Autonomous vehicles could help cities address their climate goals, if they start planning now
GreenBiz
JANUARY 21, 2020
How do cities make sure AVs achieve the “heaven” rather than the “hell” scenario?
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Coca-Cola Will Continue With Single-Use Plastic Bottles Because That’s What People Want
CleanTechnica
JANUARY 23, 2020
Coca-Cola's head of sustainability told the World Economic Forum this week her company has no intention of reducing the number of single use plastic bottles it churns out every year. Instead, it will increase recycling efforts worldwide. Is that a plan?
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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.
The Urgency of Reaching Net Zero Emissions
GreenTechMedia
JANUARY 24, 2020
This is a pivotal moment in the fight against climate change. Rising global emissions are fueling the need for mitigation, but there are a lot of open questions around how to do that. Net zero emissions by 2050 has emerged as the target that the world must hit in order to avoid the worst impacts of climate change. Policymakers and activists in the U.S. are working to put the net zero goal into law, and multiple major companies have already pledged to achieve carbon neutrality.
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.
New initiative aims to advance the removal of dirty vehicles from London’s streets
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 23, 2020
As part of a drive to tackle dirty air across London, Mayor Sadiq Khan has announced a series of measures intended to accelerate the move to cleaner vehicles. Announced on 22 January, measures include a doubling of payments for the already-introduced van scrappage scheme to £7,000, with £9,500 also now available to those switching to electric vans. The increased funding will enable more van owners to switch to cleaner vehicles, says the Mayor, while helping businesses prepare for the expansion o
Down plastic, up morale: How a sustainability graduate school is reducing single-use plastic
GreenBiz
JANUARY 24, 2020
Our finance department measured the “before” of our office’s single-use plastic, and implemented improvements right away.
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How companies can source cotton more sustainably
GreenBiz
JANUARY 22, 2020
Natural and renewable, it’s a popular choice for brands and consumers looking to make more sustainable fabric choices, but cotton comes with its fair share of social and environmental risks.
Rhode Island Is 1st US State To Commit To 100% Renewable By 2030 — “It’s Time To Set Our Sights Higher”
CleanTechnica
JANUARY 20, 2020
Guess who's gonna win the David vs. Goliath renewable energy battle.
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.
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.
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
New York is kicking California's butt in building electrification
GreenBiz
JANUARY 24, 2020
A look at the two states’ policies show they have, to this point, prioritized different approaches to spur on electrification.
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
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.
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
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.
What businesses should know about the evolution of rural solar
GreenBiz
JANUARY 23, 2020
Solar panels may harness the sun’s energy in the same way that plants do, but while some rural residents view them as another revenue-enhancing crop, others see them more as weed-like nuisances that threaten their pastoral way of life.
Government advisory body says electric vehicle revolution can be a boon to the UK’s energy system
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 23, 2020
A Government-backed taskforce bringing together key players in the energy, infrastructure and transport sectors says it has demonstrated that an effectively managed integration of electric vehicles with the energy system can significantly improve electricity network efficiency, increase system resilience and limit the requirement to build costly new infrastructure to meet growing electricity demand.
Hundreds of red plastic crates are repurposed into a public mosque in Indonesia
Inhabitat - Innovation
JANUARY 22, 2020
One green-thinking firm, Parisauli Arsitek Studio, has managed to find a way of giving new life to hundreds of discarded plastic crates.
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.
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.
Think distributed solar-plus-storage isn’t cost-effective? Think again
GreenBiz
JANUARY 23, 2020
Commercial customers paying demand charges and time-of-use rates should seriously consider an investment in these assets.
Portuguese Oil Firm Galp Becomes Major Solar Player With 2.9GW Deal
GreenTechMedia
JANUARY 23, 2020
Portuguese oil company Galp Energia will become one of the biggest players in Europe’s booming Spanish solar market, after closing a €2.2 billion ($2.4 billion) deal for the solar assets of Spanish construction firm ACS. The deal includes 900 megawatts of operational assets and a pipeline expected to yield a further 2 gigawatts by 2023. ACS, via subsidiary Cobra Concesiones, won 1,550 megawatts in Spain’s 2017 auction.
Cross-laminated timber makes this Scottish home climate resistant
Inhabitat - Innovation
JANUARY 20, 2020
Scottish firm Mary Arnold Foster Architects has unveiled a stunning home made out of several timber “pods” and tucked into the idyllic landscape of the Scottish Highlands. Clad in cross-laminated timber (CLT) and covered with slats of charred larch, which provide the home with resilience, the Nedd home was built on concrete pillars and set in between two outcrops to minimize damage to the landscape.
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.
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?
Fashion's latest trend? Why H&M, other big brands are investing in garment recycling
GreenBiz
JANUARY 22, 2020
Less than 1 percent of clothing material today is refashioned to produce new clothing. This is one potential solution.
Could Green Hydrogen Become the ‘New Oil’?
GreenTechMedia
JANUARY 23, 2020
Less than one percent of all hydrogen produced today comes from renewables. Is that about to change? The vice president of Siemens Middle East just called green hydrogen the “new oil” in the coming decades. A lot of big industrial companies and oil majors are taking another serious look at hydrogen. Why? In an era of extremely cheap renewables that are increasingly being curtailed, hydrogen production could finally be an attractive use.
Check out these amazing sustainable cabins by ZeroCabin
Inhabitat - Innovation
JANUARY 23, 2020
Armed only with experience in biology, chemistry and physics, a group of Chile-based scientists took concepts ranging from photosynthesis to thermodynamics to create Zerocabin, a collection of off-grid and self-sustaining cabins that use “free energy” to function.
Become an insect farmer to turn muck into brass and help save the planet, says Scottish circularity advisory group
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 23, 2020
Black soldier fly. A ‘how-to’ guide on the benefits of becoming an insect farmer was published by Zero Waste Scotland on 14 January. “You won’t need acres of land,” says ZSW’s press release, “unlike traditional cattle, sheep or arable farming. There’ll be no need to brave the elements to tend to your stock as insects are farmed indoors.
How the Textile Exchange's new index aims to make a material difference
GreenBiz
JANUARY 20, 2020
A new tool, released today, aims to push apparel and home furnishings companies further toward sustainability, and ramps up efforts by the textile and fashion industries to align material choices with the Sustainable Development Goals.
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
Award-winning Owl Woods Passive House playfully mimics birdhouses in Australia
Inhabitat - Innovation
JANUARY 24, 2020
Australian design studio Talina Edwards Architecture recently completed the Owl Woods Passive House — the first certified Passivhaus project designed by a woman architect in Australia.
Excavating in potentially asbestos-contaminated ground – FAQs from contractors
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 23, 2020
There is significant uncertainty among many contractors and clients over the legal obligations and practical measures required around projects that entail the disturbance of asbestos in soil, according to SOCOTEC, a UK provider of testing and compliance solutions. The firm offers answers to commonly asked questions about sites containing potentially asbestos-contaminated ground.
Starbucks commits to give more than it takes from the planet, and ditch disposable cups
GreenBiz
JANUARY 21, 2020
To become "resource positive," the coffee colossus seeks to shift toward circularity, including reusable packaging.
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.
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