The City Fix
JUNE 24, 2021
The global coronavirus pandemic brought a wave of public and private initiatives to help societies adapt and recover, from economic stabilization and safety measures to new business models and shifts in consumption. Many of these initiatives are not green, despite. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.
Living Green Technology
JUNE 21, 2021
What is Bitcoin's impact on the environment? If you've been reading the news, you've probably heard all sorts of doom-and-gloom rhetoric. What if the truth is far different? We sat down with Vijay Boyapati , the author of The Bullish Case for Bitcoin and a former Google engineer, to explore the ways in which Bitcoin positively impacts the environment and resolve the various misconceptions surrounding the cryptocurrency.
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Envirotec Magazine
JUNE 24, 2021
According to Bloomberg, January 2021 saw the latest in a series of near misses for the European power grid, a sudden drop in frequency and narrowly avoided widespread power failure. Increasing reliance on renewable energy sources — while essential to lower CO2 emissions — also leads to a fluctuating energy supply. Here, Jurgen Resch, Energy and Infrastructure Industry Manager at COPA-DATA, a firm specialising in software for monitoring and control, investigates why stable renewable grid integrat
Jim Conca
JUNE 22, 2021
On May 8th, the Columbia Generating Station, the only nuclear power plant in the Pacific Northwest, disconnected from the grid for its biannual refueling. It refueled and connected back to the grid only 42 days later. Just in time for summer’s increased electricity demand.
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
JUNE 24, 2021
Is ESG harmonization and convergence finally coming? Aman Singh. Thu, 06/24/2021 - 09:54. Reprinted from GreenFin Weekly, a free weekly newsletter. Subscribe here. Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives passed legislation that would require public companies to report environmental, social and governance (ESG) metrics. The disclosure would be broad as well as dictate specific reporting expectations on climate risks, political spending, CEO pay and taxation rates.
Inhabitat - Innovation
JUNE 25, 2021
The Kept Animals bill, which is expected to pass later this year, seeks to protect captive animals from unnatural treatment.
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altenergymag
JUNE 21, 2021
Participation will help Sunstone achieve its goal to expand into new markets and develop new products that provide digital infrastructure in remote locations
GreenBiz
JUNE 23, 2021
Making reverse logistics circular requires forward thinking. Heather Clancy. Wed, 06/23/2021 - 01:30. It’s difficult for manufacturers to give a product a second or third life if they’re not returned. And as any company building a circular economy strategy knows, building an effective reverse logistics strategy takes plenty of upfront planning and close collaboration across a value chain — whether the good in question is a consumer product or one used in a commercial setting.
Inhabitat - Innovation
JUNE 25, 2021
How many tubes of toothpaste do you think you've used and tossed in your life?
Envirotec Magazine
JUNE 22, 2021
Image credit: David McKelvey , CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 license. Academics and experts at The University of Manchester are calling for large-scale behavioural change in a bid to improve the UK’s air quality (“the biggest environmental health issue facing the UK”), in a new publication, On Air Quality. The report was published on 17 June to coincide with Clean Air Day, an initiative aiming to bring together communities, businesses, schools and the health sector to improve public understa
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
altenergymag
JUNE 25, 2021
Using impact indicators and tilt sensors on packages enables companies to constantly check up on their items to make sure they're still in top condition.
GreenBiz
JUNE 21, 2021
Ethics, Compliance and Risk: Creating a Shared ESG Vision. Date/Time: July 20, 2021 (1-2PM ET / 10-11AM PT). Sustainability has long been a practice for many forward-thinking businesses. But a renewed focus on environmental, social and governance (ESG) issues from investors, employees, customers and regulators has driven corporate ethics and compliance (E&C) groups to become more involved in sustainability and ESG programs.
Inhabitat - Innovation
JUNE 25, 2021
A new U.S. government study shows that the cost to maintain electric vehicles is much cheaper than maintaining conventional gas and even hybrid vehicles.
Green Business Bureau
JUNE 23, 2021
The Playbook for Becoming a Sustainable Business. If your company is working toward improving its sustainability performance, you need a strategy, plan and roadmap. There are ten steps we’ve defined at Green Business Bureau to gear your company’s purpose, culture, focus and actions towards sustainability. All 10 steps below were summarized in the first article, The Executive Guide for Becoming a Sustainable Business : Step 1: Define your vision, mission and values.
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.
Grist
JUNE 25, 2021
A draft version of an upcoming report from the United Nations climate science advisory body, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, scheduled for release in February 2022, was leaked this week to Agence France-Presse. It illustrates the existential risks posed by climate change to life on earth — and climate tipping points loom large. Climate tipping points are the phenomenon by which small increases in temperature can trigger self-perpetuating loops in the natural world, “tipping”
GreenBiz
JUNE 22, 2021
Measure What Matters: Corporate Sustainability and its Impact on Business Strategies. Date/Time: July 15, 2021 (1-2PM ET / 10-11AM PT). Join experts from data, benchmarking, and advisory services firm ISS Corporate Solutions for a discussion about ESG materiality and the positive impact it can have across your company's sustainability goals. Topics include: How corporations can efficiently leverage ESG rater data to benchmark and inform engagement strategy with shareholders and other stakeholder
Inhabitat - Innovation
JUNE 22, 2021
This year, several states have witnessed persistent scorching temperatures that cannot pass for the normal summer heat.
Green Living Guy
JUNE 22, 2021
So I love the ID.4. For it is Volkswagen’s first all-electric SUV and the brand’s first global EV. Built on Volkswagen’s MEB electric vehicle architecture—the modular electric drive matrix—it marries the strengths of a purpose-built EV with performance, packaging and… Read More Test Drive Results VW ID4 Electric Car. The post Test Drive Results VW ID4 Electric Car appeared first on Green Living Guy.
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.
Charged
JUNE 23, 2021
Every company, in or out of the EV industry, seems to be want to build Gigafactories these days. Aspiring EV manufacturer Canoo is pursuing a different strategy, or at least a different terminology. The company plans to rely on several “mega microfactories,” and has now announced that the first will be built near Tulsa, Oklahoma. The company says it will establish a 400-acre campus at an industrial complex strategically located near some of the region’s busiest thoroughfares.
GreenBiz
JUNE 25, 2021
Episode 274: The nuances of net zero. GreenBiz Editors. Fri, 06/25/2021 - 02:00. Week in Review (2:55). Why the world needs better climate pledges. Accelerating sustainability's digital revolution. Net zero meets green finance (14:25). Investors, banks and other members of the global financial community are aligning around net-zero investment priorities, but what does it mean in the short term?
Inhabitat - Innovation
JUNE 24, 2021
Acts of environmental degradation could soon be classified as international criminal offenses.
Green Business Bureau
JUNE 25, 2021
A member of the Shutterfly Inc. family, BorrowLenses , is an online camera rental giant with small business-style customer service. Their mission is to advance the photographic and cinematic dreams of their customers by delivering superior, cutting-edge gear through their stress-free rental process. Rent, shoot, return – it’s as easy as that! Customers can choose the gear they want, when they want to receive it and for how long they want to rent it for.
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?
Charged
JUNE 21, 2021
To celebrate its 100th anniversary next year, Ford’s luxury brand Lincoln will debut its first global fully electric vehicle, the first step in a plan to electrify its entire portfolio of vehicles by 2030. Lincoln expects half its global volume to be zero-emissions vehicles by 2025. Ford has announced investment of $30 billion in electrification by that date.
altenergymag
JUNE 21, 2021
“Fiercely” cost-effective, innovative designs eliminate catastrophic breakdowns, production downtime by upgrading points of vulnerability.
Inhabitat - Innovation
JUNE 25, 2021
Sun umbrellas are an ubiquitous scene on coastal beaches, offering shade from the blistering sun. So it makes sense that the same umbrella could be adorned with solar panels and allowed to collect the sun’s energy in order to provide a cooling result.
The City Fix
JUNE 21, 2021
The residents of Rosario, Argentina’s third-largest city, are no strangers to crises. When the country’s economy collapsed in 2001, a quarter of Rosario’s workforce was suddenly unemployed; more than half of its population dropped below the poverty line. Faced with. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.
Charged
JUNE 25, 2021
Five years ago, Alexander Dennis (ADL), a subsidiary of global bus manufacturer NFI Group, formed a partnership with BYD UK to build electric buses, using BYD’s battery-electric driveline technology and ADL’s British-built, customizable bodies. There are now over 400 BYD ADL electric buses operating in London alone, and another 300 vehicles are on order.
Impact Alpha
JUNE 21, 2021
ImpactAlpha, June 21 – All of a sudden, there is a public market for public benefit corporations. In the decade or so since the. The post A stock market test for stakeholder capitalism as public benefit corporations go public appeared first on Impact Alpha.
Inhabitat - Innovation
JUNE 23, 2021
The Save the Tasmanian Devils Program has had some negative consequences on Maria Island.
altenergymag
JUNE 23, 2021
Highview Power announced that Maria Elena Ruiz Paños will join the company as Head of Legal, effective July 1, 2021.
Renewable Energy World
JUNE 23, 2021
By Bill Ireland, Logan Energy. This year’s COP26 summit is widely viewed as one of the last chances to fulfil the 2015 Paris climate agreement and ensure meaningful progress is made towards tackling our net zero targets and the climate emergency. Hydrogen is one of the energy solutions that can significantly address climate change and has a vital role to play in decarbonization.
Impact Alpha
JUNE 23, 2021
ImpactAlpha, June 23 — Arlan Hamilton created Backstage Capital in 2015 to back “underestimated” founders and unlock value (see, “Arlan Hamilton, Backstage Capital”). The post Backstage Capital portfolio companies raise follow-on investments appeared first on Impact Alpha.
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