Autonomous vehicles could help cities address their climate goals, if they start planning now
GreenBiz
JANUARY 21, 2020
How do cities make sure AVs achieve the “heaven” rather than the “hell” scenario?
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Coca-Cola Will Continue With Single-Use Plastic Bottles Because That’s What People Want
CleanTechnica
JANUARY 23, 2020
Coca-Cola's head of sustainability told the World Economic Forum this week her company has no intention of reducing the number of single use plastic bottles it churns out every year. Instead, it will increase recycling efforts worldwide. Is that a plan?
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How Photovoltaics Have Improved Over the Years
U.S. Green Technology
JANUARY 21, 2020
The Future of Solar is Bright for Photovoltaics Photovoltaics is a bit of a funny word, but it packs a serious implication. The lay term for photovoltaics is solar panels, and they’re becoming increasingly more common. Research online shows that solar energy has surpassed prices for fossil fuel energy, but unfortunately to see a new revolution.
Down plastic, up morale: How a sustainability graduate school is reducing single-use plastic
GreenBiz
JANUARY 24, 2020
Our finance department measured the “before” of our office’s single-use plastic, and implemented improvements right away.
Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization
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.
How companies can source cotton more sustainably
GreenBiz
JANUARY 22, 2020
Natural and renewable, it’s a popular choice for brands and consumers looking to make more sustainable fabric choices, but cotton comes with its fair share of social and environmental risks.
Rhode Island Is 1st US State To Commit To 100% Renewable By 2030 — “It’s Time To Set Our Sights Higher”
CleanTechnica
JANUARY 20, 2020
Guess who's gonna win the David vs. Goliath renewable energy battle.
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NextEra Looks to Add Batteries to Its Existing Solar Fleet
GreenTechMedia
JANUARY 24, 2020
NextEra Energy, North America’s leading wind and solar generator, is combing through its base of existing solar facilities with an eye to retroactively adding batteries, as it adopts a more “aggressive” view on the falling cost of energy storage. “We increasingly see storage as an important standalone business in its own right,” CEO Jim Robo said Friday on an earnings call.
What businesses should know about the evolution of rural solar
GreenBiz
JANUARY 23, 2020
Solar panels may harness the sun’s energy in the same way that plants do, but while some rural residents view them as another revenue-enhancing crop, others see them more as weed-like nuisances that threaten their pastoral way of life.
Circularity analysis details alarming trend as global resource consumption passes 100 billion tonnes a year
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 22, 2020
Separating recyclable materials in a local cooperative in the Glicerio neighborhood in São Paulo in 2017: The report also points to a number of encouraging ‘bottom-up’ initiatives, that are advancing circularity in certain regions of the world. Circular economy strategies essential as reuse of resources falls to 8.6%. The global economy is consuming 100 billion tonnes of materials a year for the first time ever but reuse of resources has gone into reverse, according to a report from impact organ
Cross-laminated timber makes this Scottish home climate resistant
Inhabitat - Innovation
JANUARY 20, 2020
Scottish firm Mary Arnold Foster Architects has unveiled a stunning home made out of several timber “pods” and tucked into the idyllic landscape of the Scottish Highlands. Clad in cross-laminated timber (CLT) and covered with slats of charred larch, which provide the home with resilience, the Nedd home was built on concrete pillars and set in between two outcrops to minimize damage to the landscape.
Electrofuels Are the Future: The Driving Force to Decarbonizing Heavy Transport
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.
IEA: Energy Transition Possible, But More Expensive, Without Oil & Gas Buy-In
GreenTechMedia
JANUARY 20, 2020
The energy transition will be cheaper and faster with the full support of the oil and gas sector, but national oil companies, in particular, are falling behind, the IEA warned in a report compiled with the World Economic Forum and presented at Davos 2020. For all the talk of the energy transition, leading global oil and gas companies invested just $2.1 billion into solar, wind, biofuels and carbon capture projects last year, or a mere 0.8 percent of their overall capital expenditures, according
New York is kicking California's butt in building electrification
GreenBiz
JANUARY 24, 2020
A look at the two states’ policies show they have, to this point, prioritized different approaches to spur on electrification.
Government advisory body says electric vehicle revolution can be a boon to the UK’s energy system
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 23, 2020
A Government-backed taskforce bringing together key players in the energy, infrastructure and transport sectors says it has demonstrated that an effectively managed integration of electric vehicles with the energy system can significantly improve electricity network efficiency, increase system resilience and limit the requirement to build costly new infrastructure to meet growing electricity demand.
Check out these amazing sustainable cabins by ZeroCabin
Inhabitat - Innovation
JANUARY 23, 2020
Armed only with experience in biology, chemistry and physics, a group of Chile-based scientists took concepts ranging from photosynthesis to thermodynamics to create Zerocabin, a collection of off-grid and self-sustaining cabins that use “free energy” to function.
AR/VR Simulations for Sustainable, Regenerative, Circular Cities
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.
Portuguese Oil Firm Galp Becomes Major Solar Player With 2.9GW Deal
GreenTechMedia
JANUARY 23, 2020
Portuguese oil company Galp Energia will become one of the biggest players in Europe’s booming Spanish solar market, after closing a €2.2 billion ($2.4 billion) deal for the solar assets of Spanish construction firm ACS. The deal includes 900 megawatts of operational assets and a pipeline expected to yield a further 2 gigawatts by 2023. ACS, via subsidiary Cobra Concesiones, won 1,550 megawatts in Spain’s 2017 auction.
How the Textile Exchange's new index aims to make a material difference
GreenBiz
JANUARY 20, 2020
A new tool, released today, aims to push apparel and home furnishings companies further toward sustainability, and ramps up efforts by the textile and fashion industries to align material choices with the Sustainable Development Goals.
Renewable Energy Prices Hit Record Lows: How Can Utilities Benefit From Unstoppable Solar And Wind?
Forbes Green Tech
JANUARY 21, 2020
If falling prices have made renewable energy unstoppable in the U.S., what does that mean for utilities? If the question is determined by smart policy, the answer may be financial opportunity.
Award-winning Owl Woods Passive House playfully mimics birdhouses in Australia
Inhabitat - Innovation
JANUARY 24, 2020
Australian design studio Talina Edwards Architecture recently completed the Owl Woods Passive House — the first certified Passivhaus project designed by a woman architect in Australia.
How Digital Transformation will Bend the Curve of the Linear Economy Toward the Circular
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?
Could Green Hydrogen Become the ‘New Oil’?
GreenTechMedia
JANUARY 23, 2020
Less than one percent of all hydrogen produced today comes from renewables. Is that about to change? The vice president of Siemens Middle East just called green hydrogen the “new oil” in the coming decades. A lot of big industrial companies and oil majors are taking another serious look at hydrogen. Why? In an era of extremely cheap renewables that are increasingly being curtailed, hydrogen production could finally be an attractive use.
Think distributed solar-plus-storage isn’t cost-effective? Think again
GreenBiz
JANUARY 23, 2020
Commercial customers paying demand charges and time-of-use rates should seriously consider an investment in these assets.
After a Decade of Fracking, Billions of Dollars Lost and a Climate in Crisis
DeSmogBlog
JANUARY 21, 2020
Read time: 13 mins As 2020 begins, the impacts of climate change have become increasingly clear around the world. The new year started amid devastating wildfires, tied to the worst droughts Australia has experienced in hundreds of years , which encircled much of the continent. So far, 29 people have been reported dead. A University of Sydney professor estimated the number of animals killed likely tops one billion.
Self-sustaining Ugandan surgical facility provides healthcare to underserved areas
Inhabitat - Innovation
JANUARY 21, 2020
The architects created a modular, easily replicable surgical facility to provide ambulatory surgical procedures for underserved populations in resource-poor regions.
"We Need Real Zero"
Fairsnape
JANUARY 22, 2020
Once again Great Thunberg has shaken our thinking on carbon with her speech at the World Economic Forum in Davos. With our focus on “net zero emissions” “low carbon economy” and “carbon neutrality” are we cheating and fiddling around with numbers? are we “offsetting emissions” by just paying someone else to plant trees whilst we carry on as normal?
Fashion's latest trend? Why H&M, other big brands are investing in garment recycling
GreenBiz
JANUARY 22, 2020
Less than 1 percent of clothing material today is refashioned to produce new clothing. This is one potential solution.
How to Create the Perfect Green Mission Statement
Green Business Bureau
JANUARY 24, 2020
The time is now for all companies and businesses to get serious about sustainability. This often starts with establishing priorities and formally writing an environmental mission statement or what we call a “green mission statement”. A green mission statement becomes the foundation of a company’s sustainability efforts. It provides the organization and its stakeholders with an understanding of what’s most important and what your company can do to protect the natural world and be more soci
Hundreds of red plastic crates are repurposed into a public mosque in Indonesia
Inhabitat - Innovation
JANUARY 22, 2020
One green-thinking firm, Parisauli Arsitek Studio, has managed to find a way of giving new life to hundreds of discarded plastic crates.
Norway bars Lexus ad for perpetual motion machine
Charged
JANUARY 20, 2020
Lexus is up to its old tricks again. The Toyota subsidiary has drawn ridicule from the EV industry in the past for running highly misleading ads touting the superiority of its hybrids over pure EVs – one trashed the BMW i3 , and another inexplicably claimed that EV drivers needed to wait around for their vehicles to charge. Now Norway’s Consumer Authority has found a recent ad campaign for the Lexus NX to be misleading.
Trend: Shipping sails toward decarbonization
GreenBiz
JANUARY 20, 2020
The following is adapted from State of Green Business 2020, published by GreenBiz in partnership with Trucost, part of financial information and analytics giant S&P Global.
Kentucky finally goes big on solar, will install 100-MW array
Solar Power World
JANUARY 24, 2020
Louisville Gas and Electric Company and Kentucky Utilities Company today filed with the Kentucky Public Service Commission for approval of three contracts that could mean one giant step forward for solar energy generation in Kentucky, with construction of the largest solar array in the Bluegrass. Kentucky is currently ranked 44th of U.S. states and territories… The post Kentucky finally goes big on solar, will install 100-MW array appeared first on Solar Power World.
Modular homes in Sweden are specially designed for solar panels
Inhabitat - Innovation
JANUARY 22, 2020
Swedish firm Street Monkey Architects has unveiled new solar-powered, prefabricated modular homes in Örebro, Sweden.
BMW revamps battery materials supply chain, signs supply contract for raw lithium
Charged
JANUARY 21, 2020
BMW Group has signed a €540-million contract with China’s Ganfeng Lithium for the supply of raw lithium from mines in Australia. The carmaker has restructured its supply chains for its upcoming fifth generation of battery cells. From 2020 on, it will directly source both lithium and cobalt. The raw materials will then pass on to BMW’s two cell manufacturing partners, CATL and Samsung SDI.
Could zero emission vehicles usher in an era of 'road calm'?
GreenBiz
JANUARY 21, 2020
A new driving test devised by Hyundai provides further evidence that electric vehicles are not just cleaner. They also lead to calmer, safer drivers.
Outside-the-box mounting applications can expand solar’s reach
Solar Power World
JANUARY 22, 2020
Solar components are often built with specific tasks in mind. Helical piles and ground screws are driven into the earth to secure racking, and roof mounts are attached to structural supports and flashed to prevent leaking. Since panels are placed on a variety of surfaces, not every mounting technology will work in every application —… The post Outside-the-box mounting applications can expand solar’s reach appeared first on Solar Power World.
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