Fairsnape

OCTOBER 18, 2019

It was back in 2008 when I first came across Rob Hopkins through his Transition Handbook. Of course that reskilling is still to happen within the built environment sector, and is ever important as we look to circular economy, toxic free and nature based construction techniques and materials.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 13, 2020

2008 Great Recession when] renewables were still on the fringe,” Declercq said. ” Masdar, whose strategic focus goes beyond profit alone and into areas like economic diversification for the UAE, has invested in a wide-ranging portfolio of renewable energy technologies and projects around the world.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

The leadership instead pivoted to selling the Powerhouse solar roof technology that Dow Chemical had tried and then discarded in 2016. At the time, the technology was a hand-me-down from the space program, and had not reached anywhere near the manufacturing scale to make it an affordable household product. Growth before a fall.

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Technology Solar Power Construction Organic 246

Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Xcel Energy recently received approval to repower a pair of wind farms originally built in 2015 to take advantage of improved technology and expiring tax credits. The oldest of the batch originally started generating power in 2008. Great River Energy buys power from the wind farm, which started production in 2008 and repowered in 2019.

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Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Energy 75

Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 25, 2021

For example, in 2018, the International Maritime Organization (“IMO”) adopted a goal of reducing greenhouse gas (“GHG”) emissions 50% below 2008 levels by 2050. However, as we’ve previously discussed , governments serve an equally vital role in fostering new technological trends by building out the regulatory structure to accommodate them.

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Business Green

APRIL 28, 2020

We've dealt with the financial crisis of 2008, supply issues, government policy u-turns, Minimum Import Pricing, and now we're proving our salt in the midst of a global pandemic. Construction. On the construction side, we are also making progress. The sites we have under construction are open. Development.

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Fossil fuels Construction Africa Policy 50

Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 2, 2021

Now, Duke Energy, one of the state’s vertically integrated investor-owned utilities, has worked with stakeholders to create a program that addresses winter peaking with a combination of solar, time-of-use rates, smart thermostats, and soon additional technologies that will likely include battery storage.

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Solar Energy Monitor Policy Business Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 102

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The policy, which backs further aviation growth, was dismissed as “ pure greenwash ” by environmental groups, which cast doubt on the viability of the technologies and solutions proposed. In the same month, the High Court ruled that the government’s net zero strategy did not meet its obligations under the 2008 Climate Change Act.

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Aviation Real Estate Policy Government 95

Business Green

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Any one of these three shocks alone "is enough to force fresh thinking" and as such the UK's economic plans must be "more like 1945 than 2008", Danker will say, highlighting the creation of the NHS and welfare state after the Second World War as key examples of the radical policy moves that helped drive post-war reconstruction.

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Politics Climate change Government Construction 83

Green Roof Technology

APRIL 13, 2019

Against any semi scientific promotional material from Mineral Wool applicators, the market share of mineral wool in the German Green Roof construction industry is around 0.1% or out of 100 million square foot new green roof construction every year (Germany) it is only around 100,000 sf/year. appeared first on Green Roof Technology.

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Soil Recycling Recycling North America 52

Latham's Clean Energy Law Report

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The Taxonomy is also important for industries that struggle with technological limitations in achieving a 1.5°C–aligned This strategy aims for net zero emissions by around 2050 and includes shorter-term goals of cutting emissions by at least 20% and aiming for a 30% reduction by 2030, relative to 2008 levels. incompatible with a 1.5°C–aligned

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Asia Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Climate change 52

Business Green

APRIL 2, 2020

Indeed, talking to developers who have spades in the ground, they are currently mobilised but unable to construct. The UK, along with other nations, could enter a recession which is sharper and harder than the 2008 financial crisis. We have worked hard to replace the UK's dirty technologies with clean technologies.

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Fossil fuels Government Carbon Technology 63

Business Green

MAY 31, 2022

Slow UK growth in output and real wages over the past lost decade-and-a-half has meant these metrics are barely any better than they were prior to the 2008 financial crisis. Yet if real wages had grown at the same rate as they did before 2008, we would be on average almost £200 per week better off.

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Policy Fossil fuels Government Aviation 36

Green Roof Technology

APRIL 13, 2019

Against any semi scientific promotional material from Mineral Wool applicators, the market share of mineral wool in the German Green Roof construction industry is around 0.1% or out of 100 million square foot new green roof construction every year (Germany) it is only around 100,000 sf/year. Engineers are not horticulturalists.

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Soil North America Construction Plastics 40

GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

When we started Sol Systems around a dinner table in 2008, PV modules cost $3/watt — and that was a recent breakthrough. As we noted last year , solar energy technology continues its path to global dominance. Those same modules now cost 30-40 cents/watt and they are significantly more efficient.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Johnson had said in 2015 that he would "lie down in front of those bulldozers and stop the construction". Grayling submitted a witness statement arguing the Paris Agreement was "not relevant" to climate policy and that the looser Climate Change Act of 2008 was sufficient.

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Aviation Policy Government Climate change 76

Business Green

MAY 6, 2020

In the wake of the 2008 financial crisis calls went up for green stimulus plans, but while they gained some traction support was largely confined to environmental campaigners and clean tech industries and the opportunity to deliver sweeping climate-focused recovery packages was ultimately squandered.

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Resilience Packaging Aviation Fossil fuels 77

Business Green

MARCH 4, 2020

But as a solid legal commitment as that to be found in the 2008 Climate Change Act, or in the 2019 regulations that require a net zero emission economy by 2050. Quite specifically, it places a statutory duty upon the government to ensure that by 2035 the entire housing stock is at minimum at level C. Amber Rudd's broken promise.

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Government Policy Energy Energy 53

Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2022

Back then, renewables certainly had potential, but few predicted the incredible speed and scale at which wind and solar would rise to prominence on the back of rapidly advancing technologies, supportive policies, and plummeting costs. But in the immediate term, it certainly hasn't dampened its ambition.

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Energy Energy Hydrogen Real Estate 90

Greentown Labs

APRIL 22, 2021

“Houston is home to Chevron’s largest employee base in the world, and we are committed to sustaining the region as the energy capital of the world and establishing Houston as the energy transition capital of the world,” said Barbara Burger, Vice President of Innovation and President of Technology Ventures at Chevron. “As As the largest U.S.-owned

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Business Green

AUGUST 7, 2020

It estimates that if the recovery emulates the recovery from the 2008 financial crisis then global temperature will rise by more than 1.5C per cent of global GDP invested in low-carbon technologies and curbs support for fossil fuel companies could cut projected warming by 0.3C, potentially bringing the 1.5C goal within reach.

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Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 75

GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

We are using the newly developed Embodied Carbon for Construction Calculator (EC3) to support low-carbon procurement on structural steel, piles, rebar and concrete. We are also working directly with Pacific Northwest lumber suppliers to procure sustainably harvested glulam beams for the airport’s new undulating roof structure.

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Sustainability Health Carbon-negative Innovation 475

AGreenLiving

MARCH 4, 2021

The most dependent industries: construction, agriculture and food and beverage. Given that we have less than a decade to address the double whammy of climate change and biodiversity loss, and given that the technology to monitor and track, for example, deforestation or overfishing already exist, the slow pace of progress can be maddening.

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Biodiversity Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 36

Business Green

JUNE 9, 2020

The circularity target requires technological innovation that delivers higher grade recycling than exists at scale today, as well and better recycling practices and services, Harit says. Harit says Evian is working with governments to improve recycling strategies in order to plug the "leak" in the circularity cycle.

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Recycling Recycling Plastics Carbon-neutral 57

Better Ventures

JUNE 29, 2020

The ‘Future of Work’ has been a growing theme for years as advancements in technology and automation of jobs, an aging workforce (and rising gen Z), and increasing income inequality set the stage for our countries next significant wave of labor force shifts. . For generations this has not been the case.

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Resilience Education Health Startups 52

GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Clean technology venture capital investment strategies for the next decade will look much different than those of the past two decades. In the first wave of venture green technology investing, firms sunk billions of dollars into companies whose success depended on replacing entire industrial ecosystems. The Washington D.C.-based

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Solar Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 130

Business Green

MARCH 28, 2023

And yet, while growing numbers of governments and businesses are now working to cut their emissions and deploy clean technologies, efforts to bolster climate resilience and adapt to worsening climate risks are rarely prioritised. There is a legal framework that is meant to guard against the government's worrying inaction.

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Resilience Climate change Government Agriculture 36

Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

. – Co-Founder and executive director of WE CARE Solar Dr. Laura Stachel’s story of how she went from unknown OB/GYN to one of CNN’s Top 10 Heros of 2013 , starts in Northern Nigeria in 2008. As Lucey noted to Changemakers , “Advances in solar technology have created a tremendous opportunity to eliminate rural energy poverty.

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Startups Organic Solar Power Africa 40

Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 22, 2024

A supply-demand chain reaction for uranium prices Uranium prices went nuclear on Monday, blasting past $100/lb for the first time since 2008. 60 reactors are currently under construction worldwide with 110 more planned. 💼 Find or share roles on our job board here.

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Investment Demand Startups Batteries 61

GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 11, 2019

buildings were constructed before 1980. Cool roofs, which became a required measure in 2005 for low-slope commercial buildings and in 2008 for some single-family homes under California’s Title 24 building energy-efficiency standards, are now commonplace. Around half of U.S.

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Cooling Cool roof HVAC Retail 172

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Masdar officials promoted their renewable energy projects, including Masdar City, at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and other prestigious universities. In 2008, Edelman helped secure a slew of media coverage of the “carbon neutral” Masdar City, which was supposed to be finished in 2016 and house over 40,000 people.

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Carbon-neutral Politics Energy Energy 142

Business Green

MARCH 18, 2022

Unlike the oil crisis of the 70s or the temporary spike in oil prices of 2008, the technology to replace internal combustion vehicles, gas boilers, and fossil fuel power plants is no longer theoretical - it is a possibility, on the cusp of widespread reality.

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Pollution Fossil fuels North America Law 41

Business Green

MARCH 21, 2022

The pilot facility is set to utilise a novel process that has been years in development, and the Dutch company behind the technology, Avantium, has just secured the final chunk of the €190m financing needed to begin construction work. Plant-based plastics. It's not really in my personality to give up easily," he says. "If

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Plastics Europe Recycling Recycling 36

AGreenLiving

JUNE 29, 2020

We are using the newly developed Embodied Carbon for Construction Calculator (EC3) to support low-carbon procurement on structural steel, piles, rebar and concrete. We are also working directly with Pacific Northwest lumber suppliers to procure sustainably harvested glulam beams for the airport’s new undulating roof structure.

Sustainability 28

Sustainability Health Carbon-negative Innovation 28

Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

Such an occurrence would have significant implications for design, construction and operational standards of all future Arctic marine activities.” Like the zeppelin and the Concorde before it, icebreakers will become a futuristic technology lost to history. The Earth will absorb more heat without Arctic ice sheets.

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Solar Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Methane Building Energy Monitoring 78

GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 14, 2020

But Tuesday's grant winners “stand out for advancing the technology,” as well as for the financial wherewithal to match DOE's grants and complete their work within seven years, Brouillette said. China technology transfer forced it to cancel its partnership with China National Nuclear Corp. The Bellevue, Wash.

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Energy Energy Nuclear Power Construction 240

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 15, 2021

They built a roomy, two-story metal house and constructed livestock pens for hogs, goats, donkeys, and cattle. oil industry experienced a brief renaissance with the advent of hydraulic fracturing, a new technology that allowed producers to unlock vast reserves of oil once thought to be unreachable. When you come out here, it is dry.

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Methane Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 96