GreenBiz

AUGUST 10, 2020

Terreform ONE’s plans to upend cities and suburbs in a post-pandemic world. Joel Makower. Mon, 08/10/2020 - 02:11. And now for some serious fun. Last week, I had the opportunity to facilitate an online conversation with Terreform ONE , a Brooklyn, New York-based nonprofit architecture and urban design research group whose humble mission is “to combat the extinction of planetary species through pioneering acts of design.”.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

AUGUST 10, 2020

The Milne Ice Shelf, the largest remaining intact ice shelf in Canada, has collapsed. According to researchers studying the Milne Ice Shelf, the ice shelf collapsed in just two days at the end of July and lost about 40% of its area.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 10, 2020

Duke Energy on Monday reported a $1.6 billion charge related to abandoning the Atlantic Coast Pipeline, but also laid out how its renewable energy and grid modernization plans will fill in the capital investments hole left by the canceled multi-billion dollar natural gas project. Duke reported a second-quarter 2020 loss of $817 million, or $1.13 per share, with the pipeline cancellation costs taken into account.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

AUGUST 10, 2020

Just in time for Shark Week on Discovery Channel, here are 10 interesting facts about sharks.

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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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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 10, 2020

As the COVID-19 pandemic wears on in the United States, the hardest hit segment is likely to be commercial solar — projects built on businesses, schools, and government buildings. Compared to its pre-pandemic forecast, Wood Mackenzie is forecasting a 32 percent drop in commercial solar installations in 2020. Commercial businesses — hugely impacted by current economic conditions — will likely opt out of discretionary investments like installing solar this year.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

AUGUST 10, 2020

The design marries the natural landscape and the built environment.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

AUGUST 10, 2020

The Natura tiny home is sustainable inside and out.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 10, 2020

Glenfield Invicta says it aims to provide customers with the optimal penstock engineering and installation solution on every project. Water firm Glenfield Invicta offers perspective on specifying penstocks, and its own product offering. In isolation, a penstock is a simple sluice or gate that controls the flow of fluids in open environments. In reality, as any water engineer will tell you, specifying, building and installing an effective penstock is a challenging exercise.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

AUGUST 10, 2020

Brink Tower offers high-quality housing and plentiful green space in Amsterdam.

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Solar Power World

AUGUST 10, 2020

Many commercial and utility-scale solar projects installed at the beginning of the solar construction boom are celebrating their 10th birthday around the year 2020. But instead of something to revel, this milestone is a nuisance for many project owners given that the string inverters on these systems are nearing their average 15-year lifespans. In a… The post Is the solar industry prepared for a wave of end-of-life inverters?

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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

AUGUST 10, 2020

One of the challenges of urban charging is a simple lack of space on streets and sidewalks. Some see wireless charging as the solution, but the Austrian firm Easelink has developed a cable-free physical charging system. “The competition between parking spaces and walkways as well as the lack of surfaces for installing cable-based charging systems make it difficult to expand the prevalence of these types of charging stations in urban areas,” says the company.

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altenergymag

AUGUST 10, 2020

Over 100 Governors, Mayors, and Government Officials across 39 states declare August 9-15 American Wind Week.

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The City Fix

AUGUST 10, 2020

They marched for human rights, for health care and education, but they came for the metro system, burning and damaging more than 86 stations across the city. Massive protests in Santiago last October forced the government to agree to rewrite. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Defend Our Future

AUGUST 10, 2020

Last week, Sen. Kamala Harris and Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez introduced the Climate Equity Act, legislation that addresses the gross environmental inequities faced by Black, brown and low-income communities. It’s a landmark bill , introduced by two of the most prominent leaders in Congress, that places the inherent injustice of climate change front and center.

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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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Impact Alpha

AUGUST 10, 2020

ImpactAlpha, August 10 – EIT Food makes early investments in European companies advancing a sustainable food system. The initiative of the European Institute for Innovation Technology committed bridge funding to help 13 startups weather COVID disruptions and continue research and development. The companies include Poland’s plant-based protein startup NapiFeryn, which will use the funding to.

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Charged

AUGUST 10, 2020

Lightning Systems, a Colorado-based manufacturer of commercial EVs, has launched a new division that will offer charging technologies and services to commercial and government fleets. The new Lightning Energy division designs, installs, services and manages charging solutions, providing fleet operators with turnkey options to make electrification easier.

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Impact Alpha

AUGUST 10, 2020

ImpactAlpha, Aug. 10 – Public market investors increasingly are deploying ESG, or environmental, social and governance, investing strategies to manage risks and opportunities in company operations. Private-market impact investing puts the focus on outcomes, or how the company’s products and services deliver education, healthcare, financial access and other social or environmental goals.

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Forbes Green Tech

AUGUST 10, 2020

The waste removal company ordered 2,500 electric refuse trucks from the upstart manufacturer, with an option for 2,500 more.

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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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Impact Alpha

AUGUST 10, 2020

ImpactAlpha, August 10 – The first investment from Microsoft’s Climate Innovation Fund last month backed not just climate friendly tech, but an innovation in corporate strategic investing. Until recently, Energy Impact Partners has flown under the radar with its collaborative approach to investing in and implementing energy transition technologies.

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Charged

AUGUST 10, 2020

Ampcera has introduced a low-cost flexible solid electrolyte (SE) membrane technology for solid-state batteries (SSBs). Ampcera’s SE membranes can be as thin as 25 microns, offer room temperature lithium ionic conductivity greater than 1 mS/cm, and are stable against a lithium metal anode. According to the company, they would enable solid-state lithium metal batteries with an energy density of 500 Wh/kg.

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Solar Power World

AUGUST 10, 2020

By Jon Doochin, CEO of Soligent. Originally posted on soligent.net and reposted with permission. That story can be found here. There are five trends emerging when looking at the residential solar and renewable market: soaring storage demand and resiliency, green policy shifts, software and hardware advancements, positive economics and investor fervor.

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Impact Alpha

AUGUST 10, 2020

ImpactAlpha, August 28 – Indoor farming venture AppHarvest is building a 2.8 million-square-foot greenhouse in Morehead, Ky. to bring technology to sustainable agricultural production and jobs to an area with high unemployment and low incomes. Hedge fund manager Jeff Ubben, who backed AppHarvest while at ValueAct Capital Management, re-upped with his new firm, Inclusive Capital.

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The City Fix

AUGUST 10, 2020

They marched for human rights, for health care and education, but they came for the metro system, burning and damaging more than 86 stations across the city. Massive protests in Santiago last October forced the government to agree to rewrite. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Charged

AUGUST 10, 2020

How does the weather affect the performance of electric buses in real-world operation? Telematics specialist ViriCiti looked into that question, analyzing over 100 e-buses in the Netherlands over the course of several seasons and months. ViriCiti gathered, anonymized and analyzed data from 79 12-meter buses and 27 18-meter buses active across 7 cities in the Netherlands and linked to the ViriCiti telematics dashboard.

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CleanTech Group

AUGUST 10, 2020

Pressure from customers and employees alongside oncoming regulation on climate disclosure are leading corporates to make, monitor and act on sustainability goals. On.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 10, 2020

Read time: 5 mins As California works to shift away from fossil fuels to meet its climate goals , one of the state's largest suppliers of fossil energy is fighting tooth-and-nail against this energy transition, even to the point of taking California to court over its energy policy. Southern California Gas Company (SoCalGas) recently filed a lawsuit against the California Energy Commission, a state energy policy and planning agency , for allegedly aiming to “substantially eliminate” gas use in t

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Charged

AUGUST 10, 2020

Sponsored by HBM Test and Measurement. In-vehicle testing provides engineers with a method to benchmark competitors’ vehicles, calibrate drivetrains, and validate the performance of the product. In the emerging electric vehicle market, electrical power measurements on motors and inverters are becoming necessary to evaluate the powertrain of the vehicle.

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Solar Power World

AUGUST 10, 2020

Thursday, September 3, 2020 2 pm ET / 11 am PT By attending this webinar you will gain knowledge about the last Soltec full-wireless technology for PV solar plants, performed with the Open Thread system. This system has been developed by Google and it is less widespread than other full-wireless system, which makes… The post Webinar: How to keep your solar plant safe with Google’s full-wireless Open Thread system – September 3 appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Impact Alpha

AUGUST 10, 2020

Greetings, Agents of Impact! We’re back from our Brief break. This week’s Agents of Impact Call: 10x’ing systemic impact investing. Overcoming systemic racism. Mitigating systemic risk. It seems everybody is talking about systemic investing. Living Cities’ Demetric Duckett, Cambridge Associates’ Sarah Hoyt, Sinclair Capital’s Jon Lukomnik and The Investment Integration Project’s Bill Burckart will join.

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Forbes Green Tech

AUGUST 10, 2020

The six-bladed design offers low start-up speeds and braking when wind speeds get too high.

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Business Green

AUGUST 10, 2020

Hosted in partnership with Schroders, the new Net Zero Investment Hub brings together cutting-edge insights and analysis on how the world of finance is embracing the net zero transition. BusinessGreen is today launching a new Net Zero Investment Hub in the run up to the inaugural Net Zero Festival this autumn. The content hub, which is hosted in partnership with investment giant Schroders , will bring together a range of pieces from BusinessGreen , Schroders, and industry experts that explore ho

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altenergymag

AUGUST 10, 2020

Jointly launches RE100 China Initiative with renewable energy leaders in China

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Business Green

AUGUST 10, 2020

Drinks giant meets 2020 target to cut greenhouse gas emissions from its operations by 50 per cent, but admits it fell short with water and packaging goals. Diageo has this week published a review of its sustainability performance over the past five years, confirming it met a goal to halve greenhouse gas emissions from its operations against 2007 levels, but narrowly missed targets relating to wastewater, water efficiency, and packaging.

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