Fri.Nov 17, 2023

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Crocs wants your old shoes back. Here’s what it plans to do with them

GreenBiz

Shoemaker Crocs wants to keep old shoes out of landfills and reclaim materials that could be used in new products.

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Even One More Oil and Gas Lease Sale in the Gulf of Mexico Is Too Many

NRDC onEarth

An expansion of offshore drilling would lock the region into decades of fossil fuel extraction at the expense of the climate, coastal communities, and marine life.

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CDP ranks 'A List' cities for transparency and climate performance

GreenBiz

CDP names 119 cities as leaders in environmental action and transparency in 2023.

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Farm-to-Glass Supports Organic Farming

NRDC onEarth

Cheers! NRDC and our partners toasted a good cause on Capitol Hill: growing organic!

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How to Drive Cost Savings, Efficiency Gains, and Sustainability Wins with MES

Speaker: Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions

Is your manufacturing operation reaching its efficiency potential? A Manufacturing Execution System (MES) could be the game-changer, helping you reduce waste, cut costs, and lower your carbon footprint. Join Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions, in this value-packed webinar as he breaks down how MES can drive operational excellence and sustainability.

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Lack of funding top barrier to sustainability action for 38% of UK businesses

Envirotec Magazine

The annual Sustainability Report produced by enterprise software firm SAP appears to reveal that 8 in 10 (83%) UK leaders will maintain or increase their investment in sustainability action by 2026. Yet, despite these intentions, UK businesses continue to create their own barriers to environmental progress, say the report’s authors. The global study of over 4700 business leaders, including over 300 from the UK, is the third edition of SAP’s annual Sustainability Study exploring the key mot

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NRDC Announces EPA Environmental Justice Leader as New Senior Vice President for Environmental Health

NRDC onEarth

Tejada will lead the organization’s Environmental Health division, serving as the chief visionary and strategist for NRDC’s advocacy to protect human health.

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World's 280 million electric bikes and mopeds are cutting demand for oil far more than electric cars, researchers say

TechXplore

We hop in the car to get groceries or drop kids at school. But while the car is convenient, these short trips add up in terms of emissions, pollution and petrol cost.

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The world’s electrical utilities still progressing too slowly towards a renewable energy transition

Envirotec Magazine

The World Benchmarking Alliance’s (WBA) latest Electric Utilities Benchmark, 1 developed with CDP and assessing companies across Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, North and Latin America, seems to show that while the sector is making important progress in the low-carbon energy transition, greater speed and scale is urgently needed to meet global climate goals.

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An electrocaloric heat pump that is more efficient than conventional air conditioners

TechXplore

A team of engineers at the Luxembourg Institute of Science and Technology, working with a pair of colleagues from Murata Manufacturing Company, has developed a regenerative electrocaloric heat pump that is more efficient than conventional air conditioners.

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Investigating pyrolysis for reclaiming carbon fibres from composite waste

Envirotec Magazine

Valued for their combination of light weight and strength, CFRPs are increasingly deployed in sectors incuding automotive, aerospace and renewable energy. But it will only be sustainable if we can find cost-effective routes to recycling. Recent research at Dooshisha University in Japan highlights the potential use of pyrolysis to recover carbon fibres from composites Minimizing energy consumption is a fundamental element in our journey towards sustainable societies, and advanced materials play a

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The Key to Sustainable Energy Optimization: A Data-Driven Approach for Manufacturing

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. 📊 Join us for a practical webinar hosted by Kevin Kai Wong of Emergent Ene

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Nigel Farage’s Reform Party Took £135,000 from Climate Science Deniers and Fossil Fuel Interests

DeSmogBlog

Nigel Farage ’s Reform party received £135,000 this year from donors linked to climate science denial and fossil fuels, DeSmog can reveal. Reform UK , formerly the Brexit Party, is a vocal critic of climate action, and last year called for a referendum on the UK’s net zero policies. The party has pledged to accelerate oil and gas drilling, start fracking for shale gas, end subsidies for renewables, and scrap the windfall tax on oil and gas companies.

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Do or dye: Synthetic colours in wastewater pose a threat to food chains worldwide

Envirotec Magazine

The ecological and health threats of synthetic dyes entering wastewater systems have been detailed in a new study, which calls for new laws worldwide on water management, and urgent investment in new sustainable treatment processes Dyes widely used in the textile, food and pharmaceutical industries pose a pressing threat to plant, animal and human health, as well as natural environments around the world, a new study has found.

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The secret environmental cost hiding inside your smart home device

The Verge: Energy

Illustration by Nico H. Brausch for The Verge AI could become a major source of planet-warming emissions. How can the smart home industry build products more sustainably? Vijay Janapa Reddi runs a lab at Harvard University where he and his team attempt to solve some of the computer world’s greatest challenges. As a specialist in artificial intelligence systems, the technology he studies even follows him home, where his two daughters love to talk to their Amazon Alexa.

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Chart: US EV sales are having a record-setting year

Canary Media

Canary Media’s chart of the week translates crucial data about the clean energy transition into a visual format. Despite recent headlines declaring the industry stagnant or moribund, the U.S.

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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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Tires are saving us — and killing us, too

The Verge: Energy

Illustration by Nico H. Brausch for The Verge Sustainable tires are becoming a reality, but are they coming soon enough? Tires are the most important safety component on a car, yet there’s increasing research that they’re doing a good deal of harm, too. Slowly, surely, one mote of black dust at a time, tires are leaving their mark on the environment.

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Australia’s Hydrogen & Renewable Energy Act 2023 Has Passed Both Houses of Parliament

FuelCellsWorks

The Hydrogen and Renewable Energy Bill 2023 for an Act to facilitate and regulate the generation of hydrogen and renewable energy in certain areas of South Australia has passed both Houses of.

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Masdar inaugurates ‘world’s-largest’ 2GW solar project in Abu Dhabi

PV Tech

Encompassing about four million bi-facial solar modules, the project will supply power to the procurer of the project, Emirates Water and Electricity Company

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Demonstrating 5G Infrastructure From the Sky Using Hydrogen-Powered Aircraft

FuelCellsWorks

A team of UK companies led by Stratospheric Platforms Limited (SPL), a Non-Terrestrial Networks telecoms developer, has won a significant contract trialing advanced airborne 5G connectivity from a Britten-Norman Islander.

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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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Australia’s first hydrogen fuel cell prime mover truck is ready for purchase

Hydrogen Fuel News

The commercial fuel cell truck is available to buy. Produced by Pure Hydrogen (ASX:PH2), the hydrogen fuel cell prime mover truck, “Taurus”, is the first of its kind in Australia and is now available for sale on the commercial market, marking a major milestone for the Australian hydrogen company. The new HFC truck could revolutionize the country’s long haul transportation sector.

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EN.IT Launches Major Green Hydrogen Project in Dominican Republic

FuelCellsWorks

EN.IT, an Italian company with significant achievements in renewable energy, has embarked on an ambitious project to develop a 350 MW green hydrogen facility in La Romana, Dominican Republic (DR).

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More efficient electrodes for carbon dioxide recycling

TechXplore

With the ever-increasing interest in renewable energy, scientists are continuously searching for new technologies to store energy. CO2 electrolysis is a promising way to store energy while recycling carbon dioxide. By applying electricity, CO2 and water react and produce more complex molecules.

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California makes it harder for schools, farms and rental housing to go solar

Canary Media

California regulators have ordered changes to the state’s shared-solar programs that critics say will ruin the economics of rooftop solar on apartment buildings, schools and farms across much of the state.

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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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GIST Researchers Improve Water Splitting Reaction for Green Hydrogen Gas Production

FuelCellsWorks

GWANGJU, South Korea— Green hydrogen (or H2) produced from renewable energy resources is the fuel of a decarbonized future. Electrolysis or splitting of water into oxygen and hydrogen with the help of.

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10 electric truck case studies: commercial electrification at scale (Webinar)

Charged

The North American Council for Freight Efficiency (NACFE) monitored and collected data from 10 major EV truck depots in September 2023. In this webinar at the Virtual Conference on EV Infrastructure, we explore the insights from interviewing 122 people at these sites and monitoring the charging and operations of 21 different trucks. Each of these sites has at least 15 MD/HD vehicles and some have many more.

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Westwood Insight – The Netherlands vs Belgium: Who Will Win the Battle as Northwest Europe’s Leading Hydrogen Import Hub?

FuelCellsWorks

Introduction In 2022, the EU unveiled its REPowerEU plan that set a target for 10Mtpa of domestic hydrogen production and 10Mtpa of hydrogen imports by 2030. This represented a significant.

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“The only winners here are big utilities” – Solar industry reacts to CPUC virtual net metering changes

PV Tech

The California Public Utilities Commission yesterday (16th November) voted to approve a ‘proposed decision’ changing the state’s virtual net energy metering (VNEM) scheme.

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Smart Energy Finances: Norwegian investors buy 49% stake in Indian transmission scheme

Smart Energy International

This week’s Smart Energy Finances looks at a consortium of Norwegian investors acquiring a 49% stake in an Indian transmission scheme to help scale private capital. Also on the radar are the closing of Gridmatics’ storage fund, Siemens’ financial safety net and the sale of a 410MW battery storage pipeline. Norwegian investment in Indian transmission The Norwegian Climate Investment Fund, managed by government-owned Norfund and KLP, Norway’s largest pension company, is investing approximate

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Over $500 million investment in US EV charger plants announced since 2021

Charged

As regular Charged readers know, the US Inflation Reduction Act has spurred a tidal wave of investment in battery plants, as well as mines and processing facilities for critical battery minerals. EVSE manufacturers have also been joining the party (or “lining up at the trough,” as a fiscal conservative might put it). The DOE’s Vehicle Technologies Office reports that manufacturers have announced investments of over $500 million in more than 40 plants to make Buy American-compliant EV chargers an

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The Week in Impact Investing: Optimize

Impact Alpha

TGIF, Agents of Impact! ? Collective leadership. To “realize my full potential” at a recent conference, I took part in a vigorous morning. The post The Week in Impact Investing: Optimize appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Stellantis and Orano enter EV battery recycling agreement

Charged

Automaker Stellantis and nuclear energy company Orano have signed a memorandum of understanding to form a joint venture to recycle EV batteries and scrap. Stellantis will have access to cobalt, nickel and lithium from gigafactories in Europe and North America for electrification and energy transformation. The joint venture will produce “black mass” or “active mass.

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Shocking announcement tanks Plug Power hydrogen fuel cell company’s share price

Hydrogen Fuel News

The business lost over $1.5 billion in value at the end of last week following a shocking announcement. Plug Power, hydrogen fuel cell provider for Walmart and Amazon’s H2-powered vehicles, among others, recently announced that it could face serious operations struggles due to heavy spending and supply chain disruptions. The company warned that there is “substantial doubt about the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern.

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Green Hydrogen Systems Revises Revenue Forecast for 2023

FuelCellsWorks

Kolding, Denmark– Green Hydrogen Systems, facing challenges in the supply chain, has revised its revenue guidance for the year 2023. The company now anticipates its annual revenue to fall within.

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