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Chernobyl Truth Drowns In Dramatized Movie

Jim Conca

Tomorrow marks the 33rd anniversary of the Chernobyl accident, where about a hundred people died as a result of radiation. Almost all were emergency workers, not the public. Unfortunately. A new HBO movie looks to reinforce the myth that many many thousands of people died from radiation.

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The Three Ways Utilities Can Put Customers First: Retention, Loyalty, Experience

Bidgely

Over the past few years, aggressive competition has led to unprecedented customer churn. Some utilities are reporting as high as 20-25% churn YoY in markets like the UK or Australia. At the same time, customer expectations of the energy retailer industry has risen, particularly with respect to more transparency and better service. That’s meant the cost to attract and retain customers has remained very high.

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10 – Interesting Human-Powered Gadgets That Show Innovation Still Rules

Eco Friend

No matter whether you are talking about gadgets working on solar energy or wind energy, one thing is clear. Although these gadgets are greener than the rest, but you cannot… The post 10 – Interesting Human-Powered Gadgets That Show Innovation Still Rules appeared first on Eco Friend.

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The 4 Steps Clean Energy Entrepreneurs Should Take Now To Prepare For The #GreenNewDeal Boom

Jigar Shah

As we’ve seen through demonstrations like the Youth Climate Strike , the next generation is intent on taking action to fight climate change. Young people are bringing attention to potential solutions, urging government officials to do more, and illuminating what previous generations have neglected: that this effort is massively important. While this is undoubtedly a good thing for the planet at large, it’s especially good news for clean energy entrepreneurs.

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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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Vote Solar: Communications

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

Position: Communications Manager / Director. Vote Solar is a non-profit policy advocacy organization with the mission of making solar more accessible and affordable across the United States. We are in search of an experienced communications professional with a strong media relations background to help advance and defend clean energy policy, support our fundraising goals, and build our brand awareness and thought-leadership.

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The Three Ways Utilities Can Put Customers First: Retention, Loyalty, Experience

Bidgely

Over the past few years, aggressive competition has led to unprecedented customer churn. Some utilities are reporting as high as 20-25% churn YoY in markets like the UK or Australia. At the same time, customer expectations of the energy retailer industry has risen, particularly with respect to more transparency and better service. That’s meant the cost to attract and retain customers has remained very high.

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Nuvve and Honda Collaborating to Demonstrate Benefits of Vehicle Grid Integration

CleanTech San Diego

Cleantech San Diego member and Southern California Energy Innovation Network company Nuvve , the world leader in vehicle-to-grid (V2G) – also known as vehicle grid integration (VGI) – deployments, and Honda have entered into an agreement to demonstrate the benefits of electric vehicles (EVs) that are VGI-ready. Most EV charging systems on the market today are unidirectional, meaning they can only receive energy when plugged in, but VGI-enabled EVs transfer power bidirectionally allowing them to

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Vote Solar: Regulatory Research Manager

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JOB DESCRIPTION: Research Manager, Regulatory Team. Vote Solar is a non-profit advocacy organization dedicated to making solar energy a leading source of electricity across the country. We are in search of a highly motivated Research Manager to support our regulatory team’s efforts to advance markets and programs for solar power generation – both distributed and utility-scale – through participation in regulatory forums across the United States.

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The 4 Steps Clean Energy Entrepreneurs Should Take Now To Prepare For The #GreenNewDeal Boom

Jigar Shah

As we’ve seen through demonstrations like the Youth Climate Strike , the next generation is intent on taking action to fight climate change. Young people are bringing attention to potential solutions, urging government officials to do more, and illuminating what previous generations have neglected: that this effort is massively important. While this is undoubtedly a good thing for the planet at large, it’s especially good news for clean energy entrepreneurs.

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Renewable Energy Advocates Learn To Not Say “Climate Change” In Texas

CleanTX

Renewable energy, particularly wind power, has been hugely successful in Texas, thanks in large measure to a combination of federal, state, and local incentives that began more than two decades ago. Those incentives included both wind turbines and grid interconnection links, so the electricity generated by the winds in rural areas can power homes and businesses in cities like Dallas.

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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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City of San Diego Launches Inclusive Connected Communities Roadmap for Smart City Projects

CleanTech San Diego

The City of San Diego is implementing a new smart city strategy that could bring smart city technologies to underserved areas of the city. Through its Inclusive Connected Communities Roadmap project, the City is partnering with regional business association Cleantech San Diego , engineering firm Black & Veatch and its software subsidiary, Atonix Digital , and community research firm Harder+Company to address how technology-based solutions can help address the top economic and social challeng

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Vote Solar: Regulatory Director SE

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

Position Opening: Regulatory Director – Southeast. Vote Solar’s mission is to repower the U.S. with clean energy by making solar power more accessible and affordable through effective policy advocacy. We are a non-profit organization with headquarters in Oakland, CA, and regional offices in Colorado, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Mexico, North Carolina, Utah, Vermont, and Washington, D.C.

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Living Green Technology now offers data center liquidation in Seattle and Portland

Living Green Technology

We here at Living Green Technology are excited to announce that we're now offering data center liquidation in Seattle, Portland, and Tacoma! This is part of an ongoing effort on our part to expand our service offerings to better serve our clients and the local community. What do our data center liquidation services include? Flexible Scheduling: You pick the best day and time that works for you and we'll take care of the rest!

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The Energy Transition Principles (ETPs)

Mr. Sustainability

This article describes the fundamental incentives to create a sustainable world by self-organizing behavior. In my humble opinion that is. A few weeks ago, I had an epiphany. It was during a “CO2 Conference” in Rotterdam and I was listening to a presentation about “the Energy Transition”. The persons who were presenting and debating were pretty important: all board level company managers and CEOs (including oil and gas majors).

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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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Energy Efficiency: What You Have to Know before Launching Your Next Program

Bidgely

“The cleanest kWh is a kWh not used” has been the energy efficiency (EE) battle cry for decades. And utilities are delivering on that in myriad ways: innovating new program designs while continuing to improve EE savings nationwide. But we see a big opportunity to deepen energy savings nationwide still untapped: improved EE program targeting based on individual home savings potential.

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Metrus Energy: Asset Manager

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

Location: San Francisco Bay Area. This individual will be responsible for helping manage the day-to-day reporting and operations of Metrus’ growing portfolio of energy efficiency assets, which span a variety of projects and types of energy upgrades. The candidate will work closely with the company’s financial partners and customers to manage and support the operation and reporting of energy efficiency projects.

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Earth Week: Climate Resilience in Seattle’s South End

Front And Centered

In photo: The author and Front and Centered organizer Melissa Bañales (far right) with Nora Landri (far left) and Vera Hoang (middle) for Green-A-Thon door-knocking on Saturday. (Photo by Melissa Bañales). Last summer’s wildfire smoke rose to a level where it was dangerous to leave our homes. Thankfully, the focus of the first Green-A-Thon I volunteered at with South Seattle-based climate justice organization Got Green, was sharing with communities about building resilience in the face of these

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The Energy Transition Principles

Mr. Sustainability

The fundamental incentives to create a sustainable world by self-organizing behavior are electrification of final energy, energy mortgage and the Turntoo Model. A few weeks ago, I had an epiphany. It was during a “CO2 Conference” in Rotterdam and I was listening to a presentation about “the Energy Transition”. The persons who were presenting and debating were pretty important: all board level company managers and CEOs (including oil and gas majors).

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Energy Efficiency: What You Have to Know before Launching Your Next Program

Bidgely

“The cleanest kWh is a kWh not used” has been the energy efficiency (EE) battle cry for decades. And utilities are delivering on that in myriad ways: innovating new program designs while continuing to improve EE savings nationwide. But we see a big opportunity to deepen energy savings nationwide still untapped: improved EE program targeting based on individual home savings potential.

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Vote Solar: Communications

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

Position: Communications Manager / Director. Vote Solar is a non-profit policy advocacy organization with the mission of making solar more accessible and affordable across the United States. We are in search of an experienced communications professional with a strong media relations background to help advance and defend clean energy policy, support our fundraising goals, and build our brand awareness and thought-leadership.

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The Huge Flaw in the Impeachment Debate

Andrew Winston

I generally re-post everything I write or link to it elsewhere. While I mostly write about sustainability and climate, over the last couple of years I've ventured into politics more (especially since we can't solve the biggest sustainability issues like climate change and inequality unless we have a functioning democracy). I wrote a short piece yesterday about impeachment.

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The Energy Transition Principles

Mr. Sustainability

The fundamental incentives to create a sustainable world by self-organizing behavior are electrification of final energy, energy mortgage and the Turntoo Model. A few weeks ago, I had an epiphany. It was during a “CO2 Conference” in Rotterdam and I was listening to a presentation about “the Energy Transition”. The persons who were presenting and debating were pretty important: all board level company managers and CEOs (including oil and gas majors).

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What’s intention got to do with it?

Enervee

New research on assessing Enervee Choice Engine® influence on the energy efficiency of consumer product buying decisions I just read a new research paper that concluded that the European Energy Label had no discernible effect on the willingness to pay for efficient products, while providing information on total cost of ownership did. The only explanation provided for why that might be the case was that the range of efficiency classes for products currently sold on the EU market is narrow – but t

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Vote Solar: Regulatory Research Manager

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

JOB DESCRIPTION: Research Manager, Regulatory Team. Vote Solar is a non-profit advocacy organization dedicated to making solar energy a leading source of electricity across the country. We are in search of a highly motivated Research Manager to support our regulatory team’s efforts to advance markets and programs for solar power generation – both distributed and utility-scale – through participation in regulatory forums across the United States.

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Vote Solar: Regulatory Director SE

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

Position Opening: Regulatory Director – Southeast. Vote Solar’s mission is to repower the U.S. with clean energy by making solar power more accessible and affordable through effective policy advocacy. We are a non-profit organization with headquarters in Oakland, CA, and regional offices in Colorado, Illinois, Massachusetts, New Mexico, North Carolina, Utah, Vermont, and Washington, D.C.

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Metrus Energy: Asset Manager

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

Location: San Francisco Bay Area. This individual will be responsible for helping manage the day-to-day reporting and operations of Metrus’ growing portfolio of energy efficiency assets, which span a variety of projects and types of energy upgrades. The candidate will work closely with the company’s financial partners and customers to manage and support the operation and reporting of energy efficiency projects.

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San Jose Environmental Services Specialist

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

Environmental Services Specialist series, Environmental Services Department-(1900436). About the Department. The Environmental Services Department (ESD) is a place where people do great work and make a difference. To see some of the first-rate work ESDers have accomplished in the past fiscal year, review the ESD 2018 Annual Report. For more information about the department, please visit our website www.sjenvironment.org or @sjenvironment on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.

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San Jose Environmental Services Specialist

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

Environmental Services Specialist series, Environmental Services Department-(1900436). About the Department. The Environmental Services Department (ESD) is a place where people do great work and make a difference. To see some of the first-rate work ESDers have accomplished in the past fiscal year, review the ESD 2018 Annual Report. For more information about the department, please visit our website www.sjenvironment.org or @sjenvironment on Twitter, Facebook, and Instagram.