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How to ensure circular fashion is good for people and the environment

GreenBiz

How to ensure circular fashion is good for people and the environment. Annelise Thim. Fri, 10/09/2020 - 00:15. This article originally was published in the BSR Insight. The COVID-19 pandemic has thrown the fashion industry into disarray, leaving supply chain workers without wages and causing major global brands to file for bankruptcy. In the United States alone, 2.1 million retail workers lost their jobs due to the crisis.

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Cow Burps – Cattle Industry Poised To Lead The Way To A Cooler Earth By Reducing Methane Content

Jim Conca

A new study out of U.C. Davis shows a dramatic reduction in cattle methane emissions using red seaweed as a feed supplement while significantly reducing the cost of feed. The five-month study found that these reductions were sustained with no change in animal health or in the quality of the beef.

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Exxon's leaked documents reveal devastating pollution plan

Inhabitat - Innovation

Earlier this year when ExxonMobil announced its intention to reduce its methane emissions and gas-burning, many welcomed and celebrated the news. Despite these initial claims, the company's internal documents paint a different picture.

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UK-India water MoU offers “great boost” to trade

Envirotec Magazine

The Ganga, or Ganges, river: Cleaning the river is the brief of the National Mission for Clean Ganga (NMCG), one of the co-signatories. British Water chief executive Lila Thompson has said a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) agreed between India and the UK’s leading water sector trade association will “bring a great boost” to trading relationships between the two countries.

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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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David Crane is back, with a climate-tech SPAC

GreenBiz

David Crane is back, with a climate-tech SPAC. Heather Clancy. Thu, 10/08/2020 - 01:45. One of the hottest 2020 trends in raising capital is infiltrating climate-tech investing. . As of mid-September, the stock market had welcomed at least 82 initial public offerings this year by special purpose acquisition companies (SPACs) — organizations that collectively raised more than $31 billion.

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The EV revolution needs lithium, California has it

altenergymag

New Energy Nexus report details how lithium recovery from the geothermal industry in California’s Salton Sea can anchor a sustainable domestic EV battery supply chain, injecting billions into the local and regional economy

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White vans go green: Half a million builders and plumbers needed to reach Net Zero

Envirotec Magazine

New research published by UK100, a group of mayors and local government leaders in late September appears to show that a “retrofit army” of nearly half a million builders, electricians and plumbers will be needed to meet the Government’s objective of becoming Net Zero by 2050. The figures are being published as a cross-party taskforce of 24 Mayors and local leaders, representing 24 million people across England have submitted a proposal to the Chancellor, Rishi Sunak, to unlock £100bn as part of

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Certifications matter more than ever and brands should be promoting them

GreenBiz

Certifications matter more than ever and brands should be promoting them. Suzanne Shelton. Tue, 10/06/2020 - 00:30. I’ve written quite a bit lately about how Americans are experiencing a "Maslow moment" right now. Concerns about the environment are taking a backseat to worries about basic needs — our health and our economy (at both the macro and personal level).

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REPORT: Stimulus Investments in Advanced Energy Sector Would Deliver More Than $350 Billion to Illinois Economy

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Analysis shows $45 billion in stimulus investment would add $357 billion to Illinois' gross state product, an eight-fold return on investment, increase tax revenues, create millions of jobs, and deliver annual savings to consumers

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Preparing COVID-19 vaccine could kill half a million sharks

Inhabitat - Innovation

Scientists are racing against time to create a COVID-19 vaccine, but the effects of this venture may cause irreversible harm for sharks. Conservationists estimate that preparing a coronavirus vaccine will require at least half a million sharks.

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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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Green Space: An Underestimated Tool to Create More Equal Cities

The City Fix

As coronavirus restrictions ease around the world, many consider a walk around their neighborhood for some fresh air to be a welcome break from confinement. However, socioeconomic status could greatly affect the landscapes people find on these strolls, particularly in how much. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Episode 240: Ceres points the way, Beautycounter's mica makeover

GreenBiz

Episode 240: Ceres points the way, Beautycounter's mica makeover. Heather Clancy. Fri, 10/09/2020 - 02:00. Week in Review. Stories discussed this week (4:20). SEC rule change stifles key risk signal, disenfranchises retail investors. Why Kroger and Publix are bringing the farm to the grocery store. Demand for voluntary carbon offsets holds strong. Features.

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Green power deal supercharges Lotus' net-zero ambitions

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British Gas Business and Lotus agree new green energy supply deal - the first step in a partnership announced with Centrica to decarbonise the legendary sports car maker.

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5 buildings on this Missouri campus just achieved LEED Platinum

Inhabitat - Innovation

This is quite the accomplishment for Washington University in St. Louis' Danforth Campus. The new accolades bring the total number of buildings with LEED Platinum designation to seven on the Danforth Campus. According to the school, the university’s green building design part of an overall sustainability.

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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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With policy prompts, private equity fund managers can drive social benefits, too

Impact Alpha

Against the backdrop of a global pandemic, an economy officially in recession, and a stock market that seems increasingly divergent from the experience of most Americans today, it’s fair to say that the U.S. love affair with free markets is getting a thorough re-examination. Professor Mehrsa Baradaran’s op-ed in The New York Times this summer. The post With policy prompts, private equity fund managers can drive social benefits, too appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Mars claims palm oil is 'deforestation-free' after ditching hundreds of suppliers

GreenBiz

Mars claims palm oil is 'deforestation-free' after ditching hundreds of suppliers. Cecilia Keating. Wed, 10/07/2020 - 00:15. U.S. confectionary, food and pet care giant Mars claims to have eliminated deforestation from its palm oil supply chain after shrinking the number of mills it works with from 1,500 to a few hundred, it announced this week. The adoption of shorter, more transparent palm oil supply chains and working exclusively with suppliers that meet specific environmental, social and eth

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How NextEra Overtook ExxonMobil As The Largest U.S. Energy Company

Forbes Green Tech

Over the past decade, NextEra has vastly outperformed ExxonMobil in the financial markets, and briefly overtook the company to become the largest energy company in the U.S.

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New Swedish grocery to price goods based on carbon footprint

Inhabitat - Innovation

Felix, a Swedish food brand, has opened a climate-conscious store that will guide buyers to make informed decisions when purchasing food items.

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Scientists didn’t expect wildfires this terrible for another 30 years

Grist

This year has been hell on earth, in more ways than one. Catastrophic blazes have spanned the planet from Australia to the Arctic , and wildfires have torched large swaths of the western United States , all fulfilling forecasts much faster than scientists had predicted. It’s as if the wildfires of 2050 are already here. California’s wildfire season is far from over, and it has already scorched 4 million acres of land, more than twice the previous record.

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Inside Beautycounter’s quest to transform its mica supply chain

GreenBiz

Inside Beautycounter’s quest to transform its mica supply chain. Joel Makower. Mon, 10/05/2020 - 02:11. First in a two-part series. This story begins, as so many supply-chain stories do, at a mine, the beginning of a journey in which a commodity — mica, in this case — finds its way into an extraordinarily diverse array of quotidian things: attic insulation; brake linings; car paint; concrete; electronic capacitors; epoxies; fertilizers; gypsum wallboard; LED lights; molded rubber; oil and gas dr

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California Sees Zinc As Likely Successor To Lithium-Ion In Energy Storage

Forbes Green Tech

As it strives for 100-percent clean energy by 2045, California is shifting its attention from lithium-ion batteries to zinc energy-storage technologies that can provide a charge longer.

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Mature trees shape a leafy, light-filled home in Mexico

Inhabitat - Innovation

South of Guadalajara in the state of Jalisco, local architecture firm Estudio Radillo Alba has completed the Casa R.A., a family of five's countryside home that takes its site-specific massing from the existing trees on site.

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U.S. Public Facing Huge Bill to Clean Up After Oil and Gas Industry

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 7 mins The American public is facing a potential bill of $280 billion for the cleanup of 2.6 million unplugged oil and gas wells, according to Billion Dollar Orphans, a new report from London-based think tank Carbon Tracker. While this number is alarming, it does not even include an estimated 1.2 million undocumented orphan oil and gas wells.

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New leaders at Patagonia, McDonald's, Netflix

GreenBiz

New leaders at Patagonia, McDonald's, Netflix. Elsa Wenzel. Wed, 10/07/2020 - 02:01. Heading into fall, this batch of career updates from the worlds of sustainability and business is somewhat top-heavy. It's not necessarily that the game of musical chairs has intensified in the C-suite, but you'll note major executive moves at big apparel, food, energy, finance and technology corporations, some of which have enlisted a chief sustainability officer (CSO) or equivalent for the first time.

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Canada risks missing out on fast-moving hydrogen opportunity: report

Clean Energy Canada

VANCOUVER — Hydrogen is getting people talking. A Bank of America analyst recently compared the investment opportunity to that of smartphones before 2007. Already, 18 economies comprising more than 75% of global GDP are developing and rolling out hydrogen strategies. With a Canadian hydrogen strategy expected this fall, will it be enough to ensure Canada keeps up in this global hydrogen race?

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Tiny mobile dwelling celebrates local Shinshu larch in Japan

Inhabitat - Innovation

In only three months, eco-conscious Japanese architect Tono Mirai crafted a charming tiny timber structure that can be moved by truck. Dubbed the Red Container, the compact building was primarily designed as an exercise to promote Shinshu larch, a beautiful local larch species in the Saku area of Japan's Nagano Prefecture that had long been overlooked because of its tendency to warp and twist.

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Solar Basics: What are smart inverters?

Solar Power World

Solar Basics is a video series by Solar Power World created to help installers learn about the business, tools and tricks of the solar power trade. Inverters of the past simply fed solar power into the grid. Learn about all the added duties solar inverters have now in this Solar Basics video, based on the… The post Solar Basics: What are smart inverters?

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How the Produce Industry Built Resilience During Changing Times

GreenBiz

How the Produce Industry Built Resilience During Changing Times. The produce industry has long been building resiliency through sustainability strategies. Hear from members of the industry including Jeff Scott from Kwik Lok, Anabella De Freeman from Walmart and Mike Thomsen from Second Harvest Food Bank as they describe how the produce industry’s integration of sustainable practices have made their organizations more resilient – especially in times of great change like the COVID-19 pandemic.

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MARINE RENEWABLES TAKES PRIDE OF PLACE IN ALL-ENERGY WEBINAR SERIE

altenergymag

The focus of the continuing All-Energy/Dcarbonise webinar series is on marine renewables on 14 October when ‘Greening the Blue Economy: Marine Energy' will be held at 14:00. Full details and free registration are at [link]. Seventeen webinars have been held since May; all are online enabling people to dip into them at any time.

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WOOMETRY upcycles salvaged wood into eco-friendly home goods

Inhabitat - Innovation

On the outskirts of Lisbon, Portugal in Santa Iria de Azoia, sustainable creative studio WOOMETRY is giving unwanted wood pieces a second life by transforming the salvaged materials into home goods.

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Ÿnsect raises $372 million for carbon negative, vertical insect farming

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, October 7 – Ÿnsect represents a trifecta of agrifood tech trends: alternative proteins, carbon offsets and novel farming systems. The France-based agtech company is expanding its high-tech vertical facility in Amiens, which recycles waste streams to raise mealworms for more sustainable fish and animal feed (see, “These insects feed fish that feed people”).

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SEC rule change stifles key risk signal, disenfranchises retail investors

GreenBiz

SEC rule change stifles key risk signal, disenfranchises retail investors. Sara Murphy. Mon, 10/05/2020 - 02:00. The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) voted Sept. 23 to amend its shareholder proposal rule , effectively depriving most retail investors of the ability to use the process to protect and advance their interests. In so doing, the SEC is dampening an important risk signal to corporate management and investors, especially with respect to environmental, social and governance i

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Generac Accelerates Its Energy Technology Capabilities With Acquisition of Enbala Power Networks

altenergymag

Acquisition advances Generac into the rapidly growing virtual power plant and smart grid services markets

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Nordstrom to end the sale of fur and animal skins

Inhabitat - Innovation

One of America's leading fashion retailers, Nordstrom, has announced that it will be ending the sale of fur and animal skins by 2021.

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