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The many faces of energy resilience

GreenBiz

The many faces of energy resilience. Michelle Moore. Mon, 08/17/2020 - 00:30. This series explores how clean energy can deliver on finance and corporate social and governance goals alongside climate and environmental benefits. "Resilience" is a powerful word in 2020. Fires, floods, pestilence, pandemic — I don’t know about you all, but I was raised in a fundamentalist Southern Baptist Church and my Revelations bingo card is just about full.

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Five local authorities selected by Defra for nature recovery pilots

Envirotec Magazine

LNRS pilots will help kick-start the creation of over a million acres of habitats for wildlife and people, says Defra. Cornwall, Buckinghamshire, Greater Manchester, Northumberland and Cumbria local authorities were selected by the government on 14 August “to help kick-start nature recovery on a countrywide scale.” The selected authorities will receive a share of £1 million of funding to set up ‘Local Nature Recovery Strategies’ (LNRS) pilot studies to help map the most valuable site

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Surprising ways seaweed benefits the environment

Inhabitat - Innovation

While the news often mentions the terrible things in the sea, such as gyres of plastic and other trash, the oceans also hold an extremely valuable resource: seaweed. This renewable and easily harvestable organism is used for everything from food to spa treatments to a possible COVID-19 medicine.

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The Solar Singularity: 2020 Update (Part 2)

GreenTechMedia

For five years running, author Tam Hunt has provided his take on global clean energy markets in his Solar Singularity series. Read his first installment in this year's update here , covering solar and batteries. I was optimistic about EV growth in last year’s update and was growing more optimistic this year because of the breadth and depth of the global EV market.

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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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Journey Foods uses AI to create sustainability recipe for food manufacturers

GreenBiz

Journey Foods uses AI to create sustainability recipe for food manufacturers. Jesse Klein. Thu, 08/20/2020 - 02:00. Riana Lynn’s company, Journey Foods , is dragging the packaged food business into the 21st century. . "Food manufacturing has really only scaled up in the last 60 years," she said. "And that means we’re also working on very antiquated methods." .

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Lost revenue is biggest Covid risk facing utilities

Envirotec Magazine

Non-payment of customer bills poses the biggest Covid-19 threat to water utilities worldwide, one of several water industry issues discussed at a technology consultancy’s recent webinar. Water utilities are “walking on a knife’s edge”, due to a significant loss of revenue caused by non-payment of water bills during the crisis, according to research presented at a recent webinar held by technology consultancy Isle.

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WoodMac: A New Battery Chemistry Will Lead the Stationary Energy Storage Market by 2030

GreenTechMedia

Lithium-iron-phosphate (LFP) will become increasingly popular for stationary energy storage applications, overtaking lithium-manganese-cobalt-oxide (NMC) within a decade, Wood Mackenzie shared in a new report. As demand from electric vehicles and the stationary storage market both skyrocket this decade, evolving performance priorities will create a divergence between the types of batteries used for storage and those used for EV applications.

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There's a big appetite for farm-to-consumer shopping

GreenBiz

There's a big appetite for farm-to-consumer shopping. Jim Giles. Fri, 08/21/2020 - 01:45. Avrom Farm sits in the hills above Green Lake in central Wisconsin. With 5,000 chickens, 200 pigs and six acres of vegetables, it’s a minnow in an industry dominated by an increasingly small number of producers and processors. . In March, a stay-at-home order hit the region.

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Microgrid Market to hit USD 38bn by 2026

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Increasing number of residential, commercial and industrial spaces is propelling the demand for a reliable, safe, continuous and cost-effective supply of energy, stimulating microgrid technologies.

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Atlantic has 10 times the microplastics previously thought

Inhabitat - Innovation

We knew it was bad. But a new study of plastic in the Atlantic Ocean reveals the pollution problem is ten times worse than scientists suspected.

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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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PV Plant Owned by First Solar Is Being Paid to Help Balance Chile’s Electric Grid

GreenTechMedia

Back in 2016, First Solar proved in a California pilot project that utility-scale solar farms can provide critical transmission grid services. Four years later, the leading U.S.-based solar module maker has taken the next big step in turning this capability into a real-world grid resource: convincing a grid operator to pay for it. Chilean grid operator Coordinador Eléctrico Nacional (CEN) has added First Solar’s 141-megawatt Luz del Norte PV power plant to its list of generators app

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Ulta Beauty is bringing refillable containers back to the cosmetics industry

GreenBiz

Ulta Beauty is bringing refillable containers back to the cosmetics industry. Jesse Klein. Tue, 08/18/2020 - 02:00. The beauty industry has a plastic waste problem. And it knows it. A quick Google search brings up articles from Allure , National Geographic , Forbes , Teen Vogue and 31,800,000 other results about the issue. . It seems those concerns finally have reached a critical mass, inspiring a sustainability makeover at three of the biggest beauty brands in the business — Sephora, Natura & C

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Canadian Solar to Construct One of the Largest C&I Solar Rooftop Projects in Malaysia

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Muda Paper is the largest industrial-grade paper producer in Malaysia. The project will be powered by 13,000 pieces of Canadian Solar's high-efficiency KuMax modules. Once in operation, the plant is expected to generate approximately 6,700 MWh of clean, reliable solar electricity each year for 25 years. The Company expects the project to reach commercial operation by the end 2020.

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Solar-powered dome in the Texas desert is the perfect place to go off the grid

Inhabitat - Innovation

Along with the opportunity to completely cut yourself off from the modern world, the dome’s setting offers incredible views of the night sky and the desert horizon.

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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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Creative financing to unlock COVID aid in Alabama

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, August 17 – The financial strains the COVID pandemic has caused in many cities and states can be seen in sharp relief in Alabama’s Black Belt, a swath of 18 counties originally named for the area’s once-rich soil. Even accessing federal relief funding is a challenge in the Black Belt which contains some of. The post Creative financing to unlock COVID aid in Alabama appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Sustainability leaders must celebrate the work of female mayors on racial equity

GreenBiz

Sustainability leaders must celebrate the work of female mayors on racial equity. Kimberly Lewis. Mon, 08/17/2020 - 01:00. Sustainability leaders are architects, designers, city planners, engineers, scientists, energy experts, lawyers, nonprofit leaders and business owners. The United Nations defines "sustainability" as meeting the needs of today without compromising the needs of the next generation to meet their own needs.

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Enphase Energy and Sonnenstromfabrik Launch High-Efficiency AC Modules in Europe

altenergymag

The Excellent Glass/Glass PERC60 Enphase Energized ACM features Enphase IQ 7+™ microinverters with a 96.5% Euro efficiency and 295 volt-amperes (VA) peak power which optimizes the energy yield from the PERC60 ACM for all insolation levels.

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EPA loosens restrictions on methane emissions

Inhabitat - Innovation

As President Trump’s term comes to an end, his administration has busily rolled back Obama-era environmental protections.

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This Real-Life Planeteer From Zimbabwe Is Saving The Earth With Green Chemistry

Forbes Green Tech

Emmie Chiyindiko grew up in Zimbabwe dreaming of superheroes and watching Captain Planet and the Planeteers, but now she's a chemist exploring green chemistry: reducing the carbon footprint by making industrial processes more efficient. #globalsouthscience.

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The Business Roundtable’s statement of purpose, one year on

GreenBiz

The Business Roundtable’s statement of purpose, one year on. Joel Makower. Mon, 08/17/2020 - 02:11. When the Business Roundtable updated its Statement on the Purpose of a Corporation a year ago this week, its members surely didn’t anticipate a global pandemic, a recession of historic proportions and a movement for racial justice becoming mainstream.

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California renewable energy providers urge State investments in a more diverse, reliable mix of clean energy to prevent future capacity shortfalls

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“Right now, California has a renewable energy system that is heavily reliant on the sun, and solar resources are performing exactly as it should: Solar power can produce huge amounts of energy, but the State needs a better plan for providing clean energy in that evening period when the sun sets.

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Florida to release millions of genetically modified mosquitoes

Inhabitat - Innovation

Will the GMO mosquitoes safely reduce mosquito populations and disease, or will it endanger animals that rely on mosquitoes for food?

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CATL to supply batteries for Trailer Dynamics electric semi-trailer

Charged

Contemporary Amperex Technology ( CATL ) and Trailer Dynamics have signed a battery supply agreement for a new way to electrify long-haul trucks. CATL will develop, manufacture and supply batteries for the Newton eTrailer, which will launch in 2023. The Newton eTrailer, Trailer Dynamics’s first electric semi-trailer, is designed to respond to the driving behavior of its coupled tractor using an electric drive train supported by an integrated electric transmission system, managing energy re

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Sustainable Recovery: ESG Values and our Resilient Future

GreenBiz

Sustainable Recovery: ESG Values and our Resilient Future. In a world facing multiple crises, businesses, cities and organizations that have placed ESG values at the core of their work are proving to be more resilient, adapting more rapidly to change while charting a sustainable course to benefit future generations. Today’s pandemic has made the business case for sustainability stronger and the timelines shorter. .

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The smarter E South America postponed to August 24-26, 2021

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São Paulo, August 17, 2020: In response to the still rising numbers of cases of persons infected with the coronavirus (COVID-19) in Brazil and worldwide and the associated restrictions now being introduced, the organizers of The smarter E South America – Solar Promotion International GmbH (SPI), Freiburg Management and Marketing International GmbH (FMMI) and Aranda Eventos & Congressos Ltda.

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HIVE Project proposes biophilic, self-sufficient homes of the future

Inhabitat - Innovation

These customizable homes would feature renewable energy sources and water recycling systems.

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One Acre Fund secures $20 million to catalyze institutional capital for African farmers

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, Aug. 20 – Conventional investors see uncompensated risk. Investors of ‘catalytic capital’ see an opportunity for outsized impact. One Acre Fund has spent the last decade and a half demonstrating that small African farmers are not only lendable but, with additional support, are safe bets to reduce hunger and grow family incomes. In the. The post One Acre Fund secures $20 million to catalyze institutional capital for African farmers appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Can you mix lithium and lead-acid batteries on an energy storage project?

Solar Power World

There are pros and cons associated with the two main battery chemistries used in solar + storage projects. Lead-acid batteries have been around much longer and are more easily understood but have limits to their storage capacity. Lithium-ion batteries have longer cycle lives and are lighter in weight but inherently more expensive. Can one combine… The post Can you mix lithium and lead-acid batteries on an energy storage project?

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Community Energy Partners with Princeton University’s Andlinger Center to Develop U.S. Energy Transition Plan

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The joint effort unites energy systems research with industry experience to lay out an economically viable transition to decarbonized utility power

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DNC reverses pledge to end fossil fuel subsidies

Inhabitat - Innovation

The DNC has removed a pledge to end fossil fuel subsidies from its ledger of party demands.

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When facts fail to convince, storytelling may do the trick

Grist

Facts are great and all, but sometimes you just need to tell a good story. Sharing personal anecdotes about how the climate crisis is changing our lives for the worse can persuade people to care, according to a new study. And that’s including conservatives. In two experiments, people listened to a short radio clip from 2015 about Richard Mode, a 66-year-old North Carolinian who enjoys hunting and fishing.

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Getting into the weeds of African agriculture investing

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, August 19 – Globally, agrifood tech ventures raised $21.6 billion sector last year. Yet in an entire decade, 242 known agriculture-related deals in Africa raised only $616 million, according to “Mapping Agriculture Investing in Africa” from Village Capital. Agriculture accounts for 40% of Africa’s GDP and employs 70% of its workforce.

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8tree enters renewables sector with waveCHECK™, targeting wind turbine blade quality

altenergymag

Built from-the-ground-up for assessing wind-blade quality, waveCHECK is accelerating how defects are measured in composite structures.

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Global warming could push air conditioning demand up 59%

Inhabitat - Innovation

As the planet warms, more people are relying on AC. But AC just contributes to more warming.