GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 3, 2019

For the first time, Pacific Northwest and Rocky Mountain utility PacifiCorp is planning to rely on massive amounts of solar PV and batteries, as well as wind power, for a large share of its long-term energy needs. The company also wants to shut down economically struggling coal plants years earlier than scheduled. These are some of the highlights from PacifiCorp’s draft integrated resource plan fil ed on Thursday, laying out its investment targets through 2038.

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Solar Power World

OCTOBER 3, 2019

A new study prepared by the EDR Group at the request of Essential Energy Everyday and Battery Council International (BCI) shows that the lead-acid battery industry is thriving. The study, “Economic Contribution of the U.S. Lead Battery Industry,” found that the lead battery industry reported nearly 25,000 direct jobs across 38 states and 92,000 total jobs when factoring… The post U.S. lead battery industry has $26.3 billion annual economic impact appeared first on Solar Power

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Forbes Green Tech

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Electric vehicles have numbered very few in global terms, but investment, innovation and necessity have brought us to where they may finally have found traction.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Products made from embedded CO2, from soap to fuels to vodka, are great examples of the circular economy in action.

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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.

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CleanTechnica

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Australia is the epicenter of a race between renewable hydrogen and coal to push natural gas out of the powerful global ammonia market.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 3, 2019

The first pilot of BunkerTrace , a system that combines synthetic DNA tracers and blockchain to manage risk for marine fuels by creating a transparent chain of custody, was successfully completed on 2 October. The Boskalis-owned dredger, Prins der Nederlanden was bunkered with 900 cubic meters (CBM) of ISO 8217:2010 compliant fuel supplied by Minerva (a marine fuels services firm) with a unique tracer added.

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Eco-Business

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

What will buildings and cities of the future look like in the face of global megatrends like climate change? Eco-Business gazes into the crystal ball with industry experts at the recent International Built Environment Week in Singapore.

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Jim Conca

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

US and Canada entered into an agreement on nuclear power cooperation to collaborate on advancing new nuclear reactor designs, especially small modular reactors. This follows recent previous agreements with Canada, Japan, Russia, South Africa, the United Arab Emirates, Poland, Argentina and Romania.

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CleanTechnica

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

As I've followed the reveal of Canoo this week, it's something that's coming out of left field for most of us. Like WALL-E when he found the spork, automotive journalists just aren't sure which box Canoo fits into, if any. What nobody's pointing out so far is that we've been here before, and vehicles like this could prove to disrupt industries far outside of the automotive world when combined with autonomous technology.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Around the time that Hurricane Florence was battering North Carolina with record rainfall last year, scientists published research indicating climate change widened the storm’s diameter and increased rainfall by 50 percent in some areas. More broadly, climate change means storms and hurricanes bring more rain, higher intensity and likely a slower pace — plopping down and wreaking havoc on impacted areas for longer, researchers say.

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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

Charged

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Airport ground support equipment – fuel trucks, tugs, container loaders, catering vehicles, etc – is a prime candidate for electrification, and New York’s John F. Kennedy International Airport has taken a major step in this direction. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo recently announced a switch to electric ground service equipment at JFK’s Terminal 5.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Planning for a future with driver-less vehicles should start now.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

OCTOBER 4, 2019

After years of trials that left its engineers scratching their heads over design challenges, the nonprofit’s newest prototype device has consistently collected plastic waste from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 2, 2019

The case for using human-centered design to deliver the Sustainable Development Goals.

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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.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 3, 2019

The environmental team at engineering consultancy Idom Merebrook Ltd (IDOM) has been appointed by the City of London to work on a project assessing the air quality of Epping Forest – the largest public open space in the London area, and a site of national and international conservation importance. Epping Forest is a 2400-hectare stretch of ancient woodland between London and Essex; it is made up of more than 50 areas of woodland, grassland, bridleway, recreational space and is home to over

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 1, 2019

GE has won another huge deal for its 12-megawatt Haliade-X offshore turbine, this time for the 3.6-gigawatt Dogger Bank trio of projects in the U.K. The project's co-developers, Equinor and SSE Renewables, named the technology their preferred choice, with the final investment decision due next year. Dogger Bank is set to become the world's largest offshore wind farm as it comes online from 2023-25 within the U.K.'s portion of the North Sea, starting about 130 kilometers (81 miles) fr

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Inhabitat - Innovation

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Some doctors are prescribing gardening as a form of ecotherapy.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 2, 2019

What’s at stake: the future of farming.

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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.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 4, 2019

The number of fires in the Amazon in September decreased compared to the same period last year, according to the latest data from the Brazilian National Institute for Space Research (INPE). But the crisis is far from over: while the temporary reduction in the number of fires can be attributed to Brazil’s firefighting response, deforestation continues to mount in preparation for more fires.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Wind speeds off the cost of Humboldt County, northern California, are some of the strongest in the U.S. The region's steady gusts are so good, in fact, that the area was one of three potential offshore wind energy development zones in California included by the federal Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM) in a public pitch to developers last year.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Researchers from the University Medical Centre (UMC) Utrecht recently announced that cells exposed to microplastics experience cell death three times faster than those that are not. With microplastic pollution everywhere, the findings are sobering.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 4, 2019

The mining industry has work to do to ensure that communities and workers are safe from pollution and injury.

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Pollution 355

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?

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Restaurants and the wider foodservice sector must act now to cash in on the potential rewards presented by fats, oils and grease (FOG), rather than face the risk of an expensive prosecution and clean-up operation for blocking the sewers, according to the Sustainable Restaurant Association (SRA) and engineering firm Kingspan Water & Energy. The two published a toolkit on 3 October “designed to help operators say goodbye to fatbergs and hello to pay-back on their waste.” Seven out

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

The as-a-service model, in which capital intensive costs are spread out over the useful life of the product or offering, has become commonplace. The best example is software-as-a-service (SaaS), now the preeminent way to acquire and use personal and enterprise software. This model replaced a more capital intensive approach of businesses buying their own computing infrastructure, purchasing and updating these servers with new versions of their applications, and spending significant amounts of mon

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Inhabitat - Innovation

OCTOBER 2, 2019

Alder Creek, a 530-acre forest billed as the largest privately-owned giant sequoia property, will be acquired by century-old conservation group, Save the Redwoods League. The group will ultimately transfer the land to the United States Forest Service to safeguard the trees as a national treasure.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

Now it's time to put in the work.

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Climate change 348

Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 4, 2019

The Enigma3hyQ logger in situ. A project jointly undertaken by Anglian Water and leak detection expert Primayer has seemingly seen leakage reduction of 1.4 million litres of water per day in targeted areas. Primayer’s managing director Roger Ironmonger explains “how new technology and close collaboration led to the fantastic results.” Leakage remains one of the biggest concerns for the water industry – in the UK about 20% of water supplied is lost through leaks.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Bob Dudley will retire next year after a 40-year career at BP, and on Friday the oil and gas supermajor named his successor as CEO. Bernard Looney, currently head of BP's upstream business, will take over the hot seat in early 2020. What does Looney's appointment say about the company's direction of travel? “Our company has amazing people, tremendous assets and a set of core values that guide our actions, but most of all we have a desire to be better," Looney, a native of the R

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Inhabitat - Innovation

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

The next time you are craving tea, choose the paper teabag or loose-leaf tea in a reusable infuser — just steer clear of the plastic teabag.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 28, 2019

Where food prices are 35 percent higher than the US mainland average, community members do what they can to address food insecurity.

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Agriculture 339

DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Read time: 7 mins For the fifth week since the blowout began , a large flare is still burning at the site of GEP Haynesville, LLC ’s blown out fracked gas wells in northwestern Louisiana. The blowout occurred on August 30, shortly after the company began a frack job, igniting two adjacent wells. A state official estimated that efforts to contain the blowout could take another two months, or more.

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Grist

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Well, folks, there’s a first time for everything — the Ocean Cleanup project has successfully deployed a device that collects plastic pollution. Our ocean cleanup system is now finally catching plastic, from one-ton ghost nets to tiny microplastics! Also, anyone missing a wheel? pic.twitter.com/Oq0rkXO3TH. — Boyan Slat (@BoyanSlat) October 2, 2019.

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