The vertical farming industry is growing deeper roots
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 11, 2019
Automation, changing consumer appetites and the heightened focus on sustainable agriculture cultivate new interest in urban and indoor growers.
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A young couple creates a dreamy Scandinavian-inspired yurt home in Oregon
Inhabitat - Innovation
NOVEMBER 11, 2019
The couple’s modified yurt offers 930 square feet of light-filled living space furnished to ooze hygge vibes.
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Exploring the business case for carbon removal
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 11, 2019
New approaches, from CO2-sucking materials to regenerative agriculture, were in the spotlight at VERGE 19.
New e-snowmobiles bring eco tourism to the northern lights
Inhabitat - Innovation
NOVEMBER 11, 2019
Electric snowmobiles, powered by Arctic winds, are making northern-lights viewing experiences more eco-friendly.
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.
Americans, especially millennials and Gen Z, are embracing plant-based meat products
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 11, 2019
More consumers than ever are trying alternative proteins. But will they make them part of their diets?
Easy Kitchen Decorating Ideas
The Environmental Blog
NOVEMBER 11, 2019
The kitchen is one of the most used rooms in any house. Many people start their morning routine in the kitchen, and a home-cooked meal signals the end of the day, making the kitchen a vital component of the day. Due to how much time you spend in your kitchen, you want the room to be visually appealing. You will not want to use your kitchen, and spending time in the room will drag you down if you hate how it looks.
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The Environmental Impact of Mattresses
The Environmental Blog
NOVEMBER 11, 2019
Sleeping on a broken-down and unsupportive mattress night after night can have serious effects on your health. If you are suffering from any sleep-related health issues, deciding to purchase a new mattress can be one of the best decisions you make for yourself. However, when your new mattress arrives, you will have to decide what to do with your old one.
EDF Renewables’ Raphael Declercq on the importance of energy efficiency for grid resilience
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 11, 2019
At VERGE 19, the executive vice president of distributed solutions and strategy at EDF Renewables, Rahpael Declercq, shares the ways his team strategizes to integrate energy efficient softwares into large-scale solar, wind and electric vehicle smart charging programs.
Affordable methane detection
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 11, 2019
The GF77 from FLIR Systems is said to be an affordable, handheld methane detection camera allowing inspection professionals to actually see invisible methane leaks and other industrial gases at natural gas power plants, renewable energy production facilities, and other locations. The GF77 is spectrally filtered to optimally visualize methane gas, says FLIR Systems. “Spectral targeting improves visualization, while also reducing false negatives from gases that absorb in other wavelengths.&#
General Motors' Rob Threlked on advancing utility-customer partnerships
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 11, 2019
Utility-customer partnerships are key to advancing clean energy programs in corporations. Hear Rob Threlked’s take on how General Motors are beginning to align their sustainability targets with their customers in order to move the industry forward.
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.
LARQ: the world's first portable, self-cleaning water bottle
Inhabitat - Innovation
NOVEMBER 11, 2019
The LARQ water bottle features the world’s first portable, digital water purification system that relies on a rechargeable lithium polymer battery to keep it going.
Southern California Edison’s Bill Chiu on how electric grids benefit the private sector
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 11, 2019
The state of California has ambitious goals to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, which motivates various sectors to realign their efforts. The managing director of grid resilience at Southern California Edison (SCE), Bill Chiu, shares how he is driving an “existential transformation” for the electricity supply company by implementing a roadmap called the Clean Power and Electrification Pathway to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
Net-zero energy DPR office becomes Austins first WELL-certified workplace
Inhabitat - Innovation
NOVEMBER 11, 2019
Designed to follow sustainable principles, the net-zero energy office is fitted with energy-efficient fixtures, environmentally friendly materials and health-minded features that have earned the project WELL Silver and LEED Gold certifications.
American Forests CEO Jad Daley on collaborative forest protection efforts and the tree equity movement
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 11, 2019
When American Forests was founded in 1875, the United States had no systems for forest governance and management. At the birth of the organization, American Forests pulled together a group of 50,000 people across sectors to establish the first-ever American Forest Congress and the first annual National Arbor Day, which marked the start of the American forest conservation movement.
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.
Bio-waste powers board production
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 11, 2019
The CorrBoard Bioenergy facility. In an apparent industry first, a new facility will use organic waste to provide the heat and power required for the production of corrugated sheet board. The project has been undertaken by CorrBoard Bioenergy (CB Bio), a joint venture between packaging and display trade specialist Swanline Group and paper-based packaging producer McLaren Packaging , and has required a £5.5M investment.
VMware’s Will Maushardt on applying blockchain to improve corporate sustainability strategies
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 11, 2019
For many, VMware is synonymous with the virtualization of computer server resources. Will Maushardt, the global director of blockchain partners at VMware, explains that connectivity is more than just that.
Top tips to perfect your co-generation performance
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 11, 2019
In this feature, Tim Broadhurst, chief commercial officer at Cooper-Ostlund , discusses the importance of maximising CHP performance and how a few simple steps can boost your site performance significantly. According to insight from Ricardo-AEA, there is currently some 6.1GWe CHP capacity in the UK. By 2030, this figure is expected to reach more than 65TWh/yr (25% of which is expected to come from entirely renewable resources).
Wells Fargo’s Mary Wenzel on accelerating agriculture-tech solutions
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 11, 2019
In collaboration with the National Renewable Energy Lab (NREL), the Wells Fargo Innovation Incubator (IN2) has been supporting entrepreneurs working towards clean technology solutions in the built environment for the past four year.
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?
Full-service upgrading solution first
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 11, 2019
Biogas upgrading expert DMT Environmental Technology has announced the launch of Total Solutions Provider (TSP) – an end-to-end project partnership that supports the customer from the moment biogas leaves the digester to when it’s injected directly into the grid. The approach – seemingly a first in the sector – will see DMT support site managers throughout their build.
CEO of 3Degrees, Steve McDougal, on offsetting carbon emissions with transportation
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 11, 2019
To tackle climate change, 3Degrees helps corporations implement renewable energy strategies. Recently, more corporations are beginning to tap into the opportunity to also reduce their transportation emissions with renewables and offsets.
Bespoke system keeps sea life centre open
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 11, 2019
Sea Life Centre at Scarborough, North Yorkshire. Pump hire specialist Sykes Pumps has provided an emergency pumping solution for Sea Life Scarborough to keep the aquarium’s underground reservoir topped up with the sea water it needs for its aquatic life habitats. The firm provided a P1001N electric submersible pump, along with 40 metres of hose, from its Doncaster depot.
ABB’s Rob Massoudi on the value of digital transformation
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 11, 2019
With digital transformation, corporations can leverage software technologies to create new business value. The senior vice president of digital transformation at ABB, Rob Massoudi, reveals the value digital transformation brings to the energy sector and explain how an organization can strategize from a systems level to digitize their assets.
First all-metamaterial optical gas sensor
Envirotec Magazine
NOVEMBER 11, 2019
The miniature all-metamaterial optical gas sensor (golden capsule) next to a one-cent coin. Credit: Alexander Lochbaum, ETH Zurich. A promising filip for the possibility of smaller, more power-efficient and simpler non-dispersive infrared (NDIR) sensors is the announcement by Swiss researchers in September of the development of the first fully-integrated NDIR sensor enabled by specially engineered synthetic materials known as metamaterials.
Marin Clean Energy’s CEO, Dawn Weisz, on the benefits of a Community Choice Aggregation model
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 11, 2019
On the Sidebar of VERGE 19, Dawn Weisz discusses how utilizing a Community Choice Aggregation Model (CCA) benefits the local communities Marin Clean Energy (MCE) works with.
Green-roofed addition brings a mid-century home into the 21st century
Inhabitat - Innovation
NOVEMBER 11, 2019
There are few things we love more than witnessing the transformation of something old into something new — and sustainable.
GreenBiz analyst Jim Giles on the carbon offset markets, carbon-negative oil and regenerative agriculture
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 11, 2019
On the closing sidebar interview at VERGE 19, GreenBiz Group’s senior analyst Jim Giles discusses his excitement about the expected growth of the carbon offset markets.
Vivint Introduces Solar-and-Storage PPA in California, Citing Wildfire-Related Demand
GreenTechMedia
NOVEMBER 11, 2019
Vivint Solar will expand its home energy storage offerings in California with a new power purchase agreement that packages batteries and solar into one monthly payment. Previously, the number-two U.S. solar company only offered PPAs for solar-plus-storage systems in Hawaii. Customers in California had to buy their batteries outright. But, based in part on a recent survey of 315 California homeowners the company conducted in August, Vivint recognized a likely spike in demand coming from the state
Sustainability-linked loans soar as green bond issues slow
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 11, 2019
In just two years, this new green finance vehicle has generated more than $108 billion in issues.
SunPower to Spin Off Manufacturing Business in Major Strategic Shift
GreenTechMedia
NOVEMBER 11, 2019
SunPower announced a plan Monday to split into two companies, one focused on the U.S. distributed solar and storage market and the other on overseas PV manufacturing — with China’s Tianjin Zhonghuan Semiconductor to invest nearly $300 million into the newly formed manufacturing group. SunPower itself will remain headquartered in Silicon Valley, and will continue to be led by current CEO Tom Werner.
How fungi could help stem our mushrooming climate crisis
Grist
NOVEMBER 11, 2019
The results are in, and there’s not mushroom for debate: fungi are an important, if undervalued, piece of the climate solutions puzzle. That’s the conclusion of a new global assessment published in Nature Communications last week. Humans have long relied on fungi for sustenance and, er, inspiration. Just ask Michal Pollan, who thinks they work just as well in a gruyère omelette as they do on the human psyche.
After Rapid Success in Japan, Moixa Prepares for International Storage Push
GreenTechMedia
NOVEMBER 11, 2019
Moixa, the U.K.-based energy storage developer, is prepping for international expansion supported by a future funding round and leveraging the scale of its ongoing growth in Japan. The firm is now managing a network of more than 10,000 residential batteries in Japan, networked and managed as a fleet, less than a year after entering the market. It has a headstart on many of its competitors having started work on virtual power plant (VPP) trials back in 2013.
GM finalizes sale of Lordstown plant to Workhorse-affiliated EV builder
Charged
NOVEMBER 11, 2019
Well, what do you know! It appears the historic Lordstown deal is going to happen after all. Lordstown Motors (LMC) has formally announced its acquisition of the former GM manufacturing complex in Lordstown, Ohio. LMC, a spin-off of Workhorse Group (NASDAQ: WKHS), plans to begin production of an electric pickup at the Lordstown plant starting in late 2020.
Eco-Friendly Tips Preparing Your House for the Holiday
U.S. Green Technology
NOVEMBER 11, 2019
Preparing Your House for an Eco-Friendly Holiday As everyone gets in the holiday spirit, it can be easy to get swept up and forget about living sustainably and reducing your carbon footprint. Even making a few small changes as you prepare your house for an eco-friendly holiday season can have a big impact. Here are. The post Eco-Friendly Tips Preparing Your House for the Holiday appeared first on U.S.
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