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Let me drone on a moment about drones for agriculture or forestry

GreenBiz

Let me drone on a moment about drones for agriculture or forestry. Heather Clancy. Thu, 02/25/2021 - 00:05. As more corporate sustainability teams cultivate projects to restore biodiversity and degraded landscapes or to nurture soil carbon sequestration and other nature-based climate solutions, interest in drone technologies that can weed out the best opportunities is flourishing.

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Solar-powered computers to accelerate digital literacy in Madagascar

Envirotec Magazine

A new partnership aims to deliver solar-powered computers to 10,000 children a year across schools in Madagascar and East Africa. The computers will go to schools that do not have access to reliable power, helping to reduce a gulf in digital literacy arising from a lack of energy access. The collaboration brings together Aceleron, a UK developer of circular economy lithium-ion batteries, and Jirogasy, a Madagascar-based start-up.

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ESG in 2021: The State of Play

GreenBiz

ESG in 2021: The State of Play. Date/Time: March 18, 2021 (1-2PM ET / 10-11AM PT). The world of environmental, social and governance metrics and ratings has entered a new and dynamic phase. Suddenly, nearly every publicly held company — and many privately held firms — are examining their policies and programs through the lens of investors’ rising interest in ESG metrics.

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Adorable goat playground raises awareness of upcycling waste

Inhabitat - Innovation

NOMAD architects and Karina Aramanda have transformed wood waste into GO[A]T WASTE?, an educational pavilion and animal playground that raises awareness about the merits of upcycling.

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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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Investors are failing African entrepreneurs — it’s time for a change

GreenBiz

Investors are failing African entrepreneurs — it’s time for a change. Salma Okonkwo. Thu, 02/25/2021 - 00:10. Despite the global economic slowdown caused by COVID-19, the case for investing in Africa is stronger than ever. Africa will remain a competitive investment destination for decades to come because of its improving relative risk profiles, regional integration and strong economic fundamentals.

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Feeling the pressure: Local authorities publish report into impact of Covid-19 on waste services

Envirotec Magazine

Only 40% of responding councils report that their Household Waste Recycling Centres (HWRCs) are operating normally according to the Association of Directors of Environment, Economy, Planning and Transport (ADEPT) 18th waste impacts survey. The survey, which examines the impacts of COVID-19 on waste services in England, is run in collaboration with the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), the Local Authority Recycling Advisory Committee (LARAC), the Local Government Associa

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What can we learn from the Oldsmar water supply hack?

Envirotec Magazine

Following a recent water supply hack in Florida, Phillip Corner, industrial systems cybersecurity expert at control systems firm Cougar Automation, stresses the need for business decision makers and technical professionals in safety and security to work closely together to understand risk. On Friday 5 February, a hacker used a common remote access application to take control of an employee’s computer at the municipal water treatment plant in Oldsmar, Florida.

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Seville's plan to turn oranges into electricity

Inhabitat - Innovation

When life gives you oranges, make electricity.

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2021 will be a record year for beaver releases

Envirotec Magazine

© Ray Lewis Kent Wildlife Trust. The Wildlife Trusts are releasing a record number of beavers in 2021 – twenty years after bringing the first ever beavers back to Britain. Around 20 beavers will be released this year including to a project in Wales. The first of the year’s releases took place in Dorset this week. Plans developed by Wildlife Trusts of Dorset, Derbyshire, Hampshire and the Isle of Wight, Nottinghamshire and Montgomeryshire will see new beaver families moving into these counties fo

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What Is A Green Procurement Policy?

Green Business Bureau

Green Procurement Policy. A green procurement or green purchasing policy (GPP) is put in place to guide businesses when acquiring materials, supplies and services and selecting such products based on their impact on the environment and human health. GPPs can apply to both products bought to run the business internally (Ex. office supplies and equipment) as well as for producing the goods and services of the business itself (Ex. materials used in business products).

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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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Highland Electric Raises $235M, Lands Biggest Electric School Bus Contract in the U.S.

GreenTechMedia

Electric school buses don’t just eliminate the carbon and pollution emissions of their diesel-fueled counterparts, they cost less to fuel and maintain over the long haul. Unfortunately for cash-strapped school districts, an electric school bus still costs more than twice as much as a diesel bus today. And that’s not counting the cost of new charging infrastructure, or the risk that those charging costs may drive a district’s electric bills through the roof.

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Rent a minimalist tiny home on the edge of a lake in Austria

Inhabitat - Innovation

It’s a minimalist tiny house handmade with a love of the outdoors in mind.

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Solar power is using AI and machine learning for better efficiency

altenergymag

Solar-energy experts are working together to utilize artificial intelligence (AI) diagnostic ability to increase performance in solar power systems.

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An innovative testing solution to improve the efficiency of EV batteries/EVSE

Charged

Sponsored by ITECH Electronic Co. In the new era of e-mobility, an electrification ecosystem is being gradually established. Engineers meet the challenges every day in the research of various new technologies and verification of different electric devices. How do you make the design more feasible, reliable, and safer? ITECH provides you with innovative test and measurement solutions to make it easier and faster for the EV R&D and manufacturing.

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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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The Risks in Biden’s Energy Plan

R-Squared Energy

You may count me among those who want to see society move beyond fossil fuels. We all know there are negative consequences associated with fossil fuel usage, such as the emission of carbon dioxide and various other pollutants. However, fossil fuel replacements come with their own risks and trade-offs, and it is important to understand and weigh these trade-offs as we transition from fossil fuels.

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Green terraces intersect a mixed-use tower in Shenzhen

Inhabitat - Innovation

Visitors can find respite from the hustle and bustle by visiting the lush terraces at Shuiwan 1979 Life Plaza.

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Aptera raises $4 million from Series A investors, including Sandy Munro

Charged

Aptera Motors has a very different strategy from that of most EV startups. Rather than a luxury sedan or a crowd-pleasing pickup truck, the San Diego-based company is building what it says will be the world’s most efficient vehicle—an EV with a solar panel on the roof, and as much as 1,000 miles of range. Now Aptera has raised $4 million in a new round of Series A funding.

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Soltec completes a year marked by the impact of COVID-19 with record backlog and pipeline in both its industrial and development activities

altenergymag

COVID-19 impacted on activity at Soltec's Industrial division in Q2 and Q4, causing execution delays for certain projects. This was compounded by an increase in certain extraordinary costs, mainly personnel and transport, due to the pandemic.

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Chip shortage forces Tesla to briefly idle Model 3 production line

Charged

Driving home the point that cars are computers, the global auto industry is reeling from a global shortage of microchips. Several major automakers have announced shutdowns or slowdowns because of the supply bottleneck. The shortage appears to have forced Tesla to briefly shut down its Model 3 production line at Fremont. An unnamed source told Bloomberg that Tesla recently informed workers in Fremont that the Model 3 line would be idled for about two weeks.

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Nikola Retools After Wild Ride, Keeps Focus On Big Rigs, Hydrogen And Range

Forbes Green Tech

Ahead of fourth-quarter results the startup unveiled a revamped lineup focused on the shorter-range, battery-powered Tre, a new 500-mile-range fuel cell version of Tre and 900-mile-range hydrogen-powered Nikola Two "Sleeper" truck.

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Tennessee plans statewide DC fast charging network

Charged

The Tennessee Valley Authority and the Tennessee Department of Environment and Conservation have partnered to develop a statewide fast charging network. The plan is to add approximately 50 new charging locations, one every 50 miles, along Tennessee’s interstates and major highways. There are currently about 24 public fast charging locations in the state that support both the CCS and CHAdeMO charging standards.

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KiloVault Unveils Third-Generation HAB Deep-Cycle Battery

altenergymag

KiloVault®, a provider of innovative and affordable residential and commercial renewable energy solutions, today unveiled the third iteration of their HAB™ series of wall-mount energy storage systems, featuring key upgrades for a cleaner more convenient set up.

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Hydrogen-powered double-decker buses hit the streets in Scotland

Charged

The Scottish city of Aberdeen has launched a fleet of 15 hydrogen-powered double-decker buses. Scotland’s third-largest city, Aberdeen is known as the Granite City or the Silver City, because of its many buildings made of locally-quarried granite. Since the discovery of North Sea oil in the 1970s, it has also been known as the offshore oil capital of Europe.

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TOYOTA AND HORIZON EDUCATIONAL INVITE YOU TO THE STEM SPLASH

altenergymag

Invite your students and their parents to an event where everyone will have the opportunity to experience the All-New 2021 Toyota Mirai. There will be STEM activities and Giveaways.

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Humankind Investments launches ‘social’ ETF

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, February 25 – A new exchange traded fund from Humankind Investments focuses on the “S” of environmental, social and governance, or ESG, investing (see, The post Humankind Investments launches ‘social’ ETF appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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Silicon Mobility releases new EV powertrain control software

Charged

Silicon Mobility has announced the release of OLEA APP INVERTER , a software application platform for control of inverters and electric motors. The application is based on the OLEA T222 FPCUs parallel architecture, which allows real-time control of power electronics and motors. It provides torque and speed control using Field Oriented Control (FoC) and variable Space Vector Pulse Width Modulation (SVPWM) algorithms.

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From Pollution to the Pandemic, Racial Equity Eludes Louisiana’s Cancer Alley Community

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 12 mins Mary Hampton, president of the Concerned Citizens of St. John the Baptist Parish, a community group in Louisiana fighting for clean air, opted to do everything in her power to avoid getting the coronavirus after Robert Taylor, the group’s founder, was hospitalized with COVID -19 earlier this year. So she got vaccinated as soon as she could.

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LACI Launches First-In-Nation Zero Emissions Delivery Zone with City of Santa Monica & Partners Including Nissan, Ikea

LA CleanTech Incubator

Pilot Advances Transportation Electrification Partnership’s Bold 2028 Emissions Reduction Targets; Policy and Technology Innovations Include Curb Management, EV LastMile Delivery What Others Are Saying SANTA MONICA, CA — Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI) and the City of Santa Monica have officially launched and deployed a first-in-the-nation Zero Emissions Delivery Zone (ZE Delivery Zone) within a.

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Eaton’s “Home as a Grid” approach to residential energy transition enables a renewable-driven future

altenergymag

• Demand for low-carbon energy is creating new opportunities for distributed energy resources in the home • Eaton’s intelligent home energy portfolio and market-leading partner integrations enhance renewable benefits, from load management to cybersecurity

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Greentown Labs’ Startups Milestone: $1 Billion Raised

Greentown Labs

With immense pride and excitement, we are thrilled to announce that Greentown Labs members have collectively raised more than $1 billion to advance their climate technologies. If you’ve been in the clean energy and cleantech ecosystem for the past decade, you can appreciate how significant this is! Greentown was founded in 2011 as the industry rose from the ashes of the cleantech bubble burst, and there was little capital to be found.

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Government urged to target 40GW solar capacity by 2030

Business Green

Greenpeace, the Green Finance Institute, the UK Green Building Council (UKGBC), and others call on government to set ambitious solar target. The government should aim to ramp up UK solar power capacity to 40GW at a minimum by the end of the decade, backed by a comprehensive skills development and financing deal to support the sector's growth in line with national climate targets, a group of NGOs and think tanks have urged.

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Black History Month: A Conversation with Pastor Ezra Tillman

Defend Our Future

For Black History Month, we spoke with Pastor Ezra Tillman of the First Trinity Baptist Church in Flint, Michigan, to discuss the Flint water crisis, the intersection of faith and advocacy and environmental justice. Can you share a little bit about yourself – where you grew up and how you ended up in Flint at First Trinity? I am a native of Detroit, Michigan.

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UK has 'long way to go' to build purely electric car market, spending watchdog warns

Business Green

National Audit Office calls for long-term, joined-up strategy from the government to ensure every car on the road produces zero emissions by 2050. The government "has a long way to go" to achieve its aim of transforming the car market to selling only 100 per cent electric vehicles (EVs) within 15 years, and to ensure almost every car on the road is zero emissions by 2050, the UK's public spending watchdog has warned.

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Surdna Foundation’s Don Chen on mobilizing resources and redefining risk (podcast)

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, Feb. 25 – Philanthropic foundations tend to be cautious and slow-moving beasts. One signal of the urgency of the current moment: the billion-dollar. The post Surdna Foundation’s Don Chen on mobilizing resources and redefining risk (podcast) appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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