June, 2019

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How HBO Got It Wrong On Chernobyl

Jim Conca

I was hoping HBO would have the courage and integrity to do their homework about radiation and consult even 1 nuclear scientist or radiobiologists. Or even read the U.N. Chernobyl Forum Report. But nooo…they decided that talking to journalists, historians and antinuclear activists was much better.

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Want Your Brand In Bright Lights? Build From The Bottom

Michael Grossman

Every business owner thinks his/her brand should be in the spotlight, and why not? The long hours, the novel ideas, the enthusiasm, the purposeful value proposition: isn’t it evident the media should take note? And from the days of Gutenberg to the 1970s, the process of generating exposure for your brand was pretty straightforward: write some copy–or hire a publicist to do it for you–and take it to the local newspaper (and maybe buy an ad while you were there.).

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Eco-friendly gadget birthday gift ideas for the geeky friend

Eco Friend

With an effort from all quarters of the society. Finally, we are in a time where being eco-friendly is almost mainstream. Unsurprisingly, technology is also keeping up with this trend.… The post Eco-friendly gadget birthday gift ideas for the geeky friend appeared first on Eco Friend.

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Do Solar Panels Increase Home Value?

Sunrun

Rooftop Solar Panels Can Help You Build Long-Term Financial Gains for Your Household Savvy homeowners, potential buyers and appraisers know that modern solar installations can increase your home’s value on the real estate market. Specific numbers vary between each installation and property. Yet recent studies show an average increase in resale value between $4,020 and $5,911 for each 1 kilowatt of solar panels installed.1,2 At $4,020 per kilowatt, a 5 kilowatt solar panel installation would add

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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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Press Release – SparkCharge Wins 2019 California Climate Cup, Demonstrating That California Policy Makers’ Bold Policies Inspire World-Class Innovation

LA CleanTech Incubator

Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator and New Energy Nexus Hold Pitch Competition—Brings Attention and $35,000 to Startups With the Most Promising Climate Solutions Los Angeles, June 27, 2019. The Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI) and New Energy Nexus announce SparkCharge as the winner of the 2019 California Climate Cup and recipient of the $25 thousand dollar.

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Conservatives fail to deliver ‘a real plan’ on climate

Clean Energy Canada

VICTORIA — Dan Woynillowicz, policy director at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to the Conservative Party of Canada’s climate plan , unveiled today. Clean Energy Canada will be responding to every federal party’s climate plan as they’re released. “What was announced today fails to live up to its billing as a comprehensive plan—in fact, it’s not really a plan at all.

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4 Ways To Write A Memorable Website Homepage

Michael Grossman

Your website is the online portal for your audience, and your website’s homepage is the cyber front door. How you welcome your viewers will be the first impression of your brand and is critical to move them through the sales funnel to become your brand advocates. As the old saying goes, “You don’t get a second chance to make a first impression,” so no matter how important your invention or novel your product, you better write a homepage that entices them to learn more.

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Acquisition x 2

Elemental Excelerator

Are you ready for this? We have a short rhyme for you. Scoot and Go Electric got acquired. I know! We’re excited too! You May Have Heard … Scoot Was Acquired By Bird. Scoot joined the Elemental portfolio in 2018. In our opinion, they’re leading the way in bringing equity into the micromobility scene. Go Electric & Saft = The Perfect Match.

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District of Massachusetts Reaffirms Broad Defense of Filed Rate Doctrine

Energy and Cleantech Council

An important legal doctrine for companies that buy and sell in regulated markets is the “filed rate” doctrine, which limits legal challenges to rates determined by regulators such as the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission or the Federal Communications Commission. A recent decision by the District of Massachusetts illustrates the potential breadth of the doctrine.

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The Highest-Capacity Electric Aircraft Ever Flown Held First Public Test Flight in the Skies Above Southern California on Thursday, Paving the Way for Ampaire Inc. to Have Regular Commercial Service for Passengers and Cargo as Soon as 2021

LA CleanTech Incubator

Aviation Company Ampaire, Inc., Helps Further Cement Los Angeles as the Center of Innovation on Transportation Electrification Camarillo, California, June 6, 2019. Ampaire, Inc. has moved the aviation industry a major step forward with the test flight of the Ampaire 337, the highest-capacity hybrid-electric aircraft ever flown. On Thursday, June 6, Ampaire engineers, investors and.

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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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Six Flags Great Adventure now powered by 23.5-MW solar array

Renewable Energy World

On Wednesday in New Jersey, the world’s largest regional theme park company and the largest operator of waterparks in North America said that its New Jersey park, Six Flags Great Adventure, is now powered by solar energy.

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Message To Ohio Electricity Customers -- Stop Closing Nuclear Plants

Jim Conca

Debate rages in the Ohio Legislature over House Bill 6, legislation that is highly misunderstood. It would replace the State’s prescriptive renewable-only subsidies and green energy mandates in favor of more general subsidies to all clean-energy sources, which includes all renewables and nuclear.

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Fledgling Stories

Michael Grossman

What does honey have to do with saving elephants in Botswana, and why would I want to buy another pair of shoes made in Asia? These business propositions were just a couple of the conscious companies crafting their pitch at Fledge’s Demo Day. Not familiar with Fledge? They brand themselves as the conscious company accelerator and bring in entrepreneurs from all over the world, much like a traditional accelerator, but with a focus on companies that solve real problems in the world.

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Megan Murphy: Hope in a World of Climate Change

Defend Our Future

Throughout my childhood, I was fortunate enough to have ample opportunity to explore some of our planet’s most beautiful natural wonders — from hikes within the Shenandoah National Park to coral reefs along Florida’s coasts, to the creek right in my backyard in Northern Virginia. I have always felt the most at home outdoors, so when I learned about how climate change poses a threat to the existence of these places, my heart ached tremendously.

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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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Massachusetts DPU Opens Docket on DG Interconnection

Energy and Cleantech Council

On May 22, 2019, the Massachusetts Department of Public Utilities (“DPU”) opened a new docket (D.P.U. 19-55) to investigate the interconnection of distributed generation (“DG”) in Massachusetts. (And yes, the DPU intends to include energy storage interconnection in this docket despite defining DG as “technologies that generate electricity” ).

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A new era of energy efficiency progress

Enervee

Enervee contributes to high-level dialog on energy efficiency The International Energy Agency’s largest Global Conference on Energy Efficiency, held in Dublin this week, brought together 400 government ministers, CEOs and energy experts from 50 countries to discuss critical topics like financing, policy innovation and digitalization. IEA Executive Director, Fatih Birol, and Irish Prime Minister, Leo Varadkar (photograph: Enervee) At the start of the two-day event , Dr.

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New York to pass 'one of the most aggressive clean energy mandates in the country'

Renewable Energy World

New York is poised to pass its own version of the Green New Deal with a climate bill that would more than triple the state’s solar capacity and aggressively promote development of wind farms off the state’s coast.

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Food and Climate -- It's Not Just About Hamburgers

Jim Conca

Where you get your food really matters to the climate. The carbon footprint of one cup of coffee may be fifteen times that of one made from a different crop of beans. The same with a hamburger. We need to change farming practices and replace a lot, not all, of our beef with plant-based protein.

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An Emergency Declaration

Fairsnape

At the time of writing some 370 UK architect practices have signed up to Architects Declare, a declaration that acknowledges we are in a Climate and Biodiversity Emergency. Founded by 17 Stirling Prize winners, Architects Declare makes an unprecedented statement with pledges for action on the twin crises of climate breakdown and biodiversity loss. This diverse group make the point that buildings and construction account for approximately 40% of carbon dioxide emissions, with more action done to

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From the Hill: Solving the Climate Crisis: Ramping Up Renewables

Defend Our Future

On June 13th, several interns and I had the awesome opportunity to attend the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis’ hearing, “Solving the Climate Crisis: Ramping Up Renewables.” And of course, we were sporting our Defend Our Future T-shirts, making the statement that we support our representatives who pledge to advance the transition to 100% clean energy.

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5 Tips to Keep Your Commercial Solar System Operating at Peak Efficiency

Sun Valley Solar

A common misconception is that solar panels are fragile (they’re glass, after all) and require lots of maintenance. All of this couldn’t be further from the truth. In fact, modern solar panels have come a long way in almost every respect – from performance to durability and longevity. Today, most brands offer warranties in the 25-year range, with peak performance measured in decades rather than years.

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Gov. Polis’ Vision of a Carbon-Free Future is a Roadmap to a Stronger CO Economy

E2 Environmental Entrepreneurs

Policy Wins in Colorado set a roadmap for a carbon-free future and stronger Colorado economy May was a historic month for Colorado’s clean energy economy and environment. At the same time that he signed a host of clean energy bills into law, Gov. Jared Polis unveiled his bold plan for the state to get 100% of its electricity from renewable sources by 2040.

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It’s clean, powerful and available: Are you ready for hydrogen energy?

Renewable Energy World

As the world responds to the challenges of climate change, energy systems are evolving, and evolving fast. The past 10 years have seen the rise (and dramatic cost reduction) of renewable energy such as wind and solar, to the extent that they are no longer considered alternative energy. They have become mainstream energy sources. Now, what will be the “next big thing” as the world shifts to a low carbon future?

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Collateral Damage -- It's Not Just About Carbon Emissions

Jim Conca

Bad farming and forestry practices, climate change and increasing fires are turning huge swaths of land into desert in a vicious cycle that may not stop until much of our global ecosystems is gone forever. And we won’t get them back.

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UK Declare Launch, 13th June

Fairsnape

Products that are Safe for All Species Through Time : The materials we use within construction, the products we use within our buildings, are as vital as the food we eat, the water we drink and the air that we breathe if we are to maintain and improve the health of those who live work and play within our facilities. Key to understanding the material and products we use is the transparency that enables us to make the correct specification, choice and procurement.

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Young people are growing horns, thanks to phones + tablets

Treehugger - Technology

You thought 'text neck' was bad? Kids these days are growing 'enlarged external occipital protuberances,' according to researchers.

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How To Read The European Union's New Guidelines On Sustainable Investing

Forbes Green Tech

This week, a group of experts released the EU Taxonomy, a classification tool to help investors and companies analyze the sustainability of potential investments and engage in two-way dialogue with investees on sustainability. Here is how to use the taxonomy, its implications, and what to expect.

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Ontario court validates federal authority to implement effective and fair national climate policy

Clean Energy Canada

VICTORIA — Dan Woynillowicz, policy director at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to the Ontario Court of Appeal’s decision supporting the constitutionality of Ottawa’s federal carbon price. “With Canada warming twice as fast as the rest of the world—triggering an increase in fires and floods—trying to score political points by grandstanding against sound climate policy is not only reckless, it’s deeply dangerous.

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FERC's data shows US renewable generating capacity has surpassed coal

Renewable Energy World

According to an analysis by the SUN DAY Campaign of data just released by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC), U.S. electrical generating capacity by renewable energy sources (i.e., biomass, geothermal, hydropower, solar, wind) has now - for the first time - surpassed that of coal.

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5 Major Changes In Renewable Energy Since I Started 20 Years Ago

Jigar Shah

Renewable energy has made an impact. This is due in part to younger generations, like Gen Z and Millennials, who reached an age in 2018 where their purchasing power has shifted corporate behavior. Prominent among these shifts is an increase in ride-sharing and public transit over car ownership, and an elevated political awareness of climate change. We can be grateful here that younger generations have a tendency to break away from their parents’ viewpoints.

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Connection between enhanced geothermal technology and earthquakes

Renewables-Info

In November 2017, a magnitude 5.5 earthquake shook Pohang, South Korea, and the researchers blamed the development of enhanced geothermal project for it. The main working principle of enhanced geothermal revolves around creating a network of fractures in hot rock that is otherwise too impermeable for water to flow through.You pump cold water down one, the Earth warms it up, and you extract hot water at the other end.

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A Note from Defend’s New Project Director, on Defend’s Mission and What Comes Next

Defend Our Future

Hey everyone! My name is Matt Oberhoffner, and I’m honored to introduce myself as the project director of Defend Our Future. I’ve spent the last four years working at Environmental Defense Fund, just down the hall from the Defend team, on a host of climate policy and politics initiatives (you can read more about me here , if you like!) but now I’m working with Defend directly.

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San Diego Airport and ENGIE Storage Further Airport’s Strategic Energy Initiative

CleanTech San Diego

San Diego International Airport (SAN) is the first airport in the United States to install an ENGIE Storage battery energy storage system. Both ENGIE and SAN are members of Cleantech San Diego. The 2 MW/4 MWh GridSynergy® energy storage system furthers the airport’s long-term commitment to efficiency and sustainability. Paired with the airport’s existing photovoltaic solar system, the new energy storage system will reduce energy charges during peak demand which equate to approximately 40 percent

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The Canadian government is making smart investments in electric vehicles

Clean Energy Canada

Last month, energy ministers and corporate leaders from around the world descended on Vancouver for the 10th Clean Energy Ministerial to discuss all things clean energy. But electric vehicles — from cars to buses to trucks — really stole the show. To kick things off, the International Energy Agency released its new Global Electric Vehicles Outlook , the data-driven crystal ball of the electric future.