GreenBiz
AUGUST 24, 2020
The rise (and rise) of sustainability-linked finance. Joel Makower. Mon, 08/24/2020 - 02:11. One silver lining of this horrific moment is the rise of loans, bonds and other financial instruments linked to sustainability outcomes. In this sense, "sustainability" is broadly defined to include environmental issues as well as social ones. And, more recently, a new subcategory of, yes, pandemic-related issues.
Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 24, 2020
The initiative appears to be a world first for reusable PPE. A seemingly world-first collaboration is bringing recycled and reusable PPE visors to UK health workers and NGOs in the Dominican Republic. The initiative brings together the activity of Heroes, a charity founded by and for NHS workers, and environmental organisation Parley for the Oceans (Parley).
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Inhabitat - Innovation
AUGUST 27, 2020
Painting one wind turbine blade black could reduce bird deaths at wind farms by up to 70%.
GreenTechMedia
AUGUST 28, 2020
TerraPower, the Bill Gates-backed nuclear innovation firm, has launched a new small modular reactor system paired with a molten salt storage unit. The new concept, dubbed Natrium, is being developed in partnership with GE Hitachi Nuclear Energy. According to the pair, it could be used to boost a 345-megawatt small modular reactor (SMR) to around 500 megawatts for a period of up to five hours.
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
AUGUST 25, 2020
New sparks for the electric vehicle industry. Zoé Bezpalko. Tue, 08/25/2020 - 01:45. Thinking back to the beginning of 2020 can seem like a lifetime ago. Before the pandemic took root on a global level, the transportation industry was already in the midst of a great and exciting transition. The move to electric vehicles (EVs) was intensifying. . Take General Motors, for example.
Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 25, 2020
New study shows half in oil and gas have considered new role in renewable energy industry – or are already diversifying into it. Eight in ten Scots oil workers have considered that their careers could be impacted by actions being taken to tackle climate change, new research suggests. The equivalent of 90% of Scotland’s electricity demand is now met from renewables like wind and solar power.
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GreenTechMedia
AUGUST 27, 2020
Distributed solar and storage company SunPower and panel manufacturer Maxeon Solar Technologies finalized their split on Thursday. The transaction, first announced in November , will allow SunPower to focus on its core business of residential and commercial solar and storage sales while Maxeon will continue manufacturing the premium solar panels SunPower has come to be known for.
GreenBiz
AUGUST 28, 2020
Amazon hands Mercedes-Benz its biggest electric vehicle order to date. Katie Fehrenbacher. Fri, 08/28/2020 - 00:00. German auto giant Mercedes-Benz announced its largest order of electric vehicles to date Friday: 1,800 electric delivery vans for retail giant Amazon to use across Europe. The deal shows how companies are increasingly paying attention to ways to decarbonize transportation including buying more zero-emission commercial vehicles.
Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 25, 2020
Several European countries who are considered leaders in climate protection owe their apparently good emission reductions to biomass. These might turn out to look quite different in the future, if carbon-accounting under the Emissions Trading System (ETS) were to be based on science and the real effects on climate. As the European Commission works on a revision of its central climate policy tool, the European Academies’ Science Advisory Council suggests a radically new standard.
Inhabitat - Innovation
AUGUST 27, 2020
Norway is expanding oil drilling operations farther north into the Arctic.
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
AUGUST 26, 2020
Germany’s depressed onshore wind market finally looks set to get some relief. Long a global leader, Germany's wind market fell to its lowest point in years in 2019, due in part to a botched auction design. The design change saw lawmakers replacing feed-in tariffs with an auction system that was opened up to community projects. Under the new system, community developers weren’t required to have obtained a permit prior to bidding, and were given a generous four-and-a-half-year comm
GreenBiz
AUGUST 28, 2020
Episode 234: Circularity 20 highlights, talking green chemistry. Heather Clancy. Fri, 08/28/2020 - 02:00. Week in Review. Stories discussed this week (6:45). The rise (and rise) of sustainability-linked finance. This Israeli startup mimics mangroves, coral and oysters to create protective seawalls. Amid devastating forest fires, One Trillion Trees movement puts down U.S. roots.
Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 24, 2020
Eleanor Shield, a wildlife biologist and conservationist, is among those recruited by Kaitiaki Consulting. A Scots firm that focuses on large scale land redevelopment and rewilding has hired 20 environmental consultants after a global recruitment drive. Kaitiaki Consulting, which is based in Scotland and New Zealand, has brought in specialists in forestry, ornithology, botany, soil science and a raft of other key sciences as it ramps up its activities.
Inhabitat - Innovation
AUGUST 27, 2020
Presented as a model for sustainable urban growth, the project champions local energy production, food production, energy efficiency and material reuse.
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
AUGUST 24, 2020
A new residential grid flexibility service available in parts of the U.K. will combine energy storage, vehicle-to-grid and smart EV charging for the first time. The project, led by energy technology firm Kaluza, will trade that flexibility in close to real-time conditions. The program looks to shift EV charging away from times of high demand while tapping those EV batteries and an existing network of sonnen battery systems to bolster the grid as required.
GreenBiz
AUGUST 24, 2020
This is why investors want financial regulators to tackle climate risk. Ravi Varghese. Mon, 08/24/2020 - 01:15. To understand economic crises of the recent past, present and future, there may be no finer teacher than Michael Lewis. Many readers will be familiar with Lewis’s book "The Big Short," which documented how excesses in global credit markets spawned a worldwide financial crisis.
Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 25, 2020
Urgent action on water security is essential to better prepare societies for future global health crises, say experts at the University of Birmingham in the UK and Northwestern University in the US. In a comment article published in Nature Sustainability , the researchers are urging policy makers across the world to focus on behavioural change, knowledge promotion and investment in water infrastructure.
Inhabitat - Innovation
AUGUST 24, 2020
Tetra Pak beverage containers are used in the roof and wall construction of this unique home. Tiny Tetra has 688 square feet of space with a diagonally-oriented floor plan. It is elevated 40 centimeters off the ground via point foundations in order to help blend the structure into the surroundings. There is a bedroom, ensuite bathroom, and open kitchen, living room and outdoor terraces.
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
AUGUST 28, 2020
Exelon is following through with a threat to close two of its Illinois nuclear power plants by next year unless it receives state support to boost their financial viability, a move that could undermine the state's carbon-free electricity goals. But with a bribery scandal involving Exelon subsidiary Commonwealth Edison eroding its political clout in the state, and Illinois Governor JB Pritzker saying he won’t support the utility’s preferred plan to boost its nuclear plant revenue,
GreenBiz
AUGUST 26, 2020
Engaging Middle America in recycling solutions. Suzanne Shelton. Wed, 08/26/2020 - 01:00. A few weeks ago, I wrote a GreenBiz piece about what Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs can teach us about the moment we’re in right now, based on our latest polling of Americans. At Circularity 2020, I’m talking about how to engage people in recycling, and the two ideas are linked together.
Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 26, 2020
Artificial intelligence (AI) has already arrived in some areas of the energy industry and has the potential to further advance the integrated energy transition – such are the findings of a recent analysis by the German Energy Agency – Deutsche Energie-Agentur ( dena ) – titled “Artificial Intelligence – from Hype to Reality in the Energy Industry” It examined the technical development status and the cost-benefit ratio for nine specific areas of application and provided so
Inhabitat - Innovation
AUGUST 27, 2020
The user-friendly app quickly calculates your personal carbon footprint and finds ways to offset your emissions.
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?
altenergymag
AUGUST 27, 2020
Machine Learning Software Optimizes Energy Yield on Uneven Terrain and in Diffuse Light Conditions.
GreenBiz
AUGUST 26, 2020
Ensuring Performance and Safety in Recycled Plastics. As companies and consumer brands incorporate recycled plastic content into their products and as part of their circularity goals, product integrity becomes an important consideration. There are many ways to evaluate the performance and safety of recycled materials. This one-hour webcast will show you tools to evaluate these aspects and how brands like HP are increasing recycled content in their products and assessing performance and sustainab
Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 24, 2020
The oceans play an important role in regulating our climate and its change by absorbing heat and carbon. Scientists from the Department of Physics at Oxford University say they have discovered that the influence of circulation changes on shaping ocean warming will diminish in the future. This is despite having been identified and modelled as a key factor over the past 60 years.
Inhabitat - Innovation
AUGUST 25, 2020
A USDA report found multiple animal welfare violations, leading to the closure of Greater Wynnewood Exotic Animal Park.
CleanTech Group
AUGUST 24, 2020
Recent years have seen a boom in the development and application of 3D printing, also known as additive manufacturing, technologies.
GreenBiz
AUGUST 26, 2020
Where there's hope for speeding up business action on plastics. Elsa Wenzel. Wed, 08/26/2020 - 02:01. In 10 short years, the Ellen MacArthur Foundation (EMF) arguably has done more than any other group to define and advance the circular economy. Its landmark report, "The New Plastics Economy," sounded the alarm in 2016 that if "business as usual" continues, by 2025 the ocean may hold more plastic than fish by weight.
Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 26, 2020
In July 2020, the Met Office reported that most UK water companies have seen an increase in average water consumption during lockdown, especially those operating in suburban areas. It’s clear that Covid-19 measures around the world have resulted in societal changes that are directly impacting when and how much water people are consuming. So, how do water companies prepare for an unexpected surge or drop in demand?
Inhabitat - Innovation
AUGUST 26, 2020
Talk about getting back to nature!
Charged
AUGUST 28, 2020
Charging time is the Achilles’ heel of EVs. Much faster refueling could be enabled by boosting the voltage of an EV’s battery system from the 400 volts used by most current models. The Porsche Taycan uses an 800-volt battery architecture, which means the current can be cut in half, so wires can be lighter and thinner. According to Porsche, at the Taycan’s maximum charging power of 270 kilowatts, the battery can be charged from 5% to 80% of capacity in about 20 minutes.
GreenBiz
AUGUST 27, 2020
Despite record oil price fluctuations, circular plastic strategies prevail. Jesse Klein. Thu, 08/27/2020 - 01:45. The coronavirus pandemic threw almost every market into a tailspin, including the notoriously sensitive oil market. And when crude oil prices fell into negative territory in April, the recycled plastic industry experienced a reckoning. Would corporations still invest in relatively expensive circular plastic commitments if virgin plastic prices, closely tied to the petroleum industry,
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