GreenBiz
AUGUST 27, 2021
Vice president of global workplace programs at Google, Michiel Bakker outlines how the Regen1 will help farmers move to sustainable practices on 1 million acres of farmland in Northern California.
Inhabitat - Innovation
AUGUST 27, 2021
The project began with a client brief by rock-climber enthusiasts who wanted to escape the hustle and bustle of daily life in favor of a simple, off-grid tiny home where they could focus on the health of themselves and their ailing son. With this goal in mind, the clients brought in architect Nadine Engelbrecht to overcome the obvious site challenges and deliver their new home, called Cottage Rock.
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GreenBiz
AUGUST 27, 2021
With extreme weather becoming the norm across the United States, communities and companies are in need of clean backup power that can be deployed today.
Inhabitat - Innovation
AUGUST 27, 2021
It’s a beautiful, quiet spot surrounded by nature. The livMatS Pavilion looks like an amazing spot to relax and take pictures, but it’s also the first-ever building with a load-bearing structure completely made out of robotically wound flax fiber.
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
AUGUST 27, 2021
Manufacturers Zume and Solenis want to encourage others to eliminate the PFAS from food packaging.
Inhabitat - Innovation
AUGUST 27, 2021
About 2,000 demonstrators rallied at the Minnesota State Capitol on Wednesday as part of a week of action called “Treaties Not Tar Sands.” The movement is reacting to Enbridge’s Line 3 pipeline, which could carry 750,000 barrels of tar sands oil from Alberta, Canada to Wisconsin every day.
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Inhabitat - Innovation
AUGUST 27, 2021
California State University Long Beach (CSULB) is setting the bar for campus buildings that serve the health of students and staff as well as the environment. The most recent student housing, completed by McCarthy Building Company in collaboration with architectural firm Gensler, features LEED certification and contributes to the university’s goal to have the entire campus reach net-zero status by 2030.
GreenBiz
AUGUST 27, 2021
To maintain the value of a product in the economy for as long as possible, information on the product design, composition, and condition is critical.
Inhabitat - Innovation
AUGUST 27, 2021
On Wednesday, officials at the Washington state department of agriculture (WSDA) said they had destroyed the first "murder hornet" nest of the season. The nest was located near the town of Blaine along the Canadian border.
Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 27, 2021
Image credit: Ivan Radic , CC BY 2.0 license. A hackathon event aims to harness programmers’ talents to create ideas that tackle the challenges around the successful roll out of electric vehicles (EVs) in Britain in the coming years. Obstacles that have to be addressed by 2030 include: EV infrastructure in rural locations being left behind compared to urban areas, difficulties in deciding where to locate off-street car charging points in residential streets, and how to convince car owners to swi
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
AUGUST 27, 2021
LG Energy Solution, one of Tesla’s battery suppliers, has entered into “a binding long form offtake agreement” with Australian Mines Ltd. for nickel and cobalt, which will be supplied in the form of mixed hydroxide precipitate (MPH) from the Sconi Project in North Queensland. Under the agreement, LG will have access to 71,000 tons of nickel and 7,000 tons of cobalt for 6 years, starting from the end of 2024.
Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 27, 2021
An attempt to digitalize, or automate, battery collection for recycling is underway in Belgium. Electronics specialist Unitron Connect is collaborating with Bebat (the firm responsible for battery collection, sorting and recycling in Belgium) on the system, which uses smart sensors and is said to make the collection process safer and more efficient.
altenergymag
AUGUST 27, 2021
The project is located near the Red Sea, facing the challenge of scorching heat and high corrosion. Sungrow offers the 1,500V 6.25MW PV inverter solution and the highly integrated energy storage system with lithium iron phosphate (LFP) batteries.
Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 27, 2021
Image credit: Arran Bee , CC BY 2.0 license. The United Kingdom Without Incineration Network (UKWIN) launched a good practice guide in July, intended to help with assessing the greenhouse gas (GHG) impacts of waste incineration. The guide is intended to be used both by those carrying out climate assessments and by those reviewing or evaluating those assessments.
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.
altenergymag
AUGUST 27, 2021
New solution supports up to five remote dispensers per charger, all on the same DC power feed, with full bi-directional capability
Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 27, 2021
A waste weighing programme being launched next month in North Lanarkshire will be the first in Scotland to use using Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) technology. The year-long pilot, being rolled out from early September, will involve 5,000 households. The programme, funded by the Scottish government funded advisory group Zero Waste Scotland and delivered in partnership with North Lanarkshire Council, involves the use of RFID tags.
Charged
AUGUST 27, 2021
Bollinger Motors has taken a different path than most EV startups. Its Class 3 Bollinger B1 SUV , which debuted in 2017, was designed as “a no-nonsense back-to-basics all-electric sport utility truck.” Now the company plans to add Class 4 and 5 electric platforms to its lineup. “We started from day one working on Class 3 all-electric trucks,” says CEO and founder Robert Bollinger.
Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 27, 2021
Aluminium is an infinitely recyclable material, with over 75% of all the aluminium ever produced still in use today. And yet craft brewers often feel they have no choice but to contaminate aluminium beverage cans with plastic labels or shrink sleeves. Here, Rob Day, CEO at Tonejet looks at beverage can decoration, the damage caused by the use of plastic labels and sleeves on cans and why alternative digital technologies are the sustainable solution.
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
AUGUST 27, 2021
Marc-Alain Behar is Nexamp's new VP of Utility Scale Solar and will lead the company's expansion in this area.
Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 27, 2021
Soil scientist Neil Fuller launches the Sustainable Landscapes Wolds Programme with East Yorkshire farmers. A five-year collaboration is underway between Yorkshire Water and a group of innovative farmers, who are making a bid to improve water and soil quality on the Yorkshire Wolds. The Sustainable Landscapes Wolds Programme includes 17 farm businesses covering 10,000 hectares in and around Kilham, near Driffield, East Yorkshire.
altenergymag
AUGUST 27, 2021
Heat network developers and owners can find out more about two new funding opportunities to improve energy efficiency and transition to low and zero carbon technologies at a free webinar, hosted by Switch2 Energy on 16 September (10am to 11am).
Charged
AUGUST 27, 2021
Rivian Automotive has filed for an initial public offering and is seeking a roughly $80 billion valuation, Bloomberg reports. The Irvine, California-based EV startup has submitted its S-1 registration to the Securities and Exchange Commission, and hopes to make its IPO around the Thanksgiving holiday. Among the thundering herd of EV startups, Rivian is widely considered to be one of the most promising ponies.
altenergymag
AUGUST 27, 2021
A 3.4MW distributed rooftop project using the Clenergy Smart Solar + Digital Energy Management solution has commenced operation.
Charged
AUGUST 27, 2021
Rivian , which is nearing production of its eye-catching electric pickup truck, has a factory in Normal, Illinois, and has been actively scouting sites to build a second. Now the city of Fort Worth, Texas, has approved a package of incentives to tempt the EV startup to build its next factory there. The Fort Worth City Council voted unanimously to offer Rivian tax breaks worth up to $440 million—about 85% of projected property taxes over 15 years—as long as the company can meet certain goals.
Impact Alpha
AUGUST 27, 2021
TGIF, Agents of Impact! ?? Things fall apart. This week’s message from educator and social entrepreneur Sakena Yacoobi offered a bit of counter-programming. The post The Week in impact investing: Decentralized appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
Charged
AUGUST 27, 2021
Texas has wide-open spaces, and a wide-open deregulated electricity market with over 120 players at last count. It also has problems with grid reliability that were brought to light last year, when a cold snap caused widespread outages. Tesla to the rescue— Texas Monthly reports that Tesla Energy Ventures has applied with the Texas Public Utility Commission to enter the electricity market as an official retailer.
Renewable Energy World
AUGUST 27, 2021
Contributed by Tricia (TJ) Jackson. Prior mortgages are typical due diligence items in the real estate title review process for renewable energy projects. Resolving issues related to prior mortgages is key to establishing a title policy that is satisfactory to lenders and investors while also protecting the project company’s real property assets. The following serves as an introduction to prior mortgages and the mechanisms for resolving them, but every project is unique, so the path forward will
Charged
AUGUST 27, 2021
Charging plug locks secure EV plugs against unexpected unplugging, preventing possible damage to the system and protecting against theft of the charging cable (especially important in Europe, where many public chargers require drivers to use their own cables). German electromechanical manufacturer Marquardt has developed a new locking system designed to make charging safer and more dependable.
Planet Pulse
AUGUST 27, 2021
On August 16th, 2021 the US Bureau of Reclamation declared an unprecedented water shortage for the Colorado River, a vital artery that winds through seven states in the western United States over 1,450 miles. From its inception in the Rocky Mounta ins to its drainage in the Gulf of California, the river generates electricity at multiple dams, supports the region’s extensive agricultural industry, and provides an essential water supply to roughly 40 million people.
altenergymag
AUGUST 27, 2021
This new funding will enable expansion of decarbonization solutions for consumers and businesses while powering Nexamp's continued growth
Renewable Energy World
AUGUST 27, 2021
By Frank Jossi, Energy News Network. A wave of pilot programs by Minnesota electric cooperatives is saving customers money and providing useful data for larger utilities considering new technology and pricing models to encourage grid efficiency. Minnesota electric cooperatives have quietly emerged as laboratories for clean grid innovation, outpacing investor-owned utilities on smart meter installations, time-based pricing pilots, and experimental storage solutions.
DeSmogBlog
AUGUST 27, 2021
The UK has been accused of shutting out activists who hail from countries “battered” by extreme weather events from the upcoming UN climate summit, with campaigners warning it could be “the most exclusionary COP ever”. Critics include a youth member in the team of the UN COP26 “High Level Champions”, appointed by the UK government, who called the situation a “charade” Civil society activists hoping to attend the COP26 summit in Glasgow in November say the government has not pro
Business Green
AUGUST 27, 2021
Australian court cases, fossil fuel phase out alliances, and a vote of confidence in Gold Standards all feature in this week's latest round up of global green business news. Colombia to host hybrid Biodiversity PreCOP. Following the recent confirmation that the COP15 Biodiversity Summit in Kunming China has been postponed once again, the UN has announced that the government of Colombia will next week host a hybrid in-person and virtual summit in an attempt to build momentum towards a more ambiti
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