October, 2018

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Which Is Safer For Transporting Crude Oil: Rail, Truck, Pipeline Or Boat?

Jim Conca

News of increased crude oil transportation by rail from Canada has raised this question again. The short answer is: truck worse than train worse than pipeline worse than boat. But it depends on your definition of worse - human deaths, property destruction or environmental impact. You choose.

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Whatever happened to Jimmy Carter's solar panels: The sequel

Treehugger - Technology

Instead of an exciting adventure, we got a road not taken.

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Geltor Raises $18.2m for Animal-Free “Designer Collagen”

AFN Sustainable Protein

Geltor , a Californian startup using computational biology and fermentation techniques to produce collagen products without using animal byproducts, has raised $18.2 million in Series A funding. The startup, which has focused on the cosmetics industry for its first product line — the award-winning skincare ingredient N-Collage — is set to develop products for the nutraceutical, food and beverage industries too, such as gelatin, a form of collagen often found in sweets.

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Recycling mistakes you may be making

Living Green Technology

How well do you think you recycle—and how well do you actually recycle? For many people there’s a disconnect between the two. They think they’re doing a lot, but in actuality they could be doing so much better. For example, have you ever just thrown a cardboard box into the recycling bin because, well, it can be recycled right? Well of course it can—but you could be doing so much better just by taking a few seconds and breaking the box down.

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Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization

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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The prospects for I-1631 eliminating 20 million tons of carbon pollution annually by 2035

Low Carbon Prosperity

To download a copy of the full analysis, click here for a PDF version. SUMMARY. In this Low Carbon Prosperity Institute (LCPI) analysis, we explore scenarios of carbon reduction investment performance based on the revenue allocation described in Initiative 1631. The initiative, also known as the “Protect Washington Act”, imposes a steadily increasing carbon pollution fee on most fossil fuel uses and directs revenue toward projects to reduce carbon emissions, as well as investments in forests, wa

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Massive Transformation of Japanese Electricity Market Calls for Flexible Energy Management

AutoGrid

Massive Transformation of Japanese Electricity Market Calls for Flexible Energy Management. Partnerships with local market players will bring AutoGrid Flex to regulated and deregulated electricity companies in Japan. As AutoGrid continues its strategic trajectory into international growth markets, it should come as no surprise that we’re scaling up our presence in Japan.

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Greek island Tilos on its way to becoming fully powered by renewable energy

Treehugger - Technology

The tiny island has previously relied exclusively on fossil fuels.

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Geltor Raises $18.2m for Animal-Free “Designer Collagen”

AFN Sustainable Protein

Geltor , a Californian startup using computational biology and fermentation techniques to produce collagen products without using animal byproducts, has raised $18.2 million in Series A funding. The startup, which has focused on the cosmetics industry for its first product line — the award-winning skincare ingredient N-Collage — is set to develop products for the nutraceutical, food and beverage industries too, such as gelatin, a form of collagen often found in sweets.

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From Bees, and Sustainability to Startups Competing for Prizes, WCS Talks Packs in the Inspiration for a Cleaner Future

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

. It’s that time of year again, the time to be inspired by some of the brightest minds in Cleantech at WCS Talks 2018. Women in Cleantech and Sustainability (WCS) has been hosting informative events all year, but none that measure up quite like WCS Talks. For the fifth year in a row, Google will be hosting professionals from all stages in their career, from students to C-suite executives on Saturday, November 3, 2018.

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LCPI Event: The Future of Climate Policy After I-1631

Low Carbon Prosperity

The Future of Climate Policy After I-1631 ~ Making the best of the outcome Wed, November 28, 2018, 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM PST | Mercer Island Community & Event Center. Purpose: Inform community about views of electorate. Resolve post-election tensions & align towards cooperative success. Invite engagement in achieving desired outcomes. Set framework for 2019 legislature.

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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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Omprakash “Om” Moolchandani: Why I Joined AutoGrid

AutoGrid

By Omprakash “Om” Moolchandani. I started working at AutoGrid about a month ago and almost immediately I was able to jump right into the middle of a customer project. As I started working, I was struck by how helpful everyone was. Team members got me up to speed on the customer and the product, and they listened to my thoughts. By the end of the second week, I had started contributing ideas.

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The U.S. Supreme Court Slows Children's Climate Lawsuit -- For Now

Jim Conca

The first climate change lawsuit to engage SCOTUS was halted for the moment by Chief Justice Roberts. The case alleges that the government's affirmative actions helped to causeclimate change, violating the youngest generation's constitutional rights to protect essentialpublic resources.

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Innovative floating tidal-power turbine generates 3 GWh of energy in its first year of testing

Treehugger - Technology

The floating tidal stream turbine off the coast of Scotland has proven that it can produce power safely and cheaply year round.

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Cleanie Awards: 38 North Chair Named Entrepreneur of Year

38 North Solutions

38 North Solutions is thrilled to announce the inaugural Cleanie Awards Entrepreneur of the Year designation for Katherine Hamilton, Chair of the firm. This is the first comprehensive clean tech awards process, awarded to ten companies and individuals who have made significant contributions to the sector. Read the full award press release here. The post Cleanie Awards: 38 North Chair Named Entrepreneur of Year appeared first on 38 North Solutions.

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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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From Bees, and Sustainability to Startups Competing for Prizes, WCS Talks Packs in the Inspiration for a Cleaner Future

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

. It’s that time of year again, the time to be inspired by some of the brightest minds in Cleantech at WCS Talks 2018. Women in Cleantech and Sustainability (WCS) has been hosting informative events all year, but none that measure up quite like WCS Talks. For the fifth year in a row, Google will be hosting professionals from all stages in their career, from students to C-suite executives on Saturday, November 3, 2018.

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Indonesia’s Trusted Maxbet Football Gambling Which Surely Guarantees Big Victory For You

Green Technology

Indonesia’s Trusted Maxbet Football Gambling Which Surely Guarantees Big Victory For You. Indonesia’s Trusted Maxbet Football Gambling Which Surely Guarantees Big Victory For You! In the world of soccer gambling, the role of a legal Indonesian soccer gambling agent will be important. Through this game, you will get a good game. Games with uninterrupted payment collateral can certainly be obtained.

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Omprakash “Om” Moolchandani: Why I Joined AutoGrid

AutoGrid

By Omprakash “Om” Moolchandani. I started working at AutoGrid about a month ago and almost immediately I was able to jump right into the middle of a customer project. As I started working, I was struck by how helpful everyone was. Team members got me up to speed on the customer and the product, and they listened to my thoughts. By the end of the second week, I had started contributing ideas.

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Nuclear Plant Continues To Invest In Alternative Energy

Jim Conca

Energy Northwest is building 5MW combined solar/battery storage facility, adding 10 million kWhs of low-C electricity to its already diverse mix of non-fossil fuel generation, producing over 10 billion kWhs, emitting less than 20 gCO2/kWh, all for between 3¢ and 5¢/kWh. Just what the IPCC ordered.

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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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Appendix A: Initiative 1631 Funding to Offset Increases In Lower Income Energy Burdens

Low Carbon Prosperity

Appendix A provides supporting material for LCPI’s analysis of Initiative 1631 (Protect Washington Act) Prospects for eliminating 20 million tons of carbon pollution annually in 2035. Initiative 1631 directs a minimum of 15% of the Clean Air & Clean Energy Account plus utility retained credits towards: “…sufficient investments to eliminate net increases in energy burden of customers that are people with lower incomes as a result of actions to reduce pollution, including the requi

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3 Ways That Transport is Becoming More Eco-Friendly

Energy Refuge

Modern people are spoiled for choice when it comes to choosing ways of getting around. We are also on the cusp of a revolution in personal transport in the form of driverless vehicles. Driverless vehicles will make transport more efficient and, therefore, more environmentally friendly. This is just one of the ways that vehicles of the future are set to have a much smaller environmental impact.

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First Pitch Competition Focused on Female Led Cleantech and Sustainability Startups in the U.S. Hosted by Women in Cleantech & Sustainability

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

Six women entrepreneurs to pitch to venture capitalists and investors at the 5th Annual WCS Talks 2018 on November 3rd, 2018, hosted at Google Sunnyvale campus. SUNNYVALE, CA, USA, October 16, 2018 – Shining a spotlight on women-led startups from around the world, the 5th Annual WCS Talks, organized by the leading Bay Area non-profit Women in Cleantech and Sustainability , will feature the first ever pitch competition in the United States to focus on female entrepreneurs from the cleantech and s

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Trending Topics – Beneficial Electrification: How To Make It Work

Energy Innovation

A version of this article was originally published October 1, 2018 on Greentech Media. By Mike O’Boyle. Attendees at the Electric Power Research Institute’s Electrification 2018 conference spoke often about the concept of “beneficial electrification.” This captures the idea that switching from fossil energy to electricity in transportation and buildings holds tremendous potential to dramatically increase grid flexibility, reduce total household and business energy costs, and reduce air po

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Massive Transformation of Japanese Electricity Market Calls for Flexible Energy Management

AutoGrid

Massive Transformation of Japanese Electricity Market Calls for Flexible Energy Management. Partnerships with local market players will bring AutoGrid Flex to regulated and deregulated electricity companies in Japan. As AutoGrid continues its strategic trajectory into international growth markets, it should come as no surprise that we’re scaling up our presence in Japan.

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U.S. Natural Gas Goes Global

Jim Conca

As much as alternatives are increasing, gas is increasing more. And will grow faster than all other sources in the United States. But for the industry to really make a profit, we need to connect to the world market. This is opposite to oil which is harmed by being hooked up to the global market.

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WEEKLY NEWSFLASH 10/22-10/26:  CLEANTECH RESOURCES AND GROWTH

Greentown Labs

This week in cleantech and renewable energy news, Greentown Labs and its’ hometown are celebrated as a potential future hub of innovation while two of our member companies are highlighted for their social impact. In other news, an update on the state of the cleantech industry in Boston is posted, along with the projected growth of the U.S. energy storage market.

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Recycling News Roundup - October 2018

Living Green Technology

Want to learn about the most recent recycling news in Seattle, Tacoma, Portland, and the world? We've got you covered! Athol Daily News: Recycling needs to go dual-stream to adapt to changing demand Athol Daily News published a fantastic opinion article that analyzes some of the big changes in the recycling industry, particularly with China becoming stricter about what sort of recyclables it will accept.

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First Pitch Competition Focused on Female Led Cleantech and Sustainability Startups in the U.S. Hosted by Women in Cleantech & Sustainability

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

Six women entrepreneurs to pitch to venture capitalists and investors at the 5th Annual WCS Talks 2018 on November 3rd, 2018, hosted at Google Sunnyvale campus. SUNNYVALE, CA, USA, October 16, 2018 – Shining a spotlight on women-led startups from around the world, the 5th Annual WCS Talks, organized by the leading Bay Area non-profit Women in Cleantech and Sustainability , will feature the first ever pitch competition in the United States to focus on female entrepreneurs from the cleantech and s

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Why options matter in solar sales: lessons from decision science

Sighten

This month on the Sighten blog, we’re kicking off a blog series exploring several key principles in the science of decision-making. Using some simple yet powerful concepts, you’ll be able to make sure your solar sales process maps to how the human brain actually processes information and makes buying decisions. Adopting these data-driven strategies will help you develop effective, repeatable ways to close more deals.

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Compelling solar sales pitches: storytelling and social proof

Sighten

In part one of our series on boosting your solar sales using the science of decision-making, we looked at two key concepts: single option aversion and the decoy effect. Together, these two principles can help you close more deals by presenting options designed to facilitate confident buying decisions. This time around, we’re going to discuss storytelling and social proof --two more science-backed concepts that can have a meaningful impact on your close rate.

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