GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 28, 2020
To achieve net-zero, let’s agree on one definition of success. Peter Boyd. Mon, 09/28/2020 - 01:30. Reaching the 2015 Paris Agreement goals requires bold action from all sectors and levels of our society. But any chief sustainability officer will fall short of their responsibility if they simply cite net-zero as a strategic goal. High ambition on its own may sound good.
U.S. Green Technology
SEPTEMBER 28, 2020
As October, Energy Awareness Month, approaches, perhaps it’s a good time to interrogate your knowledge of energy sourcing. You use energy in its various forms every day, but what do you know about where it comes from and how your energy consumption affects the planet? With discourse around climate change becoming increasingly mainstream, you’ve no.
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Jim Conca
SEPTEMBER 30, 2020
There is more than one reason that we need to reforest Planet Earth, even if you don’t care about climate change. But doing it by hand is too slow. So Flash Forest out of Canada developed drone technology and aerial mapping software, led by ecological science, to reforest areas at 100 times the pace.
Envirotec Magazine
OCTOBER 2, 2020
A new study by an international team of environmental scientists in the Brazilian Amazon appears to show that redesigned conservation projects could deliver big gains for critical freshwater ecosystems – raising hopes for the futures of thousands of species. Although it occupies less than 1% of the Earth’s surface, freshwater hosts around 10% of all known species – including a third of all vertebrates.
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
OCTOBER 2, 2020
A closed loop fashion system requires scaling solutions now, not later. Deonna Anderson. Fri, 10/02/2020 - 01:00. The fashion industry is damaging to the planet — it's responsible for 10 percent of the world's carbon emissions. But there are companies — both large and small — trying to solve this problem. Back in 2017, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation tapped on large brands such as Burberry, Gap and H&M to make fashion circular — ensuring that clothes are made from safe and renewable materials, e
Inhabitat - Innovation
SEPTEMBER 30, 2020
New research reveals a super-enzyme that breaks down plastic six times faster than previously engineered plastic-eating enzymes.
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GreenTechMedia
OCTOBER 1, 2020
The trend toward ever-more-colossal turbines is not only cutting the cost of wind energy but could also deliver another important benefit: fewer bird deaths. Although there are multiple, complex factors behind wind farm-related bird mortality, one key feature of current collision models is the swept-area ratio: the proportion of an at-risk area that is occupied by wind turbine blades.
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 29, 2020
The climate crisis needs climate leadership from businesses now. Maria Mendiluce. Tue, 09/29/2020 - 01:00. As the world grapples with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, racial inequality and more, the impacts of climate change cannot be ignored. Most weeks bring fresh headlines of wildfires, droughts and rapidly melting ice caps. They’re a reminder that climate action cannot wait for calmer times. .
Inhabitat - Innovation
OCTOBER 2, 2020
Greenland's massive ice sheet is melting at a rate faster than experienced in the past 12,000 years, according to a new study in Nature. Published on Wednesday, the study, dubbed "Greenland Ice Sheet Will Exceed Holocene Values this Century," revealed that Greenland is already losing ice at a rate four times faster than any period in the past 11,700 years.
Envirotec Magazine
SEPTEMBER 28, 2020
· VAT on labour-intensive activities can make repairing broken items too expensive, frustrating consumers who want to avoid waste. · Once the UK is no longer subject to EU VAT rules, it will have the power to zero-rate VAT on repairs. · As well as preventing waste, this would satisfy public demand, stimulate the economy and help to create 34,000 new jobs in the repair sector and 346,000 new jobs in remanufacturing.
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
GreenTechMedia
SEPTEMBER 29, 2020
Europe must not repeat the same mistakes it made with solar manufacturing in the emerging hydrogen sector, the executive director of the International Energy Agency (IEA) has warned. A string of European research institutes and pioneering companies developed much of the technology still in use in PV panels today. But as solar began to scale in multiple international markets, coordinated national and regional support allowed Chinese manufacturers to steal a march on their rivals.
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 29, 2020
This is the moment to reimagine public transportation. Amanda Eaken. Tue, 09/29/2020 - 00:21. Back in April, the city of Seattle temporarily closed off nearly 20 miles of streets to most vehicular traffic in order to let residents bike, walk, jog and skate at a safe social distance during the height of the city’s COVID-19 pandemic. Seattle’s Stay Healthy Streets program was designed to encourage people to travel to essential services and small local businesses — or just to get outside for exerci
Inhabitat - Innovation
OCTOBER 2, 2020
This off-grid cabin is a peaceful place for a former business executive to pen poetry.
Envirotec Magazine
OCTOBER 2, 2020
England’s water and sewerage companies have received something of a mixed review in terms of environmental performance in the Environment Agency’s recent annual report on the topic , released on 2 October. The report said the number of serious water quality pollution incidents from water company sewerage and clean water assets had “plateaued”, with a slight improvement (52 incidents compared to 56 in 2018).
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.
GreenTechMedia
OCTOBER 2, 2020
A clutch of wave power developers is hoping to shake off the technology’s forever-round-the-corner reputation with commercial-scale arrays that could be in the water next year. AW-Energy, a Finnish developer, is looking to deliver a commercial product called the WaveRoller in 2021. And CorPower Ocean, based in Sweden, is looking to test a commercial-scale system in the second half of next year, with a view to getting certified and warrantied wave energy converters onto the market by 2024.
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 1, 2020
Amazon, Google, Microsoft and the climate cloud. Heather Clancy. Thu, 10/01/2020 - 01:30. Despite all they're doing to address climate change with both emissions reduction plans, circular economy innovation and consumer awareness, Amazon, Google and Microsoft have been criticized — rightly so, in my mind — for their close ties to the oil and gas sector.
Inhabitat - Innovation
SEPTEMBER 30, 2020
In a bid to sustainably create more inclusive and connective space in Mexico City, local architecture practice BAAQ’ has rehabilitated Dr. Atl 285, an industrial building from the 1960s.
Envirotec Magazine
SEPTEMBER 28, 2020
Four women were announced in late September as the winners of C40’s 2nd Women4Climate Tech Challenge 2020. The winners were: Lorena Gordillo Dagallier from Cambridge (UK) who successfully pitched her initiative “open-seneca”- a mobile air quality sensor network that will be installed throughout the city alongside educational workshops. Anai Green from Tel Aviv-Yafo who impressed the judging panel with her innovative fabric “Lumiweave” which offers a shade function at the same time as permitting
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.
GreenTechMedia
SEPTEMBER 30, 2020
Duke Energy will build its first floating solar array at Fort Bragg, a U.S. Army base in North Carolina, the company said on Wednesday. It’s the largest such project ever announced in the Southeast, according to Wood Mackenzie. The $36 million contract between Duke and Fort Bragg is designed to boost resilience and includes lighting and water upgrades, plus a 2 megawatt storage system tacked onto the solar project.
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 30, 2020
Embedding Social and Environmental Benefits in Renewable Energy. Renewable energy deployments are on the rise. The U.S. alone is expected to add 132 to 157GW of new renewable energy capacity in the next five years. How and where that renewable energy is deployed can drive radically different outcomes — with the potential to maximize positive impact for a range of stakeholders or limit benefits to just a few. .
Inhabitat - Innovation
OCTOBER 1, 2020
If certain plant species are to be lost, it could significantly affect the state of life on Earth as we know it.
altenergymag
SEPTEMBER 29, 2020
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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?
GreenTechMedia
OCTOBER 1, 2020
The severe wildfire smoke that cast an orange glow over sections of the West Coast this summer also curtailed the productivity of solar panels in California. Newly released analysis from the Energy Information Administration and the California Independent System Operator shows particulate matter from fires sparked in August and early September blotted out the Sun enough to cause quantifiable differences in solar output.
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 2, 2020
Get ready for the next wave of GMOs. Jim Giles. Fri, 10/02/2020 - 02:00. One summer day almost 20 years ago, a group of protestors arrived at a plot of genetically modified corn growing near the town of Montelimar in southern France. They were led by José Bové , a left-wing activist famous for his skirmishes with the law and his tremendous moustache.
Inhabitat - Innovation
SEPTEMBER 29, 2020
A new island destination is in the works in Malaysia, and it's set to put the spotlight on sustainable development.
altenergymag
SEPTEMBER 29, 2020
Data Analytics Solutions Provider Increases Electriq Power’s Capabilities for Virtual Power Plants
GreenTechMedia
SEPTEMBER 30, 2020
California has more distributed energy resources than any other state, pressuring it to find ways to integrate them into the grid. The interconnection rules that tell developers of rooftop solar, behind-the-meter batteries and electric vehicle chargers how much time and money they’ll need to spend to get them grid-connected — or whether they’re even allowed — are a big part of that integration puzzle.
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 2, 2020
7 roles to create sustainable success. Ellen Weinreb. Fri, 10/02/2020 - 00:30. There is a lot of talk right now about systems change, and for good reason: With so many people experiencing the effects of several major crises — the pandemic, the recession, racism and the ongoing climate crisis — we have a narrow window of opportunity for change. As they say, a crisis is a terrible thing to waste.
Inhabitat - Innovation
SEPTEMBER 29, 2020
They have become the first plant species in California to be granted protection from climate change.
altenergymag
SEPTEMBER 28, 2020
As part of the agreement, ReneSola Power and Vodasun will create a 50/50 joint venture company with a starting project portfolio of 50 to 100 MW. The JV intends to develop these projects, as well as develop an additional 50 to 100 MW of new projects per year.
U.S. Green Technology
SEPTEMBER 27, 2020
If you’re reading as a business owner, we’re glad to have you here. In today’s time, every business owner is looking for unique ways through which they can save money and earn lots of profit. However, when it comes to standing out in a large crowd, you need to do something different. Have you ever. The post 4 Reasons Your Business Needs a Commercial Trash Compactor appeared first on U.S.
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 2, 2020
Episode 239: Wildfires and resilience, California's car ban. Heather Clancy. Fri, 10/02/2020 - 02:00. Week in Review. Stories discussed this week (5:15). 5 things to know about California’s gas car sales ban. Cities should track emissions from the goods they import. Missing ingredients: How to accelerate the meat alternatives revolution. Features. Riffing on transportation trends (11:30) .
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