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How we can fight the pandemic by embracing circularity

GreenBiz

How we can fight the pandemic by embracing circularity. Garry Cooper. Fri, 06/12/2020 - 01:30. Throughout the pandemic response, a key issue has been a lack of communication and coordination to get personal protective equipment (PPE) and other medical supplies to where they are most needed, with many areas of the country suffering from severe resource shortages as a result.

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Environmental and Financial Benefits of Using LED Lighting at Home

U.S. Green Technology

The Financial and Environmental Benefits of LED Lighting As more people become conscious of the need to conserve the environment, one of the strategies that have come to the fore is that of using environment friendly energy and gadgets. This has led to the introduction of Light-Emitting Diode otherwise known as LEDs which are semiconductor. The post Environmental and Financial Benefits of Using LED Lighting at Home appeared first on U.S.

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Can remote work help save the environment?

Inhabitat - Innovation

Learn about the environmental impact of working remotely.

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How sustainability professionals can uplift the black community

GreenBiz

How sustainability professionals can uplift the black community. Jarami Bond. Mon, 06/08/2020 - 02:11. Dear Sustainability Community, I come to you again. It’s been three years since writing my first article for GreenBiz, " Why diversity is the key to unlocking sustainability." I provided a quick glimpse of the anxiety and pain that the black community feels daily and actionable steps that the sustainability community could take to advocate for diversity and stimulate unprecedented change.

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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 16 Solar & Storage Projects Hawaii Just Ordered

CleanTechnica

I recently highlighted a couple of big solar + storage projects that were given the go-ahead in Hawaii. Then I found out that these are two of 16 solar and energy storage projects just approved for development in the state.

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Preliminary Data Suggests Low-Dose Radiation May Be Successful Treatment For Severe Covid-19

Jim Conca

Human medical trials have begun on severely ill COVID-19 patients using low-doses of radiation. The first results on a very small group at Emory University Hospital were published this week and the results were quite extraordinary.

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The time for electric trucks and buses is now

GreenBiz

The time for electric trucks and buses is now. Katie Fehrenbacher. Wed, 06/10/2020 - 01:30. Despite the pandemic, sales of electric trucks and buses are expected to surge in the United States and Canada over the next couple of years. And perhaps, surprising to many, they'll soar even within this year (the year that can best be described as WTF). . That's according to new data released recently by the clean-transportation-focused nonprofit CALSTART.

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UK Struggles With Problem from the Future: Sagging Power Demand and Surging Renewables

GreenTechMedia

Smart electric vehicle charging and other flexibility services could have saved British billpayers £133 million ($104 million) this summer, power companies claim, as the U.K. grapples with surging renewables output. Low electricity demand during the COVID-19 lockdown and ever-increasing wind and solar capacities have seen U.K. power prices collapse this year — and curtailment costs soar.

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Debunking Fears Of Nuclear Waste At California’s San Onofre Reactor

Jim Conca

During a virtual meeting held by Southern California Edison's Community Engagement Panel, experts considered a number of Doomsday Scenarios that could threaten the nuclear waste stored at the shuttered San Onofre nuclear power plant. But things got weird with fear of things like short-range missiles.

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Cool vegan recipes for a hot summer

Inhabitat - Innovation

What makes food summery? Our top summer food picks are lighter than winter meals. They're unfussy dishes that won't have you standing inside for hours over a hot stove when you could be enjoying a summer evening.

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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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How on-demand food delivery apps could encourage low-carbon food

GreenBiz

How on-demand food delivery apps could encourage low-carbon food. Anna Zhang. Mon, 06/08/2020 - 02:00. The COVID-19 crisis has affected most aspects of daily life, including how we get our food. Because the COVID-19 response has restricted restaurants to pick-up and delivery orders in many areas, business for on-demand food delivery apps such as DoorDash, Grubhub, Seamless and Uber Eats has increased dramatically. .

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New Orleans Activists Call out Environmental Racism Alongside Police Brutality in Week of Protests

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 9 mins On June 3, just hours before New Orleans police tear-gassed a group protesting racial violence, Jesse Perkins, a Black veteran, called out the many shades of racism and violence his community faces daily. “ What they inflicted on us was a slow violence. What is happening every day to these Black men on the street every day is violence.

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Diverse fund managers are ready to shift capital at scale

Impact Alpha

Family offices, endowments, foundations and their investment consultants are letting structural barriers and implicit biases get in the way of opportunities for innovation, impact, and yes, alpha, by overlooking funds run by women and people of color. I’m surrounded by Ivy League-educated asset allocators, on the one hand, and on the other, diverse fund managers.

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Ecocapsule launches SPACE for semi off-grid living

Inhabitat - Innovation

Slovak company Ecocapsule has just debuted their newest egg-shaped micro-unit — SPACE, a tiny mobile home with semi off-grid capabilities. Developed as a more affordable alternative to the fully off-grid Ecocapsule ORIGINAL, SPACE starts at the base price of €49,900 (about $56,380) and comes with a removable solar panel instead of a wind turbine.

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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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In Conversation: Paul Polman

GreenBiz

In Conversation: Paul Polman. Over the past decade, Paul Polman has emerged as one of the most influential business voices in sustainability. During his 10-year reign as CEO of Unilever (following 27 years at Procter & Gamble), he led the company’s Sustainable Living Plan, a multifaceted effort to decouple its. growth from its overall environmental footprint and improve its social impact.

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6 Eco-Friendly Landscaping Ideas for Small Backyards

U.S. Green Technology

6 Eco-Friendly Landscaping Ideas Trending Now Eco-friendly landscaping has gained popularity in the past few years for obvious good reasons. Among the good reasons is that it significantly reduces maintenance costs, limit your exposure to harmful toxins from pesticides and fertilizers and also conserve excellent resources. Eco-friendly landscaping is one way to start saving the.

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How gender power imbalances put the COVID recovery at risk (podcast)

Impact Alpha

Power is the thread that connects the surge in gender-based violence during the COVID crisis with violence against people of color, including by police officers. “Power is the issue: inequity and structural inequities that affect people in all sorts of different ways,” Criterion Institute’s Joy Anderson said in an interview on ImpactAlpha’s Returns on Investment.

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Britain hits a new record going two months coal-free

Inhabitat - Innovation

For the first time in over a hundred years, Britain has gone for a record two months without using coal energy. This is a new milestone that has been achieved thanks to the coronavirus pandemic and investment in renewable energy. A decade ago, almost half of the country's energy was coal-based. Impressively, the country has managed to change the narrative and adopt renewable sources of energy.

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Why the private sector needs to invest in conservation agriculture right now

GreenBiz

Why the private sector needs to invest in conservation agriculture right now. William Ginn. Sat, 06/06/2020 - 02:00. This is an excerpt from " Valuing Nature " by William J. Ginn. Copyright 2020 William J. Ginn. Reproduced here with permission from Island Press, Washington, D.C. . Resistance to change is universal. For example, despite more than 30 years of good science and best practices that support conservation agriculture in the United States, less than 5 percent of U.S. soy, wheat, and corn

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Copernicus EMS Uses Planet Data for Emergency Response Mapping

Planet Pulse

We are excited to announce that the Copernicus Emergency Management Service , or Copernicus EMS, utilizes Planet data to help provide emergency response mapping services for a variety of disaster situations, ranging from geophysical and meteorological hazards to humanitarian and man-made crises. When events occur, authorized users can alert Copernicus EMS to an emergency location, and the service provides satellite-derived products for quick and effective response.

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Black and brown employee ownership for the post-COVID economy

Impact Alpha

Black and brown ownership matters in rebuilding a more just, equitable and resilient economy. The murder of George Floyd and the heroic actions of movement organizers have once again exposed the social fragility created by this nation’s racist underpinnings. In an almost-poetic economic parallel, the Coronavirus pandemic has exposed decades of economic policy and investment.

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This tiny home on wheels features white shiplap walls

Inhabitat - Innovation

The Heritage tiny home by Summit doesn't sacrifice style for convenience. It features a spacious loft bedroom, a bay window bump out of the living room and a galley kitchen with white shiplap walls.

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Episode 224: Biodiversity, climate tech and voices of clean energy equity

GreenBiz

Episode 224: Biodiversity, climate tech and voices of clean energy equity. Heather Clancy. Fri, 06/12/2020 - 02:15. Week in Review. Stories discussed this week. Leading the sustainability transformation. Funding climate tech and entrepreneurs of color should go hand in hand. How sustainability professionals can uplift the black community. How on-demand delivery apps could encourage low-carbon food.

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Standing in the literal and virtual front lines for equality.

Fairsnape

Within the closing pages of FutuREstorative I made the plea for a just sustainability … (None of our) innovation, technology, biomimicry, biophilia or digital thinking will progress our sustainability performance if we do not have a matched and parallel improvement in equality, equity, diversity and justice. And now, as we strive for a 1.5°C cap on global warming and the attendant carbon reduction, we need to ensure that equity and equality remain at the top of every sustainability agenda.

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Ford, MacArthur, Kellogg and other foundations to issue bonds to scale up COVID relief

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, June 10 – Ford Foundation expects to issue $1 billion in long-term bonds, according to a report by The New York Times. “There’s never been such an existential challenge to the future of the nonprofit sector,” said Ford’s Darren Walker. COVID bonds. The foundation plans to issue 30- and 50-year bonds and distribute proceeds to. The post Ford, MacArthur, Kellogg and other foundations to issue bonds to scale up COVID relief appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Mountain Refuge is a modular tiny home made from plywood

Inhabitat - Innovation

The Mountain Refuge invites you to immerse yourself among snow-capped mountains.

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It’s time to put people first

GreenBiz

It’s time to put people first. Lise Kingo. Fri, 06/12/2020 - 02:00. Editor's note: Lise Kingo is stepping down as CEO and executive director effective June 16. The organization's new leader, Sanda Ojiambo, begins June 17. Seventy-five years ago, the United Nations set out to put the world on a path to recovery, pledging "never again" to allow the horrors of two devastating world wars.

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Inside A Wall Street Tycoon’s Plan To Get Americans Off The Highway — And On His Trains

Forbes Green Tech

As the world grapples with how to make travel safe in the age of coronavirus, private equity billionaire Wes Edens is betting $9 billion that America’s transportation future is passenger rail.

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COVID recovery offers opportunities to invest in Nigeria across the healthcare value chain

Impact Alpha

The health sector in Nigeria was in a crisis before COVID-19. The pandemic is revealing years of neglect and waste in Nigeria’s healthcare system. Fragmentation on both the supply and demand side of the health system have made it difficult for appropriate private sector investments to drive efficiency, effectiveness and productivity in the space. More.

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This electric camper is a houseboat and tricycle in one

Inhabitat - Innovation

The tiny-but-mighty Z-Triton camper is ready to take on land and water.

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Chevron’s #BlackLivesMatter Hypocrisy

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 7 mins The oil giant funds both civil rights groups and police, saying “Black Lives Matter” while committing acts of environmental racism all over the world. By Amy Westervelt. This story originally appeared in the Hot Take newsletter. At a House committee hearing on fossil fuel deception last year, Congressional reps from oil and gas states repeated a long-used talking point: A clean energy transition is just a big f**k-you to poor people.

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Plunging Renewable Energy Prices Mean U.S. Can Hit 90% Clean Electricity By 2035 - At No Extra Cost

Forbes Green Tech

New research shows plunging renewable energy prices mean wind, solar, and energy storage can provide 90% of U.S. electricity by 2035 - at no extra cost.

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Corporate impact face-off: Nestlé vs. Danone

Impact Alpha

Impak Battles, a new ImpactAlpha series with impak, a Montreal-based impact ratings agency, assesses the positive and negative impact of corporate operations. Each month, the agency will use its impak Score rating methodology in a head-to-head assessment of two representative companies. Kicking off the series: a comparison of the two European agri-food giants.

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Naturally ventilated home in Thailand has a lush indoor garden

Inhabitat - Innovation

A lush indoor garden and plentiful skylights help keep this low-maintenance home cool.

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