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Nuclear Power And The 2020 Presidential Candidates

Jim Conca

14 candidates support nuclear in some way, 9 do not, and 1 is unclear. Leading climate scientists say we can't address climate change without nuclear power. Supporting nuclear power is a clear signal about how serious a candidate is about climate change and how serious they are about science.

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Freedom Lawns: A Clear Leader In Sustainable Lawn Care

Green Business Bureau

Freedom Lawns USA Inc. is an organic-based lawn care company that focuses on a safer approach to residential lawn, commercial lawn and ornamental plant care. Their franchises provide organic based lawn and plant care for residential and commercial clients using their own organic-based products and a sound integrated eco-friendly pest management program.

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US Businesses Are Benefiting From Ambitious Environmental Goals

Forbes Green Tech

The study shows that although businesses are still driven to manage their resources efficiently from an economic standpoint, they have also become more engaged in sustainable development. Environmental considerations have become a more serious talking point among company decision-makers.

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Maritime Shipping – Sector Watch 9 August 2019

CleanTech Group

Once considered slow-moving and outdated, the maritime shipping industry has experienced a recent influx of digitization and the implementation of new technologies, including autonomous ships, blockchain, drones and geospatial analytics. According to the 2018 Review of Maritime Transport, the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) considers technological advances and efforts to curb the […].

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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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IPCC report: Planting trees isn’t enough to save us from the climate crisis

Grist

The conventional wisdom is that planting trees will save us from the ever-encroaching threat of climate change. Alas, the conventional wisdom is wrong: It’s going to take a lot more than trees to save the planet, according to a new Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change report on land use. Forests are basically charismatic megaflora — we like the idea of being in them and saving them and making more of them.

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Promoting Your Green Business Without Greenwashing

Green Business Bureau

Led by millennials, modern consumers are going green and no longer base their purchasing decisions on price and quality alone. The modern consumer is also increasingly eco-aware , and filters brands based on their environmental footprint. Whether we’re talking about food, skincare, electronics or clothing, people prefer green products made ethically and responsibly.

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Insurance and the Low-Carbon Economy – A Meeting of Minds and Markets

CleanTech Group

The insurance industry should reflect the society it underwrites risk for. The transition to a low-carbon economy means that incumbents are now looking for new and better ways to meet their clients’ changing needs. Many insurance incumbents are looking at the opportunities connected to cleantech, while also recognizing their responsibilities and interest in mitigating the physical, transitional and […].

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Explosions in Three States Highlight Dangers of Aging Fossil Fuel Infrastructure

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 7 mins On August 1, for the third time in as many years, Enbridge's Texas Eastern Transmission gas pipeline exploded. This tragic incident in central Kentucky killed a 58-year-old woman, Lisa Denise Derringer, and injured at least five others. Flames towered 300 feet high when the 30-inch diameter pipe ruptured at 1 a.m. and forced at least 75 people to evacuate.

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Climate change is making it more dangerous to eat certain fish

Grist

It may not be a cataclysmic turning point in the climate crisis, but global warming has officially come for your fish tacos. According to a new study published in the journal Nature on Wednesday, higher ocean temperatures are causing the mercury content of certain fish to increase despite regulations aimed at reducing the amount of the heavy metal in our seafood.

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Why China Is Dominating Lithium-Ion Battery Production

Forbes Green Tech

As the world increasingly electrifies its transportation systems, China is poised to dominate manufacture of the batteries that will drive this electrification.

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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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Recent Deals – 9 August 2019

CleanTech Group

Agriculture & Food: Inari, a developer of genetic engineering tools for the agricultural sector, raised $89 million in growth equity. Investors included Flagship Pioneering, Investment Corporation of Dubai, EDBI and Acre Venture Partners. The new round of capital will be used to further the company’s computational and genomic tools, as well as accelerate the […].

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Documents Shine New Light on Koch Brothers’ Early Efforts to Abolish the Department of Energy

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 8 mins A scheme to abolish the Department of Energy ( DOE ) helped spur a failed 1980 Libertarian Party presidential bid — and in the process laid the groundwork for Charles and David Koch's powerful network of influence — as documents from a newly published archive show. The documents in the new KochDocs.org archive include a relatively little-noticed column penned by fossil fuel industrialist Charles Koch for the Libertarian Review in August 1977, in which Charles, who had served

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Introducing Next-Generation PlanetScope Imagery

Planet Pulse

We gave you a sneak peek at our next-generation Dove satellites earlier this year when we released “ first light ” images. Now we’re happy to formally introduce our Next-Generation PlanetScope imagery: a step forward in Planet’s commitment to agile aerospace and the delivery of high-frequency, global imagery. Next-Generation PlanetScope brings enhancements to PlanetScope imagery quality and accuracy for our customers, while maintaining high coverage rates.

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Beyond The Bus: Proterra Repackages Its Electric Transit Tech To Power Heavy-Duty Commercial Vehicles

Forbes Green Tech

The maker of zero-emission buses has a new division to sell its batteries, motors and other components for use in commercial vehicles and work trucks ahead of a possible IPO.

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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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3 IN 1 Roof Inc. has successfully passed UL 1703 safety testing for their SOLAR ROOF TILES, BEATING TESLA TO MARKET

altenergymag

THE WORLD’S ONLY INSULATING SOLAR ROOF TILE HAS FINALLY ARRIVED! 3 IN 1 Roof Inc. (3in1roof.com) has successfully passed UL 1703 safety testing for their solar roof tiles, beating Tesla to market.

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Bleak Financial Outlook for US Fracking Industry

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 5 mins In early 2018 when major financial publications like the Wall Street Journal were predicting a bright and profitable future for the fracking industry, DeSmog began a series detailing the failing business model of fracking shale deposits for oil and gas in America. Over a year later, the fracking industry is having to reckon with many of the issues DeSmog highlighted, in addition to one new issue — investors are finally giving up on the industry.

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European Space Agency to Utilize More Planet Constellations

Planet Pulse

The European Space Agency (ESA) entered an agreement with Planet to gain access to both PlanetScope and SkySat constellations—with the aim of having these tools complement data drawn from ESA’s own earth observation satellites and Third Party Missions. Until recently, ESA had access to only RapidEye satellites under the EarthNet Programme, but recently decided to expand its arsenal of tools in the hope of sharing resources and knowledge for the benefit of all citizens.

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The Dynamics Have Changed But The Amazon Is Absolutely Being Deforested

Forbes Green Tech

Improved satellite technology should give us confidence in recent estimates of Amazon deforestation.

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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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Switch2 Energy celebrates double success with Fife Council

altenergymag

Switch2 Energy is celebrating double success following seven contract wins from the Fife Council Heat Metering & Billing Services Framework, along with news that it has been approved to supply an extended range of heat network services and products.

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Report: ‘No Evidence That Fracking Can Operate Without Threatening Public Health’

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 7 mins By Tara Lohan , The Revelator. Originally posted on The Revelator. More than 1,500 scientific studies on the health and climate impacts of fracking prove its dangerous effect on communities, wildlife and nature. Tags: Physicians for Social Responsibility fracking Dr.

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Why China Is Dominating Lithium-Ion Battery Production

R-Squared Energy

The world is becoming increasingly electrified. Not only are developing countries increasing the availability of electricity to their populations, but the electrification of existing transportation infrastructure is proceeding at a rapid pace. By 2040, over half of the cars on the roads are projected to be powered by electricity. Batteries play a critical role in this transition, but a relatively new type of battery seems certain to dominate in both personal electronics, as well as in transporta

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Audi Takes On The Urban Electric Scooter Trend With The Skateboard-Style Ride E-Tron Scooter

Forbes Green Tech

Audi, the European premium carmaker, has created the e-tron Scooter, a fun and practical transport idea designed for sporty urban riders, offering the advantages of the electric scooter with the dynamics of skateboarding

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The World in 2030: Nine Megatrends to Watch

Andrew Winston

[Hi all, Happy summer. I haven’t written as much this year (i’m hoping it’s quality over quantity?), but I haven’t posted some of the articles I did write to my blog in awhile. Here’s one from my MIT SMR column from a few months back on megatrends and the next 10-11 years. Enjoy.]. Where will we be in 2030? I don’t usually play the futurist game — I’m more of a “presentist,” looking at the data we have right now on fast-moving megatrends that shape the world today.

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Announcing DeSmog's Koch Network Database

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 2 mins The Koch Network Database is a new resource library built by DeSmog to assist journalists, academic researchers, and the public to learn more about the backgrounds of individuals and organizations associated with billionaire fossil fuel industrialists Charles Koch and David Koch 's free market approach to a broad spectrum of civic issues. .

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Biophilia and Beauty

Fairsnape

“Beauty is an experience – it is not the property of an object. It is not a permanent state, but the response a person will have to something, another person or action, a feeling or object.” Over the weekend I sat down to read and review Wellbeing In Interiors, Philosophy, Design & Value in Practice by Elina Grigoriou, recently published by RIBA.

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Car Buyers May Not Prefer Electric Vehicles But They Prefer The Tesla Model 3

Forbes Green Tech

A couple of recent reports say that most car buyers will not consider an EV.

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The World in 2030: Nine Megatrends to Watch

Andrew Winston

[Hi all, Happy summer. I haven't written as much this year (i'm hoping it's quality over quantity?), but I haven't posted some of the articles I did write to my blog in awhile. Here's one from my MIT SMR column from a few months back on megatrends and the next 10-11 years. Enjoy.]. Where will we be in 2030? I don’t usually play the futurist game — I’m more of a “presentist,” looking at the data we have right now on fast-moving megatrends that shape the world today.

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1 Hotels Fellowship 2019–2020 Cycle Launches

E2 Environmental Entrepreneurs

By Gail Parson, Director of Membership & State Engagement The third year of the E2 1 Hotels Fellowship officially launched this week with applications for the 2019–2020 class being accepted now! We are thrilled to once again find 10 new business leaders with visions to impact our country’s most pressing environmental issues. In our first two years, these leaders have made a real difference in state and local levels throughout the nation.

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Mosaic and SunTrust Bank Enter Solar Financing Partnership

altenergymag

Partnership focuses on solar loan originations, helping to accelerate the growth of solar energy systems, batteries and related clean energy solutions for US homeowners

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Citroën Ami One Is An EV For Young Urbanites, A Personal Gadget Controlled By Your Smartphone

Forbes Green Tech

Citroën's Ami One electric city car for young urban drivers is a bit like a personal gadget: it uses modular manufacturing to keep costs low, modern fabrics inside, you control it through your smartphone and is fun to drive

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How the tech giants are fueling a solar revolution

Renewable Energy World

From the way we shop to the way we socialize, the internet affects nearly everything we do these days. This dramatic change in our way of life has been fueled by a handful of large tech companies, companies that are increasingly going all in on solar.

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NC Biz Leaders: Meeting Workforce Demands Key to Unlocking Clean Economy

E2 Environmental Entrepreneurs

By Veronica Butcher, E2 North Carolina Representative E2’s presence was felt across North Carolina this month, with the release of our first-ever jobs report in the state and a series of listening sessions with business leaders and investors in partnership with the NC Department of Commerce and NC Sustainable Energy Association in 3 cities?—?Asheville, Charlotte and Raleigh.

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Comment: Yes, Scientists Say we Need to Plant Trees and Eat Less Meat ?— But Not as a Replacement for Cutting Fossil Fuels

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 6 mins After a three year wait, the UN ’s official scientific advisory panel’s verdict on land and climate is here. The report is about as glum as you might have come to expect from a body tasked with documenting humanity’s ongoing descent into climate-induced havoc. The UN is right to highlight the crucial importance of land in both causing and curbing climate change — it has been neglected for far too long.