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My exclusive interview with ChatGPT about AI, climate tech and sustainability

GreenBiz

Can artificial intelligence conduct an informed conversation about the broad and complex technologies under the climate tech umbrella? Let's let it speak for itself

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A Good Cleantech Story Is Worth Its Weight In Gold

Michael Grossman

Last year, investment in clean energy technologies topped a trillion dollars for the first time. What’s the secret to tapping into it if you have a cleantech startup? For starters, get your story straight.

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Generator-maker Generac expands into residential EV charging stations

Charged

Generac Power Systems (NYSE: GNRC) makes a variety of power products, but is probably best-known as a manufacturer of backup generators.

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Why Solar Now Makes Sense For Nonprofits

Sun Valley Solar

Whether you operate a house of worship, affordable housing project, charter school, health care facility, or a public school, electricity is essential. Every month you're spending money on your utility bill that could be spent on your important mission.

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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

Join Ayesha Choudhury, Senior Vice President, Head of Capital Markets at Infinium, to learn why we need eFuels in the carbon neutrality mix, how eFuels are produced, and how Infinium globally scales eFuel production to benefit society

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Group14 Recognized in Global Cleantech 100 Report

CleanTech Alliance

The Cleantech Group recently released their annual Global Cleantech 100 edition, showcasing the depth and breadth of the global cleantech ecosystem and the 100 leading businesses forging innovative solutions to global climate crisis. CleanTech Alliance member Group14 was recognized as a leader in the Materials & Chemicals sector amongst 21 companies located in 7 countries. […] Member News clean energy clean technology cleantech global cleantech

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Here’s a glimpse of the EU response to the Inflation Reduction Act

GreenBiz

After almost 6 months of discussions and debate in the European Union, the trading bloc’s response to the Inflation Reduction Act is finally taking shape

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Barfly Media: Promoting Sustainability in Advertising With Holographic Display Units

Green Business Bureau

BarFly Media’s LED holographic display units are designed to help brands stand out in a crowded market BarFly Media is disrupting the traditional On/Off-premise Point of Display (POS) with their digital LED holographic display units.

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TravelCenters of America to deploy 1,000 Electrify America fast EV chargers at 200 locations

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TravelCenters of America (Nasdaq: TA), which operates a network of 281 travel centers (truck stops, to use the old-fashioned term) in 44 states under the TA, Petro and TA Express brands, is working with Electrify America to deploy DC fast charging at select TA/Petro locations.

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How Kathy Cacciola is creating a greener global food program at Google

GreenBiz

A year into her new job as global sustainability lead of the food program at Google, Kathy Cacciola discusses the skills and strategies it takes to land such a prestigious role

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Comment: 2024 EPR costs could have a severe impact on businesses’ viability

Envirotec Magazine

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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 Carbon Zero, Circular Economy, is easily the most profoundly important result of digital transformation. Industry 4.0 has a massively cumulative impact on dematerialization (in all forms) and resultant decarbonization (both emissions and embodied) throughout the economy. Join panelists Bruce Armstrong Taylor, Jimmy Jia, Fabienne Durand, and their moderator Roger Strukhoff as they discuss how bending the carbon/GHG heavy linear economy to the circular is one of the hidden benefits of digital disruption.

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More than 75% of global insect species not adequately protected

Grist

More than 75 percent of the world’s insect species are insufficiently protected when it comes to conservation areas around the globe, according to a recent new study.

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New York City to require rideshare fleets to use 100 percent EVs by 2030

Charged

Electrifying rideshare vehicles has the potential to deliver outsize emissions reductions , as they log many more miles than personal vehicles.

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Back to basics: A systems thinker's view on circularity

GreenBiz

The circular economy is a systems approach that answers one 'how' in our quest for sustainability

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Hundreds of water sector research reports made available at UKWIR

Envirotec Magazine

UK Water Industry Research (UKWIR) is providing free access to over 1,000 of its water sector research reports aimed at helping to improve water and wastewater services for customers, and protecting the environment.

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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

Join our amazing panelists, Nik Gowing, Founder at Thinking the Unthinkable and International Broadcaster; Brenda Laurel, PhD, Principal, Neogaian Interactive; Sheridan Tatsuno, Principal, Dreamscape Global; Archie Kasnet, CEO, Regenerative; and Bruce Armstrong Taylor, The Climate 4.0 Project, to discuss how today's AR/VR and related AI-enabled technologies can be effectively applied, using data from such sources as NASA and NOAA, to both improve and accelerate urban sustainability planning and design.

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A conservative think tank just sent 8,000 teachers a new climate denial ‘textbook

Grist

After decades of intense public debate and misinformation campaigns, nearly three-quarters of Americans now accept that climate change is happening ; not only that, more than half understand it is caused by human activity.

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California bill would make EV conversions eligible for state rebates

Charged

California has several state programs, including the Clean Vehicle Rebate Program (CVRP) and the Clean Cars for All Program, to encourage drivers to buy EVs. However, EV conversion fans have been feeling left out of the party.

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How green is your green bond?

GreenBiz

With green bond growth projected strong for 2023, investors would do well to read the fine print

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£1 million grant for novel hydro energy storage system

Envirotec Magazine

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Tesla launches Tesla Electric program to boost clean energy

Inhabitat - Innovation

We've covered a lot about the U.S. recent attempts to switch over to clean energy and update the grid to be ready for the upcoming increase in EV charging. Tesla is now taking that one step further by offering electricity to its Powerwall customers who charge EVs at home. The goal: to provide clean energy sourced from renewables to charge those clean EVs.

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Renesas introduces second-generation gate driver integrated circuit for EV inverters

Charged

Semiconductor supplier Renesas Electronics has announced a new gate driver integrated circuit (IC) designed to drive high-voltage power devices, such as insulated gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs) and silicon carbide (SiC) metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) for EV inverters.

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Care about biodiversity? Push for food systems transformation

GreenBiz

Increasing biodiversity is the new kid on the block for sustainability professionals. But solving it will require investing in the old guard that we keep overlooking

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New initiative aims to use Earth observation and geospatial data to detect sewage spills

Envirotec Magazine

Earth imaging satellite firm Planet provides data in which each pixel translates to 3.7 m 2 on the ground. Ordnance Survey is working with consultancy firm CGI to investigate the possibilities of using Earth observation data to detect sewage from space.

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These are the "smartest cities" in the US and Europe

Inhabitat - Innovation

Smart cities are a concept that has been gaining popularity in recent years. The IMD defines a smart city as one that has become more efficient, environmentally friendly and/or socially inclusive through the use of technology. Its goal is to attract more citizens and/or businesses by developing the services it provides. These can include city services such as electricity, traffic management and public parking.

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A closer look at graphite—its forms, functions and future in EV batteries

Charged

Graphite is a pure form of carbon. Its physical structure allows it to store lithium ions. There are three main forms of graphite: spherical graphite is used in non-EV battery applications, whereas EV batteries use a blend of coated spherical graphite and synthetic graphite.

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Satellite tracking is helping scientists pinpoint the worst emissions offenders

GreenBiz

Understanding where our greenhouse gas emissions come from is crucial to helping us curb them

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Planning permission granted for Sunderland plastics pyrolysis plant

Envirotec Magazine

The 12-acre site at Port of Sunderland earmarked by Quantafuel for the plant.

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Ways To Make Your Home Renovation Project More Eco-friendly

Green Living Guy

Renovating your home is an exciting project. However, it can also be an opportunity to incorporate eco-friendly elements into your design. More and more people are becoming aware of their environmental impact. As well as the importance of sustainable practices in their lives.

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Safe, flexible and powerful: Power racks as game changers for the energy transition

Charged

Whether wind energy, solar power or green hydrogen – energy from sustainable and climate-neutral production is becoming increasingly important. The increasing electrification of the world inevitably affects our critical infrastructure.

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Losing ourselves in the Tower of (Risk) Babel

GreenBiz

A basic assumption in approaches to risk assessment is that the problems they address can be resolved primarily by better information and technocratic solutions. But business executives, policymakers and the public crave simpler, more practical alternatives

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Firm receives InnovateUK funding to enhance vessel performance monitoring technology

Envirotec Magazine

The Flex 42X multi-role crewboat (image credit: Penguin International).

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Kseng Solar provided solar farm solution to support sustainable agriculture in Japan

altenergymag

As the global push to replace fossil fuels with clean energy, agrivoltaics have been applied as an alternative in land-constrained Japan.

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Phoenix Motorcars and Fermata Energy partner to test V2X bidirectional charging

Charged

Phoenix Motorcars (Nasdaq: PEV), a manufacturer of medium-duty EVs, has signed an equipment testing agreement with bidirectional charging innovator Fermata Energy. Fermata’s platform allows EVs to send energy stored in EV batteries to the local grid (V2G) or to a building (V2B).

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Take action to maximize recycling across business sectors

GreenBiz

Sponsored: Introduce these 7 sustainable practices to reduce waste, conserve resources and lessen your business’s environmental impact

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Sharing the load: Tariff to lower bills for businesses with their own green power

Envirotec Magazine

Energy tech firm Octopus Energy has launched a new tariff to help businesses with renewable generation to share the green power they generate on one site with the rest of their sites – and lower bills as a result.