CleanTechnica
MARCH 27, 2020
The European Environmental Agency (EEA) has confirmed NASA and European Space Agency (ESA) data that shows a rapid, dramatic reduction in air pollution over those areas most affected by the COVID-19 lockdowns.
Grist
MARCH 27, 2020
Imagine working on an experiment that was two years in the making, and then watching it all melt away just before you could finish it. That’s the situation that Emily Bristol, a graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin’s Marine Science Institute, almost found herself in when her lab shut down on Tuesday to help prevent the spread of COVID-19.
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GreenBiz
MARCH 27, 2020
Corporations have been driving the uptake of renewables across the United States for years. Hundreds of companies have made voluntary commitments to transition to 100 percent clean energy, and companies of all sizes have spearheaded renewable procurement deals, adding clean energy capacity to the grid. .
Inhabitat - Innovation
MARCH 27, 2020
Sperry has just launched Bionic, a new type of eco-friendly boat shoe that is made from recovered waste in the oceans.
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.
Envirotec Magazine
MARCH 24, 2020
On 8 April, Future Biogas – “the UK’s biggest green gas producer” – will launch a subsidiary consultancy service. Called Fern AD, it will focus on the biological expertise required to optimise anaerobic digestion (AD) plant efficiency. The firm says it will mean other AD plant operators are able to benefit from its industry-leading biologists and inhouse laboratory for the first time. “Thanks to years of maximising the outputs of Future Biogas’ 13 AD plants, this te
GreenTechMedia
MARCH 25, 2020
SunPower on Wednesday announced several belt tightening measures and slashed executive salaries, citing uncertainty related to COVID-19. The company said the efforts would save up to $50 million as it navigates an unpredictable 2020. The distributed solar and storage company also withdrew the guidance it offered in February for full year 2020, with GAAP revenue at $2.1 to 2.3 billion and between 2.5 and 2.75 gigawatts shipped during the year.
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Inhabitat - Innovation
MARCH 27, 2020
Mumbai-based firm Sanjay Puri Architects has just completed work on a beautiful hotel in northern India known for wine production. Built on a base of locally-sourced natural stone, the Aria Hotel is a stunning design carefully stacked onto the landscape that boasts several passive and active features to make it incredibly energy efficient.
Envirotec Magazine
MARCH 24, 2020
Developers must get their strategies right or risk costly delays as they struggle to meet biodiversity net gain requirements set out in the new Environment Bill. Accessible, high quality green and blue space adds the equivalent of £77.9 billion to the value of UK housing stock and is associated with significant improvements in human wellbeing. Housing developers have been handed the opportunity to play a fundamental role in improving the UK’s environment while addressing the country’s crippling
Green Business Bureau
MARCH 25, 2020
Interested in the benefits of creating an eco-friendly business? Learn everything you need to know about becoming an “ecopreneur” in this guide written by MAYO Designs. What Is An Ecopreneur? An “ecopreneur” is an entrepreneur focused on creating and selling environmentally-friendly products and services. Ecopreneurship is a new way of doing business – a way to create sustainable business models, and work together with (and for) the environment.
GreenBiz
MARCH 26, 2020
By now, I hope you’ve heard the uplifting story of an Italian 3-D printing startup, Isinnova, that stepped in produce respirator valves for a hospital in Lombardy after the regular supplier was unable to provide them.
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.
Inhabitat - Innovation
MARCH 26, 2020
Known for their love of infusing modern structures with an abundance of greenery, the prolific Paris-based practice Vincent Callebaut Architectures has just unveiled their latest sustainable design. Slated for the Island of Cebu, The Rainbow Tree is a modular timber tower draped in layers of lush vegetation to become an "urban forest" for the city.
Charged
MARCH 23, 2020
Sponsored by Arkema. With the electric vehicle market driving a surge in demand for lithium-ion batteries, research is intensifying to develop new electrolytes that not only ensure battery performance, lifetime, and safety, but also enable high-energy anode materials, such as silicon, and cathode materials, such as NMC 811. High purity electrolyte components are crucial to mitigate both side reactions and premature degradation of the battery.
Solar Power World
MARCH 23, 2020
The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities (NJBPU) announced that 2019 was a record-breaking year for New Jersey’s solar energy program, with the most solar capacity installed in a single year. The most recent report from New Jersey’s Clean Energy Program shows that 447 MWDC of solar capacity commenced commercial operations in the state between… The post New Jersey installed most solar capacity in a single year in 2019 appeared first on Solar Power World.
GreenBiz
MARCH 27, 2020
From recipes for recommerce to changing packaging ingredients, the retail sector is integral to adoption of the circular economy. Don't expect a cookie-cutter approach.
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.
Inhabitat - Innovation
MARCH 26, 2020
In summer 2019, a surprising sight popped up on a New Hampshire lake — ICEBERG, a floating, iceberg-shaped pavilion made of locally sourced wood and recycled plastic. Created to raise awareness on the issue of polar ice melt, the temporary installation was the work of Bulot+Collins, an international architecture firm that guided over a hundred Beam Campers to build the project on-site.
DeSmogBlog
MARCH 25, 2020
Read time: 6 mins Today, a federal judge tossed out federal permits for the Dakota Access pipeline ( DAPL ), built to carry over half a million barrels of Bakken crude oil a day from North Dakota, and ordered the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to conduct a full environmental review of the pipeline project. U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg indicated that he would next consider whether to shut down the current flows of oil through DAPL while the environmental review is in process, ordering bot
Solar Power World
MARCH 27, 2020
One of the advantages of going solar for residential and commercial customers is the opportunity to get paid for the energy they generate. This is called net metering, when those customers push the electricity they aren’t using back onto the grid and receive a credit from their utility. Those customers are only billed for the… The post Which states offer net metering?
GreenBiz
MARCH 23, 2020
As we begin to ponder our collective future post-coronavirus, the opportunity is ripe to accelerate sustainable outcomes. Will we?
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?
Inhabitat - Innovation
MARCH 25, 2020
VW has updated the classic T1 Samba Bus into an electric van called e-BULLI.
Forbes Green Tech
MARCH 21, 2020
The European Space Agency released a new video this weekend that shows air pollution vanishing over China as the country goes into COVID-19 coronavirus lockdown, then returning as business resumes.
Charged
MARCH 25, 2020
The US Army has been tentatively testing EV technology for some time. Electrification offers opportunities to streamline the military’s logistics tail and to improve its mobility and reach, and the process needs to move faster, a general with Army Futures Command told Defense News in a recent interview. “Let’s be clear. We’re behind. We’re late to meet on this thing,” said Lt.
GreenBiz
MARCH 26, 2020
With the pandemic spurring a dramatic drop in economic activity across Europe, electricity, renewables and carbon prices have also plummeted.
Inhabitat - Innovation
MARCH 23, 2020
A symbol of pollution becomes a beacon of sustainability.
Defend Our Future
MARCH 24, 2020
Eight young women leaders in environmentalism you should know. There are no two ways about it – the coronavirus pandemic has been terrifying, and dangerous, and looks to get worse in the coming days or weeks. Everyone should take care to protect themselves, and their communities, as best as they can. And wash. Your. Hands! At a time like this, it can be comforting to remember that as scary as the world can be – and as daunting as challenges like coronavirus, and climate change, are – there are s
Planet Pulse
MARCH 21, 2020
Today is the International Day of Forests , created by the United Nations to help raise awareness about how forests can help humans generate environmental sustainability, create food security and produce thriving economies. Forests are also known for their carbon-capturing abilities and are one of our best defenses against the threat of climate change.
GreenBiz
MARCH 25, 2020
We can’t tackle one successfully without tackling the other, as many of the reasons for and solutions to the growing plastic and climate problems are the same.
Inhabitat - Innovation
MARCH 26, 2020
Hospitals overwhelmed by the COVID-19 pandemic could find a much-needed capacity lifeline in retrofitted shipping containers.
Charged
MARCH 27, 2020
Tesla plans to drastically reduce staffing at its Nevada Gigafactory due to the coronavirus crisis, the local county manager said on Thursday. “Tesla has informed us that the Gigafactory in Storey County is reducing on-site staff by roughly 75% in the coming days,” Austin Osborne said in a post on the county’s web site. A week ago, battery partner Panasonic said it would pull its 3,500 employees from the Gigafactory for 14 days.
DeSmogBlog
MARCH 27, 2020
Read time: 5 mins Electric cars are better for the climate than gas-powered vehicles in nearly every part of the world. That's the clear, unequivocal finding of the first study that conducted a global examination of the current and future greenhouse gas emissions of electric vehicles ( EV s) and gas-powered cars. This study directly refutes myths perpetuated by climate science deniers and EV antagonists, who claim that EV s are really not all that green.
GreenBiz
MARCH 24, 2020
The novel coronavirus outbreak may be just the beginning of mass pandemics.
Inhabitat - Innovation
MARCH 23, 2020
The City of Santa Monica will soon welcome a new civic building that will meet the Living Building Challenge.
Impact Alpha
MARCH 26, 2020
Cities and countries have scrambled to contain the COVID-19 virus – with widely varied success. How have Singapore, Hong Kong and Seoul succeeded in tamping down the pandemic, while Italy and the U.S. have struggled? Chalk it up to the resilience dividend. “Cities who have taken a resilience approach are better prepared,” Global Resilient Cities. The post Investments in resilience pay dividends in combating the corona pandemic appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
DeSmogBlog
MARCH 25, 2020
Read time: 6 mins “ Our people aren’t prepared for a pandemic,” Robert Taylor, executive director of the Concerned Citizens of St. John The Baptist Parish, told me a couple of days before the governor of Louisiana issued a stay-at-home order due to the rapid spread of COVID -19 in the state. “Many of us have cancer and weakened immune systems from the chemical onslaught we endure everyday.
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