Envirotec Magazine
MAY 6, 2021
Machine-learning technology trialled on part of Wessex Water’s sewerage network has identified early forming sewer blockages in real-time with a 92% accuracy rate, whilst also enabling an operational shift to condition-based maintenance approach, explains Brian Moloney, managing director of StormHarvester, a firm specialising in the automated monitoring and control of drainage infrastructure.
U.S. Green Technology
MAY 5, 2021
Plastic is a magical material, but it’s far from perfect. We all know that it can be horrible for the environment, but it doesn’t have to cause as much damage as it does currently. Finding a way to prevent microbial damage can decrease the negative effects that plastic has on the environment. That’s why antimicrobial. The post How Antimicrobial Plastics Contribute to a Sustainable Environment appeared first on U.S.
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Solar Power World
MAY 4, 2021
By Terance J. Harper, M.S., assistant engineering manager, Illumine-i Over the next 10 years, electric vehicles (EVs) are expected to increase their share of the automobile market significantly. According to a report from Deloitte, its “global EV forecast is for a compound annual growth rate of 29% over the next 10 years [with] total EV… The post Will EV charging stations become the next must-have accessory?
Solar Power World
MAY 5, 2021
Solar Basics is a video series by Solar Power World created to help installers learn about the business, tools and tricks of the solar power trade. Rule number one: Never use soap to clean a dirty rooftop solar project. Learn how to clean solar arrays while avoiding filmy residue that can impact energy production in… The post Solar Basics (At Home!
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
MAY 5, 2021
What does digital art have to do with sustainability? Ben Soltoff. Wed, 05/05/2021 - 01:30. Minutes before midnight March 22, two art collectors got into a heated bidding war at a charity auction for a climate organization. The auction was happening online, but it was eliciting the same staggering dollar amounts and tense drama of an in-person auction house.
Envirotec Magazine
MAY 7, 2021
A length of steel pipe and a heart monitor are the unlikely tools underpinning new research which suggests that trees may work together to form resource-sharing networks, helping the group collectively overcome environmental challenges. The findings, laid out in a paper published on 3 May in Communications Biology , seem to offer fresh insight into how forests around the world might adapt to the increasing environmental stresses of climate change.
CleanTech Focus brings together the best content for cleantech professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
altenergymag
MAY 3, 2021
Town Installs State-of-the-Art Battery Technology from Buffalo-based Viridi Parente as a Backup Power System
GreenBiz
MAY 3, 2021
Inside Salesforce’s bold play for supply-chain leadership. Joel Makower. Mon, 05/03/2021 - 02:11. Last week, the cloud-based software company Salesforce notified its thousands of suppliers that it will include language in all future procurement contracts requiring them, among other things, to set science-based targets to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions.
Envirotec Magazine
MAY 7, 2021
How are data science techniques helping us better understand the microbial universe of the soil? Anthony Finbow of Eagle Genomics – a firm working at the intersection of biology, data science and bioinformatics – explains, and relates how this knowledge provides a more solid underpinning for sustainable agricultural innovation. Over-reliance on nitrogen fertilizers is leading to the collapse of soil biodiversity.
Inhabitat - Innovation
MAY 4, 2021
Hawaii is the first state in the U.S. to declare a climate emergency. The islands are particularly vulnerable to sea level rise and more climate change effects.
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
Green Business Bureau
MAY 4, 2021
The massive 2.5 trillion dollar fashion industry may be economically thriving in the age of fast-changing trends but it is in no way sustainable. In fact, fashion is the second largest polluting industry after fossil fuels. Countless cases of its damage to natural resources, pollutive waste and emissions, and unethical labor practices have fallen under the public eye over the years.
GreenBiz
MAY 3, 2021
Community solar, urban trees and the digitization of employee engagement. Heather Clancy. Mon, 05/03/2021 - 00:05. A perennial concern of corporate sustainability professionals — how to nurture employee buy-in for the organization’s programs and strategy — easily could have been sidelined during the COVID-19 pandemic, as companies everywhere shifted to accommodate remote workforces. .
Envirotec Magazine
MAY 4, 2021
Light-emitting diode (LED) bulbs currently on the market emit a lot of blue light, which has been linked to eye troubles, sleep disturbances and disrupted circadian rhythms in humans and animals. But researchers reporting in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces have now developed a prototype LED that they say reduces – rather than masks – the blue component, while also making colours appear just as they do in natural sunlight.
Inhabitat - Innovation
MAY 3, 2021
Located in the large Midsommarkransen urban district of Stockholm, Flora stands out from its neighbors in the best way.
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.
altenergymag
MAY 2, 2021
Centrica Business Solutions has published a new eBook to the electric vehicle (EV) opportunity for businesses.
GreenBiz
MAY 3, 2021
Leading in a fundamentally changing world. Lise Kingo. Mon, 05/03/2021 - 02:00. What is responsible leadership? That’s the big question that takes center stage at the recent annual conference hosted by Imperial College Business School. It is the first time I have spoken in my capacity as chair of the advisory board of Imperial’s new Leonardo Centre , a research facility for sustainable business, which will formally launch in June.
Envirotec Magazine
MAY 4, 2021
The £40 million Water Breakthrough Challenge will promote innovation and collaboration between the water sector and partner organisations, says water industry regulator Ofwat. The Water Breakthrough Challenge aims to encourage collaborative innovative initiatives that help tackle the biggest challenges facing the water and wastewater services sector, such as achieving net zero, protecting natural ecosystems and reducing leakage, as well as taking opportunities to use open data and deliver value
Inhabitat - Innovation
MAY 4, 2021
Last year, Orange County, Florida passed a "rights of nature" law. Now, some lakes and marshes are suing a developer for infringing on their rights.
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.
altenergymag
MAY 4, 2021
Ares Management and The Conti Group sold entire stake in leading solar and energy storage company
GreenBiz
MAY 3, 2021
What Zymergen’s IPO says about 'biofacturing' and green chemistry. Meg Wilcox. Mon, 05/03/2021 - 01:30. Zymergen made a splash on Earth Day, as the first "biofacturer" to go public. Share prices have risen steadily since the initial offering, putting the company’s valuation at more than $4 billion as of this writing, in what could be a promising sign for scaling up green chemistry solutions.
U.S. Green Technology
MAY 7, 2021
If it’s time to replace your old furnace, consider getting an energy-efficient one that will save you money and help the environment. Products that are Energy Star-certified are great options. To make the best choice, consider models with the following features. Heat Pumps A heat pump can efficiently warm your home by moving the air. The post Making Home Furnaces Eco-Friendly and Energy-Efficient appeared first on U.S.
Inhabitat - Innovation
MAY 4, 2021
A company called Aether has announced that it can make diamonds out of the air — polluted air, that is.
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?
GreenBiz
MAY 5, 2021
Silicon Valley commuters should return to work in electric buses. Katie Fehrenbacher. Wed, 05/05/2021 - 02:00. Last year, I published a feature about why it was time for Silicon Valley to embrace the electric commuter bus. At the beginning of 2020, the San Francisco Bay Area uniquely had over 1,000 private buses — the vast majority using diesel fuel — moving employees to the corporate campuses of companies including Google and Facebook.
Envirotec Magazine
MAY 7, 2021
Plans by Southern Water to build a £600 million desalination plant in the New Forest have come under fire from conservationists and other local groups. The proposed plant is to be built on land near the utility’s wastewater treatment works at Ashlett Creek, near Fawley in Hampshire. If completed, it will extract salt water from the Solent and discharge brine back into the sea.
Inhabitat - Innovation
MAY 5, 2021
Levi's is setting new sustainability goals.
altenergymag
MAY 4, 2021
Projects Will Add 640 MWh of Storage to Southern Power’s Solar Facilities
GreenBiz
MAY 6, 2021
NIMBL's Leonardo De Biasi on today's ESG data challenges & opportunities. This video is sponsored by NIMBL. Pete May, President & Co-Founder of GreenBiz, interviewed Leonardo de Biasi, Vice President of Data Intelligence at NIMBL, during GreenFin 21 (April 13-14, 2021). View archived videos from the conference here: [link]. taylor flores. Thu, 05/06/2021 - 14:47.
Impact Alpha
MAY 4, 2021
It’s a warm April day in Lagos, Nigeria. Fifteen people are sitting in a circle in a conference room, for a ceremony called. The post Outsiders get the bulk of venture capital in Africa. Peer-selection can change the game. appeared first on Impact Alpha.
Inhabitat - Innovation
MAY 3, 2021
Most riverine plastic that flows into the oceans comes from just 1% of rivers worldwide.
altenergymag
MAY 6, 2021
Solar inverter or PV inverter is one of the most critical components of the solar power system and is often referred to as the heart of a solar PV system. Solar inverter converts DC (like 12V/ 24V/ 48V) electricity from solar panel into AC (like 120V/ 230V/ 240V ) power required to run your applicance.
GreenBiz
MAY 7, 2021
Quantis CEO Dimitri Caudrelier on why courage is the critical driver of a planetary economy. This video is sponsored by Quantis. Sarah Golden, Senior Energy Analyst & VERGE Energy Chair at GreenBiz, interviewed Dimitri Caudrelier, CEO of Quantis, on April 19, 2021. taylor flores. Fri, 05/07/2021 - 20:34. Featured. Off.
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