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My exclusive interview with ChatGPT about AI, climate tech and sustainability

GreenBiz

Can artificial intelligence conduct an informed conversation about the broad and complex technologies under the climate tech umbrella? Let's let it speak for itself.

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A Good Cleantech Story Is Worth Its Weight In Gold

Michael Grossman

Last year, investment in clean energy technologies topped a trillion dollars for the first time. What’s the secret to tapping into it if you have a cleantech startup? For starters, get your story straight. Your Story Needs An Answer For This… Because so many cleantech startups are founded by scientists and engineers, they naturally lean towards focusing their story on their technology.

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Generator-maker Generac expands into residential EV charging stations

Charged

Generac Power Systems (NYSE: GNRC) makes a variety of power products, but is probably best-known as a manufacturer of backup generators. As bidirectional EV charging, which allows an EV battery to be used as a source of backup power, moves into the mainstream, demand for generators seems likely to dwindle, and some stock analysts have been making pessimistic predictions about Generac’s future.

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Why Solar Now Makes Sense For Nonprofits

Sun Valley Solar

Whether you operate a house of worship, affordable housing project, charter school, health care facility, or a public school, electricity is essential. Every month you're spending money on your utility bill that could be spent on your important mission. But what if you could shrink that monthly payment and divert those funds to a better cause? This is where solar can help.

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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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Group14 Recognized in Global Cleantech 100 Report

CleanTech Alliance

The Cleantech Group recently released their annual Global Cleantech 100 edition, showcasing the depth and breadth of the global cleantech ecosystem and the 100 leading businesses forging innovative solutions to global climate crisis. CleanTech Alliance member Group14 was recognized as a leader in the Materials & Chemicals sector amongst 21 companies located in 7 countries.

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Here’s a glimpse of the EU response to the Inflation Reduction Act

GreenBiz

After almost 6 months of discussions and debate in the European Union, the trading bloc’s response to the Inflation Reduction Act is finally taking shape.

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Tesla launches Tesla Electric program to boost clean energy

Inhabitat - Innovation

We've covered a lot about the U.S. recent attempts to switch over to clean energy and update the grid to be ready for the upcoming increase in EV charging. Tesla is now taking that one step further by offering electricity to its Powerwall customers who charge EVs at home. The goal: to provide clean energy sourced from renewables to charge those clean EVs.

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Barfly Media: Promoting Sustainability in Advertising With Holographic Display Units

Green Business Bureau

BarFly Media’s LED holographic display units are designed to help brands stand out in a crowded market BarFly Media is disrupting the traditional On/Off-premise Point of Display (POS) with their digital LED holographic display units. These units provide brands with an adaptive, dynamic, and efficient way to engage with consumers and stand out in a crowded market.

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How Kathy Cacciola is creating a greener global food program at Google

GreenBiz

A year into her new job as global sustainability lead of the food program at Google, Kathy Cacciola discusses the skills and strategies it takes to land such a prestigious role.

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UK substantially underestimates its methane emissions from oil and gas production – and many other countries probably do too

Envirotec Magazine

A newer, more accurate method for calculating methane emissions from offshore oil and gas production suggests that the United Kingdom severely underestimates its greenhouse gas emissions. Researchers conclude that as much as five times more methane is being leaked from oil and gas production than reported. Methane is the second most important greenhouse gas after carbon dioxide, contributing about 0.55°C present-day global warming relative to pre-industrial times.

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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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These are the "smartest cities" in the US and Europe

Inhabitat - Innovation

Smart cities are a concept that has been gaining popularity in recent years. The IMD defines a smart city as one that has become more efficient, environmentally friendly and/or socially inclusive through the use of technology. Its goal is to attract more citizens and/or businesses by developing the services it provides. These can include city services such as electricity, traffic management and public parking.

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TravelCenters of America to deploy 1,000 Electrify America fast EV chargers at 200 locations

Charged

TravelCenters of America (Nasdaq: TA), which operates a network of 281 travel centers (truck stops, to use the old-fashioned term) in 44 states under the TA, Petro and TA Express brands, is working with Electrify America to deploy DC fast charging at select TA/Petro locations. TA aims to install some 1,000 chargers at 200 locations along major highways over five years.

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Back to basics: A systems thinker's view on circularity

GreenBiz

The circular economy is a systems approach that answers one 'how' in our quest for sustainability.

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Comment: 2024 EPR costs could have a severe impact on businesses’ viability

Envirotec Magazine

Joseph Doherty, Managing Director of Re-Gen Waste, and member of Defra’s Advisory Committee on Packaging, reflects on whether businesses should be accounting now for EPR A recent Defra Business Ready Forum webinar attended by over 700 stakeholders on EPR data collection and costs, left many deeply frustrated by the lack of information available to predict their likely costs.

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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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Her biophilic designs create healthier interior spaces

Inhabitat - Innovation

More and more people are recognizing the value of biophilic design — the concept of bringing the outdoors inside. Studies show that simply having a houseplant improves air quality and positive energy in any living space. Now imagine actually using the outdoors as part of the interior design. That's exactly what Lesley Ray does.

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Solar and storage to dominate new US capacity additions in 2023

Renew Economy

Report forecasts tens of gigawatts of new utility-scale renewables capacity will be added to US grid in 2023, the majority of it solar and storage. The post Solar and storage to dominate new US capacity additions in 2023 appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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How green is your green bond?

GreenBiz

With green bond growth projected strong for 2023, investors would do well to read the fine print.

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New initiative aims to use Earth observation and geospatial data to detect sewage spills

Envirotec Magazine

Earth imaging satellite firm Planet provides data in which each pixel translates to 3.7 m 2 on the ground. Ordnance Survey is working with consultancy firm CGI to investigate the possibilities of using Earth observation data to detect sewage from space. Launched by CGI and the UNFCCC, the Sustainability Exploration Environmental Data Science ( SEEDS ) programme is described as “an exciting research initiative to challenge the thinking and practice around sustainability, provide predictive analy

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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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Gather your furry Valentines at Best Friends Roadhouse

Inhabitat - Innovation

For some people, Valentine's Day conjures up images of champagne, bubble baths and rose petal-strewn beds. Others would rather pet bunnies and feed pigs. If you fall into the latter category, Best Friends Roadhouse and Mercantile in Kanab, Utah has the V-Day getaway for you. Their special “Make Magic with Your Loved One” three-day weekend deal runs through February, offering a motel stay, sparkling cider, two fluffy robes that you get to keep and vegan breakfast and coffee bar every morning.

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Kseng Solar provided solar farm solution to support sustainable agriculture in Japan

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As the global push to replace fossil fuels with clean energy, agrivoltaics have been applied as an alternative in land-constrained Japan. Located in Iwate Prefecture, Japan, this solar plant is one of the agrivoltaics projects, and it was reported by Nikkei BP, one of the largest providers of cutting-edge information, content, and services in Japan.

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Care about biodiversity? Push for food systems transformation

GreenBiz

Increasing biodiversity is the new kid on the block for sustainability professionals. But solving it will require investing in the old guard that we keep overlooking.

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£1 million grant for novel hydro energy storage system

Envirotec Magazine

BEIS-funded research project to identify and test minerals and discarded wastes for use in RheEnergise’s grid scale hydro energy storage system In partnership with the University of Greenwich and the University of Exeter, RheEnergise, a UK company developing a novel form of pumped hydro-energy storage, has secured a grant of £1 million, funded through the Net Zero Innovation Portfolio (NZIP) as part of the UK Government’s Energy Entrepreneurs Fund.

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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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New York City to require rideshare fleets to use 100 percent EVs by 2030

Charged

Electrifying rideshare vehicles has the potential to deliver outsize emissions reductions , as they log many more miles than personal vehicles. In his recent State of the City speech, New York City Mayor Eric Adams announced that rideshare fleets operating in the city will be required to go zero-emission by 2030. The Big Apple is one of the world’s largest markets for app-based ridesharing, with an estimated 100,000 for-hire vehicles plying the streets.

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“We might get sued:” Fossil fuel lobby wants environmental objective watered down

Renew Economy

Fossil fuel lobby demands that new laws designed to force regulators to consider and environmental and emissions in their rulings be watered down. The post “We might get sued:” Fossil fuel lobby wants environmental objective watered down appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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Satellite tracking is helping scientists pinpoint the worst emissions offenders

GreenBiz

Understanding where our greenhouse gas emissions come from is crucial to helping us curb them.

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Planning permission granted for Sunderland plastics pyrolysis plant

Envirotec Magazine

The 12-acre site at Port of Sunderland earmarked by Quantafuel for the plant. Sunderland City Council has given the go-ahead for a new plant at the Port of Sunderland, creating over 100 permanent jobs and processing plastic waste that is largely not recycled in the UK, according to Norwegian technology firm Quantafuel ASA. The plant will take mixed plastic waste from across the north of England that would otherwise have been incinerated or disposed of in landfill.

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Renesas introduces second-generation gate driver integrated circuit for EV inverters

Charged

Semiconductor supplier Renesas Electronics has announced a new gate driver integrated circuit (IC) designed to drive high-voltage power devices, such as insulated gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs) and silicon carbide (SiC) metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistors (MOSFETs) for EV inverters. Gate driver ICs are designed to provide an interface between the inverter control microcontroller unit (MCU) and the IGBTs and SiC MOSFETs that deliver power to the inverter.

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More than 75% of global insect species not adequately protected

Grist

More than 75 percent of the world’s insect species are insufficiently protected when it comes to conservation areas around the globe, according to a recent new study. From our favorites like bees and butterflies, to the lesser appreciated organisms such as wasps and mosquitoes, insects are facing threats such as climate change, and a myriad of other ills such as habitat loss and pesticide use.

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Losing ourselves in the Tower of (Risk) Babel

GreenBiz

A basic assumption in approaches to risk assessment is that the problems they address can be resolved primarily by better information and technocratic solutions. But business executives, policymakers and the public crave simpler, more practical alternatives.

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Firm receives InnovateUK funding to enhance vessel performance monitoring technology

Envirotec Magazine

The Flex 42X multi-role crewboat (image credit: Penguin International). Vessel monitoring and control solutions provider, Reygar, has won InnovateUK funding to develop a range of new features for its BareFLEET product in collaboration with Singapore-based designer, builder, owner and operator of high-speed aluminium craft, Penguin International. The group says the project, dubbed FleetVision, will build on Reygar’s commercially proven BareFLEET technology to offer live feedback on various aspect

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California bill would make EV conversions eligible for state rebates

Charged

California has several state programs, including the Clean Vehicle Rebate Program (CVRP) and the Clean Cars for All Program, to encourage drivers to buy EVs. However, EV conversion fans have been feeling left out of the party. Now the Specialty Equipment Market Association (SEMA), a trade group that represents the specialty automotive industry, has sponsored legislation that would create a rebate program for converting legacy vehicles to electric drive.

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5 tips for educating customers on the benefits of energy storage

Solar Power World

By Chris Canfield, Director of ESS Sales, LG Electronics USA As a solar installer, you may find yourself educating consumers on available systems and solutions to help them make informed purchase decisions that best suit their needs. Here is a quick and easy way to guide the conversation. 1. Tap into national trends Any homeowner… The post 5 tips for educating customers on the benefits of energy storage appeared first on Solar Power World.

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