Jim Conca
DECEMBER 13, 2019
The most dangerous job in America is logging, with over 132 fatal injury per 100,000 workers. The safest job in America is the commercial nuclear industry, with less than 1 fatal injury per 100,000 workers. This huge difference results from a hyper-awareness of safety in the nuclear industry.
GreenBiz
DECEMBER 13, 2019
The company's global sustainability director addresses her passion for social innovation, her philosophy for investments and what makes for successful collaboration.
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Inhabitat - Innovation
DECEMBER 13, 2019
So far, the 16-year-old is the youngest individual to receive the recognition, thanks to her youthful activism that has brought global attention to the planet’s climate crisis.
GreenBiz
DECEMBER 13, 2019
Featuring interviews with Biomimicry 3.8's co-founder Janine Benyus, and Walmart sustainability specialist Zack Freeze. Plus, Dow's global sustainability director Haley Lowry is passionate about reducing plastic waste.
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
DECEMBER 13, 2019
Wondering what to give everyone on your list — parents, siblings, grandparents, aunts, uncles and cousins? Here are this year’s green gift recommendations from Inhabitat.
GreenBiz
DECEMBER 13, 2019
And three ways to approach solutions.
CleanTech Focus brings together the best content for cleantech professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
GreenBiz
DECEMBER 13, 2019
There are two narratives coming from COP25: we're doing fine and we're doing terrible. What if there was another?
Inhabitat - Innovation
DECEMBER 13, 2019
These days, designing an off-grid tiny home doesn't have to mean forgoing attractive design.
GreenTechMedia
DECEMBER 13, 2019
This week on Watt It Takes : Emily Kirsch sits down with Dr. Etosha Cave , the co-founder and chief science officer of Opus 12. Opus 12 is a team of engineers, electrochemists and materials scientists working on a technology that converts carbon dioxide into useable products. They are developing a metal catalyst that can turn CO2 into synthetic gas for fuels and ethylene for plastics.
Inhabitat - Innovation
DECEMBER 13, 2019
Located in front of the medieval Sveta Nedelya Church, the project will bridge the city’s ancient roots and modern urbanism.
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.
Charged
DECEMBER 13, 2019
Sponsored by Hesse Mechatronics. By Mike McKeown and Dr. Dirk Siepe, Hesse Mechatronics. Wire bonding cylindrical battery packs is becoming more mainstream in the alternative energy market these days. This article will review the design guidelines for how to successfully implement a wire or ribbon bonding process for battery packs using cylindrical lithium-ion cells.
Solar Power World
DECEMBER 13, 2019
Former Governors Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jerry Brown and other local elected officials joined local high school students, business leaders and workers, renewable energy advocates, and community leaders marked achieving one million solar roofs across California during a celebration event at Buchanan High School in Clovis. In 2006, then-Governor Schwarzenegger signed the Million Solar Roofs Initiative… The post California celebrates 1 million solar roofs <br><span style='c
Charged
DECEMBER 13, 2019
Rivian has been generating a lot of headlines since the November 2018 reveal of its prototype pickup and SUV. The company has scored substantial investments, including $700 million from a group of investors led by Amazon and another $500 million from Ford. That cash was accompanied by a history-making order of 100,000 electric delivery vans from Amazon and plans to partner with Ford to build new EVs (including a rumored electric Lincoln).
DeSmogBlog
DECEMBER 13, 2019
Read time: 8 mins Dark Waters , the new film starring Mark Ruffalo as attorney Rob Bilott, is set in the Ohio River Valley city of Parkersburg, West Virginia — a place about 150 miles downstream from where Shell is currently building a sprawling plastics manufacturing plant, known as an “ethane cracker,” in Beaver, Pennsylvania. Ruffalo’s film, directed by Todd Haynes, debuted to critical acclaim, earning a Rotten Tomatoes critics' rating of 91 percent, with The Atlantic calling it a “chilling t
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.
Forbes Green Tech
DECEMBER 13, 2019
Stege Carlisle says Cadillac will reinvent itself, yet again, over the next decade as an entire electrically-powered brand, and abandon the alphanumeric vehicle names it has phased in since 2003.
DeSmogBlog
DECEMBER 13, 2019
Read time: 3 mins Gulf states have sent at least 42 current or former employees of the fossil fuel industry to the UN climate summit in Madrid as part of their official delegations, DeSmog analysis shows. More than half of the delegation from Kuwait and almost a third of Saudi Arabia’s representatives attending the Madrid meeting, known as COP25 , are associated with the oil and gas industry.
altenergymag
DECEMBER 13, 2019
Noodoe EV, a global leader in electric vehicle (EV) charging technology, will highlight its smart OS technology as part of the Taiwan Excellence Booth at the Consumer Electronics Show January 7-10, 2020 in Las Vegas. The booth is located at LVCC South Hall 4 – Booth 36021.
Solar Power World
DECEMBER 13, 2019
The New York Public Service Commission yesterday adopted a measure to consolidate the utility bills of community distributed generation (CDG) customers. Consolidated billing will lower consumer costs of CDG, improve the overall customer experience and reduce CDG sponsor costs. Moreover, the consolidated billing approach will reduce market barriers which have impeded development of CDG in… The post New York state will consolidate billing for community solar customers appeared first on Solar
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
DECEMBER 13, 2019
Pierburg, a subsidiary of German parts maker Rheinmetall Automotive, has developed an AC compressor for EVs that integrates the compressor, electric motor and power electronics into one modular, compact unit. In ICE vehicles, the AC compressor is typically driven by a pulley and V-belt. EVs lack this mechanism, so the AC compressor is driven by an electric motor integrated into the vehicle’s high-voltage network.
DeSmogBlog
DECEMBER 13, 2019
Read time: 5 mins Climate activists have found plenty to be angry about at this year’s UN climate talks, which are scheduled to conclude in Madrid tonight. From youth groups to indigenous people, civil society has been more riled than in previous years, as the disconnect grows between momentum on the streets and the slow progress of the negotiations. “ It’s like two parallel worlds,” says Sara Shaw, part of the Friends of the Earth International delegation at the meeting, known as COP25.
altenergymag
DECEMBER 13, 2019
This weekend represents the one-year anniversary of a record-breaking auction for three lease areas off the coast of Massachusetts. Rights to develop the three lease areas sold for a combined $405 million, with winning bids coming from Mayflower Wind Energy, Equinor, and Vineyard Wind.
Forbes Green Tech
DECEMBER 13, 2019
Cohen keeps coming back to the design and use of current parking facilities as something that must change as the predicted boom in shared mobility services significantly reduces private vehicle ownership and the need for parking spaces.
altenergymag
DECEMBER 13, 2019
Real Goods, the California-based original purveyor of off-grid living supplies, has relocated to Ukiah, California. The move follows the company's acquisition by altE Store in September of this year. Real Goods' second ever store was also located in Ukiah.
Charged
DECEMBER 13, 2019
Northvolt and Swedish power provider Mälarenergi are partnering to construct an energy storage system at an EV charging station in Västerås, Sweden. The companies are designing the battery system to provide more than an 80% reduction in electricity peak demand directly at the charging station, thereby lessening the impact of EV charging on the local electricity network.
Impact Alpha
DECEMBER 13, 2019
TGIF, Agents of Impact! The Week’s Agent of Impact Josu Jon Imaz, Repsol. It was the write-down heard ‘round the world. Spanish energy company Repsol this month became the first oil and gas major to commit to net-zero emissions by 2050. That meant a $5 billion write-down – for starters – in fossil fuel assets. The The post The Week in impact investing: Risk, adjusted appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
Charged
DECEMBER 13, 2019
The Free and Hanseatic City of Hamburg, Germany has announced several measures to further electrify transport around the city. In spring 2020, Volkswagen will bring over 1,000 EVs to Hamburg through its ride-sharing service, WeShare. The rollout will include the e-Golf and e-up! models – the new ID.3 will be added in the future. MOIA, another ride-sharing service operated by Volkswagen, plans to increase its Hamburg fleet from 200 to 500 vehicles.
Impact Alpha
DECEMBER 13, 2019
ImpactAlpha, Dec. 13 – It was the write-down heard around the world. It was the write-down heard ‘round the world. Spanish energy company Repsol this month became the first oil and gas major to commit to net-zero emissions by 2050. That meant a $5 billion write-down – for starters – in fossil fuel assets. The write-down The post Agent of Impact: Josu Jon Imaz, Repsol appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
Charged
DECEMBER 13, 2019
According to a recent article in Business Korea, SK Innovation – a subsidiary of Korea’s giant SK conglomerate – is planning to invest $1.05 billion USD to build an EV battery manufacturing plant in Yancheng, China. The new plant will join the company’s pre-existing battery plant in Changzhou. SK Innovation’s plans for the new plant are tied up with Korean automaker Kia’s own plans.
Solar Power World
DECEMBER 13, 2019
EnerBank USA, the national consumer lender that helps strategic business partners and independent home improvement contractors increase their sales, recently announced four new Triple Option Loan terms for contractors to offer homeowners who are installing solar panels and expect to receive income tax incentives, rebates, and/or other significant payments.
altenergymag
DECEMBER 13, 2019
The bi-facial PV modules will each generate over 400Wp, increasing efficiency and performance in Atlas Renewable Energy's solar plant in Chile
Business Green
DECEMBER 13, 2019
COP25 talks likely to spill into extra time as EU, smaller nations and business urge for robust Paris Agreement rules in face of US, Brazil and Australian opposition.
GreenTechMedia
DECEMBER 13, 2019
altenergymag
DECEMBER 13, 2019
Array Technologies awarded nearly two gigawatt pipeline from EDF Renewables.
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