U.S. Green Technology
NOVEMBER 11, 2019
Non-renewable energy industries, like gas and oil, are often considered by organizations and individuals — from consumers to national governments — to have a significant impact on the environment. And that impact isn’t viewed as a positive one. If these companies want to salvage their reputations, they’ll need to turn to cleaner and greener forms.
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 27, 2019
A new report shows how some companies and academic research labs are applying extrusion, 3D printing and cellular agriculture to produce meat alternatives.
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Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 20, 2019
Moringa seeds being ground by a woman in Botswana (photo credit: H. M. Kwaambwa). · One in three people cannot access clean drinking water. Moringa seed extracts have been used for centuries to help purify water in regions where clean water is not available. · Researchers have used neutrons and X-rays to identify and characterise key proteins underlying the unique water purification properties of Moringa seeds.
CleanTech Alliance
NOVEMBER 21, 2019
Source: Rocky Mountain Institute, November 2019 While some parts of the energy system are changing rapidly toward reducing GHG emissions, the world is badly off track from what is needed to achieve the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global average temperature increase to well below 2°C. Top-down government policy actions cannot be expected to deliver […].
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.
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 17, 2019
Research considers health impact in England’s eighth biggest city, Bristol. Five people dying prematurely every week – 260 for the year as a result of two most harmful forms of air pollution, PM2.5 and NO2. The economic health impact costs of air pollution in Bristol estimated to be up to £170 million a year. A new report released on 18 November from UK100, a network of local authorities, and King’s College London, has shown the stark impacts of air pollution on life expectancy in one of E
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 22, 2019
California's planned power shutdowns have communities, cities and companies scrambling for solutions, and microgrids are at the top of the list.
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GreenTechMedia
NOVEMBER 26, 2019
The world’s total renewable power capacity will grow 50 percent between 2019 and 2024, according to the International Energy Agency. For investors keen to tap into this growth, mostly driven by solar and wind, the question is where to look. To find out, GTM asked a range of industry experts and insiders for their recommendations on wind and solar markets to watch in 2020.
GreenTechMedia
NOVEMBER 27, 2019
CHENGDU, CHINA — At least a dozen cranes are visible from the Holiday Inn at Tianfu New Area, a state designated development zone on the outskirts of Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province. The Tianfu New Area is so new, in fact, that the streets and sidewalks below the towering construction equipment are virtually empty. As Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen have established themselves as epicenters for high-tech investment and innovation, the Chinese government has shifted its focus to bui
CleanTechnica
NOVEMBER 29, 2019
Effective December 3, California’s Clean Vehicle Rebate Project will see two key changes, with the net effect being that 13 currently available electric vehicles will no longer be eligible for rebates. These changes in the California rebate program also can serve as a model for improving the federal EV tax credit.
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
A Queen’s University Belfast researcher has developed a seemingly low cost technique to convert left over barley from alcohol breweries into carbon, which could be used as a renewable fuel for homes in winter, charcoal for summer barbecues or water filters in developing countries. Breweries in the EU throw out around 3.4 million tons of unspent grain every year, weighing the equivalent of 500,000 elephants.
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
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
Think ride-hailing flying taxis, electric multicopters and passenger drones that can be summoned with an app.
Jim Conca
NOVEMBER 29, 2019
Through thick and thin, extreme hot or extreme cold, Bomb Cyclones and Polar Vortexes, this nuclear plant never seems to stop producing over 9 billion kWhs of energy every year, enough to power Seattle. The same with all other nuclear plants in America. Not so much with coal and gas.
Inhabitat - Innovation
NOVEMBER 29, 2019
Bali-based architect Alexis Dornier has unveiled a beautiful, eco-friendly concept for a series of prefabricated homes that are elevated off the landscape on stilts.
GreenTechMedia
NOVEMBER 7, 2019
Home batteries proved their resilience value during Vermont's Halloween blackout. A major rain and wind storm struck the state at the close of October, knocking out power to some 115,000 customers. Among those affected, 1,100 homes managed to keep the lights on thanks to pilot programs specifically designed to promote resilient backup power with energy storage.
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.
CleanTech Group
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
The world is categorically dependent on ammonia. Today, half the world’s food production depends on it for increasing crop yield, resulting in a.
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
An overwhelming majority of UK planners want the next government to give stronger direction and more resources to enable local planners to deliver net zero carbon emissions by 2050. A recent survey by the Royal Town Planning Institute (RTPI), revealed that even though 79% of respondents agreed that climate action should be a top priority for the profession, only 17% felt their nation’s planning system or policy framework was well equipped enough to deal with the current climate crisis.
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 26, 2019
The former president opens up about the urgency of the crisis and what he sees as the disconnect between our stated values and our actions.
Jim Conca
NOVEMBER 22, 2019
A new study on the double challenge that the global energy sector faces in the next 30 years - fundamentally transformed into a low-carbon energy supply system in response to climate change and adapt systems to climate change and its effects. Oh…and eradicate global poverty, too.
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.
Inhabitat - Innovation
NOVEMBER 28, 2019
New York-based tiny home builder Willowbee Tiny Homes has managed to combine a comfy farmhouse aesthetic with a sophisticated and space-efficient tiny home.
GreenTechMedia
NOVEMBER 8, 2019
Last month’s preventative power shutoffs in California highlighted the vulnerability of the electricity grid to threats exacerbated by a changing climate. In the wake of the forced outages, much has been written about the ability of solar photovoltaic arrays working in tandem with stationary battery storage systems to keep the lights on when the grid goes down.
Solar Power World
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
The U.S. solar panel manufacturing market isn’t the biggest in the world by any means, but it is growing. Many global names set up shop in the country in 2019 to help push the United States to bigger domestic capacity numbers. Here are the Top 10 largest solar panel assembly facilities in the United States… The post The largest solar panel manufacturers in the United States by capacity appeared first on Solar Power World.
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 27, 2019
Carpet waste is a huge issue in UK, as an area the size of Birmingham is thrown away every year. Carpet Recycling UK, a trade association set up to encourage carpet recycling, oversees 73% of diverted carpet waste being sent to incineration at an approximate climate cost of £16.5 million a year to society. Less than 2% of carpet waste is actually recycled. 90% of British people have carpet in their homes and almost two-thirds want action by the UK government to address this waste stream, accordi
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?
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
UN-backed assessment urges incoming EU Commission to place the SDG agenda front and centre of its policies and investment strategies.
Jim Conca
NOVEMBER 8, 2019
Nuclear reactors are operational islands almost wholly disconnected from the Internet, so hackers can’t affect a nuclear power plant operations or safety systems – from the outside. However, there are many ways an inside hostile actor could insert malware into the isolated systems.
Inhabitat - Innovation
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
What were once 28 unused canal-side bridge houses are now a series of hotel suites.
GreenTechMedia
NOVEMBER 21, 2019
Ohio regulators on Thursday threw up a hurdle for a solar project that's slated to be the state’s largest, rejecting plans from American Electric Power’s Ohio subsidiary to charge ratepayers for costs to build the 300-megawatt project. The decision, which also encompassed another 100-megawatt AEP Ohio project, shouldn’t come as a complete surprise: in January commission staff recommended against the project, arguing the power isn’t needed in the state.
DeSmogBlog
NOVEMBER 27, 2019
Read time: 9 mins While the Ohio River Valley, long home to the coal and steel industries, is no stranger to air pollution, the region’s natural gas boom and burgeoning petrochemical industry threaten to erase the gains of recent decades. Concerns about air quality, which has already begun declining nationally since 2016 , are growing rapidly for those living in the shadow of Shell’s $6 billion plastics plant under construction along the Ohio River in western Pennsylvania’s Beaver County.
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 29, 2019
Investments in climate protection and energy efficiency are worthwhile, even from an economic point of view – a verdict that appears amply demonstrated by the winners of the four categories of this year’s Energy Efficiency Award, an annual prize presented by the German Energy Agency ( Deutsche Energie-Agentur , or dena ) to companies that pursue innovative and highly successful ways of reducing energy consumption and harmful emissions.
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
Sustainability professionals need to demonstrate the value they can bring to the highest levels of their organization. Simply put, we’re not there yet.
Jim Conca
NOVEMBER 19, 2019
In the sense of animal, vegetable, or mineral, the USGS lists 35 minerals that are essential to the function of our society. Whether it’s indium for LCD screens, Co for iPhones, U for reactors, or lithium for batteries, if we do not have an ample supply of each, bad things happen.
Inhabitat - Innovation
NOVEMBER 25, 2019
In recent years, shipping container architecture has been moving forward as a real-world solution for affordable housing.
GreenTechMedia
NOVEMBER 12, 2019
There is no doubt that bifacial modules are ready for their breakout role in the world of solar photovoltaic projects. By the dawn of 2020, there will be a cumulative 5.4 gigawatts of bifacial solar capacity installed globally, mostly in Asia, according to Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables' first report focused on this market. In five years, there will be a nearly equal share of deployment divided among Asia and North America, with cumulative installed capacity growing tenfold, according
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