What news from 3 top vertical farm players means for 2022
GreenBiz
DECEMBER 23, 2021
From IPOs to acquisitions this is what happened in the indoor farm world in 2021
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Fast fashion stacks up in Chile's Atacama Desert
Inhabitat - Innovation
DECEMBER 23, 2021
Chile’s Atacama Desert is known for its beauty, wildlife, starry night skies and amazing hot air balloon rides. Now it’s also becoming infamous for its dunes of discarded fast fashion.
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25 cities show how major climate wins are possible
GreenBiz
DECEMBER 23, 2021
Collectively, the work of 25 cities in the Climate Challenge will reduce CO2 emissions by 74 million metric tons from 2020 through 2030, compared to business as usual.
California sues Walmart for allegedly dumping hazardous waste
Inhabitat - Innovation
DECEMBER 23, 2021
The state of California, through its Attorney general, has filed a lawsuit accusing Walmart of allegedly illegally disposing of hazardous waste in landfills across the state. The 42-page document directly implicates Walmart for dumping 160,000 pounds of hazardous waste each year over the past six years.
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.
A Nordic energy giant shows how a carbon turnaround happens
GreenBiz
DECEMBER 23, 2021
Denmark’s Ørsted transformed from a fossil-fuel utility to a renewable energy leader in a decade.
Electric bus network expected to be in the US in 2022
Inhabitat - Innovation
DECEMBER 23, 2021
Over Thanksgiving weekend, FlixBus USA made transit history by transporting a busload of passengers on the first interstate fully electric bus journey.
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Put this tiny home Cabin One anywhere
Inhabitat - Innovation
DECEMBER 23, 2021
Cabin Spacey's Cabin One is a prefab micro-apartment you can put anywhere — on an apartment building roof or in the mountains. It comes pre-wired for lighting with heated floors and towel racks, a skylight and a membrane roof. All you need is a place to put it.
Environmental Awareness Days in January
Green Business Bureau
DECEMBER 23, 2021
Launch into the New Year with these environmental awareness days in January! New Year’s Day – January 1st. New Year’s Day is a day dedicated to renewal and fresh starts. It’s the time when many people commit to forming better habits, reaching personal goals and creating a fulfilling life. What better way to ring in the New Year than by instilling this same ambitious forward-thinking into your business.
All natural PAPR deodorant are vegan and aluminum free
Inhabitat - Innovation
DECEMBER 23, 2021
The concern over ingredients in our beauty products is nothing new. The seemingly benign deodorant we mindlessly apply each morning is one example.
Utrecht plans to be a bidirectional city, turning its EVs into a giant battery
Charged
DECEMBER 23, 2021
The Dutch city of Utrecht is already pretty green. The rate of car ownership is far lower than in the US. The city boasts the world’s largest bike parking garage and an extensive network of bike lanes, and a new car-free neighborhood for 20,000 people is on the drawing board. Even here, however, cars aren’t likely to disappear, and the city has a plan to turn them into energy storage assets with a city-wide implementation of V2G technology—Utrecht’s goal is to be the world’s first “bidirectional
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.
Capitalism Reimagined in 2022: Building a multi-movement engine to shift practices, policy and power
Impact Alpha
DECEMBER 23, 2021
ImpactAlpha, Dec. 23 – That our economic system and social contract is due for a reset is by now conventional wisdom. Still left to. The post Capitalism Reimagined in 2022: Building a multi-movement engine to shift practices, policy and power appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
Ford launches zero-carbon home charging initiative in California
Charged
DECEMBER 23, 2021
Ford has launched a new sustainable charging program that allows plug-in vehicle owners in California to opt for carbon-neutral home charging. Ford is participating in the California Air Resource Board (CARB) Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) program, which allows customers to match the use of electricity for charging with 100-percent local renewable energy.
The Brief: Capitalism reimagined in 2022, expanding opioid treatment, accelerating lean impact data, remembering Harry Halloran
Impact Alpha
DECEMBER 23, 2021
Greetings, Agents of Impact! What a year! We’ve arrived at the final human-powered Brief of 2021. But our algorithmic elves will be working. The post The Brief: Capitalism reimagined in 2022, expanding opioid treatment, accelerating lean impact data, remembering Harry Halloran appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
DOE study examines how plating causes battery degradation
Charged
DECEMBER 23, 2021
A new study from DOE’s Argonne National Laboratory seeks to identify the reasons that DC fast charging accelerates battery degradation. The researchers gained some new insights into a process that can cause damage to the anode during charging and discharging. A paper based on the study, ?“ Increased disorder at graphite particle edges revealed by multilength scale characterization of anodes from fast charged lithium-ion cells ,” appears in the Journal of the Electrochemical Society.
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.
Lightsource bp lines up financing for 466 MW of solar capacity
Renewable Energy World
DECEMBER 23, 2021
Lightsource bp closed on a $376 million multi-project financing package and mobilized construction on its 293 MWdc Sun Mountain solar project in Pueblo, Colorado, and its 173 MW Bellflower Solar project in Indiana. Lightsource bp will build, own and operate the Colorado solar facility and deliver the energy it generates to Xcel Energy under a long-term power purchase agreement.
Environmental Awareness Days in January
Green Business Bureau
DECEMBER 23, 2021
Launch into the New Year with these environmental awareness days in January! New Year’s Day – January 1st. New Year’s Day is a day dedicated to renewal and fresh starts. It’s the time when many people commit to forming better habits, reaching personal goals and creating a fulfilling life. What better way to ring in the New Year than by instilling this same ambitious forward-thinking into your business.
Methane and Climate Mitigation: Outlook for Innovation and progress
CleanTech Group
DECEMBER 23, 2021
Methane has a global warming potential 86 and 28 times higher than CO2, over 20 and 100 years and is responsible for 23%.
BERDO Implementation Picks Up Speed — Better Get Ready
Energy and Cleantech Council
DECEMBER 23, 2021
On Monday, Boston released a draft of the first phase of regulations intended to implement the amended BERDO ordinance signed by then-Mayor Janey in October. . The first phase of the regulations is focused only on reporting issues. It will address. Reporting Requirements. Third-Party Data Verification Requirements. Preservation of Records. The rationale for this narrow focus is that the City wants these regulations in place promptly, in time for reporting in Q2 2022.
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?
FFL Partners and Two Sigma Impact acquire Community Medical Services’ opioid treatment program
Impact Alpha
DECEMBER 23, 2021
ImpactAlpha, Dec. 23 – Less than half of the 4.6 million opioid users in the U.S. are diagnosed, and less than half of those. The post FFL Partners and Two Sigma Impact acquire Community Medical Services’ opioid treatment program appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
California sues Walmart for allegedly dumping hazardous waste
AGreenLiving
DECEMBER 23, 2021
The state of California , through its Attorney general, has filed a lawsuit accusing Walmart of allegedly illegally disposing of hazardous waste in landfills across the state. The 42-page document directly implicates Walmart for dumping 160,000 pounds of hazardous waste each year over the past six years. Among the items that are said to be disposed of by the retailer include insect killer sprays, lithium batteries, aerosol cans and LED bulbs.
New DOE office to help stand up clean energy projects
Renewable Energy World
DECEMBER 23, 2021
Anchored by $20 billion in infrastructure funds, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced a new Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations. The office is being created to help stand up projects in clean hydrogen, carbon capture, grid-scale energy storage, and small modular reactors, among other technologies. Billions of dollars are expected to go toward demonstration projects in rural and economically hard-hit communities.
Electric bus network expected to be in the US in 2022
AGreenLiving
DECEMBER 23, 2021
Over Thanksgiving weekend, FlixBus USA made transit history by transporting a busload of passengers on the first interstate fully electric bus journey. “The driver said there was just this kind of bit of a glow in the bus,” said Pierre Gourdain, managing director of FlixBus USA. “People were really proud. It’s a historic moment.” Related: 20 new electric vehicles driving onto the scene in 2022 But don’t try to book your electric bus ticket yet.
Biden admin approves two large-scale solar projects in California
Renewable Energy World
DECEMBER 23, 2021
Two California solar projects have the green light from the U.S. Bureau of Land Management. The Arica and Victory Pass solar projects are located on federally owned land in Riverside County east of Los Angeles. Combined they could generate up to 465 MW of power and up to 400 MW of battery storage. The Bureau’s approval allows developer Clearway Energy Group to construct, operate and maintain the two separate PV solar facilities.
Earth911 Quiz #95: Inspirational Environmental Quotes
AGreenLiving
DECEMBER 23, 2021
Are you looking for inspiration? We’ve put together another quiz filled with quotes that inspire… The post Earth911 Quiz #95: Inspirational Environmental Quotes appeared first on Earth911. Read more here: Earth911 Quiz #95: Inspirational Environmental Quotes.
EPA’s new emissions rules—the best EV news from Washington in years
Charged
DECEMBER 23, 2021
The US Environmental Protection Agency has finalized a set of new auto emissions standards, which the New York Times calls “the most significant climate action taken to date by the Biden administration, and [the] highest level ever set for fuel economy.”. The story so far: In 2017, major automakers asked the incoming US president to water down federal fuel economy regulations, which were a major factor in forcing them to produce EVs.
5 Ways to Turn Mailed Trash into Treasure
AGreenLiving
DECEMBER 23, 2021
If you’re anything like the average person, a trip to the mailbox yields more junk… The post 5 Ways to Turn Mailed Trash into Treasure appeared first on Earth911. Read more: 5 Ways to Turn Mailed Trash into Treasure.
Tesla Model Y Regains Top IIHS Safety Pick Status
CleanTechnica
DECEMBER 23, 2021
The Tesla Model Y with Pure Vision has been rated a Top Safety Pick + by IIHS.
All natural PAPR deodorant are vegan and aluminum free
AGreenLiving
DECEMBER 23, 2021
The concern over ingredients in our beauty products is nothing new. The seemingly benign deodorant we mindlessly apply each morning is one example. Scientists are showing concern over aluminum found in deodorant, which can cause kidney problems during processing. There are other ingredients of concern in popular deodorants, which is why there’s been a movement towards natural ingredients instead.
Italy’s Plugin Vehicle Sales Near 12% In November As Car Market Declines
CleanTechnica
DECEMBER 23, 2021
Originally published on opportunity:energy. Italy’s EV market maintained a fast pace of growth in November, while overall car sales continued their decline — in tune with most other European countries. As internal combustion engines (ICE) keep their downward trajectory, a new normal seems to be taking place: fewer overall sales, more electrified ones.
Put this tiny home Cabin One anywhere
AGreenLiving
DECEMBER 23, 2021
Cabin Spacey’s Cabin One is a prefab micro-apartment you can put anywhere — on an apartment building roof or in the mountains. It comes pre-wired for lighting with heated floors and towel racks, a skylight and a membrane roof. All you need is a place to put it. Where should you quarantine next? We wish we didn’t have to ask that question, but the truth is that the pandemic has given many people the opportunity to choose where they hunker down.
Power Wells for Remote Villages in Indonesia
CleanTechnica
DECEMBER 23, 2021
It has been a long journey, from a remote village in Indonesia, to “Pitch@Palace” in London, and back to Australia to manufacture the “Power Well.” The idea grew from a refugee’s suggestion at an innovation weekend run by Substation33. The story was told to me by Brad Claire on my recent visit to Substation33’s Kingston […].
25 cities show how major climate wins are possible
AGreenLiving
DECEMBER 23, 2021
Collectively, the work of 25 cities in the Climate Challenge will reduce CO2 emissions by 74 million metric tons from 2020 through 2030, compared to business as usual. Original post: 25 cities show how major climate wins are possible.
Head or Heart — Camaro vs. Tesla
CleanTechnica
DECEMBER 23, 2021
Allan dropped in to see me today; we haven’t seen each other for about four years. Our bond is that he was my principal when I retired from teaching. We made a great team and we still get on well. I thought he was coming to see me because he has read my writings and […].
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