Business Green
JUNE 6, 2021
First phase of project will support introduction of 22 electric buses on Glasgow streets ahead of the COP26 UN climate summit in November. Plans for the UK's largest electric vehicle (EV) charging station have taken a major step forward, after transport firm First Bus revealed it has started work to install 162 charging units at its Glasgow bus depot.
GreenTech Gazette
JUNE 6, 2021
For years, there has been a push to make the construction industry a touch more versatile and sustainable. In China, work is already underway to try and create such a scenario. Thanks to MVRDV, we are seeing the development of sustainable, multi-use buildings across the Shenzhen area. Known as Shenzhen Terraces, these buildings will be used for a mixed-use development program.
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Business Green
JUNE 6, 2021
Sustainable agricultural practices offer net zero and biodiversity benefits, the frozen chips giant claims. Frozen chips giant McCain has pledged to use potatoes grown using regenerative agricultural practices across its portfolio of products worldwide by the end of the decade, it announced today. Regenerative agriculture puts a greater focus on soil health and quality, promoting biodiversity and more plant cover on fields throughout the year, according to McCain, which said it plans to use pota
Eco-Business
JUNE 6, 2021
With governments and companies racing towards net zero, Google has set a target to use clean energy for every location and every hour of its operations by 2030. Is this possible?
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.
Business Green
JUNE 6, 2021
Manifesto by young people signals demand for climate action from business. Business regulation and tax policy could be subject to a 'future generations law' to assesses its impact on young people if a new 'Youth Manifesto' is enacted. Launched today, Our Future, Unlimited: A Youth Manifesto for Covid Recovery has been produced by a group young people with the support of the Duke of Edinburgh's Award and suggests ways that younger generations can recover after the pandemic.
Eco-Business
JUNE 6, 2021
Many of the United Nations' ambitious plans to make 2020 the 'super year for buttressing the natural world' have now been shifted to 2021.
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Eco-Business
JUNE 6, 2021
A new market-led Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD) framework, aims to deliver a mechanism that will help organisations assess the financial risks from biodiversity loss.
Business Green
JUNE 6, 2021
The EU's best carbon border adjustment mechanism may yet prove to be the one that never needs to be rolled out in full, writes Andrew Warren. This summer the European Commission is set to propose two major add-ons to its international carbon saving showpiece, the Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS). The first will be to extend its reach beyond European heavy industry, air transport and electricity generators to cover surface transport and buildings.
Eco-Business
JUNE 6, 2021
The pandemic's economic impact left at least 25 million people unable to pay for power in 2020, mainly in Africa, threatening progress towards access for all.
Low Impact
JUNE 6, 2021
Here’s a quick and dirty history of money. Since I’ve been involved in the mutual credit world, I’ve been reading various ‘history of money’ texts, and so I thought I’d organise the notes I’ve taken into a blog article. It’s a half-hour read, to accompany our new ‘ Low-impact money’ topic, and I think it gives a good overview of monetary history – but leaving out nonsense like ‘money evolved from barter’, or ‘Kings int
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.
CleanTechnica
JUNE 6, 2021
The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) released a study on renewable energy policies for cities last month. The reason for the focus on cities is due to their ability to scale up renewables and meet emission-reduction targets. Large cities have the revenue bases, regulatory frameworks, and infrastructure to support this while smaller ones usually don’t. […].
CleanTechnica
JUNE 6, 2021
Latest Report in Storage Futures Study Shows Reaching Full Market Potential Hinges on System Flexibility, Solar PV Penetration.
CleanTechnica
JUNE 6, 2021
BMW recently revealed the i4, a sedan that focuses on driving dynamics while still being a decent EV. Together with the release of the iX crossover, this represents a major leap toward BMW’s goal of selling 50% EVs by 2030. CleanTechnica readers probably have the same big question I did: what took BMW so long […].
CleanTechnica
JUNE 6, 2021
It looks like Tesla is preparing to sell the Cybertruck in China. Although, we don’t have a date yet for production or any information about this other than the fact that Tesla started accepting reservations last year for the Cybertruck in China, and now this new bit of information as well: Tesla China filed a […].
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.
CleanTechnica
JUNE 6, 2021
Recently, Tesla announced that it was going to spend $1 billion or more on Australian minerals, and Tesla’s Chair Robyn Denholm shared some interesting information about how her home country processes lithium. It doesn’t. It sends the lithium over to China to be refined, which isn’t good for the environment since China’s grid is still […].
CleanTechnica
JUNE 6, 2021
What Tesla Model 3 service do you need after 15,000 miles and two years? I'll run through everything I've had and am told I'll need soon.
CleanTechnica
JUNE 6, 2021
The National Organization of Transformative Automakers (NOTA) Workers Union is a union that describes itself as workers who are changing the world, and coming together with a list of demands. How this union relates to Tesla is pretty evident when you visit the website. I wonder if Elon created it. If it’s not Elon Musk, […].
CleanTechnica
JUNE 6, 2021
This is a short and sweet spec ad that YouTuber Billy Crammer made for Tesla. The video is set to a remix of one of my favorite songs from Kanye West, “Stronger,” in which the lyrics are rather empowering — incorporating the idea that what doesn’t kills us makes us stronger. The video also included […].
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?
CleanTechnica
JUNE 6, 2021
Now it’s our turn to rally around this vision of a cleaner, healthier, more prosperous future.
CleanTechnica
JUNE 6, 2021
Emissions of Baton Rouge’s Exxon plant, which produces 517,00 barrels of oil a day, have hit a peak of 350 pounds per hour, Reuters reports. That plant is around 5 miles from my home — they don’t call this Cancer Alley for no reason. It should be noted that this is the same Exxon plant […].
CleanTechnica
JUNE 6, 2021
The Tesla Owners Club of Austin shared that it is hosting the Kilowatts booth at the ALTNRGShow, which is an acronym for alternative energy show, in Austin. The event will take place on June 12 and 14 from 9 am to 5 pm and is sponsored by Wells Solar and Electrical Services. Anyone who buys […].
CleanTechnica
JUNE 6, 2021
February 6, 2018. That is when it happened. SpaceX launched its first tri-booster Falcon Heavy rocket. First, we saw two boosters simultaneously land on earth, a display so phenomenal that some actually thought it was fake. Then the next part was even more fun and absurd, when the world saw Elon Musk’s personal cherry-red Tesla […].
CleanTechnica
JUNE 6, 2021
Danone, the parent company of Dannon, Silk, Activia, Evian, and other food companies, shared a thread on Twitter about regenerative agriculture. The company stated that through agriculture, we have the power to act towards a healthier and more sustainable food system and that it believes that regenerative agriculture (RegAg) can play a key role in […].
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