This year’s resolution: Fix the broken plastic material system
GreenBiz
JANUARY 15, 2020
The momentum to stop plastic pollution continues to grow, so how do we channel it into real systems change?
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UPS Orders 10,000 Electric Delivery Vans From Arrival
CleanTechnica
JANUARY 29, 2020
Arrival says it has secured an order from UPS for 10,000 of its electric delivery vans beginning this year with the possibility of another 10,000 in the future. The EV revolution continues.
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Why Most US Utilities Are Failing to Make the Most of Their Smart Meters
GreenTechMedia
JANUARY 10, 2020
Advanced metering infrastructure — the two-way communicating smart meters that now serve more than half of U.S. electric customers — allows utilities to offer their customers time-of-use pricing, automated demand response, near-real-time energy data feedback and other tools to better link them to the true cost of electricity and encourage them to save it.
Zero-carbon home uses hemp fiber for innovative design
Inhabitat - Innovation
JANUARY 27, 2020
As designers and architects continue searching for innovative, sustainable building materials, hemp is becoming a front runner in the world of green design. In fact, London-based firm Practice Architecture collaborated with local hemp farmers in Cambridgeshire for the Flat House — a zero-carbon home built using hemp grown on-site.
How to Drive Cost Savings, Efficiency Gains, and Sustainability Wins with MES
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.
5 Early Applications for Green Hydrogen
GreenTechMedia
JANUARY 2, 2020
Few energy-related topics are getting as much attention at the moment as green hydrogen. Europe's biggest natural-gas infrastructure firm recently launched a new hydrogen business. A hydrogen economy in the U.S. could generate an estimated $140 billion per year in revenue and support 700,000 jobs by 2030, according to a recent McKinsey study published by the Fuel Cell and Hydrogen Energy Association.
2020 will be a key year (and decade) for electric vehicles
GreenBiz
JANUARY 8, 2020
Analysts keep nudging that date forward, but now suggest it could happen as early as 2022 for certain models and markets.
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How Photovoltaics Have Improved Over the Years
U.S. Green Technology
JANUARY 21, 2020
The Future of Solar is Bright for Photovoltaics Photovoltaics is a bit of a funny word, but it packs a serious implication. The lay term for photovoltaics is solar panels, and they’re becoming increasingly more common. Research online shows that solar energy has surpassed prices for fossil fuel energy, but unfortunately to see a new revolution.
Using Plastic Waste To Build Schools In The Ivory Coast
CleanTechnica
JANUARY 26, 2020
Plastic bricks made from plastic trash are building new schools in the Ivory Coast.
Modular homes in Sweden are specially designed for solar panels
Inhabitat - Innovation
JANUARY 22, 2020
Swedish firm Street Monkey Architects has unveiled new solar-powered, prefabricated modular homes in Örebro, Sweden.
Why You Should Ditch That Lead Apron In The X-Ray Room
Jim Conca
JANUARY 28, 2020
Those of us in the field have always known that draping that lead apron over you when getting an X-ray at the hospital or the dentist was not necessary, that it didn’t protect you or lower any risk of cancer. But I never considered that it might be harmful to use these aprons.
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
Grant awarded for facility to convert waste plastic to hydrogen
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 17, 2020
Hydrogen fuel pumps at a service station in Washington DC, USA: The fuel generated by the Ellesmore Port facility will be used locally to power transport. A firm developing hydrogen production from waste plastic has been offered a conditional £1.25m grant for a planned plastics-to-hydrogen facility at Protos, near Ellesmere Port. Waste2Tricity , the company developing the technology – dubbed DMG®, short for “Distributed Modular System” – says there has been significant pr
How climate change has altered cocoa farming in Ivory Coast
GreenBiz
JANUARY 25, 2020
Severe droughts have caused soil fertility to decline and therefore, yields hampered.
BlackRock Targets Storage With New Multibillion-Dollar Renewables Fund
GreenTechMedia
JANUARY 27, 2020
The world’s largest asset manager has a new multibillion-dollar renewable energy fund in the works, and a good chunk of it may go to batteries. Long a major global investor in wind and solar energy, BlackRock has more recently begun buying into energy storage projects — including its acquisition last year of GE’s distributed solar and storage business.
Is a Cleaner, Smarter and De-carbonized Future Possible? Introducing the 2020 Global Cleantech 100
CleanTech Group
JANUARY 15, 2020
Every year, the Global Cleantech 100 selects the innovative companies poised to make a significant commercial impact in the next five to ten.
Electrofuels Are the Future: The Driving Force to Decarbonizing Heavy Transport
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.
Sustainability career options you may not have considered
Inhabitat - Innovation
JANUARY 30, 2020
If you've considered a career in sustainability, here are some green jobs you might want to look into.
A Brief 100-Year History Of Iran-West Relationships
Jim Conca
JANUARY 17, 2020
History is amazing and fascinating. Unfortunately, Americans have lost interest in the subject. Most think the present hostilities with Iran stem from the 1979 overthrow of the Shah of Iran and the United States hostage crisis that followed. But the issues go back much further than that.
New year, new savings for solar generators, as tariffs for grid export return
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 3, 2020
Aerial drone image of solar panels on the roof of a high rise building in London. The Smart Export Guarantee came into force on 1 January, obligating large energy suppliers to offer a tariff to small-scale solar generators who export excess solar energy to the grid, provided they met certain criteria, and thereby lowering energy bills for many solar owners [1].
8 electric truck and van companies to watch in 2020
GreenBiz
JANUARY 13, 2020
Get ready for all-electric heavy-duty big rigs, semi-trucks, box trucks, delivery vans and more.
AR/VR Simulations for Sustainable, Regenerative, Circular Cities
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.
BlackRock Sends Huge Warning Shot at Companies Ignoring Climate Risk
GreenTechMedia
JANUARY 15, 2020
In a move that will resound across the world of energy investing, BlackRock, the world’s largest asset manager, this week warned of a “fundamental reshaping of finance” as the impacts of climate change become better understood. BlackRock CEO Larry Fink said in an open letter that his company will end support for thermal coal, screen fossil fuel investments more closely, and redesign its own investment approach to put sustainability at its core.
Medinas Health – Lowering Healthcare Costs by Reducing Wasteful Spending
Green Business Bureau
JANUARY 24, 2020
Medinas was founded in 2017 with a single goal – to lower healthcare costs by helping hospitals reduce wasteful spending, and by doing so, facing a nearly trillion-dollar challenge head-on. Medinas is a data-driven marketplace that helps hospitals and healthcare organizations find beneficial reuse opportunities for capital equipment (everything from defibrillators to MRI machines) that often otherwise ends up in landfills.
Restored Georgian townhouse has rainwater-fed green roof
Inhabitat - Innovation
JANUARY 23, 2020
The Sun Rain Room is an extension and restoration of a two-story Grade-II Listed townhouse designed and constructed by Tonkin Liu. Partnering with local craftspeople to complete the project, the London-based architecture firm was able to create an extension of the existing structure through landscape that feeds off of the sun and rain.
The State Of Nukes In Iran And North Korea: Insights From Former Director Of Nuclear Nonproliferation Sharon Squassoni
Jim Conca
JANUARY 20, 2020
I had the good fortune to talk with Professor Sharon Squassoni, in the Elliott School of International Affairs, on what she thought about the latest actions surrounding Iran, how that fits into the geopolitical history of the region and what the future might hold, especially for nuclear.
How Digital Transformation will Bend the Curve of the Linear Economy Toward the Circular
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?
Inspecting pipelines with OGI
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 17, 2020
FLIR Systems has published a new application spotlight that highlights the role its Optical Gas Imaging (OGI) cameras are playing in detecting gas leaks from oil and gas pipelines. These often stretch long distances, carrying a variety of materials. Sometimes the pipes fail, resulting in liquid leaks or fugitive emissions. Through routine inspections, leaks may be caught early-but this is challenging to accomplish when there are many miles of pipelines in a system, and they are often in remote l
From sustainable to regenerative: bold business moves to transform the agriculture system
GreenBiz
JANUARY 16, 2020
Regenerative practices could bring huge win-wins for farmers, food companies and the environment, implementing them will involve overcoming wide-ranging barrier.
NextEra Looks to Add Batteries to Its Existing Solar Fleet
GreenTechMedia
JANUARY 24, 2020
NextEra Energy, North America’s leading wind and solar generator, is combing through its base of existing solar facilities with an eye to retroactively adding batteries, as it adopts a more “aggressive” view on the falling cost of energy storage. “We increasingly see storage as an important standalone business in its own right,” CEO Jim Robo said Friday on an earnings call.
This Problem With Fracked Oil and Gas Wells Is Occurring 'at an Alarming Rate'
DeSmogBlog
JANUARY 23, 2020
Read time: 13 mins On February 15, 2018, a fracked natural gas well owned by ExxonMobil's XTO Energy and located in southeast Ohio experienced a well blowout, causing it to gush the potent greenhouse gas methane for nearly three weeks. The obscure accident ultimately resulted in one of the biggest methane leaks in U.S. history. The New York Times reported in December that new satellite data revealed that this single gas well leaked more methane in 20 days than an entire year's worth of methane
The Garden House features greenery and bee-friendly landscapes
Inhabitat - Innovation
JANUARY 9, 2020
The Garden House by Christos Pavlou Architecture is a physical representation of the potential for urban gardens to create micro-climates that improve the living conditions of cities rather than make additional contributions to climate change.
Renewable Energy Prices Hit Record Lows: How Can Utilities Benefit From Unstoppable Solar And Wind?
Forbes Green Tech
JANUARY 21, 2020
If falling prices have made renewable energy unstoppable in the U.S., what does that mean for utilities? If the question is determined by smart policy, the answer may be financial opportunity.
Circularity analysis details alarming trend as global resource consumption passes 100 billion tonnes a year
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 22, 2020
Separating recyclable materials in a local cooperative in the Glicerio neighborhood in São Paulo in 2017: The report also points to a number of encouraging ‘bottom-up’ initiatives, that are advancing circularity in certain regions of the world. Circular economy strategies essential as reuse of resources falls to 8.6%. The global economy is consuming 100 billion tonnes of materials a year for the first time ever but reuse of resources has gone into reverse, according to a report from impact organ
Trend: Companies warm to nature-based solutions
GreenBiz
JANUARY 27, 2020
More than 350 companies have made commitments to help reverse nature loss and restore vital natural systems on which economic activity depends.
IEA: Energy Transition Possible, But More Expensive, Without Oil & Gas Buy-In
GreenTechMedia
JANUARY 20, 2020
The energy transition will be cheaper and faster with the full support of the oil and gas sector, but national oil companies, in particular, are falling behind, the IEA warned in a report compiled with the World Economic Forum and presented at Davos 2020. For all the talk of the energy transition, leading global oil and gas companies invested just $2.1 billion into solar, wind, biofuels and carbon capture projects last year, or a mere 0.8 percent of their overall capital expenditures, according
Federal leadership necessary for solar to reach its potential 2020 Trends in Solar
Solar Power World
JANUARY 6, 2020
State and city governments have been working the past three years to build solar markets despite lack of federal support, but a number of reports have made it clear that Washington, D.C.’s assistance is necessary for solar power to meet its full potential in combating climate change. The International Energy Agency’s (IEA) “World Energy Outlook… The post Federal leadership necessary for solar to reach its potential <br><span style='color:#404040;font-weight:600;font-
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