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All about all-black solar panels

Solar Power World

Although residential solar customers want systems with the highest power ratings for maximum utility cost savings, aesthetics still reign supreme when it comes to solar panel choice. If even a sliver of an array will be seen by neighbors, homeowners will usually pick all-black modules for a sleek, finished system. There aren’t many differences between… The post All about all-black solar panels appeared first on Solar Power World.

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From Brooklyn to the South Pacific, One Platform Finds Distributed Energy Opportunity Everywhere

GreenTechMedia

The lush island nation of Samoa and the densely packed urban neighborhood of Brownsville, Brooklyn may seem to have little in common. Yet they are both at the forefront of some of the most cutting-edge clean energy projects in their respective geographies. In Brooklyn, Marcus Garvey Village is powered by a microgrid built in 2017 featuring solar, a fuel cell, and the first lithium-ion battery system installed under current regulatory requirements in New York City.

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Managing Commercial Refrigeration In Restaurants for Improved Energy Efficiency

Green Business Bureau

Sustainable Commercial Refrigeration. Purchasing the most energy efficient commercial refrigeration and maintaining it properly will lower your energy costs and avoid issues that damage or spoil food. Energy consumption is one of the major costs to run a restaurant but there are various ways to manage it and improve overall efficiency. One study found that the refrigeration part of your utility bills can be as high as 16% of your total energy consumption.

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In stopping climate change, time is as important as tech

GreenBiz

In stopping climate change, time is as important as tech. Jonathan Foley. Mon, 03/01/2021 - 01:30. This article originally appeared on the author's personal blog, and was written in that capacity. Italics are the author's. The only sure path to stop climate change is to zero out greenhouse gas emissions as soon as possible. That’s it. As simple as this sounds, it’s going to be an enormous job, requiring hard work over the coming decades.

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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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Irrational Nuclear Fear Puts Sweden In Danger Of Succumbing To Stupidity

Jim Conca

With 78% of the population supporting nuclear power, Sweden’s plan to prematurely shut down its entire nuclear fleet is bizarre, especially since it will add over 2 billion tons of CO2 emissions, cause the loss of $120 billion in taxes and undermine their grid reliability when it's really cold.

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$357k funding progresses US lithium-ion battery recycling initiative

Envirotec Magazine

(Image credit: Parilov/Shutterstock.com). Team Portables, a consortium for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) recycling incentivization, has received Phase II funding from the US Department of Energy’s (DoE) Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling Prize. The initiative “Closing the loop on portable lithium-ion batteries” aims to help the DoE capture 90% of all discarded or spent lithium-based batteries in the US for eventual recovery of key materials for a sustainable re-introduction into the supply chain.

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Why investors are putting biodiversity on the balance sheet

GreenBiz

Why investors are putting biodiversity on the balance sheet. C.J. Clouse. Thu, 03/04/2021 - 02:11. Reprinted from GreenFin Weekly, a free weekly newsletter. Subscribe here. Last summer, the investment arm of northern Europe’s largest financial services group dropped Brazilian meat giant JBS from its portfolio. Nordea Asset Management, which manages roughly $280 billion, gave several reasons for the decision, including JBS’s links to farms involved in Amazon deforestation. .

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Soltec signs 852 MW in Brazil for the largest bifacial tracker project in Latin America

altenergymag

• Soltec Power Holdings has signed a contract in Brazil with Focus Energia to supply solar trackers for a total of 852 MW. • This is the first phase of what will be the largest project with bifacial trackers in Latin America. • Soltec is committed to Brazil for its potential as a strategic PV market, where it already has a market share of 35.7% and a track record of more than 2.2 GW in projects executed in the country.

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Plans for Scotland’s first hazardous soil treatment centre announced

Envirotec Magazine

Research project to create new materials from recycling’s waste products. Heriot-Watt University has joined forces with Brewster Bros, a recycling business based in Livingston, to create new materials from the residual waste left over during the recycling process. Recycled clay can account for up to 25% of the output produced when excavation waste is recycled via a washing process.

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Monarch butterfly population declines due to climate change and logging

Inhabitat - Innovation

Migrating monarch butterflies declined 26% in December 2020 compared to December 2019.

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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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An inside look at pricing in the forest carbon market

GreenBiz

An inside look at pricing in the forest carbon market. Wilder Person. Tue, 03/02/2021 - 00:05. On June 23, Amazon commenced its $2 billion Climate Pledge Fund to further endeavors to become net-zero by 2040. In January 2020, Microsoft committed to invest $1 billion over the next four years as part of their Climate Innovation Fund. And on July 21, Apple committed to become 100 percent carbon neutral across its entire business, supply chain and product life cycle by 2030. .

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NeighborWorks America: Sustainability Improvements Help Build Larger Community Resilience

Green Business Bureau

Leaders in Housing Development Training and Community Resilience. With nearly 240 members operating in every state, plus Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico, NeighborWorks America is a nonpartisan nonprofit organization working to achieve housing affordability and community resilience across the nation. As the leading trainer of housing and community development professionals, NeighborWorks offers grant funding, peer-exchange, technical assistance and other resources for building stronger communitie

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Traffic data prompt air quality concerns as lockdown lifts

Envirotec Magazine

• Call for cities to commit to Clean Air Zones to protect the public. • Traffic across major cities in January 2021 at 83% of the levels seen before COVID-19. New data, sourced by Siemens Mobility in partnership with HERE Technologies, appear to show that traffic levels in some of the UK’s largest cities have returned to near pre-pandemic levels, sparking concerns about air quality.

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Are Florida manatees starving to death?

Inhabitat - Innovation

Manatee mortality in Florida has shot up this year, with 358 recorded deaths in January and February. Last year, the first two months had a combined total of 143 deaths — less than half this year's current toll. Conservationists worry that the manatees are starving to death.

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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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Walgreens Boots Alliance exec talks plastic, packaging and COVID-19

GreenBiz

Walgreens Boots Alliance exec talks plastic, packaging and COVID-19. Deonna Anderson. Mon, 03/01/2021 - 01:45. Walgreens is a fixture in the United States. About 78 percent of the U.S. population lived within five miles of a Walgreens or Duane Reade store as of August, according to the company. And the company has even more properties under the parent organization, Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA).

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NREL Industry Growth Forum Announces 2021 Presenting Start-Ups from Around the World

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More than 150 companies applied for the chance to present their cleantech innovations to potential investors and engaged industry experts at the 26th annual event.

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Green Homes Grant cut will be “a wrecking ball” to jobs, says TUC

Envirotec Magazine

New analysis estimates that of the 100,000 new jobs the government promised through the scheme, just 14,500 have been created to date. The union body says that more than 8,000 of those jobs could be lost because of a government funding cut of more than £1bn. The TUC is calling for government to reverse its plan to cut the programme in a time of rising unemployment, and deliver a green jobs drive in the Budget.

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The Gaia off-grid container house has a custom rooftop wind turbine

Inhabitat - Innovation

This container house embodies self sufficiency.

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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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FedEx pledges to be carbon neutral by 2040

GreenBiz

FedEx pledges to be carbon neutral by 2040. Katie Fehrenbacher. Wed, 03/03/2021 - 07:26. Global logistics giant FedEx on Wednesday announced a goal to be carbon neutral by 2040. The plan includes a $2 billion investment across electric vehicles, clean energy for operations and a new academic center with Yale focused on capturing carbon. FedEx — which uses over 180,000 vehicles to deliver packages across continents and operates the world's largest cargo airline — has been implementing sustainabil

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Creating A Green Team: Executive Guide to Becoming a Sustainable Business – Step 2

Green Business Bureau

The Playbook for Becoming a Sustainable Business. If your company is working toward becoming a more sustainable company, you need a strategy, plan and roadmap. There are ten steps we’ve defined at Green Business Bureau to gear your company’s purpose, culture, focus and actions towards sustainability. The steps below were summarized in Executive Guide for Becoming a Sustainable Business – Step 1.

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Sponsored content: Winn & Coales (Denso) Ltd announce Denso Bore-Wrap launch

Envirotec Magazine

This article contains paid-for content created in collaboration with. Winn & Coales (Denso) Ltd . Winn & Coales (Denso) Ltd are delighted to introduce a new addition to the Denso product line – Denso Bore-Wrap. Denso Bore-Wrap is an Abrasion Resistant Outerwrap (ARO) which has outstanding performance against impact, gouge, abrasion, and fracture.

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Facebook Marketplace fuels illegal sales of land in the Amazon rainforest

Inhabitat - Innovation

Large parcels of land in the Amazon rainforest are being sold illegally on Facebook.

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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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What business can learn from the human costs of COVID-19

GreenBiz

What business can learn from the human costs of COVID-19. Elsa Wenzel. Mon, 03/01/2021 - 02:00. As the pandemic has killed half a million Americans, too often "essential" workers have felt expendable. Facing far less risk, people with the luxury of working from home nevertheless have faced new stressors on their mental health, including blurred work-life boundaries, social isolation and ceaseless caregiving.

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Natural Power bolsters offshore team in Ireland

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Leading renewable energy consultancy and service provider, Natural Power, has bolstered its offshore consenting team in Ireland with the appointment of three new team members: Eoghan Tuite - Principal Consultant, Ciara Gilligan - Senior Environmental Consultant, and Daniel Lazell - Senior Environmental Consultant.

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Women should consider careers in recycling, says plastics expert

Envirotec Magazine

Back row: (Left to right) Uchenna Onwuamaegbu, Lead Process Engineer; Jane Bennett, HR Manager; Abigail Moynihan, Laboratory Hand Sorter; and Caroline Howarth, Marketing & Information Governance Manager. Front row: (Left to right) Judith Clayman, General Manager; Charlotte Addison, Finance Manager; and Laura Smith, Commercial Operations Manager.

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Climate change spells trouble for baby tree swallows

Inhabitat - Innovation

Warmer temperatures earlier in the year cue birds to lay eggs. The chicks are then left vulnerable to cold snaps.

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Why the ESG bandwagon must embrace adaptation

GreenBiz

Why the ESG bandwagon must embrace adaptation. Peter A. Soyka. Tue, 03/02/2021 - 02:00. With the explosive growth of environmental, social and governance (ESG) investing in recent years, it appears that we may be at or approaching an inflection point. As ESG investing becomes ever more prominent, it may be timely to ask whether, as currently practiced, it considers all issues of material importance to investors.

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Sion Power Announces Licerion-EV Targeting Electric Vehicles with a Large Format 17 Ah, 400 Wh/kg Cell

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Sion Power is producing up to 17 Ah Licerion-EV cells at its facility in Tucson, Arizona, by stacking electrodes with an approximate size of 100 mm x 100 mm on its pilot systems.

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Endangered eels likely to benefit from new work revealing how they swim up the Thames estuary

Envirotec Magazine

A traditional London delicacy, the humble eel now faces even more pressing threats than fishing. Scientists from engineering consultancy HR Wallingford and the Universities of Southampton and Nottingham are working with ZSL (Zoological Society of London) in a bid to advance conservation efforts, and it is hoped that a new study, published in February, will help.

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USPS cuts emissions with new delivery vehicle fleet

Inhabitat - Innovation

USPS is getting a new fleet of efficient delivery vehicles.

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5 opportunities of a circular economy

GreenBiz

5 opportunities of a circular economy. David McGinty. Fri, 03/05/2021 - 00:12. More than 100 billion tons of resources enter the economy every year — everything from metals, minerals and fossil fuels to organic materials from plants and animals. Just 8.6 percent gets recycled and used again. Use of resources has tripled (automatic PDF download) since 1970 and could double again by 2050 if business continues as usual.

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Dying oil companies’ parting gift: millions in cleanup costs

Grist

When Weatherly Oil and Gas filed for bankruptcy in February 2019, the company was walking away from several hundred Texas wells. Many hadn’t produced a drop of oil in years. Companies are legally required to “plug” wells that they’re no longer using to extract oil and gas by pouring concrete into all their openings and cracks; this prevents them from leaking fossil fuels or harmful pollutants into the air and water sources nearby.

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