GreenBiz
JANUARY 17, 2023
At VERGE 2022, the U.S. Plastics Pact and Walmart announced the winners of the first Sustainable Packaging Innovation Award, showing exciting innovations in the areas of recyclability, compostability, refill and reuse.
Inhabitat - Innovation
JANUARY 17, 2023
Dinosaurs were the most fascinating creatures that once ruled the world for more than 150 million years. The peculiar fossils serve as a window into the past, revealing the diverse dinosaur species that inhabited the planet's ecosystems, ranging from forests to deserts. However, it is unclear whether dinosaurs spent time in or near water. As it turns out, they did!
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GreenBiz
JANUARY 17, 2023
When junior employees see “pls fix” in an email, they know to drop what they’re working on and jump on the latest, probably time-intensive request from the boss. Those requests are never quick, easy, or convenient. (“Pls fix” wouldn’t inspire memes if they were!) When it comes to the plastic waste crisis and our world’s recycling system, the tables are turned.
The Environmental Blog
JANUARY 17, 2023
With today’s climate change issues, people are paying more attention to their carbon footprint and, overall, trying their best to be environmentally conscious. Due to this, eco-friendly housing is becoming popular. An eco-friendly house is designed with recycled materials, renewable energy sources, and sustainable landscapes. When constructed properly, it can help lessen pollution and allow you to enjoy savings on water and energy usage, and it can increase the value of your home.
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.
GreenBiz
JANUARY 17, 2023
Sponsored: COP15 concluded with new targets to halt and reverse biodiversity loss. Reaching them requires that we verify the desired benefits are truly taking place.
Inhabitat - Innovation
JANUARY 17, 2023
The Royal Botanic Gardens (RGB) Kew, also known as Kew Gardens, is a botanical garden in London that features the largest and most diverse botanical and mycological collection worldwide. At the end of each year, scientists at RGB Kew select the top 10 most interesting plants and fungi discovered that year. This list shows the incredible complexities of the natural world and highlights rare species, many of which are threatened by extinction.
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Renew Economy
JANUARY 17, 2023
US-based developer enters Australian market with eyes on wind, solar and storage projects. The post Bluestar enters Australian wind, solar and storage market after $US100m capital raise appeared first on RenewEconomy.
GreenBiz
JANUARY 17, 2023
The tide is turning against ships that pollute both sea and air with the noxious fumes given off by bunker fuel. First movers are leading the way with solutions.
Charged
JANUARY 17, 2023
The ABB FIA Formula E World Championship is taking several significant steps forward for its ninth season of competition— a new generation of racecars , new race locations, revised rules and changes in key component suppliers. In December, the series put the new cars, which offer more power, less weight and vastly greater efficiency, through their paces a at a pre-season test meeting at the Ricardo Tormo circuit in Valencia, Spain.
GreenBiz
JANUARY 17, 2023
Insights about CES 2023 participants Candela, Zoox and VinFast.
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.
Charged
JANUARY 17, 2023
Nevada-based Aqua Metals has begun operating a pilot battery recycling facility at the Tahoe-Reno Industrial Center. Feedstock has been introduced into the automated system, enabling recovery of valuable critical minerals from spent lithium-ion batteries. The company’s Li AquaRefining technology is “a low-emission, closed-loop recycling solution capable of recovering all valuable metals, including high-purity lithium, manganese, cobalt and nickel from lithium batteries.”.
GreenBiz
JANUARY 17, 2023
The first year in a new role can be daunting. Here are lessons from one sustainability professional's first year in the role.
Charged
JANUARY 17, 2023
Proterra (NASDAQ: PTRA) is a commercial electric vehicle OEM, and it has two related businesses: Proterra Energy, which offers turnkey charging services to fleets; and Proterra Powered, which provides battery packs to other vehicle manufacturers. Now the company has produced the first Proterra Powered EV battery at its new Powered 1 battery manufacturing plant in Greer, South Carolina.
Renew Economy
JANUARY 17, 2023
The fossil-fuel induced energy crisis of 2022 has sparked the biggest ever jump in new construction starts for wind, solar and storage projects. The post Fossil fuel crisis prompts biggest ever switch to renewables and storage in 2022 appeared first on RenewEconomy.
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.
Charged
JANUARY 17, 2023
The EV Metals Group acquired the battery materials and technology business of Johnson Matthey in 2022. Now subsidiary EV Metals Arabia has advanced its plans to build a battery material processing plant in Saudi Arabia. EVM Arabia has been awarded an allocation of 127 hectares of land from The Royal Commission at Yanbu and a gas and power allocation from the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Energy.
Solar Power World
JANUARY 17, 2023
By Jeri Lawson, Director of Human Resources, Standard Solar Despite improvements in recent years, the U.S. solar industry is still less diverse than the country’s overall population or the national workforce. In 2021, African American employees made up only 8% of the solar workforce, compared to 12% of the overall U.S. workforce. While women had… The post Tips from a solar exec: Hiring to promote diversity and inclusion in solar appeared first on Solar Power World.
Charged
JANUARY 17, 2023
Toyota and Oncor Electric Delivery , a Texas-based electric transmission and distribution company, have announced a joint pilot project to research vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology. The effort is Toyota’s first EV-related collaboration with a US public utility. The results, Toyota says, will allow the two companies to be better prepared to support the EV charging ecosystem.
Renew Economy
JANUARY 17, 2023
Some solar farms are losing half of their output due to grid congestion, as renewable cop the brunt of curtailment and markets fail to provide correct signals to storage. The post Solar farm output cut by half as renewables cop brunt of grid congestion appeared first on RenewEconomy.
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?
altenergymag
JANUARY 17, 2023
JA Solar will supply all DeepBlue 3.0 Pro high-efficiency modules for the project. Construction of the project commenced in early January 2023 and is expected to be completed within 19 months.
Renew Economy
JANUARY 17, 2023
CEO of one of the world’s largest wind turbine manufacturers believes that turbines are big enough and that the main challenge is to increase output. The post Wind energy CEO says turbines are big enough for now appeared first on RenewEconomy.
DeSmogBlog
JANUARY 17, 2023
As chemicals designed to kill insects and weeds, fungi and rodents, pesticides are among the most toxic and damaging substances on the planet. Their harmful impacts on human and ecosystem health are generally well understood. What receives far less attention, however, is the climate impact of these agrochemicals. Not only do pesticides directly contribute to the climate crisis, but a changing climate is likely to intensify pressure from agricultural pests and decrease plant resiliency, resulting
CleanTech Group
JANUARY 17, 2023
The offset market is currently in disarray, with many corporations “greenwashing” regarding their net-zero claims – whether naively or on purpose. However, it.
Solar Power World
JANUARY 17, 2023
By Aaron Bates, founder, Toledo Solar Even before the Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 increased and extended financial incentives for solar panels and awarded an extra 10% investment tax credit for panels made fully in America (40% ITC total), consumer demand was surging for solar power in the United States and globally. Solar panel installations… The post Accelerating CdTe solar panel adoption can make U.S. solar more secure appeared first on Solar Power World.
Renew Economy
JANUARY 17, 2023
The Australian government has named a former boss of NZ utility Contact Energy and long time executive at Origin Energy to lead its crisis-hit Snowy Hydro. The post Bowen announces new CEO of crisis-hit Snowy Hydro appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Business Green
JANUARY 17, 2023
New national awards to showcase the very best of the UK's green economy. BusinessGreen has today launched the UK Green Business Awards , providing a unique opportunity to promote the country's green economy and showcase the many trailblazing businesses, teams, and individuals that will deliver a greener, healthier, and more prosperous Britain over the coming decades.
altenergymag
JANUARY 17, 2023
Agreement Includes Four California Projects Co-Located with Turbine Peaker Plants: Projects will Run FlexGen's Sophisticated Software, HybridOS 10.
Business Green
JANUARY 17, 2023
Spoof adverts have appeared across Europe, accusing the auto giants of being among the worst perpetrators of greenwash. Climate campaigners have this week launched a fresh attack on two of the world's biggest automotive brands by hacking 400 of BMW and Toyota's corporate ad spaces across Europe with parody car adverts that accuse the companies of seeking to 'greenwash' their reputation.
altenergymag
JANUARY 17, 2023
SolarEdge battery cells are manufactured at Sella 2, the company’s new battery cell manufacturing facility in South Korea
Business Green
JANUARY 17, 2023
Energy giant said it will price match any installers that offer lower priced heat pumps. British Gas has announced a lowest price guarantee for heat pump installations, confirming its heat pumps will start from £2,999 and it will match any lower priced offer from other companies for a MCS credited heat pump installation. The energy giant said it hopes the offer - which includes the government grants worth up to £5,000 for a new heat pumps - will help more people make the switch to th
altenergymag
JANUARY 17, 2023
Terrasmart has received a silver award for Best Visual Identity in the energy and utilities sector as a result of its refreshed brand strategy. The prestigious Transform Awards recognize companies in the transformational power of rebranding and brand design. Last year's competition received 41% more submissions than in 2021 and recognized leading national brands including ETrade, NYSE, and Xfinity.
Business Green
JANUARY 17, 2023
Office for Environmental Protection delivers damning verdict on a litany of government failings, as it demands urgent action to halt the decline of England's natural world Government progress towards its own environmental ambition to halt and reverse nature's decline by the end of the decade has "fallen far short" of what is needed, the Office for Environmental Protection (OEP) has today warned in a damning new report.
altenergymag
JANUARY 17, 2023
Conversion will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by approximately 640,000 tonnes of CO2 equivalent per year
Business Green
JANUARY 17, 2023
New online tool seeks to help companies and investors mitigate biodiversity-related risks and prepare for the reforms that follow the new Global Biodiversity Framework. Conservation group WWF has announced it is launching a new free online tool to help companies and financial institutions identify and take action on biodiversity-related risks across their operations, value chains, and investment portfolios.
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