2021

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5 things you should know about green hydrogen

GreenBiz

Plug Power has a message for companies building out clean fleet strategies: Don’t ignore green hydrogen, a fuel that doesn’t emit any carbon dioxide when it's used to power fuel cells.

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EV Buyer Opts For Lucid Air After Mercedes Dealer Adds $50,000 Markup To EQS

CleanTechnica

Dealerships are going to cost automakers EV customers if they keep this up. I’ve shared a couple of horror stories that Ford customers have shared with us while also sharing what a Ford salesman thought of some of the horror stories. However, Ford isn’t alone with this problem. Any automaker that utilizes the dealership model […].

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How the water sector's digital transformation will help achieve SDG 6

GreenBiz

The water sector is now in the early but accelerating stages of learning the value of adopting digital technologies to solve water scarcity and quality issues.

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This year, I changed my mind about nuclear, hydro power and vegan food

GreenBiz

We should all have space for dynamic opinions, and be willing to talk about where and why new information reshapes our world views.

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How Will Virgo Season Impact Your ESG Communication?

3BL’s in-house experts merge the celestial wisdom of astrology with current environmental, social, governance (ESG) communication trends to offer a unique perspective and practical advice on sharing your company’s commitments effectively. 3BL’s new “Navigating ESG Comms through the Cosmos” series begins with Virgo season! In this edition, we delve into: How businesses have responded to environmental disasters over the past few months and why you can expect a continued focus on the climate crisis

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Is wood the new concrete?

GreenBiz

Companies looking for ways to reduce carbon emissions are turning to mass timber as a climate and building solution.

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The world's cities aren't adapting to climate change quickly enough

GreenBiz

From Lagos to London, cities need to be reshaped.

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Tesla Semi Truck – The Latest Developments

CleanTechnica

News about the Tesla Semi Truck has slowed down in recent weeks, but development is moving fast!

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Lathrop Leases 9 Acres Of Land To Tesla For $1 To Support Parking For 1,500 Employees

CleanTechnica

The City of Lathrop is leasing 9 acres of land to Tesla for $1 to support Tesla’s workforce of 1,500 workers, according to a report in the Manteca/Ripon Bulletin. The city council voted unanimously last week to lease the 9 acres of land that the city owned. The land, adjacent to the city’s wastewater treatment facility, […].

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Hydrogen Scooters With Swappable Cans Power Forward in France

CleanTechnica

How do you reduce the carbon emissions of millions of scooters without access to home chargers? France thinks cans of hydrogen may be the answer.

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High Gas Prices Lead to Conversion of Ammonia Plant to Green Hydrogen

CleanTechnica

Incitec Pivot (IPL) is Australia’s largest supplier of fertilisers, producing around two million tonnes of ammonia each year for use in Australian agriculture. Its Gibson Island plant in Brisbane (Queensland) was under threat of closure due to the high cost of gas. Fortescue Future Industries (FFI) and Incitec Pivot Limited (IPL) have completed initial studies […].

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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

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15% Of Auto Sales In Europe Were Fully Electric Vehicles In November

CleanTechnica

Despite smaller growth rates, the European passenger plugin vehicle market is still in the fast lane. More than 221,000 plugin vehicles were registered in November — which is +33% year over year (YoY). This performance is even more impressive when we consider that the overall auto market continued to fall off a cliff — down […].

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Battery Recycling — A Fledgling Industry In Australia

CleanTechnica

In conversations with car people, one of the first questions I get asked is — how fast can it go? But when I am with environmental groups the main question is always — what happens to the batteries? The recent Future Battery Industries Cooperative Research Centre (FBICRC) report provides a very good overview. (See here […].

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Tesla Reaches Job Target For Buffalo Gigafactory, Avoids $41.2 Million Penalty

CleanTechnica

In February 2020, before Covid came to the US, I wrote this article predicting that Tesla would most likely meet its April hiring deadline for its plant in Buffalo, NY. I think that this was one of the key pieces of news that had people up in arms (at least on Twitter) before the pandemic, […].

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US Transit Buses Idle For 3.7 Hours Out Of 9 Hours Per Day — New Study

CleanTechnica

On a typical weekday, a transit bus idles for an average of 3.7 of the 9 hours that the bus is in operation. The analysis of the National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s Fleet DNA data included 415 conventional heavy-duty vehicles with over 120,000 hours of operation from 36 states. Combination-unit long-haul trucks had the next highest […].

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Is Your ESG Communication a Walking Red Flag?

One moment, you're proudly releasing your annual report, and before you know it, six months have passed and attention has shifted. Not communicating your impact consistently to key stakeholders is what we call an ESG communication red flag. Think of red flags as common mistakes that hinder stakeholder engagement. While these slips in communication are rarely intentional, they can have a significant impact on how your ESG efforts are perceived.

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Feeding This Seaweed To Cows Can Eliminate Their Methane Emissions

CleanTechnica

A farmer from Prince Edward Island, Canada, has found out that feeding his cattle seaweed could reduce greenhouse gases by up to 40%. Joe Dorgan is the founder of North Atlantics Organics, which produces and distributes organic seaweed. The seaweed near his farm was harvested for feed and fertilizer for five generations. Dorgan knew from […].

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Huawei, Which Beat Apple At Making A Car, Announces New Range-Extended EV

CleanTechnica

The news about Apple coming for Tesla with an Apple car has been pretty constant over the past several years, but Huawei, another phone maker, has actually made a plugin vehicle. CarBuzz reports that Huawei is also coming for Tesla with a new plugin vehicle, but unlike Apple, the phone maker actually delivered on its […].

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Scotland Ends Coal Power With A Bang

CleanTechnica

Scotland recently demolished its last coal-fired power station, ending coal’s reign in the country with a literal bang. “Today’s event is a symbolic reminder that we have ended coal-fired power generation in Scotland, as we work in a fair and just way towards becoming a Net Zero nation by 2045.” First Minister Nicola Sturgeon said, […].

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Reports Claim Hyundai Has Closed Its Internal Combustion Engine Development Center

CleanTechnica

Hyundai is discontinuing the development of internal combustion engines to focus all its energy on electric cars.

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Can Businesses Meet Increasing Consumer Expectations?

According to 3BL and TriplePundit’s Consumer Insights & Sustainability Benchmark two-thirds of U.S. adults actively seek and follow sustainability issues. This leaves room for businesses to fill in the gaps currently seen between consumer expectations and corporate ESG communication. This research reveals what issues consumers care about and how businesses can tailor their communications to different segments of consumers.

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UK Police Are Testing Tesla Model 3 With Promising Results

CleanTechnica

British police have been testing Tesla Model 3 vehicles as part of its plan to electrify its fleet, The Guardian reports, noting that a Tesla spokesperson said that the results were promising so far. According to the emergency services lead at Tesla, Max Toozs-Hobson, the early findings are showing great results around the suitability of […].

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Autonomous Robot-Killing Weeds Is More Eco-Friendly Than Pesticides

CleanTechnica

A German consortium is developing an autonomous robot, AMU-Bot, to solve the problem of manually hoeing weeds out of crops without having to spray those crops with herbicides or pesticides. The project is being funded by the German Federal Office of Agriculture and Food and coordinated by the Fraunhofer Institute for Manufacturing Engineering and Automation. […].

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Solar & Wind Produce The Cheapest Electricity — New Report

CleanTechnica

A recent report from CSIRO (Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation) in collaboration with AEMO (Australian Energy Market Operator) has conclusively shown that solar and wind continue to be the cheapest ways to generate electricity. The report also includes the costs of carbon capture and storage (CCS) in the future production of electricity from fossil […].

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Railroads & Solar Power: You Ain’t Seen Nothing Yet

CleanTechnica

Squeezing more solar power into the German railroad system is the aim of a new study, and the US railway industry could take a page or two from that book.

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What Consumers Are Saying About ESG – And What That Means for Your Business

A growing body of evidence shows that environmental, social and governance (ESG) initiatives are important to business growth. And it all relies on a simple fact: ESG issues matter to consumers. Consumers see businesses as crucial change agents and are willing to take their business to the competition if their current brand comes up short on ESG. In pursuit of identifying where such trends are today, 3BL Media and TriplePundit partnered with the research technology firm Glow to survey 3,648 U.S.

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Every 38–44 Seconds, A New Tesla Model Y Leaves Giga Shanghai’s Workshop

CleanTechnica

Drive Tesla Canada reports that drone flyovers have shown that a new Tesla Model Y leaves Giga Shanghai’s workshop every 38 seconds. The article noted that Tesla China’s November sales reflected an annual production rate of 683,000 cars per year, which is well above Tesla’s own estimates from the Q3 2021 earnings report of 450,000 […].

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Wind & Solar = 86% Of New US Power Capacity In January–October

CleanTechnica

Wind and solar power have dominated new power capacity additions in 2021. They’ve also been at the forefront of power capacity growth in the United States in the past three years. New Power Capacity in USA The latest installation data come from October 2021, which was, incidentally, a rare month in which fossil gas (aka […].

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Wind & Solar = 14% of US Electricity Generation in October

CleanTechnica

In October 2019, wind power and solar power accounted for 11.3% of US electricity generation. In October 2020, they accounted for 12.4% of US electricity generation. Just a couple of months ago, in October 2021, they accounted for 14% of US electricity generation. This shows steady growth of solar and wind power in the United […].

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Can Australia Supply The World With Rare Earth Minerals?

CleanTechnica

The short answer is: not yet. From Wikipedia: “The rare-earth elements (REE), also called the rare-earth metals or (in context) rare-earth oxides, or the lanthanides … are a set of 17 nearly-indistinguishable lustrous silvery-white soft heavy metals… “The rare earths have diverse applications in electrical and electronic components, lasers, glass, magnetic materials, and industrial processes, […].

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Which ESG Topics Get the Most Attention?

People are focusing on how companies are responding to the headline issues of the day, says a report from 3BL Media on evolving interests in ESG subjects, which also found a mismatch between the stories brands publish and topics audiences want. So which emerging sustainability & ESG topics garner more audience attention? Download the guide to find out!

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Brandenburg Coal Mine Uses 171 Times More Water Than Tesla’s Giga Berlin Will Need

CleanTechnica

Environmental groups in Germany seem to really care about the usage of water near Tesla’s Giga Berlin, and are especially concerned with how much water Tesla will use. Let’s hope they have that same energy for the LEAG coal mine, which uses more water than Tesla needs for Giga Berlin. Teslarati recently noted that Tesla […].

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Lying Liars & The Lies They Tell About Electric Cars

CleanTechnica

Researchers at Yale have examined the claim that EV supply chain emissions cancel out the environmental benefits of driving electric and determined it is false.

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Yet Another Horror Story At A Ford Dealership For A Mustang Mach-E Buyer

CleanTechnica

Before I get into this story, this isn’t the followup to Joe’s experience at a Ford dealership. Joe actually reached out to me with a followup, but I wanted to allow the dealership some time to at least keep their promise to Joe. However, another EV buyer reached out to CleanTechnica and shared her story […].

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Tesla Model Y Regains Top IIHS Safety Pick Status

CleanTechnica

The Tesla Model Y with Pure Vision has been rated a Top Safety Pick + by IIHS.

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7 Trends in ESG: What PR Pros Need to Know in 2023

What does the evolution of ESG programs mean for communicators? As it turns out - a lot. New challenges are coming into focus, driven by the increasing attention to corporate sustainability and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) programs, and the evolving state of ESG reporting regulations. This new ebook from 3BL Media explores seven trends in detail and unpacks what they mean for communicators.