Jim Conca
JULY 29, 2020
Last week, NASA’s new Mars rover, Perseverance, received its nuclear power source, a Multi-Mission Radioisotope Thermoelectric Generator, whose energy is provided by a tiny piece of Pu-238, supplied by the Department of Energy’s Office of Nuclear Energy, which will power the rover for 15 years.
GreenBiz
JULY 29, 2020
BMW, Ford, other automakers rev up carbon commitments. Katie Fehrenbacher. Wed, 07/29/2020 - 02:00. The world's biggest automakers are ramping up their carbon commitments even as they struggle to build back in the wake of the pandemic. . This week, Germany's BMW took the plunge and set a goal to reduce its carbon emissions per car by at least one-third by 2030.
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GreenTechMedia
JULY 29, 2020
Oil major Shell and Dutch utility Eneco will build a super-hybrid offshore wind farm, having won the latest Dutch tender. Shell is chasing carbon neutrality by 2050 or sooner and the project in the Netherlands offers a glimpse of how it hopes to get there. The pair’s CrossWind consortium was revealed on Wednesday as the winner of the subsidy-free auction for the Hollandse Kust (noord) project.
Envirotec Magazine
JULY 29, 2020
The EU Environment Sub-Committee has stressed the benefits of the level playing field in future relationship negotiations. Peers urge compromise to secure a ‘level playing field’. Lack of trust is the biggest barrier to a breakthrough on the environment and climate change parts of an agreement between Britain and Brussels, a group of Peers has warned.
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.
The Environmental Blog
JULY 29, 2020
With the world almost brought to a halt due to the Coronavirus pandemic , the planet has seen a reduction in carbon thanks to the lack of travel. But, with the world beginning to open back up again and driving and flying becoming more common, will the level of carbon return to pre-pandemic levels? Or will people be more cautious and conscientious when it comes to their travel habits?
Inhabitat - Innovation
JULY 29, 2020
Coconut oil might be in the spotlight, but there are some scary truths lurking in the shadows.
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Inhabitat - Innovation
JULY 29, 2020
COVID-19 has made urban planning officials and designers consider city streets with fewer cars.
GreenTechMedia
JULY 29, 2020
Dan Yates and his co-founder Alex Laskey built Opower, an efficiency company that saves more energy every year than the hoover dam can generate. It was based on cutting-edge behavioral science — but it wasn’t always clear how the science would play out. “It wasn’t okay with us to just know that there was going to be a result.
Inhabitat - Innovation
JULY 29, 2020
Leading retailers have been found to be illegally selling products made from k-leather.
GreenTechMedia
JULY 29, 2020
San Antonio municipal utility CPS Energy wants to replace aging fossil-fueled generation with more than a gigawatt of solar, energy storage and flexible capacity, and it’s asking for ideas on how to get there. A request for information (RFI) released this week is the opening step toward meeting CPS’ “ Flexible Path ” plan, which calls for an 80 percent non-carbon-emitting energy portfolio by 2040 and reaching net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
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.
Inhabitat - Innovation
JULY 29, 2020
A thriving black market for Polymita shells is threatening six species with extinction.
GreenTechMedia
JULY 29, 2020
Swedish battery maker Northvolt announced that it has raised $1.6 billion of debt, more than doubling its capital as it readies its first production facility. Northvolt is in the process of building its first gigafactory, Northvolt Ett, in northern Sweden, with a second, Northvolt Zwei, planned to follow in Germany in a few years. As of last summer, the privately owned startup said it had an order pipeline totaling $13 billion, and earlier this month it added another €2 billion ($2.4 billio
Envirotec Magazine
JULY 29, 2020
The below-ground treatment plant will improve the quality of local water sources and ensure they meet Water Framework Directive requirements. A new wastewater treatment system installed in a town in the Czech Republic will protect valued fishing ponds and raise the quality to required EU environmental standards. Packaged wastewater treatment plant provider WPL installed a below-ground system in Klimkovice, in the country’s Moravian-Silesian region, as part of a municipality-led project to constr
GreenTechMedia
JULY 29, 2020
EDF Renewables plans to build a 200-megawatt solar plant with a 180 megawatt/720 megawatt-hour battery for Nevada utility NV Energy, the developer announced Wednesday, adding to the growing list of large solar-and-storage projects under construction within the state and region. Even at that size, the project will only barely skate onto the list of the 10 largest batteries in the U.S., based on tracking of confirmed project details from Wood Mackenzie.
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.
Envirotec Magazine
JULY 29, 2020
Resource management firm Veolia is highlighting how significant emissions reductions can be achieved by using energy recovery facilities, ERF, to dispose of the more than 61,000 tonnes of orange bagged clinical and infectious waste that arises each year in the UK. The company says recent successful demonstrations show that by using ERF this type of clinical waste can be safely and compliantly destroyed, and achieve more than 60% reductions in carbon emissions compared to other commonly applied t
GreenTechMedia
JULY 29, 2020
Since its acquisition of SolarCity in 2016, Tesla has systematically eliminated all active customer-acquisition channels. In 2017 the company stopped door-to-door sales. In 2018, it pulled out of its retail partnership with Home Depot before finally closing all Tesla retail stores in 2019 and directing potential customers to its online platform. Tesla has now announced that it will deliver the lowest residential solar installation prices in the industry, enabled by a 64 percent decrease in sales
Inhabitat - Innovation
JULY 29, 2020
Robotic construction has taken another step forward.
GreenTechMedia
JULY 29, 2020
The EU wants to become a net-zero emitter of greenhouse gases by 2050. And that's pretty much where the consensus stops. A number of pathways have been proposed for reaching "climate-neutrality," but a close look reveals sizable discrepancies between them. The EU's own new strategy for decarbonizing its energy system draws largely from European Commission projections from 2018, predicting that in 2050 more than 80 percent of the electricity supply will come from renewables and 15 percent
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?
The City Fix
JULY 29, 2020
When was the last time you walked through the market without being conscious about other people walking close to you or the last time you took a stroll to a neighborhood park without thinking about the hygiene around? The COVID-19. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.
Impact Alpha
JULY 29, 2020
ImpactAlpha, July 29 – Detroit-based TCF has joined the chorus of corporations and financial institutions making commitments to combat systemic racism in the U.S. Its pledge: to increase lending to minority and women-owned businesses and to provide $10 million in closing-cost grants to low- and moderate home buyers. The bank plans to issue loans of.
Forbes Green Tech
JULY 29, 2020
Despite coronavirus, Americans are thinking about sustainability more than ever. Is this the moment in history when we set the world on a more sustainable path?
Impact Alpha
JULY 29, 2020
ImpactAlpha, July 29 – Net inflows to low-cost, passively managed environmental, social, and governance funds totaled $12.7 billion in 2019, compared to $8.7 billion for their actively managed counterparts. What’s more, passive ESG funds analyzed by Morningstar outperformed active ESG funds in 2019 and the first quarter of 2020. “The advent of passive ESG funds provides.
DeSmogBlog
JULY 29, 2020
Read time: 3 mins Statements from large business associations and opponents of climate action are twice as likely to be included in climate change coverage by national newspapers than pro-climate action messaging, according to a new study.
Green Living Guy
JULY 29, 2020
Sustainable Westchester Electric Vehicle Discount Program Kicks off! Exclusive Electric Vehicle Discount Offers! We just got our first two dealerships. We will be announcing more over time. Here’s the deal with Nissan of New Rochelle and Rivera Toyota in Mount Kisco. So yes folks. Whether a first-time buyer or looking Continue Reading. The post Sustainable Westchester Electric Vehicle Discount Program appeared first on Green Living Guy.
Business Green
JULY 29, 2020
More than 60 figures sign letter criticising Guy Opperman's claims that forcing pension funds to divest would be 'self-defeating and counterproductive'. More than 60 civil society leaders including MPs, climate experts, faith leaders and local councillors have signed an open letter accusing the Pensions Minister Guy Opperman of backing continued investment in fossil fuels.
Green Living Guy
JULY 29, 2020
It’s so easy for germs to spread. Moreover and especially around the workplace. This is also because people work in close proximity. I remember when I worked at the State. Now it’s a while ago but the relative formatting is the same. People aren’t too close but frankly close enough Continue Reading. The post Green Ways to Prevent the Spread of Germs in the Workplace appeared first on Green Living Guy.
Business Green
JULY 29, 2020
High street fashion retailer rolls out collection boxes for shoppers to ditch old clothes at all 190 of its UK stores. Primark has launched a nationwide recycling scheme to enable shoppers to recycle clothes of any brand at the fashion retailer's stores, in an effort to slow the flow of garments ending up in landfill every year. Starting this week, shoppers can drop off their used clothes, textiles, footwear and bags at collection boxes installed at all 190 of the retailer's UK shops, it said ye
Forbes Green Tech
JULY 29, 2020
Satellite images showed noxious pollution vanishing over China and Europe when the world shut down in response to the coronavirus pandemic. But on the ground in Milan, environmental economist Valentina Bossetti was puzzled the air wasn’t cleaner.
Business Green
JULY 29, 2020
Consumer goods giant unveils latest commitments from its recently announced €1bn 'nature and climate fund'. Unilever has set out plans for a raft of water management and conservation projects over the next decade, as the consumer goods giant unveiled the latest investments from its recently-announced €1bn 'nature and climate fund'. The British-Dutch multinational yesterday said it would partner with the 2030 Water Resources Group (WRG) and the Alliance for Water Stewardship on several proje
altenergymag
JULY 29, 2020
Under the terms of the agreement, US Battery and Gridtential Energy will industrialize bipolar plate pasting and curing processes. Additionally, Silicon Joule™ bipolar AGM (absorptive glass mat) batteries will be assembled and tested, using US Battery active material to drive further improvements in cycle life, energy density, battery efficiency, charging rates and manufacturability.
Impact Alpha
JULY 29, 2020
Impak Battles, an ImpactAlpha series with impak, a Montreal-based impact ratings agency, assesses the positive and negative impact of corporate operations. Each month, the agency uses its impak Score rating methodology in a head-to-head assessment of two representative companies. Last month’s edition: Nestlé vs. Danone. Next up: A comparison of the two European energy utilities.
Business Green
JULY 29, 2020
EMR becomes first plastic and metals recycler to join RE100, EV100 and EP100 corporate climate initiatives. European Metal Recycling (EMR) and semiconductor foundry TSMC have this week become the first companies in their respective sectors to embrace green business inititiatives led by global non-profit The Climate Group's. EMR, a global recycler of plastics and metal, has become the world's first recycling business to join all three of The Climate Group's programmes - RE100, EV100 and EP100 - c
altenergymag
JULY 29, 2020
Comments submitted for SCC inquiry on energy storage deployment highlight market opportunities while meeting VCEA implementation targets
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