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The Tide Is Turning (And Is It Ever!)

CleanTechnica

In the US, renewables are expected to see fifty times as much net capacity added in the next three years as nuclear and fossil fuels combined.

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Lyft’s Electric-Vehicle Commitment a Valuable Step Toward Lowering Emissions

Green Living Guy

Statement by Don Anair, Union of Concerned Scientists Published Jun 17, 2020 OAKLAND, Calif. (June 17, 2020)—The ride-hailing company Lyft has announced a plan to transition to all electric vehicles by 2030. This is an important step to minimize the climate and pollution impact of ride-hailing services, according to the Continue Reading. The post Lyft’s Electric-Vehicle Commitment a Valuable Step Toward Lowering Emissions appeared first on Green Living Guy.

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Can We Make Industrial Chemicals Green?

Jim Conca

Basic commercial chemicals, like chlorine, caustic soda and hydrochloric acid, can be made without C-emissions or toxic waste, at lower cost than normal. Achíni Scientific makes the whole manufacturing plant a huge capacitor, like a car's clutch, so it can use wind energy without fossil fuel backup.

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Data Centers Are the Epicenter of the Clean Energy Economy

GreenTechMedia

There is a widely-held perception that data centers ⁠— the giant facilities that hold networks of society’s supercomputers ⁠— are an out-of-control energy suck. It’s actually not true, says our guest. These myths are rooted in bad projections and false statements from coal advocates, dating all the way back to the 1990s.

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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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Sowing wildflower seed onto grass

Low Impact

Keen to transform your lawn into a wildflower meadow but not sure how? Nick Mann of Habitat Aid shares his guide to sowing wildflower seed onto grass. We’re often asked “Can I sow wildflower seed onto grass?” Generally customers have an existing lawn or pasture which they want to enhance. The short answer is it may well not work. You’ll more often than not have a better chance of establishing a wildflower meadow area if you start from scratch.

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Lyft plans to electrify all of its cars by 2030

GreenBiz

Lyft plans to electrify all of its cars by 2030. Katie Fehrenbacher. Wed, 06/17/2020 - 10:00. In an unprecedented move, the ride-hailing company Lyft revealed Wednesday it plans to electrify every car on its platform — those owned by Lyft and rented to drivers as well as cars owned by drivers — by 2030. The decade-long goal could result in millions of electric vehicles purchased for ride-hailing operations, encourage greater electric vehicle charging deployments and motivate stronger city, state

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BlackRock Leads $50M Investment Into Off-Grid Solar Technology That Generates Water

GreenTechMedia

A cleantech startup announced this week that it has raised $50 million to scale distributed solar technology — but not for electricity production. Zero Mass Water creates boxy solar panels that generate flows of pure, potable water instead of electrons. It offers access to safe water for homes or businesses in arid parts of the world or places with unsafe tap water.

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Electric Motors and Industrial Efficiency: Innovation is Key for EVs

CleanTech Group

Electric motors can be found in everything from cars to toothbrushes. Electric motors-and the systems they use- account for more than 40% of.

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To make offices safe during COVID-19, buildings need a breath of fresh air

GreenBiz

To make offices safe during COVID-19, buildings need a breath of fresh air. Jesse Klein. Mon, 06/15/2020 - 02:00. The coronavirus thrives inside. A Hong Kong paper found that of over 7,000 COVID-19 cases, only one outbreak was contracted outdoors. In Seoul, an infection cluster was so concentrated that even on a 19-floor building, the outbreak was contained to just one floor, and almost entirely on one side of that floor.

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Abandoned wine factory is transformed into a luxury hotel by the sea

Inhabitat - Innovation

On Greece’s idyllic Kourouta beach, Athens-based k-studio has converted a derelict wine factory from the 1920s into the Dexamenes Seaside Hotel, a stunning boutique hotel with enviable views of the sea.

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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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New Jersey to Build Nation’s Largest Offshore Wind Port

GreenTechMedia

New Jersey Governor Phil Murphy announced plans on Tuesday to develop an offshore wind port on an artificial island along the Delaware River, potentially giving the state a leg up in the race to attract offshore wind jobs and manufacturers. The New Jersey Wind Port, which is unlike anything yet revealed in the U.S., could grow to more than 150 acres and cost as much as $400 million to build, as the state looks to accommodate manufacturers of blades, nacelles and the other huge components that go

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Candela Seven electric boat’s hydrofoils reduce energy consumption by 80%

Charged

An electric boat that can fly? Wow, has James Bond heard about this? The truth about the Candela Seven electric boat is a bit less exciting, but still pretty cool. The new EV can’t actually take to the sky, but it does rise above the water in order to decrease drag and increase range. Wing-shaped foils force the hull out of the water as the boat moves forward, which Candela says reduces energy consumption by 80 percent compared to an ordinary planing boat, and cuts fuel costs by 95 percent.

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3 keys for scaling nature-based solutions for climate adaptation

GreenBiz

3 keys for scaling nature-based solutions for climate adaptation. Jonathan Cook. Wed, 06/17/2020 - 00:30. This article originally was published in World Resources Institute. In Indonesia, climate change is already a pernicious threat. More than 30 million people across northern Java suffer from coastal flooding and erosion related to more severe storms and sea level rise.

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Vibrant office building in India is made of recycled shipping containers

Inhabitat - Innovation

To meet a client brief focused on sustainability and cost-effectiveness, these architects turned to shipping containers.

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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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Sunrun to Turn Home Batteries Into Grid Resources for 2 Major Utilities

GreenTechMedia

Sunrun, the leading U.S. rooftop solar installer, finalized two utility partnerships to turn home batteries into miniature power plants. The company is signing up existing customers in Southern California Edison territory for a year-long demonstration, expected to launch by the end of the month. Participants will receive $250 for letting Sunrun control their batteries based on signals from SCE.

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Pricing for impact: How Agents of Impact can move from bluster to bold action

Impact Alpha

Can impact investing chip away at systemic dysfunction? Can deploying financial capital to achieve positive social, environmental and economic outcomes make a dent in structural racism? Can impact investing tackle the power asymmetry underpinning capital markets? Can it redress entrenched bias that prevents money from flowing to places and people invisible to those with the.

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Timberland invests in regenerative leather ranches

GreenBiz

Timberland invests in regenerative leather ranches. Deonna Anderson. Fri, 06/19/2020 - 02:45. Regenerative agriculture practices have received a lot of attention in recent years, and much of the focus has been on food production. But more companies outside of the food space are figuring out how they can invest in or use regenerative practices in the supply chain for their products. .

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The Denali XL is a spacious, rustic tiny home on wheels

Inhabitat - Innovation

Offered by Alabama-based Timbercraft Tiny Homes, the spacious and rustic Denali XL tiny home is based on the popular, smaller Denali model. Denali XL features 399 square feet of floor space, not including the 65-square-foot loft above the bathroom.

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Fluence Launches Next-Generation Battery Storage Product with 800MW of Orders

GreenTechMedia

Fluence is launching the sixth generation of its integrated grid storage product, and has already signed orders for 800 megawatts/2,300 megawatt-hours. The new version comes in a 10-foot cube shape, which the company plans to use as the building block for storage plants small and large, in place of the long rectangular containers from previous iterations.

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Preparing for wildfire season with solar + storage in the wake of coronavirus

Solar Power World

By Aric Saunders, Executive Vice President for Sales, Electriq Power At the beginning of May, areas of California lifted restrictions on solar and storage installers, deeming them “essential workers.” With the majority of the state’s homeowners under stay-at-home orders during the pandemic, the necessity of reliable home power has become abundantly clear.

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Inside Cargill’s experiment to pay farmers for carbon sequestration

GreenBiz

Inside Cargill’s experiment to pay farmers for carbon sequestration. Heather Clancy. Mon, 06/15/2020 - 00:15. Over the past year, agricultural commodities giant Cargill stepped up its global sustainability initiatives substantially, with a series of programs created to support its science-based target of reducing supply chain emissions by 30 percent by 2030. .

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Explore eerie wonders at the Museum of Underwater Art

Inhabitat - Innovation

Four years after its initial conception, Australia's Museum of Underwater Art has finally opened to the public, becoming the first-ever underwater art museum in the Southern Hemisphere. Located off the coast of Townsville North Queensland in the central part of the Great Barrier Reef, the unique museum aims to strengthen the region's position as a leader in reef conservation, restoration and education.

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What the Coming Wave of Distributed Energy Resources Means for the US Grid

GreenTechMedia

Cumulative distributed energy resource capacity in the United States will reach 397 gigawatts by 2025, according to a new Wood Mackenzie report. The DER resource mix is evolving quickly away from non-residential load management, which made up two-thirds of all U.S. DER capacity in 2015 but will make up less than half by 2025. Solar, electric vehicle infrastructure, and residential load management potential now lead all other resources, accounting for more than 90 percent of DER capacity installe

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Record Amounts Of Clean Energy Installed As Costs Continue To Fall

Forbes Green Tech

“If governments take advantage of the ever-falling price tag of renewables to put clean energy at the heart of COVID-19 economic recovery, they can take a big step towards a healthy natural world, which is the best insurance policy against global pandemics.”.

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The unmasking of Corporate America

GreenBiz

The unmasking of Corporate America. Joel Makower. Mon, 06/15/2020 - 02:11. The past two weeks have seen an outpouring of concern and commitment by companies about racism in the United States. Pronouncements on company social media accounts often take the form of graphics — white type against a black background seems to be de rigueur in the current environment.

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Hawk Nest House combines rammed earth and local stone

Inhabitat - Innovation

This stunning 4,585 square foot home in San Jose del Cabo, Mexico exemplifies sustainable indoor-outdoor living at its finest. In 2018, architecture firm FabrikG completed the home, which is located in an off-grid community about five and a half miles from downtown San Jose del Cabo on the East Cape hillside.

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Prime Impact Fund raises $52 million to jumpstart climate-tech pipeline

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, June 16 – Climate innovations aren’t going to fund themselves. Prime Coalition, founded by Sarah Kearney (an ImpactAlpha Agent of Impact), set out in 2015 to syndicate high-risk, high-impact climate technology deals to risk-taking investors. Not venture capitalists, who didn’t have the appetite, but philanthropic foundations and family offices willing to take on risk.

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Greentown Labs Announces Expansion to Houston

Greentown Labs

North America’s largest climatetech incubator will open its second location in the energy capital of the world to accelerate the clean energy transition. Somerville, Mass., and Houston, Texas, June 16, 2020 — In a celebratory announcement with Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner, the Greater Houston Partnership, and cleantech and energy leaders from around the region, Greentown Labs today announced its plans to open its second location in Houston, Texas.

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It’s urgent to reshape our economy towards justice and sustainability

GreenBiz

It’s urgent to reshape our economy towards justice and sustainability. Diane Osgood. Mon, 06/15/2020 - 00:30. Right now, talking about shopping can seem trite. Yet, to address systemic racism, we need a more just economy. An economy slanted towards white ownership plus discriminatory labor practices perpetuate systemic racism. As discussed in earlier columns ( here and here ), consumer demand drives 70 percent of the economy.

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Summer gardening tips for a great harvest

Inhabitat - Innovation

When the much-anticipated summer season finally arrives, make the most of your garden time with a checklist of ongoing tasks that will keep your plants healthy year-round.

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Write-downs of stranded fossil fuel assets are here – and getting bigger

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, June 16 – Oil major BP lowered its long-term price assumptions for oil and gas by almost one-third, and hiked its estimate for the price it will have to pay for carbon dioxide emissions in 2030 to $100 a ton, from $40. The result: the company will write off assets of up to $17. The post Write-downs of stranded fossil fuel assets are here – and getting bigger appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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With Prospects Souring for Oregon Gas Terminal, an Obscure Group Raises Pressure for State Approval

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 11 mins On May 24, a full-page ad appeared in The Oregonian, Oregon’s largest newspaper. The “open letter,” addressed to Gov. Kate Brown, asked her to support Jordan Cove LNG , a controversial coastal liquefied natural gas ( LNG ) export terminal. Between the “ COVID -19 pandemic and the ensuing economic fallout,” the project would be crucial to restoring the state’s economy, the letter argued.

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Dow’s Jim Fitterling on tackling plastic waste and the company’s sustainability goals

GreenBiz

Dow’s Jim Fitterling on tackling plastic waste and the company’s sustainability goals. In a conversation with GreenBiz Executive Editor Joel Makower, Dow CEO Jim Fitterling details strategy for the company’s latest sustainability commitments — including being carbon neutral by 2050. “That includes looking at Scope 1 through 3 emissions. And also taking a look at some of the positive benefits our products bring to society,” Fitterling said, pointing to energy-efficient housing and reduction of gr

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Prefab, floating waterlilliHaus is completely self-sustaining in Brazil

Inhabitat - Innovation

SysHaus has recently installed a new floating home on an idyllic São Paulo lake.