GreenBiz

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Severe storms — and extended power outages — can happen anywhere. But instead of waiting for another disaster and grid failure, one community took action. After experiencing a devastating outage, government officials in Montgomery County, Maryland, decided to invest in energy infrastructure that would remain on, even when the grid went down.

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Resilience Innovation Government Electricity 309

Energy Storage News

OCTOBER 5, 2023

The US Department of Defense Defense Innovation Unit will try out ‘prototype advanced energy systems’ based around LDES technologies.

Innovation 294

Innovation Resilience Batteries Technology 294

GreenBiz

JUNE 1, 2022

Innovative microgrids can help harden operations against outages and keep you from being a weak link in the supply chain. They’re an intersection of environmental, social and governance (ESG) goals and resiliency.

Resilience 270

Resilience Retail Organic Transportation 270

Envirotec Magazine

MAY 16, 2023

in funding from Ofwat’s Innovation Fund. The project is one of 16 solutions being awarded a share of £40 million in the water regulator’s latest innovation competition – the Water Breakthrough Challenge. This is the second phase of the project, with the first receiving funding from Ofwat last year.

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Innovation Resilience Demand Carbon 241

GreenBiz

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Luxury in the new normal: Leadership and innovation in 2020 and beyond. Companies demonstrated the depth of their commitment and a certain financial resilience by shifting production lines to manufacture hand sanitizer and masks or forgoing government aid to demonstrate social solidarity. Elisa Niemtzow. Fri, 10/16/2020 - 01:00.

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Innovation Fashion Resilience Sustainability 402

CleanTech Group

DECEMBER 30, 2024

The post Strong Foundations: Innovative Solutions for Building Climate-Resilient Infrastructure appeared first on Cleantech Group. As the planet grapples with increasingly severe weather events, our infrastructure faces a critical test. Buildings, utilities, and other physical assets must be.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 2, 2023

A University of Glasgow project that’s increasing community resilience and enhancing the capacity of residents of flood-prone areas in Brazil to take protective action has been announced as an Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) Celebrating Impact Prize finalist. Flooding in Capivari, Sao Paulo state, in 2015.

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Resilience Education Innovation 263

Inhabitat - Innovation

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The theme of adaptation and resilience calls on the world to find new ways to adapt to climate issues and be innovative enough to get past ecological contaminants. On Sunday, COP26 began in Glasgow, Scotland. In the past century, contaminants such as plastic turned the world upside down.

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Plastics Innovation Resilience Carbon 245

GreenBiz

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Our COVID-19 response can make our cities more resilient to heat waves. There is an urgent, global need for building urban resilience to heat and, as usual, business has a key role to play. Over the past months, it has become clear that resilience strategies for COVID-19 in cities could help us approach other threats as well.

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Resilience Climate change Cooling Smart Cities 294

GreenBiz

JUNE 20, 2024

Featuring all-electric systems, water reuse and innovative solar power, these buildings improve “the health and resilience of economies, cultures, and people.”

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Solar Power Resilience Health Innovation 376

EDF + Business

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

How companies choose to respond in this moment of quiet will be critical for business resilience and competitiveness. But history shows that those who are strategic in their investments in innovation during challenging times often emerge as leaders. In other words, they innovated.

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Innovation Sustainability Climate change Investment 75

GreenBiz

JUNE 23, 2020

The global COVID-19 pandemic is a historic Black Swan event that offers a Green Swan of opportunities to harvest innovation from 50 years of converging exponential technologies. To lessen the impact of current and future Black Swan events, we have Green Swan solutions that are ready to deploy on behalf of preparedness and resilience.

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Incubators Incubators Resilience Innovation 442

Envirotec Magazine

JULY 15, 2022

Ofwat, the economic regulator of water services in England and Wales, has announced a new “open access” competition for innovators, in an apparent widening of the scope of its existing £200m Innovation Fund, and a bid to encourage more diverse ideas to transform water services. Current timeline for the fund.

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Innovation Resilience Carbon Climate change 223

Hydrogen Fuel News

DECEMBER 21, 2024

Transforming Energy Generation with Resilient Microgrid Tech Bloom Energy has emerged as a leader in clean energy solutions, offering technologies designed to meet the rising global demand for reliable and sustainable power. A Look Behind Their Bloom Energys Energy Server stands apart due to the science behind its solid oxide fuel cells.

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Energy Energy Resilience Hydrogen 132

Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 22, 2025

UK Power Networks innovative Constellation trial is installing powerful computers in existing substations to better analyse power flows, and redirect energy to optimise infrastructure and cater for future needs. This could allow more distributed generators to connect to the network across the South East of England.

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Electricity Waste Waste Resilience 147

GreenBiz

JULY 6, 2020

This is an opportunity for all of us — companies, investors, government, civil society — to think critically about what our role might be in creating a more resilient future. . Transparency leads to accountability, accountability drives innovation and innovation is key to resilience. An opportunity to adapt. Pull Quote.

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Resilience Innovation Health Retail 446

GreenBiz

MAY 5, 2020

The infrastructure sector, long a laggard in embracing innovation, has worked hard to close the technological gap with other industries, and disruptors have transformed the way we design, build and manage infrastructure systems. Economically, the case for technologically advanced, resilient and sustainable infrastructure is clear.

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Investment Sustainability Resilience Innovation 390

Envirotec Magazine

MAY 16, 2023

Farmers could soon be reimbursed for creating water storage ponds or water “batteries” as part of an innovative drought-prevention project that has received funding (on 16 May) from Ofwat’s Innovation Fund.

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Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Innovation Home Energy Monitoring 261

Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 31, 2020

Drainage and utility specialist Lanes Group plc has won the Institute of Water of Innovation Award 2020 for the South East Region for leading the development of virtual reality (VR) capability in a 360 video theatre. The Igloo cylindrical training theatre used by Lanes.

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Building Energy Monitoring Innovation Energy Monitor Technology 259

Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2022

A planning application was submitted in August, which set out an ambitious sustainability agenda of climate resilience and Net Zero requirements, integrated into the design, including ultra-low carbon emissions, an acute focus on energy efficiency, insulation, on-site energy generation and zero use of fossil fuels in the running of the building.

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Resilience Education Fossil fuels Cooling 242

Impact Alpha

JULY 3, 2024

The post Ten African innovators land $55,000 each to scale their solutions for climate resilience appeared first on ImpactAlpha. Homegrown climate tech startups are key to Africa’s green transition. Ten companies working on plastics recycling, sustainable stormwater drainage, and other climate solutions.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 9, 2025

This cutting-edge innovation leverages renewable energy technologies to replace traditional diesel generators, providing a quieter, more sustainable power source for remote operations. This process eliminates dependence on fossil fuels while improving resilience in the face of outages or limited grid access.

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Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor Hydrogen Resilience 133

Inhabitat - Innovation

NOVEMBER 8, 2019

Milan-based architecture firm Stefano Boeri Architetti has unveiled innovative designs for a nature-infused smart city in Cancun, Mexico that will serve as a model for resilient and sustainable urban planning.

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Smart Cities Resilience Innovation Sustainability 280

Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 14, 2025

By adopting circular retrofitting practices, we can create a win-win scenario: cutting emissions while opening new avenues for economic value and sustainable innovation.

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Construction Demand Innovation Sustainability 162

GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

But the food system sprang into action — adapting operations, overcoming barriers and scaling promising innovations to reduce the amount of waste. Hear innovative thinking about scaling food-waste technologies, building more resilient donation systems and developing new supply chains that connect farmers with food recovery channels.

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Waste Waste Resilience Innovation 332

Canary Media

OCTOBER 18, 2024

Friday’s awards , the third round from the Department of Energy’s Grid Resilience and Innovation Partnerships (GRIP) Program, “couldn't… In the wake of Hurricanes Helene and Milton, the Biden administration has awarded a total of nearly $2 billion in new grants to help harden, expand, and modernize U.S. power grids.

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Resilience Power grid Innovation 134

Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

The UK’s Department of Science, Innovation and Technology is calling on cutting-edge innovators to enter the second Manchester Prize. The winning solution will demonstrate not only technical innovation but also an evidenced road map to near-term (2030) adoption, scale and impact.

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Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor 130

Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 14, 2025

Toyotas technological application of hydrogen was exemplified by its operations at the Port of Long Beach, where its innovative Tri-gen system is redefining clean energy. This innovative system is slated for an initial rollout across Japan, North America, Europe, and China starting in 2026.

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Hydrogen Logistics Carbon-neutral Batteries 139

Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 8, 2024

Funding came from Ofwat’s Water Breakthrough Challenge with Spring Innovation as the knowledge-sharing partner. For water companies, the ability to print replacement parts on demand can address challenges around equipment availability, delivery times and rising costs, helping reduce reliance on suppliers and build in-house resilience.

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Innovation Construction Resilience Carbon 130

Inhabitat - Innovation

JANUARY 13, 2021

Charleston, South Carolina has raised the bar for inclusive healthcare design with the opening of the new Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) Shawn Jenkins Children’s Hospital and Pearl Tourville Women’s Pavilion.

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Resilience 264

Charged

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Existing investors Avista Development, Clean Energy Ventures, Energy Innovation Capital, Evergy Ventures, LG Technology Ventures, and Zoma Capital also participated. The financing round was led by new investors Decarbonization Partners, which is a partnership between BlackRock and Temasek, and MassMutual Ventures. Source: ConnectDER

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Home Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Energy Monitor Resilience 96

Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 8, 2024

A project to extract rare minerals and elements from the plumes of a volcano, and another to extract them from mining waste are among nine innovation partnerships that have been awarded £3.5 million of funding from Innovate UK. Backing from Innovate UK will accelerate their work towards commercialisation.”

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Innovation Electric vehicle Recycling Recycling 147

Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 23, 2024

The UK water sector should give more focus to the themes of delivering resilient infrastructure systems and protecting and enhancing natural systems, according to a survey about the UK 2050 Water Innovation Strategy. Spring, the water innovation centre of excellence, launched the sector-wide survey in July 2023.

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Innovation Resilience Sustainability Technology 147

Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

Doing so offers countries that signed the Global Methane Pledge (158 countries, COP26 – European Union and the United States), and those who signed UAE Declaration on Sustainable Agriculture, Resilient Food Systems, and Climate Action (160+ countries, COP28) the opportunity to strengthen their climate commitments.

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Waste Waste Retail Methane 264

GreenBiz

AUGUST 25, 2020

It also is tackling ambitious innovations with its Ultium battery and propulsion system that could enable a GM-estimated range up to 400 miles or more on a full charge with 0 to 60 mile-per-hour acceleration as low as three seconds. . If we can tap into the battery itself, we can further innovate for more efficiency. Driving forward.

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Electric vehicle Electricity Batteries Transportation 494

GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Rob Bailey, director of climate resilience for Marsh & McLennan Companies, offers insights. . Risk & Resilience. Innovation. Concerns over environmental risks such as biodiversity loss and extreme weather remain top of mind for leaders in the new Global Risks Report published in late January by the World Economic Forum.

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Resilience Logistics Biodiversity Sustainability 343

Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 20, 2024

It also explores practical applications in aquaculture, biotechnology, and climate change mitigation, emphasizing brown algae’s potential for carbon capture and ecosystem restoration, while offering valuable insights into enhancing ecological resilience amid climatic challenges.

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Biotechnology Climate change Resilience Biodiversity 130