GreenBiz

JANUARY 15, 2020

The momentum to stop plastic pollution continues to grow, so how do we channel it into real systems change?

Plastics 294

Plastics Pollution Waste Waste 294

CleanTechnica

JANUARY 17, 2020

Germany has announced a new plan to close its coal mines and coal generating stations by 2038. Is it enough? Of course not. But it's better than running away from the problem like the United States is doing.

Fossil fuels 0

Fossil fuels Policy Politics 0

GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 15, 2020

Demand for renewables from the growing number of states and utilities with 100 percent clean energy goals is almost certain to outpace their ability to supply it from within their own borders. But the time needed to build transmission lines to move the power around is running out. On Wednesday, research firm ScottMadden released a new in-depth study that describes the complicated, region-by-region state of play for the U.S. transmission grid.

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CleanTechnica

JANUARY 13, 2020

Iceland made it clear that winning the silver medal was a piece of cake for the island nation, as it logged a massive 25% EV market share in.

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Logging Electric vehicle Technology Electricity 0

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.

Sustainability

Inhabitat - Innovation

JANUARY 15, 2020

Innovation is the name of the game for luxury industry leaders like Rolls-Royce, so it’s no surprise they have a variety of sustainable travel projects in the works. Last month, Rolls-Royce released its newest project — an all-electric plane set to take flight later this spring.

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Electricity Innovation Sustainability 259

GreenBiz

JANUARY 13, 2020

Get ready for all-electric heavy-duty big rigs, semi-trucks, box trucks, delivery vans and more.

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Electricity Electric vehicle Transportation 543

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.

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Fossil fuels Climate change Investment Sustainability 246

Inhabitat - Innovation

JANUARY 15, 2020

To empower a marginalized community in Brazil’s Maranhão state, São Paulo-based architecture firm Estudio Flume has completed Castanha de Caju, a new headquarters for a women’s agricultural cooperative that doubles as a a welcoming community hub.

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Agriculture Sustainability 294

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.

Agriculture 540

Agriculture Sustainability 540

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

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Technology 259

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

Energy

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.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JANUARY 17, 2020

Back in 2018 when Lombok was struck by several earthquakes, some of which measured up to magnitude 7, local communities around the seismic region were greatly affected by loss. After the series of earthquakes settled, there were over 500 dead, 129,000 homes damages and 445,000 people homeless.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 17, 2020

Major oil companies, facing the prospect of reduced demand for their fuels, are ramping up their plastics output.

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Plastics Demand 443

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.

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Carbon Innovation Logistics Waste 200

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.

Transportation

Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2020

Zero Liquid Discharge, or ZLD, is a technique which aims to discharge no liquid waste to the environment, instead recovering as many products from the ‘waste’ stream as possible and leaving just water, which can be re-used. Depending on the nature of the initial waste stream, and the effectiveness of the evaporation system and any post-evaporation treatment, the water can then be used for various purposes including cleaning, as a heating or cooling fluid, or even inclusion into other products.

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Waste Waste Patents Cooling 162

Inhabitat - Innovation

JANUARY 17, 2020

Airstream is a long-standing American legend beloved by many roaming road warriors, but now the iconic campers have been given a sleek modern makeover.

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Technology 279

GreenBiz

JANUARY 16, 2020

Bold new commitment will see the tech giant charge an internal carbon fee not just on emissions from its direct operations, but on those of its supply chain.

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Carbon-negative Carbon Innovation Policy 401

Solar Power World

JANUARY 15, 2020

A partnership between White Oak Pastures and Silicon Ranch will encourage regenerative practices on solar farms. In 2020, this partnership will bring holistic planned livestock grazing and regenerative land management practices to nearly 2,400 solar farm acres in Southwest Georgia to create carbon sinks, restore biodiversity and soil health and add to the environmental, social and economic benefits… The post Silicon Ranch partners with organic livestock farm in Georgia for solar sheep graz

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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.

Sustainability

Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2020

Flooded streets in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam in October 2016. Governments around the world must step up their preparations for a minimum sea level rise of 1 metre this century and be planning for up to 3 metres, according to a report released by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers (IMechE) in November. Rising sea levels present society with a significant shift in one of the most fundamental of baselines – the height of high tide.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JANUARY 13, 2020

Australian architecture firm POLYstudio has recently completed A House for All Seasons, a contemporary family home with an emphasis on energy efficiency. Commissioned by a young family, the sustainable new dwelling was designed with a flexible layout to accommodate the clients’ evolving needs within a relatively compact footprint.

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Sustainability Energy Energy 271

GreenBiz

JANUARY 15, 2020

As demand for safe food and vaccines explodes in emerging economies, growth in the market for environmentally safe refrigeration technologies is reaching the boiling point.

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Technology Investment Demand Energy 328

Solar Power World

JANUARY 15, 2020

California-headquartered Swinerton Renewable Energy has observed a recurring problem across some of its utility-scale solar sites. The EPC helped get the U.S. industry off the ground in the early 2010s and has installed over 4 GW of solar nationwide. Swinerton’s O&M division, SOLV, has been tracking solar panel failure on some projects installed during the… The post Solar’s silent killer: Backsheets are shortening some project lifespans appeared first on Solar Power World.

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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?

Carbon

Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2020

Odour nuisance is one of the most difficult issues facing many sites today. When a complaint is made, it’s essential that a reliable and representative air sample is taken as quickly as possible. One of the biggest challenges site operators face is acquiring the capability to effectively take these samples within an appropriate time frame. Automatic samplers such as Odorprep allow samples to be taken immediately, rather than waiting for a technician to get to site, by which time the odour might

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Health Pollution 147

Inhabitat - Innovation

JANUARY 14, 2020

With the potential to grow up to 40 crops, the lush, green vest is irrigated by urine filtered through reverse osmosis.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 13, 2020

The water-repellent coating on many biodegradable products can cause harm in waste management and human health.

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Biodegradable Health Waste Waste 308

Charged

JANUARY 13, 2020

Bidirectional charging encompasses several applications that can be collectively referred to as V2x (vehicle-to-grid, vehicle-to-home, maybe someday vehicle-to-brain). It’s expected to play an important role in tomorrow’s electrified, connected transportation ecosystem, but to date it exists only in pilots, most of them involving commercial fleets. So the new Quasar bidirectional EV charger from Barcelona-based Wallbox , which appears to be the first commercial V2x product aimed at the home mark

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Batteries Retail Electric vehicle Electricity 132

Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2020

A multi-disciplinary team of drainage engineers from Lanes Group plc has completed the lining of a drainage pipe nearly 1-km long on behalf of a contractor working for Scottish Water. The project involved installing five separate liners, one of them 200-m long, in a surface water pipe across farmland near Kelso in the Scottish Borders. Drainage and utilities specialist Lanes was commissioned to carry out the lining works by aBV, a joint venture of Amey and Black & Veatch, an infrastructure d

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Plastics Waste Waste Construction 147

Inhabitat - Innovation

JANUARY 13, 2020

For those planning a summer day on the waterways of Lake Michigan, there's a new ecological option that will help you spend the day boating in sustainable style. Located on the lake's eastern shore, Retro Boat Rentals has unveiled a collection of fiberglass boats from the 50s and 60s that have been restored using state-of-the-art electric motors.

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Cooling Electricity Sustainability 251

GreenBiz

JANUARY 13, 2020

The move comes just a month after the firm was accused of being 'full of greenwash' by former US Vice President Al Gore.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 17, 2020

The trade deal signed between the United States and China this week brought a jolt of positivity to U.S. polysilicon manufacturers, who have for years struggled to stay competitive while tariffs hampered access to the Chinese market, which accounts for more than 90 percent of polysilicon demand. While U.S. polysilicon stocks shot up at the news, any excitement has been tempered.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2020

Tinytag Instrumentation data loggers can be connected to a variety of third-party sensors, enabling the user to measure properties such as pressure, flow rate, carbon dioxide, solar radiation, rainfall, and footfall, to name a few. The data loggers are available in two models: robust Plus 2 loggers have waterproof casing and are ideal for rugged outdoor applications, while the View 2 model has a digital display for spot-readings and hardy splash-proof casing.

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Logging Batteries Carbon 147

Inhabitat - Innovation

JANUARY 14, 2020

The modern, solar-powered home is situated on a hilly slope with the help of a protective and stabilizing wall along a surrounding orchard.

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Solar Power 243