Google’s jaw-dropping renewable procurement proclamation
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 19, 2019
Its new 1.6-gigawatt solar and wind portfolio represents almost as much capacity as all of last year's corporate deals, combined.
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Spectacular rammed-earth dome home is tucked deep into a Costa Rican jungle
Inhabitat - Innovation
SEPTEMBER 19, 2019
Located in the idyllic area of Diamante Valley, the House Without Shoes is an incredible rammed-earth complex made up of three interconnected domes, which are joined by an open-air deck that looks out over the stunning valley and ocean views.
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Youth are calling for immediate climate action, and majority of Americans agree
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 19, 2019
Major CBS News poll released as part of Covering Climate Now, a collaboration of more than 250 news outlets around the world to strengthen coverage of the climate story.
Algae Lamps are a work of art and natural shade in one
Inhabitat - Innovation
SEPTEMBER 19, 2019
Algae is one of the newest materials to hit the market as a multi-purpose fiber. While it has been hauled out of the ocean, cultivated, dried, and processed into myriad products, it typically loses some of its allure in the process. So one designer spent years figuring out a way to use algae so that it maintains its natural essence, even when molded into a final product.
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.
Why Amazon's plan to buy 100,000 EVs is huge and hard
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 19, 2019
It's a game changer, but it won't be easy.
Sono Motors self-charging solar electric car will feature an air-purifying moss interior
Inhabitat - Innovation
SEPTEMBER 19, 2019
German mobility startup Sono Motors recently unveiled the first interior renderings for the Sion, a fully electric vehicle with full-surface solar integration that will feature a strip of air-purifying moss inside.
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GE Wins First Big Orders for 12MW Offshore Wind Turbine
GreenTechMedia
SEPTEMBER 19, 2019
The first big orders for GE’s groundbreaking 12-megawatt Haliade-X offshore wind turbine have come from the industrial giant's home country, with developer Orsted planning to deploy more than 1,200 megawatts of the GE machines in U.S. waters between 2022 and 2024. GE on Thursday announced it has secured “preferred turbine supplier” status for Orsted’s 120-megawatt Skipjack and 1,100-megawatt Ocean Wind projects, scheduled for completion off Maryland and New Jersey in
A sustainable food and land use transition could net $4.5 trillion economic boost
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 19, 2019
A landmark new report outlines the economic case for drastic changes to global systems.
New York allows students to miss class for the climate strike
Inhabitat - Innovation
SEPTEMBER 19, 2019
Tomorrow, on September 20, a global climate strike is scheduled to bring awareness about the need for transformative action against the growing climate crisis.
Hey big tech, history is watching you
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 19, 2019
While Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon and Google are progressive on some fronts, their overall corporate strategies to avert climate change have sketchy.
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.
The State of Floating Solar: Bigger Projects, Climbing Capacity, New Markets
GreenTechMedia
SEPTEMBER 19, 2019
There will be at least 2.4 gigawatts of floating solar installed globally by the end of 2019, according to Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables. Although floating solar systems typically involve higher costs than traditional ground-mount arrays, project sizes are increasing, which will bring costs down. According to new research , the global average project size of floating solar projects has been climbing steadily since 2015 and is expected to continue rising.
Creating a Toxin-Free Cleaning Routine
The Environmental Blog
SEPTEMBER 19, 2019
Cleaning is supposed to make us healthier, but many common cleaning solutions are made with toxins that can cause asthma, allergies and other serious health concerns. Fortunately, there are many ways to clean your home without using these toxins. Follow these tips from the experts at PathoSans cleaning to choose and use products that are safer for you, your pets and the environment.
Climate action’s triple dividend
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 19, 2019
Reducing future losses, increased productivity, and social benefits — that’s a pretty healthy ROI.
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SEPTEMBER 19, 2019
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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.
Inside Salesforce’s innovative new sustainability reporting platform
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 19, 2019
Can a new Sustainability Cloud become the reporting platform to end all platforms?
GE’s Largest Battery Deal Yet Will Support a 200MW Australian Solar Plant
GreenTechMedia
SEPTEMBER 19, 2019
GE won its biggest grid battery deal so far, to supply a solar plant in South Australia. The 200-megawatt Solar River plant will be coupled with a 100-megawatt/300-megawatt-hour GE Reservoir grid storage system. Solar River already secured Crown Development Approval, and could start generating power as early as 2021. This battery will outrank South Australia's Hornsdale Power Reserve, the Tesla-supplied system that currently holds the title for world's largest, but won't for long.
School’s back in session and Wisdom Supply Co. is teaching a lesson to reduce plastic waste
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 19, 2019
The B corp is working to to provide affordable, zero-waste school supplies.
UK Offshore Wind Changes Seen Attracting Oil and Gas Majors
GreenTechMedia
SEPTEMBER 19, 2019
The U.K.'s first offshore wind leasing round in a decade is expected to draw greater participation from oil and gas majors, thanks in part to changes to the leasing system. The Crown Estate, which manages the royal property portfolio including the seabed, will initiate a tender next month that could support 7 gigawatts of new capacity. The country has nearly 8.5 gigawatts of offshore wind capacity in operation currently, according to trade group RenewableUK, making it the world's leading
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?
ADBA National Conference returns
Envirotec Magazine
SEPTEMBER 19, 2019
ADBA National Conference. 11th December. One Great George Street, London. ADBA’s flagship event returns in December 2019, marking 10 years of ADBA and 10 years before the UK government must reduce emissions by 57%. If this is delivered, the UK will be on track to meet its 2050 commitment: “net zero” greenhouse gases by 2050. The UK anaerobic digestion industry has a critical role to play in helping the government achieve this.
Dominion Lays Out Plan for 2.6GW of Offshore Wind in Virginia
GreenTechMedia
SEPTEMBER 19, 2019
Dominion Energy, the Virginia-based utility, laid out plans Thursday for a 2.6-gigawatt offshore wind project off its home state’s coastline. It’s the largest offshore wind project put forward so far in the accelerating U.S. market. Dominion plans to construct the project in three 880-megawatt phases from 2024 to 2026, completing one phase a year some 27 miles off the coast of Virginia Beach.
Sustainability Guide for Retail: Plastic Bag Alternatives
Green Business Bureau
SEPTEMBER 19, 2019
Retailers need to make the switch from plastic shopping bags to eco-friendly alternatives. Plastic bags are not biodegradable and can last over a 1000 years. They can blow away from landfills, trash piles and garbage trucks to pollute the environment and become a serious danger to wildlife since many animals end up swallowing or choking on the plastic.
‘Largest Ever’: Google Announces 1.6GW of Renewables Purchases
GreenTechMedia
SEPTEMBER 19, 2019
Google announced a package of renewables deals on Thursday totaling 1,600 megawatts, which the tech behemoth says is the largest corporate renewables purchase in history. Made up of 18 deals, Google’s projects will be built across the U.S., Europe and in Chile. The company said the purchases will increase its total wind and solar agreements by more than 40 percent.
Former Pittsburgh steel mill is being redeveloped to support solar
Solar Power World
SEPTEMBER 19, 2019
Regional Industrial Development Corporation of Southwestern Pennsylvania (RIDC) has contracted with Scalo Solar Solutions to install what is thought to be one of the largest solar arrays in Western Pennsylvania on the roof of RIDC’s Mill 19 development. Installation begins this week. The array, which will include more than 110,000 sq. ft of solar panels… The post Former Pittsburgh steel mill is being redeveloped to support solar appeared first on Solar Power World.
Vehicle-to-Grid Technology Puts Businesses in Driver’s Seat of EV Revolution
GreenTechMedia
SEPTEMBER 19, 2019
Vehicle-to-grid technologies and the income streams they will generate mean businesses — rather than consumers — could become the key driver of EV adoption, according to one U.K. network operator. Ian Cameron, head of innovation at U.K. Power Networks, said V2G business models could shift the entire makeup of the “electric revolution.".
Amazon orders 100,000 electric delivery vans from Rivian
Charged
SEPTEMBER 19, 2019
Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos has announced a far-reaching plan to reduce his company’s environmental footprint. Amazon’s “Climate Pledge” calls for the retail behemoth to zero out its carbon emissions by 2030. Bezos also challenged other companies to join Amazon in meeting the goals of the Paris climate agreement 10 years ahead of schedule. As part of the plan, Amazon has agreed to buy 100,000 electric delivery vans from EV startup Rivian.
Caribbean Islands Are The Biggest Plastic Polluters Per Capita In The World
Forbes Green Tech
SEPTEMBER 19, 2019
Of the top thirty global polluters per capita, ten are from the Caribbean region and every year, these ten island nations generate more plastic debris than the weight of 20,000 space shuttles.
Porsche to join Formula E electric racing championship, 2019-2020 calendar announced
Charged
SEPTEMBER 19, 2019
The Formula E electric racing championship has announced its calendar for the 2019-2020 season : 14 races in 12 cities on 4 continents, beginning in November in Ad Diriyah, Saudi Arabia and winding up in July 2020 in London. However, the big news is that Porsche will be fielding an electric racing team. The TAG Heuer Porsche Formula E Team recently unveiled its Gen2 99X Electric racer.
Why technology could make animals obsolete
AFN Sustainable Protein
SEPTEMBER 19, 2019
Wherever we look, humans have consistently built technologies that surpass their animal predecessors. Cars replaced horses, petroleum replaced whales, tractors replaced oxen, telecommunications replaced carrier pigeons. Food may be next. The post Why technology could make animals obsolete appeared first on AgFunderNews.
ChargePoint launches next-gen home charger
Charged
SEPTEMBER 19, 2019
ChargePoint has launched a charging station called the Home Flex, which includes the following features: Adjustable amperage from 16 to 50 amps J1772 connector Charge scheduling and reminders WiFi-enabled upgrades Alexa integration Connection to the ChargePoint app. The Home Flex can be installed either indoors or outdoors and is available as a plug-in station with NEMA 14-50 or 6-50 plugs.
New U.S. development finance agency expands toolkit for female fund managers
Impact Alpha
SEPTEMBER 19, 2019
ImpactAlpha, Sept. 19 – When the U.S. Development Finance Corp. opens its doors on Oct. 1, it will be equipped with new investment tools to support female fund managers in emerging markets. The replacement for the Overseas Private Investment Corp., or OPIC, will have expanded authority to catalyze private sector investment, including the ability to make The post New U.S. development finance agency expands toolkit for female fund managers appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
Lightning Systems launches range of AC and DC fast charging stations
Charged
SEPTEMBER 19, 2019
Colorado-based Lightning Systems , a developer of zero-emission drivetrains for commercial fleets, has launched a range of charging stations called Lightning on Tap. The stations range from 7.2 kW AC chargers to 100 kW DC fast chargers. Lightning Systems CEO Tim Reeser said, “With more fleet operators making the switch to electric trucks and buses, planning and installing charging systems has brought a whole new set of challenges for our customers.
Why California is fighting fire with fire
Grist
SEPTEMBER 19, 2019
Slim pine trunks stacked in a mound loomed over my head, curving around me in a partial circle like a dam built by Brontosaurus-sized beavers. I’d followed a long unmarked dirt road earlier this year to see it: One of 48 wood piles in a 12 square-mile section of the Tahoe National Forest outside the town of Truckee in northern California. You can find similar scenes across the western United States, anywhere work crews are clearing brush and small trees from forests.
Amazon’s Multibillion-Dollar Bet On Electric Delivery Vans Is Game-Changer For Startup Rivian
Forbes Green Tech
SEPTEMBER 19, 2019
As part of efforts to a big push to cut carbon emissions companywide, Amazon is placing a massive order for battery-powered delivery vans from Rivian worth billions of dollars that looks like a game-changer for an electric truck startup few people had even heard of a year ago.
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