GreenBiz

JUNE 2, 2020

It's time to prioritize the survival of indigenous people, the world's forest stewards. Carol Goodstein. Tue, 06/02/2020 - 00:00. Hunting and gathering for food is taking on a whole new meaning of late. The ever-lengthening line at my local Whole Foods starts to wrap around the outside of the store before 7 a.m., as socially distanced shoppers — securely donned in gloves, masks and even plastic face shields — wait nervously to scavenge for their week’s worth of essentials along with their COVID-

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JUNE 2, 2020

Here are four vegan ice cream recipes you can make right in your kitchen — no ice cream maker or hard-to-find ingredients required.

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The Environmental Blog

JUNE 2, 2020

Uninterrupted access to energy services plays an important role in our day-to-day lives. Energy is not only required for the survival of an individual but is also important for establishing a widespread community, consisting of healthcare, government, financial, industrial, agricultural and educational institutions. The development of a nation, it’s economy and its people, is directly related to the extent of energy services accessible in the region.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JUNE 2, 2020

At the heart of East Austin, an old and uninviting warehouse has been transformed into a creative office building fittingly dubbed UPCycle.

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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

JUNE 2, 2020

UK Power Networks, a wires-only utility managing three distribution grids in the United Kingdom and serving approximately 20 million people, is implementing a novel holistic approach to network operations and DER lifecycle management. Their new approach, which should be implemented by the end of 2020, is based on an innovative active network management (ANM) system.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JUNE 2, 2020

It’s a bad week for horseshoe crabs as their defenders have failed to convince big pharma that synthetic crab blood is a viable alternative for endotoxin testing in drugs.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JUNE 2, 2020

After a devastating fire ravaged the Silver Oak Winery in California’s Napa Valley nearly 15 years ago, the owners turned tragedy into opportunity when they rebuilt the facility to target the most stringent sustainability standards in the world.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 2, 2020

Earlier this year, Pacific Gas & Electric faced pushback from environmental and solar and energy storage industry groups to a plan to deploy natural gas generators to back up communities facing multi-day fire-prevention blackouts. The groups argued that California utilities shouldn’t be adding new carbon and pollution-emitting resources when the state is trying to meet ambitious zero-carbon goals.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JUNE 2, 2020

Tyson Foods, Inc. closed an Iowa pork plant for deep cleaning after 22% of its workforce tested positive for coronavirus.

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 2, 2020

Headquartered in London, Core provides supply chain management, customs classification, and sustainability solutions and services to global retailers, with a vision to realize the benefits of a digitized supply chain through their three software-as-a-service platforms – Suppliview, TariffTel, and Leaf. Core’s goal is to provide their clients the opportunity to work with a trusted supplier where understanding each other’s business drivers and ethos are key factors in promoting corporate engageme

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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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CleanTech Group

JUNE 2, 2020

To combat the climate crisis and build a new economy, an increasing number of innovators and investors are turning to nature-based solutions, taking.

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Impact Alpha

JUNE 2, 2020

ImpactAlpha, June 2 – Meet the protests in the streets, not with force, but with racial equity, capital for Black communities and entrepreneurs, solidarity and system-change. In statements, blog posts and tweets, Agents of Impact pledged support for Agents of Justice, to fight bias in their own organizations and to rebuild stronger. “Every aspect of.

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Forbes Green Tech

JUNE 2, 2020

Approval of reverse merger with VectoIQ clears the way for shares of the new company to start trading Thursday with the ticker NKLA.

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Impact Alpha

JUNE 2, 2020

The crises we see today — COVID-19, racial injustice and violence, and more — are far too familiar for far too many people, reflecting decades of systemic failure. At Amplifying Impact, the Mission Investors Exchange National Conference, co-chair Lisa Hamilton of the Annie E. Casey Foundation, explained, “We have been allowing far too many folks.

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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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U.S. Green Technology

JUNE 2, 2020

10 of the Hottest Green Technology Trends Humanity has made some major shifts toward sustainability in recent years. While there’s still a long way to go before every business, organisation, and person on the planet exists in an environmentally harmonious way, there have nevertheless been some big developments in eco conscious living, particularly on the.

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altenergymag

JUNE 2, 2020

Renewvia Energy Corporation, a global solar developer, and All On, a Nigerian off-grid impact investor, announce a partnership to electrify rural communities unserved by conventional utilities in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria.

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Ideas 4 Sustainability

JUNE 2, 2020

Originally posted on SCIENCE FOR SUSTAINABILITY : Over the last decades, a continuous increase of economic, environmental and social connectivity occurred on a global level. While globalization facilitates human development, it can also conceal local developments.

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altenergymag

JUNE 2, 2020

For the first time, the American wind, solar, hydropower, and storage associations have come together to announce a shared vision of renewables reaching a majority of U.S.

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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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The City Fix

JUNE 2, 2020

On May 27, the European Union unveiled a €750 billion ($826 billion) recovery proposal as a centerpiece of its economic response to the coronavirus crisis, while also increasing its existing budget. EU officials have said that 25% of the stimulus package will be set. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Impact Alpha

JUNE 2, 2020

ImpactAlpha, June 2 – Recycling company Plastics for Change sources landfill- and ocean-bound plastic waste from informal workers through a tech platform designed to ensure fair prices for the collectors. The company has raised a $2 million round, led by Mirova Natural Capital, which backed the company through the Althelia investment group it acquired last year.

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Solar Power World

JUNE 2, 2020

By Todd Karin, Materials Project Scientist/Engineer; and Anubhav Jain, Chemist Staff Scientist/Engineer, Berkeley Lab String size in solar PV power plants has increased over the years because longer strings drive down costs. As 1,500-V-rated systems become more common, there’s a question of how the industry can push up string size even further. Up until the… The post LBL finds you can reduce solar system costs by modeling optimal string size appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Impact Alpha

JUNE 2, 2020

ImpactAlpha, June 2 – Debt investor Blue Like an Orange was founded by former World Bank officials to finance the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals (listen to the ImpactAlpha podcast interview, “Blue Like an Orange offers a report card for the Sustainable Development Goals“). It has raised $200 for its first Latin America fund, backed by.

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Business Green

JUNE 2, 2020

Response to consultation confirms government plans to press ahead with development of post-Brexit UK carbon trading scheme. The government has confirmed plans to deliver the first Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS) in the world to be aligned with a net zero decarbonisation target. In its official response yesterday to its previous consultation on the future of UK carbon pricing once the country leaves the EU and the bloc's established ETS, the Department for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 2, 2020

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Greenability Magazine

JUNE 2, 2020

You can help save the bees that pollinate our food production systems by joining a national movement to plant more bee-friendly gardens during National Pollinator Week, June 22-28. By creating, planting and maintaining a garden, and registering it on the Pollinator Garden Challenge map , Americans can contribute to revitalizing the health of bees, butterflies, birds, bats and other pollinators across the country.

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altenergymag

JUNE 2, 2020

Ingeteam, a global technology Group specialized in electric power conversion, has announced today that it commissioned 50 GW of electrical wind power conversion equipment to date, thanks to consistently strong sales of wind power converters and wind control cabinets.

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Business Green

JUNE 2, 2020

'A heatwave coupled with a second wave of Covid-19 infections would put enormous strain on our already overburdened doctors, nurses and other key workers'. A great many frailties, structural problems, and inequalities sitting right at the heart of the economy have been exposed by the coronavirus crisis. The pandemic has, for example, shone a light on the importance of undervalued work such as waste and recycling collections to the day-to-day functioning of society.

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Terra Infirma

JUNE 2, 2020

Last week I wandered over to my local bike shop to buy a few new inner tubes. As I waited in the socially distanced queue, I marvelled that the racks were empty of any bike costing less than £2k (ie everything ‘normal’) had sold out. As I enjoy the freedom of the ‘unlimited exercise’ phase of the UK lockdown, there are more people on bikes than I’ve ever seen in this area outside organised events.

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Forbes Green Tech

JUNE 2, 2020

Attention is increasingly turning to what kind of world we will have after the coronavirus pandemic. While there is a strong desire to return to a normal life, what should the new normal look like?

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Greenability Magazine

JUNE 2, 2020

With more people staying at home to avoid the COVID-19 pandemic, CO2 emissions dropped 17 percent during the peak shutdown in early April, according to a study published by the science journal, Nature Climate Change. The report shows nearly an eight percent reduction in emissions globally this year during unprecedented stay-at-home orders worldwide.

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Business Green

JUNE 2, 2020

Jewellery giant's plan to only use silver and goal from recycled sources will slash its carbon footprint and water usage, moving it closer to a commitment to become carbon neutral by 2025. Pandora, the world's largest jewellery maker by volume, has today announced it will phase out mined silver and gold from its jewellery line by 2025. The Copenhagen-based company said the move to recycled sources will slash the company's carbon emissions and water usage, given it will allow the company to minim

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Impact Alpha

JUNE 2, 2020

Greetings, Agents of Impact! Signals: Ahead of the Curve Get up, stand up: Impact investors speak out for racial justice. Meet the protests in the streets, not with force, but with racial equity, capital for Black communities and entrepreneurs, solidarity and system change (see, “The social mobilization is on“). In statements, blog posts and tweets, Agents.

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Business Green

JUNE 2, 2020

Energy giant launches new carbon offset tariffs, as polling shows majority of public think lockdown has made them more aware of climate impacts. Shell Energy Retail has this week launched two new 'carbon neutral' energy tariffs for British households, combining its existing 100 per cent renewable power offer with a promise to offset emissions from heating and cooking through investment in nature-based projects.

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