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Sustainable Packaging: Biodegradable and Eco-Friendly Options For Your Business

Green Business Bureau

Sustainable Packaging: Customers Expect It. One of the biggest culprits of plastic and styrofoam pollution in the world is the packaging materials that companies use in shipping their products. Businesses need to become more sustainable and shift to more eco friendly packaging. Customers expect it and the health of our planet demands it. There is a wave of new innovative eco-friendly alternatives to traditional packaging materials.

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Washington State Senate Bill 5244 – Needed Support For Nuclear Power

Jim Conca

The Washington State Senate Environment, Energy & Technology Committee drafted a new bill, SB 5244, encouraging the production of advanced nuclear reactors, small modular reactors, and components through the Invest in Washington Act. A very necessary thing to do.

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Larry Fink says accelerate. He needs to say it much louder

GreenBiz

Larry Fink says accelerate. He needs to say it much louder. Graham Sinclair. Thu, 02/04/2021 - 02:11. Reprinted from GreenFin Weekly, a free weekly newsletter. Subscribe here. Larry Fink seems impatient. His 2021 letter to CEOs mentions "accelerate" eight times. He has rightly earned praise for speaking up on climate, investment and economic transition.

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WoodMac on Green Hydrogen: It’s Going To Happen Faster Than Anyone Expects

GreenTechMedia

Green hydrogen is set to play a substantive role in the overall energy mix with its development likely to happen faster than anyone predicts, according to a new report by Wood Mackenzie. The 2050: The Hydrogen Possibility report details how the project pipeline has grown nine-fold since October 2019 to a staggering 26 gigawatts. National hydrogen strategies has set targets for 66 GW of electrolyzer capacity suggesting there is plenty more growth to come.

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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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Healthy oceans need healthy soundscapes, suggests study

Envirotec Magazine

A global team of researchers has documented the seemingly pervasive impacts of noise on marine animals and ecosystems and identified actions to return to the soundtrack of the healthy ocean. Rain falls lightly on the ocean’s surface. Marine mammals chirp and squeal as they swim along. The pounding of surf along a distant shoreline heaves and thumps with metronomic regularity.

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IKEA purchases forested land in Georgia for conservation

Inhabitat - Innovation

Ingka Group, an investment group of IKEA, has bought nearly 11,000 acres of land near the Altamaha River Basin to protect it from developments.

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Sunnova Offers Industry’s First 0% APR for Home Solar + Battery Storage Service

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“We are focused on knocking down barriers that prevent homeowners from purchasing a clean and affordable energy system from a trusted service provider, like Sunnova”

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Wetlands convention celebrates 50th anniversary, but wetlands are still in decline

Envirotec Magazine

On 2 February, the Convention on Wetlands, also known as the Ramsar Convention, celebrated its 50th anniversary. But there is still an alarming decline in wetlands, and a new article in Nature Ecology & Evolution examines the mixed legacy of the convention. In the piece, Dr Peter Bridgewater from the University of Canberra and Dr Rakhyun E Kim from the Copernicus Institute for Sustainable Development at Utrecht University, argue that the convention will need to embrace new ecological thinki

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Hydrogen fuel cells good or bad for the environment?

Inhabitat - Innovation

Will cars powered by hydrogen fuel cells save the environment? Possibly. But some major issues need solving before that can happen.

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PepsiCo CSO on embedding sustainability into 'day-to-day business'

GreenBiz

PepsiCo CSO on embedding sustainability into 'day-to-day business'. Heather Clancy. Mon, 02/01/2021 - 02:00. The number of companies proclaiming their intent to go net-zero by 2050 has expanded exponentially in the past 12 months, but the ones short-cutting that commitment by a decade are a rarer breed. In mid-January, PepsiCo joined that club with a strategy to reduce its greenhouse gas emissions by 40 percent across its entire value chain by 2030 and to reach the elusive net-zero emissions sta

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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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KPM POWER ACHIEVES KEY SAFETY CERTIFICATION FOR ITS BATTERY MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

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UL1973 listing covers batteries for use in stationary, vehicle auxiliary power and light electric rail applications

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Teaching Your Kids How To Recycle And Why

U.S. Green Technology

With an ever-increasing population that still relies overwhelmingly on unsustainable resources, the world is relying on our children for its future. Our generation is making steady progress towards a greener planet. According to the European Union, we have reduced household waste by approximately 2% per annum since 2015. Nevertheless, we need to act faster.

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Construction begins on the largest solar plant in the US

Inhabitat - Innovation

Once completed, the farm will generate 1,013 megawatts of energy.

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Episode 254: David Crane chats, PepsiCo CSO talks business

GreenBiz

Episode 254: David Crane chats, PepsiCo CSO talks business. Heather Clancy. Fri, 02/05/2021 - 02:00. Week in Review. Stories discussed this week (5:25). What’s a sustainable (and just) business model? What the US could learn from China about how leasing affects EV transition. How US government procurement can lead the clean economy. Features. It's risky business as usual (15:45).

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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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Hydrogen Optimized Takes Key Step to Supply Largest Segment of Fast-Growing Green Hydrogen Market with New Development and Manufacturing Facility

altenergymag

Hydrogen Optimized Inc. today took a major step toward its goal of becoming a global leader in large-scale Green Hydrogen production systems by securing a new technology and manufacturing centre in Owen Sound, Ontario, Canada. The company will refine its RuggedCell water electrolysis technology and manufacturing processes at the site as it seeks to meet the rapidly developing global demand for large-scale Green Hydrogen technology.

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Sports and Environment: 6 Tips for Making Sports Facilities More Green and Sustainable

U.S. Green Technology

As time goes by, non-renewable energy sources come to the very brink of their purposefulness, and climate changes impossible to ignore. The questions of sustainability and green economy become some of the most frequently discussed topics. What’s even more important, these burning issues are now leaving the closed economic and industrial circles and now breach.

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Canoo unveils 100% electric delivery vans that start at $33K

Inhabitat - Innovation

Canoo plans to launch two versions of a multipurpose delivery vehicle by 2023.

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Ocean-based sequestration heats up

GreenBiz

Ocean-based sequestration heats up. Jim Giles. Mon, 02/01/2021 - 00:30. This article originally appeared in the State of Green Business 2021. You can download the entire report here. Over the past few years, as companies have come under steadily increasing pressure to tackle climate change, nature-based solutions have emerged as a particularly exciting method for shrinking corporate carbon footprints.

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45 Organizations Call for Long-Term Clean Energy and Clean Transportation Tax Platform To Help Effectively Address the Climate Crisis

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In a letter delivered today to President Biden, key members of the Biden administration, and Congressional leadership, a multi-sector coalition of 45 organizations is asking for the inclusion of a stable, predictable, and long-term tax platform for clean energy and clean transportation incentives in the earliest possible legislative vehicle this year.

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Elon Musk’s Ex-Chief Engineer Creates A New Car—And Says It Beats Tesla

Forbes Green Tech

The $169,000 Lucid Air is coming this spring and Peter Rawlinson claims it’ll be the fastest, longest-range electric vehicle on the planet. He should know. A decade ago, he engineered Tesla’s Model S.

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Tasmanian island to be powered by wave energy

Inhabitat - Innovation

The remote King Island of Tasmania will soon be powered by tidal energy.

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How steel might finally kick its coal habit

Grist

Coal’s grip on the global electricity sector is loosening as more utilities and companies invest in renewable energy. But one major coal consumer — the steel industry — is finding it harder to kick its habit. Steel companies make nearly 2 billion tons of high-strength material every year for bridges, buildings, railways, and roads. The furnaces that melt iron ore to make steel consume vast amounts of coal.

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Centrica, a major innovator in low-carbon energy and the UK energy supply, has joined the Hydrogen Taskforce

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The Hydrogen Taskforce is delighted to welcome another member to its growing coalition of the UK's largest organisations that operate and innovate in and across the hydrogen sector. Centrica has joined the Taskforce this January, adding its extensive experience in providing low-carbon and sustainable energy to the UK.

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U.S. Will Profit From Eliminating Carbon Emissions ‘Even If You Don’t Care About Climate’

Forbes Green Tech

The U. S. can save so much money in health and fossil-fuel costs by decarbonizing its economy that it makes financial sense to do it regardless of climate change, according to a report released today by the National Academies of Science.

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Solving for climate justice is giving these Black investors an edge in the green economy

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, Feb 1 – The design mandate for the green economy: Develop better and cleaner solutions that create jobs, improve health and drive demonstrably. The post Solving for climate justice is giving these Black investors an edge in the green economy appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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U.S. wind generation sets new daily and hourly records at end of 2020

Renewable Energy World

In the final months of 2020, electricity generation from wind turbines in the United States set daily and hourly records. Hourly data collected in the U.S. Energy Information Administration’s (EIA) Hourly Electric Grid Monitor show an hourly record set late in the day on December 22 and a daily record set on the following day. On April 10, 2019, daily electricity generation from wind turbines in the United States (excluding Alaska and Hawaii) reached a high of 1.42 million megawatthours (MWh).

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SunPower and EagleView Automate Home Survey Process for Faster, More Precise Solar Installations

altenergymag

-Computer vision, machine-learning enable dealers to create precise, construction-ready designs without drones or in-home surveys -Functionality reduces installation timelines by up to two weeks

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Who’s behind the current wave of hype about hydrogen?

Charged

Hydrogen fuel cells are controversial—several automakers, including Daimler , Honda , GM and Volkswagen , have abandoned the technology, while Toyota continues to pursue it. Hydrogen opponents cite its inefficiency relative to batteries, and question the wisdom of building a complex and costly new infrastructure. On the other hand, many believe that hydrogen may have a role to play in industrial processes, and for powering heavy-duty vehicles, including ocean-going ships and aircraft.

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Biodiversity is the new climate change

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, Feb. 4 – Nature is an asset – and we are failing as asset managers. That was the stark message of a. The post Biodiversity is the new climate change appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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Five Young Black Leaders Fighting For Racial and Climate Justice

Defend Our Future

This Black History Month, we are happy to add on to our list from last year , as we recognize and amplify the work of five more young Black leaders that fight for racial and social justice and climate justice and lift the voices of Black and brown communities that are disproportionately impacted. Leah Thomas, environmental activist, Founder of Intersectional Environmentalist. “ I think it’s important to know that intersectional environmentalism and environmental justice are not competing.

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Electriq Power Introduces AC-Coupled PowerPod 2 LFP-Based Residential Battery Storage System

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Latest high-performance model now available; offers energy independence in an industry-leading solution

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Archer partners with Fiat Chrysler to develop electric VTOL aircraft

Charged

Palo Alto-based Archer has teamed up with Fiat Chrysler (FCA) to develop electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, with the intent of starting production in 2023. FCA has already collaborated on cockpit design elements of Archer’s first aircraft, which is expected to be unveiled early this year. Archer’s goal is to create a vertically integrated electric airline that “moves people throughout the world’s cities in a quick, safe, sustainable and cost-effective manner.

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AXA invests $11 million in Forest Carbon to restore wetlands in Indonesia

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, Feb. 4 – French investment manager AXA invested debt and equity from The AXA IM Impact Fund: Climate and Biodiversity. Bonds will. The post AXA invests $11 million in Forest Carbon to restore wetlands in Indonesia appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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Solar Basics (At Home!): How to install inverters on solar carports

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. When installing solar inverters on carport installations, contractors must ensure the power electronics are protected from the general public who will park under them, and vice versa. Learn more… The post Solar Basics (At Home!