Jim Conca
JUNE 25, 2020
China now has a network of satellites, high-speed missiles, and super-EMP weapons that could melt down our electric grid, fry critical communications, and even takeout the ability of our aircraft carrier groups to respond.
GreenBiz
JUNE 25, 2020
To B or not to B? More tech companies should ask themselves that question. Heather Clancy. Thu, 06/25/2020 - 02:00. Fifth Wall, the biggest venture fund dedicated to funding disruptive ideas in real estate and retail, this week revealed that it has become a Certified B Corporation (B Corp) — a move that requires it to embed concerns about equity, inclusiveness and sustainability into its portfolio.
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Inhabitat - Innovation
JUNE 25, 2020
In a remote jungle on the hilltops of Costa Rica's Santa Teresa province, San José-based architecture firm Studio Saxe has completed Santiago Hills Villa, a luxury home that embraces nature in more ways than one. To ensure that all rooms of the villa have access to ocean views, the architects created a zigzag floor plan that turns the bedrooms and living spaces sideways to face the shoreline.
GreenBiz
JUNE 25, 2020
SDG Ambition: Scaling Business Impact for the Decade of Action. Now more than ever, companies everywhere must unite in the business of a more resilient, sustainable world. Despite progress made in many areas, we are not on track to deliver on the SDGs by 2030. In fact, the United Nations Global Compact Progress Report 2020 reveals only 39 per cent of companies surveyed believe they have targets that are sufficiently ambitious to meet the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030.
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
JUNE 25, 2020
A cluster of timber boxes make up Haus Koeris, a new eco-friendly home by architecture firm Zeller & Moye.
GreenBiz
JUNE 25, 2020
Whether pandemic or climate crisis, you better get your data right. Paolo Natali. Thu, 06/25/2020 - 00:30. According to polls, it was mid-March when most of us in the United States understood the severity of COVID-19. At the same time, we collectively were searching for data to drive lifesaving decision-making. Close all business and keep people inside homes?
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Inhabitat - Innovation
JUNE 25, 2020
Maggie’s Leeds Centre follows biophilic design principles with its natural materials palette and incorporation of lush greenery around, on top of and inside the building.
GreenTechMedia
JUNE 25, 2020
The U.K. government’s official climate change advisory body is calling for fast-tracking investment in early-stage hydrogen infrastructure, as well as prioritizing carbon capture and storage and EV charging infrastructure, as immediate responses to the coronavirus outbreak. The Committee on Climate Change’s (CCC) annual report ( PDF ) also covers reforestation and better infrastructure for bicycle users.
Inhabitat - Innovation
JUNE 25, 2020
The Big Sunny Board Game Challenge is more than a game; it’s an adventure.
The Environmental Blog
JUNE 25, 2020
The construction industry is one of the top contributors to greenhouse gas emissions , playing a huge role in climate change. The effects of construction on the environment are immense from mining precious resources, extracting materials, and destroying habitat. To better understand its impact, it is vital to understand the industry holistically, identifying how the process, materials and design all play a role in climate change.
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
JUNE 25, 2020
The team, which includes scientists from 18 countries, has published a document stating that reusable containers are safe.
GreenTechMedia
JUNE 25, 2020
A handful of companies have experimented with labeling the carbon content of their products, but it's never caught on. That might be changing. Logitech CEO Bracken Darrell recently called carbon “the new calorie" after the electronics maker implemented a new CO2 label on all its packaging. It’s one of many recent attempts by food and consumer goods producers to make the lifecycle emissions of their products clearer to consumers.
CleanTech Group
JUNE 25, 2020
The world has a major problem to solve. By 2040, we will need 29 trillion KWh of new energy generation to support 9.
GreenTechMedia
JUNE 25, 2020
Sunrun is landing contract after contract to put solar-charged residential batteries to work serving grid needs. On Thursday, it picked Silicon Valley energy management software startup AutoGrid to help it optimize this growing fleet. Sunrun, the country’s leading solar installer, joins a roster of AutoGrid clients using its Flex software to manage distributed energy resources (DERs), ranging from smart thermostats for utility demand response programs to industrial cooling and heating syst
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.
Green Business Bureau
JUNE 25, 2020
Establishing a green team, also known as a sustainability department or committee in an organization is definitely a right step in the direction towards a sustainable journey. Though it seems daunting, setting up and managing a green team is achievable through certain steps. Green teams lead the charge to implement sustainable business practices and promote green culture among every member of the workforce.
GreenTechMedia
JUNE 25, 2020
There aren’t many sporting events taking place amid the pandemic, but athletes and the brands that support them aren’t sitting idle. Protect Our Winters, a non-profit representing the outdoor sports community on climate issues, recently spent a week virtually lobbying Congress for bolder climate action and environmental protections. Professional snowboarder and two-time X-Games gold medalist Danny Davis was among the participants in POW’s advocacy week.
altenergymag
JUNE 25, 2020
Intersolar North America (ISNA) and Energy Storage North America (ESNA), the newly combined solar + storage events, today announced the formation of a new Advisory Board to review program content for the two conferences taking place January 12-14, 2021 in Long Beach, CA.
Impact Alpha
JUNE 25, 2020
ImpactAlpha, June 25 – Upstart Co-Lab has been a chief evangelist of the power of art, design, culture, heritage, and creativity to drive impact. The five-year-old non-profit led by Laura Callanan has made the business case for investments in the creative economy, which in the U.S. amount to $878 billion. Now, 10 institutions and individuals. The post Upstart Co-Lab investor coalition commits to shift capital to creatives appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
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?
altenergymag
JUNE 25, 2020
The Q.PEAK DUO BLK-G6+/AC 340-345 ACM features the Enphase IQ 7+™ microinverter and is the first Enphase Energized ACM from Q CELLS to come to market.
Charged
JUNE 25, 2020
The city of Fort Worth and electric motor company Linear Labs have signed a $68.9-million economic incentive package. Linear Labs plans to secure a 500,000-square-foot manufacturing facility to support thousands of new, skilled jobs over the next 10 years. The research and production center will create electric motors for EVs, robotics, HVAC and last-mile micromobility, in addition to various industrial applications.
Impact Alpha
JUNE 25, 2020
COVID-19 is – and will continue to have – a huge impact on global food and nutrition security. On the supply side, restrictions on movement is leading to crops rotting in fields and farmers losing their livelihoods. Storage facilities cannot move their food stocks, whilst food processors obtain fewer raw materials. Food retailers have less. The post Building a better post-COVID food system with investments in small businesses in developing economies appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
Grist
JUNE 25, 2020
Life in the small town of Verkhoyansk, Russia, has always been extreme. In the Siberian winter, temperatures can plummet to -90 degrees Fahrenheit — so cold that it’s dangerous to wear metal-framed glasses. In the summer, temperatures usually hover around a comfortable 69 degrees. But residents of the isolated village just north of the Arctic circle recently experienced something unprecedented even for them: Scorching summer heat of 100.4 degrees Fahrenheit.
altenergymag
JUNE 25, 2020
Register for this FREE webinar on July 16 (11:00am PT/2:00pm ET) and learn smart restoration strategies from PV experts at Solar Support, Depcom Power, GCube Insurance Services, and Nextracker. Hear real-world examples from 20+ years of restoring damaged systems, including disaster scenarios that were spared from major fees and recovery time. Explore how to get damaged plants back online through a staggered plan that prioritizes quick recovery.
Impact Alpha
JUNE 25, 2020
Blended finance has gained significant momentum in the past few years, and we increasingly see more early stage and late stage blended finance deals emerge to attract the attention, and ultimately capital, of investors to advance the SDGs. With traditional aid and development finance further stretched to meet immediate response and recovery needs brought on.
DeSmogBlog
JUNE 25, 2020
Read time: 15 mins For more than a century-and-a-half, the forests, streams, and hollows of the Appalachian Mountains have been scraped and gashed to unearth their heart of rich black coal. These lumps of hydrocarbons historically played a vital role in America’s electricity mix, accounting for a third of the country’s energy production as recently as 2008.
Impact Alpha
JUNE 25, 2020
Many commentators posit that the COVID-19 pandemic could go down in history as this generation’s opportunity to do a course correction toward a sustainable future as envisioned in the 2030 Agenda and the Sustainable Development Goals. The opportunity for large-scale change certainly exists, but it won’t be inevitable or easy. It will require unprecedented resources.
Forbes Green Tech
JUNE 25, 2020
Private banks should be involved in issuing government loans for innovative energy technologies, just as they were in the government’s emergency pandemic responsde, former Energy Secretary Steven Chu said Tuesday.
Impact Alpha
JUNE 25, 2020
ImpactAlpha, June 25 – A quarter of small businesses will fail and a quarter will succeed, and even thrive, in the aftermath of COVID. But the broad middle group of companies in emerging markets are treading water and in need of a lifeline. A spate of efforts have arisen to try to prevent the worst-case. The post COVID-recovery financing facilities aim to bridge capital gaps for small and growing businesses appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
DeSmogBlog
JUNE 25, 2020
Read time: 6 mins Washington, D.C. is suing the four largest investor-owned oil and gas companies — BP , Chevron, ExxonMobil , and Shell — for allegedly misleading consumers about climate change, including historically undermining climate science and even now using deceptive advertising about the companies’ role in leading solutions to the climate crisis.
Green Living Guy
JUNE 25, 2020
EV Charging and Emergency Power That Can Survive Flooding to Over Nine Feet SAN DIEGO – June 16th, 2020 – Envision Solar International, Inc., (Nasdaq: EVSI, EVSIW) (“Envision Solar,” or the “Company”), the leading producer of unique and sustainable infrastructure products. That’s for electric vehicle charging, energy security and outdoor media.
DeSmogBlog
JUNE 25, 2020
Read time: 6 mins Two Louisiana environmental activists, Anne Rolfes and Kate McIntosh, were taken in handcuffs and leg irons from a Baton Rouge police station to jail after they voluntarily surrendered themselves on felony charges after months' earlier delivering plastic pollution pulled from Texas waters to fossil fuel lobbyists' homes. The two posted bond and were released later the same day. “ The women are accused of terrorizing oil and gas lobbyists by giving them a file box full of plasti
LA CleanTech Incubator
JUNE 25, 2020
California is taking its first steps on the path toward recovery. Thanks to bold and swift state and local leadership, we have avoided what could have been a much worse public health catastrophe. Now, as we begin to slowly reopen our communities, we must apply that same leadership to a robust economic recovery that puts. Read more » The post Investing in clean transportation technologies can help put California back to work appeared first on LACI.
Impact Alpha
JUNE 25, 2020
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Zoom into The Call. Today’s Agents of Impact Call No. 20 takes up the How of impact investing, along with Who, What, Why and Where. Patrick Briaud and Steven Godeke will launch Rockefeller Philanthropy Advisors’ new impact investing handbook, with help from Alabama Power Foundation’s Myla Calhoun, Ford Foundation’s Margot Brandenburg, Grove Foundation’s Rebekah Saul Butler, and Chris Earthman of the.
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