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How implementing new innovations can help tackle our critical problems

GreenBiz

The technologies, methodologies, and practices that got us here won’t get us out again.

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Australia And The Climate Apocalypse

Forbes Green Tech

Fires in Australia are a chronicle of a suicide foretold. Conservative governments funded by the coal industry and with no environmental policies have put the country at the bottom of the list of nations working to combat the climate emergency. When you ignore emergencies, you suffer their effects.

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Remembering Some of the Earth Defenders Who Were Killed in 2019

Green Market Oracle

Here are some of the brave souls who gave their lives in 2019 in defense of the environment. There have been an increasing number of environmental activists murdered in recent years. Many of the murders in 2019 took place in Brazil which is currently being ruled by far-right Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro. In Brazil a total of 56 defenders were assassinated in 2017 alone.

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New Internship Program Fosters Next Generation Of Underwater Farmers

Forbes Green Tech

An ocean-farming nonprofit is kick-starting the next generation of fish farmers through an internship program that aims to train hatchery managers.

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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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How implementing new innovations can help tackle our critical problems

AGreenLiving

The technologies, methodologies, and practices that got us here won’t get us out again. Read more here: How implementing new innovations can help tackle our critical problems.

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NASA’s Worldview - A Useful Public Tool For Monitoring Australian Fires (And More)

Forbes Green Tech

This NASA website is a great resource from monitoring Australian fires and other Earth processes.

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ASR Says It Has A Parachute For Every eVTOL Aircraft

CleanTechnica

Aviation Safety Resources (ASR) — a leading parachute safety company that won one of Revolution.Aero’s competitions earlier this year — says it has a parachute system that will work with eVTOL aircraft, even at low altitudes. I recently spoke with Larry Williams, CEO of ASR, on how the company’s parachute technology works, its application for eVTOL aircraft, and public perception.

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Target Has Installed 500 Solar Power Systems

CleanTechnica

In 2015, Target, one of the top U.S. corporate solar power installers for 5 straight years, according to the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA), committed to achieving 500 solar power installations by 2020. December of 2019, Target announced that it reached its goal (a little bit ahead of schedule).

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10 Puerto Rican Schools Receive Resilient Microgrids

CleanTechnica

A year after Hurricanes Irma and Maria devastated Puerto Rico and left millions without power, schools have equipped themselves to withstand future weather events and grid outages to continue providing education to their students.

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15 New Electric Articulated Buses Deployed In NYC — 500 Planned To Serve All 5 Boroughs

CleanTechnica

New York City's MTA announced on December 15, 2019, that it has deployed the first phase of its new all-electric articulated bus fleet. The now historic 2020–2024 Capital Plan includes $1.1 billion to acquire 500 new electric buses to serve all 5 boroughs. This first phase includes 15. The first electric articulated bus took off on one of the city’s busiest crosstown routes – the 14th Street busway.

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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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Tesla Powerwall 2 Update — Nearly 2 Years Later

CleanTechnica

Greetings from Vermont on New Year’s Day 2020 (at time of writing). Looking back into my archived articles here on CleanTechnica, it appears I have not had anything published since November 20, 2018.

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Tesla Has 2 Of Australia’s Top 3 Safest Cars Of 2019

CleanTechnica

In the latest annual ranking from ANCAP, which stands for Australasian New Car Assessment Program, 2 out of the top 3 safest cars in Australia were electric vehicles. They're Tesla's Model X and Model.

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Saudi’s Aramco IPO Goes From Bad To Worse With New Middle East War Starting

CleanTechnica

The Saudi government sold off a small 1.5% share of the largest oil company in the world (Aramco) about a month ago. Aramco has huge reserves and it has proven it can produce that oil at a low cost. This oil doesn't require risky deep sea platforms, fracking, or traveling to the Arctic circle to drill.

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German Taxi Operator Plans To Add 50 Tesla Model 3s To Its Fleet

CleanTechnica

One of the perks of owning an electric vehicle is that you don't have to buy gas. Taxi Norman, out of Dusseldorf in Germany, knows this and has already put into service a couple of Tesla Model S vehicles. The company is now planning to add 50 Tesla Model 3s to its fleet.

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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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10 Cool Solar Power Stories You May Have Missed

CleanTechnica

Too much cleantech news is a good thing, but it sometimes means I need to stuff a bunch of big stories into one article. Following some roundups of autonomous driving news and battery & EV charging news, here's one more roundup of some cool cleantech stories no one wanted to take and write full pieces about. This one is 100% focused on solar power.

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Some Stunning Perspective On The Australian Fires

CleanTechnica

Dr. Lucky Tran, a scientist and refugee who is an activist fighting for climate justice and immigrant justice, has put the Australian wildfires into a terrifying perspective. Fires are terrifying as it is, but the one in Australia would be considered a Category 5 if it was a hurricane.

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Fore! Golf Courses Turn To Solar To Reduce Costs & Limit Carbon Footprints

CleanTechnica

A small-but-growing number of golf courses are now turning to solar energy systems to either directly power their operations or feed electricity into the local utility’s grid in return for offsets on their electrical bill. Is it time for you to advocate for your favorite local course to make the switch to solar.

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Native American Tribe Leads The Microgrid Revolution In California

CleanTechnica

A Native American tribe in California created its own microgrid in 2011. During the rolling blackouts that hit the state last fall, it provided much needed electricity for critical community services.

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Tesla Model 3 Sales = ~4× Nissan LEAF Sales, World’s 2nd Best Selling EV Outside Of China — November EV Sales Report

CleanTechnica

We may have some more high-selling blockbuster electric vehicles in 2020, but 2019 had one electric vehicle that was in a league of its own, the Tesla Model 3. Through November, the Model 3 had almost 3Ă— the sales of the world's 2nd best selling EV, the BAIC EU-Series, and it had more than 4Ă— the sales of the world's 2nd best selling non-Chinese.