Super Duper Supercapacitors Could Accelerate Electric Car Revolution
CleanTechnica
FEBRUARY 23, 2020
Supercapacitors offer exciting new possibilities for electric vehicles. Here are two stories about advances in supercapacitor technology.
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We need to think beyond urban farming
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 26, 2020
But the broader agricultural world can learn much from how those operations use data.
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Unlocking the energy potential of Scotland’s parks
Envirotec Magazine
FEBRUARY 25, 2020
Aerial shot of Kelvingrove Park: Glasgow is rated as the local authority with the greatest potential to meet its heat demand from sub-surface heat collectors. Research published on 24 February by social enterprise greenspace scotland appears to reveal how the untapped energy potential from Scotland’s parks and green spaces could provide low carbon heat for homes and reduce Scotland’s carbon footprint.
Choose a Home Heating System for Your Home
U.S. Green Technology
FEBRUARY 24, 2020
How to Choose a Home Heating System That’s Right for You The chances are high that most homeowners never think twice about their home heating system. Most homeowners buy a house with a home heating system already installed, and so long as it works, they never give the system a second thought, as most heating. The post Choose a Home Heating System for Your Home appeared first on U.S.
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.
Coronavirus Crisis: Tesla May Be One Of Least Vulnerable Automakers
CleanTechnica
FEBRUARY 26, 2020
The ongoing coronavirus crisis finally hit the stock market hard on Monday, as the Dow dropped by 3.5%, its steepest one-day loss in two years. Tesla took a big hit, losing almost 7% at the open on Monday.
Jeff Bezos launches $10 billion Bezos Earth Fund, kicking off his own effort to fight climate change
CleanTech Alliance
FEBRUARY 18, 2020
Source: Alan Boyle, Geekwire, Feb 17, 2020 Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos says he’s launching a $10 billion Bezos Earth Fund that will issue grants aimed at addressing climate change — a move that comes less than a month after hundreds of Amazon employees criticized what they saw as the company’s weak commitment to tackling the issue. […].
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Wood waste strengthens recycled concrete, new study finds
Inhabitat - Innovation
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
This pioneering technique promises to be an environmentally friendly way to enhance concrete structures while simultaneously reducing construction costs and curtailing carbon emissions.
Japan’s Expert Panel Agrees That Dumping Radioactive Water Into The Ocean Is Best
Jim Conca
FEBRUARY 1, 2020
An expert panel is recommending that the Japanese government allow Tokyo Electric Power Company to release radioactive water from its crippled Fukushima nuclear plants into the ocean. And that’s a good thing to do since a gallon of this water is as radioactive as a family-sized bag of potato chips.
Oxford-Cambridge rail scheme’s “net gain” commitment shows HS2 failing nature, says RSPB
Envirotec Magazine
FEBRUARY 5, 2020
A site in Birmingham cleared for work on HS2, in December 2019. Transport Secretary’s announcement of preferred route for East West Rail timely reminder of HS2’s failure to protect environment, says conservation group. Responding to the Secretary of State for Transport Grant Shapp’s announcement on 30 January of the preferred route for the proposed East West Rail connection between Oxford and Cambridge, the RSPB has said the scheme highlights the environmental shortcomings of its more (in)famous
Ameren Missouri Looks to Harness Wind, Solar and Batteries With $7.6B ‘Smart Energy Plan’
GreenTechMedia
FEBRUARY 27, 2020
Ameren Missouri, the largest investor-owned utility in the Midwestern state, has filed a $7.6 billion grid modernization plan that includes smart meters for its nearly 1.3 million customers by 2025, adding nearly 700 megawatts of wind power, plus more solar and battery storage systems to boost rural reliability. Ameren’s “ Smart Energy Plan ,” filed Wednesday with the Missouri Public Service Commission, will direct most of its spending — $5.3 billion, on top of $1 billion
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
Inside Bill Weihl’s quest to give employees and job seekers a 'ClimateVoice'
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 24, 2020
A new initiative aims to press companies to have a strong and active voice on climate policy in the United States. Your company and its campus recruiters just may be a target.
General Mills, Danone dig deeper into regenerative agriculture with incentives, funding
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 20, 2020
Food giants cultivate new pilots, new financing programs.
Watch these four clean energy trends in U.S. cities
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
Cities can ally with one another to overcome shared barriers.
Why Silicon Valley is taking a big interest in trees
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 24, 2020
Forest data startups such as Pachama and Silviaterra can help the biggest players in tech tackle their emissions.
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.
Big businesses are failing forests
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 17, 2020
Amazon, TJ Maxx and Tyson are among well-known U.S. companies with no publicly stated deforestation strategy. Is your organization complicit?
Conserving and restoring forests won’t be cheap and easy after all
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 10, 2020
The corporate world has fallen for trees. But to be effective, the cost of offsetting CO2 emissions with the sequestration power of forests will have to go up. Are companies willing to pay?
The low price of freed parking
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
The 270 million vehicles in the United States are parked over 90 percent of the time. There are far more parking spaces than vehicles. How many spaces? The data is imprecise. There could be 500 million parking lot spaces and 1 billion spaces on streets. Add parking in home garages, carports and driveways, and another estimate is 2 billion parking spaces.
Maersk is testing a biofuel that could alter the course of shipping
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 4, 2020
The LEO Project, which includes BMW, Levi Strauss, H&M and Marks & Spencer, proposes using a commonly found paper production byproduct as the source of maritime fuel.
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.
13 sustainability podcasts that will keep your earbuds plugged in
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 25, 2020
Looking for solutions to some of the biggest problems of our time? So are these podcasts.
Kellogg's bows to pressure on palm oil, deforestation
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 24, 2020
The activism was inspired by a petition created by two pre-teen sisters.
Global search uncovers proven innovations in clean energy, climate solutions
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 20, 2020
Inspiration from the longlist of finalists for this year’s Ashden Awards.
4 ways to scale regenerative ag
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 21, 2020
This article was adapted from the GreenBiz Food Weekly newsletter. Sign up here to receive your own free subscription.This week, I want to talk about one of the most exciting options we have for reforming our food systems and tackling climate change: regenerative agriculture.
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?
Can we protect nature by giving it legal rights?
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 18, 2020
Around the world, communities are using "Rights of Nature" laws to defend waterways, species and more from human threats.
5 truths companies should consider when using US forests as a natural climate solution
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 5, 2020
It will take concerted action on the part of both public and private actors.
Delta lifts off with $1 billion pledge to become carbon neutral
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 20, 2020
The airline plans to invest in aircraft renewal, sustainable jet fuel, weight reduction, and CO2 offsetting and sequestration projects.
Plastic to-go containers are bad, but the alternatives might not be much better
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 5, 2020
Single-use plastic bans are showing up across the nation. But compostable plates and forks may not solve the plastic crisis.
Los Angeles city-owned buildings to go 100% carbon free
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 18, 2020
It's also the first California city to demand lower carbon in construction materials.
Why BASF, Bristol-Myers Squibb and Colgate-Palmolive view the SDGs as an innovation catalyst
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
It’s time to stop mapping and start acting.
This company is turning food waste into a cleaning spray
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 14, 2020
97 percent of the cleaning product is made from the water, acids and alcohol from the food waste.
Ecolab CEO: 7 ways businesses can drive positive change at scale
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
Doug Baker shares his philosophy for leading with purpose at GreenBiz 20.
Step up for Earth Day 2020
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
Why I'm backing Earth Day again this year, and why you should, too.
Salesforce: Why corporate sustainability must change
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 10, 2020
This article originally appeared on the Salesforce corporate blog. 2019 was another year in which natural disasters occurred with unnatural (or at least unprecedented) force and frequency.
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