Inhabitat - Innovation

AUGUST 19, 2019

Tennessee’s fourth largest city, Chatanooga, becomes the first American airport to be 100 percent solar powered – and joins only a handful of airports who claim the same across the world. The $5 million dollar project has been seven years in the making and was funding by the Federal Aviation Administration. “This is a momentous day for the Chattanooga Airport as we complete our solar farm and achieve a major sustainability milestone,” said Terry Hart, president and CEO of the Chattanooga.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2019

Borehole drilling rig for the installation of heat pumps at Ashton Rise. A sustainable housing development is to be developed in Bristol, featuring innovative low-carbon heating. Bristol City Council’s 133 homes at Ashton Rise are being built using the high efficiency Sig iHouse solution, and heated by individual ground source heat pumps connected to a shared ground loop array of boreholes.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

AUGUST 19, 2019

Built largely from recycled materials, the home that architect Daniel Moreno Flores recently completed for an artistically inclined client in Ecuador oozes playfulness and creativity as well as a reduced environmental footprint.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2019

The River Ray at Rivermead, Swindon (photo credit: Jo Sayers). Improvements in wastewater treatment in the UK over the past 30 years are linked to improvements in river biodiversity, according to a study conducted by researchers at the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology. The group analysed data from the regular monitoring of both chemicals and invertebrates in the River Ray in Wiltshire by the Environment Agency and its predecessors between 1977 and 2016.

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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.

Energy

Inhabitat - Innovation

AUGUST 19, 2019

In the Indonesian city of Tangerang, Jakarta-based design studio RAW Architecture has completed the School of Alfa Omega, a new school that emphasizes a connection with the outdoors.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2019

Satelliite communications firm Inmarsat has joined forces with RESOLVE, the Washington DC based non-profit environmental and health organisation, to develop a satellite-enabled solution to safeguard endangered wildlife across the African continent. Use of the system in Tanzania, East Africa has already resulted in the arrest of poachers. RESOLVE’s Biodiversity and Wildlife team have developed an innovative end-to-end anti-poaching system; TrailGuard AI.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2019

250kWp roof mounted PV array at the Cefni wastewater treatment site, designed and installed by HBS New Energies. Welsh Water has appointed solar PV expert HBS New Energies as one of the principal PV contractors to deliver phase 2 of its Glas Advantage Renewable Energy Programme. The framework will see a combination of ground mounted, floating and rooftop solar PV systems developed across 21 water and wastewater treatment sites, enabling the company “to take a major step towards becoming a

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Inhabitat - Innovation

AUGUST 19, 2019

What melts faster than an ice cream cone on a sweltering summer day? Greenland’s ice sheet.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 19, 2019

Read time: 10 mins Back in 1996, the president of the Charles Koch Foundation laid out a blueprint for the Koch network’s goals of social transformation — a three-tiered integrated strategy to roll back government regulations, promote free market principles, and, in doing so, to protect the industries that turned the Koch brothers into billionaires. .

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Forbes Green Tech

AUGUST 19, 2019

Off-grid solar power is making a huge difference in emerging economies and especially those in Nigeria and the Ivory Coast. Investors are therefore enticed, meaning the renewables industry has a positive forecast on the continent.

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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.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 19, 2019

Read time: 15 mins In July 2015 workers at the Garden Creek I Gas Processing Plant, in Watford City, North Dakota, noticed a leak in a pipeline and reported a spill to the North Dakota Department of Health that remains officially listed as 10 gallons, the size of two bottled water delivery jugs. But a whistle-blower has revealed to DeSmog the incident is actually on par with the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Alaska, which released roughly 11 million gallons of thick crude.

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Forbes Green Tech

AUGUST 19, 2019

Indonesian designers have proposed a controversial solution, using submersibles that could act as giant ice makers in the ocean.

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Planet Pulse

AUGUST 19, 2019

Planet, Salo Sciences , and Vibrant Planet are announcing a partnership to develop the California Forest Observatory (CFO) —a new platform that will dynamically map forest structure and fuel loads down to the tree level, statewide. Combining satellite imagery and artificial intelligence (AI), along with weather, climate, population, and infrastructure data, and supported through funding from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation, the Observatory will provide an unprecedented, continuously update

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altenergymag

AUGUST 19, 2019

Through an open and competitive proposal process, Solar United Neighbors, a national organization dedicated to representing the needs and interests of solar owners and supporters, has selected Solar Energy World to install solar panels for Montgomery and Howard County residents. Co-op board members selected Solar Energy World, the fastest-growing locally owned solar company because of their extensive experience and ability to offer quality components at very competitive prices.

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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.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 19, 2019

Read time: 4 mins By Tim Radford for Climate News Network. European and US scientists have cleared up a point that has been nagging away at climate science for decades: not only is the planet warming faster than at any time in the last 2,000 years , but this unique climate change really does have neither a historic precedent nor a natural cause. Other historic changes — the so-called Medieval Warm Period and then the “Little Ice Age” that marked the 17th to the 19th centuries — were not globa

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 19, 2019

The financial benefits of buying and selling locally produced energy from rooftop solar, wind turbines and batteries within communities have been revealed in a test case run by energy tech firm LO3 Energy.

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altenergymag

AUGUST 19, 2019

Solar Integrated Roofing Corporation (OTC PINK: SIRC) CEO David Massey announced the company has signed a Letter of Intent to acquire one of the oldest and most prominent roofing and solar companies in San Diego.

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Forbes Green Tech

AUGUST 19, 2019

As exponential technologies radically enhance human power, we must account for unintended consequences. Cautioning against blind faith in technology, Wolcott proposes "Anthropic Abundance" as an essential concept with which to understand transformative technology-driven change.

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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?

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altenergymag

AUGUST 19, 2019

Simplified Microgrid Solution and Short-Term Financing Options Put Clean, Reliable, Always-On, On-Site Power Within Reach for More Customers

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Front And Centered

AUGUST 19, 2019

“We envision a just green economy, where there is unbound potential for renewable energy for everyone and workers are guaranteed living wages and access to good solar jobs. This goes hand in hand with targeted solar infrastructure investments to directly benefit under-served communities and not displace them. Deploying solar in such a manner can serve to alleviate energy cost burdens, upgrade poor electric power infrastructure, and allow people of color to break the green ceiling into the enviro

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altenergymag

AUGUST 19, 2019

Programs save ratepayer’s money, reduce greenhouse gas emissions and provide energy resiliency

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Forbes Green Tech

AUGUST 19, 2019

The rise of bikesharing, scootersharing, and ridehailing has sparked an unprecedented explosion in the amount of mobility data being collected. It’s time for businesses to lead the way on harnessing the potential of mobility data for the public and private sector alike.

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Terra Infirma

AUGUST 19, 2019

I have utmost respect for Greta Thunberg, the teenage Swedish climate activist. The way she has serenely raised the issue of climate change and braved some disgraceful vitriol from right wing commentators is laudable. She is currently taking her climate emergency message to North and South America, crossing the Atlantic in a spartan zero carbon racing yacht.

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Ecotech

AUGUST 19, 2019

There are a lot of innovators and entrepreneurs with a vision in the Miami area as well as throughout South Florida. However, few have the unique approach to creating a company that really makes a difference throughout the city and even across the country and the world. A prime example of an entrepreneur with this type of approach is Pandwe Gibson. She is the founder and president of EcoTech Visions and continues to guide the development of this unique approach to providing a business incubator

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 19, 2019

Virginia’s energy office is exploring whether to align the state with a billion-dollar New York clean energy financing program.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 19, 2019

The government of Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro is wreaking environmental havoc in one of the most ecologically important places on Earth. The Amazon basin, more than half of which is in Brazil, accounts for 40 percent of the world’s tropical forests and 10-15 percent of the earth's biodiversity. Almost one quarter (800,000km² of Brazil’s original 4m km²) of Amazon forest has been lost to development including logging, agriculture, and mining.

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