GreenBiz

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Net zero commitments are becoming the pledge of choice for corporations but long-term goals, more than just offsets and going beyond the value chain make them worthy.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Caleb Brackney is a graduate student and a true Gen-Z kid who's active on social media. He owns an acoustic guitar and loves wooden paneling non-ironically.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Sponsored: In this article, Jerry Porter, a senior vice president of research and development at P&G Fabric Care and Home Care Sector, addresses how collaborations with the likes of NASA support the company’s net-zero ambition.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Following eight deaths of candle factory workers in a tornado in western Kentucky, the surviving factory workers have filed a lawsuit against their employers. The survivors of the tornado say that their employers had a chance of saving the lost lives by allowing the workers to go home early.

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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

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Date/Time: January 24, 2021 (1-2PM ET / 10-11AM PT) The sustainable business world enters 2022 flying high, as the world focuses with increasing urgency on many of its core issues: sustainable finance, the circular economy, clean energy, climate tech and more. All are reaching inflection points, growing and changing faster than many could have imagined.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Plastic pollution is a major climate threat and now there's a unique solution. The World Design Organization named Trashpresso, designed by Miniwiz, a World Design Impact Prize Winner for 2021. It is the world’s first mobile industrial-grade plastic trash upcycling platform.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Most wrapping paper is non-recyclable due to the amount of dye used on the paper. It is also full of laminating materials and other non-paper additives, which means it goes directly to landfills. Don't forget about the bows, the ribbons and the glue used on the back of sticky bows and all those items that are not sustainable in any way.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Autodesk Foundation’s Alli O’Connell on making the leap from nonprofit and carving out your own leadership goals.

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Charged

DECEMBER 20, 2021

In October, New York City announced a new investment of $75 million in electric vehicles and charging infrastructure, as part of a plan to transition its entire vehicle fleet to EVs. The current phase of the plan includes purchasing 300 EVs to replace fossil fuel-powered models. Now Tesmanian reports that this will include hundreds of Tesla Model 3s.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Many brands are talking sustainability; few cut through.

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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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altenergymag

DECEMBER 20, 2021

New project with the Indian Ministry of Power will showcase Bloom’s hydrogen and power production technologies

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Charged

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Italy’s industrial capital, Milan, plans to replace its 1,200 diesel buses with electric vehicles by 2030. Public transport agency ATM (Azienda Trasporti Milanesi) chose electronics giant ABB to deliver a turnkey charging solution for its San Donato depot, the first of four fully electrical depots planned for the city and a pilot site for new charging solutions.

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Solar Power World

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Photovoltaic solar, with its range of complementing technologies and uses, is expected to be integral in another process of decarbonizing the grid: creating a carbon-free fuel source. Hydrogen cells are an energy source that, when expended, release no carbon, just heat and water vapor. They’re commonly used in food and fertilizer production, treating metals and… The post Solar’s role in popularizing green hydrogen appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Charged

DECEMBER 20, 2021

GM plans to invest more than $51 million to upgrade its Bedford, Indiana mold and aluminum die casting plant for some of its current casting needs, and to support the upcoming Chevy Silverado EV, which is to be launched at CES in 2022. The Silverado EV joins the growing roster of GM vehicles with aluminum drive unit castings made at Bedford. The one-million-square-foot plant also makes aluminum drive unit castings for the 2022 GMC Hummer EV pickup and 2024 GMC Hummer EV SUV, as well as drive uni

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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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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The U.S. Department of Energy announced that 35 teams advanced as finalists in its Solar District Cup Collegiate Design Competition for 2021-2022. Through the contest, teams design systems that integrate solar, storage, and other technologies for a real-world district or university campus. Teams design their systems based on their chosen entity’s sustainability goals, electric utility rate schedule, development master plan or other relevant information.

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Charged

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The legacy automakers have a long history of making big publicity splashes for their EVs, then taking years to deliver. Well, things seem to be changing at GM, which has quietly beaten both Ford and Tesla to the electric pickup party, and stolen a march on Rivian/Amazon in the electric delivery van space. FedEx has confirmed delivery of five EV600 electric delivery vans from GM’s BrightDrop division.

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Impact Alpha

DECEMBER 20, 2021

ImpactAlpha, December 20 — Nearly three-quarters of the more than 2 billion tons of municipal solid waste produced each year ends up in. The post UBQ Materials raises $170 million to produce thermoplastics from waste appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Charged

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Massachusetts-based ePropelled has raised $15 million in Series A financing from individual investors. It will use the new funding to further develop its products and boost its sales and marketing efforts. ePropelled builds motors, generators and power management systems. Products include eAxles and the Dynamic Torque Switching (eDTS) powertrain system for EVs, as well as propulsion and power systems for unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). ePropelled stresses the critical importance of EV efficienc

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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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Impact Alpha

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Looking Ahead Impact in emerging markets in 2022: Seizing the digital transformation to drive inclusive and sustainable growth. The post The Brief: Digital transformation in emerging markets, financing climate infrastructure, gender lens in Africa, recycled thermoplastics, proof of impact appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Charged

DECEMBER 20, 2021

California battery developer Sepion has received $16 million from investors, including international chemical firm Solvay. Sepion plans to use the funds to speed up the commercialization of lithium metal batteries for EVs. Solvay offers additives for the electrolytes in Li-ion cells. Sepion’s niche is lithium metal battery cells, which Solvay says feature high energy density and a polymeric membrane which averts the dendrites that can shorten battery life or even cause catastrophic failure.

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altenergymag

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Statement From Gregory Wetstone, President and CEO of the American Council on Renewable Energy:

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Massachusetts awarded bids to two offshore wind projects, which are expected to generate a combined 1600 megawatts (MW) of electricity. The projects include a 1200 MW proposal from Vineyard Wind and a 400 MW proposal from Mayflower Wind. That brings the total offshore wind capacity purchased by the state to 3200 MW, or enough to power 1.6 million homes, Gov.

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The City Fix

DECEMBER 20, 2021

As 2021 closes, most cities around the world continue to grapple with the uncertainty of a pandemic now in its second year. Amid dips and rises in cases, the emergence of new variants, and the ongoing challenge of vaccinating the. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2021

This story is part of a collaboration between DeSmog and Public Health Watch. “The normal flare plus the BBQ is on,” Elida Castillo, the program director of Chispa Texas, an environmental advocacy group, wrote to me in a text on December 6. It was an update about a new, giant plastics plant built on the line between two small Texas cities just northeast of Corpus Christi: Portland and Gregory.

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Impact Alpha

DECEMBER 20, 2021

ImpactAlpha, December 20 – If the pandemic had a silver lining in emerging markets, it was as a super-spreader of small business digitization. . The post Impact in emerging markets in 2022: Seizing the digital transformation to drive inclusive and sustainable growth appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Green Living Guy

DECEMBER 20, 2021

California Schools Continue Transition to Zero-Emissions Transportation So GreenPower Motor Company announced a while back the sale of six electric school buses (B.E.A.S.T.). 6! All to Thermalito Union Elementary School District. In combination with Greenpower’s national distributor Creative Bus Sales. The B.E.A.S.T. is a purpose-built Type D Battery Electric School bus with a leading class […].

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Impact Alpha

DECEMBER 20, 2021

ImpactAlpha, December 24 — Ares Climate Infrastructure Partners Fund secured $1.4 billion in commitments to provide equity, preferred equity and structured debt for. The post Ares raises $2.2 billion for climate infrastructure investments appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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altenergymag

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Integration with Supercritical Carbon Dioxide Power Cycle Expected to Drive Commercial Adoption of Breakthrough Carbon-free Technologies

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Impact Alpha

DECEMBER 20, 2021

ImpactAlpha, December 20 — Alitheia IDF, a joint venture between women-led fund managers Alitheia Capital and IDF Capital, aims to positively impact women. The post Alitheia IDF secures $100 million for an African gender-lens fund appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The U.S. Department of Energy is finalizing a $39 million award to Heliogen, Inc. for the California-based company to roll out its artificial intelligence-powered solar technology. It comes on the heels of the DOE’s announcement of the award in November. Heliogen will build and operate a supercritical carbon dioxide (sCO2) power cycle integrated with thermal energy storage, heated by concentrated solar thermal energy supplied by an AI-powered heliostat field.

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altenergymag

DECEMBER 20, 2021

The AC module features the Enphase IQ™7+ Microinverter from Enphase Energy, and will debut across Europe at the end of 2021.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 20, 2021

Alan McClay, CEO, Better Cotton. No-one puts ‘cotton' on their Christmas wish-list, but that won't stop this ubiquitous fibre appearing inside millions of gift-wrapped parcels this festive season. While synthetic fibres have been on the rise for decades, cotton remains the most used natural material in clothing. From socks and shirts to dresses and denim, it makes up for around one third of all fibres in textiles.

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R-Squared Energy

DECEMBER 20, 2021

In the previous article , I discussed some of the issues involving water and hydraulic fracturing (fracking). In a nutshell, although fracking has proven to be a highly effective means of boosting oil and natural gas production, the process requires millions of gallons of water. Further, there is the potential to contaminate water supplies. Although fracking isn’t going away anytime soon, it would be beneficial if there were some complementary tools for drillers in the event that conventional fr

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