recent weeks and months, as many of us have "sheltered in place" in the face of a global pandemic, each of us has come to grips with a valuable reminder of what’s truly important: family, friends and colleagues; security and safety; food and water; healthcare.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JULY 6, 2020

As the newest member of the Hello Wood cabin family, the Workstation Cabin offers the perfect tranquil retreat designed specifically to inspire creativity. Described as "the future of meeting rooms," this unique workspace has a modern interior made of Scots pine wood and complemented by large windows.

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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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GreenBiz

JULY 6, 2020

How to advance equity in energy solutions in the COVID-19 era. Daphany Rose Sanchez. Mon, 07/06/2020 - 02:01. During the day I work in the energy sector supporting government and utilities design programs to perform outreach to and educate low-income and diverse communities. At night, I go back into my neighborhood, one thriving with diverse residents.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 6, 2020

California-based solar installer Sunrun plans to acquire competitor Vivint Solar for $3.2 billion, the companies announced Monday night. The price rivals that of other high-profile clean energy acquisitions; Tesla bought SolarCity for $2.6 billion in 2016, while Google acquired Nest for $3.2 billion in 2014. The all-stock deal will grow the portfolio of Sunrun, already the nation’s leading home solar installer, to more than 3 gigawatts and over 500,000 customers.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 6, 2020

BP is teaming up with JinkoSolar to take on China's vast clean energy market for commercial and industrial (C&I) customers. Coming amid its pivot toward lower-carbon energy sources, BP announced a memorandum of understanding on Monday with JinkoPower Technologies, the projects arm of JinkoSolar, the world's largest maker of solar modules.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JULY 6, 2020

As beavers build dams, the resulting lakes flood permafrost and release greenhouse gases.

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Solar Power World

JULY 6, 2020

A solar panel manufacturing process that has gotten some traction recently is “shingling.” Not to be confused with “solar shingles” used in building-applied photovoltaics, shingled modules cut solar cells into strips and overlap them inside the framed module. Intercell gaps are removed, and more silicon cells can be crammed into one module, increasing power output… The post What are shingled solar modules?

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Forbes Green Tech

JULY 6, 2020

The growth of the company that managed to make its electric vehicles better, more fun to drive and more appealing than diesel or petrol vehicles is good news for everyone. Tesla isn’t simply riding a wave of popularity that favors electric vehicles: it’s the company which created that wave.

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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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Charged

JULY 6, 2020

Charged is organizing a virtual conference on EV engineering September 1 – 3, 2020 that includes live webinar sessions, interactive Q&As, on-demand webinars, and whitepaper downloads. Just like the content Charged brings you every day, conference topics will span the entire EV engineering supply chain and ecosystem including motor and power electronics design and manufacturing, cell development, battery systems, testing, powertrains, thermal management, circuit protection, wire and cable, EM

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The City Fix

JULY 6, 2020

India accounts for almost 12% of the 1.35 million road fatalities worldwide. But this public health crisis does not affect everyone equally. Children and young people are at heightened risk. In fact, road crashes are the most common cause of. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Charged

JULY 6, 2020

The city of Oslo, the world’s EV capital, has partnered with Jaguar Land Rover, wireless charging pioneer Momentum Dynamics and charging operator Fortum Recharge to build a wireless, high-powered charging infrastructure for electric taxis. Taxi network Cabonline will operate 25 Jaguar I-PACE EVs equipped with Momentum Dynamics’ wireless charging system.

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Impact Alpha

JULY 6, 2020

ImpactAlpha, July 6 – Tens of thousands of tons of apple pulp, cores and seeds are thrown away each year in the E.U. after the fruit is pressed for juice and cider. Copenhagen-based Beyond Leather Materials buys the pulp, blends it with sustainably-sourced rubber, and “cures” it into a leather-like material. The whole process takes. The post Beyond Leather closes €1.1 million for apple-based “leather” appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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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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Business Green

JULY 6, 2020

EXCLUSIVE: System that uses machine learning to measure the 'actual' fabric thermal performance of a home within three months could provide evidence base for national retrofit programme. Knauf Insulation has developed a technology that uses machine learning systems to accurately measure the 'actual' energy performance of individual homes, an innovation that could drastically enhance the accuracy of energy performance certificates (EPC), BusinessGreen can reveal.

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Charged

JULY 6, 2020

The International Energy Agency’s Global EV Outlook is an annual report on the current state of electric mobility around the world. As always, this year’s edition contains many interesting insights about the EV market. Over 2.1 million plug-in vehicles (pure electric plus plug-in hybrid) were sold globally in 2019—a 40% year-on-year increase over 2018, which was itself a record year.

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Business Green

JULY 6, 2020

Chancellor preps one year energy efficiency spending blitz, as environmental groups question government's wider green recovery ambitions. Chancellor Rishi Sunak is set to announce a major new £3bn green investment plan in a bid to upgrade buildings across the UK, slash greenhouse has emissions, and create thousands of green jobs. The Treasury confirmed this evening that a number of green recovery programmes would feature in the Chancellor's economic update to Parliament on Wednesday, inclu

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Green Living Guy

JULY 6, 2020

Why These Tests Matter for Green Energy Microsoft has replaced its popular MCSA: Windows 10 certification with the new role-based Microsoft 365 Certified: Modern Desktop Administrator Associate credential. To get this associate-level certificate, the candidates have to pass two exams: MD-100 and MD-101. These tests are focused on Windows 10 Continue Reading.

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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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Business Green

JULY 6, 2020

Hitachi Rail and Hyperdrive team up in support of plans to create a battery hub in the North East. Plans to roll out zero emission battery-powered trains on the UK rail network have taken a major step forward today, with the new Hitachi Rail and Hyperdrive Innovation have signed an exclusive agreement to develop battery packs in the North East. The two manufacturers are now set to accelerate the creation of batteries that can be mass-produced to provide emission-free power for hundreds of batter

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Forbes Green Tech

JULY 6, 2020

Amazon has the naming rights to what will be an ultra-modern arena in Seattle -- one that it will call the Climate Pledge Arena. It's part of its broader effort to bring the cause of climate to the fore.

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Business Green

JULY 6, 2020

Committee chairman Philip Dunne asks Defra whether government will reconsider associate membership to EU REACH and European Chemicals Agency, an outcome ruled out earlier this year by Environment Minister Rebecca Pow. The Environmental Audit Committee (EAC) of MPs has today urged the government to consider associate membership of the EU chemicals frameworks if "fundamental issues" surrounding the transition to the UK's new independent chemicals body are not ironed out.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 6, 2020

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Charged

JULY 6, 2020

Japanese electronic parts manufacturer Rohm Semiconductor has announced the development of its new Nano Cap technology, designed for power supply circuits in the automotive and industrial fields. In a circuit with a linear regulator and microcontroller unit (MCU), a 1 uF capacitor is usually required at the output of the linear regulator, while 100 nF is needed at the input of the MCU.

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Business Green

JULY 6, 2020

Insurance giant's annual climate report warns the companies it invests in could lose over 10 per cent of their revenues by 2030 under a 1.5C scenario. AXA has today published its fourth annual Climate Report, detailing how its efforts to align its investments with the Paris Agreement have led to a reduction in the 'warming portfolio' of its portfolio over the past year.

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Green Living Guy

JULY 6, 2020

According to a poll by Realtor.com, over 30 percent of respondents currently live in an eco-friendly residence. That’s as well as an energy efficient home. Moreover, nearly 85 percent of those surveyed said they would like to own an eco-friendly home. But even those who don’t live in eco-friendly homes Continue Reading. The post Using Eco-Friendly Products in Your Home appeared first on Green Living Guy.

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Business Green

JULY 6, 2020

E3G's Tom Burke sets out four tests the Chancellor's stimulus package must pass if the government is to deliver on its 'green recovery' promises. The Prime Minister's speech last week was an underwhelming contribution to the green recovery. The credibility of this promise, and much else, depends on what the Chancellor has to say in his speech on Wednesday.

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Green Living Guy

JULY 6, 2020

We know Americans are recycling today more than ever. But how do we feel about recycling? And can we be doing more of it? From America Recycles Day back on Nov. 15th, the Environmental Industry Associations commissioned the respected research organization Harris Interactive. All to survey Americans on their attitudes Continue Reading. The post Americans are Proud to Recycle When They Can appeared first on Green Living Guy.

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Business Green

JULY 6, 2020

New Sports Consortium to help broadcasters share green best practices, as sports industry strives to curb environmental impacts. BAFTA has today announced the launch of the albert Sports Consortium, extending the reach of its pioneering green broadcasting scheme in a bid to curb the environmental impacts of the UK's sports broadcasting sector. The group brings together a host of key broadcasters and self-producing sport federations, including BT Sport, Sky Sports, BBC, ITV, Sunset & Vine, IM

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Ideas 4 Sustainability

JULY 6, 2020

Originally posted on SCIENCE FOR SUSTAINABILITY : From hyenas in Africa to grey wolves in Europe and the Andean condor in South America – a large variety of scavengers populates the earth. These animals provide a myriad of benefits as well as disbenefits to people.

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Business Green

JULY 6, 2020

VIDEO: Head of energy and climate change at Britain's largest business body joins BusinessGreen deputy editor Michael Holder to discuss green recovery efforts, keeping net zero on track, and priority policy areas ahead of COP26. The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) is the nation's largest business membership body and has been a fierce supporter of decarbonisation and the UK's 2050 net zero target.

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E8 Cleantech Angels

JULY 6, 2020

“E8 and CEVG are two of the oldest cleantech-focused early stage investing groups in the country, and we look forward to expanding the investor base and to collaborating on deals so that we can accelerate the profitable transition to a cleaner economy,” said Mike Rea, Executive Director at E8. The full press release is as follows: July 7th, 2020. Boston, MA and Seattle, WA.

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Green Living Guy

JULY 6, 2020

Powering Title 24 Solar Carports SDC Energy is a leading provider of commercial solar financing. So they have launched their Powering Title 24 Program. This program also partners Baja Construction and Grid Technologies. California is moreover the first state in the country on this. For they require solar energy on all Continue Reading. The post SDC Energy Lets Apartment Owners Profit from California’s New Solar Mandatei appeared first on Green Living Guy.

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E8 Cleantech Angels

JULY 6, 2020

“E8 and CEVG are two of the oldest cleantech-focused early stage investing groups in the country, and we look forward to expanding the investor base and to collaborating on deals so that we can accelerate the profitable transition to a cleaner economy,” said Mike Rea, Executive Director at E8. The full press release is as follows: July 7th, 2020. Boston, MA and Seattle, WA.

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