May, 2018

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NuScale's Small Modular Nuclear Reactor Passes Biggest Hurdle Yet

Jim Conca

NuScale’s small modular nuclear reactor completed the Phase 1 review of their design certification application by the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. That’s a huge deal because Phase 1 is the most intensive phase of the review, taking more hours and effort than the remaining five phases combined.

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Don't let your coffee cup trash the planet

Living Green Technology

If you need that daily dose of caffeine to start your day, you’re not alone. About $40 billion is spent on coffee annually, as 54% of people have to get that java jolt daily. And if all of them are drinking their coffee in a paper cup, that’s a lot of non-recyclable cups bulking up landfills. Luckily, just by changing your cup , you can still enjoy your morning joe and help the environment.

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How Much Maintenance is Required for Solar Panels?

Sunrun

How To Maintain Your Home Solar System Properly At SunrunTM , we strive to make solar energy accessible to everyone, regardless if you choose to lease or purchase — your solar system still needs proper caring. Maintaining the health of your solar panels will guarantee you the biggest energy savings possible over the next 25 to 30 years. How Long Do Solar Panels Last?

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A Blockchain Crash Course: How It Can Enable the Clean, Smart Grid

Andrew Winston

(Another article from my column for MIT Sloan Management Review. This is my attempt at an "explainer" on blockchain, describing it as simply as I can, and exploring how it may help build the clean grid. I will dive into other uses later.). Blockchain is everywhere — at least when you’re talking about media coverage. It’s the new technology that enables those wild cryptocurrencies.

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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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“Alexa, does my utility have a voice assistant?”

Bidgely

Forrester estimates that 50% of U.S. homes will have at least one smart speaker by 2022. The rapid growth of this medium is changing the way consumers seek and consume information. It’s imperative for utilities to reinforce their brand as a modern service provider. Further, it’s a powerful way to engage consumers, encourage energy behaviors, and offer new products and services. 48% of those who own a voice-activated speaker would like to receive personalized tips and information from brands to m

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California feeds the duck with mandatory solar panels on new houses

Treehugger - Technology

Fortunately, that's not the only change in their building regulations.

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Disposable plastic water bottles have devastating impact

Living Green Technology

A plastic water bottle that ends up in the trash might not seem like a big deal—but it adds up in a big way. An infographic recently created by Printwand compiles some of the most disturbing statistics related to disposable water bottles. Among these is the fact that over 38 billion water bottles end up in U.S. landfills each year. Many bottles also wash into the ocean, killing 1.1 million marine creatures annually.

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The AgriFood News Aggregator: Soft Robotics, Nutreco, Wilbur-Ellis, Walmart, Funding Opps, Climate Corp, more

AFN Sustainable Protein

The AgriFood News Aggregator features headlines from around the globe collected on AgFunder’s news sharing platform #feedit each week. Have news to share? Post it here and engage, share, and debate with your peers. AgriFood Tech Venture News. Soft Robotics raises $20 million to expand operations – TechCrunch. Netherlands’ Nutreco leads Series B in Eruvaka – Economic Times.

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Using AI to Help the World Thrive

Andrew Winston

(I've gotten behind on re-posting my articles! I'll try to catch up in the next couple of weeks. As part of my new column in MIT Sloan Management Review, I've been diving into the world of new technologies and how they enhance or interact with the sustainability agenda. This is an article about AI, with a focus on Microsoft's efforts. More tech to come soon.).

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This week’s ten biggest climate innovation stories – 31 May

Climate-KIC

Could eating algae help reduce food emissions? Could coding help countries become more climate resilient? And, what will the EU’s future targets for renewables This, and more, in the week’s ten biggest climate innovation stories. New tech could turn algae into the climate’s slimy saviour The new hope for algae is that they could rebalance […].

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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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Algae could light up our cities at night

Treehugger - Technology

Many cities have transitioned to LED street lighting, but researchers think algae may be the illumination of the future.

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Atoms for Africa

Jim Conca

The economies of Africa’s 54 countries with 1.2 billion people are hobbled by a general dearth of energy. But nuclear energy could help that more than the rest of the world realizes, as discussed in a new report by the Center for Global Development. It would also help to eradicate global poverty.

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Corporate Member: OSISoft

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

Position: Marketing Coordinator. Location: San Leandro, CA. Description: This is an excellent opportunity for a highly motivated and enthusiastic individual to support the Marketing group at OSIsoft. The successful applicant will lead our global webinar program that generates over 8,000 customer registrations per year, and be responsible for other activities and opportunities within marketing as time permits.

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The AgriFood News Aggregator: Soft Robotics, Nutreco, Wilbur-Ellis, Walmart, Funding Opps, Climate Corp, more

AFN Sustainable Protein

The AgriFood News Aggregator features headlines from around the globe collected on AgFunder’s news sharing platform #feedit each week. Have news to share? Post it here and engage, share, and debate with your peers. AgriFood Tech Venture News. Soft Robotics raises $20 million to expand operations – TechCrunch. Netherlands’ Nutreco leads Series B in Eruvaka – Economic Times.

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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 EPC Company

Sunrun

Solar EPC Company Definition: A solar company that provides Engineering, Procurement, and Construction of a full solar system. An EPC company provides a full-service experience to seamlessly acquire a solar installation and receive continual support in maintaining the system.

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Trans.MISSION – Trio of climate film shorts launch

Climate-KIC

Trans.MISSION, a new project pairing leading scientists with award-winning artists to communicate cutting edge science has launched three new films – Message from Antarctica, Clean Air and Weather Watching. Weather Watching In the three-part film, poet Nicola Davies begins by reciting poetry over climate scientist Professor Ed Hawkins’ ‘viral spiral’, to explore the interplay of […].

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Drones help scientists save entangled whales

Treehugger - Technology

Lost fishing nets and other gear pose a threat to whales, but drones are helping rescuers free them more quickly and safely.

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Does Fossil Fuel Use Affect Premature Births?

Jim Conca

A new study indicates that emissions from coal and oil power plants are associated with increased premature births. The rate of premature births dropped by 30% after these plants were shuttered in California with the most significant declines among African American and Asian women.

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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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Lucid

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

Position: Project Manager. Location: Berkeley, CA. Description: Lucid, part of the Acuity Brands portfolio, is seeking a dynamic Project Manager to own the implementation of our platform for a diverse portfolio of organizations to help them reach their energy/water/gas efficiency targets. The Project Manager will work with solution architects, integration engineers, application support specialists, installation contractors, and hardware vendors to deliver advanced enterprise software to a soph

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Tyson Invests in Israeli Cultured Meat Startup Future Meat Technologies

AFN Sustainable Protein

Future Meat Technologies , an Israeli startup manufacturing meat from animal cells in a laboratory, has raised $2.2 million in seed funding, in a round led by Tyson Ventures , the venture arm of the meat giant. Also investing are the Neto Group , one of the largest food conglomerates in Israel, S2G Ventures , the Chicago-based agrifood tech fund, BitsXBites , China’s first food technology accelerator fund, Agrinnovation , an Israeli investment fund founded by Yissum, the Technology Transfer

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Last Mile Learning: The Power of Social Networks

Solar Sister

And we don’t mean Twitter or Facebook… Growing from 10 to 3,000 entrepreneurs, Solar Sister has learned many lessons about what works and what doesn’t when it comes to recruitment of women in clean energy value chains. Identifying women who will thrive in our unique business opportunity is critical to scaling Solar Sister’s last mile distribution. Over the past eight years, Solar Sister has piloted and tested a variety of different strategies and one main component has held true over and over ag

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New ‘warming stripes’ show urgency of climate action

Climate-KIC

A new set of visualisations which show the long term rise in temperatures and the urgency of climate action have been published this week by University of Reading climate scientist Ed Hawkins. The ‘warming stripes’, which each represent the temperature of a single year, show how global temperatures (above) have seen an increase in temperature […].

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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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Now you can buy "Alexa-enabled smart homes"

Treehugger - Technology

But is this really a good idea? Maybe it is better to get up and flick a light switch instead of asking Alexa.

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Value of Solar (VOC)

Sunrun

Value of Solar (VOC) Definition: A methodology that takes a uniform approach to establish the true value of the electricity produced by the distributed energy systems. Currently, the solar energy that is generated from photovoltaic systems varies in price depending on state and utility. Breaking Down Value of Solar (VOC): Due to the unique nature of solar energy production compared to conventional methods of energy production, there is currently not a market-wide accepted value of electricity pr

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3 ways our new proposal tool - MyProposal - helps you ride the solarcoaster like a pro

Sighten

Over a decade into the U.S. residential solar boom and the “solarcoaster” continues to surprise with new twists and turns. Like any good rollercoaster, there have been a lot of ups and downs – but if you keep your eyes open and your wits about you, these changes can be exciting instead of stomach-churning. Just like our installer partners, Sighten has worked hard to make sure our software platform stays relevant in the fast-changing solar landscape.

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Tyson Invests in Israeli Cultured Meat Startup Future Meat Technologies

AFN Sustainable Protein

Future Meat Technologies , an Israeli startup manufacturing meat from animal cells in a laboratory, has raised $2.2 million in seed funding, in a round led by Tyson Ventures , the venture arm of the meat giant. Also investing are the Neto Group , one of the largest food conglomerates in Israel, S2G Ventures , the Chicago-based agrifood tech fund, BitsXBites , China’s first food technology accelerator fund, Agrinnovation , an Israeli investment fund founded by Yissum, the Technology Transfer

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Trump Pulls Out Of Iran Deal -- Get Ready For What Fills In

Jim Conca

Donald Trump announced that the United States is pulling out of the Iran Nuclear Deal. Iran prepares for some eventualities, and the world will try to sort it out.

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This week’s ten biggest climate innovation stories – 24 May

Climate-KIC

Which EU countries have the best circular economies? Could coding help countries become more climate resilient? And, could a new tech soon be offsetting the emissions of everything you buy? This, and more, in the week’s ten biggest climate innovation stories. 1. Blossoming batteries boosted by EU plan A new EU Action Plan, largely based […]. The post This week’s ten biggest climate innovation stories – 24 May appeared first on Climate-KIC.

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This week’s ten biggest climate innovation stories -17 May

Climate-KIC

How are we going to reduce emissions from aluminium and steel? Can we go plastic free, and reduce waste? And, how will we sustainably re-fashion the fashion industry? This, and more, in the week’s ten biggest climate innovation stories. 1. No Electricity? No Problem! UK Hopes To Solve Diesel Train Problem With Hydrogen Hydrogen could […].

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Twelve climate projects nominated for EU Green Week awards

Climate-KIC

Climate action projects, including a zero-electricity heating and cooling system, a climate-smart farm and a resilient forest, are among twelve nominated for awards at EU Green week. Being held across Europe from 21 to 25 May, the week will explore ways to help cities become better places to live and work. As part of this, […]. The post Twelve climate projects nominated for EU Green Week awards appeared first on Climate-KIC.

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This week’s ten biggest climate innovation stories -10 May

Climate-KIC

Which of Europe’s cities have climate change plans in place? How are we going to decarbonise shipping? And, what are the all the roles for blockchain in climate action? This, and more, in the week’s ten biggest climate innovation stories. 1. Unilever reveals its green brands growing 46 per cent faster than rest of the […]. The post This week’s ten biggest climate innovation stories -10 May appeared first on Climate-KIC.

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Biotech in the built environment is turning Tallinn’s city waste circular

Climate-KIC

What happens to waste from cities? Could we build cities in future which will produce energy while consuming it? And how can we create interactions between nature and our urban architecture? Speaking at TedxBucharest in April, Marco Poletto, Director of ecoLogicStudio, explained how the historic quest for sanitation has shaped the footprint of our cities […].

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