GreenBiz

JUNE 29, 2020

We reached out this spring to check in, asking those inclined to weigh in on how current events have changed their world views. Mon, 06/29/2020 - 02:30. June 22 marked the publication of the fifth annual GreenBiz 30 Under 30 , our report celebrating rising young professionals in the field of corporate sustainability. .

Sustainability 493

Sustainability Health Carbon-negative Innovation 493

Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 22, 2021

The report was published on 17 June to coincide with Clean Air Day, an initiative aiming to bring together communities, businesses, schools and the health sector to improve public understanding of air pollution and build awareness of how air pollution affects our health. This is why we welcome this timely publication.”.

Pollution 204

Pollution Health Policy Biodiversity 204

GreenBiz

OCTOBER 8, 2020

This new cooling technology also prevents viral spread. Normally, that would be a wise choice, but during a pandemic, indoor shelters present new risks. Stand next to a panel, and you can feel it drawing heat away from your body. Gloria Oladipo. Thu, 10/08/2020 - 00:40. It’s just that it’s hot.".

Cooling 289

Cooling Technology HVAC Climate change 289

GreenTechMedia

JULY 28, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic has thrown a wrench into U.S. microgrid development and may delay project origination and timelines over the next year, according to Wood Mackenzie’s latest review and forecast. The first half of 2020 was the slowest for the U.S. The first half of 2020 was the slowest for the U.S. and Eastern Seaboard.

Resilience 130

Resilience Fossil fuels Natural gas Batteries 130

GreenBiz

JULY 22, 2020

How can we be sure? What makes Al Gore hopeful: Tech innovation, science-based targets and the racial 'awakening'. Heather Clancy. Wed, 07/22/2020 - 02:00. Who is responsible for emissions? Where did they originate? Climate TRACE will empower all of these actors." .

Innovation 451

Innovation Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring 451

GreenBiz

MAY 10, 2021

With ESG gaining more attention and more companies committing to reaching net-zero emissions in the coming decades or otherwise pledging to do better by people and the planet, it’s inevitable that the next generation of professionals in the field will define the future of sustainable finance. Deonna Anderson. Mon, 05/10/2021 - 01:30.

Sustainability 455

Sustainability Investment Carbon-neutral Climate change 455

Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 9, 2021

Published by the British Chambers of Commerce in partnership with O2, the research also seemed to show only one in seven (13%) have set targets to reduce their emissions – down from one in five (21%) when firms were surveyed before the pandemic in February 2020. Barriers and required support.

Business Energy Monitoring 130

Business Energy Monitoring Carbon Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring 130

GreenBiz

AUGUST 26, 2020

Yet Dame Ellen MacArthur herself is floored by the rapid pace of change in business that has been forced by the COVID-19 pandemic. That hopefully will set a precedent for how we can do things in the future and how we can shift quickly in a light-footed way.". Picture a double bag in 30 years. The business case.

Plastics 344

Plastics Waste Waste Recycling 344

GreenBiz

JANUARY 18, 2021

It has subsumed and reset the context for other key national priorities such as responding to the pandemic, climate change, economic renewal and social justice. The accelerating debate over how best to protect and strengthen democracy bears close watching as a major barometer for the success of policies to advance sustainability.

Politics 448

Politics Government Law Policy 448

GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The big stories of 2020 were not just about a pandemic, a reckoning on racial justice, an economic calamity and the ever-imminent rise of climate change impacts. 20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021. Elsa Wenzel. Mon, 01/11/2021 - 02:15. Many leaders in this cohort happen to have climbed the ranks at one company for decades.

Sustainability 520

Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 520

GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

I’m not sure how to characterize exactly how I feel. Will the next generation feel betrayed if we "win" the fight and things keep getting worse anyway? I’m struggling. Back in the day, I had a reputation as someone who always offered to my team a positive interpretation or hopeful outcome to supposed bad news.

Climate change 239

Climate change Health Politics Innovation 239

GreenTechMedia

JUNE 17, 2020

Pacific Gas & Electric is on the verge of escaping from its 18-month bankruptcy , only to begin a years-long effort to prevent a repeat of the disasters that pushed it into insolvency in the first place. “For the next three years, if they can do those things, they can continue to stay in business,” Maze-Rothstein said.

Energy Monitor 130

Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring 130

The Verge: Energy

MAY 10, 2024

The Riffgat offshore wind farm, around 15 kilometers north of the island of Borkum. Photo: Getty Images Data centers and offshore wind farms could prove to be a perfect pair as AI grows increasingly energy-hungry. A rush of new AI data centers could throw those climate goals off — unless they find a clean source of energy. Data centers and AI.

Real Estate 92

Real Estate Energy Energy North America 92

GreenTechMedia

APRIL 7, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic will depress U.S. While EIA expects renewable energy to retain the title of fastest growing source of electricity generation in 2020, it also predicts the coronavirus pandemic will slow progress over the next few months. electricity markets and hurt generators in 2020, the U.S.

Demand 130

Demand Natural gas Carbon-negative Electricity 130

Grist

MARCH 27, 2020

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. Here’s how it could also help the planet. Article continues below. More in this series. Sasha Peterson. “I

Home Energy Monitoring 144

Home Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Sea level rise 144

Grist

MAY 12, 2020

In much the same way, the novel coronavirus has shown how woefully unprepared the United States was to face a pandemic. The pandemic gripping the planet has been compared to a “black swan” event, a danger so rare that it catches people unawares. Want to prevent the next pandemic? Article continues below.

Climate change 114

Climate change Pollution Waste Waste 114

Grist

AUGUST 12, 2020

You’d be forgiven if your initial reaction was a facepalm over how obvious that conclusion sounds, because that’s what this reporter initially did. Scientists unveil a plan to prevent the next pandemic (and save nature at the same time). Assembling in cooling centers could be deadly during a pandemic.

Cooling 103

Cooling Energy Monitor Health Home Energy Monitoring 103

Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 28, 2021

Video conferencing and web collaboration software is changing how companies operate their business while lowering their carbon footprint. Black cab drivers across London protested, blockading roads to prevent the Uber application from sweeping its way into a monopoly. A classic win/win, a win for your business and a win for the planet.

Technology 147

Technology Climate change Biodiversity Sustainability 147

Smart Energy International

APRIL 5, 2022

Deitrich opened the Itron Inspire EMEA 2022 virtual event today by emphasising the important work of the water and energy sectors in the face of pressing challenges, referencing the impact of a pandemic, supply chain challenges, and the invasion of Ukraine. More real-time service transparency is needed in a utility context.

Smart Cities 98

Smart Cities Innovation Resilience Energy 98

GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 17, 2021

Biden's recent executive order, " Tackling the Climate Crisis at Home and Abroad ," charged his team to develop a climate finance plan in the next three months. 4 climate finance priorities for the Biden administration. Joe Thwaites. Wed, 02/17/2021 - 00:30. Climate change is a global phenomenon with significant local implications.

Fossil fuels 378

Fossil fuels Climate change Resilience Biodiversity 378

Envirotec Magazine

MAY 4, 2021

Measures to reduce sewage discharges from storm overflows became a legal requirement on 29 March, as part of “an ambitious agenda to build back greener from the pandemic” During wet weather, storm overflows act to prevent sewers becoming overloaded with a combination of sewage and rain and release diluted wastewater into rivers.

Law 100

Law Government Pollution Education 100

GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 28, 2020

Enphase Energy has booked about 50 megawatt-hours of sales of its long-promised Encharge battery in North American markets since launching it in July, tapping a growing demand for energy storage from residential solar customers, and laying the groundwork for a more complete home backup power system set to arrive early next year.

Home Energy Monitoring 130

Home Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Polyphase Energy Monitor Energy Monitor 130

GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Pieter Verhoeven, CEO and co-founder of Myst AI, sees value in turning time series data into predictions of how energy systems operate — particularly futures that have no corresponding past to model them. Myst AI: Smarter energy forecasting from "non-stationary" data.

Climate change 130

Climate change Startups North America Global warming 130

Grist

APRIL 29, 2020

How did this happen? It was late one night in January 2009, and Jonathan Epstein was standing on the roof of an abandoned storage depot near Khulna, Bangladesh, with the writer and journalist David Quammen along with a small team of veterinarians. The group was in Bangladesh on a strange errand: They were catching bats.

Asia 144

Asia Health Government Africa 144

Business Green

MARCH 24, 2021

The world must change behaviour and practices, both personal and commercial, in order to tackle the route causes of pandemics, writes Ecosia CEO Christian Kroll. When Bill Gates said that ending the Covid-19 pandemic was easier than tackling the challenge of climate change, he was right. This is unacceptable.

Climate change 57

Climate change Biodiversity Medicine Agriculture 57

Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Making this switch will save your office a significant amount of money on utility bills and maintenance costs, and is very easy to implement the next time your current bulbs need replacing. In today’s digital age, how much office paper use is actually necessary? The Benefits of Sustainable Business Practices. Eliminate Paper Use.

Business Energy Monitoring 179

Business Energy Monitoring Sustainability Home Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor 179

GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Fighting deforestation should be a top priority for 2021, and here’s how it can be. Heather Clancy. Mon, 01/11/2021 - 02:00. Now, NGOs and investors are urging consumer goods and food companies and financial institutions to devote more resources to addressing the root cause of shrinking forests, deforestation. .

Policy 544

Policy Organic Sustainability Agriculture 544

Business Green

JULY 19, 2021

Hopes that the unprecedented levels of public spending released by governments in response to the Covid-19 crisis could drive a more rapid shift towards a greener, more sustainable global economy are looking increasingly frail 18 months into the pandemic.

Packaging 72

Packaging Policy Government Health 72

Business Green

MARCH 1, 2021

Carried out by research firm Transition Economics on behalf of the green campaign group, the study sets out how a major skills push backed by £10.6bn government funding to cover wage subsidies and training across the UK could create much-needed jobs in renewable energy, woodland creation and peatland restoration.

Education 97

Education Carbon Government Construction 97

Business Green

MAY 29, 2020

The pandemic has exposed the fragility of UK food supply chains, and decisions made now could either increase or reduce future risk, argues WWF UK CEO Tanya Steele. Here in the UK, as we've queued in the supermarket or searched online, we have all become more conscious of how fragile our supply of food really is.

Health 44

Health Agriculture Demand Resilience 44

GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 10, 2020

Sunrun hustled to convert its sales efforts to remote and digital methods in the early days of the coronavirus pandemic. ” Sunrun’s stock surged after the early July announcement of plans to acquire the next biggest competitor , Vivint Solar, in a deal that will reshape the residential solar sector.

Batteries 130

Batteries Startups Technology Energy 130

Business Green

JULY 18, 2022

Mayor's Office reveals expansion of ultra-low emission zone has had positive impact on air quality, as it convenes gathering of Mayors from around the world to explore how to further improve air quality. And it said the changes to the ULEZ have helped prevent pollution levels in the capital from returning to pre-pandemic levels.

Pollution 95

Pollution Health Policy Transportation 95

Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Players from across the climate movement and green economy need to sharpen up their language if they want to cut through to audiences and enlist citizens in the next phase of the net zero transition, according to veteran broadcaster David Shukman. This is a massive challenge of translation.

Health 92

Health Climate change Carbon Demand 92

Business Green

JULY 5, 2021

per cent from pre-Covid levels in 2021, the IEA's latest 'Gas Market Report' states, as the global economy bounces back from the initial shock of the pandemic. per cent over the next three years, meaning that by 2024 demand is expected to be seven per cent higher than it was in 2019. Natural gas demand is expected to rise by 3.6

Natural gas 42

Natural gas Demand Policy Methane 42

Grist

JULY 5, 2022

And the cases that are reported to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, are most likely the symptomatic cases, typically the ones that land people in hospitals. Warming temperatures are helping ticks shift their ranges into new areas, and warmer winters are helping the bloodsuckers survive from one year to the next.

Climate change 145

Climate change Health 145

Business Green

MARCH 12, 2021

The fund will focus on supporting local economies while curbing deforestation, for example through eco-friendly projects like harvesting nuts, seeds, and coffee sustainably, restoring lost forests, diversifying crops to prevent soil erosion, and launching conservation activities. In addition to protecting 2.1 In addition to protecting 2.1

Government 94

Government Climate change Biodiversity Health 94

Business Green

DECEMBER 31, 2020

How does one even begin to talk about the year that is 2020? Not only did the pandemic affect our health and personal lives, it also fundamentally challenged our political, social, and economic norms too. It's been a year full of uncertainly and has presented challenges for so many people. There is a risk of action hiding behind plans.

Climate change 89

Climate change Carbon Politics Policy 89