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Let’s incubate the Green Swans hatched by the COVID-19 Black Swan

GreenBiz

Let’s incubate the Green Swans hatched by the COVID-19 Black Swan. The global COVID-19 pandemic is a historic Black Swan event that offers a Green Swan of opportunities to harvest innovation from 50 years of converging exponential technologies. Tom Baruch. Tue, 06/23/2020 - 01:30. Back to normal is not an option.

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Orlando's journey to accelerate sustainability and resilience

GreenBiz

Orlando's journey to accelerate sustainability and resilience. Cities are home to more than 50 percent of the global population and as a result are presented with ever-growing challenges, including finding a balance between social equity, economic vitality and environmental sustainability. Chris Castro. Thu, 03/11/2021 - 01:00.

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When Others Retreat, Innovate: Climate Action in Times of Uncertainty

EDF + Business

Corporate sustainability is in a recession. CEOs are avoiding terms like ESG or actively speaking out against it, while some companies are scaling back sustainability pledges or exiting voluntary net zero alliances. But if they are not talking about it, is corporate sustainability no longer important to business?

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Greentown Labs Announces Location of New Incubator in Houston’s Innovation District

Greentown Labs

North America’s largest climatetech incubator will expand to Houston’s Innovation District to accelerate the clean energy transition and reveals Microsoft, Rice Management Company, Saint-Gobain, Direct Energy, Naturgy, and FCC Environmental Services as additional partners. mixed-use space that anchors the Innovation District.

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AI to enable autonomous underwater robots to perform precision offshore wind farm repairs

Envirotec Magazine

That’s according to the National Robotarium – an innovation hub based at Heriot Watt University’s Edinburgh campus – which is supporting the development of new artificial intelligence and control systems that could allow underwater robots to operate autonomously and with high precision in turbulent seas.

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Circular economy startups compete at Circularity 2020, taking on shoes to shelf-life

GreenBiz

A circular economy is urgently required for the shift to a more sustainable planet. But it will take new, innovative ideas to build a global system that uses and reuses all of the resources within it and moves us away from the deeply entrenched extractive system under which the modern world functions. Holly Secon.

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BIG presents a sustainable living laboratory town in Japan for Toyota at CES

Inhabitat - Innovation

Created in collaboration with Toyota Motor Corporation, the project will be the world’s first urban incubator dedicated to the advancement of all aspects of mobility with a focus on sustainability, from renewable energies to shared mobility.