How circularity is reshaping value propositions in capital equipment
GreenBiz
DECEMBER 30, 2022
Learnings from 23 companies navigating the transition to the circular economy.
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UNESCO calls to add Great Barrier Reef to danger list
Inhabitat - Innovation
DECEMBER 30, 2022
One of the world's most famous natural wonders is the Great Barrier Reef. The site is a marine wonderland, with a rich diversity of beautiful corals and thousands of aquatic creatures.
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3M pledges to stop making 'forever chemicals' by 2025
GreenBiz
DECEMBER 30, 2022
U.S. manufacturing giant moves ahead of regulators by promising to phase out harmful PFAS substances within three years.
California tariff will pay customers to produce solar energy
Inhabitat - Innovation
DECEMBER 30, 2022
The California Public Utilities Commission has just released a draft decision to revise California's net energy metering tariff.
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.
Novel current collector is designed to stop battery thermal runaway
Charged
DECEMBER 30, 2022
Researchers from Renmin and Tsinghua Universities in China have developed a novel shape-memory current collector (SMCC) that they say can stop battery thermal runaway in an overheated battery. Their paper, Early Braking of Overwarmed Lithium-Ion Batteries by Shape-Memorized Current Collectors , is published in the ACS journal Nano Letters. Unlike traditional current collectors made of copper foils, the SMCC is made of a micropatterned shape-memory micron-sized film with copper deposition.
A private company releases particles to fight climate change
Inhabitat - Innovation
DECEMBER 30, 2022
A geoengineering startup called Make Sunsets claims it has launched weather balloons to release sulfur particles into the stratosphere, thus reflecting the sun and helping to cool the earth. Many scientists aren’t thrilled that one company has made this decision on its own to try a controversial method.
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This agrotourism site in Canada makes nature the focal point
Inhabitat - Innovation
DECEMBER 30, 2022
In the beautiful Canadian landscape sits the Farouche agrotourism area, a brand-new site that combines the beauty of the natural landscape with a Nordic farm, a café bar, micro-refuges and a basecamp. The natural glory of the Devil's River valley is all around. Meanwhile, Mont-Tremblant National Park provides the backdrop.
bp pulse to install 900 charge points at Marks & Spencer stores
Charged
DECEMBER 30, 2022
British retailer Marks & Spencer (M&S) and bp pulse have signed an agreement to install 900 EV charge points at around 70 M&S stores across the UK in the next two years. The roll-out will significantly expand bp pulse’s network, growing the UK’s charging network and adding up to 40,000 kW of charging capacity to the UK’s EV infrastructure, says the company. bp has plans to invest up to £1 billion in EV charging infrastructure in the UK—a step towards bp’s global ambition of having mo
Sabai is truly a sustainable model for furniture production
Inhabitat - Innovation
DECEMBER 30, 2022
Walk into any furniture store and you’re bound to find truckloads of synthetic materials, non-durable design and questionable manufacturing standards. Entrepreneur Phantila Phataraprasit set out to change all of that with a furniture line made from sustainable materials and a guarantee of a long usable life.
Test Drive Results Audi eTron all electric sportback
Green Living Guy
DECEMBER 30, 2022
It’s an Audi just all electric folks. It’s really the brand’s first fully electric SUV. It returns for the 2022 model year with significant package changes. This Premium Plus package I tested continues to offer the available Black optic package. Yet now it adds a new 21-inch sport wheel design. Most cool part is it’s […]. The post Test Drive Results Audi eTron all electric sportback appeared first on The Green Living Guy.
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.
Holiday List No. 3: Seven dealflow trends to keep an eye (or two) out for in 2023
Impact Alpha
DECEMBER 30, 2022
ImpactAlpha, Dec 30 — Impact fund managers showed surprising resilience in a tough year for fundraising. That gives them dry powder to deploy. The post Holiday List No. 3: Seven dealflow trends to keep an eye (or two) out for in 2023 appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
What is certification in cloud computing?
U.S. Green Technology
DECEMBER 30, 2022
Knowledge of how to collaborate with the cloud, which is expected to become increasingly useful as cloud computing becomes more widely used, is positioned to become an asset for IT workers. There are several distinct cloud service providers, each of which offers its own unique cloud certifications. Cloud computing, which involves storing data and services.
Will Renewable Energy Lead to More Cost Stability?
Energy Central
DECEMBER 30, 2022
Fossil fuel prices often fluctuate wildly. That’s because they’re vulnerable to supply chain issues all the way from the ground to the gas tank, with disruptions like limited availability, transportation shortages, and spills influencing their worth at any given time. Additionally, because of the physical nature of oil and gas, countries can stockpile and withhold fossil fuel.
Singapore will soon have its first government chief sustainability officer
Eco-Business
DECEMBER 30, 2022
Lim Tuang Liang will assume the national CSO role from January 1, 2023. He will be leaving his post as the head of science and technology at the city state's sustainability and environment ministry.
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.
Massive Investments in Energy Storage Could Be the Beginning of the End for Fossil Fuel Dependency
Energy Central
DECEMBER 30, 2022
The widespread adoption of energy storage technologies, however, could end the reign of fossil fuels. How would this be possible? Today, there are emerging options to make the transition to renewables possible and it is energy storage that makes this feasible.
Mosaic 2022 in Review
Mosaic
DECEMBER 30, 2022
2022 was an unprecedented year. The resurgence of covid in the winter, followed by the lifted restrictions and an extremely busy spring and summer season. The fall months which brought some of the most aggressive economic policy actions in decades, including the highest level of mortgage rates since the Great Recession. And on top of it all, the largest legislation in U.S. history, the Inflation Reduction Act, which includes billions of dollars in clean energy incentives and rebates to homeowner
Anthropocene: Really? At what point did humans´ impact on earth become geologically significant?
Energy Central
DECEMBER 30, 2022
Geologists are in a hot debate about whether to call for the end of the Holocene Epoch of the the Quaternary Period of the Cenozoic Era of the Phanerozoic Eon. At issue is whether to declare the beginning of the Anthropocene Epoch -i.e. the Epoch of human caused change to the earth. On the one hand: «Stanley C. Finney, the secretary.
BusinessGreen's top 15 most read stories of 2022
Business Green
DECEMBER 30, 2022
From Liz Truss and solar farms, to heat pumps, coal mines and magnetic concrete - here are our top ranking stories of the year. Even in the context of an eventful past five years, it is fair to say 2022 was another rollercoaster. As much of the world tentatively sought to find its feet following the ravages and turmoil of Covid-19, Russia invaded Ukraine, energy prices soared to obscene levels and climate driven disasters hit harder than ever, leaving millions of people around the world variousl
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?
Asia Carbon Conference
Energy Central
DECEMBER 30, 2022
Organised by Argus Media in conjunction with host sponsor, Samling Group, the Asia Carbon Conference will take place on 14-16 March in Kuching, Sarawak, Malaysia. Meet the key companies involved in producing carbon offsets at the first industry leadership conference for carbon offsetting and trading in Asia, to get ahead of your competitors in a rapidly growing global market.
Sandy Munro: The Coming Wave of Chinese EVs
CleanTechnica
DECEMBER 30, 2022
In this final piece in a series on Sandy Munro’s Q&A at TeslaCon Florida, I’m highlighting a section of the Q&A where he talked about the coming wave of Chinese electric vehicles (EVs). He was asked, “You mentioned by 2030, one-third of the cars in the market will probably be Chinese. So, what do you […].
Don’t Worry, Work Harder: Musk’s Message To Employees About “Market Craziness”
CleanTechnica
DECEMBER 30, 2022
Tesla shares rebounded late this week after the announcement that the company will run a reduced production schedule in January at its Shanghai plant. Can Tesla sustain this momentum, or is the positive trend merely a blip on what's been an unsettling year for the all-electric carmaker's stock?
2024 Tesla Next-Generation Vehicle Should Sell For $12,500 After US Tax Credit
CleanTechnica
DECEMBER 30, 2022
Why Tesla’s Next-Generation Vehicle Won’t Be $30,000 Below, I explain why the next generation Tesla will be much less expensive than expected and how Tesla can do this. We know Tesla sells the Model 3 for under $40,000 in China today, and it has a project code named Highland to reduce Model 3 costs further […].
The Lucid Sapphire Races Against The Plaid, A Bugatti Chiron, & A Racing Motorcycle
CleanTechnica
DECEMBER 30, 2022
A recent video over at Hagerty’s YouTube channel shared a race between not only the fastest EV sedans, but the fastest gas-powered car and a motorcycle to boot. I don’t know for sure, but the video appears to have been shot near Lucid’s Casa Grande plant (south of Phoenix, Arizona). The Contenders Wherever it is, […].
Surviving 20-Hour Daily Power Cuts With An Electric Car In Zimbabwe
CleanTechnica
DECEMBER 30, 2022
Frank Sinatra, in his iconic song New York, New York, said “If you can make it there, you’ll make it anywhere, it’s up to you, New York, New York.” In October 2009, Jay-Z and Alicia Keys released their smash hit “Empire State of mind” where Jay-Z says he feels like the new Sinatra because “Since […].
Manchester To Double Its Double Decker Electric Bus Fleet
CleanTechnica
DECEMBER 30, 2022
Back in September, we shared interesting news of an electric bus deal in Manchester, UK. The number of buses wasn’t super high (only 50 units), but each bus was like getting two buses in one because they were double-deckers. Therefore, given that a double-decker bus carries many more people than an electric bus, wouldn’t it […].
Xcelerate To Offer Electric Vehicle Owners ‘World’s First’ Full-Battery Replacement Warranty
CleanTechnica
DECEMBER 30, 2022
Xcelerate is an EV-oriented company run by a group of Tesla alumni. Since 2012, the company has been offering a range of financial services for EV drivers, from financing to leasing to extended warranties. I recently spoke with Xcelerate CEO KJ Gimbel, COO Milad Davoodi, and VP of Business Development Brent Seavey about a new […].
Intel Committed To Greenhouse Gas Reduction, Circular Economy in 2022
CleanTechnica
DECEMBER 30, 2022
Earlier this year, we missed two news items from chip giant Intel. Taken alone, they may sound like small news items, and they also sound a lot like what ever large corporation is supposed to say these days. Everyone seems to be committing to some future target, but whether they’re going to walk the walk […].
Tata Motors Delivers The First 100 EVs To Everest Fleet Private Limited In India As Part of 5,000 EV Deal
CleanTechnica
DECEMBER 30, 2022
The market leader in India’s growing EV industry, Tata Motors, has signed an MoU with Everest Fleet Private Limited for the delivery of 5000 XPRES-T EVs. Tata is moving to accelerated the transition to sustainable transportation in India by manufacturing affordable electric vehicles. Tata has already handed over the first 100 cars to Everest Fleet […].
Home Depot Does A Big Energy Deal, But It Does More Behind The Scenes
CleanTechnica
DECEMBER 30, 2022
When you have a big retail space, it makes a lot of sense on the surface to cover the whole roof in solar panels. After all, there’s space and generating renewable energy is a good thing. But even the largest stores can only cover around half of their electricity needs taking that approach. Even adding […].
nanoFlocell Wants To Sell Flow Battery Cars In The US
CleanTechnica
DECEMBER 30, 2022
nanoFlowcell established a US division this week to introduce its flow battery technology to America, starting with flow cell cars.
Secret Of Patagonia’s New See-Through Solar Windows Is Revealed
CleanTechnica
DECEMBER 30, 2022
With Patagonia on board, NEXT Energy Technologies has a high-profile showcase for its new see-through solar windows.
CleanTechnica Tested: The Rad Power Bikes RadTrike
CleanTechnica
DECEMBER 30, 2022
The RadTrike is designed to be a stable e-bike to enable people who looking for an e-bike with a more stable base than two wheeled cycles. It’s also a great option for folks looking for an a bike with tons of cargo hauling capacity. We unpacked the RadTrike when it was first announced, and were […].
Shipping LNG In One Direction & CO2 In The Other Won’t Work
CleanTechnica
DECEMBER 30, 2022
In the past three years, another nonsensical idea has sprung up to somehow allow shipping of molecules for energy. The premise is that liquified natural gas (LNG) goes in one direction and liquified CO2 (l-CO2) gets put in the same tanks and goes the other way. It sounds so obvious! The premise is that CO2 […].
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