Inhabitat - Innovation
JUNE 17, 2021
An Italian NGO has launched a new eco-label that will be awarded to freight and cruise companies that take steps to prevent their ships from colliding with whales.
GreenBiz
JUNE 17, 2021
ehsAI. taylor flores. Thu, 06/17/2021 - 14:08. ehsAI offers a unique AI and Machine Learning-enabled solution on a multilingual platform to address compliance on a global scale. The technology deconstructs, analyzes, interprets, and converts complex EHS regulations, permits, and legal documents into actionable compliance requirements within minutes, rather than days or weeks as with traditional manual processes. ehsAI?
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Inhabitat - Innovation
JUNE 17, 2021
This is a mobile game that merges real-world environmental action with gameplay.
Envirotec Magazine
JUNE 17, 2021
Engineering firm ECOncrete® has won the European Commission Horizon 2020 Fast Track to Innovation funding programme with a large-scale deployment at the Port of Vigo, Galicia, Spain. De-risking and scaling of environmentally-sensitive industrialisation projects is an urgent priority, and one that is said to line up with the EU Green Deal, Marine Directive and Biodiversity Strategy for 2030.
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.
Inhabitat - Innovation
JUNE 17, 2021
Loci is changing the game with vegan sneakers made from recycled materials.
GreenTechMedia
JUNE 17, 2021
The array of AI applications within climate tech is staggering -- and rapidly expanding. There are lots of exciting point solutions, but there’s no clear example of AI directly and meaningfully reducing GHG emissions on a global scale. Yet. Last year we had Priya Donti on the show. She’s a PhD student at Carnegie Mellon and co-chair of the Climate Change AI organization.
CleanTech Focus brings together the best content for cleantech professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Inhabitat - Innovation
JUNE 17, 2021
President Biden previously halted oil and gas leases in Alaska and the Gulf of Mexico for environmental review. But a federal judge has overturned this decision.
Envirotec Magazine
JUNE 17, 2021
The reputational and financial risks of the mismanagement of water and wastewater systems is the subject of a new report published today (17 June). The document, ‘Process water and wastewater treatment in the food industry’, points to the vast volumes of water used in food and beverage production and urges companies to do more to offset risk. The food and beverage industry uses vast volumes of water, and treatment of process water and wastewater is essential to every production plant.
altenergymag
JUNE 17, 2021
Chengdu Foresight Composite Co. Ltd. announced a new website for their JULI ventilation duct products.
Envirotec Magazine
JUNE 17, 2021
Image credit: Max Chen , CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 license). Dr Noel O’Kelly of monitoring technology firm Spirit Digital argues for greater access to air quality data and education, and he explains that the data is available today. The challenge of tackling poor air quality requires a response on multiple levels – including both a societal and personal response.
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
JUNE 17, 2021
Explore the sustainable architecture that earned the Washington State University Everett building a LEED Gold rating.
Charged
JUNE 17, 2021
A new analysis from the California Energy Commission (CEC) predicts that the state will need nearly 1.2 million public and shared chargers by 2030 to meet the demands of the 7.5 million passenger plug-in vehicles expected to be on California roads at that time. Assembly Bill 2127, “ Electric Vehicle Charging Infrastructure Assessment ,” examines charging needs to support Governor Gavin Newsom’s executive order requiring sales of all new passenger vehicles to be zero-emission by 2035.
Impact Alpha
JUNE 17, 2021
The promise of freedom was kept from enslaved people in Galveston, Texas for two and half years after the Emancipation Proclamation. On June. The post Celebrating Juneteenth through community-based lending for vibrant neighborhoods appeared first on Impact Alpha.
Charged
JUNE 17, 2021
OneD Battery Sciences has introduced SINANODE, a technology to power the next generation of silicon-based EV batteries. The SINANODE process fuses silicon nanowires onto commercial graphite powders, which the company says triples the energy density of the anode while cutting its cost per kWh in half. The higher energy density increases battery range while nanowires shorten charging time. “EV demand will be driven by range, charge time and cost, and our SINANODE technology addresses each of
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.
altenergymag
JUNE 17, 2021
Backed by nearly 40 years of experience and technical expertise in the PV industry, TÜV Rheinland remains committed to upholding industry quality and promoting the progress of the industry toward the goals of achieving peak carbon dioxide emissions and carbon neutrality.
Charged
JUNE 17, 2021
If you thought installing Level 2 charging in your detached garage was a hassle, consider what Extreme E has to go through to power its races. The electric rally racing series is staging events in some of the harshest, most remote locations on Earth. The first two races took place in the Saudi Arabian desert and on the beaches of Senegal, and the next will be on a glacier in Greenland.
altenergymag
JUNE 17, 2021
• The tracker adds a 1-in-vertical configuration with two connected rows to the company's product portfolio • Its 1P configuration, thanks to a lower structure, allows it to reduce visual impact • SFOne provides similar ease of installation to the SF7, reducing construction time by 75%.
Renewable Energy World
JUNE 17, 2021
Countries are slowly diversifying their energy portfolio by including hydrogen in their future roadmap towards a low carbon economy. Today, several global trends and activities distinguish the renewed focus on hydrogen from what has been observed in the past. Countries like Germany, Japan, the UK, China, Australia, and others have already made plans targeting Hydrogen production and prices with a series of investments and potential policies being considered.
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?
Charged
JUNE 17, 2021
GM has raised the stakes in what’s starting to look like a lively EV rivalry with Ford. The nation’s largest automaker now says it plans to invest $35 billion in electrification over the five years ending in 2025—the second increase in its announced figure in the last eight months. By 2025, GM plans to offer 30 electrified models globally, and hopes to reach annual sales of 1 million EVs in the US and China.
Impact Alpha
JUNE 17, 2021
ImpactAlpha, June 17 — Madrid-based global renewable energy investor Matrix Renewables is acquiring a 300-megawatt solar energy portfolio from Spain’s Alten Renewable Energy. The post Rise Fund’s Matrix Renewables acquires solar portfolios in Spain and Portugal appeared first on Impact Alpha.
Renewable Energy World
JUNE 17, 2021
This week Newlab and Ørsted announced the launch of the Blue Energy Studio , a collaborative initiative designed to drive innovation towards a future powered by renewable energy. The Blue Energy Studio will engage entrepreneurs, engineers, inventors, and corporate partners, beginning with Ørsted, to test and iterate innovative solutions to critical challenges across the renewable energy value chain.
Impact Alpha
JUNE 17, 2021
ImpactAlpha, June 17 — A record 53.6 million metric tons of electronic waste was generated worldwide in 2019. San Diego-based EcoATM is building. The post EcoATM Gazelle secures $75 million for e-waste recycling appeared first on Impact Alpha.
Renewable Energy World
JUNE 17, 2021
Transmission is key if the US is serious about becoming a nation powered by more renewable energy; new taskforce will work to overcome obstacles and barriers to key infrastructure build-out. The Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the National Association of Regulatory Utility Commissioners (NARUC) today announced the formation of a joint federal-state task force on electric transmission, which FERC established by order issued today.
DeSmogBlog
JUNE 17, 2021
Indigenous peoples in Canada and a coalition of environmental groups launched a “Global Week of Action” for June 14-21 , aimed at pressuring an array of insurance companies to cut ties with a long-distance tar sands pipeline under construction in Canada. On Wednesday, the Braided Warriors, an Indigenous youth group in British Columbia, held a rally in front of Chubb Insurance Canada in Vancouver, B.C.
Impact Alpha
JUNE 17, 2021
Greetings, Agents of Impact! The Call No. 29: Capitalism Reimagined. Chris Jurgens of Omidyar Network outlined a strategy for reimagining capitalism in last. The post The Brief: Closing racial wealth gaps, European solar assets, access to medicine in India, recycling electronics, catalyzing climate capital appeared first on Impact Alpha.
Business Green
JUNE 17, 2021
New government-backed bank tasked with tackling climate change and levelling up regional inequalities has formally opened at its Leeds HQ. The UK Infrastructure Bank has opened for business and is ready to start delivering on its twin aims of tackling climate change and supporting regional economic growth, the government has confirmed. The state-backed bank, unveiled by Chancellor Rishi Sunak last autumn, will aim to finance and de-risk major infrastructure projects critical to the UK's transiti
Impact Alpha
JUNE 17, 2021
ImpactAlpha, June 17 – The promise of freedom was kept from enslaved people in Galveston, Texas for two and half years after the Emancipation. The post Closing racial wealth gaps to deliver economic freedom for all appeared first on Impact Alpha.
Business Green
JUNE 17, 2021
Net Zero Futures aims to provide a ‘dedicated space’ for subnational governments to share net zero learnings and hear from scientific experts, according to Climate Group. The Scottish Government has launched a new initiative geared at boosting the climate ambition of state and regional governments around the world. The Net Zero Futures project, which is being run by the Climate Group and is backed by Bloomberg Philanthropies, will provide a forum where state and regional governments can come tog
Impact Alpha
JUNE 17, 2021
Benchmarks play a crucial role in financial markets and asset management specifically, allowing investors to see how they stack up against their peers. The post Why the impact investing industry is ready for a practice benchmark appeared first on Impact Alpha.
Business Green
JUNE 17, 2021
Supermarket pledges to only stock peat-free alternatives from January of next year. Waitrose has announced it will stop selling compost containing peat at the end of this year in a bid to encourage customers to embrace more sustainable gardening practices. The supermarket announced this morning it planned to ban all peat compost from its shelves from 2022 in response to customer demand for peat-free options, noting that sales of compost had skyrocketed during the pandemic.
Renewable Energy World
JUNE 17, 2021
By Tony Seng, Nextracker. The International Organization for Standardization, better known by its acronym ISO , is an independent, non-governmental international organization with a membership of 165 national standards bodies. The ISO family of thousands of standards covers pretty much all aspects of technology and manufacturing. One of the more familiar of those myriad families of standards is ISO 9000 and ISO 9001 in particular, which focuses on quality management systems (QMS).
Impact Alpha
JUNE 17, 2021
Even before our society shut down for 13+ months, before a summer of uprisings against racial injustice, and before a historic election season that. The post To help address systemic racism impact investing needs to get systemic appeared first on Impact Alpha.
Cleantech Blog
JUNE 17, 2021
Cleantech.org, the first, and one of the top portals for technology commercialization in cleantech, has hosted an innovation challenge competition, with a $100K cash prize for the best energy startup product in Digitization of Energy, eMobility in Cities, and New Fuels. The semi-finalists were announced today. As founder and Chairman of Cleantech.org and one of […].
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