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To B or not to B? More tech companies should ask themselves that question

GreenBiz

To B or not to B? More tech companies should ask themselves that question. Heather Clancy. Thu, 06/25/2020 - 02:00. Fifth Wall, the biggest venture fund dedicated to funding disruptive ideas in real estate and retail, this week revealed that it has become a Certified B Corporation (B Corp) — a move that requires it to embed concerns about equity, inclusiveness and sustainability into its portfolio.

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By 2029, Half of New US Wind Installations Will Be Offshore

GreenTechMedia

The United States offshore wind industry is set to ramp up from near-zero today to as much as 25 gigawatts in 2029, according to new Wood Mackenzie research. That means offshore wind will capture almost half of the US market for new wind power installations by the end of the decade — if the industry can avoid potential permitting and transmission capacity challenges.

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Beyond the Badge: The Durable Benefits of Sustainability Certification Programs

Green Business Bureau

In an age where company reputation is increasingly held to higher standards and stakeholders are seeking businesses they can trust, third-party seals, badges and certifications are beacons of light on company websites and products. However, sustainability certification is much more than a stagnant mark of past achievements. Unlike a one-time purchase that often loses its usefulness over time, sustainability certification is a versatile tool that can be used continuously throughout a company’s gr

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China Has ‘First-Strike’ Capability To Melt U.S. Power Grid With Electromagnetic Pulse Weapon

Jim Conca

China now has a network of satellites, high-speed missiles, and super-EMP weapons that could melt down our electric grid, fry critical communications, and even takeout the ability of our aircraft carrier groups to respond.

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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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Let’s incubate the Green Swans hatched by the COVID-19 Black Swan

GreenBiz

Let’s incubate the Green Swans hatched by the COVID-19 Black Swan. Tom Baruch. Tue, 06/23/2020 - 01:30. The global COVID-19 pandemic is a historic Black Swan event that offers a Green Swan of opportunities to harvest innovation from 50 years of converging exponential technologies. We are presented with a rare opportunity to invest in new innovations, rebuild our data and power infrastructures and supply chains to restore and strengthen the economy while healing the environment.

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Taming plastic waste with silica plastic blocks

Inhabitat - Innovation

In a bid to curb plastic waste pollution, India-based company Rhino Machines has invented a way of using plastic to make construction blocks. The silica plastic blocks (SPBs) are strong enough to build a house and can be useful in reducing world pollution problems.

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Fusion Energy Innovation: Accelerated Progress in 2020

CleanTech Group

The world has a major problem to solve. By 2040, we will need 29 trillion KWh of new energy generation to support 9.

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Chefs could be the missing ingredient to circular food systems

GreenBiz

Chefs could be the missing ingredient to circular food systems. Lauren Phipps. Mon, 06/22/2020 - 01:00. It’s often said that the way to a person’s heart is through the stomach. The same principle could apply to fixing the broken food system. . Food loss and waste, the carbon-intensive production and distribution of food, hunger and food deserts: These are just a few inefficient and unequal outcomes of today’s global food system.

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Breathtaking Coral Greenhouse raises environmental awareness for the Great Barrier Reef

Inhabitat - Innovation

In addition to providing a fascinating new dive site for scuba divers, the Coral Greenhouse and its 20-plus “Reef Guardian” sculptures will provide new reef habitat for local marine creatures.

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6 Ways to Keep Employees Engaged in Building a Sustainable Business

Green Business Bureau

Establishing a green team, also known as a sustainability department or committee in an organization is definitely a right step in the direction towards a sustainable journey. Though it seems daunting, setting up and managing a green team is achievable through certain steps. Green teams lead the charge to implement sustainable business practices and promote green culture among every member of the workforce.

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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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Intersolar North America and Energy Storage North America Appoint Advisory Board to Shape 2021 Conference Program

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Intersolar North America (ISNA) and Energy Storage North America (ESNA), the newly combined solar + storage events, today announced the formation of a new Advisory Board to review program content for the two conferences taking place January 12-14, 2021 in Long Beach, CA.

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SDG Ambition: Scaling Business Impact for the Decade of Action

GreenBiz

SDG Ambition: Scaling Business Impact for the Decade of Action. Now more than ever, companies everywhere must unite in the business of a more resilient, sustainable world. Despite progress made in many areas, we are not on track to deliver on the SDGs by 2030. In fact, the United Nations Global Compact Progress Report 2020 reveals only 39 per cent of companies surveyed believe they have targets that are sufficiently ambitious to meet the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.

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These funky sandals upcycle fabric from the cutting room floor

Inhabitat - Innovation

The fashion industry deserves a harsh slap on the wrist for how its manufacturing impacts the environment. From the overconsumption of resources to water pollution to material waste, it's refreshing when companies take corporate responsibility and show concern for nature.

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Benefits of Sustainability: Improved Employee Attraction, Engagement and Retention

Green Business Bureau

In recent years, sustainability has taken a lead position in the hiring and retention of employees. Many job seekers are evaluating potential employees based on their ‘greenness’ (environmental and social sustainability) and the benefits the company offers. Companies that can adapt quickly to this new trend are easily attracting and retaining top talents.

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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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RBI Solar Announces the Sunflower® II Single-Axis Tracker

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The breakthrough design of RBI’s Sunflower® II single-axis tracker has been equipped with enhanced capabilities, making it the most complete single-axis tracker system in the marketplace.

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Santa Monica To Pilot Zero Emissions Delivery Zones

LA CleanTech Incubator

The city of Santa Monica’s main business district has been chosen as the pilot for the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator’s new Neighborhood Zero Emissions Delivery Zone. The Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI) has put out an RFI (request for information) to companies far and wide who may have the technological solutions they need to solve this challenge.

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New study sheds light on Antarctic sea ice mystery

Inhabitat - Innovation

By now, most people have heard about polar ice melting due to global warming. But the coming and going of the sea ice surrounding Antarctica still leaves scientists puzzled.

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Upstart Co-Lab investor coalition commits to shift capital to creatives

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, June 25 – Upstart Co-Lab has been a chief evangelist of the power of art, design, culture, heritage, and creativity to drive impact. The five-year-old non-profit led by Laura Callanan has made the business case for investments in the creative economy, which in the U.S. amount to $878 billion. Now, 10 institutions and individuals. The post Upstart Co-Lab investor coalition commits to shift capital to creatives appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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GoGreenSolar Ushers in the Age of DIY Solar With a New Office and Experience Showroom

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Southern California’s premier home solar and DIY solar company, GoGreenSolar, has moved, upgrading its headquarters to a larger building located at 1630 South Sunkist St., Suite E. Anaheim, California.

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Sustainable Ocean Technologies: The Rise of the Blue Economy

CleanTech Group

Last week was the United Nations’ World Oceans Day, kicking off a global initiative to call on world leaders to protect 30% of.

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LEED Platinum Stockman Bank harvests rainwater and solar power in Missoula

Inhabitat - Innovation

In Montana’s historic downtown Missoula, a Stockman Bank branch has recently earned LEED v4 Core and Shell Platinum certification.

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Investors push stakeholder protections with shareholder resolutions

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, June 23 – This season, shareholder resolutions involving human rights and worker rights made up the largest category for the first time, edging out climate-related concerns. Still, since resolutions are prepared months in advance, management skirted the full force of flashpoint issues such as worker health and safety, inequality, and racial justice set off.

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Enphase Energy and Q CELLS Announce AC Module Partnership

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The Q.PEAK DUO BLK-G6+/AC 340-345 ACM features the Enphase IQ 7+™ microinverter and is the first Enphase Energized ACM from Q CELLS to come to market.

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Steven Chu: Long-Term Energy Storage Solution Has Been Here All Along

Forbes Green Tech

The most efficient energy storage technology may be as close as the nearest hill, according to former Energy Secretary Steven Chu, and almost as old.

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Luxury prefab Costa Rican home features dramatic wing-like roof

Inhabitat - Innovation

In a remote jungle on the hilltops of Costa Rica's Santa Teresa province, San José-based architecture firm Studio Saxe has completed Santiago Hills Villa, a luxury home that embraces nature in more ways than one. To ensure that all rooms of the villa have access to ocean views, the architects created a zigzag floor plan that turns the bedrooms and living spaces sideways to face the shoreline.

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In Maine, electric refuse trucks will be powered by refuse

Charged

What could be more logical than running electric refuse trucks on power generated by a waste-to-energy plant? That’s just what Portland, Maine-based waste collection company Ecomaine plans to do, as Haley Rischar writes in Waste Today. Ecomaine opened a waste-to-energy plant in 1989, but a decrease in the value of the energy produced caused the company’s revenue to dwindle.

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Quidnet Energy Gears Up for Commercial Deployment of Long Duration Energy Storage

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Innovative clean energy company secures $10 million Series B financing and New York State-backed contract for demonstration project

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Life imitates art as hedge fund manager Jeff Ubben launches public-market impact fund

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, June 25 – This season’s plotline on Billions, Showtime’s saga of wealth and corruption co-created by financial journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin, finds Wendy Rhoades (played by actor Maggie Siff) and Taylor Mason (Asia Kate Dillon) maneuvering to turn Bobby Axelrod’s (Damian Lewis) Axe Capital into an impact investment fund. Now comes activist investor Jeff.

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This net-zero home is integrated into the slopes of Carmel Valley

Inhabitat - Innovation

We caught up with Mary Ann Schicketanz to discuss the sustainable features of this gorgeous Carmel-by-the-Sea home.

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ClipperCreek’s new AmazingE FAST offers 7.7 kW Level 2 charging in a compact package

Charged

ClipperCreek offers a wide range of charging stations in many configurations and power levels, for residential and commercial applications. The latest addition to the ClipperCreek line is the humbly-named AmazingE FAST, a compact Level 2 residential charger. The AmazingE FAST operates at 32 amps and delivers up to 7.7 kW of power. It features a rugged waterproof enclosure and a 25-foot cable with a lockable SAE J1772 connector.

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LG SELECTED AS EXCLUSIVE SOLAR PANEL PROVIDER FOR NEW INDIAN WELLS RESIDENTIAL PROJECT

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Solar Brings On-Site Energy Production in Compliance with Title 24 Standards to New California Desert Community.

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Building a better post-COVID food system with investments in small businesses in developing economies

Impact Alpha

COVID-19 is – and will continue to have – a huge impact on global food and nutrition security. On the supply side, restrictions on movement is leading to crops rotting in fields and farmers losing their livelihoods. Storage facilities cannot move their food stocks, whilst food processors obtain fewer raw materials. Food retailers have less. The post Building a better post-COVID food system with investments in small businesses in developing economies appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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This timber home weaves around pine trees for reduced site impact

Inhabitat - Innovation

A cluster of timber boxes make up Haus Koeris, a new eco-friendly home by architecture firm Zeller & Moye.

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Summer just started and the Arctic already topped 100 degrees

Grist

Life in the small town of Verkhoyansk, Russia, has always been extreme. In the Siberian winter, temperatures can plummet to -90 degrees Fahrenheit — so cold that it’s dangerous to wear metal-framed glasses. In the summer, temperatures usually hover around a comfortable 69 degrees. But residents of the isolated village just north of the Arctic circle recently experienced something unprecedented even for them: Scorching summer heat of 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit.