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How Robots Could Change the Environmental Impact of Agriculture

U.S. Green Technology

The agriculture industry is vital to human life and the supply chain. With it, grocery stores, restaurants and every other retailer operate smoothly. However, agriculture is not without faults. The industry is a top contributor to harmful emissions and greenhouse gasses. Environmental technologies like robots are now key to solving the harmful environmental impact of.

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Revamped Energy Efficiency Programs Are the Key to Deep Carbon Reductions

GreenTechMedia

Across the U.S., governments at all levels are prioritizing climate action and setting intense carbon-reduction goals. New York and Pennsylvania, along with 24 other states, have joined the U.S. Climate Alliance , which pledges to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by at least 26 percent by 2025 — a steep goal now only five years away. The electric power industry is a long-standing partner in this push toward a clean energy future, as demonstrated by its significant CO2 emissions reduct

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Corporate sustainability leadership during a pandemic

GreenBiz

Corporate sustainability leadership during a pandemic. Tove Malmqvist. Mon, 11/02/2020 - 01:00. As we continue to grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic and its devastating social and economic effects, companies are continuing their efforts to become more sustainable — and some are being recognized for their efforts. The 2020 Sustainability Leaders , a GlobeScan- SustainAbility survey of experts worldwide, reveals which companies are perceived to be leaders on sustainability during this challenging

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Nature Has Economic Value That Needs To Be Valued

Jim Conca

The planet’s stock of natural assets is under threat by our changing climate and our wild destruction of habitats, and many stakeholders across the world are calling for protecting 30% of the Earth's surface. A new report by McKinsey & Company shows how. Think of it as a capital investment.

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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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Less than half of company executives see sustainability as high priority

Envirotec Magazine

A new report by ENGIE Impact appears to reveal that attitudes to sustainability are lagging among company executives – only 45% of execs who participated in ENGIE Impact’s global 2020 study see sustainability as a top or high priority. However, 75% believe it will be a high priority in five years and that excellent execution of a leading sustainability strategy will provide a competitive advantage.

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Farmstead is making the world greener with groceries

Inhabitat - Innovation

COVID-19 made the world painfully aware that simply doing normal things, like going to the grocery store, is actually dangerous. Farmstead is offering grocery delivery services that are lower than store prices. Delivery is free because this online grocer hopes to change the shopping game. Farmstead is the very first online grocer to offer fresh, high-quality groceries that are delivered to customers for free.

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How China Came to Dominate Clean Energy Technologies, and How the US Can Catch Up

GreenTechMedia

The United States’ competition with China, which last year escalated to a trade war that cost tens of billions of dollars , has been a primary focus of the current administration’s effort to "put America first." But from the steep economic costs of that trade war to America’s withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement and the World Health Organization, America is losing its position as the world’s leading superpower and economy.

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UK’s largest battery ready to help balance the grid

Envirotec Magazine

Edinburgh based Flexitricity is optimising the Gresham House c.50MW / 75MWh battery, located in Thurcroft, South Yorkshire, generating revenue for the site while helping National Grid ESO balance supply and demand. The asset went live in the Balancing Mechanism (BM) Reserve from Storage Trial and was then live in the BM immediately afterwards. The BM is a key tool National Grid ESO uses to balance supply and demand on the electricity system in real time.

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Green Box: a hotel amenity kit made of compostable plastic

Inhabitat - Innovation

Designed to help tackle plastic waste in the hospitality industry, the Green Box is a circular hotel amenities kit full of bathroom items made from compostable plastic.

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6 differences between forestry and soil carbon offsets

GreenBiz

6 differences between forestry and soil carbon offsets. Jesse Klein. Wed, 11/04/2020 - 01:00. Carbon offsets are a big, confusing topic. Three breakout sessions at VERGE 20 covered this topic, with over 100 participants at each. Still, each one went over the allotted time with many questions left unanswered. While understanding the basics is important, many nuances and small details warrant their own entire discussion. .

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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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Western Container Sales: Creating Value Through Upcycling and Waste Reduction

Green Business Bureau

Since their launch in 2015, Westerner Container Sales , a division of Railbox Consulting LLC, has had sustainability at the core of their operations. Named one of Minnesota’s 50 fastest growing private companies in 2019, the Minneapolis-based company offers a unique and convenient eCommerce experience for purchasing and renting used or like-new “one trip” shipping containers.

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Scottish utility water testers’ robotic helping hand

Envirotec Magazine

An Edinburgh science hub has a new helping hand – a-state-of-the art automated robot which is being used to test water quality. The benchtop robot has been installed at Scottish Water’s Juniper House laboratory in Currie. It is used by the utility’s Scientific Services department which carries out a range of vital tests on all of the country’s drinking water.

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Kamp C hits a milestone with largest 3D-printer for concrete

Inhabitat - Innovation

Belgium-based provincial Centre for Sustainability and Innovation in construction, Kamp C, recently used Europe's largest 3D concrete printer to complete an impressive accomplishment. The company created the world's first two-story house to be 3D-printed in one piece, a 90-square meter dwelling measuring eight meters tall (the average size of terraced houses in the region).

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Why IKEA is investing in sustainable mobility

GreenBiz

Why IKEA is investing in sustainable mobility. Holly Secon. Tue, 11/03/2020 - 00:30. Swedish home furnishing company IKEA isn’t just focusing on what’s happening inside your home anymore. The company is also thinking about what's happening in the streets outside. That is, the company is pumping cash into a new sustainable mobility program. For the company known for its delicious meatballs and DIY shelves, the investment isn't actually that surprising.

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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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SolarEdge Announces 2025 Sustainability Targets, Committing to Powering 2.5M Homes

altenergymag

The new goals support and accelerate the company’s commitment to shaping the future of sustainable energy production, energy storage and e-mobility, and accelerating the transition to affordable clean energy though innovation.

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Mexico’s ‘Right to Mobility’ Amendment Could Shift Road Safety Discourse and Save Thousands of Lives

The City Fix

In a groundbreaking move for national road safety policy, Mexico has elevated to their constitution a universal right to safe mobility. On October 14, the country’s Chamber of Deputies unanimously voted in favor of adding an amendment to Mexico’s constitution: Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Top gardening trends of 2020 and what to watch for 2021

Inhabitat - Innovation

Google data reports a 39% increase from last year to this year on the topic — a good indicator of what's on people's minds. With this information, the experts at Love the Garden analyzed over 100 different garden-related hashtags on Instagram to uncover those growing in popularity and representing likely trends for 2021.

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Financing zero: The road to emission-free fleets

GreenBiz

Financing zero: The road to emission-free fleets. Tali Zuckerman. Wed, 11/04/2020 - 02:00. In recent years, electric vehicle (EV) adoption has accelerated in the world of personal cars. Now, as ambitious climate goals gain momentum and renewable energy prices drop, attention is turning towards scaling such systems for commercial transport. But before zero-emission vehicle (ZEV) fleets can hit the road, stakeholders must find innovative ways to finance them in a way that is accessible, affordable

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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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How to Calculate How Much Solar Power You Need?

U.S. Green Technology

Depending on your goals and power needs, it is easy to calculate your energy needs for a DIY solar install. Some questions to ask yourself will include: Do I want to supplement a portion of my requirements? Should the system provide power during an outage? Will my system be off-grid or grid-tied? What amount of. The post How to Calculate How Much Solar Power You Need?

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Review of ‘A Small Farm Future’ by Chris Smaje

Low Impact

Industrial agriculture and giant monoculture farms dominate our food sector. But does it have to be that way? Could and should we build a new kind of food system based on small farms? This new book, ‘A Small Farm Future’ published by Chelsea Green, outlines what a post-covid, post-capitalist society might look like, built around a repopulated countryside of small farmers.

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Niagara Falls welcomes zero-emission electric boats for sustainable tours

Inhabitat - Innovation

After nearly two centuries of bringing visitors up close and personal with the awe-inspiring waterfalls at Niagara Falls, the iconic Maid of the Mist attraction has been upgraded with two new all-electric, zero-emission boats.

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Gina McCarthy: Protecting the planet for all people

GreenBiz

Gina McCarthy: Protecting the planet for all people. Sara Murphy. Wed, 11/04/2020 - 01:30. Gina McCarthy thinks we should be more ambitious in our goals for a thriving planet and an equitable society. The former EPA administrator and current president and CEO of the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) has been a leading advocate for smart, successful strategies to protect public health and the environment for more than 30 years.

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A community remembers an environmental leader

Greenability Magazine

Dennis Murphey, retired chief environmental officer for Kansas City, MO, led the city’s effort to fight climate change for 13 years, putting Kansas City on the map for its 40-percent reduction in municipal greenhouse gas emissions. He died of COVID-19 on October 27. Murphey joined the city in 2006 and retired in June 2019. During his tenure, Kansas City experienced a paradigm shift that positioned environmental considerations as an integral part of all city planning, policy and activities.

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Hurricane Zeta Leaves Thousands Without Power, Oily Mess On Heels of Laura and Delta in South Louisiana

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 7 mins “ I will evacuate next time a hurricane is forecast to hit the area,” Traditional Chief Shirell Parfait-Dardar of the Grand Caillou/Dulac Band of Biloxi- Chitimacha-Choctaw Tribe told me the day after Hurricane Zeta hit Louisiana’s coast on October 28. Like many in the storm’s path, she was caught off guard when the storm intensified just before slamming into the coast. .

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Tree-planting drones aim to cool a hot planet

Inhabitat - Innovation

Professional tree planters typically plant upward of 12,000 trees per week. Flash Forest has a plan to plant 100,000 trees a day — with drones.

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How Stockton and California are building resilience from the ground up

GreenBiz

How Stockton and California are building resilience from the ground up. Deonna Anderson. Mon, 11/02/2020 - 00:05. California — as well as the rest of the United States and, in some cases, the rest of the world — is facing three major crises right now: the COVID-19 pandemic; the climate emergency; and racial injustice. . "We've had this shock to our system from the pandemic that has exposed these fault lines and the basic lack of resilience in our system, in our economy," Kate Gordon, director at

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UK’S LARGEST BATTERY READY TO BALANCE THE GRID

altenergymag

Gresham House Energy Storage Fund and flexible energy specialist Flexitricity have announced that the UK’s largest battery is now live.

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Post-pivot, African tech startups are peddling pandemic resilience

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, November 4 – As Africa’s economies restart from COVID lockdowns, the businesses on the fastest path to recovery are tech startups helping improve the resilience of the continent’s small business sector. A raft of tech startups have raised recent venture rounds from investors for digital solutions designed to give informal, micro and small businesses.

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Retailers drop coconut milk brand over animal exploitation allegations

Inhabitat - Innovation

Coconut has been touted as a superfood the last few years. But now something even more alarming than its sky-high saturated fat content has come to light.

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How to value solar plus storage

GreenBiz

How to value solar plus storage. Adam Aston. Tue, 11/03/2020 - 01:00. In the wake of California’s summer of wildfires, blackouts and planned outages, many consumers and businesses are clamoring for more resilient options. The crisis has turbocharged interest in systems that deliver power even when the grid is down. Solar plus storage is fast emerging as a top choice, both at scale on the grid and also "behind the meter," installed in a home, apartment or commercial building. .

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SOLAR POWER SUPPLY LAUNCHES REDESIGNED COMPANY WEBSITE TO PUSH MORE CONTENT ABOUT THE BENEFITS OF SOLAR ENERGY

altenergymag

The website enhances the visitor’s shopping experience with the simplicity of showing shoppers money-saving solar power products and services available to them as well as providing answers to numerous frequently asked questions.

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Equity crowdfunding grows up with new $5 million limit on ‘Reg CF’ offerings

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, Nov. 3 – Businesses from microbreweries to football clubs to electric vehicle makers and ‘mom & pop’ shops have made use of Regulation Crowdfunding under the JOBS Act, which created pathways for small and mid-sized businesses to “crowdfund” capital from everyday investors. Now, the Securities & Exchange Commission has approved amendments that increase the.

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Melting permafrost increases threat of tsunamis in Alaska

Inhabitat - Innovation

Scientists have warned that Alaska and other cold, mountainous places worldwide could experience tsunamis due to the melting of permafrost.

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