Jim Conca
FEBRUARY 28, 2021
With 78% of the population supporting nuclear power, Sweden’s plan to prematurely shut down its entire nuclear fleet is bizarre, especially since it will add over 2 billion tons of CO2 emissions, cause the loss of $120 billion in taxes and undermine their grid reliability when it's really cold.
The City Fix
FEBRUARY 18, 2021
Road development throughout the 20th century was based primarily on the premise that more infrastructure eases traffic. But evidence shows that road building, instead of reducing congestion, actually increases traffic. When travel time by car is reduced and convenience increased, Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.
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GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 15, 2021
Paul Polman's rallying cry for courageous leaders. Jean Haggerty. Mon, 02/15/2021 - 02:15. In addition to having a devasting effect on lives and livelihoods, COVID-19 has been the biggest global disruptor in recent memory. It also has pushed us to a new moment of corporate leadership. "This is where the moral leaders [will] separate themselves from the greenwashers," Paul Polman, global sustainability leader and former Unilever CEO, said in a GreenBiz 21 keynote conversation about what leadershi
Envirotec Magazine
FEBRUARY 24, 2021
Microplastics from textiles may inhibit the lung’s ability to repair damage caused by conditions such as COVID-19, according to research findings released on 24 February. Finding both nylon and polyester negatively affected the growth and repair of airway tissue, researchers – from Groningen University, The Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research, and Plymouth Marine Laboratory – said the microfibres could make it more difficult for those with COVID-19 to mend their
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.
Grist
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
Kids want to trust that grown-ups have a plan. But when it comes to climate change, adults have left the next generation with more questions than answers. Growing up, I thought my parents knew what to do about everything, including caring for the environment. It was the early ’90s, and most environmental campaigns were focused on individual behaviors; our family engaged in small actions — cleaning up parks, recycling, carpooling — hoping to make a difference.
Forbes Green Tech
FEBRUARY 4, 2021
The $169,000 Lucid Air is coming this spring and Peter Rawlinson claims it’ll be the fastest, longest-range electric vehicle on the planet. He should know. A decade ago, he engineered Tesla’s Model S.
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DeSmogBlog
FEBRUARY 17, 2021
Read time: 10 mins Fossil fuel industry supporters and climate deniers are pushing a new climate falsehood when it comes to renewable energy: that natural gas offers a more affordable future. And they’re focusing their misinformation campaign on New Jersey.
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
5 cool measurement tools attempting to quantify regenerative agriculture. Jesse Klein. Thu, 02/11/2021 - 00:05. Many practices are associated with regenerative agriculture — anything from no-till practices to pesticide-free farming. What’s more, the concept means different things for different crops in different regions. What is considered regenerative in one location might not qualify for the same label under other agricultural conditions. .
Impact Alpha
FEBRUARY 1, 2021
ImpactAlpha, Feb 1 – The design mandate for the green economy: Develop better and cleaner solutions that create jobs, improve health and drive demonstrably. The post Solving for climate justice is giving these Black investors an edge in the green economy appeared first on Impact Alpha.
Grist
FEBRUARY 3, 2021
Coal’s grip on the global electricity sector is loosening as more utilities and companies invest in renewable energy. But one major coal consumer — the steel industry — is finding it harder to kick its habit. Steel companies make nearly 2 billion tons of high-strength material every year for bridges, buildings, railways, and roads. The furnaces that melt iron ore to make steel consume vast amounts of coal.
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.
Forbes Green Tech
FEBRUARY 2, 2021
The U. S. can save so much money in health and fossil-fuel costs by decarbonizing its economy that it makes financial sense to do it regardless of climate change, according to a report released today by the National Academies of Science.
Charged
FEBRUARY 26, 2021
Charged has been reporting on electric trucks for a decade, but the electrification of real-world fleets has been frustratingly slow, and several would-be e-truck builders have gone bust waiting for fleet operators to conduct years-long pilots. Now we’re finally starting to see some large orders. Will 2021 be the year of the electric truck? A recent article in Transport Dive discusses the current state of electrification, and the relative merits of battery-electric versus fuel cell technology fo
DeSmogBlog
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
Read time: 7 mins The decade-long fracking boom in Appalachia has not led to significant job growth, and despite the region’s extraordinary levels of natural gas production, the industry’s promise of prosperity has “turned into almost nothing,” according to a new report. .
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 12, 2021
Why data and measurement are key to a circular economy transition. James Woolven. Fri, 02/12/2021 - 01:00. This article originally appeared on Circulate News. Measuring financial results, customer retention, productivity and inventory are all commonplace, but these measurements alone are no longer enough to tell a business whether it will stand the test of time.
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.
Impact Alpha
FEBRUARY 4, 2021
ImpactAlpha, Feb. 4 – Nature is an asset – and we are failing as asset managers. That was the stark message of a. The post Biodiversity is the new climate change appeared first on Impact Alpha.
GatesNotes
FEBRUARY 14, 2021
This excerpt from my book includes several ideas for how you can help move us closer to a zero-carbon future.
Forbes Green Tech
FEBRUARY 16, 2021
Turbines in colder climates are typically equipped with de-icing and other tools, such as built-in heating. In Texas during this week’s historic cold snap, they were not.
Charged
FEBRUARY 19, 2021
The French city of Triel-sur-Seine has launched a trial of an electric shuttle service that uses a six-meter electric bus made by Bluebus, a subsidiary of the Bolloré Group. The minibuses, which will be delivered this summer, are part of an order for up to 800 e-buses from three manufacturers by Île-de-France Mobilités, an agency that coordinates the various transport companies (including some 90 private bus companies) operating in the Île-de-France region.
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?
Business Green
FEBRUARY 24, 2021
Indonesia experienced the lowest deforestation rates in 20 years, the figures from Chain Reaction Research reveal. New deforestation data has revealed impressive progress in combating forest clearances across Southeast Asia throughout 2020, with just 93,800 acres of deforestation associated with palm oil plantations recorded over the course of the year.
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
General Mills, Danone pilots provide proof for regenerative agriculture success. Jesse Klein. Tue, 02/23/2021 - 01:30. A few years into Danone’s and General Mills’ regenerative agriculture pilots, one thing has become clear: It’s about data collection. Holistically changing our agriculture system to become more sustainable comes later. . "We really don’t have a great understanding of what happens when farmers make these transitions to regenerative systems," said Steven Rosenzweig, senior soil sc
CleanTechnica
FEBRUARY 28, 2021
Atlantic Ocean circulation underpinning the Gulf Stream is weaker than at any point in the last 1,000 years largely due to climate change and could cause disastrous sea level rise along the U.S. Eastern Seaboard, according to new research published Thursday in Nature Geoscience. The Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) forms something of a 10,000-mile conveyor […].
GatesNotes
FEBRUARY 14, 2021
Everything you need to know about avoiding the worst climate outcomes.
Forbes Green Tech
FEBRUARY 8, 2021
One man is responsible for a slew of bizarre U.S. Navy patents which range from compact fusion devices to faster than light travel technology.
Charged
FEBRUARY 24, 2021
In 2020, Porsche delivered just over 20,000 units of its luxury Taycan EV—the first vehicle from a major automaker to sport an 800 V (nominal) battery, which is more than double the voltage of its competitors (and firmly into light-rail and switchyard locomotive territory, actually). It appears that many other EVs will soon follow in the Taycan’s tracks.
Business Green
FEBRUARY 14, 2021
But Imperial College London analysis warns emerging technologies and negative emission power plants are likely to be needed to unlock full decarbonisation of the grid. Another record year for renewables saw clean power sources overtake fossil fuels on Britain's grid for the first time in 2020, but new nuclear and emerging technologies such as hydrogen and bioenergy carbon capture and storage are likely to be required to deliver a fully decarbonised energy system.
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 17, 2021
Insights from green banking: What keeps customers from switching banks? Diane Osgood. Wed, 02/17/2021 - 00:05. ESG may be all the rage, but what about retail banking? The deposits you make at your retail bank for personal and business accounts sustain the bank’s ability to make loans and investments. Loans and investment fuel growth. Put simply, a bank’s capital can flow towards fossil fuels or renewable energy, towards local business loans or financing environmentally damaging projects.
CleanTechnica
FEBRUARY 28, 2021
Tesla is hosting its second Historically Black College and University (HBCU) info session on March 3rd at 3:00 pm Eastern Time. Tesla is keeping its commitment to students attending HBCU colleges and is inviting both HBCU students and alumni to join the virtual informational session on Wednesday. The session will include learning opportunities about full-time […].
Business Green
FEBRUARY 11, 2021
Rate of endemic species' extinction could be slashed by a quarter if action is taken now, but policy delays will make this outcome more difficult to achieve and twice as expensive, report warns. Putting off action to protect biodiversity will double the cost and result in the extinction of many more species when compared to acting now to curb global impacts, according to sobering findings published by Vivid Economics and the Natural History Museum this morning.
Business Green
FEBRUARY 16, 2021
Government-funded project aims to deliver prototype zero emission vehicle to London Ambulance Service NHS Trust later this year. Plans are being drawn up to deliver London's first prototype hydrogen fuel cell ambulance later this year, as part of a government-funded project to create "the zero emission ambulance of the future". A group of companies and manufacturers led by UK hydrogen fuel cell specialist ULEMCo announced last week they are now progressing to the prototype build stage for the gr
Business Green
FEBRUARY 18, 2021
Company hails boost for plans to bring down the cost of clean, dispatchable power to a 'universally competitive level'. Hopes that next generation geothermal energy technologies could unlock low cost, dispatchable, clean power at scale received a boost this week, as Eavor Technologies announced it has completed a $40m funding round. The funding round saw the company secure backing from oil giants BP and Chevron through their venture arms, alongside investments from Temasek, BDC Capital, Eversour
Business Green
FEBRUARY 15, 2021
Jaguar Land Rover aims to spend £2.5bn annually on electrifying its range as it strives to become a net zero company by 2039. All cars built under the Jaguar brand will be fully electric by 2025, Jaguar Land Rover (JLR) has announced, as the UK-based automotive firm today unveiled its new strategy to become a net zero business by 2039. The car brand, which is owned by Indian conglomerate Tata Motors Group, said all of its Jaguar sports cars would be fully-electric within four years, as it unveil
Business Green
FEBRUARY 15, 2021
Set to open to the public in April 2021, the two semi-detached homes in Gateshead will showcase a range of hydrogen-fuelled appliances, BEIS said. The UK's first show-homes with heating appliances fuelled entirely by hydrogen are set to open in Gateshead in the spring, in a bid to demonstrate the role hydrogen could play in decarbonising the household heating, the Department of Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) announced today.
Business Green
FEBRUARY 10, 2021
Danish wind manufacturer says its new machine will set new industry benchmarks for rotor diameter, swept area, and power. Vestas has become the latest wind manufacturer to join the race to develop giant offshore wind turbines, after unveiling plans this morning for a new 15MW turbine model with a record-breaking rotor diameter. The Danish wind turbine giant said the V236-15.0MW model would help slash costs for wind farm developers, elevate industry performance benchmarks, and make the firm "high
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