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How to celebrate Earth Day virtually in 2020

Inhabitat - Innovation

Social distancing is in full effect, but you can still celebrate Earth Day online and make a difference. Just because you can’t go outside in large groups this year doesn’t mean there aren’t plenty of inventive ways to celebrate the environment. The 2020 theme for Earth Day is “climate action,” and while we aren’t able to come together physically this year, technology is presenting.

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What's your energy strategy for an empty office or retail space?

GreenBiz

Asking these five questions during the COVID-19 shutdown could help your organization reset its power consumption habits to more energy-efficient levels for the future.

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The Scientists Taking Atomic-Level Pictures Of The Coronavirus

Jim Conca

The coronavirus packs an outer armament of 27 proteins, each one having a unique and complex 3D structure that can be targeted by scientists to stop the virus.But we have to image them correctly and that’s where PNNL’s Garry Buchko comes in with his nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy.

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The pandemic is changing the dialogue about reusable packaging

GreenBiz

Latent distrust about safety won't disappear on its own, so advocates must prepare to double down on discussing the virtues of reusable bags, cups or containers.

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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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How to safely dispose contaminated gloves, masks, wipes and more

Inhabitat - Innovation

With an increased use of masks, gloves, wipes and paper towels, it is important for our health and our environment to dispose of these items properly.

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In ‘Emergency’ Revision, Massachusetts Doubles Solar Incentive Program

GreenTechMedia

The Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources unveiled emergency revisions this week that double the capacity of a state incentive program designed to spur small- and medium-scale solar projects. Under new regulations effective April 15, the Solar Massachusetts Renewable Target Program, known as SMART, will increase from 1.6 gigawatts to 3.2 gigawatts, a change long sought by the solar industry.

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How COVID-19 will redesign urban mobility

GreenBiz

Despite the hard transportation times for public transit and micromobility, it's not all doom and gloom.

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Expandable camper converts into a two-story home via a pop-up roof

Inhabitat - Innovation

This wooden, off-grid camper can expand into a two-story tiny home.

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Social Distancing Is Rewriting the Cleantech Startup Survival Guide

GreenTechMedia

With every state in America under a disaster declaration, the implosion for early-stage companies has been swift. According to a New York Times analysis , 6,000 people at 50 startups have lost their jobs since the middle of March. Once fast-growing companies are losing their revenue overnight. Startups in travel, consumer goods, or fintech are the hardest hit by the current economic freeze.

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Ecolog International and Centre for Organic Electronics at the University of Newcastle-Australia Signed a Strategic Memorandum of Understanding to Commercialize Printed Solar - A Revolutionary Low-cost, Ultra-lightweight and Highly Portable Solar Energy S

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- Ecolog Energy Solution™ (Powered by Printed Solar) aims at delivering solar energy with unprecedented affordability, ease of deployment and availability for all - The revolutionary technology is based on organic solar cells printed on an ultra-lightweight polymer film - Ecolog Energy Solution™ is set to disrupt the decentralized energy marketplace by printing energy and eliminating the need for consumers' upfront investment

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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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Turning black swans green

GreenBiz

Black swans, grey swans, green swans — a guided tour through a sustainability-minded recovery.

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This tiny home on wheels features a cool laundry chute

Inhabitat - Innovation

The tiny home features modern technologies including solar power options and keyless entry.

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Why Empty Office Buildings Still Consume Lots of Power During a Global Pandemic

GreenTechMedia

What happens to an office building’s electricity demand when almost everyone who works there is stuck at home? The coronavirus pandemic has forced broad swaths of the economy to shut down, as state after state forced non-essential businesses to close. The result has been significant drops in electricity demand in big commercial centers like New York City and the San Francisco Bay Area , and forecasts that commercial energy usage across the country will decline by 4.7 pecent this year.

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Sunrun now offering residential solar + storage for $1/month for first six months

Solar Power World

New Sunrun customers can now have rooftop solar and Sunrun’s Brightbox home battery services from as little as $0 down and at a $1 monthly rate for the first six months. This new product is available in all markets nationwide where Sunrun offers rooftop solar, as well as markets where the company offers its Brightbox… The post Sunrun now offering residential solar + storage for $1/month for first six months appeared first on Solar Power World.

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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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Where is capitalism headed?

GreenBiz

The 2020s will be the worst of times for those clinging to the old order, yet potentially the best of times for those embracing and driving the new.

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LEED Platinum Akademeia High School caters to millennials

Inhabitat - Innovation

Changing millenial needs inspired Medusa Group Architects' design for Akademeia High School, a Polish high school in Warsaw. As a result, their design of Akademeia High School, completed in 2015, encourages a welcoming and flexible “lifestyle atmosphere” where students would be encouraged to stay in school even after classes end.

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New Jersey’s Community Solar Pilot Could Set an Example for Accessibility — If It Succeeds [GTM Squared]

GreenTechMedia

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Big Banks Pull Financing, Prepare To Seize Assets From Collapsing Oil and Gas Industry

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 6 mins The finances of the oil and gas industry are so dismal that the major banks that have funded the money-losing fracking boom are now exploring taking the unusual step of taking over the oil companies that can not afford to pay back the bank’s loans. Reuters reported that banks are exploring the option of seizing oil company assets because the more traditional route of bankruptcy will result in huge losses for the banks — while seizing assets and holding them until oil prices inc

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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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Microsoft is building a ‘Planetary Computer’ to protect biodiversity

GreenBiz

It’s all about collecting and connecting data, which is part of the software giant’s DNA.

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Giant wooden pavilion in Taiwan is a birdhouse for humans

Inhabitat - Innovation

The building warmly welcomes both native birds and human visitors.

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Europe’s Solar Market Grapples with 35-Year Plant Lifespans

GreenTechMedia

European solar asset owners are grappling with the prospect of longer-lived projects after a 2019 ruling upped the useful life of plants to 35 years. The figure represents a big increase on the traditionally accepted lifespan of 25 years, which is based on standard PV panel warranty periods. The legal precedent appeared in a ruling against Spain by the World Bank’s International Centre for Settlement of Investment Disputes (ICSID) last September, following a lawsuit brought by solar invest

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Investments in the creative economy will help drive an inclusive COVID recovery

Impact Alpha

In the month since SXSW canceled its annual arts and tech festival in Austin, Texas, artists and other creatives have been on the front line of COVID-19 economic collapse. Investments in food, fashion, media and creative manufacturing and community spaces will be key to an inclusive economic response and recovery. Social distancing and sheltering in.

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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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Why sustainability professionals should drive green consumerism

GreenBiz

What would happen if more people than ever before demanded goods aligned with a sustainable, low-carbon economy? Our economy would transition swiftly.

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Archivist releases shirts made from recycled hotel sheets

Inhabitat - Innovation

Sometimes, being disruptive is fashionable.

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Vistra’s Oakland Battery Will Have Two Customers, Suggesting New Path for Storage Market

GreenTechMedia

Utility PG&E finalized its contract with a battery project slated to displace a jet fuel-burning power plant in downtown Oakland, California. The Oakland Clean Energy Initiative models a pathway for removing decades-old power plants in dense urban settings while keeping the lights on with new lithium-ion batteries. But the project’s collaborative business model also makes it potentially groundbreaking for energy storage development, by formalizing the use of the battery for discrete gr

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Medical Cannabis Adds Deep Inspiration To Hope Grows For Autism

Forbes Green Tech

Four years ago, my son, Leo, was struggling so with anxiety, OCD and epic meltdowns as a result of his symptoms associated with autism.

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Is carbon sequestration on farms actually working to fight climate change?

GreenBiz

There's an emerging market to pay farmers to store more carbon in the soil by using improved agricultural practices. But some scientists are questioning whether these efforts will actually help slow global warming.

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How clean is your indoor air?

Inhabitat - Innovation

The quality of your indoor air is important. From food odors to fogged windows, learn about the signs that your air quality could use some help.

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In New York, a New Way for Stay-at-Home Customers to Get Paid for Shaving Peak Energy

GreenTechMedia

New York is struggling with the country’s worst coronavirus outbreak, but it’s also pushing ahead on its ambitious clean energy goals. Those include major expansions of wind and solar power , more energy storage to manage that intermittent supply — and, on the demand side of the equation, programs that can turn utility customers from passive consumers into active grid-balancing participants.

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Agent of Impact: Kizzmekia Corbett, National Institutes of Health

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, Apr. 17 – Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett had a jump on COVID-19. The viral immunologist has been studying coronaviruses like SARS and MERS since she arrived at the National Institutes of Health in 2014. Now, as scientific lead on the Coronavirus team at the NIH, she plans to make COVID-19 a preventable disease by fall. The post Agent of Impact: Kizzmekia Corbett, National Institutes of Health appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Climate change isn't going away — it's still important to recognize Earth Day

GreenBiz

COVID-19 may be stopping in-person gatherings but Earth Day celebrations will go on, digital.

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UK bees and wildflowers thrive during lockdown

Inhabitat - Innovation

As people stay home, verges in the U.K. remain unmowed, allowing wildflowers and pollinators to thrive.

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