Autonomous vehicles could help cities address their climate goals, if they start planning now
GreenBiz
JANUARY 21, 2020
How do cities make sure AVs achieve the “heaven” rather than the “hell” scenario?
GreenBiz
JANUARY 21, 2020
How do cities make sure AVs achieve the “heaven” rather than the “hell” scenario?
Inhabitat - Innovation
JANUARY 21, 2020
The architects created a modular, easily replicable surgical facility to provide ambulatory surgical procedures for underserved populations in resource-poor regions.
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GreenBiz
JANUARY 21, 2020
To become "resource positive," the coffee colossus seeks to shift toward circularity, including reusable packaging.
Inhabitat - Innovation
JANUARY 21, 2020
China is set to enact a plastic ban to phase out the production and use of many single-use plastic items by 2025.
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. 📊 Join us for a practical webinar hosted by Kevin Kai Wong of Emergent Ene
GreenBiz
JANUARY 21, 2020
A new driving test devised by Hyundai provides further evidence that electric vehicles are not just cleaner. They also lead to calmer, safer drivers.
Inhabitat - Innovation
JANUARY 21, 2020
Carlo Ratti Associati (CRA) and Mobility in Chain (MiC) have unveiled a technologically savvy plan to better connect the Swiss city of Lugano with the beautiful Lugano Lake.
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Inhabitat - Innovation
JANUARY 21, 2020
Outlook Shelter offers guests a glamping experience with city vistas they won't find anywhere else.
GreenBiz
JANUARY 21, 2020
Almost any textile you can think of, from cotton to leather to nylon, has social and environmental impacts risks at every level of its supply chain.
Inhabitat - Innovation
JANUARY 21, 2020
Made from plastic waste and transparent fabric, the glowing environmental art installation depicts a crime scene-like visual with a series of people-shaped sculptures lying on the ground.
GreenBiz
JANUARY 21, 2020
To become "resource positive," the coffee colossus seeks to shift toward circularity, including reusable packaging.
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
JANUARY 21, 2020
California regulators have finalized plans to direct more than half a billion dollars in behind-the-meter battery incentives over the next four years to customers most at risk of the state’s increasingly deadly wildfires and the grid outages meant to prevent them. The decision from the California Public Utilities Commission finalizes a proposal pushed ahead last month as a response to the state’s wildfire and blackout crisis.
Forbes Green Tech
JANUARY 21, 2020
If falling prices have made renewable energy unstoppable in the U.S., what does that mean for utilities? If the question is determined by smart policy, the answer may be financial opportunity.
GreenTechMedia
JANUARY 21, 2020
French oil major Total and Japanese conglomerate Marubeni have won the rights to build Qatar’s first utility-scale solar PV project, due online in time for the 2022 World Cup. The 800-megawatt Al Kharsaah development will use more than 2 million bifacial solar modules, making it one of the largest bifacial projects anywhere in the world. Total and Marubeni will own a 40 percent stake in the project with Siraj Energy, a joint venture between Qatar Petroleum and Qatar Electricity & Water
DeSmogBlog
JANUARY 21, 2020
Read time: 13 mins As 2020 begins, the impacts of climate change have become increasingly clear around the world. The new year started amid devastating wildfires, tied to the worst droughts Australia has experienced in hundreds of years , which encircled much of the continent. So far, 29 people have been reported dead. A University of Sydney professor estimated the number of animals killed likely tops one billion.
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
JANUARY 21, 2020
A British initiative is looking to dismiss the argument that renewables could topple the grid — by using distributed energy resources for a black start. If successful, the U.K. National Grid’s Distributed ReStart project should prove that assets such as wind, solar and battery plants can work alongside synchronous generators to restore power following a countrywide blackout.
Charged
JANUARY 21, 2020
BMW Group has signed a €540-million contract with China’s Ganfeng Lithium for the supply of raw lithium from mines in Australia. The carmaker has restructured its supply chains for its upcoming fifth generation of battery cells. From 2020 on, it will directly source both lithium and cobalt. The raw materials will then pass on to BMW’s two cell manufacturing partners, CATL and Samsung SDI.
U.S. Green Technology
JANUARY 21, 2020
The Future of Solar is Bright for Photovoltaics Photovoltaics is a bit of a funny word, but it packs a serious implication. The lay term for photovoltaics is solar panels, and they’re becoming increasingly more common. Research online shows that solar energy has surpassed prices for fossil fuel energy, but unfortunately to see a new revolution.
Solar Power World
JANUARY 21, 2020
With a new decade comes new solar policy goals. Solar Power World took a look at what’s on the agenda in some top solar states and nationwide in 2020 and beyond. California pushes for more emergency solar + storage backup Ramping up resilient, clean power is the main focus of the California solar + storage… The post The 2020 solar policy forecast: Part 1 appeared first on Solar Power World.
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?
Charged
JANUARY 21, 2020
Dominion Energy has selected Thomas Built Buses (TBB) as the provider of 50 electric school buses, which will make up the initial phase of Dominion’s electric school bus replacement program in Virginia. According to TBB, this program represents the largest deployment of electric school buses in the US to date. TBB’s Saf-T-Liner C2 Jouley is powered by Proterra technology.
U.S. Green Technology
JANUARY 21, 2020
Making Your House More Environmentally Friendly 2020 has arrived, and now is the perfect time to prepare your home for the new year. There is also increasing importance on being environmentally friendly as the new decade rolls in. It is entirely possible to prep your home for the new year while remaining eco-friendly without much. The post Earth Friendly Tips to Prepare Your Home for 2020 appeared first on U.S.
Greentown Labs
JANUARY 21, 2020
The Circularity Challenge is a six-month accelerator run by Greentown Labs and BASF —one of the world’s leading chemical companies—and supported by Stanley Black & Decker. The program is focused on disrupting the plastics, energy storage, and recycling value chains. Keep an eye on our website for profiles on all five program participants! Imagine turning the most difficult-to-recycle plastics into fuel or virgin plastic rather than sending them to landfills. .
E2 Environmental Entrepreneurs
JANUARY 21, 2020
Andrew Currie was fresh from selling his Internet software company when he looked around at the world and decided he wanted to do more to protect it. The climate was changing. Wildlife was disappearing. Clean energy was still facing an uphill climb on an uneven playing field against fossil fuels. And that was just what he could see happening in Colorado, the state he had come to love for its beauty and its promise and that he now called home.
EDF + Business
JANUARY 21, 2020
By Harold Rickenbacker New York City operates over 30,000 City-owned vehicles, the largest municipal fleet in the country. Police cars, fire engines, and public buses drive up and down the city streets performing their public services duties. But what if while completing their routine routes, doing their regular jobs, these vehicles were doubling as mobile air pollution monitoring networks?
Solar Power World
JANUARY 21, 2020
Read Part 1: The solar policy forecast for 2020 SEIA and other solar advocates have big plans to push favorable solar policy in 2020 as they aim to grow solar + storage on a larger scale. “The Solar+ Decade is going to be a time of radical market transformation, and we’ll need supportive state policies… The post More solar policy efforts to watch in 2020: Part 2 appeared first on Solar Power World.
Charged
JANUARY 21, 2020
Electrify America will invest $1.3 million in the Sacramento Municipal Utility District’s (SMUD) Energy StorageShares program, which incentivizes energy storage in grid-stressed locations throughout the city. Through the program, Electrify America will receive recurring credits for the demand reduction needs at its 12 charging stations powered by SMUD in the Sacramento area.
altenergymag
JANUARY 21, 2020
After a successful start in 2019, Intersolar Summit Spain is taking place for the second time and will welcome more than 250 attendees.
Solar Power World
JANUARY 21, 2020
A 4.5-MW solar array coupled with a 1.6-MW/3.8-MWh energy storage system has been completed on the former Titcomb pit landfill in Amesbury, Massachusetts. Kearsarge Energy developed and constructed the project that uses an AC-coupled GSS energy system from NEC Energy Solutions. Kearsarge will own and operate the solar + storage system and will use it… The post 4.5-MW solar, 3.8-MWh storage project completed at former Massachusetts landfill appeared first on Solar Power World.
altenergymag
JANUARY 21, 2020
The agreement establishes the foundation for Enphase to support Petersen-Dean on its mission to drive a clean energy future by providing turnkey energy solutions for new residential and commercial construction.
Business Green
JANUARY 21, 2020
If the government is sincere about tackling the climate emergency, it must remove barriers to onshore wind in England, argues Alan Whitehead MP. Rebecca Williams of RenewableUK reminded us this week that, to all intents and purposes, the well of onshore wind projects in the UK has now run dry. RenewableUK's data shows that, although a low number of new onshore wind farms began generating last year (23, down from 400 in the years before the ban came in), all but one had secured support for their
altenergymag
JANUARY 21, 2020
- Associations endorse key principles designed to serve as a best-practice framework for the responsible management of lead throughout the lifecycle of automotive and industrial batteries - Commitment will promote continuous improvement and globally shared best practices
Impact Alpha
JANUARY 21, 2020
ImpactAlpha, January 21 – It’s the kind of impact strategy you often see from private equity firms, not banks. Citi’s is launching a new $150 million impact fund that will make direct equity investments in early and growth-stage companies. The Citi Impact Fund will cut checks of up to $10 million for companies addressing workforce The post Citi deploys bank capital in $150 million impact fund appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
Forbes Green Tech
JANUARY 21, 2020
The San Francisco-based tech startup Nebia launched a Kickstarter for a new product co-designed by Moen.
Impact Alpha
JANUARY 21, 2020
Back in the halcyon days of 2015, nearly every country in the world signed on to a set of 17 audacious goals for 2030, including “End poverty in all its forms everywhere,” “End hunger,” and “Achieve gender equality.” Five years into the 15-year timeline for achieving the U.N.’s Sustainable Development Goals, many public and private The post Blue Like an Orange offers a report card for the Sustainable Development Goals (podcast) appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
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