Andrew Winston

MARCH 28, 2024

The CEO of the world’s largest oil company says that renewables and clean tech are a “fantasy” and not economically competitive. One reader asked a reasonable question about whether “facing the hard reality of our predicament is a good idea.” powering planes, producing industrial heat, etc.)

Technology 78

Technology Fossil fuels Climate change Aviation 78

Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The queue for connection is now over 500GW, which is many times the existing installed capacity and is even significantly more than anticipated total connected capacity for 2050. This has got to the point where the vast majority of applications don’t get the connection date they request. Projects that don’t meet milestones are to be ejected.

Demand 147

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

I was doing photography and I got to work with Walker Evans — who is, I think, one of the greatest photographers of all time. Evans, you are the greatest black-and-white photographer of all time. And I remember thinking, "Oh, my goodness." The conversation has been lightly edited for clarity and length. Are you excited to be 70?

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Carbon-negative Carbon Sustainability Recycling 520

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2024

A senior figure at the influential Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA) think tank contributed to a new documentary that spread numerous myths about climate change. A screenshot of Stephen Davies of the Institute of Economic Affairs in Climate The Movie: The Cold Truth. It’s not known if the IEA has received funding from BP since 2018.

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Fossil fuels Climate change Education Law 126

GreenBiz

OCTOBER 28, 2020

The effort is attracting pioneers in green chemistry, design and data to build a first-of-its-kind clearinghouse to help design teams and supply chains ditch hazardous chemicals for good. Yet toxic substances circulate in waterways and bloodstreams, leached out from all the consumables of everyday life. Leaders on board. "We

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Plastics Innovation Organic Retail 504

GreenBiz

JULY 6, 2020

As energy consultants developing energy solutions, it may feel difficult to look away from the bombardment of messaging about death and economic downfall, and videos of divisiveness and hatred. It may feel difficult to look away from the bombardment of messaging about death and economic downfall, and videos of divisiveness and hatred.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

The black carbon emitted by rocket launches has a climate warming impact of up to 1,500 times stronger than CO2 per unit of mass, new research shows. Stay in Cornwall’s Spaceport Case File appears to reveal the economic, environmental, academic, and employment impacts of expanding the UK space sector.

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Ozone Pollution Global warming Carbon 268

GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

” As one of the first analysts in the renewable energy sector, Demas has since taken on the responsibility of helping to push our industry forward, through the 2008 recession and now in the uncertain times of COVID-19 and broader social unrest. ” At the time I said, “Why? When I joined, it was all good days.

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Real Estate Medicine Energy Energy 246

Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

Smart water meters collect and transmit water usage data in near real-time, enabling water companies to remotely monitor consumption on an hourly basis. With standard automated meter reading (AMR) meters, readings are taken once or twice a year, meaning customer leaks could go undiscovered for some time. million smart meters by 2025.

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Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Batteries 147

GreenBiz

JUNE 12, 2020

It’s time to put people first. The hard truth is that our failure to create a more socially just world has worsened the current crisis and could hamper our ability to recover faster. Lise Kingo. Fri, 06/12/2020 - 02:00. Editor's note: Lise Kingo is stepping down as CEO and executive director effective June 16.

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Health Organic Biodiversity Education 372

GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The corporation, which manufactures wood pellets as a purportedly renewable alternative to coal, did what most industries do in prospective communities — they promised jobs, economic development, and minimal impacts. Enviva had built its first North Carolina plant there two years before. .

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Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor 544

Mosaic

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

The hard part comes when it’s time to help them make a decision. And in the current economic climate, homeowners might opt for less-efficient units to avoid higher price tags. Contractors can help offset this sticker shock by offering a variety of system options, as shown through the Good/Better/Best sales approach.

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HVAC Cooling Technology Energy 52

GreenBiz

AUGUST 17, 2020

Now that the business group’s statement has been stress-tested well beyond anyone’s expectations, it’s a good time to take a look at what difference it has made in its first 12 months. Fifty years ago next month, writing in the New York Times (PDF), Friedman argued that the social responsibility of business was to “increase profits.”

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Politics Sustainability Ethics Fashion 387

Grist

MARCH 27, 2024

For a variety of reasons — some economic, some cultural — neither solution has really taken hold with most fescue belt ranchers. You’re sticking your neck out there when you go to kill something that looks really good.” But the fescue these cows are eating is toxic. The animals lose hooves. But ranchers have been slow to embrace it.

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Soil Cooling Climate change Agriculture 139

GreenBiz

MARCH 23, 2021

It’s time to speed up the sustainability shift. I was general manager of a mock company, Rio Negro Bioproducts, with the express goal to transform it from a traditional business to a sustainable one — economically, environmentally and socially — over a 20-year period compressed into a 10-week virtual simulation. .

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GreenBiz

MAY 3, 2021

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. That’s the big question that takes center stage at the recent annual conference hosted by Imperial College Business School.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Which industries are most at risk, why it's hard to measure nature and what is the new meaning of "good business sense". In 2020 the World Economic Forum reported that $44tr of economic value relies on nature. Measuring nature is hard, so the regulatory frameworks will be complex.

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 30, 2023

Political barriers to a clean energy transition Of course the political and economic barriers to implementing renewable energy transitions for businesses are well established. Infrastructure barriers to a clean energy transition If possible, the economic challenges may be more profound than the political ones.

Politics 78

Politics Energy Energy Fossil fuels 78

Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Globalized hyper-consumerism, monopoly reign, climate change… As if we really needed another reason to support local businesses and communities, the coronavirus, or COVID-19, pandemic hit hard and shook the economy, especially small businesses and local communities. COVID-19 and E-Commerce. Changing Consumer Demands.

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Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 158

Business Green

MARCH 5, 2021

McKinsey & Company has beefed up its presence in the green economy, after yesterday announcing it has snapped up leading climate and energy consultancy Vivid Economics and climate analytics specialist Planetrics for an undisclosed sum.

Climate change 93

Climate change Sustainability Investment Carbon 93

Andrew Winston

MAY 4, 2022

This article got some good debate on my LinkedIn post. [I published this piece, co-authored with Paul Polman, in Harvard Business Review a few weeks ago. In reality, except for a few points, I could have written this many years ago (and did do versions of it). They shouldn’t. This group has outperformed the market.

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Investment Sustainability Carbon-negative Fossil fuels 147

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

We have experienced the challenge of leading through a recession and share our hard-earned lessons here. In good times and bad, meet leaders where they are, and intentionally link sustainability with language that they understand regarding business risk and opportunity. "In Language matters. Follow the money.

Sustainability 72

Sustainability Innovation Organic Climate change 72

Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2021

Efforts to improve the water quality of England’s rivers, lakes and waterways are faltering – and unless policymakers recommit to the hard work of regular testing and monitoring, they risk losing control of this battle completely.

Pollution 130

Pollution Agriculture Health Government 130

Business Green

APRIL 14, 2020

A coalition of European business leaders, politicians, NGOs, trade unions, and academics has today joined a growing chorus of voices across the continent calling on the EU to help tackle the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic through an unprecedented green investment programme.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 2, 2020

It’s hard to argue that capitalism is not the most beneficial way to run a country. The good news is that a new capitalism is emerging, spearheaded by leaders like CEO Marc Benioff of Salesforce.com, which shifts corporations focus from shareholders to stakeholders. The term in this sense was introduced by Alfred Rappaport in 1986.

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Climate change Sustainability Demand Electricity 133

E2 Environmental Entrepreneurs

JANUARY 21, 2020

where they met with dozens of members of Congress to give their business perspective about how passing smart climate and clean energy policies could create jobs, drive economic growth? Colorado is a fitting place to mark the start of E2’s 20th year of advocating for policies that are good for the economy and good for the environment.

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Policy Electric vehicle Fossil fuels Organic 78

Terra Infirma

OCTOBER 23, 2023

And I soon found out the hard way that logic is not enough – I’ve lost count of the number of times I gave a well researched presentation to people of influence to be told “Very interesting, good luck with it!” The real difficulty is making change happen – ie making those systems the new normal.

Technology 59

Technology Sustainability Electric vehicle Packaging 59

GreenTechMedia

MARCH 17, 2020

Savvy business leaders must plan for the unexpected even when business is good. residential solar installer, made a different argument: A recession could actually encourage rooftop solar sales as a way to save money in difficult economic times. But Jurich, who runs the leading U.S. We are a savings product for the household.

Investment 130

Investment Electricity Energy Energy 130

Clean Energy Canada

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

For a government trying to communicate the energy transition to a country feeling the economic squeeze, one could hardly envisage a better policy. As such, it’s encouraging to see the government hinting that the Greener Homes Grant will live again, but this time in a more equitable and accessible format.

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Government Politics Natural gas Policy 52

EDF + Business

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

At the same time a recent official scientific report shows that there is still a lot of hard work and policy setting to do to reach it. These businesses have seized the opportunity to innovate with circular economic principles, renewable energy and leading technologies to provide the goods and services people need today.

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Innovation Policy Retail Packaging 52

GreenTechMedia

APRIL 29, 2020

While the most visible impacts have been in hotels and restaurants, the advanced energy industry has been hit hard as well. Specific relief that’s needed now can sustain the industry through the crisis and ensure that it is ready to drive economic recovery when the crisis has passed. Best of all, this relief will cost U.S.

Energy 130

Energy Energy Electric vehicle Law 130

GreenTechMedia

JULY 27, 2020

The Switch battery, integrated by Con Edison’s commercial solutions arm, would be six times larger than Convergent's systems when it comes online in a couple of years. But the Switch project will operate at utility scale, gaining the economic benefits of that scale while benefiting from the attributes of a distributed project.

Solar Energy Monitor 246

Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 246

LA CleanTech Incubator

JUNE 5, 2020

times more hazardous pollution than white people — regardless of income. It’s no coincidence that African Americans are three times more likely to die from coronavirus than white people. You look at black people in America and our journey, every opportunity that we've had to get ahead has been choked out, fully, over time.

Energy 145

Energy Energy Pollution Organic 145

Business Green

JULY 9, 2021

Switching pension investments to a green offering is 21 times more effective at cutting carbon footprints than the combined effects of giving up flying, becoming vegetarian, and swapping to a renewable energy provider, new research has found. Campaign launched to urge pension providers to deliver new net zero strategies.

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Carbon Climate change Investment Sustainability 101

EDF + Business

MARCH 10, 2023

Last March, I outlined three ways investors could reduce their risk when teams first began competing for $8 billion set aside for hydrogen hubs: Focus on uses where the economics make sense and there are clear advantages for climate and communities. We don’t have time to get it wrong. This blog originally appeared in Forbes.

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Hydrogen Building Energy Monitoring Investment Energy Monitor 52

Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 16, 2021

broke Canada’s all-time temperature record not once but three days in a row earlier this summer, culminating to an unbelievable 49.6 What you may have missed: the unprecedented heat dome, which subsequently drifted eastward through the Prairies, was 150 times more likely because of human-caused climate change.

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Fossil fuels Climate change Wind power Global warming 52

Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

With the increase in Electric Vehicles’ availability in Midwest states, it is time to acknowledge the opportunities for charging EVs at the MISO regional grid operator level. Hence, now is the time to act on policy goals to include EVs’ impact on the Midwest electric grid.

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Demand Electricity Fossil fuels Construction 91