GreenBiz

JULY 30, 2020

AI doesn’t have to be a power hog. Heather Clancy. Thu, 07/30/2020 - 02:15. Plenty of prognostications, including this one from the World Economic Forum, tout the integral role artificial intelligence could play in "saving the planet." . Indeed, AI is integral to all manner of technologies, ranging from autonomous vehicles to more informed disaster response systems to smart buildings and data collection networks monitoring everything from energy consumption to deforestation. .

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U.S. Green Technology

JULY 30, 2020

Installing solar panels on a residential or commercial scale can be a worthwhile investment. Solar energy is extremely cost-effective and can significantly cut down on your utility bills. What type of roofing is best, though? Thankfully, solar panels are extremely versatile. No one kind of roof is better than others, as they can be mounted. The post What Type of Roofing Should You Have for Solar Panels?

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 28, 2020

Jason Dreisbach fields at least half a dozen calls every week from people trying to sell him a technology to lower his energy costs. As the owner of Dreisbach Enterprises, a cold-storage facility owner with operations in Northern California, he's a popular target. Cold storage — from frozen food warehouses to grocery and restaurant refrigeration — has one of the highest energy costs of any industry; energy expenditures are usually second only to payroll.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 27, 2020

With today’s current pandemic, restaurants are solely surviving off their take-out orders. And with an increase of carryout from restaurants, comes an increase of plastics that will most likely end up in the garbage. Almost half of Americans say that it is difficult to recycle properly , so this means most of the plastic containers from take-out orders are actually being sent to a landfill.

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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.

Sustainability

Jim Conca

JULY 26, 2020

Powerlines and equipment problems have been the cause of most recent wildfires. But a new AI and machine vision technology can analyze millions of images of powerlines and towers to find dangerous faults and flaws to help utilities identify problem areas and repair them before a fire starts.

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GreenBiz

JULY 27, 2020

Remembering Flex exec Bruce Klafter. pete may. Mon, 07/27/2020 - 01:45. Longtime GreenBiz friend Bruce Klafter died July 18 after a short and intense bout of pancreatic cancer. Bruce most recently was a vice president of sustainability strategy and outreach at Flex in Silicon Valley. GreenBiz co-founder and President Pete May reflects on his interaction with Bruce over the years.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 29, 2020

Oil major Shell and Dutch utility Eneco will build a super-hybrid offshore wind farm, having won the latest Dutch tender. Shell is chasing carbon neutrality by 2050 or sooner and the project in the Netherlands offers a glimpse of how it hopes to get there. The pair’s CrossWind consortium was revealed on Wednesday as the winner of the subsidy-free auction for the Hollandse Kust (noord) project.

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Jim Conca

JULY 29, 2020

Last week, NASA’s new Mars rover, Perseverance, received its nuclear power source, a Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator, whose energy is provided by a tiny piece of Pu-238, supplied by the Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy, which will power the rover for 15 years.

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GreenBiz

JULY 27, 2020

How Cargill’s new science-based water targets go with the flow. Joel Makower. Mon, 07/27/2020 - 02:11. Cargill, the giant food and ag conglomerate, last week announced a new set of 2030 corporate water targets, the latest to do so among firms in its sector. But this was no me-too kind of endeavor. Rather, it put the company at the front of the pack, going well beyond its own operational footprint to engage its entire supply chain, and to do so using a novel science-based approach for water.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JULY 29, 2020

Coconut oil might be in the spotlight, but there are some scary truths lurking in the shadows.

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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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GreenTechMedia

JULY 31, 2020

Dominion Energy is replacing its CEO as part of an executive shakeup accompanying the Virginia utility’s major shift away from natural gas and toward a renewable energy future, and its hefty financial penalty for its cancellation of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline project. Dominion announced Friday that CEO Tom Farrell would step down in October and be replaced by Robert Blue, now executive vice president and co-chief operating officer.

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Jim Conca

JULY 31, 2020

Achíni Scientific announced that they have developed a way to make fuel from air and water, which they call Green Crude – green because it doesn’t add to the atmospheric CO2 burden and it burns cleaner than petroleum-based fuels. .

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GreenBiz

JULY 30, 2020

The future of organic coffee: Building a network of support for regenerative agriculture. Jean Orlowski. Thu, 07/30/2020 - 02:00. Nearly a decade ago, as we took in the lush plant life, clean air and warm sunshine surrounding us during a vacation in Hawaii, my wife, Danielle, and I knew a life shift was happening. A connection to the land — this island — was built on that trip, leading us to relocate permanently to Captain Cook, Hawaii.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JULY 27, 2020

Global warming is accelerating more than previously thought.

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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

JULY 30, 2020

According to data released by the Environment Agency on 22 July, a record 40,653 tonnes of aluminium packaging were collected for recycling in Q2 2020. This indicates that 76,933 tonnes were collected for recycling in the first half of the year – a significant increase of 52% compared to the same period in 2019 (50,744). Aluminium packaging collected through kerbside, bring and on-the-go systems increased by 37% during the first half of the year (53,312 in 2020, compared to 38,882 in 2019), whil

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 27, 2020

What is a biodigester? What are the benefits? Businesses gain numerous benefits by implementing sustainable practices. Sustainability in the industry can be practiced in various ways. One way for a business to be more sustainable is by utilizing a biodigester. They are an excellent addition for businesses looking to be more environmentally friendly.

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GreenBiz

JULY 27, 2020

Morgan Stanley will measure CO2 impact of loans and investments. Michael Holder. Mon, 07/27/2020 - 00:15. Morgan Stanley has become the first major U.S. bank to commit to measuring and disclosing the climate impact of its loans and investments, announcing last week that it has joined a multi-trillion dollar group of global financial institutions developing a standardized method for carbon accounting.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JULY 28, 2020

The earth's poles have made the news a lot this summer, and not for good reasons. Now, another awful update has hit, with Arctic wildfires burning out of control.

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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

JULY 29, 2020

The EU Environment Sub-Committee has stressed the benefits of the level playing field in future relationship negotiations. Peers urge compromise to secure a ‘level playing field’. Lack of trust is the biggest barrier to a breakthrough on the environment and climate change parts of an agreement between Britain and Brussels, a group of Peers has warned.

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Grist

JULY 31, 2020

When Apple announced new climate goals last week, the tech giant revealed that some of its sleek, silvery laptops will include a novel material: “low-carbon” aluminum. The lightweight metal is chemically the same as the mass-produced version used in products like foil, soda cans, bike frames, and car doors. But it’s made using a different industrial process — one that doesn’t result in the direct release of greenhouse gases.

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GreenBiz

JULY 28, 2020

Semiconductor firm Applied Materials puts supply chain at center of new commitments. Heather Clancy. Tue, 07/28/2020 - 02:00. The sustainability ambitions of the world’s largest cloud software companies — Amazon, Google, Microsoft and Salesforce — have been well-documented. The broad semiconductor industry’s position to date, however, has been less transparent and less ambitious, with the highly visible exceptions of AMD, IBM and Intel. .

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JULY 31, 2020

NLÉ is back with a Floating Music Hub as the next prototype in the firm's popular Makoko Floating System.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 31, 2020

Plans for a Category 1 animal by-product processing facility at the renewable energy and recycling site of SecAnim in Widnes, Cheshire were announced in late July. The firm is a provider of safe and secure collection and disposal services to the farming and meat production sectors, and the “world-first” operation completes a two-stage site regeneration plan, supported by a capital investment of more than £15 million, says the firm.

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Forbes Green Tech

JULY 28, 2020

The electric car maker disclosed that it received government payroll “benefits” that helped it stay profitable during this year’s second quarter.

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GreenBiz

JULY 29, 2020

BMW, Ford, other automakers rev up carbon commitments. Katie Fehrenbacher. Wed, 07/29/2020 - 02:00. The world's biggest automakers are ramping up their carbon commitments even as they struggle to build back in the wake of the pandemic. . This week, Germany's BMW took the plunge and set a goal to reduce its carbon emissions per car by at least one-third by 2030.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JULY 28, 2020

Sail your troubles away.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 31, 2020

Joseph Doherty of Re-Gen Waste Ltd. Joseph Doherty, MD of Re-Gen Waste, which provides materials recovery facilities for Council waste in the UK, has questioned the wisdom of Government plans to scrap the lower rate of fuel duty on red diesel from April 2022, which he says will add an extra £200,000 per annum cost to his company’s fuel bill. The changes to the tax treatment of red diesel will lead to a number of impacts on his firm’s profitability, he suggested, the most immediate being in

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Solar Power World

JULY 28, 2020

By Larry Aller, managing director, BlueWave Solar At the start of 2020, the macro outlook for solar in the U.S. was strong. But then almost all 2020 market predictions were upended by the COVID-19 outbreak that continues to disrupt global markets and has caused hardships and massive levels of uncertainty for businesses, governments and individual… The post Why the community solar model is persevering during a pandemic appeared first on Solar Power World.

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GreenBiz

JULY 30, 2020

Electric boilers fuel Diageo’s carbon-neutral whiskey distillery dream. Jesse Klein. Thu, 07/30/2020 - 00:30. Even whiskey is going electric. Distilleries have long been difficult operations to electrify due to the large heat loads it requires to turn grain into one of humanity's oldest vices, alcohol. But Diageo’s new 72,000-square-foot distillery is designed to be completely carbon-neutral.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JULY 31, 2020

A new report by KFC shows one-third of its chickens suffer from footpad dermatitis.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 30, 2020

In recent decades, exports of waste to non-European countries have risen steadily, pushing the waste issue far away but failing to properly address it. Repeated abuses in international waste shipments have highlighted the need for Europe to take care of its waste under EU environmental standards. The trade body ESWET (European Suppliers of Waste-to-Energy Technology aisbl) claims to present “a pragmatic approach” on the issue, and on 30 July released a policy briefing with a number o

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Forbes Green Tech

JULY 25, 2020

It’s clear enough from the discarded masks and gloves polluting landscapes and the ocean that many humans have not grasped the environmental message of the coronavirus pandemic.

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