GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 29, 2020

It’s official: The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) has finally come around to the view that renewables will overtake natural gas in the country’s electricity mix. The EIA has long been known for its conservative if not incredible predictions about renewable energy. As recently as last year, the EIA forecast that natural gas would remain the country’s top source of electricity out to 2050.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 31, 2020

Sponsored: Discussions on the benefit of blockchain in fashion supply chains have risen in recent years. Is blockchain technology the solution to opaqueness in the fashion industry?

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CleanTechnica

JANUARY 29, 2020

Arrival says it has secured an order from UPS for 10,000 of its electric delivery vans beginning this year with the possibility of another 10,000 in the future. The EV revolution continues.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JANUARY 30, 2020

Architect Grigori Fateyev from Art Forms Architecture has created a series of low-impact, sustainable cottages in the idyllic rural area of Great Barrington, Massachusetts.

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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

JANUARY 26, 2020

Plastic bricks made from plastic trash are building new schools in the Ivory Coast.

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CleanTechnica

JANUARY 30, 2020

The HUMMER Returns As A Fully Electric Off-Road Beast Sans Noise & Emissions.

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CleanTechnica

JANUARY 25, 2020

Plans to launch an all electric Ferrari in 2025 have been leaked on the Porsche Taycan forum and include a number of details!

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 30, 2020

Spending on America’s gas systems has grown dramatically in recent years. But that might not be the way to go.

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CleanTech Alliance

JANUARY 31, 2020

By Lisa Stiffler, Geekwire, January 30, 2020. As ribbons of smoke began curling out of the power outlets on their Joule Case battery stack, Alex Livingston and James Wagoner tried to keep their cool. The cameras were rolling. The entrepreneurs were competing on “All-American Makers,” a reality game show broadcast on the Discovery Channel, hoping to land $250,000 in venture capital.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2020

As designers and architects continue searching for innovative, sustainable building materials, hemp is becoming a front runner in the world of green design. In fact, London-based firm Practice Architecture collaborated with local hemp farmers in Cambridgeshire for the Flat House — a zero-carbon home built using hemp grown on-site.

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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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Jim Conca

JANUARY 28, 2020

Those of us in the field have always known that draping that lead apron over you when getting an X-ray at the hospital or the dentist was not necessary, that it didn’t protect you or lower any risk of cancer. But I never considered that it might be harmful to use these aprons.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2020

Severe droughts have caused soil fertility to decline and therefore, yields hampered.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 27, 2020

The world’s largest asset manager has a new multibillion-dollar renewable energy fund in the works, and a good chunk of it may go to batteries. Long a major global investor in wind and solar energy, BlackRock has more recently begun buying into energy storage projects — including its acquisition last year of GE’s distributed solar and storage business.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JANUARY 30, 2020

If you've considered a career in sustainability, here are some green jobs you might want to look into.

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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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Solar Power World

JANUARY 27, 2020

SimpliPhi Power, a provider of cobalt-free, non-hazardous energy storage systems, has partnered with Pepco and New Partners Community Solar to launch one of the first resiliency centers in Washington D.C. that is powered by solar and SimpliPhi Power’s batteries at a new affordable housing development, The Maycroft. As climate change intensifies with increased extreme weather… The post D.C.’s first solar + storage resiliency system will serve low-income residents appeared first

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 27, 2020

More than 350 companies have made commitments to help reverse nature loss and restore vital natural systems on which economic activity depends.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 30, 2020

Keeping up with records in the U.S. solar industry is a never-ending endeavor, with new low prices and super-sized capacity regularly topping what came before. One investor in particular has recently made a notable impact: From virtually no role in the American solar market a few years ago, Capital Dynamics, an asset manager headquartered in Switzerland, says it owns seven of the country's 20 largest solar projects.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2020

After two years of development, MVRDV has unveiled their competition entry for Chinese tech giant Tencent’s next campus—a green and futuristic smart city shaped like a continuous undulating mountain range. Located on a 133-hectare site in Shenzhen’s Qianhai Bay, the nature-inspired development combines references to the lush, mountainous surroundings with Tencent’s cutting-edge technology.

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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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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 27, 2020

Sustainability in manufacturing is gaining traction and the companies that are engaging in eco-friendly or green practices are becoming more efficient, driving down expenses, differentiating from their competitors and positioning themselves to get ahead of legislation. Customers and employees are driving the acceleration of this sustainable business trend.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 31, 2020

The textile industry has a powerful opportunity to shift the needle in both producer and consumer contexts.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 29, 2020

The renewable energy division did not give GE CEO Larry Culp much help last year as he looks to turn around the struggling American industrial giant. GE’s Paris-based Renewable Energy unit, designated as a central plank of the company’s strategy for the future, reported a $666 million loss for the whole of 2019, compared to a $292 million profit the year before.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JANUARY 29, 2020

For Westerners, snacking on insects isn’t mainstream. But that may change, thanks to the rising trend of edible bugs and cricket-based snacks — like those from Chirps, Don Bugito, EXO, Hotlix, Rocky Mountain Micro Ranch and SEEK.

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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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Solar Power World

JANUARY 30, 2020

By Ariel Avitan, Chief Commercial Officer and Co-Founder, Percepto Renewable energy is the key to a cleaner, brighter energy future. And solar is one of the most promising global sources of renewable energy. It’s cheaper (and arguably cleaner) than nuclear, coal, or combined cycle gas turbines – and that’s why we’re seeing an increasing number… The post Autonomous drones make solar projects more productive, cost-effective and secure appeared first on Solar Power World.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 27, 2020

"Our seeds are more than just food for us. Yes, they are nutrition. But they’re also… spirituality," says Electa Hare-RedCorn, a member of the Pawnee Nation of Oklahoma and a Yankton descendant. "Each seed has a story and each seed has a prayer."With a background in social work, Hare-RedCorn was brought on to the Pawnee Seed Preservation Project in 2012 as a seed-keeper, to carry the conversation forward with youth and families.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 31, 2020

As laboratories of democracy, states deserve a victory lap for enacting renewable portfolio standards (RPS) that have helped transform our electricity system. Yet, as the original purposes of these laws has been largely achieved, states can now accelerate deeper progress towards want we really what: a 100 percent clean electricity grid that is also affordable and reliable.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JANUARY 28, 2020

The Cozens Place properties include solar panels, energy-efficient insulation and semi-permeable drainage to sustainably manage rainwater.

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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 28, 2020

Greentown Labs’ 26-bench wet lab is home to startups creating everything from long-duration energy storage to energy-efficient manufacturing membranes to silk coatings that extend the freshness of produce and proteins. The 1,800-square-foot, BSL-1 space is located right next to Greentown’s prototyping lab space, allowing for innovations both inside and outside the wet lab.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 28, 2020

Instrumental in designing more humane practices for McDonald's, the Colorado State university professor chats about the promise of regenerative agriculture and the state of sustainability in slaughterhouses.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 27, 2020

ABU DHABI — The role of natural gas is one of the stickier points of debate related to the global energy transition, and that debate was on full display here this month. Meg Gentle, president and CEO of Houston-based gas company Tellurian, argued that natural gas is a key driver of the energy transition and is already lowering emissions by replacing dirtier fuels like coal and oil.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JANUARY 29, 2020

The Urban Beehive Project is a community installation that highlights the importance of pollinators and their role in a sustainable ecosystem.

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Grist

JANUARY 28, 2020

This story was published in partnership with the Center for Public Integrity and The World. The Ace of Trade trawler motored toward Dean Blanchard’s dock early last summer in southern Louisiana, its skipper slowly winching its nets into storage. Blanchard’s workers, strengthened by a lifetime at sea, worked shirtless in the humid summer air. It was the beginning of hurricane season, and 2019 was on track to be one of the wettest years on record in the U.S.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 31, 2020

If you’ve ever ordered garments online from a retailer, you would have, in all likelihood, had it delivered, neatly sealed within a polybag.

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