Sat.Jun 15, 2019 - Fri.Jun 21, 2019

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Food and Climate -- It's Not Just About Hamburgers

Jim Conca

Where you get your food really matters to the climate. The carbon footprint of one cup of coffee may be fifteen times that of one made from a different crop of beans. The same with a hamburger. We need to change farming practices and replace a lot, not all, of our beef with plant-based protein.

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Conservatives fail to deliver ‘a real plan’ on climate

Clean Energy Canada

VICTORIA — Dan Woynillowicz, policy director at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to the Conservative Party of Canada’s climate plan , unveiled today. Clean Energy Canada will be responding to every federal party’s climate plan as they’re released. “What was announced today fails to live up to its billing as a comprehensive plan—in fact, it’s not really a plan at all.

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Acquisition x 2

Elemental Excelerator

Are you ready for this? We have a short rhyme for you. Scoot and Go Electric got acquired. I know! We’re excited too! You May Have Heard … Scoot Was Acquired By Bird. Scoot joined the Elemental portfolio in 2018. In our opinion, they’re leading the way in bringing equity into the micromobility scene. Go Electric & Saft = The Perfect Match.

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New York to pass 'one of the most aggressive clean energy mandates in the country'

Renewable Energy World

New York is poised to pass its own version of the Green New Deal with a climate bill that would more than triple the state’s solar capacity and aggressively promote development of wind farms off the state’s coast.

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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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From the Hill: Solving the Climate Crisis: Ramping Up Renewables

Defend Our Future

On June 13th, several interns and I had the awesome opportunity to attend the House Select Committee on the Climate Crisis’ hearing, “Solving the Climate Crisis: Ramping Up Renewables.” And of course, we were sporting our Defend Our Future T-shirts, making the statement that we support our representatives who pledge to advance the transition to 100% clean energy.

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Young people are growing horns, thanks to phones + tablets

Treehugger - Technology

You thought 'text neck' was bad? Kids these days are growing 'enlarged external occipital protuberances,' according to researchers.

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U.S. solar market soars in Q1 2019

Renewable Energy World

In the first three months of the year, the U.S. installed 2.7 gigawatts of solar photovoltaics (PV), making it the most solar ever installed in the first quarter of a year. With the strong first quarter, Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables forecasts 25% growth in 2019 compared to 2018, and it expects more than 13 GWdc of installations this year.

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A Note from Defend’s New Project Director, on Defend’s Mission and What Comes Next

Defend Our Future

Hey everyone! My name is Matt Oberhoffner, and I’m honored to introduce myself as the project director of Defend Our Future. I’ve spent the last four years working at Environmental Defense Fund, just down the hall from the Defend team, on a host of climate policy and politics initiatives (you can read more about me here , if you like!) but now I’m working with Defend directly.

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The Canadian government is making smart investments in electric vehicles

Clean Energy Canada

Last month, energy ministers and corporate leaders from around the world descended on Vancouver for the 10th Clean Energy Ministerial to discuss all things clean energy. But electric vehicles — from cars to buses to trucks — really stole the show. To kick things off, the International Energy Agency released its new Global Electric Vehicles Outlook , the data-driven crystal ball of the electric future.

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Tips and Tricks for Your Career We Wish We’d Known Earlier

Clean Energy Trust

It is graduation season, and hundreds of thousands of people are entering the workforce for the first time. In that spirit, we wanted to share a few things we learned on the job we wish we’d been told as we were beginning our careers. When it comes to emails and meetings, some norms may not always be very clear, but that does not mean people don’t notice and respond to how you engage with them.

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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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Solar industry, advocates hail New York passage of ambitious climate bill

Renewable Energy World

New York’s Climate Leadership and Community Protection Act passed the Assembly early in the morning of June 20 and will now await the governor’s signature. Solar advocates praised the state legislature’s adoption of long anticipated legislation that will require at least 70 percent of electric generation come from renewable sources by 2030 and providing needed funding to low-income and environmental justice communities.

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Ensemble Energy: Data Engineering Intern

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

Data Engineering Intern. Location: Palo Alto, Ca. Ensemble Energy is an exciting startup in industrial IoT space focused on energy. Our mission is to accelerate the clean energy revolution by making it more competitive using the power of data. Ensemble’s AI enabled SaaS platform provides prescriptive analytics to power plant operators by combining the power of machine learning, big data, and deep domain expertise.

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10 companies to offer scooters during Chicago’s summer pilot program that starts Saturday

LA CleanTech Incubator

Electric shared scooters are coming to the city Saturday, and 10 companies have been chosen to take part in the four-month pilot program. The post 10 companies to offer scooters during Chicago’s summer pilot program that starts Saturday appeared first on LACI.

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Are Your B2B Brand’s Images Powerful?

Michael Grossman

The saying “A picture is worth a thousand words” has been around so long because it’s true. But when I look at the brand strategy behind the websites, social media and content marketing of companies In the B2B space, I often wonder if I missed out on the instructions from a parallel school of thought which taught its graduates, “You should use a thousand words to describe your picture.” Powerful Branding Images Require Scant Explanation.

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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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Bloomberg predicts wind and solar will power half the world and bag $9 trillion investment

Renewable Energy World

Wind or solar now represent the least expensive option for adding new power generation capacity in approximately two-thirds of the world.

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Ensemble Energy: Full Stack/IoT Intern

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

Full Stack/IoT Intern. Location: Palo Alto, Ca. Ensemble Energy is an exciting startup in industrial IoT space focused on energy. Our mission is to accelerate the clean energy revolution by making it more competitive using the power of data. Ensemble’s AI enabled SaaS platform provides prescriptive analytics to power plant operators by combining the power of machine learning, big data, and deep domain expertise.

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(Re)Branding Utilities

Varuna

The Value of Brand It’s not news, or it shouldn’t be, that there is economic value in creating a strong brand. According to the Economist , brands account for more than 30% of the stock value of companies in the S&P 500 Index. And McKinsey suggests that a brand with a strong reputation generate 31% more return to shareholders than the MSCI World average.

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(Re)Branding Utilities

Seyi Fabode

<a href=” [link] ">Logo vector created by rawpixel.com?—? www.freepik.com </a> The Value of Brand It’s not news, or it shouldn’t be, that there is economic value in creating a strong brand. According to the Economist , brands account for more than 30% of the stock value of companies in the S&P 500 Index. And McKinsey suggests that a brand with a strong reputation generate 31% more return to shareholders than the MSCI World average.

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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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Legislation introduced to encourage marine energy research in the U.S.

Renewable Energy World

U.S. Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.), Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), Angus King (I-Maine), Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii), and Jack Reed (D-R.I.), have reintroduced The Marine Energy Research and Development Act , intended to increase production of low-carbon, renewable energy from the natural power in ocean waves, tides and currents.

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Ensemble Energy: Data Science Intern

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

Data Science Intern. Location: Palo Alto, Ca. Ensemble Energy is an exciting startup in industrial IoT space focused on energy. Our mission is to accelerate the clean energy revolution by making it more competitive using the power of data. Ensemble’s AI enabled SaaS platform provides prescriptive analytics to power plant operators by combining the power of machine learning, big data, and deep domain expertise.

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Building Power and Community at the (Student) Presidential Leadership Summit

Defend Our Future

Defend Our Future co-hosted a series of panels and conversations on climate policy, building power and advancing environmental issues on college campuses and beyond. We again partnered with the National Campus Leadership Council (think the Conference of Mayors, but for student body presidents) who brought more than 100 student leaders from across the country to Washington, DC, for a three-day Presidential Leadership Summit on some of the issues impacting young leaders – affordable education, civ

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Recognizing the climate emergency draws a new line in the sand

Clean Energy Canada

VICTORIA — Dan Woynillowicz, policy director at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to Canadian parliament voting to declare a climate emergency. “We needn’t even look beyond our borders to see that emergency is the right word to describe climate change. Two record-breaking years for wildfires—and already a bad start to 2019.

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Women are missing out on the clean energy job boom in America

Renewable Energy World

While the industry is welcoming more women leaders, its rank-and-file workforce is still a lot like those at fossil-fuel companies: white and dominated by men. The lack of gender diversity is being driven by manufacturing jobs, and that means women are now missing out on the biggest jobs boom America has to offer.

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Ensemble Energy: Data Engineering Intern

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

Data Engineering Intern. Location: Palo Alto, Ca. Ensemble Energy is an exciting startup in industrial IoT space focused on energy. Our mission is to accelerate the clean energy revolution by making it more competitive using the power of data. Ensemble’s AI enabled SaaS platform provides prescriptive analytics to power plant operators by combining the power of machine learning, big data, and deep domain expertise.

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2019 Malawi Tripartite Elections: Mutharika Narrowly Retains Presidency

Unsustainable

2019 Malawian Presidential Elections: Malawian president Peter Mutharika was, on 21 May, narrowly re-elected for a second, and his final, five-year mandate. words and photographs Deogracias Benjamin Kalima In a contest which always was expected to be close, the 78-year-old law professor, representing the Democratic Progressive Party (DPP), amassed 1,940,709 votes, or 38.57 percent of the total vote, beating his closest contender, Lazarous Chakwera, an evangelical cleric turned politician for the

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Anybody can have a climate plan, but what makes for an effective one?

Clean Energy Canada

As the final sitting of this parliament draws to a close, the issue of climate change—now declared a climate emergency—has been getting a lot of attention. And with good reason. We needn’t even look beyond our borders to see that emergency is the right word to describe climate change. Two record-breaking years for wildfires—and already a bad start to 2019.

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Integrating rooftop solar just got easier for utilities

Renewable Energy World

Homeowners and businesses may now have an easier time getting solar panels on rooftops thanks to software developed at Sandia.

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Ensemble Energy: Full Stack/IoT Intern

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

Full Stack/IoT Intern. Location: Palo Alto, Ca. Ensemble Energy is an exciting startup in industrial IoT space focused on energy. Our mission is to accelerate the clean energy revolution by making it more competitive using the power of data. Ensemble’s AI enabled SaaS platform provides prescriptive analytics to power plant operators by combining the power of machine learning, big data, and deep domain expertise.

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Eos supplying non-lithium batteries for Duke, UCSD storage projects

Renewable Energy World

Eos Energy Storage is manufacturer and supplier of the zinc-based Aurora 2.0 battery system for Duke Energy's McAlpine substation and as a behind-the-meter solution at the University of California, San Diego.

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EWF launches world’s first open source blockchain for the energy industry

Renewable Energy World

The Energy Web Foundation (EWF) this week announced that it has launched the world’s first public, open-source, enterprise-grade blockchain tailored to the energy sector: the Energy Web Chain (EW Chain). As a refresher, blockchain allows for peer-to-peer energy market transactions.

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EPA finalizes Affordable Clean Energy rule, repeals Clean Power Plan

Renewable Energy World

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has issued the Affordable Clean Energy (ACE) rule and simultaneously repealed the Clean Power Plan (CPP).

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Vermont electric vehicle incentives provide a ‘symbolic’ boost

Renewable Energy World

Vermont joined the ranks of other New England states that provide incentives for electric vehicles with Gov. Phil Scott’s signature on June 14 on a yearly transportation bill.

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Corani seeking financing to develop 147-MW Banda Azul hydro project in Bolivia

Renewable Energy World

Jose Maria Romay, general manager of Corani (a subsidiary of Ende), has announced the company is seeking financing from Latin American development bank CAF and French development agency AFD for the 147-MW Banda Azul hydro project.