Nature Dying By A Thousand Cuts
Jim Conca
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
The wild places of the world are disappearing, and will continue to disappear, until they are no more. And it’s all about habitat – we keep taking it away from everything else.
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Coca-Cola has made progress on sustainability — and there’s still more to do
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
Coca-Cola has made progress on sustainability — and there’s still more to do. The year 2020 has been a reckoning of sorts for many people and companies across the globe. For Coca-Cola, the last five months have made the company realize how critical it is to move more quickly and accelerate change. “The circular economy has been worked on for years and several people have made amazing progress towards it,” said Bea Perez, senior vice president and chief communications, public affairs, sustainabil
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Why Are Oil and Gas Companies Investing in Nuclear Fusion?
GreenTechMedia
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
The oil industry’s search for carbon-free alternatives to fossil fuels has led to many interesting investment decisions over the years. Somewhere high on that list is nuclear fusion, the energy that powers the sun, which has drawn investment from at least three major oil companies. Chevron became the most recent player to show an interest in the technology when it pumped an undisclosed amount of cash into Seattle-based Zap Energy in August.
Partnership is key for InterContinental Hotels Group’s circularity goals
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
Partnership is key for InterContinental Hotels Group’s circularity goals. InterContinental Hotels Group, which has tens of thousands of properties currently in operation or development, has a large footprint. But did you know that many of its properties are run by third parties? That makes working toward sustainability goals challenging, according to Catherine Dolton, vice president of global corporate responsibility at the company.
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.
LEGO responds to kids' worries about single-use plastics
Inhabitat - Innovation
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
Kids have spoken. And LEGO has listened. “We have received many letters from children about the environment asking us to remove single-use plastic packaging,” said LEGO Group CEO, Niels B Christiansen, in a statement. “We have been exploring alternatives for some time and the passion and ideas from children inspired us to begin to make the change.” The Danish toymaker announced Tuesday that it will replace the plastic bags inside boxed LEGO sets with recyclable paper ones.
UPS is aiming to be better, not bigger
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
UPS is aiming to be better, not bigger. When Carol Tomé joined UPS as the company’s CEO on June 1, 2020, she put a stake in the ground around social justice and equity. “We announced actions to address the racial and social justice challenges facing communities here in the U.S. and around the globe,” said Suzanne Lindsay Walker, chief sustainability officer at UPS, noting an internal equity task force and legislative advocacy.
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AirMiners
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
AirMiners. cecily martine…. Fri, 09/18/2020 - 10:45. AirMiners is the place for entrepreneurs, engineers, and scientists, and designers working to extract carbon from the air. It exists to support the global carbon negative community with networking, education, inspiration and access to funding. .
This industrial complex has a facade made from its own construction waste
Inhabitat - Innovation
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
The building features sunken courtyards with earth-cooled floors and a stone screen facade made from the complex's own construction waste.
A small Swedish town becomes home to urban development experiments
Inhabitat - Innovation
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
Architects are transforming abandoned train tracks into a hub for innovation.
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.
Can a Novel Zinc Battery Deliver Clean Multiday Backup Power?
GreenTechMedia
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
California is looking for ways to keep power flowing to customers amid wildfires without burning fossil fuels. A Canadian storage technology startup thinks it has the solution. This summer, Toronto-based e-Zinc won a $1.3 million grant from the California Energy Commission to demonstrate its long-duration zinc battery for the commercial and industrial market.
Rihanna's new Fenty skincare line leads the industry in sustainability
Inhabitat - Innovation
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
Fenty Skin boasts a clean, vegan and earth-conscious line of products that embrace sustainability in all the right ways.
Save the date! Don’t miss Global Offshore Wind 2020 virtual conference and exhibition
altenergymag
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
Many events and activities have been disrupted this year, but Renewable UK is delighted to confirm that Global Offshore Wind 2020 is going ahead – it’s just going online.
This Oregon forest was supposed to store carbon for 100 years. Now it’s on fire.
Grist
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
As fires ripped through the West this month, displacing families and releasing a thick, choking cloud of smoke that reached all the way to Europe , some scientists began to worry about yet another loss. Thousands of acres of forest, maintained to offset greenhouse gas emissions, might be going up in smoke. Claudia Herbert, a PhD student at the University of California, Berkeley, who is studying risks to forest carbon offsets, noticed that the Lionshead Fire — which tore through 190,000 acr
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.
Antaisolar signed strategic cooperation agreement with GS global in Korea
altenergymag
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
On September 16th, Antaisolar signed the strategic cooperation agreement with South Korea GS global in Xiamen headquarters successfully. Mr. Kim Kwangho, acting vice president of South Korea GS global, and Ms. Jasmine Huang, president of Antaisolar, reached a strategic partnership in South Korean solar racking market and held in-depth exchange after the meeting.
The Week in impact investing: Breathe
Impact Alpha
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
TGIF, Agents of Impact! Take a deep breath. For most of this week, the word was “emergency.” Here in the San Francisco Bay Area, the air quality index hovered around 200, on the cusp of “unhealthy” and “very unhealthy,” while in parts of Oregon and Washington, it topped 400 – “hazardous.” Thousands are still displaced. The post The Week in impact investing: Breathe appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
SEIA Continues Fight Against Unlawful PURPA Rules
altenergymag
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
National trade group challenges FERC changes to PURPA implementation rules
BYD delivers 33 electric buses to Barbados
Charged
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
Electric buses are proliferating beyond the usual EV hotspots. Caribbean islands, many of which have short travel distances and high fuel prices, could be great candidates for transit electrification. The Barbados Transport Board recently received 33 BYD battery-electric buses, and two more of the 30-foot buses are to be delivered by December. The buses were specifically designed for the Barbados market and come equipped with wheelchair accessibility, WiFi and USB charger connectors.
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?
Court Considers If Washington State, Smothered by 'Climate Fires' and Smoke, Is Violating Youths’ Rights to Life and Liberty
DeSmogBlog
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
Read time: 5 mins As rampant wildfires worsened by climate change continued to batter the western U.S. this week, a Washington state appeals court examined the question of whether young people should be allowed to sue their state government over the climate crisis. The hearing, held Thursday, September 17, is part of a case brought by 13 Washington youth against the Evergreen State.
NEW DATE for the 4th International Trade Fair and Forum Verde.Tec May 14 - 16, 2021
altenergymag
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
T-Press has decided to set a new date for the 4th International Trade Fair and Forum Verde.Tec / Environmental Technologies. Experts and pioneers on circular economy, smart cities and environmental technologies will meet from the 14th to the 16th of May 2021, at the MEC Exhibition Center in Paiania, Attika, Greece.
Cornish mining firm finds 'globally significant' lithium grades beneath county
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
Cornish Lithium Ltd announces preliminary results of geothermal sampling as it announces plans for further fundraising round. Cornwall could emerge as a key region for the UK's growing green economy, after mining firm Cornish Lithium Ltd claimed to have found "globally significant" grades of lithium, a key component in battery technology for electric vehicles and energy storage systems, in the county.
FOUR STIMULATING SEPTEMBER SESSIONS IN THE ALL-ENERGY/DCARBONISE WEBINAR SERIES
altenergymag
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
The broad interests of the All-Energy/Dcarbonise audience is reflected in the four topics chosen to be under the webinar spotlight this month - 'Energy integration in the UK Continental Shelf: How will the basin evolve?'; ‘Corporate PPAs; Broadening the Discussion' and two sessions run in partnership with Microsoft - the first on ‘Smart Sustainable Cities: Learnings from the Sharing Cities Project' and the second a call to action with ‘Business Case for Smart Sustainable Cities Solutions: No mor
Accelerated electrode drying could reduce battery production cost
Charged
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
A new EPIC project coordinated by Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) is aimed at accelerating the drying of electrodes for lithium-ion batteries, increasing the energy efficiency of this process and reducing production cost. KIT says innovative electrode drying management can reduce the cost of battery production and improve environmental performance.
Joules Accelator Program Announces Next Class of Cleantech Entrepreneurs for NC
altenergymag
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
Game changing innovation includes environmental credit card scores, flood mapping, and solar storage panels
In-Charge Energy to provide charging infrastructure for Navistar’s EV customers
Charged
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
NEXT eMobility Solutions, a business unit of Navistar International (NYSE: NAV), has signed a master services agreement with Los Angeles-based In-Charge Energy to provide charging infrastructure and consulting services to Navistar and its EV customers. As fleet operators electrify, they are learning that purchasing EVs is just the beginning of the process—they slso need to consider maintenance, increased electricity demand, utility upgrades and other factors.
How Grid Operators Are Getting a Grip on the Rising Hybrid Renewable-Battery Resource [GTM Squared]
GreenTechMedia
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
Currys PC World aims to help customers 'Go Greener' with new campaign
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
Tech giant kicks off major new campaign designed to promote new wave of ultra-efficient smart technologies. Currys PC World is aiming to become "the UK's greenest tech retailer" with a new campaign to help its customers make greener choices. Dubbed 'Go Greener', the new campaign will promote innovative green products, such as smart fridges which can help cut the average £30 of food waste produced by households every month.
Solar Energy World Helps Homeowners Combat Power Outages with Tesla Powerwall
altenergymag
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
Solar Energy World announced today the company has been chosen to be a certified installer of the Tesla Powerwall home battery backup system. Tesla’s storage system is a new addition to other best-in-class energy storage products that Solar Energy World offers including Enphase and SolarEdge.
Why Coal Country Now Says Climate Change Is A Threat And What It Plans To Do About It
Forbes Green Tech
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
Coal country is coming to grips with climate change — that it is real and it is not going away. But what is its plan to deal with it?
BA Joint Major in Environmental and Sustainability Studies and Political Science
Green Market Oracle
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
The University of Northern British Columbia is offering a joint bachelor degree in environmental and sustainability studies and political science. The joint major explores environmental issues and the world of politics. This degree provides a sound grounding in environmental and sustainability issues alongside various political processes. The degree also addresses how political processes can be made to include environmental concerns and is excellent preparation for students interested in going i
Open Positions at Strategen
Women in Cleantech and Sustainability
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
Various Positions | Strategen | Flexible Locations. Strategen is looking for the best and brightest to join our growing team. We hire the best people in the business and retain them by offering a uniquely flexible work environment that accommodates the diverse needs of all team members. We’re a women-owned, minority-owned equal opportunity employer offering competitive salaries, a wide selection of benefits and a generous vacation policy.
Agent of Impact: Jeffrey Ubben, Inclusive Capital Partners
Impact Alpha
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
ImpactAlpha, Sept. 18 – Oil giant BP this this week called Peak Oil. Ubben, a veteran hedge fund manager, is calling Peak Finance. “Finance is, like, done,” he told the FT back in June. Ubben was known as an activist investor at ValueAct, the $16 billion hedge fund he founded in 2000. That meant pushing. The post Agent of Impact: Jeffrey Ubben, Inclusive Capital Partners appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
Inside Elon Musk's Tesla startup ecosystem
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 18, 2020
Is Tesla emulating Silicon Valley in its ability to catalyse an entire network of highly innovative clean tech companies? The US might be falling behind Europe and China when it comes to the adoption of electric vehicles, but there's one thing that the US - well, specifically California - has been been able to do uniquely well: Over nearly two decades, California has seeded and grown the world's first EV innovation ecosystem.
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