Jim Conca
SEPTEMBER 7, 2020
The IIGCC is a European group of global pension funds and investment managers, totaling over 1,200 members in 16 countries, who control more than $40 trillion in assets (€33 trillion). They have drawn up a plan to cut carbon in their portfolios to net-zero and hope other investors will join them.
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 7, 2020
Welcome to Circularity 20. What will it take to accelerate the circular economy? Welcome to Circularity 20. The opening will set the stage for the virtual event, offer an overview of the program and ground attendees in what circularity means today. Holly Secon. Mon, 09/07/2020 - 21:41. Featured. Off.
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Envirotec Magazine
SEPTEMBER 8, 2020
Newhaven waste incinerator, East Sussex. A legal challenge has been issued to the Government’s decision to exclude municipal waste incinerators from the UK Emissions Trading Scheme – the replacement for the existing EU Emissions Trading Scheme, to come into effect after the UK leaves the EU. The application for judicial review, by environmental campaigner Georgia Elliott-Smith, also includes a challenge to the Government’s decision to roll forward carbon emissions allowances to future year
Inhabitat - Innovation
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
The Galapagos Islands are famous for several endemic species that evolved to fit the exact niche required to live on rocky islands 600 miles off the coast of Ecuador in the Pacific Ocean. Now, marine scientists have found 30 new species deep beneath the ocean's surface around the Galapagos.
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.
GreenTechMedia
SEPTEMBER 10, 2020
Laura Sherman is president of the Michigan Energy Innovation Business Council. Building electrification is a potential game-changer for energy efficiency, demand management, distributed energy and other advanced energy industries, as well as for the broader task of reducing emissions. The goal of electrifying heating and other systems in all buildings might seem very far off but, like many other developments in clean energy, a great deal of progress has been made only recently.
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
How to Design for the Future. . How do we design for the future amid the disruptive present? Speakers. Tim Brown, Chair, IDEO. Lauren Phipps, Director & Senior Analyst, Circular Economy, GreenBiz Group. Holly Secon. Wed, 09/09/2020 - 13:17. Featured. Off.
CleanTech Focus brings together the best content for cleantech professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Inhabitat - Innovation
SEPTEMBER 11, 2020
With the modern-day zeitgeist squarely aimed at improving sustainable practices, both in the private and business world, LeSportsac's most recent release removes plastic from the waste stream while encouraging fans to continue their LeSportsac journey.
GreenTechMedia
SEPTEMBER 10, 2020
Duke Energy submitted a settlement with large solar developers including Cypress Creek Renewables and Strata Solar to North Carolina regulators on Thursday that aims to resolve longstanding interconnection issues in the utility’s territory. The agreement should resolve issues for more than 100 disputed projects in the Carolinas, said spokesperson Randy Wheeless, clearing the way for up to 800 megawatts of solar projects to move forward in coming years.
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
Network Effect: From Neurocircuits to Circular Economies. Structuring circular economies like a neural network enables our transition from linear use, lowers risk through collective action and unlocks low-hanging circular wins. Hear from neuroscientist turned circular economy start-up founder Garry Cooper, whose company, Rheaply, is generating millions in savings for partnered organizations by scaling corporate reuse and facilitating circular materials flows.
Envirotec Magazine
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
A legal bid to halt sweeping changes to planning laws in the UK will be heard in October. The challenge to the Statutory Instruments (SIs) used to bring in the changes is being made by campaigners Rights: Community: Action (RCA) whose claim for judicial review will be heard at a ‘rolled up’ hearing in the High Court sitting as a Divisional Court. The rolled-up hearing means that two judges will hear the group’s application for permission to apply for judicial review, which if successful, will le
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
SEPTEMBER 11, 2020
Located in Shenzhen, China, the If Factory utilizes a sustainable design that transforms an old and disused factory into a creative mix of office spaces.
GreenTechMedia
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
What’s the problem with nuclear energy? At a time when lawmakers are scratching their heads over how to decarbonize national energy systems, nuclear is sitting on a technology that is low-carbon, mature and, despite the odd meltdown, relatively safe. Yet across North America and Europe, nuclear can’t seem to get a look-in. More than half of the 48 new reactors that the World Nuclear Association (WNA) lists as being built worldwide are in just four countries: China, India, the United
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 11, 2020
Is There a Role of Waste to Energy in the Circular Economy? Americans create a lot of solid waste – to the tune of 268 million tons in 2017 alone. While many localities and companies are championing zero-waste plans to divert materials that have a second life (think recycling, reusing and composting), the majority of U.S. garbage still ends up in the landfill.
altenergymag
SEPTEMBER 11, 2020
Thanks to a seed round mid-2019, EODev was able to set up its operational structure, to sign its first strategic agreements and contracts, and to finance and design prototypes.
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
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
The international design competition intended to spark public dialogue about the Brooklyn Bridge, which has become one of New York’s most recognizable landmarks since its opening in 1883.
DeSmogBlog
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
Read time: 8 mins Almost a week after Hurricane Laura struck Louisiana's coast , which is studded with oil and gas industry pipes, tanks, wells, and rigs, I photographed from the sky oil sheen along at least 20 miles of marsh and bayous that absorbed the full strength of the storm. Scientists say warmer ocean waters due to human-caused climate change is making hurricanes like Laura stronger and causing them to intensify more rapidly ; Hurricane Laura spun up to a Category 4 storm in just 24 hour
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 8, 2020
Opening Panel: The Human Dimension of Waste Collection. Who are the humans that are managing our waste? The informal waste economy is an often overlooked part of our global plastic supply chain. But they play an essential role but ensuring that plastics are collected and reused before they enter waste streams. These experts discuss innovative solutions to improve their working conditions and make sure that they get paid for the valuable work they do.
The City Fix
SEPTEMBER 10, 2020
Children are often under-prioritized or even disregarded in urban planning and design. It’s estimated that up to 500 children die daily in road crashes around the world; thousands more incur injuries and psychological trauma from collisions with vehicles that can. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.
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
SEPTEMBER 11, 2020
Originally constructed in 1947, the house was built with beautiful attention to detail, which Salem Architecture preserved and highlighted.
Charged
SEPTEMBER 11, 2020
In addition to manufacturing its own electric buses, Proterra licenses its powertrain technology under the brand name Proterra Powered. It has collaborated with OEMs such as Thomas Built Bus, Van Hool, Freightliner and Optimal Electric Vehicles to electrify their buses and other heavy-duty vehicles. Proterra’s newest partner is Bustech, a major Australian bus manufacturer.
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 8, 2020
Carbon 'rainbow': Unilever pledges $1.2B to scrub fossil fuels from cleaning products. Cecilia Keating. Tue, 09/08/2020 - 00:15. Unilever last week revealed plans to funnel close to $1.2 billion over the next 10 years into initiatives that will allow it to replace chemicals in its cleaning products made from fossil fuel feedstocks with greener alternatives — an investment it described as critical to meeting its aim of achieving net-zero emissions from its products by 2039.
Impact Alpha
SEPTEMBER 11, 2020
ImpactAlpha, Sept. 11 – The co-founder and managing director of SJF Ventures still had half of the firm’s $125 million fourth fund when COVID shutdowns shut down business as usual. Kirkpatrick and team drew on two decades of relationships to identify companies offering solutions to people working remotely, shopping more consciously for food, seeking gainful.
Inhabitat - Innovation
SEPTEMBER 7, 2020
In an effort to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions, Savannah College of Art and Design (SCAD) furniture design graduate student Erica Stine created the Fly-Ash chair, a modern and eco-conscious chair constructed entirely of recycled coal waste. The sustainable furniture design concept recently earned a notable honor in the 2020 international Red Dot Design Competition's "Home Furniture" category.
LA CleanTech Incubator
SEPTEMBER 8, 2020
LACI recently welcomed its fifth cohort of LACI Innovators—16 startup businesses seeking to change the world for the better. This year’s cohort includes companies that are innovating to make the power grid cleaner and work better; to move LA toward an electric transportation future; and to reduce waste in our environment. Through Cohort 5 and. Read more » The post LACI Welcomes Cohort 5 of Innovators appeared first on LACI.
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 10, 2020
Hard truths from a decade of investing in regional food systems. Meredith Storton. Thu, 09/10/2020 - 02:00. The COVID-19 crisis has highlighted the inequities and fragility of our industrialized food system and accelerated the movement to create strong regional food systems that support local growers, provide food security, give communities agency over their food supply and yield environmental benefits.
Impact Alpha
SEPTEMBER 10, 2020
ImpactAlpha, Sept. 10 – UBS said today that it will make sustainable investments “the preferred solution” for clients of its 2.6 trillion global wealth management business. “We believe sustainable investments will prove to be one of the most exciting and durable opportunities for private clients in the years and decades ahead, says UBS’ Iqbal Khan.
Inhabitat - Innovation
SEPTEMBER 7, 2020
This 12-story residential tower doesn't just boast an impressive luxury highrise condominium design, but also an award-winning green building design. The luxurious 7180 Optima Kierland is located in one of North Scottsdale's most desirable areas, with lavish amenities throughout and a vertical landscape system with self-containing irrigation.
Charged
SEPTEMBER 8, 2020
Commercial EV startup Xos Trucks , formerly known as Thor Trucks , has raised $20 million in new funding from a group of investors including Proeza Ventures and BUILD Capital Group. Xos will use the capital to scale up production of its X-Platform chassis. The company anticipates a surge in demand following CARB’s new zero-emissions mandate for commercial vehicles.
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 8, 2020
Unlocking a Circular Carbon Economy. . Marcius Extavour, the Executive Director of Prize Operations in Energy & Resources with Carbon XPRIZE, discusses how to create a circular economy that will also tackle climate change. Holly Secon. Tue, 09/08/2020 - 22:42. Featured. Off.
Impact Alpha
SEPTEMBER 10, 2020
ImpactAlpha, September 10 – Berkeley, Calif.-based software company Terabase helps monitor and automate utility-scale solar projects. The company is pushing to lower the cost of solar power below $0.01 per kilowatt-hour in the next five years. (A recent Terabase project in Qatar will sell power for $0.01449/kWh). The company has raised a $6 million Series.
Inhabitat - Innovation
SEPTEMBER 10, 2020
A new study published in the Journal of Insects as Food and Feed has revealed that yellow mealworms can serve as an alternative protein source for animals and, possibly, humans. The study comes at a time when global food demands keep rising.
Charged
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
When it comes to automobiles, Sandy Munro knows whereof he speaks. His company specializes in taking new cars apart and analyzing every little bracket and screw—what it’s made of, who made it, and how much it cost. Charged was fortunate enough to have Sandy present a couple of video sessions at our Virtual Conference on EV Engineering in which he looks at the most critical components of today’s EVs.
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 11, 2020
How Avangard Innovative is working to scale post-consumer resin recycling. Since Avangard Innovative came onto the recycling scene 30 years ago, the company has expanded its presence to 11 countries. Its goal is to lower waste costs and what’s going into a landfill, said Rick Perez, chairman and CEO of the company. . Perez noted that the COVID-19 pandemic has impacted the work Avangard Innovative does.
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