July, 2018

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Radiation And The Value Of A Human Life

Jim Conca

The 63rd HPS meeting in Cleveland discussed, among other things, how much we are spending trying to adhere to absurdly-low radiation limits fostered upon society by the LNT, trying to save one theoretical life while not saving millions of real lives for the same amount of money.

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5 Simple Ways Small Businesses Can Help Protect the Planet

Living Green Technology

While many established corporations have taken the lead in going green, small businesses tend to focus more on growth—especially when they’re first starting out. But the benefits of going green relate to more than just making the environment better; they also contribute significantly to business growth. Studies show that many talented individuals want to work for businesses that put purpose before profit.

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How Does Solar Power Work for Your Home?

Sunrun

How solar works is simpler than you think. Once you’ve made up your mind to get off the utility company’s rate-hike roller coaster, switching to solar power is really pretty simple. You say “Yes!” to choosing solar power, and we’ll do the rest from home solar installation to maintenance and more. But first you’re wondering, “ how does solar power work ?

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It Shouldn’t Be Called ‘Clean Meat’ But It Will be Clean, says Cultured Meat’s Founder

AFN Sustainable Protein

“I don’t use the term clean meat for a couple of reasons; it can’t translate into Dutch, French or German, and it kind of suggests that current meat is dirty, which I think unnecessarily criminalizes the meat industry and there’s no need for that.”. Dr. Mark Post is the co-founder and chief scientific officer of Mosa Meat , the Dutch startup that produced the first ever lab-grown beef burger in 2013. “The meat industry has been feeding us for a long time, with high-quality meat of limited

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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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This computer program could make animal testing obsolete

Treehugger - Technology

Using artificial intelligence, it's now possible to map out previously unknown relationships between molecular structure and chemical toxicity.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

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Office decommissions: Great for your business AND Planet Earth

Living Green Technology

Successful businesses will ultimately have to decide to upgrade their equipment or decommission old electronics as they move to a different, larger location. This process, depending on the scope, can take dozens of man hours and require employees to come in after-hours to finish the move. Another viable, and oftentimes more advantageous solution is to bring in a company to decommission your electronics for you.

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Solar Incentives

Sunrun

Solar Incentives Definition: Electricity consumers are offered financial incentives from federal, state, and local government to install solar systems. These financial policies are implemented to promote energy independence, job creation and carbon emission reduction.

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It Shouldn’t Be Called ‘Clean Meat’ But It Will be Clean, says Cultured Meat’s Founder

AFN Sustainable Protein

“I don’t use the term clean meat for a couple of reasons; it can’t translate into Dutch, French or German, and it kind of suggests that current meat is dirty, which I think unnecessarily criminalizes the meat industry and there’s no need for that.”. Dr. Mark Post is the co-founder and chief scientific officer of Mosa Meat , the Dutch startup that produced the first ever lab-grown beef burger in 2013. “The meat industry has been feeding us for a long time, with high-quality meat of limited

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Bagian Positif Main IDN Poker88 Online Paling Dibenarkan Dan Sangat Populer

Green Technology

Permainan Poker88 jadi Permainan dengan paling banyak peminat nya terlihat dari jumlahnya banyaknya orang yang mainkan Permainan gambling itu. Pastinya kenyataan berarti masing- masing orang main gambling Poker88 yakni cari profit. Dan tidak itu saja nyatanya dalam main idn Poker88 online sangat diyakini masing- masing pemeran menBisakan banyak efek yang positif.

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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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California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC)

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

Position:? Energy Efficiency Senior Project Manager. ?. ? Description: A senior project manager (Public Utilities Regulatory Analyst V) on the California Public Utilities Commission Residential Energy Efficiency and Low Income Programs team posted on July 17. Final Filing Date: 7/31/2018. Location: The position is posted for all three CPUC office locations: SF, Sacramento, and LA.

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Fracking-Induced EarthquakesGenerateAnxiety In The Public

Jim Conca

The connection between fracking and earthquakes has another facet – increasing anxiety of the public. A new Berkeley study used a unique technique to examine the tie between OK earthquakes and statewide anxiety - measuring Google health queries on the subject as a function of time after the quakes.

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Celebration 20 years of Integrated Green Infrastructure

Green Roof Technology

Integrated Green Infrastructure That Last. Celebrating two projects with 20 years of integrated Green Infrastructure. It is now 20 years after Jorg Breuning managed the Green Roof installation at the Zeppelin-Carrée (left). and 1999 Kronen-Carrée (right) in Stuttgart. Over 500,000 sf of green roofs nicely visible on Google Earth. Probably the first Solar Garden Roof on Earth.

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Solar Loan

Sunrun

Solar Loan Definition: Similar to a home improvement loan, the homeowner borrows money from a lender, either a bank or a solar company, and then pay it back with interests through monthly installments. These help homeowners go solar for $0 down while financing the whole system.

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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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FDA Addresses Cultured Meat in Crucial First Step for New Industry

AFN Sustainable Protein

“There are no great mysteries when it comes to cell culture. This technology has been around for a long time,” said Jeremiah Fasano, a consumer safety officer focused on biotech and food additive safety at the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Fasano was speaking at a July 12 public meeting in Maryland where s cientists, lobbyists, and entrepreneurs gathered to discuss a crucial hurdle between much-hyped cultured meat products and consumers: regulation.

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Southeast Asia is the global laggard in renewables, but for how much longer?

The Angry Clean Energy Guy

Singapore: Marina Bay, Financial District and Singapore River ( Credit: Flickr ) The renewable energy revolution is on an explosive growth path from China to India to Latin America, but it appears to have not yet properly reached the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), a regional grouping of 10 countries with a combined population of 640 million people.

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Sara Prochasson: May Member of the Month

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

WCS Member of the Month highlights the amazing stories of female leaders in the industry. This month, we spotlight Sara Prochasson, Smart Grid Analyst for Enedis. WCS: Please introduce us to Enedis and the work it does. As an electricity distribution service for France, what are some of your programs, in particular those unique to Enedis? Sara: Enedis is the French regulated distribution system operator (DSO), which is part of EDF (Electricité de France) Group; in France the electric system

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The Global Clean Water Crisis -- PepsiCo Expands Its Safe Water Program

Jim Conca

4 billion people live with severe water scarcity. PepsiCo’s new Sustainability Report outlines their strategic grant programs to conserve, manage, and distribute clean water across the United States, Latin America, China and India with a goal of helping 25 million people by 2025.

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Power Plant and Green Roof

Green Roof Technology

Green Roofs and Green Walls. Since 1991 the Waste to Energy Power Plant in Stuttgart, Germany utilizes solid "old school" living green technology that the building almost visually disappears from the street level. Old school living green technology is rather based on the long experience of horticultural experts and professional gardeners than on innovative, complicated technology that requires more maintenance than the vegetation.

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Last Mile Learning: do incentives work?

Solar Sister

While bringing new women into Solar Sister’s network is critical for reaching more people with clean energy, we know that our goals for impact and sustainability cannot be achieved without existing entrepreneurs growing their businesses. In March and April 2018, our Nigeria team tested different types of incentives to assess effective means for encouraging sales growth, and to evaluate how such incentives can boost returns on investment for Solar Sister.

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FDA Addresses Cultured Meat in Crucial First Step for New Industry

AFN Sustainable Protein

“There are no great mysteries when it comes to cell culture. This technology has been around for a long time,” said Jeremiah Fasano, a consumer safety officer focused on biotech and food additive safety at the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA). Fasano was speaking at a July 12 public meeting in Maryland where s cientists, lobbyists, and entrepreneurs gathered to discuss a crucial hurdle between much-hyped cultured meat products and consumers: regulation.

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No Sun? Get a GoSun Fusion solar cooker and live better electrically

Treehugger - Technology

The GoSun Fusion probably won’t save the world, but the design thinking behind it might.

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Sara Prochasson: May Member of the Month

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

WCS Member of the Month highlights the amazing stories of female leaders in the industry. This month, we spotlight Sara Prochasson, Smart Grid Analyst for Enedis. WCS: Please introduce us to Enedis and the work it does. As an electricity distribution service for France, what are some of your programs, in particular those unique to Enedis? Sara: Enedis is the French regulated distribution system operator (DSO), which is part of EDF (Electricité de France) Group; in France the electric system

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Richard Rhodes Reveals Human History Through The Light Of Energy

Jim Conca

Energy has always been about power - to drive an engine or to drive a Kingdom. Rhodes’ beautiful prose illustrates how intricately the last 400 years is intertwined with the emergence of dense energy in amounts that could fuel civilizations, in amounts that could compete with Nature itself.

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There Is No Trump Economic “Record”

Andrew Winston

Re: My new article on Medium. I know I mainly write about corporate sustainability here, but the world has changed. The sustainability agenda will struggle in the U.S. if we don't change who's in power so my focus is increasingly on the upcoming election and making the case against Trump and his enablers. But the myths about Trump and his "leadership" abound.