Inhabitat - Innovation
NOVEMBER 14, 2019
Hikers and outdoor enthusiasts can finally enjoy a solar panel that combines efficiency and durability with the added ability to fit snugly on top of a backpack.
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 14, 2019
Climate change is a faraway perceived risk, so how can we message its urgency and the cost of inaction?
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Inhabitat - Innovation
NOVEMBER 14, 2019
Slated for the waters of Rotterdam, the tower is made out of CLT and will house office space, a public green park and a restaurant with a terrace.
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 14, 2019
From increasing fish survival rates and helping consumers make decisions about what they eat, there's room for improvement.
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
NOVEMBER 14, 2019
After five years in the making, BIG has completed The Heights, a new public school building in Arlington, Virginia that not only offers a unique and energy-efficient take on school architecture, but also helps maximize density and open space.
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 14, 2019
Plus, a potential new model of climate action for companies that have own franchises.
CleanTech Focus brings together the best content for cleantech professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 14, 2019
Microsoft has been committed to reaching carbon neutrality in its operations since 2012. It has since set a goal to reduce its scope 3 emissions by 30 percent. Elizabeth Willmott manages the company's carbon program, which partners with other internal teams and external supply chain companies to expand how it is reducing its climate impacts.
Inhabitat - Innovation
NOVEMBER 14, 2019
Venice is inundated with floodwaters, with more than 85 percent of the city, including its historic basilica and centuries-old buildings, experiencing floods.
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 14, 2019
Saskia Van Gendt says there seems to be new energy around companies' responsibility to take care of the environment.
GreenTechMedia
NOVEMBER 14, 2019
Long Island was once the “backbone” of New York’s solar industry, according to Steven Engelmann, business development director at New York-based EnterSolar. The area now accounts for nearly a third of the state’s total installations to date. More recently, though, Engelmann says the region’s distributed solar market has fallen off “a cliff” due to constraints on the commercial solar market, which have only recently lifted.
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.
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 14, 2019
Look for three overarching attributes, says a Nobel-winning scientist.
GreenTechMedia
NOVEMBER 14, 2019
PARIS — Laying the costs of integrating more variable power into the grid at the feet of the renewable energy sector is an “outrage,” a Vestas executive has said. Morten Dyrholm, senior vice president at the world's leading maker of wind turbines, was responding to claims that grid-integration costs undercut the notion that renewables can now thrive without government support in many markets.
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 14, 2019
CTO and Cofounder Chris Homer says the resale market has doubled in the last five years and expects it to double again over the next five to 10 years.
GreenTechMedia
NOVEMBER 14, 2019
Equinor’s offshore wind developments along the U.S. East Coast may just be the start of its expansion into the country’s renewables market. The Norwegian oil giant has been evaluating potential onshore renewables investments in the U.S., according to Michael Wheeler, the company’s principal strategist for North America. And in floating offshore wind, where Equinor is the global leader, California beckons as a future market.
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.
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 14, 2019
Oxy Low Carbon Ventures president Richard Jackson says the company can currently sequester 18 million tons of CO2 in its operations.
GreenTechMedia
NOVEMBER 14, 2019
This week, we present the final episode in our 3-part interview series on climate risk. We’re going deep on the housing market. Our guest co-authored an important study quantifying extreme weather risk in the U.S. housing market — and identifying how banks are shifting that risk to us, the taxpayers. Shayle Kann talks with Amine Ouazad , a professor of applied economics at the graduate business school HEC Montreal.
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 14, 2019
Data collected from AI and IoT technologies can empower companies to make better decisions about their energy consumption.
DeSmogBlog
NOVEMBER 14, 2019
Read time: 7 mins A recent paper analyzing the major players in the organized efforts to attack climate change science and delay action had a surprising revelation — the biggest contributing industry/sector was not oil and gas but rail/steel/coal with the most active organization in the climate denial movement being the Association of American Railroads ( AAR ).
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?
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 14, 2019
The Oakland-based company working to wean itself off of natural gas as it has done with carbon-intensive electricity.
Forbes Green Tech
NOVEMBER 14, 2019
The climate debate has taken a nasty turn. It is no longer a shouting match between climate affirmers and climate deniers. Now the finger-wagging is taking place among climate affirmers on the subject of personal responsibility for combating climate change.
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 14, 2019
"People like to see that their employers are working on something like food waste reduction," Gunders says.
Impact Alpha
NOVEMBER 14, 2019
ImpactAlpha, Nov. 14 – When Deval Patrick left office in 2015, he raised eyebrows by joining Bain Capital, the private-equity firm co-founded by another former Massachusetts governor, Mitt Romney. Rather than pursue distressed companies to “buy, strip and flip” with leveraged buyouts, however, Patrick was looking for plays in companies expanding economic opportunity, healthy living and The post With presidential bid, Deval Patrick puts impact investing on the ballot appeared first on ImpactAlpha
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 14, 2019
Consumers Energy, Michigan’s largest energy provider, committed to reduce its carbon emissions by 90 percent by 2040.
Green Business Bureau
NOVEMBER 14, 2019
If you’re a landscaping or lawn care business owner, the right equipment is essential to delivering a quality service to your customers, but most are gas-powered and can have a very negative impact on the environment. While powered mowers, trimmers, weed whackers, and blowers are absolutely needed, there are eco-friendly alternatives that have a much lower environmental impact and are just as effective as gas-powered.
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 14, 2019
And a three-step process to guide your strategy.
Greentown Labs
NOVEMBER 14, 2019
Photo courtesy of Infinite Cooling. Industrial cooling towers use about as much water as all U.S. households combined—a whopping 2 trillion gallons each year. That water emerges in plumes and is lost to the atmosphere. Infinite Cooling uses electric fields to capture 20 percent of water losses from those power plants, data centers, and other industrial facilities.
GreenBiz
NOVEMBER 14, 2019
A few numbers — 96 percent less land, 87 percent less water, and 89 percent low GHG emissions.
Grist
NOVEMBER 14, 2019
According to a new study published in Environmental Science Technology, hundreds of active hydropower plants are making a worse impact on the climate than fossil fuels. Yup, you read that right: Hydropower, popularly seen as a green energy source — and a major clean energy source in a lot of emission-reduction plans — can release more greenhouse gases than coal- or oil-burning power plants, under certain conditions.
Charged
NOVEMBER 14, 2019
Toyota and Chinese EV maker BYD will form a joint company focused on EV battery research and development. The company is scheduled to be launched in China in 2020. Toyota and BYD have agreed to each provide 50 percent of the capital for the new company. BYD Senior VP Lian Yu-bo said, “We aim to combine BYD’s strengths in development and competitiveness in the battery electric vehicle market with Toyota’s quality and safety technology to provide the best battery products for the
Impact Alpha
NOVEMBER 14, 2019
ImpactAlpha, Nov. 14 – Say it louder for the people in the back: Impact investors can’t invest their way out of structural problems. More than 55 impact investors are putting a “whole-system” lens on issues like inequality, discrimination and resource exploitation. Enclude’s “Systems Change: An Emerging Practice in Impact Investing,” documents how investors have mapped systems to The post These investors are mapping systems to catalyze structural change appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
Solar Power World
NOVEMBER 14, 2019
Building on its legacy as a leader in sustainable business practices, today Sprint announced new corporate environmental goals. Among them is a commitment to source 100% renewable electricity across its entire operations — all retail stores, offices, call centers, and network sites — by 2025. Sprint also re-committed to responsibly reuse or recycle 100% of… The post Sprint commits to 100% renewables across all operations by 2025 appeared first on Solar Power World.
Forbes Green Tech
NOVEMBER 14, 2019
We pretend that the free market will govern the transition from fossil fuels to cleaner energy sources, but in reality, subsidization keeps fossil fuels in their position of privilege. The playing field is rigged against clean energy, delaying the energy transition. What can we do about it?
Solar Power World
NOVEMBER 14, 2019
Through a program funded by the Governor’s Office of Storm Recovery (GOSR), NYC nonprofit Solar One and its network of installers are helping volunteer emergency responders and community organizations keep the lights on during blackouts. Whether triggered by unprecedented storms, heatwaves or wildfires, blackouts are becoming increasingly common and hazardous.
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