GreenBiz

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Luxury in the new normal: Leadership and innovation in 2020 and beyond. Elisa Niemtzow. Fri, 10/16/2020 - 01:00. Business as usual for the luxury industry is over. 2020 brings with it the end of a positive growth cycle, as analysts expect global luxury sales to contract 25-45 percent in 2020 , with a recovery that could take up to three years. And yet, the coronavirus pandemic, for all the havoc it has wrought on the industry, has pushed the sustainable business agenda even further, forcing busi

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Inhabitat - Innovation

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Despite the promises and inflated price tag, biodegradable glitter ends up the same way as old-school glitter — wreaking havoc on aquatic ecosystems.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Episode 241: Thinking long-term with three sustainability think tanks. Heather Clancy. Fri, 10/16/2020 - 02:00. Week in Review. Stories discussed this week (4:08). A plan for "Lithium Valley" begins to take shape. Grocery retailers will feel the sting of pollinator declines. Are lawyers and accountants doing enough on climate change? Features. Building the B Corp movement (16:40) .

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Inhabitat - Innovation

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Often, culture and community are so intertwined that one defines the other, as is the case with a rural town in Texas, where the residents embraced a dilapidated historic site, called the Buda Mill & Grain Co., and brought it back to life.

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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

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Utility pilot projects aren’t famous for standout financial success. Usually the goal is to verify a technology in the field before attempting broader deployment. Sometimes nothing follows the pilot. Vermont utility Green Mountain Power not only verified the efficacy of residential batteries for meeting grid needs, it saved its customers millions of dollars with them.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

OCTOBER 16, 2020

The Texas Mutual Insurance Company's new headquarters in Austin, Texas's Mueller Development has earned both LEED Gold and Austin Energy Green Building 4-Star certifications in recognition of the building's energy-efficient design and focus on occupant wellness. Designed by Texan architecture firm Studio8 Architects, the four-story office building is notable for its adherence to the "Design for Active Occupants" LEED innovation strategy to prioritize a healthy and active workplace as opposed to

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 16, 2020

California regulators said this year that the state will need 1 gigawatt of long duration storage by 2026. But the technologies that can cost-effectively meet that need have so far attracted more attention from white paper authors than paying customers. That changed on Thursday, when a coalition of eight Californian community choice aggregators, led by Silicon Valley Clean Energy (SVCE), published a request for offers seeking 500 megawatts of long duration storage capacity.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2020

A £3.1m grant from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI) has been awarded to three firms for an ambitious chemical recycling project that aims to make hard-to-recycle plastic packaging recyclable. The collaboration brings together Recycling Technologies, a specialist plastic recycling technology provider; Neste, a leading provider of renewable diesel, sustainable aviation fuel, and a forerunner in drop-in renewable and circular chemical solutions; and Unilever, the consumer goods manufacturer of lea

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 16, 2020

In a year when clean energy and clean vehicle jobs were supposed to increase by some 175,000, we are down by half a million jobs. On this episode of The Energy Gang, we will tell you why, and explain the numbers. What will reverse the decline? Then: Did New Jersey just pass the most sweeping environmental justice law in the country? The new law will mean big changes for industrial sites — and the neighborhoods that often feel their worst impacts.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Joystick steering has not been an especially prominent capability in the waste handling and recycling sectors. Insisting that this is about to change, Caterpillar® equipment distributor for UK and Ireland, Finning, is trialing two Cat® 950M Wheel loaders with joystick steering at Veolia’s recycling depot in Kirkby-in-Ashfield, Nottinghamshire. Joystick steering brings better maneuverability, improved safety and more comfort to employees in the waste management and recycling sector.

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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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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 16, 2020

The California Energy Commission is putting a “down payment” of $384 million over the next three years on the electric-vehicle charging and zero-emission vehicle infrastructure needed to meet Governor Gavin Newsom’s pledge to end sales of new gasoline-powered cars by 2035. CEC’s clean transportation plan released Wednesday ( PDF ) will direct $133 million for light-duty EV charging systems and another $130 million for infrastructure for zero-emission medium- and heavy-dut

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Energy storage systems manufacturer Off Grid Energy has announced a new partnership with BMW Group UK to create a sustainable, second-life solution for BMW and MINI electric vehicle (EV) batteries. BMW Group UK will supply the firm with battery modules for them to adapt to create mobile power units, giving retired BMW and MINI EV batteries a useful secondlife when they can no longer efficiently be used in cars.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Norwegian PV developer Scatec Solar has acquired hydro developer SN Power and detailed its plans for expansion in new geographies and new technologies. Scatec is also dropping the ‘Solar’ from its name after agreeing to acquire SN Power for $1.1 billion from NorFund, a private equity firm owned by the Norwegian government. The deal is expected to close in Q2 2021.

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altenergymag

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Recognizing building operators who reduce energy impact through improved ventilation. Building operators of labs, K-12 schools, universities and commercial offices have reduced their energy impact through improved ventilation. Improved ventilation has resulted in both significantly reducing energy consumption and carbon footprint, saving a total of 76 Billion MBtus to date.

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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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Inhabitat - Innovation

OCTOBER 16, 2020

These off-grid cabins are elevated for minimal site impact.

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altenergymag

OCTOBER 16, 2020

- Provides for Cooperative Deployment of Charging Stations with Energy Storage to Support Growing Demand for Electric Vehicles

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Inhabitat - Innovation

OCTOBER 16, 2020

San Diego Zoo is now raising the world's first Przewalski’s horse clone.

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U.S. Green Technology

OCTOBER 16, 2020

The climate crisis has put an emphasis on switching to sustainable practices and green technology to reduce pollution. One way to do so is to focus on trucking. These vehicles consume a significant amount of fuel every year — switching to electric is a useful solution for the climate. However, this switch will have consequences. The post How Will Electric Trucking Impact the Agriculture Industry?

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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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altenergymag

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Recently, Antaisolar secured an order for 32MW solar tracking project. This PV project went live in October, 2020 and expected to be completed in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region of China at the end of 2020. It is the first PV project with multi-actuator solar tracking system in China, which will greatly boost the development of local PV industry and green economy.

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U.S. Green Technology

OCTOBER 16, 2020

The US Energy Information Administration projects renewable energy sources will provide nearly half of the world’s electricity within the next three decades. Most of this, the EIA predicts, will come from solar, wind, and hydropower. But not all sectors are growing at the same rate. Meanwhile, opportunities for clean energy production exist beyond the big.

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Impact Alpha

OCTOBER 16, 2020

TGIF, Agents of Impact! Best-case scenarios. Business leaders and investors are used to mitigating downside risks and planning for worst-case scenarios. That may be prudent in the face of a pandemic, climate emergency and global recession. But such caution makes it harder to see what might go right. Case in point: Even the most ambitious. The post The Week in impact investing: Scenarios appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Charged

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Continuous improvement is the name of the game at Tesla, so the appearance of a new and improved version of Model 3 is welcome news, but no great surprise. After days of rumors and sneak peeks, Tesla has officially added the refreshed Model 3 to its online configurator. The new version includes several innovations that Tesla first introduced on Model Y, as well as (of course) more range and more acceleration.

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altenergymag

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Leading renewable energy consultancy and service provider, Natural Power, has been appointed by Vattenfall to undertake services during the construction phase at the 240MW, 50-turbine South Kyle wind farm in East Ayrshire and Dumfries and Galloway, Scotland.

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Charged

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Sponsored by Parker LORD. The design of electric vehicle battery packs may vary among manufacturers but commonly, the battery is attached to its cooling plate not only with fasteners but also thermally conductive polymeric materials called gap fillers. Gap fillers can outperform thermal pads in this application to achieve lower thermal impedance, as the gap fillers conform to surface roughness before curing.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Read time: 7 mins Hurricane Delta made landfall in Creole. Louisiana, on October 9, 13 miles east of where Hurricane Laura struck 43 days before. It touched down in an. area packed with oil and gas wells, pipelines, and rigs.

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Impact Alpha

OCTOBER 16, 2020

ImpactAlpha, Oct. 16 – The world’s most populous Black nation is standing up to police brutality. The demand of protesters in Nigeria: #ENDSARS – that’s the Special Anti-Robbery Squad – which since 2017 has been accused by Amnesty International of more than 80 cases of police brutality, harassment, rape and extra-judicial killings. Yesufu, a Nigerian.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Waitrose and John Lewis bring forward net zero goal by 15 years as group outlines new food waste and online delivery strategies. The John Lewis Partnership has brought forward its net zero goal by 15 years, pledging to become a net zero carbon business by 2035 as it today unveiled a raft of waste and sustainability measures as part of its sweeping new online retail strategy.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 16, 2020

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Business Green

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Plans for 'comprehensive' policy document that sets out pathway to net zero emission economy confirmed in government's formal response to CCC's latest progress report. The government has announced plans to publish a "comprehensive" Net Zero Strategy ahead of next year's COP26 climate summit that will outline how it intends to decarbonise the economy while harnessing "growth and employment opportunities" over the next three decades.

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Forbes Green Tech

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Climate change is a tremendously complex threat to our civilization’s ability to thrive and survive into the next century. Direct Air Capture (DAC) has its weaknesses, but it's our best option to reduce atmospheric CO2 concentrations in the timeframes that matter.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 16, 2020

All the green business news from around the world this week. Reports: China to accelerate investment in new gird infrastructure. The Chinese government has provided the first evidence that its recent unveiling of a net zero emissions target will trigger a new wave of low carbon infrastructure deployment. State media reported this week that the government is to invest close to $900bn over the next five years in upgrading and expanding the country's power grids.

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Forbes Green Tech

OCTOBER 16, 2020

As part of its conversion to building electric vehicles and battery packs, General Motors' Detroit Hamtramck assembly plant has been renamed Factory Zero.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Government research body announces fresh support for plastics recycling facilities alongside £65m of industry investment. Four "cutting-edge" plastics recycling plants have today secured a share of £20m in funding from UK Research and Innovation (UKRI), forming part of the UK's largest ever investment in plastic chemical recycling technologies, according to the government research body.

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