Grist

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Slim pine trunks stacked in a mound loomed over my head, curving around me in a partial circle like a dam built by Brontosaurus-sized beavers. I’d followed a long unmarked dirt road earlier this year to see it: One of 48 wood piles in a 12 square-mile section of the Tahoe National Forest outside the town of Truckee in northern California. You can find similar scenes across the western United States, anywhere work crews are clearing brush and small trees from forests.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

It's a game changer, but it won't be easy.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

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CleanTech Alliance

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Source: Delta.com, September 17, 2019 As part of its ongoing commitment to sustainability, Delta Air Lines is investing $2 million to partner with Northwest Advanced Bio-fuels, LLC for the feasibility study of a biofuel production facility to produce sustainable aviation fuel and other biofuel products. The sustainable aviation fuel, expected to be produced in a facility […].

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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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Grist

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

This story was originally published by WIRED and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Humans unleash mountains of plastic into the sea each year, and that rate is only accelerating as plastic production grows around the world. The confounding bit is that scientists know little about where all that plastic is ending up — in gyres like the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, yes, but that’s just a fraction of the debris released into the ocean each year.

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U.S. Green Technology

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

There was a time, now long behind us, when companies could engage in wasteful and short-sighted practices as a matter of course, without the public being any the wiser. Fast-forward to today, however, and it’s extremely difficult to brush aside ethical and environmental responsibility. To put it another way, companies need to clean up their. The post How Companies Can Green Their Shipping appeared first on U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

California has passed its first-ever subsidy aimed specifically at bringing more distributed solar and energy storage to people at highest risk of having their power shut off by utilities trying to prevent wildfires. The California Public Utilities Commission approved changes ( PDF ) late last week to the Self-Generation Incentive Program, the state’s premiere behind-the-meter battery incentive program.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Colorado and California are rethinking water management for a hotter, drier future, while balancing urban water needs with the benefits agriculture brings to rural communities.

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CleanTechnica

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

Covering solar power, wind power, and electric vehicles obsessively for ~10 years, I have run across some fascinating observations regarding these technologies and the transitions we are going through — and then I've subsequently forgotten many of them. This article is centered around one of the coolest observations I've run across, which slipped my mind for a while but just came back to the forefront this week.

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CleanTechnica

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Climate change is a feminist issue. Or really, to be more specific, climate change is an issue of patriarchy, racism, and exploitation. And if feminists care about these things, then we really need to care about climate change.

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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

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2019

Read time: 6 mins This story is part of Covering Climate Now, a global collaboration of more than 250 news outlets to strengthen coverage of the climate story. . “ Freak yachting accidents do happen…”. That was how British businessman, Trump ally, and Brexit bankroller Arron Banks responded to the news that Greta Thunberg, the Swedish teen who inspired the school climate strikes movement, was sailing to America to attend the UN Climate Action Summit.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

The Terraton Initiative sets its sights on the "most actionable, immediate, and affordable thing we can do to impact climate change.".

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Jim Conca

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Three Mile Island Nuclear Station shut down after generating over 240 billion kWhs over 40 years because the state refused to provide a penny/kWh subsidy, less than half of what renewables get in subsidies, even though renewables generate a fraction of the low-C electricity that nuclear does.

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Electricity 307

Inhabitat - Innovation

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Located in the idyllic area of Diamante Valley, the House Without Shoes is an incredible rammed-earth complex made up of three interconnected domes, which are joined by an open-air deck that looks out over the stunning valley and ocean views.

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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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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Fueled by public policy and declining battery costs, global electric bus adoption is set to triple by 2025. The Chinese market — the most promising in this sector — will surpass the 1 million e-bus mark by 2023 and reach 1.3 million by 2025, according to a new report on the e-bus landscape from Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables. China dominates the heavy-duty electric vehicle (EV) segment, accounting for 98 percent of the global e-bus market through 2018.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Its new 1.6-gigawatt solar and wind portfolio represents almost as much capacity as all of last year's corporate deals, combined.

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Jim Conca

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

Countries in Europe and the U.S. agree climate change is happening, but don’t really believe it will dramatically impact their lives. The rest of the world feels the opposite, especially in the East and Middle East. Of course, these latter countries are the least able to deal with those changes.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

In a move that has environmentalists cheering, Ireland recently overhauled its waste sector by announcing a ban on single-use plastics.

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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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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

I just had a solar-plus-storage system installed at my new home in Tempe, Arizona. It was surprisingly complicated, and I research distributed solar for a living. Don’t get me wrong — I love our new system and take immense pride in all the carbon-free energy it will produce for us and the grid. But as my husband and I read through multiple project proposals, we were surprised by the lack of information that installers could give us about the value of a solar-plus-storage project.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

The organizers are striving to build a platform where virtually anyone can share ideas and best practices about urban design, workforce development, manufacturing, food production and more.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

The GasMix system is ground-mounted and fitted to the outside of an AD tank. The anaerobic digestion of sludge for energy generation is a process whose efficiency depends to a great extent on the degree to which the solids in question can be thoroughly mixed. All kinds of tank configurations and mixing approaches are in use, but these vary across a spectrum of sophistication and efficiency.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

The world’s largest retailer-owned hardware cooperative, Ace Hardware, is becoming more “bee-friendly” by phasing out inventory products associated with neonicotinoid pesticides.

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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?

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

The first big orders for GE’s groundbreaking 12-megawatt Haliade-X offshore wind turbine have come from the industrial giant's home country, with developer Orsted planning to deploy more than 1,200 megawatts of the GE machines in U.S. waters between 2022 and 2024. GE on Thursday announced it has secured “preferred turbine supplier” status for Orsted’s 120-megawatt Skipjack and 1,100-megawatt Ocean Wind projects, scheduled for completion off Maryland and New Jersey in

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

The U.N. suggests that adding 2.5 billion acres of forest to the world could limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius by 2050. But some researchers aren't so sure.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

A one-day conference on 25 September will explore the range of practical techniques available to help with odour management. Taking place in Leeds, the event is being organised by Aqua Enviro and will cover evaluation, management, treatment and control. Odour is the main source of complaints to the EA as well as being the key cause of dispute between site owners/operators and their neighbours.

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Agriculture 140

Inhabitat - Innovation

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

For decades, scientists have closely observed the ozone layer, which protects Earth from the sun's harmful ultraviolet (UV) radiation. This year, just in time for World Ozone Day, the European Union's Copernicus Atmosphere Monitoring Service (CAMS) announced the state of the ozone hole — its size is the smallest it has been in the past 30 years.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

There will be at least 2.4 gigawatts of floating solar installed globally by the end of 2019, according to Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables. Although floating solar systems typically involve higher costs than traditional ground-mount arrays, project sizes are increasing, which will bring costs down. According to new research , the global average project size of floating solar projects has been climbing steadily since 2015 and is expected to continue rising.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

For the media, climate change is morphing from a controversy to a crisis.

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Climate change 335

Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Traffic in Edinburgh: The review said reducing personal private vehicle use was “a priority” Late August saw the publication of an independent review of Scotland’s 2015 clean air strategy, and current progress in achieving its aims, which concluded that the country “is generally performing quite well by EU and global comparison”, with pollution levels continuing to fall in-line with EU norms.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Find out how banana leaves can be transformed into a sturdy, durable alternative to single-use plastic.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

A deal to buy insolvent German wind-power manufacturer Senvion’s service business would help Siemens Gamesa catch up to rival Vestas in this increasingly important part of the market, a Wood Mackenzie analyst says. Senvion this week confirmed it's in exclusive talks with Siemens Gamesa to sell parts of its service business and other “selected onshore assets.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Reducing China’s reliance on coal energy is an enormous long-term shift. But it looks like that might change.

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