Jim Conca
JULY 21, 2020
Extremophiles like the bacterium D. radiodurans that can withstand levels of radiation thousands of times what most animals can, are able to help us make vaccines faster, cheaper and safer. They use special molecular protectors to shield their repair proteins but not their DNA or RNA.
Grist
JULY 23, 2020
Imagine that it’s 2035. The COVID-19 pandemic — with its partisan infighting over masks and economic and political meltdown — feels like a bad dream. With the help of a vaccine, the world finally escaped the novel coronavirus. Then you hear something on the news. A mysterious virus is spreading overseas. The symptoms are fevers, chills, and coughs.
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Green Business Bureau
JULY 23, 2020
The ever-increasing global population and the rise in environmental consciousness have created a demand for sustainable business practices. Sustainable business practices vary among different sectors and are often specific to the company type and the product or service it produces. Some companies might install energy-efficient lighting and allow their employees to have flexible schedules, while others might invest in sustainable sourcing of materials and a cleaner production process.
Green Living Guy
JULY 19, 2020
Globally, the need to embrace eco-friendly energy options are more evident than ever before. As a way of reducing greenhouse gases to save the planet, more people are now opting for an off-the-grid home system. In simple terms, an off-the-grid home system means running your home without being connected to Continue Reading. The post What Is An Off-The-Grid Home System And How To Convert Your Home Into One appeared first on Green Living Guy.
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.
GreenBiz
JULY 20, 2020
How a Blue New Deal charts a course for a sustainable sea change. Joel Makower. Mon, 07/20/2020 - 02:11. Last week, a group of activists, scientists, academics and others issued a report calling for policies and other initiatives to generate prosperity while addressing inequity and the climate crisis. They called it the Blue New Deal. Its focus: an ocean-based blue economy.
Inhabitat - Innovation
JULY 21, 2020
The rooftop garden features aromatic herbs and healing plants.
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U.S. Green Technology
JULY 18, 2020
Many people do not realize just how much energy they waste in their own homes on a daily basis. While many of us are keen to do our bit for the green cause and to save money on energy bills, we often waste energy without knowing. This means that we not only damage the environment. The post What You Can Do to Reduce Energy Wastage appeared first on U.S.
GreenBiz
JULY 22, 2020
Transform to Net Zero: Microsoft, Nike, Starbucks team up on corporate climate alliance. Cecilia Keating. Wed, 07/22/2020 - 00:20. A clutch of major multinational corporates including Microsoft, Danone, Nike, Unilever, Starbucks and Mercedes-Benz together have launched a new forum dedicated to sharing resources, tactics and strategies aimed at speeding up the business community's transition to net zero. .
Inhabitat - Innovation
JULY 23, 2020
For the first time, scientists have confirmed that methane leaking is from Antarctica's sea bed. They say the methane is likely escaping into the atmosphere.
Green Business Bureau
JULY 22, 2020
What is a Gemba Walk. The Gemba walk is an exercise performed to closely observe and understand business processes and activities as they actually happen – as opposed to how the activities are ‘understood’ to work or ‘designed’ to work. The term Gemba is a Japanese word which translates to ‘the real place where value is created’. As a business concept, Gemba is most often used in lean process management, but has broad application in a variety of business contexts.
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
Forbes Green Tech
JULY 18, 2020
John Lewis' civil rights legacy helped shape a nation. He cared about climate change and the environment too.
GreenBiz
JULY 22, 2020
Paul Polman: 'Businesses cannot succeed in societies that fail'. Deonna Anderson. Wed, 07/22/2020 - 01:30. As people across the United States and the world grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic and calls for racial justice, the business community has an integral role to play in both the dialogue and the solutions to these social issues. Last week, former Unilever CEO Paul Polman urged business leaders to be courageous in their response.
Inhabitat - Innovation
JULY 21, 2020
The newly developed QuenchSea has potential to become a life-saving device.
DeSmogBlog
JULY 21, 2020
Read time: 28 mins The Three Percenters, a loosely organized group of far-right militants, appear to have established a significant presence in North Dakota’s Bakken oilfield, one of the most productive oilfields in the nation. “There is a lot of membership in the oil and gas industry up there,” says Matt Marshall, a Three Percenter running for state legislature in Washington.
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.
Forbes Green Tech
JULY 23, 2020
It’s official: in the first half of 2020, for the first time, Europe generated more electricity from renewable sources than from fossil fuels.
GreenBiz
JULY 20, 2020
Sustainability and the never-ending battle against burnout. Chris Gaither. Mon, 07/20/2020 - 01:04. I felt sure I’d put burnout in the past. I’d quit my high-stress job at Apple, started my own executive-coaching business and found balance in my life. Then, with shame burning my face, I had to cancel a GreenBiz workshop I was leading about how to take care of yourself.
Inhabitat - Innovation
JULY 22, 2020
Pentatonic, a circular economy company focused on removing single-use plastic products from the marketplace, partnered with acclaimed singer and outspoken opponent of single-use plastic Pharrell Williams to launch a portable dining kit made from recycled materials.
Solar Power World
JULY 21, 2020
The Greenest Contractor award celebrates the greenest contractors making their companies and communities as environmentally friendly as possible. It’s not enough to just install solar panels to be considered a green-minded company in 2020. Office operations, transport, equipment, materials, installation itself — everything can contribute to carbon production.
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.
Forbes Green Tech
JULY 24, 2020
The $5 billion XpressWest project will connect Southern California to Las Vegas with electric trains traveling up to 200 miles an hour.
GreenBiz
JULY 21, 2020
Apple embeds racial justice into new supply-chain carbon neutrality pledge. Heather Clancy. Tue, 07/21/2020 - 04:13. Apple already has ventured far beyond most other companies when it comes to pushing for climate action within its supply chain. . Consider that it has convinced more than 70 Apple suppliers to use renewable energy to produce products on its behalf , an effort funded in part by close to $5 billion in green bonds issued by the technology giant as well as a dedicated pool of money in
Inhabitat - Innovation
JULY 20, 2020
A recent publication in the journal Angewandte Chemie brings attention to an improved way of generating clean hydrogen. For many years, hydrogen production has proven costly to the environment, as industrial hydrogen production uses partial methane oxidation and fossil gasification.
Solar Power World
JULY 21, 2020
Solar permitting has been a stubborn soft cost for residential installers. The forms needed, time it takes to process them and cost of the applications vary widely from county to county and state to state. The National Renewable Energy Lab wants to standardize, digitize and speed up the process to help AHJs with the increasing… The post It’s time to move to instant online residential solar permitting appeared first on Solar Power World.
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?
Planet Pulse
JULY 23, 2020
We are thrilled to announce that Wendy Tan White has joined Planet’s Board of Directors, taking Google’s seat. With over 25 years of experience working in technology and investment, she brings extensive entrepreneurial experience and leadership to Planet as we grow our business in existing and new markets. Wendy is currently the Vice President at X, Alphabet’s moonshot factory of diverse investors and entrepreneurs aiming to improve lives through the development of breakthrough technologies. .
GreenBiz
JULY 22, 2020
What makes Al Gore hopeful: Tech innovation, science-based targets and the racial 'awakening'. Heather Clancy. Wed, 07/22/2020 - 02:00. Who is responsible for emissions? Where did they originate? How can we be sure? A global coalition fronted by former Vice President Al Gore promises granular insights and data into those sources — down to individual power plants, ships or factories.
Inhabitat - Innovation
JULY 20, 2020
It's a classroom, tool shop, design studio, gallery and community center all in one van!
Solar Power World
JULY 21, 2020
Derik Kendrick never expected to learn American Sign Language as a second language. In his past 20 years working in construction, he never knowingly worked alongside anyone who was deaf. But as co-owner of Plano, Texas, solar installation company Axium Solar (No. 60 on the 2020 Top Solar Contractors list), that all changed. An Axium… The post Texas contractor gives deaf installers opportunities to shine appeared first on Solar Power World.
GreenTechMedia
JULY 24, 2020
GreenBiz
JULY 24, 2020
Closed Loop Partners teams with Walmart, CVS, Target to take on the plastic bag. Deonna Anderson. Fri, 07/24/2020 - 01:15. Single-use plastic shopping bags are a real problem. They take decades to break down but nearly 100 billion of them are used in the United States every year to cart away goods from retailers. Fewer than 10 percent of those are recycled — often winding up in landfills and waterways because many recyclers don’t accept them.
Inhabitat - Innovation
JULY 24, 2020
Accumulated plastic waste in the ocean could reach the weight of 2 million blue whales.
Solar Power World
JULY 23, 2020
By Tanya M. Larrabee, attorney, Sherin and Lodgen The Department of Energy Resources (DOER) has finished the required Solar Massachusetts Renewable Target (SMART) Program 400-MW review and emergency rulemaking and published its final regulations. Several revisions and adjustments have been made to the final regulations, including expanding the availability of the COVID-19 extension to new applications… The post An explanation of the new SMART Program rules in Massachusetts appeared first o
GreenTechMedia
JULY 24, 2020
Rahul Kar is general manager and vice president for new energy at AutoGrid. *. The renewable energy industry is beginning to outgrow long-term power purchase agreements (PPA), and the trend is toward trading renewables shorter-term through wholesale markets participation. Long regarded as a crucial driver for institutional renewables adoption, a PPA provides offtakers with a hedge against risks from future energy fluctuations by entering into a stable 20-year contract for renewable power where t
GreenBiz
JULY 21, 2020
Verizon, NRG, Oliver Wyman share tips on TCFD scenario planning and reporting. Aaron Mok. Tue, 07/21/2020 - 00:30. More than 1,000 global leaders have implemented recommendations from the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosure as part of their climate action plans. But many organizations are still grappling with how, exactly, to do this.
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