GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 14, 2021

It’s easy to see what’s motivating India’s emerging ecosystem of sustainable technology startups with a glance out the window from the office of Sangam Ventures in Gurugram, just outside of Delhi. The views expressed in this article do not necessarily reflect the views of SED Fund or any of its affiliates.

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Grist

JANUARY 8, 2021

For the next few months, civil engineers will subject the blades to a battery of tests as they design and build a pedestrian bridge that uses pieces of them to replace traditional steel girders. What I’d love to do is turn it into a blade waste brokerage business,” Nagle said. Angela Nagle, a civil engineering Ph.D.

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Low Impact

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

Over to Andy: Hi – it’s Andy Reynolds, author, forester, instructor, inquisitive repairer and promoter of self reliance, with another story of resourcefulness and the lack of it. The caller had obtained my number through a mutual acquaintance so I thought, “see what happens”. Batteries wired up. Panels on the cabin.

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Grist

APRIL 6, 2020

How do we change the way we move ourselves and our things so that we create fewer planet-warming emissions? Instead of filling up at the gas station, you simply plug your car into an electric socket and charge the car’s battery. In the past decade, electric cars have gotten better, cheaper, and more popular. What’s your score?

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 15, 2023

Noting the UK’s status as a world leader in offshore wind deployment, the document said floating wind “represents the next frontier in this green growth story”. Scottish Renewables said the fund “falls woefully short of what we need.” “We The EU and US are looking for simpler and quicker ways to deliver investment.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

This story is part of the series Getting to Zero: Decarbonizing Cascadia , which explores the path to low-carbon energy for British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon. The journalists sussed out what it will take for the region to transition to a fully climate-friendly economy. Clean up what you can ’ t plug in.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Electrifying homes has advantages in terms of efficiency and carbon emissions, but if the grid goes down, “you have an even bigger crisis than what you had before,” he said. He noted that it’s possible to attach a small battery backup to a gas heating system so that it can run when the power is out.)

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Elemental Excelerator

MAY 19, 2022

E-waste is defined as anything with a plug, electric cord, or battery — basically all of the proliferating devices that power our modern lives. Can we fill that space not with our discarded stuff, but with the limitless optimism of imagination to build a better future? And all of it has to end up somewhere. Where the Sidewalk Ends.

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Charged

MAY 13, 2020

Things soon started to look a bit sunnier, as GM sold the plant to Lordstown Motors, founded by Steve Burns, who previously founded Workhorse Group, an EV builder that’s been around since 1998, and has supplied electric vans to UPS, FedEx and other fleet operators (we ran a feature article on the company in our May/June 2017 issue).

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Clean Energy Canada

OCTOBER 17, 2020

According to a June poll , four in five British Columbians believe the economic changes brought about by COVID-19 provide an opportunity to do more now to fight climate change. Though Ballard has a long history in this province, a growing global appetite for hydrogen technology is helping the company write a new story.

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Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2023

Hydropower dam proposals have ballooned across the Balkans over the last two decades, as the leaders of some of Europe's poorest regions have looked to tap their abundant natural resources to secure access clean energy. But protecting wild places around the world is what gets me out of bed each morning. How do they find partners?

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 2, 2021

He now knows better. One of the tanks from the tank battery that exploded still remains on the Urban Oil and Gas site as of March 28. Zalee Day-Smith on the tank battery near her home. Photos and video which Zalee’s family showed me do not indicate any obvious warning signage was present. Credit: Julie Dermansky.

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Andrew Winston

JUNE 11, 2018

But there’s a second part of the story that’s not being touted enough. In short, the electric vehicles (EVs) are much better than just a break-even proposition. What happened to change the situation? And new composite materials are allowing for lighter vehicles, which extend the range of batteries.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 6, 2021

Looking back, however, 2020 proved to be a decisive year for clean energy in India. And to what extent can they mitigate the increase in fossil fuel use? It's only a question of what the pace of the transition will be.” Ongoing restrictions to limit the spread of the virus crippled economic activity. Businesses closed.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2021

Whilst it is increasingly clear that the UK's future generation profile will involve large amounts of variable renewables it is less clear what the flexibility mix will look like. What do we mean by this? What we are seeing is that market participants at the grid edge (i.e. The potential outcomes vary widely.

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Low Impact

JANUARY 27, 2021

Whether working from home or learning from home right now, our computers have, for better or worse, become lifelines, with the thought of having to replace them likely to fill us with dread. What’s not to love? I do it the other way around. Mine is now working for almost 4 years. Be selective about where you save.

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Jigar Shah

APRIL 25, 2019

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. This will look different depending on your market and your offering. 1) Find your product market fit.

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Clean Energy Trust

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Q: What is your background and how did it lead you to become a cleantech entrepreneur? NUMiX was founded on the idea that there has to be a way to treat water better than the millennia-old methods currently in use. No wonder we were and continue to be so inspired by your story. Q: What drives you and your team?

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Unsustainable

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

What do we make of this? Methane and nitrous oxide do not persist in the atmosphere as long as CO 2. People can always make their living environment more hospitable, but plants and animals do not have this choice. We cannot say that we do not know anything about it, nor can we say that we did not. What Can We Do?

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The Verge: Energy

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

And what this allows the farmers to do for the first time ever is to have a tractor that generates new revenue streams for them, using all the data that it collects while doing operations on the farm. So when I look at this tractor, I say, “Okay, we can sell it to a lot of people, still got a steering wheel.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Proponents tout biofuels as an answer for industries that can’t easily replace fossil fuels with clean electricity or batteries, like flying, shipping, and long-haul trucking. Lynd’s study aimed to address the common claim that biofuels do not actually offer greenhouse gas benefits. But what about in the future?

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Clean Energy Trust

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

As a reminder, NanoGraf developed a silicon-based anode battery material that enables electric vehicle (EV) batteries to run longer and charge faster than traditional lithium-ion batteries on the market. How did you get started in cleantech and what led you to your current role? This is how I got started in cleantech.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Electric vehicles (EVs) have been one of the biggest success stories of the burgeoning net zero transition so far, having now decisively shot into the mainstream after doubling their market share to 8.3 It is safe to assume such stories are far removed the future envisaged by most proponents of the net zero transition.

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Business Green

AUGUST 1, 2022

BusinessGreen sits down with CEO of the International Council of Mining and Minerals to discuss the battery gold rush and the potential for a European sustainable mining boom. And if one company can do it, then we can learn from that, and make that the way that everybody operates," he argues.

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GreenBiz

MAY 27, 2020

Doing away with a culture of disposability is one of the big dreams of the circular economy. Millions of consumers are putting off retail purchases and looking at the stuff in their closets and cabinets and desktops in a very different way. The story of our lives [is] written in our jeans. Elsa Wenzel. Wed, 05/27/2020 - 02:00.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Other recommendations include urgently delivering clear strategies to deliver new carbon capture and storage (CCS) and hydrogen projects, setting clear and ambitious targets in the delayed Environment Bill, laying the groundwork for domestic EV battery manufacturing at scale, and aligning the UK's net zero and nature agendas.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

you should share it with the center, i’m sure they’re always looking for new vegetarian meals with locally grown produce. Huaxin: the what Support: you haven’t been to the community resilience center in your town? Last week, we explored another imagined future described in the story “Cabbage Koora.”

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Jigar Shah

APRIL 25, 2019

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. all while bettering the environment.” most customers do want to play their part in combating climate change?—?but

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Better Ventures

APRIL 21, 2020

Episode 5 with Nan Li of Obvious Ventures “What’s happening in biology is a great case study of what we’re excited by at Obvious broadly, which is the influence of technology in a new space that’s very important for society that happens to be disassociated with the tech industry, but the dynamics of that are quickly changing”?—?Nan

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 4, 2021

Every major economy has an industrial zone like the Port of Rotterdam, a place where smokestacks, pipes, and tanks tell one story of climate change. What does that mean? They invest in less bad instead of different and better. . Tesla, a pioneer in electric vehicles and battery technology, is now part of the S&P 500.

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Climate Tech VC

JUNE 30, 2023

With zero interest rate policy (ZIRP) days in the rearview mirror, deployments of real assets suddenly look real expensive again. Yet, dollars-and-cents demand from customers for better, faster, cheaper climate technology products only continues to grow—along with the talent flows, regulatory accelerants, and evolving capital stack.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 14, 2021

This is all very current, but it’s also exactly what happened in the first wave of renewables during the Obama administrations. For companies seeking success today in what’s shaping up to be the even bigger second wave of renewables, it’s wise to consider the lessons of the first wave. First Wind changed their story to “Clean energy.

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2022

On a bright spring afternoon, a group of workers from BlocPower descend the steps behind a four-story apartment building, down into the cramped, musty basement, where the only light is a bare bulb hanging from the ceiling. You get paid for doing that'," he says. That's what I love to do. That's what I love to do.

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Clean Energy Trust

OCTOBER 6, 2020

What’s Up with All These Special Purpose Acquisition Company Transactions, and What Does It Mean for Electric Vehicles? While SPACs do enable private companies to go public with less scrutiny than an initial public offering, it’s not like it is in the interest of the entity sponsoring the acquisition company to invest in a bad company.

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Business Green

JUNE 11, 2021

As more and more governments and auto manufacturers set their sights on a net zero emission future for road transport, the outlook for electric vehicles (EVs) looks brighter than ever. In many regions and for many modes of transport, the future for plug-in vehicles looks very bright indeed. But there are still over 1.2

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

Creating better businesses with B Corp Certification and beyond B Corp Certification presents a set of guiding principles that support organizations to minimize their impact on the environment and society. Use the links below to navigate through this guide: What is B Corp? What is B Corp? See why green business is good business.

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Jigar Shah

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

I believe if you zoom out into the future, and you look back, and you ask the question, ‘What was Apple’s greatest contribution to mankind?’ It’s tough to think of a major modern technology company better positioned than Apple to scale and bring cost reduction to game-changing climate solutions. It will be about health.”

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