Let’s talk integrated photovoltaics
GreenBiz
MAY 26, 2022
Meet Ambient Photonics, which just raised $30 million to produce low-light solar cells that can harvest energy from both natural and artificial sources.
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AGL dumps demerger plan, announces management and board clean out
Renew Economy
MAY 29, 2022
AGL dumps its demerger strategy and announces it CEO, chairman and other directors will leave after conceding defeat to tech billionaire Mike Cannon-Brookes. The post AGL dumps demerger plan, announces management and board clean out appeared first on RenewEconomy.
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ESG isn’t a scam. Here’s why.
Corporate Knights
MAY 31, 2022
Tim Nash is the founder of Good Investing. It feels almost fashionable to bash responsible investing these days. . Most of the criticism targets the acronym “ESG,” which stands for “environmental, social and governance.” ESG is used alongside traditional financial analysis to account for previously ignored “externalities” such as carbon emissions, boardroom diversity and employee satisfaction.
Spot the Robot Dog Helps Humans Inspect Nuclear Power Plant
3BL Media
MAY 6, 2022
Oconee Nuclear Station’s robot is one of the latest ways Duke Energy uses innovative technology to generate cleaner energy that’s affordable, reliable and safe. SOURCE: Duke Energy. DESCRIPTION: By Mikayla Kreuzberger. Duke Energy’s Oconee Nuclear Station has a new dog. “Spot” can sit, lie down and roll over. Unlike your average Rover, Spot is also trained to perform inspections of hard-to-access areas at the plant on Lake Keowee near Seneca, S.C.
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
ChatOps: Managing Kubernetes Deployments in Webex
Cisco CSR
MAY 20, 2022
This is the third post in a series about writing ChatOps services on top of the Webex API. In the first post , we built a Webex Bot that received message events from a group room and printed the event JSON out to the console. In the second , we added security to that Bot, adding an encrypted authentication header to Webex events, and subsequently adding a simple list of authorized users to the event handler.
Creators of underwater, eco-friendly concrete are finalists in the European Inventor Award
Envirotec Magazine
MAY 17, 2022
The inventors of an innovative building material for sea walls are finalists in the European Inventor Award 2022. ECOncrete® founder and CEO, Ido Sella, has been nominated for the award, one of Europe’s most prestigious innovation prizes, alongside late co-founder Shimrit Perkol-Finkel. Launched by the European Patent Office (‘EPO’) in 2006, it honours individuals and teams behind solutions tackling some of the biggest challenges of our times.
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Chris Bowen confirmed as new energy and climate minister, McAllister as assistant
Renew Economy
MAY 31, 2022
Chris Bowen confirmed as Australia's next climate and energy minister, the first climate minister since the last Labor government. The post Chris Bowen confirmed as new energy and climate minister, McAllister as assistant appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Should corporations be activists?
Corporate Knights
MAY 3, 2022
What are the risks – and rewards – for companies that choose to take a stand on issues like racial discrimination and gay rights? The question is of long-running research interest to Olga Hawn, associate professor of strategy and entrepreneurship at the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School. “I have always been intrigued by the gap between what companies say and what they actually do,” says Hawn.
Supply chains: To build resilience, manage proactively
McKinsey Sustainabilty
MAY 23, 2022
Supply chain upheavals show little sign of abating. Companies can address them by reconsidering outdated, short-term strategies and beginning the hard work of building structural resilience.
How Cisco DNA Assurance Proves It’s ‘Not a Network Issue’
Cisco CSR
MAY 17, 2022
When something in your house breaks, it’s your problem. When something in your network breaks, it’s everyone’s problem. At least, that’s how it can feel when the sudden influx of support tickets, angry phone calls, and so on start rolling in. They quickly remind you that those numbers behind the traffic visualizations are more than numbers alone. They represent individuals.
Are Your Impact Comms Resonating With Stakeholders?
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Whether your organization is at the start of its sustainability and impact journey or years into it, many brands share a common concern: the uncertainty of whether they are sending stakeholders mixed messages. Creating content that speaks to your audience's “love language” can be a tricky dance. But, worry not! 3BL has put together tips to ensure that your content not only finds its rhythm but also resonates with your target audiences.
My long walk across India for women's freedom | Srishti Bakshi
TEDxInnovations
MAY 10, 2022
There are 600 million women in India -- yet they are rarely seen outdoors after sunset because of safety concerns like harassment and catcalls. On a mission to create safer public spaces, women's rights advocate Srishti Bakshi talks about how she embarked on a 2,300-mile walk across the length of India (a distance equivalent to traveling from New York City to Los Angeles), conducting driving workshops to empower women's mobility across the country.
How ESG ratings are built
GreenBiz
MAY 11, 2022
The process of creating comprehensive ratings for thousands of companies is mind boggling. It's also fraught with a multitude of challenges.
Fossil fuel industry loses its grip over Australia’s climate and energy policies
Renew Economy
MAY 22, 2022
Change of government will see a clean-out of fossil fuel industry lobbyists that held sway in the corridors of power for nearly a decade. The post Fossil fuel industry loses its grip over Australia’s climate and energy policies appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Greenwashing corporate communications is slowing climate progress
Corporate Knights
MAY 19, 2022
Vanessa Chris is a content strategist and founder of h2h content. . If we have any chance of heeding the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change’s repeated warnings and meaningfully reducing global CO2 emissions by 2030 , the business community will have to get serious about the task at hand. . This will require a momentous paradigm shift – a societal reshaping of our view of business.
Mastering Supply Chain Sustainability: Where Does ESG Fit In?
Speaker: Hortense Grouvel
In this new webinar, you will learn firsthand how to set up a sustainable supply chain program that will help meet increasing ESG requirements stemming from regulators, customers, consumers, and investors alike. Hortense Grouvel, ESG expert at IntegrityNext, and Sean Whelan, Global Senior Manager at Halliburton, will look at how ensuring compliance will also help you increase sustainability performance, resilience, and innovation, allowing you to unlock the full potential of your supply chain op
Addressing employee burnout: Are you solving the right problem?
McKinsey Sustainabilty
MAY 31, 2022
Employers have invested unprecedented resources in employee mental health and well-being. With burnout at all-time highs, leaders wonder if they can make a difference. Our research suggests they can.
CCDE and the Timelessness of Good Network Design
Cisco CSR
MAY 11, 2022
The Cisco Certified Design Expert (CCDE) recently transitioned to the CCDE v3 certification blueprint. CCDE v2, its former version, had been around for… a while. A long while (especially when compared to the typical tech lifecycle), but that doesn’t mean it had stagnated. Part of the reason for that is that the focus of CCDE has long been on training network design professionals to think critically about network design and business practices, rather than focusing on the technology of the moment.
FERC commissioners respond to elevated power outage risks across two-thirds of US
Utiliity Dive
MAY 20, 2022
Two commissioners pointed to the renewable energy shift as a key culprit in the "reliability crisis" while others called out extreme weather and drought.
Where do ESG and sustainable finance go from here?
GreenBiz
MAY 25, 2022
The tone, texture and temper of the attacks on ESG has meaningfully shifted, and the factors upon which 'it depends' are naturally shifting as a result.
What Regulations Will Impact Sustainability Comms in 2024?
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Navigating the waters of sustainability reporting disclosures and regulations can be intimidating, to say the least. With various measures set in motion in 2023 to keep companies accountable, there is a lot in store for brands’ impact communication in the upcoming year. 3BL is kicking off this January with our Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Capricorn Edition by highlighting the impact of: The U.S Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Climate disclosure rules The European Commission
Taylor quietly tips $3m into another brown coal to hydrogen venture
Renew Economy
MAY 12, 2022
More funding quietly tipped into brown coal to hydrogen projects, as the Coalition's election fossil hydrogen subsides top $400 million. The post Taylor quietly tips $3m into another brown coal to hydrogen venture appeared first on RenewEconomy.
It’s time for investors to demand real net-zero plans from Canada’s energy sector
Corporate Knights
MAY 2, 2022
Duncan Kenyon is the director of corporate engagement with Investors for Paris Compliance (I4PC), with over 20 years of environmental, business and climate-change leadership experience. . The good news is that most of Canada’s big oil companies have pledged to achieve net-zero emissions by 2050. The bad news is that those pledges fall apart as soon as you look past their initial rhetoric.
This tracking company wants to sell sustainability
Stacey Higginbotham
MAY 31, 2022
Connected tracking services are a dime a dozen these days. They include real-time location tracking services as well as services that provide tracking that’s a little less rapid, sending location data every few minutes or once an hour. There’s a big market in knowing where stuff is at any given point. With a large market and so many options, it can be hard to stand out, which is why I was interested to see a company called Moeco launch what it deemed as the most sustainable trackin
Embrace Your Possible, Embrace Digital
Cisco CSR
MAY 31, 2022
We’ve come a long way since our in-person Cisco Live in 2019. Over this time, everything hasn’t always gone as expected, but one thing has become quite clear. Business as we know it will never be the same. Whether it’s how we consume entertainment, move applications or systems to the cloud, or immerse in hybrid work, everything has gone digital. With this huge leap, Cisco is in a unique position to help you embrace digital.
What Questions Are Brands Asking About Their ESG Initiatives Ahead of 2024?
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Temperatures are rising (and not just metaphorically) as key stakeholders anxiously anticipate the outcomes of COP28. While companies reconsider their 2024 environmental sustainability strategies, there is another aspect of ESG that deserves exploring, the social sector. In the latest edition of "Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Sagittarius Edition", 3BL hones in on this sign’s bold quality of asking questions others are burning to know the answers to.
NERC sounds alarm on solar tripping in 'sobering' summer reliability report
Utiliity Dive
MAY 19, 2022
Electric grid operators may struggle with resource shortages, droughts and extreme temperatures this summer, according to North America's grid watchdog.
Walmart begins search for sustainable packaging
GreenBiz
MAY 20, 2022
The retail giant launched its Circular Connector "to accelerate innovation in the field of sustainable and circular packaging.
Gas giants paying zero income tax on Australian operations, new data shows
Renew Economy
MAY 16, 2022
As the gas and oil industry gathers in Brisbane for the annual APPEA summit, data shows some member companies paid no income tax for past seven years. The post Gas giants paying zero income tax on Australian operations, new data shows appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Canadian pension funds are making climate promises they’re not backing up
Corporate Knights
MAY 12, 2022
Andhra Azevedo is a staff lawyer with Ecojustice, a national environmental law charity. Patrick DeRochie is the senior manager for Shift: Action for Pension Wealth and Planet Health. . Canada’s pension beneficiaries are increasingly worried about how their pensions are being invested in the face of a rapidly worsening climate crisis. A growing number of Canada’s largest public pension administrators and investment managers have made net-zero-emissions commitments.
The Silver Lining to Corporate DEI Challenges
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In our latest edition of Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Scorpio Edition, 3BL embraces the perspective of one of the zodiac's most misunderstood signs: Scorpio. While this sign often has a darker view of the world, they do not shy away from shining a light on controversial topics. This month we take a deep dive into corporate pullback of DEI and how companies can utilize astrological advice to reinvent its social impact communication.
The new Matter details you need know
Stacey Higginbotham
MAY 31, 2022
As the official Matter launch approaches , questions about the new connected device standard remain. For example, how will security be handled? How easy will it be to switch smart home ecosystems with Matter devices? What do developers need to know in order to support Matter? We got answers to these and other Matter questions from industry leaders during a Silicon Labs webinar this week , on a panel hosted by Stacey.
Event-Driven Programming with TriggerMesh
Cisco CSR
MAY 10, 2022
Today’s nimble and scalable applications are being written to be event-driven. With event-driven applications, processes do their work and then trigger events. Other processes listen for triggered events, then do their work and trigger more events. It is no longer acceptable to send a request and then wait for a sequence of several, synchronous processes to complete before getting a response.
The fight for a national clean energy transmission system emerges on three fronts
Utiliity Dive
MAY 3, 2022
DOE’s multi-part transmission study, FERC’s refocus for transmission planning, and macrogrid advocacy efforts could produce an interconnected nation ready for net zero electricity by 2035, industry, government and other experts say.
The secret life of ESG ratings
GreenBiz
MAY 9, 2022
Part 1 of a three-part series on ratings and ratings agencies and some of the challenges they are facing.
Supercharge Your ESG Content This Libra Season
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Throughout Climate Week, a feeling of urgency on tackling the climate crisis was palpable. Yet, questions continue to linger about corporate progress. Are we truly moving the needle or are we stuck in a cycle of empty statements and a flood of reports and guidelines? In the latest edition of Navigating ESG Comms Through the Cosmos - Libra Edition , we use Climate Week outcomes to explore how brands can communicate progress credibly.
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