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NOVEMBER 8, 2019
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GE Signs 715 Megawatt Wind Deal In China, Puts World’s Most Powerful Wind Turbine Into Service
CleanTechnica
NOVEMBER 8, 2019
General Electric Renewable Energy this week signed the largest onshore wind deal ever in China for a foreign manufacturer and began tests of its enormous Haliade X 12 MW offshore wind turbine in Rotterdam.
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New Mexico electric cooperative will soon supply customers 100% through solar
Solar Power World
NOVEMBER 7, 2019
Kit Carson Electric Cooperative (KCEC) has finalized an agreement with Torch Clean Energy to purchase and develop two new solar and storage facilities for a total of 21 MW of additional solar capacity and 15 MW of storage capacity. With the completion of these installations, KCEC will surpass the 35 MW required to meet its… The post New Mexico electric cooperative will soon supply customers 100% through solar appeared first on Solar Power World.
As the climate changes, architects and engineers need to design buildings differently
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 6, 2019
Adaptation doesn't mean what it used to.
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.
SparkCharge Addresses Electric Vehicle Range Anxiety with Portable, Ultra-fast Charger
Greentown Labs
NOVEMBER 6, 2019
From left: U.S. Senator Ed Markey, SparkCharge CEO Joshua Aviv, Somerville Mayor Joseph A. Curtatone. It’s almost inevitable: when the topic of EVs comes up, someone will express worries about range. Insufficient charging infrastructure has long hampered the adoption of EVs, as people worry about getting stranded or being limited in their routes. When Joshua Aviv took an environmental economics class at Syracuse University, the professor told him, “If you want to change the world, electric vehic
UK needs to act to prevent electric vehicle battery waste mountain – new study
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 7, 2019
Recycling technologies for end-of-life lithium ion batteries (LIBs) are not keeping pace with the rapid rise of electric vehicles, storing up a potentially huge waste management problem for the future, according to a new study. A review of lithium ion battery recycling led by the University of Birmingham suggests that, while electric vehicles (EVs) offer a solution for cutting pollution, governments and industry need to act now to develop a robust recycling infrastructure to meet future recyclin
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First Smart Forest City in Mexico will be 100% food and energy self-sufficient
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.
Tom Chi on making ecological regeneration an imperative for tech
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 5, 2019
Tom Chi, a founding team member of Google X, talks about the opportunities for humanity to leverage technology and become a net positive to nature.
Top Marketing Strategies for Sustainable Businesses
The Environmental Blog
NOVEMBER 4, 2019
Sustainable businesses tend to consider the important roles of the environment and how to protect nature for a successful business. That’s why it’s important to develop the right marketing strategies that combine economic, social, and environmental goals. In that way, sustainability can be achieved and maintained while facing various business challenges.
Will Your EV Keep the Lights on When the Grid Goes Down?
GreenTechMedia
NOVEMBER 8, 2019
Last month’s preventative power shutoffs in California highlighted the vulnerability of the electricity grid to threats exacerbated by a changing climate. In the wake of the forced outages, much has been written about the ability of solar photovoltaic arrays working in tandem with stationary battery storage systems to keep the lights on when the grid goes down.
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.
Copenhagens new eco-friendly bicycle hills hide parking for thousands of bicycles
Inhabitat - Innovation
NOVEMBER 6, 2019
Danish architectural firm COBE recently completed a one-of-a-kind public space in Copenhagen that not only serves as a multifunctional meeting place, but also provides covered parking for over 2,000 bicycles. Inaugurated in late August, Karen Blixens Plads is one of the largest public spaces in Copenhagen and measures over 20,000 square meters in size.
Amory Lovins on the expanding efficiency cornucopia
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 6, 2019
On the mainstage of VERGE 19, Joel Makower discuss energy efficiency with Amory Lovins, Cofounder and Chief Scientist of the Rocky Mountain Institute. Energy efficiency, a bigger energy “source” than oil, avoids at least twice as much global greenhouse gas emissions as renewables’ remarkable growth. Yet its potential is far larger. Designing buildings, vehicles, and factories as whole systems can save many times more energy than previously thought, and often at lower cost.
Scottish investment call to support move away from fossil fuel heating
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 7, 2019
A new report makes the case that if Scotland is to successfully end its contribution to climate change by 2045, there has to be a significant increase in public spending to help move homes and other buildings away from a reliance on fossil fuel heating. Currently around half of all Scotland’s energy usage is for heating, with the majority of that coming from fossil fuel gas.
Batteries Versus Blackouts: 1,100 Homes Powered Through Vermont Outage With Storage
GreenTechMedia
NOVEMBER 7, 2019
Home batteries proved their resilience value during Vermont's Halloween blackout. A major rain and wind storm struck the state at the close of October, knocking out power to some 115,000 customers. Among those affected, 1,100 homes managed to keep the lights on thanks to pilot programs specifically designed to promote resilient backup power with energy storage.
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.
These glass vases let you grow your own avocado tree no toothpicks required
Inhabitat - Innovation
NOVEMBER 8, 2019
While most home gardens tend to conceal the roots within decorated pots, Ilex Studio's new collection of glass vases displays one of the most underrated parts of a plant — the roots.
Plant Based Products Council's new executive director takes on a biobased vision of the future
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 8, 2019
A Q&A with the bioeconomy expert stepping in to lead the organization that's advocating for alternatives to plastics.
Radon Awareness Week 4-10 November: Campaign takes to the airwaves warning of hidden cancer risk
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 6, 2019
Radon Awareness Week 2019 is running from 4-10 November, and as the campaign website explains, exposure to radon gas is the leading cause of lung cancer in non-smokers and is responsible for over 1100 deaths in the UK every year. High levels of radon can be found in buildings of any type, size or location with occupants unaware of the potential danger unless a specific test has been carried out.
Carbonfund.org and Green Business Bureau Join Forces to Fight Climate Change
Green Business Bureau
NOVEMBER 7, 2019
The Carbonfund.org Foundation and Green Business Bureau (GBB) have partnered to help companies become more sustainable and accelerate their path to becoming a GBB-certified green business. GBB and Carbonfund.org encourage everyone to continually strive to reduce their carbon footprint through sensible energy reductions combined with cost-effective carbon offsets to eliminate their overall carbon footprint.
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?
Studio NAB wants to rehab parking lots into energy-producing urban gardens
Inhabitat - Innovation
NOVEMBER 6, 2019
Paris-based design firm Studio NAB has unveiled a proposal for transforming the traditional asphalt parking lot into an urban farming green space with solar-powered parking spaces. Created with the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals in mind, Studio NAB’s Car Park 2.0 rethinks the car park as a productive space that could generate green jobs, renewable energy, and food.
VERGE Accelerate (Circular and Carbon): Nori
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 5, 2019
On the VERGE 19 main stage, selected finalists pitch to a live audience of business leaders, government officials and investors, as well as to a global online audience. During this fast-paced pitch competition, industry experts provide commentary and audience votes determine the winner.
Extra 823 million plastic bottles will be produced under proposed DRS, warns aluminium packaging recycling group
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 7, 2019
· Aluminium packaging recycling body urges caution to avoid unintended consequences of a DRS. · Two thirds of shoppers will switch from buying infinitely recyclable cans to plastic bottles. · One in five people will lose their deposit as they continue recycling at home. An ‘all-in’ deposit return scheme for drinks containers could result in an extra 823 million plastic bottles being produced[i], inadvertently adding to plastic pollution – one of the key issues the scheme is trying to solve.
Guide to Making Your Building Eco-Friendly
Green Business Bureau
NOVEMBER 4, 2019
There is no doubt that buildings impact the environment from the construction phase, through occupancy, when and if they are renovated or repurposed, and even when they are demolished. Throughout their lifecycle, buildings use raw materials, water, and energy – resources that need to be conserved. Buildings generate all kinds of waste, and frequently discharge harmful emissions.
Biodegradable coffee pods are now available for composting
Inhabitat - Innovation
NOVEMBER 5, 2019
Roughly 20 billion non-biodegradable, one-cup coffee pods end up in landfills. But Italian espresso giant Lavazza is offering a more eco-friendly alternative — a compostable coffee pod.
How companies can use tech to turn climate commitments into action and profits
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 4, 2019
As more companies commit to reduce their climate impacts, they must deliver on their promises to numerous stakeholders. Tech is a tool to help them.
Raman spectroscopy offers rapid detection of airborne hazards
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 7, 2019
Scientists at Nanyang Technological University , Singapore (NTU Singapore) have developed a device that can identify a wide range of airborne gases and chemicals “instantly” The new prototype is portable and suitable for deployment by agencies to identify everything from tiny gas molecules like sulphur dioxide to larger molecules such as benzene.
11,000 scientists say that the ‘climate emergency’ is here
Grist
NOVEMBER 5, 2019
More than 11,000 scientists declared a climate emergency today in — where else — an article published in a scientific journal. “Scientists have a moral obligation to clearly warn humanity of any great existential threat and to ‘tell it like it is,’” begins the “ World Scientists’ Warning of a Climate Emergency , ” published in BioScience.
Alliance of more than 11,000 scientists warns that our planet faces a climate emergency
Inhabitat - Innovation
NOVEMBER 6, 2019
At our current climate trajectory, humanity will likely face “untold suffering,” as reported in a new study signed by more than 11,000 scientists around the globe.
How innovators in 4 emerging markets are accelerating the clean economy
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 5, 2019
Mission-driven companies are trying to tackle systemic challenges in sustainability with electrification, renewable energy, biomaterials and data management software.
New tool assesses climate change impact on Europe’s roads
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 6, 2019
The impact of climate change on our road network is climbing the list of national priorities. Across Europe, National Road Administrations (NRAs) are having to deal with more frequent and severe weather, greater sea level rises and increased stress on infrastructure leading to higher deterioration rates. A new tool, funded under the Conference of European Directors of Roads (CEDR) transnational research programme and co-ordinated by the UK’s Transport Research Laboratory (TRL), offers risk asses
New report: Cost and performance of batteries improving much faster than forecast
Charged
NOVEMBER 5, 2019
A new report from the Rocky Mountain Institute (via Forbes ) finds that improvements in the cost and performance of batteries are quickly outpacing forecasts, due to massive investments in battery manufacturing and steady advances in technology. According to RMI’s Breakthrough Batteries Report , venture capital firms invested over $1.4 billion in battery tech in the first half of 2019 alone.
Dramatically twisted timber weaves together in the Steampunk pavilion
Inhabitat - Innovation
NOVEMBER 8, 2019
In Tallinn, Estonia, a team of designers have merged traditional craftsmanship with digital modeling to create Steampunk, a sculptural pavilion that uses steam-bent hardwood and computer-aided design. Winner of the Tallinn Architecture Biennial 2019 Installation Program Competition, the spectacular artwork uses the laborious process of steam bending timber by hand, rather than robotic production, to call attention to the merits of traditional craftsmanship absent in machine building.
Engie's renewables chief on scaling corporate contracts, hydrogen hopes and offshore wind
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 4, 2019
How do you add 9 gigawatts of solar and wind in the next three years? You turn to corporate buyers, universities, hospitals and cities to commit to at least half that capacity.
Flood systems reduce engineer call out
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 7, 2019
Jetting equipment manufacturer Jetchem Systems has teamed up with United Utilities and Amey to produce two new systems designed to aid in the prevention of flooding. The Interceptor Draw Off System (or iDOS, pictured) is situated in potential areas of flooding, and draws off and stores excess waste and water in tanks. Since its initial showcase at NoDig in 2018 the firm has added an improved pump and a solar charging system.
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