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This Coca-Cola bottler will capture carbon dioxide to put the fizz in its drinks

GreenBiz

Liberty Coca-Cola Beverages is building a “quadgeneration” system to generate electricity, run heating and cooling processes, and recover carbon dioxide to carbonate beverages.

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At Long Last, the Vision of the Grand Canyon Tribal Coalition Is Realized

NRDC onEarth

The designation of the Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni—Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument is not only extremely popular but its protections are long overdue.

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HVAC Energy Efficiency: 5 Tips to Improve Your Air Conditioner’s Performance and Lifespan

U.S. Green Technology

In our pursuit of better energy management and environmental responsibility, we’ve gathered valuable insights into optimizing the functionality of air conditioners. A well-performing air conditioner blends convenience, effectiveness, and eco-consciousness seamlessly. Let’s learn some helpful tips that will improve how you understand your HVAC system and also make it work better and last longer.

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Wind and solar strangle coal and gas, but diesel SUVs are killing us all

Renew Economy

Latest data shows wind and solar having a big impact on coal, gas and emissions, but the Australian switch to big diesel SUVs is eliminating most of those gains. The post Wind and solar strangle coal and gas, but diesel SUVs are killing us all appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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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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How to keep your passion burning with a career in ESG

GreenBiz

Burnout is real and even more intense when climate change is your job. Here are 5 ways to keep your head on straight while trying to solve the world's biggest problem.

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At Long Last, the Vison of the Grand Canyon Tribal Coalition Is Realized

NRDC onEarth

The designation of the Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni—Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument is not only extremely popular but its protections are long overdue.

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Huge wind turbine parts arrive at port for delivery to Golden Plains

Renew Economy

First of 21 shiploads of turbine parts for the massive Golden Plains wind farm in Victoria have been unloaded at Geelong Port, ready for delivery. The post Huge wind turbine parts arrive at port for delivery to Golden Plains appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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3 strategies for embedding product circularity from the start

GreenBiz

Sponsored: Product manufacturers can make circularity a reality for their company with circularity readiness. Here are early-stage strategies to consider.

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NOAA’s Proposed Seafood Rule: Too Weak to Improve Conditions

NRDC onEarth

NOAA’s Proposed Rule excludes protections for species at high-risk of illegal fishing & fails to help address human rights violations in the seafood industry.

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Three geothermal prospects in the Philippines up for bidding

ThinkGeoEnergy

Editor’s note: The deadline for OSCP4 has now been extended to 28 September 2023. The Department of the Energy (DOE) of the Philippines is offering three geothermal sites as part of the 4th round of Open and Competitive Selection Process (OCSP4) for renewable energy service contracts. The sites are as follows: Buguias-Tinoc (100 MW) Mabini (40 MW) Mt.

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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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CATL launches fast-charging LFP battery, to start mass production this year

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CATL , the world’s largest EV battery maker and a major Tesla supplier, has launched a new lithium iron phosphate (LFP) battery that it claims can add 248 miles of range in 10 minutes of charging. The company says its new Shenxing battery (named for an ancient Chinese phrase having to do with speed) will deliver up to 434 miles of range on China’s CLTC cycle.

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Should you electrify your heavy-duty truck? Ask these 5 questions

GreenBiz

Electrification isn’t the only way to decarbonize transportation and logistics, but the path your company chooses to take will depend on these factors.

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CARB Must Reform LCFS Program to Meet Climate Goals

NRDC onEarth

CARB's Low-Carbon Fuel Standard currently funnels millions of dollars a year to polluting fuels. Will CARB listen to the community voices calling for change ?

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USA | Strategic Offshore Wind implementation

Energy Central

USA | Strategic Offshore Wind implementation This week has seen progress stateside in Maine, and next up is the Gulf of Mexico and interesting sectoral combinations in the wake of project Tampen coming online. [link] Offshore Wind and Hydrogen.

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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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Siemens to acquire heavy-duty EV charging specialist Heliox

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Electrical giant Siemens has signed an agreement to acquire Heliox , a specialist in fleet-oriented fast charging solutions. Heliox is headquartered in the Netherlands, and employs around 330 people The company makes a number of innovative charging products, including mobile DC fast chargers and bidirectional V2X-capable chargers. Siemens eMobility is part of Siemens Smart Infrastructure.

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Inside Fidelity International’s fund to invest in biodiversity

GreenBiz

The head of Fidelity International’s portfolio of climate and biodiversity funds, Velislava Dimitrova, addresses the rise of nature-related investments.

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What Are Heat Pump Air Conditioners?

NRDC onEarth

They’re way more efficient and cost-effective than standard ACs. Even better, they double as carbon-slashing heating systems.

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Home, neighbourhood, grid-scale batteries: What’s the difference and why does it matter?

Renew Economy

We need all the storage we can get on our grid – of all types and sizes. But community batteries are the ‘Swiss army knife’ of modern power systems. The post Home, neighbourhood, grid-scale batteries: What’s the difference and why does it matter? appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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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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NEO Battery Materials develops a uniform nanocoating manufacturing technique

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NEO Battery Materials , a silicon anode material manufacturer, has created a nanocoating manufacturing technique with its patented NBMSiDE silicon anode materials. NEO can create uniform nanocoating layers from uniformly-coated silicon particles to improve NBMSiDE’s performance. NBMSiDE capacity retention was previously poor due to the mechanical degradation of non-uniform coatings.

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Decades of messages about recycling have crowded out better ways to manage waste

GreenBiz

Wrong choices are typical in the confusing US recycling system, and recycling itself is often a poor choice among other options.

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Colorado makes Buildings More Livable, Less Polluting

NRDC onEarth

With a new Building Performance Standard policy, Colorado is leading the nation with clean, healthy buildings.

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German Chancellor visits Eavor’s Geretsried geothermal site

ThinkGeoEnergy

In a tremendous show of political support, Chancellor Olaf Scholz personally led a visit to the site of the geothermal project of Eavor Erdwärme Geretsried GmbH (Eavor Geretsried) in Geretsried, Germany. Joining the Chancellor in this visit were Federal Research Minister Bettina Stark-Watzinger, Bavaria’s Prime Minister Markus Söder, and Bavarian Economics Minister Hubert Aiwanger.

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FreeWire launches AI-enabled platform to optimize deployment of EV charging stations

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FreeWire Technologies , a provider of battery-integrated EV charging stations and energy management solutions, has launched a new software platform that’s designed to predict the best locations to deploy EV fast charging. The new Mobilyze Pro platform includes a utilization prediction engine, a tariff recommendation engine, and a profitability calculator.

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11 training resources to bolster your climate and net-zero strategy

GreenBiz

Empower your organization to meet its climate goals by learning how to develop a strategy based on best practices and science.

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Partnering with Beavers to Adapt to Climate Change

NRDC onEarth

Beavers and their habitat increase ecosystem health and help people and wildlife adapt to a warmer planet.

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There are smarter and cheaper alternatives to keeping Australia’s biggest coal plant open

Renew Economy

We are talking about a delay in the closure of Eraring as if it is our only option for secure and reliable power in NSW. It is not. For two reasons. The post There are smarter and cheaper alternatives to keeping Australia’s biggest coal plant open appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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ThermaPrime completes drilling program for PGPC geothermal fields, Philippines

ThinkGeoEnergy

ThermaPrime Drilling Corporation (ThermaPrime) has successfully completed a drilling program in the geothermal projects of the Philippine Geothermal Production Company, Inc (PGPC). The program included the drilling of 12 production wells and 3 multilateral injection wells, as well as 10 work-over jobs over a period of four years. ThermaPrime is a drilling services contracting company specializing in geothermal wells and related services.

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3 ways eBay, Pepsi are addressing Scope 3 transport emissions

GreenBiz

These companies engage third-party fleet companies, but that doesn’t mean they are leaving transportation decarbonization to their suppliers.

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Blue Bird delivers 20 electric school buses to Miami-Dade County Public Schools

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Yellow school bus icon Blue Bird is going electric —the company has nearly 1,000 electric school buses in operation today. The latest order comes from Miami-Dade County Public Schools, which will add 20 electric buses to its all-Blue Bird fleet of 1,000 school buses. Miami-Dade County is the third-largest school district in the nation, serving more than 335,000 students.

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Avangrid Expands in California with Its First Solar Project

Solar Industry

Avangrid , a sustainable energy company and part of the Iberdrola Group , has unveiled its plan to build the Camino Solar project (57 MW DC/44 MW AC), its first solar project in California, a state in which the company currently operates more than 500 MW through six wind energy facilities. Cupertino Electric Inc. will construct Camino Solar in Kern County, adjacent to Avangrid’s 189 MW Manzana Wind farm.

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CSIRO spins out new hydrogen tech that uses 30 pct less wind and solar

Renew Economy

New CSIRO spin off says its ground-breaking electrolyser tech requires 30 per cent less electricity to make green hydrogen than competing technologies. The post CSIRO spins out new hydrogen tech that uses 30 pct less wind and solar appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Sysco, Genentech and Amazon share 5 power moves for electrifying fleets

GreenBiz

Decarbonizing heavy-duty trucks and delivery vehicles is more than a plug-and-play effort, as several early movers reveal.

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ADS-TEC Energy and eliso to install over 1,000 charging points in Germany by 2025

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ADS-TEC Energy, a manufacturer of battery storage-based platform solutions, has partnered with charging solutions provider eliso to install ChargeBox and ChargePost DC fast charging systems in the public car parks of specialist electrical stores in Germany. ADS-TEC Energy’s battery-buffered fast charging solutions can temporarily store electricity from a local photovoltaic system in order to provide charging at power levels up to 320 kW, even at locations with power-limited grid connections.