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Why nature is the next frontier for sustainable business

GreenBiz

Why nature is the next frontier for sustainable business. Erin Billman. Thu, 09/24/2020 - 01:15. It has been encouraging to see company and government commitments to cutting greenhouse gas emissions coming thick and fast in recent months, even despite the COVID-19 pandemic. This includes announcements from corporate giants Facebook , Uber and Amazon.

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Forecasting Tesla Revenue Growth Alongside Enormous Tesla Battery Growth

CleanTechnica

As part of Tesla's Battery Day festivities, a bold plan was revealed. Tesla will start producing its own batteries by ramping up its new 4680 battery "pilot" factory. Tesla aims to reach 100 GWh of its own production by 2022 — in addition to whatever batteries it can source from Panasonic, LG Chem, and.

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WoodMac: Energy Sector Faces ‘Darwinian Challenge’ to Tame Climate Change

GreenTechMedia

The world is on course to sail past the recognized "safe" level of 2 degrees Celsius of warming to as much as 3 degrees Celsius, according to the latest Wood Mackenzie Energy Transition Outlook. The Paris Agreement aims to limit warming to “well below 2 degrees Celsius” and ideally to limit it 1.5 degrees. Yet just as efforts toward that goal are finally scaling up — via the EU’s amplified climate targets, China’s new carbon-neutral target for 2060, and other exampl

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ANEEL: A Game Changing Nuclear Fuel

Jim Conca

A new nuclear fuel made from both uranium and thorium, especially when used in CANDU/PHWRs, can address several issues with nuclear power – proliferation, waste and cost. Plus it’s made-in-America makes it a prime candidate for export to emerging markets.

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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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Why sustainability professionals should embrace Black Lives Matter

GreenBiz

Why sustainability professionals should embrace Black Lives Matter. Charles Orgbon. Mon, 09/21/2020 - 00:45. Long before corporations acknowledged Black Lives Matter, they championed the plights of specific endangered species. Corporate conservation campaigns used phrases such as "Save the [insert your favorite animal]," which have been catchy, effective and oddly similar to the language we’re now using to educate people about the status of Black life in America.

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Washington bans wildlife-killing competitions

Inhabitat - Innovation

The Washington Fish and Wildlife Commission has voted to end hunting competitions in the state.

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Total Buys 3.3GW Solar Portfolio and Signs World’s Largest Corporate PPA…With Itself

GreenTechMedia

French oil major Total added another 3.3 gigawatts of Spanish solar to its renewables portfolio on Friday as it chases down a target of 25 GW by 2025. The company also revealed it has signed a corporate power purchase agreement for 6 TWh of power from around 3 GW of its Spanish solar portfolio. That makes it the largest corporate PPA in the world. Google signed a 1.6 GW deal across 18 projects last year.

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A corporate water strategy manifesto: We can and will do better

GreenBiz

A corporate water strategy manifesto: We can and will do better. Will Sarni. Wed, 09/23/2020 - 01:30. We have decided to craft this brief manifesto to challenge the status quo, accelerate innovation, solve wicked water problems and achieve United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6, "Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.".

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No new gas-powered cars by 2035, California governor says

Inhabitat - Innovation

California Governor Gavin Newsom's new executive order bans the sale of all new gasoline-powered cars and passenger trucks by 2035. After that, only zero-emissions new cars will be sold in the state of California. Californians will still be able to own, drive, buy and sell used cars that run on gas.

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COVID-19 and Small Businesses: Lessons for a Changing Market

Green Business Bureau

Globalized hyper-consumerism, monopoly reign, climate change… As if we really needed another reason to support local businesses and communities, the coronavirus, or COVID-19, pandemic hit hard and shook the economy, especially small businesses and local communities. As more small businesses close their doors and the sting of the recession sinks deeper, “support local” may be one of the greatest strategies for community resilience and to keep SMBs afloat.

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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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Hitachi ABB Power Grids launches open and scalable ecosystem for digitalization of transformers

altenergymag

The manufacturer-agnostic, TXpert™ Ecosystem to enable millions of dollars in savings through greater flexibility, efficiency and resilience in electricity networks

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ESG investments: Exponential potential or surfing one wave?

GreenBiz

ESG investments: Exponential potential or surfing one wave? Terry F. Yosie. Mon, 09/21/2020 - 00:30. Amidst four concurrent crises — health, economic, race relations and climate — one stand-out 2020 development has been the rebound of major stock markets and, particularly, the growing performance and prominence of environment, social and governance (ESG) traded funds.

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17,000 Tiehms buckwheat, rare wildflowers of Nevada, destroyed

Inhabitat - Innovation

After a controversy between conservationists and lithium mining interests, 40% of the population of Tiehm's buckwheat was mysteriously destroyed last weekend.

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California Banning Sales Of New Gasoline Cars In The State By 2035

Forbes Green Tech

It’s the single-most aggressive such action ever taken to fight carbon pollution that’s fueling higher temperatures and wildfires in California and persistent air-quality problems from automotive exhaust.

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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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Electric Car Sharing Program Receives MassCEC Award

altenergymag

E4TheFuture wins grant to pilot the state's first income-tiered electric vehicle car-sharing program.

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Walmart drives toward zero-emission goal for its entire fleet by 2040

GreenBiz

Walmart drives toward zero-emission goal for its entire fleet by 2040. Katie Fehrenbacher. Wed, 09/23/2020 - 01:50. If you needed any more evidence that America's vehicle fleets are driving toward zero-emission status, it's this: Walmart just announced that it will electrify and zero out emissions from all Walmart vehicles, including long haul trucks, by 2040. .

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Record number of pilot whales get stranded, die in Tasmania

Inhabitat - Innovation

Over 380 long-finned pilot whales have been confirmed dead after nearly 500 were stranded on Tasmania's west coast.

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Volkswagen ID.4, Nissan Ariya bring EV drive to compact crossovers … chasing Tesla Model Y

Charged

Can new electric entries in a hugely popular segment convince U.S. buyers to buy EVs from Nissan and VW as family vehicles? Two new battery-electric models from major global car brands are about to bring electric cars into a category where they’ve been notably absent: family crossover utility vehicles. The 2021 Volkswagen ID.4 and 2022 Nissan Ariya will join the Tesla Model Y that’s already on sale to bring EV transport to tens of thousands of new U.S. buyers who’d never consider a compact hatch

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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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INEOS agrees the largest ever industrial wind power purchase contract in Belgium with ENGIE

altenergymag

• The 10-year deal will reduce INEOS’ carbon footprint by 1,150,000 tonnes of CO2. • ENGIE supplies renewable energy to INEOS from the Norther offshore windfarm in the North Sea from 1st January 2021 • Gerd Franken Chairman INEOS Olefins & Polymers Europe said: “This significant deal, will reduce our carbon footprint in Belgium by more than one million tonnes of CO2, the equivalent of taking 100,000 cars off the road each year.

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4 things corporations should know about urban forestry projects

GreenBiz

4 things corporations should know about urban forestry projects. Jesse Klein. Thu, 09/24/2020 - 01:00. It’s hard to make planting trees political, one reason this climate mitigation strategy has received rare bipartisan support for the past two decades. Corporations have used that to their advantage to become an important part of the tree planting business.

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Spend the night among the trees in southern Denmark

Inhabitat - Innovation

If you find yourself in a particular section of the landscape near Genner, Denmark, a nest hanging from the treetops could be your chosen sleeping spot.

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Scania introduces range of electric trucks

Charged

Scania, a major Swedish manufacturer of commercial vehicles, has announced a pair of new plug-in trucks: a plug-in hybrid and a fully electric model. Both versions are offered with L- and P-series cabs, and can be configured for general cargo, temperature-controlled transport, or for specialty applications such as hooklifts, tippers, concrete mixers, refuse collectors and fire and rescue vehicles.

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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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Batteries see 149% increase in Balancing Mechanism activity

altenergymag

Research from Cornwall Insight's ‘Balancing Mechanism report' highlights that there are significant changes in the technology type that has been providing balancing actions to the National Grid Electricity System Operator (ESO), with activity from newer asset types seeing the greatest year-on-year increase.

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The How2Recycle label needs a massive campaign. Brands should make it happen

GreenBiz

The How2Recycle label needs a massive campaign. Brands should make it happen. Suzanne Shelton. Tue, 09/22/2020 - 01:00. I hope you’ve downloaded our latest free report, "Engaging Middle America in Recycling Solutions.". We conducted that research because we were curious about whether Americans were aware of what was happening with our recycling system — that most Asian countries no longer will take our plastics off our hands, many municipal curbside programs are shutting down and many plastics w

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NYC Metronome clock now displays deadline for irreversible global warming

Inhabitat - Innovation

The Climate Clock shows that we have about 7 years to stop irreversible effects of global warming.

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Nissan achieves breakthrough in carbon fiber parts production

Charged

Carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) was once seen as an ideal body material for EVs, because of its high strength and light weight. It was used in the Tesla Roadster and the BMW i3, but fell out of favor because of its high cost. Now Nissan has developed a new production process that speeds up the development of CFRP car parts. Nissan aims to use the new process to mass-produce CFRP parts and employ them in more cars.

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These Agribusiness Groups With Ties to Climate Denial are Trying to Influence the US-UK Trade Deal

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 17 mins This story is a part of Covering Climate Now’s week of coverage focused on stories with the theme of 'climate politics'. Covering Climate Now is a global journalism collaboration committed to strengthening coverage of the climate story. . The ongoing US - UK trade talks have been seen by some lobby groups as an opportunity to strip back environmental and food safety regulations to allow them to sell products – pesticides, hormone-fed meat, genetically modified crops ( GMO s),

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The COVID Covenant: Going big is the price of admission

GreenBiz

The COVID Covenant: Going big is the price of admission. Gil Friend. Mon, 09/21/2020 - 01:00. The world (well, most of it) attacked COVID-19 as if it were a true global emergency: with extraordinary speed, scale and scope. With real collaboration and a healthy dose of courage, some gutsy decisions were made both in government and business. Getting billions of people to don masks, allocating trillions of dollars and putting massive human safety nets in place around the globe in record time is no

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Candelas hydrofoil boat is the worlds first electric speedboat

Inhabitat - Innovation

The Candela Seven is an electric boat with impressive metrics for both speed and range.

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25 years of Natural Power

altenergymag

Leading renewable energy consultancy and service provider, Natural Power, celebrates its 25th anniversary today (24th September 2020).

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Array Technologies, Supplier of Solar Trackers, Looks to Launch IPO

GreenTechMedia

Array Technologies, a solar tracker company based in New Mexico, filed paperwork on Tuesday indicating plans to take the company public with an initial offering of $100 million. The move would make Array, which would trade under the ticker ARRY, the second largest publicly-owned tracker company in the world in terms of shipments. Array did not respond to request for comment on when it expects to launch the IPO.

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How Keurig Dr Pepper is increasing its packaging recyclability

GreenBiz

How Keurig Dr Pepper is increasing its packaging recyclability. In 2019, Keurig Dr Pepper launched its Drink Well. Do Good. corporate responsibility platform aimed, in part, at reducing its environmental footprint. One of the goals of the platform was to convert all packaging to recyclable or compostable formats by 2025, while increasing the use of recycled content. .

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