GreenBiz
JANUARY 28, 2020
Instrumental in designing more humane practices for McDonald's, the Colorado State university professor chats about the promise of regenerative agriculture and the state of sustainability in slaughterhouses.
Jim Conca
JANUARY 28, 2020
Those of us in the field have always known that draping that lead apron over you when getting an X-ray at the hospital or the dentist was not necessary, that it didn’t protect you or lower any risk of cancer. But I never considered that it might be harmful to use these aprons.
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GreenBiz
JANUARY 28, 2020
All forms of mobility must grapple with the same market pressures — competitive economic models, ownership and sourcing of data, and cities' public policy goals.
Inhabitat - Innovation
JANUARY 28, 2020
The Cozens Place properties include solar panels, energy-efficient insulation and semi-permeable drainage to sustainably manage rainwater.
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.
GreenBiz
JANUARY 28, 2020
Women make up less than one-third of commuters who regularly bicycle to work in the United States.
Inhabitat - Innovation
JANUARY 28, 2020
Built mainly from wood and recycled materials, the minimalist and contemporary shelter was inspired by a large natural boulder located close by.
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Inhabitat - Innovation
JANUARY 28, 2020
MVSA Architects has dramatically breathed new life into Amsterdam’s iconic Rivierstaete — a monolithic 1973 modernist office building on the Amstel — with a sustainable and architecturally sensitive makeover that connects the building to the riverfront and surrounding community in a way unlike ever before.
GreenTechMedia
JANUARY 28, 2020
Startup Scale Microgrid Solutions won a $300 million commitment from investment firm Warburg Pincus this week, an unusually robust vote of confidence in the tricky microgrid market. SMS sells modular microgrid products to commercial and industrial customers. It tackles the problem of replicability: microgrids tend to be highly particular to each site and customer, which makes it difficult to scale production cost-effectively.
Inhabitat - Innovation
JANUARY 28, 2020
The floating office with include several sustainable design features to target energy-neutral, self-sufficient operations.
Greentown Labs
JANUARY 28, 2020
Greentown Labs’ 26-bench wet lab is home to startups creating everything from long-duration energy storage to energy-efficient manufacturing membranes to silk coatings that extend the freshness of produce and proteins. The 1,800-square-foot, BSL-1 space is located right next to Greentown’s prototyping lab space, allowing for innovations both inside and outside the wet lab.
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
JANUARY 28, 2020
Hundreds of Amazon employees have joined in solidarity, forming the advocacy group Amazon Employees for Climate Justice (AECJ) to protest the company's climate policies.
Charged
JANUARY 28, 2020
The UK government has awarded funding to Sprint Power, an electric propulsion technology company, to demonstrate wireless charging technology for electrified taxis. Sprint Power will use the funding to develop an interface module, software, and integration kit to support wireless charging for a fleet of 10 modified LEVC TX and Nissan e-NV200 taxis that will trialed for six months in Nottingham, England.
Grist
JANUARY 28, 2020
This story was published in partnership with the Center for Public Integrity and The World. The Ace of Trade trawler motored toward Dean Blanchard’s dock early last summer in southern Louisiana, its skipper slowly winching its nets into storage. Blanchard’s workers, strengthened by a lifetime at sea, worked shirtless in the humid summer air. It was the beginning of hurricane season, and 2019 was on track to be one of the wettest years on record in the U.S.
Green Business Bureau
JANUARY 28, 2020
Our mission at Green Business Bureau is simple, to make every business a green business. We are optimists. We believe it’s possible for most companies to get to a zero carbon footprint, that it’s possible for manufacturers to get to zero waste, that companies can reinvent how products are created, improve how they reuse their materials, recycle their waste and reduce their energy consumption.
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.
DeSmogBlog
JANUARY 28, 2020
Read time: 3 mins By Jake Johnson , Common Dreams. Originally published on Common Dreams under CC BY - SA 3.0 US. A new report released Tuesday by Oil Change International and Greenpeace USA found that reinstating the U.S. crude oil export ban Congress lifted in 2015 would slash global carbon emissions by up to 181 million tons of CO2 -equivalent each year — a reduction comparable to shuttering dozens of coal-fired power plants.
Solar Power World
JANUARY 28, 2020
Solar growth from the Virginia Clean Economy Act could create 29,500 direct solar jobs in Virginia, and tens of thousands of indirect jobs, according to a new study released today by a coalition of rooftop and shared solar companies and advocates. The study also estimates that the bill would generate over $4.3 billion in economic… The post Study shows Virginia Clean Economy Act could create 29,500 local solar jobs appeared first on Solar Power World.
Forbes Green Tech
JANUARY 28, 2020
There will be more than enough batteries in electric vehicles by 2050 to support a grid that runs on solar and wind—if the two are connected by smart chargers, according to experts at the International Renewable Energy Agency.
Impact Alpha
JANUARY 28, 2020
Philanthropic commitments to cover loan losses could catalyze hundreds of millions in financing for affordable housing, small business and climate action at almost no cost – as long as there are no calls on the guarantees. Nine foundations, a health care system and a nonprofit lender committed more than $33 million from their balance sheets The post Funders pool $33 million in credit guarantees to catalyze community investments 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?
Charged
JANUARY 28, 2020
The Regional Transit Service (RTS) of Rochester, New York has signed a contract to purchase ten 40-foot electric Xcelsior CHARGE transit buses from New Flyer of America. The agreement includes the option to purchase up to 20 more buses over the next five years. “As a long-standing partner to RTS, New Flyer looks forward to evolving zero-emission mobility and improving public transit in the greater Rochester area,” said Chris Stoddart, President of New Flyer.
Women in Cleantech and Sustainability
JANUARY 28, 2020
Join WCS on Sunday March 8th for a special event in honor of International Women’s Day! Click Here to Register. Date And Time. Sun, March 8, 2020. 1:00 PM – 3:00 PM PDT. Add to Calendar. Location. The Palace Of Fine Arts. 3601 Lyon Street. San Francisco, CA 94123. View Map. About this Event. Sign up for carpool ! Don’t like your current head shot?
Solar Power World
JANUARY 28, 2020
Installing solar at heights is in itself intense and comes with added safety measures. But moving components to a rooftop worksite adds time and more physical demand to a job. Contractors get solar equipment to commercial roofs with the assistance of heavy machinery or by carrying components up ladders on a sloped residential rooftop. Once… The post Rooftop delivery services help solar crews get straight to installation appeared first on Solar Power World.
Impact Alpha
JANUARY 28, 2020
ImpactAlpha, Jan. 28 – Five of the 10 startups in the Techstars’s Atlanta-based social impact accelerator hosted with Cox Enterprises are focused on skills development, academic success and workplace wellbeing. Make Music Count teaches kids math lessons through music while Blue Studios offers digital STEM classes for kids; BestFit helps students identify suitable colleges to attend; The post Skills and workforce startups standout in Techstars’ impact cohort appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
Charged
JANUARY 28, 2020
German power supply manufacturer EA Elektro-Automatik has released a new 30 kW bidirectional power supply unit. EA says the new unit generates 100 percent more power than the previous version, with only a third more volume. In interconnected operation these devices can produce total power in parallel of up to 1.92 kW. The bidirectional power supply offers a working efficiency of up to 96 percent both as a source and as a drain with energy feedback, and it can be switched from source to drain wit
Impact Alpha
JANUARY 28, 2020
ImpactAlpha, Jan. 28 – Cash sitting idle in impact investors’ portfolios may total tens of billions of dollars. That capital is not actively doing any good – and, depending on where it is held, may even be doing harm. Tiedemann Advisors worked with StoneCastle Cash Management to create an impact-oriented version of its Federally Insured The post An impact option for directing idle cash to community banks appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
altenergymag
JANUARY 28, 2020
Fresh off a record-breaking 2019, Natural Power has made several significant hires in its technical advisory team to enable continued growth and to further strengthen capabilities in independent engineering and technical due diligence, bolstering both the company's capacity in North America as well as its service offerings across all renewable energy sectors.
Charged
JANUARY 28, 2020
We have all heard the comforting bromide about our imperfections being our greatest strengths. Rice University researchers have recently proven this platitude in the context of battery charging cycles with the discovery that defects purposely inserted into the crystalline lattice of a lithium iron phosphate cathode actually cause the battery to work more, not less, efficiently.
altenergymag
JANUARY 28, 2020
The Polestar 1’s European test drive at Villa Cora, Florence, (11 Nov – 22 Nov) was powered by renewable energy from a green hydrogen fuel cell system provided by GeoPura and Siemens.
Business Green
JANUARY 28, 2020
The initiative is the aviation firm’s latest attempt to green its operations, while controversy over plans to construct a third runway rumbles on. Heathrow has partnered with climate company CHOOOSE to make flight offsetting available for its 80 million annual travelers, the airport announced yesterday. A new Flight Footprint Calculator accessible through heathrow.com will make it easy for passengers to calculate and offset the carbon footprint of their journey, the firm said.
altenergymag
JANUARY 28, 2020
Constantinos Peonides, Director of Alectris will join the Solar Finance & Investment Europe Conference in London on February 5-6, 2020. The event is the 7th edition of the conference organized by Solar Media and is dedicated to asset owners, institutional investors, sovereign wealth funds, solar, wind and storage funds, and large energy buyers.
Green Market Oracle
JANUARY 28, 2020
Shame may be able to move in a more sustainable direction, it may even be able to help us change the paradigm. There is reason to believe that we can leverage the little voices in our heads to do better. We may be able to curtail our culture of over-consumption and make more responsible consumer choices and better buying decisions. Change is difficult but is it precisely what we need if we are to succeed in addressing the climate crisis, ecological degradation and biodiversity loss.
altenergymag
JANUARY 28, 2020
Ballard has a long track record of having its PEM fuel cell technology and products integrated into FCEVs to provide zero-emission motive power for vehicle propulsion. This includes in excess of 570 Fuel Cell Electric Buses and 2,000 commercial trucks currently deployed in Asia, Europe and North America.
Energy Innovation
JANUARY 28, 2020
Energy Innovation partners with the independent nonprofit Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) to provide climate and energy research updates. The research synopsis below comes from AGCI’s John Katzenberger , and a full list of AGCI’s quarterly research updates covering recent climate change research on clean energy pathways is available online at [link].
altenergymag
JANUARY 28, 2020
The expansion of charging infrastructure is one of the most important factors that will determine the success of the transportation transition. With this in mind, many European countries are stepping up investments in this infrastructure. Smart charging is resulting in e-mobility becoming increasingly intelligent by, for example, charging electric cars when it makes economic sense to do so or by allowing car batteries to temporarily store electricity for use in the car owner’s home or the power
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