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4 Steps towards Being a More Sustainable Business

U.S. Green Technology

In this day and age, being sustainable and green isn’t considered to be particularly innovative or creative anymore. So many businesses are investing time and energy into becoming more energy-efficient and sustainable than ever, and the whole sustainability movement is constantly getting bigger and bigger. What this means is that your business needs to become.

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3 Top Benefits of Solar Power

Green Living Guy

The growth of solar in both a residential and commercial setting all over the world in the past 10 years has been immense. Countries like Australia have been leading the pack with nearly 30% of all dwellings having solar. One… Read More 3 Top Benefits of Solar Power. The post 3 Top Benefits of Solar Power appeared first on Green Living Guy.

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5 companies that are using nature to redefine good design

GreenBiz

5 companies that are using nature to redefine good design. Lauren Phipps. Mon, 05/24/2021 - 01:40. When most people think about good design, they might think of an Eames lounge chair, an iPhone or Frank Lloyd Wright’s architecture. Harmonizing functional perfection with a clean and timeless form, good design is often celebrated for its endurance and ability to remain relevant and adored for decades or even centuries.

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Blackouts And Megadroughts – Decarbonization Without A Good Plan Just Makes Them Worse

Jim Conca

The western U.S. is facing the largest risks of blackouts and droughts in history. California was bad enough last year. Poorly-planned decarbonization will not help. SMRs and hydro would.

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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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Water industry event discusses opportunity for hydrogen

Envirotec Magazine

Hazer Group produces fuel-cell grade hydrogen from methane, with high-quality graphite as a by-product rather than CO2. Green hydrogen – and how the water sector can engage with this ‘green, clean fuel source’ – was the focus of a recent webinar hosted by water technology firm Isle on 20 May. At the event, Dr Jenifer Baxter, director for innovation and policy at Protium Green Solutions, gave a rundown of key insights into hydrogen for the water sector.

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Global food brands fight UK bill that fines for products linked to deforestation

Inhabitat - Innovation

The UK Parliament is discussing a bill that demands traceability from food brands and fines those that sell products linked to stolen and deforested land.

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Boston Solar Recognized with 2021 Guildmaster Award

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Boston Solar of Woburn, MA has been recognized with the 2021 Guildmaster Award from GuildQuality for demonstrating exemplary customer service within the residential construction industry.

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The South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce and Green Business Bureau Join Forces

Green Business Bureau

Green Business Bureau (GBB) has partnered with the South Carolina Small Business Chamber of Commerce (SCSBCC) to bring the GBB sustainability program, framework and certification to the South Carolina small business community. GBB and SCSBCC are working together to make the business world greener and protect our planet and workers by enabling businesses to manage a sustainability program and verifiably demonstrate their sustainability to their employees, customers and partners.

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Onondaga Nations eco-friendly firehouse produces all of its own energy

Inhabitat - Innovation

Environmentally friendly materials, community-focused design and renewable energy combine in Tsha’thoñswatha’, the Onondaga Nation’s new fire station.

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The textile companies creating material change

GreenBiz

The textile companies creating material change. Liesl Truscott. Wed, 05/26/2021 - 09:01. How to make the best of a challenging year? While the lasting impacts of COVID on industry may take years to accurately assess, one thing we can see right now is how the pandemic has focused the textile industry’s attention on sustainability. Globally, with both the COP26 on Climate Change and COP15 on Biological Diversity happening this year, the urgency couldn’t be more clear.

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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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The road to electrification

altenergymag

All of us are probably aware of the UK's initiative to bring forward the ban on fossil fuel powered vehicles to 2030 from 2040 , to speed green recovery plans generated by the COVID-19 pandemic. This means that the days remaining to electrify the UK's road network are rapidly running out. Here, Steve Hughes, managing director of power quality specialist REO UK, points out some potential potholes on the road ahead.

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The plan to turn coal country into a rare earth powerhouse

Grist

At an abandoned coal mine just outside the city of Gillette, Wyoming, construction crews are getting ready to break ground on a 10,000-square-foot building that will house state-of-the-art laboratories and manufacturing plants. Among the projects at the facility, known as the Wyoming Innovation Center , will be a pilot plant that aims to takes coal ash — the sooty, toxic waste left behind after coal is burned for energy — and use it to extract rare earths, elements that play an essential role in

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A food forest emerges in LA's famous Venice neighborhood

Inhabitat - Innovation

Community “food forests” are popping up around cities and towns across the U.S., including one on Glencoe Avenue in the Los Angeles neighborhood of Venice.

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The arc of the moral universe is bending toward environmental justice

GreenBiz

The arc of the moral universe is bending toward environmental justice. Terry F. Yosie. Mon, 05/24/2021 - 01:30. In his historic March 1968 speech at Washington’s National Cathedral, the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. observed that the arc of the moral universe is long but bends towards justice. America has an opportunity to accelerate this expectation by bending toward environmental justice.

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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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LG ELECTRONICS AND SENSE ANNOUNCE COLLABORATION ON AI-DRIVEN HOME SOLAR AND USAGE MONITORING

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LG Solar and the Sense Solar Home Energy Monitor Provide Solar Output Data, Detailed Home Energy Usage, Costs; Embedded Advanced Metering Data Transmits Wirelessly to Smartphone

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Seven ways finance has changed in the year since George Floyd’s murder

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, May 25 – The raw injustice and the social protests that followed pushed investors, corporate executives and policymakers to recognize the risks of. The post Seven ways finance has changed in the year since George Floyd’s murder appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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This luxury eco-lodge in Panama includes a permaculture farm

Inhabitat - Innovation

Located inside the Isla Bastimentos jungle and only accessible by boat, the 55-acre property is certainly a once-in-a-lifetime accommodation.

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Why Global Delivery and Logistics Fleets Are Electrifying Now

GreenBiz

Why Global Delivery and Logistics Fleets Are Electrifying Now. Date/Time: June 29, 2021 (1-2PM ET / 10-11AM PT). Please join us for the release of a new global fleet report by GreenBiz and ChargePoint: The Time Is Now - Why Global Delivery and Logistics Fleets Are Going Electric, featuring perspectives from 16 transportation leaders in the delivery and logistics space.

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DISTRIBUTECH International Announces Host Utility and Partnerships to Support the Industry's Navigation of the Energy Transition

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The partnership with CESA will enhance coverage of energy storage allowing for great penetration into the renewables sector while the partnerships with Forth, SECC, and VGIC will enhance coverage of Smart Energy, Electric Vehicles and other Grid-Edge Technologies.

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Electric vehicle charging interfaces around the world

Charged

Sponsored by Keysight Technologies. Learn Trends in Verification of Interoperability Today! Although differences are found among countries and regions, global diffusion of electric vehicles (EVs) is still in its development process. While China and some European countries have established EV policies and the penetration rate of EVs is expected to rapidly increase, common requests for improvement in EVs necessary for the penetration include: Acceleration of charging speed Extension of travel dis

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Airo is a concept car that cleans polluted air as it drives

Inhabitat - Innovation

Consumers want comfort, efficiency and sustainable design. Heatherwick Studio’s concept electric car, Airo, covers all three.

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The war to electrify: America can do it

GreenBiz

The war to electrify: America can do it. Elsa Wenzel. Thu, 05/27/2021 - 02:02. Here's an "incredible good news story for America" that's getting attention all the way up to the White House. Remember how the nation mobilized seemingly overnight for the Allied Powers 80 years ago? It's time to hustle again, but now it's in order to combat the climate crisis and slash carbon emissions in half by about 2030.

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GridX Closes $12M Series B Funding Led by Energy Impact Partners

altenergymag

GridX accelerates growth to deliver Business Operations Support solutions that help utility industry transition to clean energy

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NASA at the forefront of electric airplane development

Charged

Aircraft are responsible for a substantial amount of air pollution, but building an electric airplane presents several physical and institutional problems that automobile designers don’t have to worry about. NASA has been working on electric planes, and grappling with these problems, for at least a decade, and has begun to demonstrate some progress.

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Meet the fashion brand that's turning grain waste into clothing

Inhabitat - Innovation

RAFFAUF's newest sustainable fashion collection is made from something that is typically thrown away.

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Can better impact measurement and management pull trillions off the sidelines?

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, May 24 – Impact-curious asset allocators and managers are eager for standards, performance assurance and benchmarks. Gaps in market infrastructure for impact management. The post Can better impact measurement and management pull trillions off the sidelines? appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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Bally Ribbon Mills Bringing Smart Textiles to Commercialization

altenergymag

Incorporating E-WEBBINGS® e-textile product base into new designs

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Kia releases official specs for US-market EV6 electric crossover

Charged

In March, Kia teased us with some exterior and interior images of the EV6 electric crossover , the automaker’s first dedicated (that is, not adapted from a legacy vehicle) EV. Now the automaker’s American division has confirmed official specs for the version destined for the US market. The EV6 will be available with two powertrain configurations and two battery pack options.

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Yellowstone National Park heats up at the fastest rate in 1,250 years

Inhabitat - Innovation

Temperatures in Yellowstone are rising faster than ever.

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The Reconstruction: How the legacy of Black Wall Street and the Tulsa Race Massacre is shaping a more just future

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, May 26 – Nearly 100 years ago, on May 31, 1921, Oklahoma’s Tulsa Tribune released a falsified news story describing an accusation by. The post The Reconstruction: How the legacy of Black Wall Street and the Tulsa Race Massacre is shaping a more just future appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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Trials to suck carbon dioxide from the air to start across the UK

Grist

This story was originally published by The Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Climate-heating carbon dioxide will be sucked from the air using trees, peat, rock chips, and charcoal in major new trials across the United Kingdom. Scientists said the past failure to rapidly cut emissions means some CO2 will need to be removed from the atmosphere to reach net zero by 2050 and halt the climate crisis.

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Swiss city of Basel orders 62 electric buses from Mercedes and Hess

Charged

The city of Basel, located on the Rhine at the confluence of Switzerland, Germany and France, plans to fully electrify its bus routes, and power them with 100% renewable energy, by 2027. Basler Verkehrs-Betriebe (BVB)’s fleet currently includes 115 buses serving 14 routes (there are also 135 trams serving 9 lines). The city’s latest tender consists of 62 electric buses, of which 54 will be Mercedes-Benz eCitaros—38 eCitaro rigid buses and 16 articulated eCitaro G buses.

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EIT InnoEnergy: a micromobility reboot could create up to 1m jobs and save over 30m tons of CO2 per year in Europe

altenergymag

EIT InnoEnergy talks to the impact of a systemic electric, shared and connected micromobility rollout by 2030

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Exxon’s shareholder drama is only beginning of the endgame for oil giant

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, May 26 – It’s showtime. ExxonMobil faces restive investors today in a test for CEO Darren Woods and his strategy for the. The post Exxon’s shareholder drama is only beginning of the endgame for oil giant appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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