Jim Conca
JULY 20, 2019
If you think we’re doing a good job of curbing fossil fuel use, you're mistaken. Oil production is exploding in America. Growth in coal in the developing world shows no sign of slowing, and gas has kicked into high gear most everywhere. Renewables are increasing slower. Nuclear and hydro are flat.
Grist
JULY 25, 2019
War (huh!) what is it good for? Certainly not the environment. From the U.S. dropping the herbicide agent orange on jungles in Vietnam to Saddam Hussein’s damming marshes in Iraq, human conflict has often involved the intentional infliction of wounds on both ecosystems and populations. And just as certain acts of violence against people are considered intolerable, a group of researchers has asked that a set of harms against the environment be designated as “war crimes.”.
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DeSmogBlog
JULY 25, 2019
Read time: 6 mins The oil industry in North Dakota and Montana — home to the prolific Bakken Shale Formation — faces an “impossible choice.” That's according to a new petition to federal regulators from the attorneys general of North Dakota and Montana, in response to a Washington state law that aims to prevent trains hauling oil through the state from derailing and exploding.
LA CleanTech Incubator
JULY 23, 2019
A five-passenger airplane took flight near Los Angeles recently with one important modification: an electric motor. The post Electric Airplanes Start to Take Off appeared first on LACI.
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.
Jim Conca
JULY 26, 2019
Ohio passed legislation to create subsidies to avoid the early shutdown of the state’s two nuclear power reactors. Which is good since nuclear generates over 90% of the state’s clean energy, its 600 MW of wind notwithstanding.
Grist
JULY 24, 2019
In yet another reminder that many of the very serious consequences of climate change are happening NOW, scientists say global warming may have given rise to its first new fungal disease — a multidrug-resistant species called Candida auris. The deadly menace, which was first identified in 2009, isn’t your typical fungus. It’s been likened to a ‘superbug’ not because it wears a cape, but because it has proved resistant to the main three classes of drug treatment.
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LA CleanTech Incubator
JULY 22, 2019
The roar of a jet engine, the vroom of a car, the vibration of a moving ship. These sounds and sensations, commonly associated with travel and motion, share a common source: fossil fuel-powered engines. The post By Air, Land and Sea, Travel is Electrifying appeared first on LACI.
Renewable Energy World
JULY 25, 2019
New York has signed the biggest-ever deals for offshore wind power in U.S. history, a key part of the state’s plan to get all of its power from emissions-free sources by 2040.
Grist
JULY 24, 2019
In Amityville, Pennsylvania, 10 acres of grapevines sprawl across the family-owned Manatawny Creek Winery. Owner Darvin Levengood is no stranger to vineyard pests. But he was met with calamity in the fall of 2017 when grape pickers were bombarded by swarms of a new invasive insect, the Spotted Lanternfly. Winery guests couldn’t drink on the open porch without finding the bug, and its “honeydew,” in their glass.
CleanTech Group
JULY 25, 2019
The dairy market has a value of $674 billion, based on revenue generated by milk products globally. This is expected to grow annually by 4.7% CAGR by 2023. Despite the positive outlook for market size, North American and European margins are low and milk prices are stagnant due to a production surplus. Attractiveness Regional regulatory changes […].
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
Ambisense
JULY 26, 2019
Last year’s Envirocon was a huge success and was very well received by those attending. This year’s conference will also be dedicated to new technology in the environmental monitoring sector, however, it will have a slightly different format. The morning session will be dedicated to presentations and speakers, and in the afternoon there will be . Continue reading "Envirocon 2019".
Renewable Energy World
JULY 22, 2019
Hanwha Q CELLS GmbH said it supplied its almost 15,000 solar modules to a large ground-mounted solar farm in western France.
Grist
JULY 26, 2019
Microbiology is totally having a moment right now. Research on personal “microbiomes” — the variable composition of trillions of bacteria and other microscopic organisms that live in and on every organ in our bodies — continues to churn out headline-worthy findings. A person’s microbiome composition has been linked to everything from athletic performance to obesity and neurological diseases like Parkinson’s.
CleanTech Group
JULY 24, 2019
Agriculture & Food: Joyn Bio announced a partnership with NewLeaf Symbiotics. Valued at $75 million, the deal will aim to bring forth a new microbe class that will benefit crop health and protection. Through this deal, Joyn Bio will gain access to NewLeaf’s library of proprietary, highly characterized strains of plant colonizing microbes. […].
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.
R-Squared Energy
JULY 25, 2019
There’s no question that over the past decade, the U.S. shale oil boom has had a tremendous impact on global oil markets. The surge of U.S. oil production broke OPEC’s hold on oil prices — at least temporarily. The Permian Basin is responsible for the greatest oil production gains in the U.S. in recent years. Over the past eight years, there has been phenomenal production growth in the Permian.
Fairsnape
JULY 24, 2019
With the construction materials sector exposed to significant transition and physical risk resulting from climate change, the Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change (IIGCC) recent paper, Investor Expectations of Companies in the Construction Materials Sector , outlines the steps that investors expect companies to take to manage climate risks and accelerate action to decarbonise in line with the goals of the Paris Agreement.
Grist
JULY 24, 2019
Natural gas has been touted as a green energy source by some because, when burned for fuel, it emits less CO2 than coal. But before that happens, leaks from across the natural gas supply chain — from the drilling process to gas stoves — can unintentionally vent methane into the atmosphere. That’s especially bad news, since methane is roughly 25 times more potent a greenhouse gas than CO2.
Renewable Energy World
JULY 23, 2019
Germany-based clean-energy fund Hep Kapitalverwaltung AG agreed to invest $50 million to $80 million annually in a partnership to develop small solar projects in the U.S.
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.
AFN Sustainable Protein
JULY 24, 2019
Plant-based meat still costs two-to-five times as much as its animal counterparts and solving this problem is far from an inevitability, writes Christie Lagally. The post The Plant-Based Meat Revolution is Not “Inevitable” appeared first on AgFunderNews.
Fairsnape
JULY 23, 2019
What is the collective noun for declarations? An argument, (used to describe architects and wizards) sounds a good fit. But I like a Promise of Declarations. Coupled with recent findings from the IPCC , the UK’s CCC Net Zero Report and inspiration from Greta Thunberg and school strikers, over 100 local authorities, have declared a climate emergency and / or committed to net zero carbon by 2030 or 2050.
U.S. Green Technology
JULY 25, 2019
Even just a few years ago, the trend to be more friendly to the planet was something that was considered more of a hobby. Not everyone was into it because the effects of man-made actions on the earth weren’t widely known to the general public. Now, being green is a commonly found lifestyle. Everyone wants. The post How We Can Test How “Climate-Proof” We Are appeared first on U.S.
Renewable Energy World
JULY 22, 2019
Fossil fuels, long regarded for their high-energy return on investment, are not as efficient as once thought. In fact, their final yields are not much better than those of renewable options, according to a new study.
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?
AFN Sustainable Protein
JULY 25, 2019
In the southern Polish city of Katowice last December, news coverage of the UN’s COP 24 meeting on climate change suddenly and dramatically surged, mostly thanks to a three-minute speech given by a Swedish teen activist with Asperger’s syndrome and the amplifying power of social media. “You say you love your children above all else,” declared 15-year-old Greta Thunberg to an audience of po-faced climate change negotiators: “And yet you are stealing their future in front of their very eyes.
Terra Infirma
JULY 26, 2019
And so it came to pass that Boris Johnson took up the position he craved as a young boy, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. As with any new leader, the Sustainability world will be scouring the tea leaves for signs of future direction. Initial impressions were more than a little meh. Johnson’s first speech only referenced climate change in relation to the opportunities to boost the UK’s battery technology sector.
Home Energy
JULY 26, 2019
How many people in your community are at risk during extreme weather events? The heat waves wracking the nation right now can cause heat exhaustion, heatstroke, dehydration, and even death. Last year over 90 people died in Quebec (over 50 in Montreal) due to a heat wave. And during Chicago’s.
Renewable Energy World
JULY 26, 2019
Saudi Arabia, the world’s biggest oil exporter, is poised to start generating wind power within three years as part of an effort to harness renewable energy to cut local demand for fossil fuels.
AFN Sustainable Protein
JULY 24, 2019
About the Author: Christie Lagally is the founder and CEO of Rebellyous Foods , a plant-based poultry startup based in Seattle, WA, that uses novel production methods designed for scale, cost-savings, and product quality. Lagally is a mechanical engineer with nearly 20 years of engineering experience and holds five patents in manufacturing technology. .
Terra Infirma
JULY 22, 2019
One line which is often trotted out by green activists, most recently by the rather wonderful Greta Thunberg , is “you can’t have economic growth in a finite world.” This sounds like a truism, but… Despite decades of theorising, nobody has yet developed a practical steady-state economic model. As soon as growth stalls, people, particularly the poor, start to suffer.
Clean Energy Trust
JULY 26, 2019
Amy Francetic, Managing Director of Energize Ventures We recently sat down with Amy Francetic, the Managing Director of Energize Ventures which closed a $165 million fund last year to invest in digital solutions for the energy industry. Prior to raising this fund, Amy was the founding CEO of Clean Energy Trust. Our conversation covered fundraising, venture investing outside silicon valley, trends in the sector, and beyond.
Renewable Energy World
JULY 25, 2019
Namibia’s state-run utility will build four plants powered by renewable energy over the next five years as the southern African nation seeks to guarantee local supplies and cut its use of fossil fuels.
AFN Sustainable Protein
JULY 24, 2019
Investor network FAIRR released its latest report this week analyzing how 25 major food companies are responding to what it views as an increase in consumer demand for plant-based protein. The companies making the most progressive steps to increase alternative protein offerings include Unilever, Tesco, Nestle, M&S, and Conagra, according to its findings, while Amazon (via Whole Foods) and Costco appear to be among the least proactive. .
EDF + Business
JULY 25, 2019
By Tom Neltner This is the fourth in a series evaluating the challenges in single-use food packaging waste. Recently, we recommended a series of steps that companies can take to address EDF’s top-ten list of chemicals of concern in the food supply, including setting new packaging specifications, verifying compliance, and tracking progress. Perhaps surprisingly, one action you haven’t seen us recommend – until now – is one of the key tenets of EDF’s Five Pillars of Safer Food Leadership : supply
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