Jim Conca
JULY 21, 2020
Extremophiles like the bacterium D. radiodurans that can withstand levels of radiation thousands of times what most animals can, are able to help us make vaccines faster, cheaper and safer. They use special molecular protectors to shield their repair proteins but not their DNA or RNA.
GreenBiz
JULY 21, 2020
Apple embeds racial justice into new supply-chain carbon neutrality pledge. Heather Clancy. Tue, 07/21/2020 - 04:13. Apple already has ventured far beyond most other companies when it comes to pushing for climate action within its supply chain. . Consider that it has convinced more than 70 Apple suppliers to use renewable energy to produce products on its behalf , an effort funded in part by close to $5 billion in green bonds issued by the technology giant as well as a dedicated pool of money in
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Inhabitat - Innovation
JULY 21, 2020
While a plate of Swedish meatballs has long been a standard part of an IKEA visit for omnivores, vegetarians endured the shopping trip on an empty stomach. Now, they hunger no more. IKEA has just announced its new plant ball, which allegedly has all the taste of a meatball but only 4% of the climate footprint.
GreenBiz
JULY 21, 2020
Verizon, NRG, Oliver Wyman share tips on TCFD scenario planning and reporting. Aaron Mok. Tue, 07/21/2020 - 00:30. More than 1,000 global leaders have implemented recommendations from the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosure as part of their climate action plans. But many organizations are still grappling with how, exactly, to do this.
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
JULY 21, 2020
The newly developed QuenchSea has potential to become a life-saving device.
The Environmental Blog
JULY 21, 2020
It’s seems like we’re seeing hype every week with regard to the two major plant-based meat companies: Impossible Foods and Beyond Meat. That’s because they are solving a huge problem related to global warming and human health. Global warming was something that I had never previously understood growing up. What is the problem and why is it a big deal to solve?
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GreenTechMedia
JULY 21, 2020
New York on Tuesday issued its much-anticipated request for proposals for up to 2.5 gigawatts of offshore wind capacity, setting up the U.S. market to add at least one more big project — and perhaps several — to its pipeline by the end of the year. New York also put out a solicitation for 1.5 gigawatts of onshore renewables; put together, the two procurements represent the largest clean-energy solicitation in U.S. history, state officials said.
Inhabitat - Innovation
JULY 21, 2020
The Seaside Reef House celebrates indoor-outdoor living and sustainable design.
GreenTechMedia
JULY 21, 2020
Apple committed on Tuesday to becoming carbon-neutral by 2030, pushing its ambitions far beyond its own corporate walls — already 100 percent powered by renewables — to include its vast supply chain and the lifecycle of all its products. If it succeeds, then by the end of this decade every Apple device sold worldwide will have a net-zero climate impact, from the mining of the materials used to make them, to the ships that bring them to global markets, to the electricity that powers t
Solar Power World
JULY 21, 2020
The Greenest Contractor award celebrates the greenest contractors making their companies and communities as environmentally friendly as possible. It’s not enough to just install solar panels to be considered a green-minded company in 2020. Office operations, transport, equipment, materials, installation itself — everything can contribute to carbon production.
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.
GreenTechMedia
JULY 21, 2020
Over the past decade, London-based Kiwi Power has harnessed a gigawatt of flexible commercial and industrial loads in 10 European countries into behind-the-meter networks of energy flexibility, capable of serving wholesale capacity markets , reducing strain on distribution grids, or responding to second-by-second frequency regulation signals. More recently, it’s added 80 megawatts of behind-the-meter batteries to its virtual power plant portfolio.
Solar Power World
JULY 21, 2020
Solar permitting has been a stubborn soft cost for residential installers. The forms needed, time it takes to process them and cost of the applications vary widely from county to county and state to state. The National Renewable Energy Lab wants to standardize, digitize and speed up the process to help AHJs with the increasing… The post It’s time to move to instant online residential solar permitting appeared first on Solar Power World.
GreenTechMedia
JULY 21, 2020
Enel announced a dramatic upscaling of its U.S. energy storage ambitions on Tuesday, saying it will add 1 gigawatts of storage capacity to its renewables fleet by 2022. That's a huge jump from late 2019, when the Italian utilities group and renewables powerhouse pledged to build another 14.1 gigawatts of renewable power capacity globally by 2022 through its Enel Green Power arm, along with 300 megawatts of energy storage from its Enel X unit.
Solar Power World
JULY 21, 2020
Derik Kendrick never expected to learn American Sign Language as a second language. In his past 20 years working in construction, he never knowingly worked alongside anyone who was deaf. But as co-owner of Plano, Texas, solar installation company Axium Solar (No. 60 on the 2020 Top Solar Contractors list), that all changed. An Axium… The post Texas contractor gives deaf installers opportunities to shine appeared first on Solar Power World.
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.
GreenTechMedia
JULY 21, 2020
Magnus Hall, chief executive of Swedish utility and renewables giant Vattenfall, has resigned after six years at the helm. Hall will leave before the end of January 2021, making him at least the third high-profile CEO to resign in a month within Europe's clean energy sector following recent changes at Ørsted and Siemens Gamesa. Hall told an analyst conference call that he was leaving for personal reasons after six “quite intensive” years, and is now looking to slow down.
DeSmogBlog
JULY 21, 2020
Read time: 28 mins The Three Percenters, a loosely organized group of far-right militants, appear to have established a significant presence in North Dakota’s Bakken oilfield, one of the most productive oilfields in the nation. “There is a lot of membership in the oil and gas industry up there,” says Matt Marshall, a Three Percenter running for state legislature in Washington.
Solar Power World
JULY 21, 2020
There’s something icky about companies being associated with just one face. I can’t name one other high-level Amazon employee besides Jeff Bezos. We all saw what happened to Papa John in recent years when the spotlight got too hot on the pizza founder. Even Solar Power World is a team effort — we share responsibilities… The post Employee-ownership nets positive results in both the workplace and community appeared first on Solar Power World.
Impact Alpha
JULY 21, 2020
ImpactAlpha, July 21, 2020 — A conservation project in the Tanintharyi region in southeast Myanmar aimed to protect the area from unsustainable palm oil and rubber plantations and overfishing. Indigenous Karen and other communities, however, objected that the top-down project cut them off from their livelihoods, jeopardized ceasefires that had ended a civil war and.
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?
Inhabitat - Innovation
JULY 21, 2020
Comfort, style, equality, sustainability.
Solar Power World
JULY 21, 2020
Solar Power World, the solar industry’s leading business-to-business publication, today announces the release of the 2020 Top Solar Contractors list. The Top Solar Contractors list is the most recognized annual listing of solar contractors in the United States working in the utility, commercial and residential markets. “The Solar Power World team is so pleased to highlight more… The post Solar Power World announces the 2020 Top Solar Contractors list appeared first on Solar Power Wor
Business Green
JULY 21, 2020
Tech giant's CEO Tim Cook said he wants net zero pledge to 'be a ripple in the pond that creates a much larger change'. Apple has become the latest US tech behemoth to step up its net zero ambitions, today pledging to be 'carbon neutral' throughout its entire business, manufacturing supply chain and product life cycle by the end of the decade. The company claims it is already today carbon neutral across its global corporate operations, but today's pledge means that every Apple product - includin
Solar Power World
JULY 21, 2020
There are plenty of obstacles in solar construction that can cause significant delays and jeopardize installers’ schedules if they’re not prepared for them. The biggest lesson DMH Solar (No. 43 on the 2020 Top Solar Contractors list) founder David Heilman learned in 2019 was that it’s better to own the equipment to physically remove those… The post Solar contractor gambles on drilling equipment and wins the pot appeared first on Solar Power World.
altenergymag
JULY 21, 2020
The Solar Energy Optics ("SEO") film solution developed by ICS is one of the key outcomes from comprehensive industrial research and development around light guide technology.
Solar Power World
JULY 21, 2020
We’re supposed to be confined to our homes and minimizing contact with anyone outside of that circle because a pandemic has swept the globe, but American businesses are slowly opening despite COVID-19’s standing presence. It’s not the time to start pulling back any precautions you’ve implemented for your solar installers and administrative staff to safely… The post Don’t let your guard down — COVID-19 is still here appeared first on Solar Power World.
Business Green
JULY 21, 2020
Three day test period on the city streets will gauge the performance of the waste truck's battery with a view to full deployment later this year. One of the UK's first zero emission bin collection lorries is being trialled in Oxford this week, ahead of plans to deploy the fully-electric refuse collection vehicle on the city's streets later this year.
Solar Power World
JULY 21, 2020
Since family-owned solar installation company Empire Solar Group’s (No. 108 on the 2020 Top Solar Contractors list) founding in 2017, it has expanded to serve a total of 11 states, six of which opened offices in just seven months. Before starting Empire, the family owned R&J Technical Services, an electrical contracting company that served oilfield… The post Utah installer uses lessons learned from oilfield contracting to grow solar business appeared first on Solar Power World.
Business Green
JULY 21, 2020
AXA, BNP Paribas, World Bank and others back plans for new Task Force for Nature-related Financial Disclosures framework. The UK and Swiss governments alongside 10 major banks have thrown their weight behind a new initiative announced today aimed at creating a global framework to measure and publicly report the financial risks posed by nature, biodiversity and habitat degradation.
Solar Power World
JULY 21, 2020
The Most Forward-Thinking Contractor award celebrates solar installers devoted to making progress in energy and beyond in hopes of a more sustainable future. Silicon Ranch (No. 19 on the 2020 Top Solar Contractors list) treats solar site land as an asset rather than an afterthought. The company is committed to its mission of “regenerative energy,”… The post Solar Power World’s 2020 Most Forward-Thinking Contractor plots the future of regenerative solar site design appeare
altenergymag
JULY 21, 2020
The American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) today issued the following statement after federal officials arrested Ohio House Speaker Larry Householder and four others regarding a purported $60 million racketeering conspiracy involving the passage of Ohio HB 6.
Solar Power World
JULY 21, 2020
Norwich Solar Technologies (No. 118 on the 2020 Top Solar Contractors list) of White River Junction, Vermont, was founded in 2011 by Joel Stettenheim and Troy McBride, both of whom have backgrounds in research and development (R&D). Norwich installs commercial solar PV and works on special-interest R&D like pairing concentrated solar and energy storage or… The post Solar developer specializing in R&D lowers the financial bar of entry for solar appeared first on Solar Power Wor
Impact Alpha
JULY 21, 2020
ImpactAlpha, July 21 – Mexico City-base venture capital firm DILA Capital has backed numerous social enterprises, like biogas tech venture Sistema.bio and Peruvian skills development startup Crehana, even though it doesn’t explicitly call itself an impact fund. With its fourth fund, the firm is eying Ecuador, Bolivia, Paraguay and other underserved markets in Latin America, The post DILA Capital looks to underserved Latin American markets with fourth fund appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
Solar Power World
JULY 21, 2020
For a company to survive in this market for over 40 years, it must know a thing or two about hopping on the next trend. Atlasta Solar Center (No. 284 on the 2020 Top Solar Contractors list) started installing solar thermal systems in 1979 before transitioning to off-grid and eventually grid-tied solar PV systems. The… The post Colorado contractor complements solar installs with electric vehicle sales appeared first on Solar Power World.
Charged
JULY 21, 2020
For many years, Munro & Associates has been performing teardowns—taking cars apart to find out what their components are, where they come from and how much they cost—and selling enormous, highly technical reports to automakers for five-figure prices, mostly unnoticed by anyone outside the auto industry. More recently, because of the huge interest in the company’s Tesla teardowns , and because of his highly engaging and entertaining speaking style, CEO Sandy Munro has become something of a ho
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