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This will be the worlds largest Passive House-certified office building

Inhabitat - Innovation

Boston’s Financial District will soon welcome the groundbreaking Winthrop Center, a year-round, mixed-use gathering space with a suite of impressive eco-friendly credentials.

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A Blueprint for American Climate Action and a Modern Clean Energy Economy

GreenTechMedia

The past few years have been a mixed bag for climate. U.S. emissions declined to their lowest level in three decade this year, but these reductions came at an incredible cost as the economy shut down amid the coronavirus pandemic. The challenge now is to make these emissions cuts sustainable for years to come, while getting millions of Americans back to work.

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Take your sustainable lifestyle to the next level in 2021

Inhabitat - Innovation

If you’re ready to up your environmental commitment this year (and hold larger entities accountable along the way), here are a few ideas — some more dramatic than others — for sustainable resolutions in 2021.

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Forbes Favorites 2020: The Year’s Best Stories On Sustainability In Europe

Forbes Green Tech

An unprecedented year offered new hope for change on the sustainability front. Here are six stories that showcase some of the breakthrough moments in Europe in 2020.

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

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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Families turn old police station into sustainable co-housing

Inhabitat - Innovation

Belgian design firm Polygoon Architectuur and Jouri De Pelecijn Architect have brought to life the dream of four local families: a sustainable collaborative housing project that maintains sufficient privacy while providing shared functions. Dubbed Living Apart Together, the four-unit co-housing development is located within a former police station in Antwerp.

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Families turn old police station into sustainable co-housing

AGreenLiving

Belgian design firm Polygoon Architectuur and Jouri De Pelecijn Architect have brought to life the dream of four local families: a sustainable collaborative housing project that maintains sufficient privacy while providing shared functions. Dubbed Living Apart Together, the four-unit co-housing development is located within a former police station in Antwerp.

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This will be the worlds largest Passive House-certified office building

AGreenLiving

Boston’s Financial District will soon welcome the groundbreaking Winthrop Center, a year-round, mixed-use gathering space with a suite of impressive eco-friendly credentials. Designed by Handel Architects in partnership with MIT professors, Winthrop Center will not only target LEED certifications and a WELL certification but is also expected to become the largest Passive House-certified office building in the world.

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Panasonic About To Start Producing Tesla’s 4680 Battery Cells

CleanTechnica

Nikkei Asia has reported that Panasonic will begin producing prototypes of a new, cheaper type of battery for Tesla's electric vehicles -- the new tabless 4680 battery cells. Panasonic will start producing them sometime in.

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Washing Cloth Face Masks: Are You Inhaling Toxic Laundry Product Fumes?

AGreenLiving

The widespread use of face masks is an effective way … The post Washing Cloth Face Masks: Are You Inhaling Toxic Laundry Product Fumes? appeared first on Earth 911. View post: Washing Cloth Face Masks: Are You Inhaling Toxic Laundry Product Fumes?

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1st Look At The Made-In-China Tesla Model Y

CleanTechnica

In a thread on Twitter, Ray4Tesla gives his followers and the world the first look at a made-in-China (MIC) Tesla Model Y. He posted six videos in a six-tweet thread.

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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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Earth911 Interview: Coastal Flooding in 2050 With Climate Scientist James Renwick

AGreenLiving

Listen to “Earth911 Interview: Coastal Flooding In 2050 With Climate … The post Earth911 Interview: Coastal Flooding in 2050 With Climate Scientist James Renwick appeared first on Earth 911. View original here: Earth911 Interview: Coastal Flooding in 2050 With Climate Scientist James Renwick.

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Tesla Opens World’s Largest Supercharging Station — 72 Stalls!

CleanTechnica

Tesla China is blazing a path to sustainable transportation with one success after another. The news this time is that Tesla China has taken the cake with the world's largest Supercharging station, having just been opened the station right before 2020 ended.

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Take your sustainable lifestyle to the next level in 2021

AGreenLiving

Are you already recycling? Carrying around a refillable water bottle rather than contributing to the ocean-bound plastic problem? Composting your food scraps? That’s all commendable, but there’s more to be done to achieve a net-zero lifestyle. If you’re ready to up your environmental commitment this year (and hold larger entities accountable along the way), here are a few ideas — some more dramatic than others — for sustainable resolutions in 2021.

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Tesla Hiring Battery Engineers In North Carolina & Semi Truck Engineers In Nevada

CleanTechnica

Job openings are not product roadmaps, but they can hint at them. Some recent Tesla job openings imply that Tesla may be preparing for battery production plans in North Carolina and Semi production plans in Nevada. We have some other clues on those matters, too.

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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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Take your sustainable lifestyle to the next level in 2021

AGreenLiving

Are you already recycling? Carrying around a refillable water bottle rather than contributing to the ocean-bound plastic problem? Composting your food scraps? That’s all commendable, but there’s more to be done to achieve a net-zero lifestyle. If you’re ready to up your environmental commitment this year (and hold larger entities accountable along the way), here are a few ideas — some more dramatic than others — for sustainable resolutions in 2021.

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Scotland Banks On Hydrogen Fuel Cell Trains For Zero Emission Railway By 2035

CleanTechnica

Scotland is on track to roll hydrogen fuel cell trains into its railway system, hopefully with green H2 to grease the decarbonization wheels.

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Take your sustainable lifestyle to the next level in 2021

AGreenLiving

Are you already recycling? Carrying around a refillable water bottle rather than contributing to the ocean-bound plastic problem? Composting your food scraps? That’s all commendable, but there’s more to be done to achieve a net-zero lifestyle. If you’re ready to up your environmental commitment this year (and hold larger entities accountable along the way), here are a few ideas — some more dramatic than others — for sustainable resolutions in 2021.

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Institutional Investors Are Running Away From Big Oil, & Towards The “Safe Haven” Of Clean Tech

CleanTechnica

The global transition from fossil fuels to clean energy isn’t going to happen because it’s the best choice for human health and the environment. Observing the way humans have responded to the current pandemic should put to rest any delusions about our propensity to “do the right thing.” No, companies and investors will abandon polluting energy sources when they become convinced that it’s the profitable thing to do.

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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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Troy Teslike Estimates 502,692 Tesla Sales In 2020 (CleanTechnica Charts)

CleanTechnica

"Troy Teslike" obsessively tracks Tesla registration data. He has a superb history when it comes to Tesla sales estimates (delivery estimates) at the end of each quarter. He also occasionally contributes articles for CleanTechnica and will do so much more in 2021. For now, though, he has shared his 2020 Tesla delivery estimates and I will dig into them to highlight the points that stand out to me, as well as create a couple of charts based on these figures.

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Funkadelic! Boston Dynamics Robots Dance In The New Year

CleanTechnica

Boston Dynamics shows off a trio of dancing robots. Is it a sign of things to come?

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