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Pneumatic Tube Trains and AVs to the Rescue? Smarter Planning for New Mobility

The City Fix

When shopping for a car, you’ll find numerous websites and guides that provide detailed information on their costs and performance, plus ratings and reviews. However, there is much less data about emerging transportation technologies and services that are poised to. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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How EPCs can command the growing energy storage market

Solar Power World

By Dhruv Patel, senior VP of renewable energy and storage, McCarthy Building Companies Last year was a standout for energy storage. U.S. installations of advanced energy storage — almost entirely lithium-ion battery systems — exceeded the 1-GW mark in 2020, and the national Energy Storage Association (ESA) anticipates adding 100 GW of new storage resources… The post How EPCs can command the growing energy storage market appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Tesla Is Slowly Cutting Into Pharmaceutical & Health Insurance Costs

CleanTechnica

There are so many industries that Tesla is affecting — threatening even. There are a couple that don’t get much thought or attention, though. Although Tesla doesn’t make medicines or cure diseases, it is also having a growing effect on the pharmaceutical industry and the health insurance industry here in America. Dementia & Air Pollution […].

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Why the U.S. needs to get on track with high-speed rail

GreenBiz

The possibilities for high-speed rail innovation are many, and once the lasting infrastructure is built, the benefits to communities are long-lasting.

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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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Survey identifies significant micro plastic pollution on summit of Snowdon

Envirotec Magazine

Image credit: Phil Ross , CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 license. Geoscience technology firm CGG has conducted a microplastics pollution survey as part of a scoping study into whether it would be possible to create a “Plastic Free zone” on Yr Wyddfa (Snowdon). The work is being used to help determine a Microplastic Pollution Index, which could pinpoint areas of plastic leakage and wastage where microplastics may be entering the food chain or natural environment.

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How many trees are needed to offset a city's carbon emissions?

Inhabitat - Innovation

Countries around the world are in a race to find solutions for these types of greenhouse gases, which are a result of human activities like driving cars and manufacturing goods. While the push for electric vehicles and renewable energy through solar panels, wind power and hydroelectricity takes the spotlight, another part of the solution equation is growing all around us in the form of trees.

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Inside Google’s regenerative agriculture play

GreenBiz

Vice president of global workplace programs at Google, Michiel Bakker outlines how the Regen1 will help farmers move to sustainable practices on 1 million acres of farmland in Northern California.

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Proterra to power Taylor container handler and forklift

Charged

Commercial EV innovator Proterra (NASDAQ: PTRA) and heavy-duty equipment manufacturer Taylor Machine Works have announced a new partnership to power Taylor’s next-generation ZLC-series electric container handler and ZH-series electric forklift using Proterra’s battery technology. The two companies will collaborate on strategies to deliver charging and infrastructure solutions to help ports and other customers electrify their heavy-duty material-handling machinery.

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Extreme heat leads to extreme behavior in humans

Inhabitat - Innovation

Many individuals have personally experienced that when folks are uncomfortable warm, they are correspondingly cranky. And many studies have found a correlation between rising temperatures and violence. But as we experience more extreme heat episodes around the world, scientists are finding that heat may not only increase our aggression but also reduce our coping mechanism and lower our cognitive ability.

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TÜV Rheinland verifies Diffuse Booster, Soltec's algorithm that increases the gain of a photovoltaic plant by 5.3% when it is cloudy

altenergymag

• TÜV Rheinland has verified the Soltec Diffuse Booster algorithm that increases the energy efficiency of Basic TeamTrack by 5.3% in Mediterranean and Equatorial sites during cloudy periods. • Diffuse Booster achieves up to 6.9% gain in Northern latitudes. • Diffuse Booster aims to increase the production of the photovoltaic solar plants even on cloudy days.

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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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The path to personal sustainability in ESG

GreenBiz

The good news: Sustainability professionals are in greater demand than ever before. That's also the bad news.

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LG Energy Solution secures access to nickel and cobalt from Australian Mines

Charged

LG Energy Solution, one of Tesla’s battery suppliers, has entered into “a binding long form offtake agreement” with Australian Mines Ltd. for nickel and cobalt, which will be supplied in the form of mixed hydroxide precipitate (MPH) from the Sconi Project in North Queensland. Under the agreement, LG will have access to 71,000 tons of nickel and 7,000 tons of cobalt for 6 years, starting from the end of 2024.

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Annual Amazon deforestation rate hits highest levels in a decade

Inhabitat - Innovation

A new report by Brazilian research institute Imazon shows that the Amazon forest has experienced the highest level of annual deforestation in a decade. Despite global calls for action, poor policies championed by President Jair Bolsonaro of Brazil have contributed to increased deforestation.

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Q CELLS makes Grid Equity investment into portfolio of Amped Solutions projects

altenergymag

Q CELLS accelerates its complete energy solutions for customers and partners with a new financing structure to maximize project value and bankability

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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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What does never-ending drought mean for California agriculture?

GreenBiz

As water levels dip to historic lows, Blue Diamond Growers and Driscolls hope their small changes and big reaches will have immense impact.

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Tesla says new recycling process recovers 92% of battery materials

Charged

Battery recycling will be a critical part of the future e-mobility ecosystem, as Tesla has understood from the beginning. The California carmaker has been working with various firms to recycle its end-of-life battery packs for several years. One of these is Tesla co-founder JB Straubel’s company, Redwood Materials , which is recycling scrap from Panasonic’s battery cell production at Gigafactory Nevada.

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Unprecedented rainfall hits snowy summit in Greenland

Inhabitat - Innovation

On Greenland’s highest summit, snow is the norm. But on the weekend of August 14-15, it rained. A lot. Seven billion tons of water hit the ice sheet for the heaviest rainfall since researchers started keeping records in 1950.

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Ever American-Made Offshore Wind Substation, Creating Jobs Across Three U.S. States

altenergymag

Offshore wind substation will be built at Kiewit’s Texas facility; New York union workers will support installation off Long Island coast.

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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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Inside the plan to decarbonize England's industrial heartlands

GreenBiz

The energy and industry giants behind the largest industrial decarbonization project in the UK sketched out their vision for how emissions produced by high carbon plants on England’s East Coast could be captured and stored under the North Sea.

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Renewables made up 92% of new generating capacity in the U.S. in the first half of 2021

Renewable Energy World

Washington DC – According to a review by the SUN DAY Campaign of data recently released by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), renewable energy sources (i.e., biomass, geothermal, hydropower, solar, wind) dominated new U.S. electrical generating capacity additions and increased their contribution to the nation’s electrical production in the first half of 2021.

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Akersbakken Bicycle Hotel design blends into the landscape

Inhabitat - Innovation

With a community and business mindset that matches Oslo, Norway’s initiative to make the city carbon-neutral, the Akersbakken Housing Association set out to provide a very basic resource, bicycle parking, in an environmentally friendly and visually appealing way.

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Funds Managed by Affiliates of Apollo Global Management Announce $150 Million Equity Commitment to FlexGen Power Systems, Inc.

altenergymag

Large Investment in Energy Storage Integrator Demonstrates Apollo’s Support for Growing FlexGen’s Market Leading Energy Storage Capabilities

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The Colorado River Basin: What’s wrong and what’s needed to make it right

GreenBiz

If we don’t fix what is broken for the Colorado River, we will feel the bite of climate change and resultant economic, business, social and ecosystem impacts at a scale exceeding the American dust bowl of the 1930s.

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How Can We Make Our Buildings Green?

Green Living Guy

We are very much in an exciting time when it comes to constructing new buildings, and they are becoming greener than ever. Most buildings sites use A class hoarding services, which can often hide the great work being done, but once we see those buildings in the flesh, we get a chance to see most […]. The post How Can We Make Our Buildings Green?

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Butterfly Effect bridge offers safe passage for pollinators

Inhabitat - Innovation

As a result of the Our Energy Our Landscape design challenge, Dutch design studio VenhoevenCS, landscape architecture agency DS Landschapsarchitecten and solar energy firm Studio Solarix have developed the Butterfly Effect, a concept design that can produce energy and a safe route for insects.

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Artists are startups and creators CEOs as technology decentralizes the creative economy

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, Aug. 24 – Musicians, actors, artists and other “creators” are getting creative about reaping the economic gains of their influence and turning their. The post Artists are startups and creators CEOs as technology decentralizes the creative economy appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Mobility vs. transportation: The difference is equity and access

GreenBiz

We have a long way to go in terms of EV battery and charging technology, infrastructure, equipping the necessary workforce, and educating buyers and sellers.

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A Beginners Guide to Compost Gardening

Green Living Guy

Composting at home is a wonderful way to get rid of your vegetable scraps and yard waste. Once this waste begins to break down, you’ll also have a terrific soil additive that will grow even more abundant veggies, fruits, and flowers. Composting takes a balance of waste, a little work, and time. Finding the Right […]. The post A Beginners Guide to Compost Gardening appeared first on Green Living Guy.

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Cottage Rock tiny home nurtures healthy living and nature

Inhabitat - Innovation

The project began with a client brief by rock-climber enthusiasts who wanted to escape the hustle and bustle of daily life in favor of a simple, off-grid tiny home where they could focus on the health of themselves and their ailing son. With this goal in mind, the clients brought in architect Nadine Engelbrecht to overcome the obvious site challenges and deliver their new home, called Cottage Rock.

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Is your fund serious about climate? Show me your scientists.

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, Aug. 25 – Money is pouring into climate tech funds. Separating the serious players from fund managers only toying around the edges. The post Is your fund serious about climate? Show me your scientists. appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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How Deloitte is schooling its global workforce on climate action

GreenBiz

What does it take for a company to educate, engage and empower 330,000 employees around the world? The consulting giant is about to find out.

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How to Bring Solar to Rural Areas

Green Living Guy

Solar energy has become more popular in the past few years. As the climate continues to change, there is a greater demand to switch to renewable energy sources. Fossil fuels contribute to pollution and greenhouse gases, one of the primary causes of climate change. Many rural areas continue to rely on fossil fuels as their […]. The post How to Bring Solar to Rural Areas appeared first on Green Living Guy.

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Gentherm’s localized heating and cooling system can save energy vs central HVAC

Charged

Thermal management technology provider Gentherm has received a production vehicle award for its ClimateSense technology, which is used in an all-new 2024 EV from a global automaker. ClimateSense is Gentherm’s proprietary vehicle “microclimate” solution. It consists of thermal products, integrated electronics, embedded software and “a thermo-physiology-based, human-centric approach.”.

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