Inhabitat - Innovation

MAY 21, 2020

This record 40-day timespan has edged over 2019's run of 38 days when U.S. Both the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) and the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysts (IEEFA) have revealed that, from March 25th through May 3rd, utility-scale solar, wind and hydropower collectively generated more electricity than coal!

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 12, 2020

The amount of renewable diesel used in California tripled between 2015 to 2019 to 620 million gallons. Between 2015 and 2018, the consumption of renewable natural gas by natural gas fleets grew by 475 percent, and in 2019 in California, 80 percent of the natural gas used for transportation was renewable.

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Natural gas Sustainability Carbon-negative Transportation 532

GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

secondhand clothing market is projected to more than triple in value in the next 10 years — from $28 billion in 2019 to $80 billion in 2029 — in a U.S. In 2019, secondhand clothing expanded 21 times faster than conventional apparel retail did. The market value of this sector reached $2 billion in 2019.

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Fashion Sustainability Retail Pollution 485

GreenBiz

OCTOBER 13, 2020

The study analyzed litigation, transactional and lobbying work conducted from 2015 to 2019. After all, the $41 million ExxonMobil spent on climate lobbying in 2019 ( according to InfluenceMap ) exceeds the entire $37 million annual operating budget ( 2019 ) of Greenpeace USA. Four firms receive an A while 26 received an F.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The next frontier is "connected chemistry," extending the internet of things to "the internet of natural resources," Beck said in 2019. In 2019, it issued a $1 billion sustainability bond , the first corporation to do so. By 2019, the company counted more than a billion total rides, with 2 million annual drivers in more than 650 U.S.

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Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 505

Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 7, 2023

Importantly while daily levels have reduced in Europe and North America in the two decades to 2019, levels have increased in Southern Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Latin America and the Caribbean, with more than 70% of days globally seeing levels above what is safe. exposed days globally, by 2019 more than 70% of days still had PM 2.5

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Asia Health Oceania Pollution 264

GreenBiz

JUNE 5, 2020

Meet the fellows for 2019 and 2020. Here are the 2019-2020 fellows. is a fourth-generation black farmer and the founder and president of the National Black Farmers Association. More in this Guardian feature. The Castanea Fellowship is a two-year program for diverse leaders working for a racially just food system.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 19, 2021

So far the program, approved by the Oregon Public Utilities Commission in 2019, has inked deals for 300 megawatts (MW) of new capacity, with hopes to expand soon. In May 2019, PGE launched the first GFI offering: access to the energy from a new 162-MW solar facility, to be built in Gilliam County, Oregon. Credit: Avangrid Renewables.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 4, 2021

According to a Prepared Foods report , 44 new fermentation companies launched in late 2019 and early 2020, a 91 percent increase compared to 2018. . Even as COVID-19 upended global markets, alternative protein companies focusing on fermentation raised $435 million in venture capital by July, 58 percent more than in 2019.

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Seafood Agriculture Startups Investment 536

Inhabitat - Innovation

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

Hyundai Development Company hired UNStudio in 2019 to design a green, mixed-used neighborhood in Seoul, Korea, a 10-minute city for the new digital economy. That means mixed-use spaces, green energy and digital packages for residents who are expected to live, work and play in the 504,000 square meter neighborhood.

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Energy Monitor Packaging Energy Energy 252

GreenBiz

DECEMBER 17, 2020

With about $9 billion in annual revenue in 2019, AGCO is behind some of the best-known global brands in tractors, combine harvesters, balers and other farm equipment, including Massey-Ferguson, Fendt, Challenger and Valtra. . It's supposed to deliver the first models in fall 2021 and claims "hundreds" of pre-orders.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JANUARY 11, 2022

Bjarke Ingels Group's (BIG) Oslo Science City is part of Oslo's 2019 Strategy for the Development of the Knowledge Capital, a 1.4 million square meter hub that aims to house 150,000 scientists, entrepreneurs and students. It will also contribute to the country's shift to renewable energy.

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Energy Monitor Energy Energy 245

Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 23, 2021

The 2MW tidal turbine, the Orbital O2, has been under construction since 2019 and it was developed by Scottish firm Orbital Marine Power (Orbital). The O2 turbine started construction in the second half of 2019 and is roughly 80% UK-made.

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Earth Day Construction Innovation Technology 361

Jim Conca

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Athens, Greece improved air quality with a ~35% drop in pollutants from 2019 to 2021 while Reykjavík had the highest air pollution increase of ~14%. A new study by Uswitch out of the United Kingdom shows some significant changes in air quality in many major European cities over the last two years.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Bloomberg New Energy Finance (BNEF) says that between 2010 and 2019, lithium-ion battery pack prices fell 87 percent. In 2019, they dropped 13 percent more. . The price of lithium-ion batteries, which power most mainstream EVs, has been dropping dramatically the past several years.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Its 2019 sustainability report , for example, features a menu of links to a comprehensive data resource and all reporting frameworks from every page of its digital report. For example, MetLife, in its 2019 sustainability report , disclosed its diversity (gender and ethnicity) data against key industry benchmarks by Deloitte and McKinsey.

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Demand Sustainability Government Fashion 445

GreenBiz

JANUARY 27, 2021

According to Joshua Davies, sustainability manager for Multiplex Europe, 42 percent of his company’s overall 2019 footprint came from embodied carbon from its suppliers. According to a 2019 Rocky Mountain Institute report, full-scale hydrogen-based steel production would cost 20 to 30 percent more than conventional steel-making processes.

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Hydrogen Real Estate Carbon Demand 503

GreenBiz

DECEMBER 29, 2020

You'll find her haiku from 2019 here. Tue, 12/29/2020 - 01:00. Editor's note: Back by popular demand, smart cities consultant Sue Lebeck provides GreenBiz highlights from the past year in verse. Rise before the Surprise. Leaders gather for. the first and last time in year. of shelter-in-place. Learning on the Job. Could ways to flatten.

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Sustainability Smart Cities Plastics Climate change 376

GreenBiz

MAY 21, 2021

Before the formal inductions, attendees were also treated to a performance by Awa Ndiaye , a spoken word poet and 2019 GreenBiz Emerging Leader who is building a career in environmental management. Elaine Hsieh , co-founder, head of corporate partnerships and marketing, Third Derivative.

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Sustainability Organic Climate change Startups 542

GreenBiz

JUNE 15, 2020

traded stocks, were filled by women in 2019, up from just 12 percent in 2008 — racial diversity has not. . According to the 2019 Registry of Corporate Directors published by Black Enterprise magazine, there were just over 300 African-American board members among S&P 500 companies, out of nearly 4,500 board seats overall.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

In 2019, Keurig Dr Pepper launched its Drink Well. How Keurig Dr Pepper is increasing its packaging recyclability. corporate responsibility platform aimed, in part, at reducing its environmental footprint.

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Packaging Recycling Recycling Sustainability 311

GreenBiz

MARCH 16, 2021

In addition to the net-zero goal, the e-commerce site has set two science-based targets using a baseline year of 2019, which are pending validation from the SBT i. Back in 2019, Etsy launched its first initiative focused on reducing the carbon emissions of its marketplace by introducing carbon offset shipping.

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Packaging Carbon Logistics Sustainability 537

GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

GreenFin 21 is the natural evolution of the GreenFin Summits we ran at our GreenBiz conferences in 2019 and 2020. What spurred us to launch the summits back in 2019 was the realization that these parties weren’t always speaking the same language or understanding one another’s needs. Tower of Babel.

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Sustainability Organic Investment Biodiversity 321

GreenBiz

APRIL 1, 2021

In 2019, it was recorded at a little under $160 billion, a projected compound annual growth rate of 2.5 In 2019 , Cargill partnered with InnovaFeed, a startup focusing on bringing plant-based and insect proteins to animal and fish feeds. Cargill is focusing on switching to feed ingredients that have less of a carbon footprint.

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Innovation Sustainability Seafood Carbon 395

GreenBiz

OCTOBER 13, 2020

HSBC, which provided $87 billion in financing to top fossil fuel companies since the Paris Agreement and nearly $8 billion in loans and underwriting to 29 companies developing coal plants between 2017 and Q3 2019, has faced growing pressure from shareholders to cease financing companies heavily dependent on fossil fuels.

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Fossil fuels Retail Climate change Investment 402

GreenBiz

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Last year around this time, I focused on digital technology solutions for water with this essay, " 2019: The Year Analog Solutions Died." The insights on digital transformation from 2019 papers and research came to the forefront (" IWA Digital Transformation " and " The Technology Fallacy "). What I learned about water in 2020.

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Innovation Climate change Technology Health 456

Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Flooding at Embankment in October 2019 (image credit: D MacDonald / Shutterstock.com). Over 100,000 square metres of London that should have improved drainage using SuDs (Sustainable Urban Drainage Systems) has not been delivered since 2019.

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Sustainability 263

GreenBiz

JANUARY 21, 2021

That same study shows, however, that in 2020, 45 percent of directors say that ESG issues are a regular part of the board’s agenda, which demonstrates an increase from 34 percent in 2019. Time for training. How can boards (public and private) improve their efficacy in ESG oversight for long-term value?

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Education Climate change Government Demand 463

GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Brazil, for example, recently recorded its highest rate of deforestation since 2008 during the period from August 2019 to July, an increase of 9.5 Mars also generated plenty of headlines in 2020 with its claim of a "deforestation-free palm oil supply chain," an initiative related to the Palm Positive Plan it adopted in September 2019.

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Policy Organic Sustainability Agriculture 539

GreenBiz

MAY 19, 2020

Americans continue to value and demand recycling as an essential public service according to The Recycling Partnership’s 2019 Earth Day survey. A circular economy is not possible without recycling, yet it can’t happen through recycling alone. The time to transform the way we think about and manage waste is now.

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Recycling Recycling Recycled materials Waste 511

GreenBiz

JULY 12, 2021

"Each year, approximately 50 million tonnes of electronic and electrical waste (e-waste) are produced, equivalent in weight to all commercial aircraft ever built; only 20 percent is formally recycled," write the authors of a report published by the World Economic Forum in 2019. "If For comparison, the U.S.

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Waste Waste Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 544

GreenBiz

OCTOBER 2, 2020

Wijdoogen spent several years as chief sustainability officer at the Dutch passenger train operator NS, leaving in 2019 to start Sustainability University Foundation, a platform she co-founded to empower sustainability professionals through peer-to-peer learning and research.

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Sustainability Innovation Organic Waste 395

Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Mt in 2019, but this is still only 6% of the size of total plastics production. Global plastics production doubled from 2000 to 2019 to reach 460 million tonnes. Global plastic waste generation more than doubled from 2000 to 2019 to 353 million tonnes. In 2019, 6.1 million tonnes (Mt) in 2000 to 29.1

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Plastics Waste Waste Recycling 242

Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 17, 2022

includes a doubling of hospital admissions for lung conditions in England and Wales over the last 20 years or so, from 1,535 per 100,000 in 1999 to 3,143 per 100,000 in 2019. The proposed target is to “reduce the use of public water supply in England per head of population by 20% by 2037 against a 2019/20 baseline.”. Water quality.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 19, 2020

One of my favorite sessions from VERGE 2019 was a presentation by Amory Lovins on the expanding energy efficiency cornucopia. In the 2019 scorecard by the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE), Washington, D.C., Why the District of Columbia is a leader in energy efficiency. Catherine Nabukalu.

Real Estate 485

Real Estate Energy Energy HVAC 485

GreenBiz

MAY 26, 2021

The MCI was launched in 2019 in partnership with GreenBiz, with a goal to accelerate action and impact by driving a race to the top. 2019 was a "baseline year," which gave us the grounding from which to track the efforts and progress of leading corporations as we all make our way through the next decisive decade.

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Sustainability Recycling Recycling Climate change 431

GreenBiz

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Through 2019, it managed a 1 percent reduction against a 2015 baseline. The company actually increased waste to landfill by 16 percent through 2019 but is has pledged to focus more closely on "a strong byproducts plan, product donation strategy and improved forecasting.". Through 2019, it has achieved 70 percent.

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Sustainability Business Energy Monitoring Agriculture Building Energy Monitoring 386