GreenBiz

MARCH 22, 2021

HelloFresh would like to clear the air on meal kits. Jeff Yorzyk. Mon, 03/22/2021 - 02:00. Since the world was introduced to the first meal kit over a decade ago, the industry has matured in size and familiarity, but it also has endured notable criticism surrounding packaging and its perceived impact on the environment. Leading sustainability for a meal kit company, I am acutely aware of our weak points and an advocate for the benefits.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

MARCH 22, 2021

The bottom trawling fishing technique is more harmful to the environment than previously thought, according to a new study.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 22, 2021

Aviation is plotting a sustainable course. Joel Makower. Mon, 03/22/2021 - 00:05. This article originally appeared in the State of Green Business 2021. You can download the entire report here. Modern aviation had never seen a year like 2020. The COVID-19 pandemic led to a near-total halt in air travel, with airlines hemorrhaging billions of dollars and shedding hundreds of thousands of jobs.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

MARCH 22, 2021

An eco-friendly architectural solution to quarantining during the pandemic has popped up in Barcelona’s Collserola park.

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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

MARCH 22, 2021

Realizing the full potential of stakeholder capitalism. Michael Wilkins. Mon, 03/22/2021 - 00:30. Under the traditional capitalist model, financial performance for shareholders has been the primary measure of the success of a business. However, a growing awareness of ESG trends has given rise to the concept of "stakeholder value," whereby the focus is on long-term value creation for customers, employees, society and the environment rather than just short-term value for shareholders.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

MARCH 22, 2021

As part of a design exercise, MEAN* (Middle East Architecture Network) has created three 3D-printed proposals for contemporary majlis.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

MARCH 22, 2021

Pollution from wildfires has negated any improvements made by less traffic.

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altenergymag

MARCH 22, 2021

Canada's aspiration for 'net zero' is couched in so much smoke that few people realize that they are responsible for the emission of 45,000 pounds of carbon each year. It's time for a little transparency on this subject.

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Forbes Green Tech

MARCH 22, 2021

“In the 50s the mentality around roads was that they existed for one purpose and that was to move as many cars as you could as fast as you could,” the new U. S. transport secretary has told a conference, adding that one of his priorities will be to halt and reverse that mentality.

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altenergymag

MARCH 22, 2021

A study carried out to +100 diverse industry experts evidenced their confidence on the fact that solar power generation will expand to record levels in 2021. This will be led by countries with supportive government policies and investment strategies while in conjunction with digitalization and innovation.

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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

MARCH 22, 2021

Chakratec , a provider of kinetic energy storage technology for EV charging, has completed a project with British hotel chain Premier Inn, enabling guests at the hotel’s Leipzig, Germany location to charge their EVs throughout their stay. Premier Inn is the first to deploy Chakratec’s charging technology in Germany, and Chakratec says this is the first indoor installation of its kind.

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altenergymag

MARCH 22, 2021

Women's Climate Week shines a spotlight on women leading transformational change in the climate movement, from running inclusive and collaborative campaigns to mentoring young people.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 22, 2021

Over the past four years, the wind contribution to the energy generation mix in the state of Victoria has grown significantly. In fact, research from Cornwall Insight Australia shows, on average, across the entire day in 2020, wind delivered 14% of the energy generation mix in the state, doubling its output from 7% in 2017. This phenomenal growth in output has significantly displaced fossil generation – especially gas.

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Impact Alpha

MARCH 22, 2021

ImpactAlpha, March 22 — J.P. Morgan’s Global Impact Fund aims to build a diversified portfolio of impact investment funds focused on financial inclusion, The post J.P. Morgan Private Bank closes $150 million Global Impact Fund appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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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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altenergymag

MARCH 22, 2021

Through the program’s City Council-approved Power Purchase Agreement, virtually all of Parlier’s more than 4,000 homeowners, regardless of means, will have access to a solar power system equipped with an Electriq PowerPod storage system, thus helping achieve the program’s key goal of accelerating the community's transition to sustainable, resilient, and carbon-free electricity.

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Impact Alpha

MARCH 22, 2021

ImpactAlpha, March 22 — Adani Green Energy Limited, the renewable asset management arm of India’s Adani Group, has scored a $1.4 billion loan. The post Adani Green Energy secures $1.4 billion loan for renewable portfolio in India appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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Charged

MARCH 22, 2021

The UK has been an EV leader—along with California, it’s one of the few global regions that’s been taking a comprehensive approach to electrification rather than piecemeal measures. So auto industry groups and media observers were unpleasantly surprised by the government’s recent decision to cut back its existing grants for EV purchases. The Department for Transport plans to reduce the grant from £3,000 to £2,500, and to lower the price limit for eligibility from £50,000 to £35,000.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 22, 2021

Read time: 5 mins By Jessica Corbett, Common Dreams. As global weather experts warned Monday that the world's oceans are “under threat like never before,” more than 3,000 scientists, politicians, and other public figures had endorsed an open letter urging national governments to “recognize the critical importance of our ocean and blue carbon in the fight against the climate emergency.”.

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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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Solar Power World

MARCH 22, 2021

By Chris Larkin, Asset Management Director, Distributed Solar Development The long-term growth of the solar industry has reached a tipping point. Installed capacity of solar projects, average portfolio size, shared ownership models and average asset age are all increasing. Meanwhile, the cost of PV modules is declining. The challenge now is how to manage it… The post Four ways to optimize solar asset performance appeared first on Solar Power World.

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altenergymag

MARCH 22, 2021

Hydrogen, hydrogen, hydrogen. hardly a day passes without a story about hydrogen in the press and on social media. The appetite for information on H2 is seemingly insatiable, which is why the 30th webinar in the All-Energy/Dcarbonise series will be ‘Hydrogen: From Hype to Reality'. Sponsored by ScottishPower it takes place at 10:00 am, aptly on 30 March.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 22, 2021

Electrification of everything is not necessarily the best path to decarbonization if was also want reliable energy delivery, argues David Cox. David Cox, Founder and CFO of the Coalition for Renewable Natural Gas. The power outages in Texas are an all too painful reminder how extreme weather events can expose weaknesses in our energy infrastructure.

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altenergymag

MARCH 22, 2021

Leading lithium battery provider donates battery upgrade for ocean research vessel

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Impact Alpha

MARCH 22, 2021

ImpactAlpha, March 22 — Community Investment Management is providing Salary Finance with $150 million in debt financing over the next three years to. The post CIM backs Salary Finance to provide affordable loans for underserved workers appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 22, 2021

The first operational remote grid for California’s largest investor-owned utility will be made up of an integrated solar, battery, and generator system. If it works, the plan will be to roll out several hundred more across the state. Microgrid provider BoxPower announced this week that it is designing and installing a standalone power system in Briceburg, California to help mitigate fire risk in the area.

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altenergymag

MARCH 22, 2021

-Award highlights synergies between iSun’s long-standing Peck solar EPC services and iSun’s innovative solutions and strong presence in the solar market - $25 million award accelerates iSun’s entry into a new geography - Is a model CDE, NRI, and iSun can replicate across the country

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Planet Pulse

MARCH 22, 2021

Decoupling deforestation from commodities production is critical to climate and sustainability solutions. Today, over two-thirds of tropical deforestation occurs due to the production of just four commodities : cattle, soy, palm oil, and pulp and timber. However, global supply chains are complex, and commercial-grade solutions to account for and manage deforestation risks remain underdeveloped.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 22, 2021

by Linda Allen, PhD, PE. The North American Development bank, based in San Antonio, TX, has emerged as an unlikely but important source of financing for renewable energy projects in the U.S.-Mexico border region, a region of North America that is well-suited for the generation of both solar and wind energy. Over the past 10 years, the bank has provided or committed to provide around $1.8 billion in loans to partially finance an estimated $5.8 billion in solar and wind energy projects in the bord

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Greentown Labs

MARCH 22, 2021

In honor of Women’s History Month, the Greentown Labs community was proud to celebrate many of the women leading the climatetech industry at “Women of Climatetech: Access to Success,” in collaboration with our friends at LACI. The event connected women founders and women investors, with the goal of overcoming barriers women climatetech entrepreneurs face in raising capital.

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Climate 4.0

MARCH 22, 2021

Under discussion is the notion that Industry 4.0 may be the way out of climate- change catastrophe as its transformative power to dematerialize and decarbonize the economy is marshalled by industries and governments By Bruce Armstrong Taylor SmartNations Foundation and The Climate 4.0 Project have teamed with CleanTech Alliance and the CleanTech Focus Network to host a series of panel conversations on the positive role Industry 4.0 can/will have on decarbonization.

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Impact Alpha

MARCH 22, 2021

Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: ImpactAlpha Original Alt-credit and mobile-money apps give African fintechs a closeup view of climate risks – and opportunities. The post The Brief: Climate-smart fintech, renewable energy in India, affordable loans for workers, JP Morgan’s Global Impact Fund, social bond surge appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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Business Green

MARCH 22, 2021

The Graig Fatha wind farm will be owned by an initial 675 households who have signed up to Ripple Energy's platform. The UK's first ever consumer-owned wind farm is set to be built in Coedely, south Wales, after owner Ripple Energy announced it has received £1.1m in Welsh government funding in support of the project. The funding will enable the wind farm to be completed in autumn 2021, Ripple said.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 22, 2021

Ameresco today announced that it achieved commercial operation at its solar energy site in Tiverton, Rhode Island and mechanical completion at its site in Cumberland, Rhode Island. Both milestones mark meaningful steps in the advancement of solar energy resources within the State. Installed on a former corn field, Ameresco’s Tiverton’s solar energy site comprises over 12,000 modules with an electricity generation capacity of 4.95 MW.

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Business Green

MARCH 22, 2021

The closure would leave Uniper's 2GW Ratcliffe facility as the UK's last remaining coal-fired power station. EDF's sole remaining coal power station at West Burton in Nottinghamshire will close for good in September next year, the French energy giant has confirmed, bringing the end of coal-fired electricity generation in the UK a significant step closer.

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