GreenBiz
JANUARY 25, 2022
In 2021, the global electric truck market size was valued at $670 million and is projected to grow by 23.5 percent between 2020 and 2030. Here are some of the companies vying for that revenue.
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 25, 2022
Mark Nelson’s address will reflect on his experiences in the early 1990s Biosphere 2 project in the Arizona desert, in which he was responsible for managing a constructed wetland marsh recycling system. Through a radical two-year experiment living inside a mini-Earth, ecologist Dr Mark Nelson developed a deep understanding of humans’ connection with the planetary biosphere and their impacts on the water cycle.
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GreenBiz
JANUARY 25, 2022
We need to make dramatic new investments in charging infrastructure. Just as importantly, we need to make those investments equitable and effective.
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 25, 2022
Image credit: Jeremy Segrott , CC BY 2.0 license. Despite the increasing popularity of greener vehicles, more than one in three (36%) cars in the UK fall into the worst two categories for harmful carbon dioxide (CO2) and nitrogen oxide (NOx) emissions, according to recent research by price comparison site MoneySuperMarket.com. 1,2. The study combines insurance enquiry volumes for car makes and models with data from the AIR Index, which ranks vehicles from A (most environmentally friendly) to E (
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.
GreenBiz
JANUARY 25, 2022
Investors are increasingly adopting ESG scores to inform decision making, but it can be difficult for companies to understand how ESG data providers inform their analysis and quantify corporate performance.
Inhabitat - Innovation
JANUARY 25, 2022
The construction industry is highly unsustainable. In fact, 7% of global CO2 emissions result from cement production alone. In an effort to cut down construction-related carbon emissions, researchers in the Digital Building Technologies (DBT) department at ETH Zürich have created FoamWork.
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Inhabitat - Innovation
JANUARY 25, 2022
With the pressure on to save ourselves from global warming, we need more efficient solar panels like yesterday. But the next best thing is soon, and thanks to new developments in solar technology, solar panels may increase their efficiency by almost half by 2025.
GreenBiz
JANUARY 25, 2022
In some ways, the unexpected halt in traveling in 2020 may have helped boost this transition.
Inhabitat - Innovation
JANUARY 25, 2022
Adidas has introduced a new hiking and athletic shoe in its TERREX line of apparel. The Nothing Left Behind Free Hiker Gore-Tex shoe is an ankle-supporting athletic shoe in sophisticated colors for the sustainably-minded hiker. It's the latest in a growing movement for sustainable footwear.
GreenBiz
JANUARY 25, 2022
Survey by Corporate Electric Vehicle Alliance reveals the features buyers want most over the next five years.
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
JANUARY 25, 2022
Researchers have found and tested a catalyst that could convert methane gas into valuable compounds. A study in Nature Catalysis says the catalyst will be able not only to convert methane but also develop industrially vital compounds. These findings provide an option for combatting methane's harmful greenhouse effects.
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 25, 2022
Widespread expectations that 5G will be a green technology are not currently backed up by a strong, publicly available, fully transparent evidence base, warns a review of the evidence on 5G energy use impacts by academics at the University of Sussex Business School. The research warns that existing academic and industry studies into the energy use implications of 5G fail to provide a comprehensive overview of the overall energy use impacts of 5G and overlook three potentially significant issues
Inhabitat - Innovation
JANUARY 25, 2022
For the past two years, headlines and realities of the global COVID-19 pandemic has brought stress, worry and loss. To varying degrees, nearly everyone is carrying a burden, with degrading mental health as a result. The Feelings Library by CAUKIN Studio was a temporary installation designed to provide an outlet for emotional resolution.
Green Living Guy
JANUARY 25, 2022
Practicing self-care is essential for living a long, happy, and productive life. Unfortunately, it isn’t easy to find the time or energy to help yourself. So, here’s how to practice self-care for your environment, your body, and your mind. 1. Your Environment While self-care may seem like a completely personal project, it has a lot […].
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.
Charged
JANUARY 25, 2022
Researchers at the University of Michigan have developed a lithium-sulfur battery which they estimate will be able to achieve 1,000 real-world cycles with fast charging. In an article published in Nature Communications , the researchers write: “Lithium-sulfur batteries have a high specific capacity, but lithium polysulfide (LPS) diffusion and lithium dendrite growth drastically reduce their cycle life.
Green Living Guy
JANUARY 25, 2022
A good sense of style doesn’t have to come at the expense of the planet. Unfortunately, it often does. The fashion industry is one of the leading generators of toxic chemicals, excess material waste, greenhouse gases and factories in the industry often feature unsafe or unethical working conditions for laborers. There are, however, several ways to […].
Smart Energy International
JANUARY 25, 2022
A new report released by Juniper Research states that investments in smart grids across the globe will dominate smart city developments made between 2020 and 2026. The report, Smart Cities: Key Technologies, Environmental Impact & Market Forecasts 2022-2026 , states that the global annual spending on smart city projects will increase from $35 billion in 2021 to $70 billion, with the majority of the spending directed towards improving grid resilience and intelligence through smart technologie
Green Living Guy
JANUARY 25, 2022
This article is about some wholesome bowls that you can easily cook at home and you can often make them because you can literally use the available ingredients present in your home. If you don’t have certain ingredients that you don’t have at home, you can always substitute them with whatever alternate is present at […]. The post Two Wholesome Green Nourishing Bowls For You!
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?
U.S. Green Technology
JANUARY 25, 2022
Most industries have seen a significant amount of change during the past few decades. This includes the electrical industry. Many people are concerned about how the electrical industry is going to deal with many of the changes that are coming down the pipe. Some people are concerned about their electricity expenses, other people are concerned about.
Charged
JANUARY 25, 2022
Mining giant Rio Tinto has ordered four battery-electric locomotives for use in the Pilbara region of Western Australia. Wabtec will produce the four 7 MWh FLXdrive locomotives in the US, beginning in 2023, and Rio Tinto plans to conduct initial trials in the Pilbara in early 2024. The e-locos will be tested against a range of safety and functional criteria, including integration with AutoHaul , an autonomous system that Rio Tinto developed in collaboration with Hitachi.
altenergymag
JANUARY 25, 2022
An international team of researchers has demonstrated a technique for producing perovskite photovoltaic materials on an industrial scale, which will reduce the cost and improve the performance of mass-produced perovskite solar cells.
Impact Alpha
JANUARY 25, 2022
ImpactAlpha, January 25 — The Green Growth Equity Fund will be managed by Mumbai-based EverSource Capital, a joint venture between Indian private equity. The post Green infrastructure fund raises $741 million for renewable energy and efficiency in India appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
altenergymag
JANUARY 25, 2022
Initial $200 thousand contributed to partner organizations located in Philadelphia, Baltimore, and Washington DC
Renew Economy
JANUARY 25, 2022
Most media coverage of a big new brown coal hydrogen project greenwashed the news and talked up CCS. An accident on Morrison's website shows us why. The post The media needs to get better at interrogating hydrogen appeared first on RenewEconomy.
altenergymag
JANUARY 25, 2022
The utility-scale solar power projects are expected to include approximately 126,000 Talesun's bifacial PV modules, which have been covered by a 12-year warranty on quality assurance, and 30-year linear power output performance guarantee.
Charged
JANUARY 25, 2022
Tesla has racked up an impressive collection of superlatives: largest global automaker by market cap; best-selling vehicle in several countries ( Switzerland is the latest); and most compelling brand since the Grateful Dead. Now the company has added another feather to its corporate cap: Tesla’s Fremont factory has been named the most productive auto plant in North America.
altenergymag
JANUARY 25, 2022
The newly appointed German government aims to increase the share of renewable energies from around 45 percent as it currently stands to 80 percent of the gross power consumption by the year 2030.
Charged
JANUARY 25, 2022
Primobius has reached an option and licensing agreement with Stelco Holdings to commercialize Primobius’s proprietary EV battery recycling and processing technologies in North America. Operations are expected to begin in 2023. Germany-based Primobius is a joint venture of Neometals and the German engineering company SMS group to commercialize the recycling of lithium-ion batteries.
Impact Alpha
JANUARY 25, 2022
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Impact Management How one fund manager tech’ed up its data management in search of impact alpha. SJF Ventures. The post The Brief: Tech for impact data, finclusion in Africa, climate infrastructure in India, supply chains in Brazil, the alpha in apprenticeships (podcast) appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
Greentown Labs
JANUARY 25, 2022
Experienced nonprofit leader will play a central role in setting financial and operational strategy to support Greentown’s growth and impact. Somerville, Mass., Jan. 25, 2022 — Greentown Labs , the largest climatetech startup incubator in North America, today announced Kevin Taylor as Chief Financial Officer. Taylor brings a wealth of finance, transformational leadership, and organizational growth expertise that will play a critical role in Greentown’s next decade of climate impact.
Impact Alpha
JANUARY 25, 2022
ImpactAlpha, Jan. 25 – SJF Ventures believed better, faster and smarter impact data could set them apart. The Durham, N.C.-based impact venture capital fund. The post How one fund manager tech’ed up its data management in search of impact alpha appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
Solar Power World
JANUARY 25, 2022
Long Island, New York is home to almost 8 million people. It’s a narrow landmass that stretches 100 miles into the Atlantic Ocean and has been developed from its westernmost end that touches New York City to its easternmost hamlet of Montauk. Contractor’s Corner by Solar Power World · The Case for Solar: Long Island’s… The post Long Island factory sites 10 acres of solar on the roof appeared first on Solar Power World.
Smart Energy International
JANUARY 25, 2022
Accenture’s Global Transmission & Distribution Lead, Gregorio Ogliaro, shares his thoughts on the role of grid operators in the energy transition, live from Enlit 2021. Interested in more content from Accenture? Visit their content library here.
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