Jim Conca
AUGUST 14, 2019
4 billion people live under conditions of severe water scarcity at least one month of the year. We struggle to put programs in place to solve this problem, so NGOs and private companies, like PepsiCo, are essential, but we need so much more.
Inhabitat - Innovation
AUGUST 14, 2019
The soaring popularity of the feisty, outspoken environmental advocate – who is only 16 – has caused a rise in young people seeking stories about saving the planet. Publishers coin the new trend the “Greta Thunberg Effect” and are turning around children’s book about climate change in record time. Publishers have pumped out books across a range of topics related to the environment, from endangered species to climate change, and sales have doubled in the last year, according to Nielsen.
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Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 16, 2019
4M tonnes of peat-free compost available on our doorsteps can replace peat. It’s time to stop excavating our precious peatlands says Veolia , “the UK’s largest peat-free composter” The damaging practice has continued to grow despite national targets to phase it out. In 2011 the Government called for retailers to reduce peat use by 2020, but industry has shown lack of commitment to embrace these ambitions.
Forbes Green Tech
AUGUST 16, 2019
The human race is a passenger in the car of climate change that's hydroplaning to the cliff edge of an environmental catastrophe.
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.
DeSmogBlog
AUGUST 14, 2019
Read time: 8 mins Climate-changing pollution reached unprecedented levels in 2018. That's both judged against the last 60 years of modern measurements and against 800,000 years of data culled from ice cores, according to the U.S. government’s State of the Climate report , which was published this week with the American Meteorological Society. That pollution creates a greenhouse effect that is over 42 percent stronger than it was in 1990, the report added.
Inhabitat - Innovation
AUGUST 16, 2019
The holiday on Saturday, August 17 is a good time to show extra support for these winged creatures, as they play an important role in producing our food.
CleanTech Focus brings together the best content for cleantech professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Forbes Green Tech
AUGUST 10, 2019
The myth that global warming is explained by solar or cosmic activity has resurfaced. An actual climate scientist debunks it.
Green Business Bureau
AUGUST 15, 2019
Eco-friendly restaurants are making the switch from the classic, white styrofoam boxes to cardboard take out boxes. Styrofoam is detrimental to the environment, the material takes over five hundred years to biodegrade. It is also made from cancer-causing chemicals that become dangerous when they come in contact with hot foods or liquids, because the material begins to decay.
Inhabitat - Innovation
AUGUST 15, 2019
MVRDV has unveiled designs for the Green Villa, a striking mixed-use building draped in greenery for the Dutch village of Sint-Michielsgestel.
Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 16, 2019
Land is under growing pressure from human activity and climate change is adding to these pressures, according to a report released by the IPCC on 8 August. The effects include water scarcity, desertification, soil erosion, declining crop yields and wildfire damage, with the prospect that these will only worsen unless urgent action is taken. Improvements to land use are one pathway to tackling these problems.
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
Forbes Green Tech
AUGUST 13, 2019
Artificial intelligence and smart buildings are converging to improve residents’ lifestyles, and also serve to achieve sustainable development.
DeSmogBlog
AUGUST 16, 2019
Read time: 8 mins Christopher Leonard’s new book, Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America , begins, appropriately enough, with an FBI agent, who is investigating criminal activity by the company, standing in a field with a pair of binoculars, trying to catch a glimpse of the daily operations of a company that prizes secrecy.
Inhabitat - Innovation
AUGUST 14, 2019
Could green be the new blue? The Dasani bottled water brand hopes so.
Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 16, 2019
There are now almost 1,000 more public places to charge electric cars than there are forecourts to pump petrol in the UK – 9,300 EV charging locations compared to 8,400 fuel stations, according to a press release from EV manufacturer Nissan. The crossover happened more than a year before Nissan’s 2016 prediction of August 2020 – a sign of the accelerating adoption of EVs (electric vehicles) amongst UK motorists.
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.
Green Business Bureau
AUGUST 15, 2019
From tide clocks to barometers, rain gauges to hygrometers, ClimeMET provides its customers with everything they need to be able to monitor the weather. Based in the UK, and run as a small family business, ClimeMET designs weather stations and a range of home and garden weather dials from their company workshop in rural Suffolk. Through their products and commitment to improving the environment, ClimeMET is showing other small businesses that success and sustainability can go hand-in-hand.
Forbes Green Tech
AUGUST 16, 2019
The Ocean Cleanup isn't giving up. Its inventor thinks an "overtopping" issue may be the last one to solve, and an upcoming modification brings the effort closer than ever to cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
Inhabitat - Innovation
AUGUST 16, 2019
Looks like the heat is on this summer … even in Alaska thanks to what has been referred to as the “tipping point.” Apparently, the warnings about 2 degrees Celsius of warming — or the global average forewarned against in the 2015 Paris Agreement centered on climate change -- has hit some places in the United States pretty hard. Related: For example, according to the Washington Post the fastest state to experience such warming is Alaska which has seen a recent increase of.
Grist
AUGUST 10, 2019
This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. A heat wave pulsating through the Arctic helped push Alaska to its warmest month ever recorded in July, with the state’s vast coastline left completely barren of sea ice. Alaska’s average temperature in July was a record 58.1 degrees F (14.5 degrees C), nearly 1 degree F above the previous monthly high set in July 2004, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administra
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.
CleanTech Group
AUGUST 13, 2019
Regenerative agriculture is about improving soil through better farm practices. The aim is to use farming practices that increase soil health through increased biodiversity, water retention, topsoil protection, and other farming process improvements. One key measure of healthy soil is carbon content. Therefore, a working carbon market for agricultural sequestration of carbon is a powerful […].
Forbes Green Tech
AUGUST 14, 2019
Most people are familiar with the Heat Index but experts say Wet Bulb Globe Temperature is better. What is it and why isn't it used more often?
Inhabitat - Innovation
AUGUST 13, 2019
Delaware has recently been named the first and only "no-kill" animal shelter state in the country.
Grist
AUGUST 14, 2019
For years now now, we’ve been hearing warnings about 2 degrees Celsius of warming — the global average cautioned against as part of the 2015 Paris accord. But according to a Washington Post interactive published on Tuesday, that so-called “tipping point” has already arrived in many towns across the country. The earth is warming at an uneven rate.
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?
Renewable Energy World
AUGUST 16, 2019
Europe can potentially generate 100 times the current amount of energy generated, and produce enough power to power the world until 2050, if it were to maximize land use for onshore wind capacity.
Forbes Green Tech
AUGUST 15, 2019
The first investment by a major fleet operator into an autonomous truck company gives UPS a minority stake in the San Diego-based startup that also has operations in China. Neither company is disclosing the amount.
Inhabitat - Innovation
AUGUST 13, 2019
These DIY cleaners are safe for your home, your family and the planet.
Planet Pulse
AUGUST 15, 2019
Today, Planet Analytic Feeds are moving out of beta, and our three flagship Analytic Feeds—Road Detection, Building Detection, and Vessel Detection—can now scale globally and are offered off-the-shelf. This means that customers can leverage these feeds on top of Planet imagery products and get automated road, building, and vessel detections over their areas of interest, with no custom builds required.
DeSmogBlog
AUGUST 11, 2019
Read time: 4 mins Climate science deniers are becoming desperate as their numbers diminish in the face of incontrovertible evidence that human-caused global warming is putting our future at risk. Although most people with basic education, common sense, and a lack of financial interest in the fossil fuel industry accept what scientists worldwide have proven through decades of research, some media outlets continue to publish inconsistent, incoherent opinions of people who reject climate science.
Forbes Green Tech
AUGUST 12, 2019
Micromobility is great but limited. Cars with one person are ubiquitous and inefficient. The real self-driving transport revolution may come from "Minimobility" -- half width cars for 1-2 people that use half the energy, half the road and 1/5th the parking, and are more efficient than transit.
Inhabitat - Innovation
AUGUST 15, 2019
The Lane End House by PAD studio incorporates natural building material and sustainable solutions to increase energy-efficiency. The resulting design creates a passive home with a smaller environmental footprint and a focus on sustainability. The exterior of the house contains balcony areas that act as solar shading for the property, complete with thoughtfully-places openings to create a greater distribution of natural ventilation to rid the home of intense heat during the hot Summer months.
LA CleanTech Incubator
AUGUST 13, 2019
Originally published on ACT News How to Curb Emissions From Trucking Did you know that the greatest single source of air pollution in Los Angeles comes from the trucks, trains, and ships that bring goods in and out of our Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, that 40% of all the goods that come. Read more » The post Blog – Tackling Trucking: How to Get Zero Emissions Trucks at Ports and on Freeways in Los Angeles appeared first on LACI.
DeSmogBlog
AUGUST 16, 2019
Read time: 4 mins By Paul Brown for the Climate News Network. The days of oil as a fuel for cars, whether petrol or diesel, are numbered — because the economies offered by wind and solar energy and other cheap renewables, combined with electric vehicles, are irresistible, a French bank says. BNP Paribas Asset Management calculates that oil majors like Exxon, BP and Shell will have to produce petrol from oil at $10 a barrel (the current price is $58) to compete with electricity on price, while f
Forbes Green Tech
AUGUST 14, 2019
Your business may be using the cloud, but are you leveraging edge computing, too? Here's what you need to know about this transformative technology.
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