GreenBiz

JUNE 2, 2021

Better batteries will get us to an electrified future. Mike De Socio. Wed, 06/02/2021 - 00:04. The mass adoption of electric vehicles — and, well, electric everything — will rely heavily on cheap, dependable batteries. While the cost of lithium-ion batteries has dropped dramatically , the technology still leaves something to be desired. Creating new types of batteries that are lighter, lower-cost and more durable will allow big jumps in the performance of electric vehicles and devices.

Batteries 451

Batteries Electric vehicle Recycling Recycling 451

Inhabitat - Innovation

JUNE 2, 2021

Currently testing in European cities, the Trombia Free electric street sweeper doesn’t waste water and will cut 2 million metric tons of CO2 emissions yearly.

Waste 225

Waste Waste Electricity 225

Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

The proposals in the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) consultation on business waste are anti-competitive and will force successful recycling businesses into administration, The Recycling Association has warned. While supporting the overall principles of EPR, and the idea that producers of waste should fund the collection and recycling of materials as proposed under the consultation, The Recycling Association said it is hugely concerned about what the business waste proposals will mean for

Recycling 147

Recycling Recycling Government Waste 147

Inhabitat - Innovation

JUNE 2, 2021

The Singaporean-registered ship is creating "the worst environmental disaster we have seen in our lifetime.

266

266

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.

Energy

altenergymag

JUNE 2, 2021

SEIA has created supplier diversity guides and resources for the industry, but companies overwhelmingly stated that the biggest barrier to implementation was finding diverse businesses working in the solar industry.

158

158

Inhabitat - Innovation

JUNE 2, 2021

Carihola's bath, bedding and clothing products are made with sustainably-sourced bamboo and fair trade practices that we can all feel good about.

Organic 197

Organic Sustainability 197

Inhabitat - Innovation

JUNE 2, 2021

The team at ZeroCabin created Krul, a prefabricated cabin kit that can be erected anywhere.

Sustainability 232

Sustainability 232

Charged

JUNE 2, 2021

XL Fleet (NYSE: XL), a provider of electrification solutions for commercial and municipal fleets, has acquired World Energy Efficiency Services for cash and stock totaling approximately $16 million. World Energy provides energy efficiency, renewable technology and EV charging stations to customers in the New England region. The company offers full-service EVSE installations, including site assessment, planning and installation.

Energy 128

Energy Energy Solar Power Technology 128

Inhabitat - Innovation

JUNE 2, 2021

A study examines the use of electric charges to trigger clouds to produce rain.

Electricity 241

Electricity 241

Charged

JUNE 2, 2021

BYD, a major manufacturer of transit buses, is introducing a battery-electric Type D school bus. According to the company, the new e-bus offers “unparalleled safety features and performance, wrapped in a sleek design that will have students wanting to step onboard.”. BYD’s Type D school bus will come in 35-, 38-, and 40-foot lengths, and will offer a range of up to 155 miles.

Energy Monitor 145

Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Electricity North America 145

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.

Transportation

Green Living Guy

JUNE 2, 2021

If you plan to renovate your home, it’s important to make sure you decorate your home in the style you prefer without harming the environment. When you use eco-friendly products, you can save money and reduce your carbon footprint. The… Read More 5 DIY Renovations to Make Your Home Eco-Friendly. The post 5 DIY Renovations to Make Your Home Eco-Friendly appeared first on Green Living Guy.

Carbon 119

Carbon Pollution Solar Power 119

Charged

JUNE 2, 2021

Contrary to popular belief, EV drivers don’t have to subsist on kale and granola—now you can have a Slurpee and a microwaved burrito while topping up your battery pack. The iconic American convenience store chain 7?Eleven plans to deploy at least 500 DC fast charging stations at 250 selected stores in the US and Canada by the end of 2022. The new charging stations will be owned and operated by 7?

Hydropower 123

Hydropower Batteries Carbon Technology 123

Impact Alpha

JUNE 2, 2021

ImpactAlpha, June 2 – Kericho-based FarmMoja operates in Kenya’s tea region, offering hundreds of smallholder farmers access to farming inputs and technical training, particularly. The post ADAP Capital backs FarmMoja to train Kenyan farmers appeared first on Impact Alpha.

Agriculture 111

Agriculture Africa 111

Charged

JUNE 2, 2021

Sponsored by Viscotec. A new whitepaper details the advantages of the various resin impregnation methods and automation solutions for electric motors, including a look at dipping, vacuum potting, and trickling. The quality of the insulation in electric drives determines, among other things, the durability and efficiency of the motor. Trickling in particular—with the right dispensing technology—offers great potential when it comes to the optimization of individual production steps.

Electricity 125

Electricity Waste Waste Technology 125

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.

Sustainability

altenergymag

JUNE 2, 2021

Dig into RatedPower's 3D Layout Model, an enhanced CAPEX calculation and the Earthworks calculation tool, on their journey to increasing efficiency of PV engineering teams.

107

107

Charged

JUNE 2, 2021

The latest news from Italy should put a final end to the cracks about “glorified golf carts.” Lamborghini has unveiled a roadmap to electrification, dubbed Cor Tauri (the name refers to a star in the Taurus constellation, which inspired the automaker’s bull logo). “Throughout the product electrification process, Lamborghini will focus continually on identifying technologies and solutions that guarantee top performance and driving dynamics, in keeping with the marque’s tradition,” says the venera

Electric vehicle 123

Electric vehicle Innovation Technology Investment 123

Impact Alpha

JUNE 2, 2021

ImpactAlpha, June 2 — Approximately 270 million smallholder farmers worldwide live in poverty; few banks are willing to extend them credit due to. The post IDH Farmfit Fund acquires stake in LendXS to expand lending to smallholder farmers appeared first on Impact Alpha.

Agriculture 103

Agriculture Africa 103

altenergymag

JUNE 2, 2021

Colorado-based electric cooperative to install 15MWh battery storage system focused on providing sustainability, savings, and resilience

Resilience 113

Resilience Batteries Energy Energy 113

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?

Carbon

Impact Alpha

JUNE 2, 2021

Greetings, Agents of Impact! A reminder of these ImpactAlpha partner events this week: U.S. Impact Investing Alliance and the Federal Reserve Bank of. The post The Brief: Catalytic family capital call recap, cheaper smallholder finance, Kenyan farmer training, carbon accounting in China, rebuilding Black appeared first on Impact Alpha.

Carbon 95

Carbon Investment 95

Solar Power World

JUNE 2, 2021

Solar Basics is a video series by Solar Power World created to help installers learn about the business, tools and tricks of the solar power trade. Flush-mount rooftop solar projects are getting closer to the roof to make for the sleekest installation possible. But it’s important to still practice proper wire management under the arrays… The post Solar Basics (At Home!

Solar Power 92

Solar Power 92

Charged

JUNE 2, 2021

Solid Power, a producer of solid-state EV batteries, has announced a $130-million Series B investment round led by the BMW Group, Ford and Volta Energy Technologies. Ford and BMW have also expanded existing joint development agreements with Solid Power to secure all-solid-state batteries for future EVs. “BMW and Ford now share leading positions in the race for all solid-state battery-powered electric vehicles,” said Doug Campbell, CEO of Solid Power.

Batteries 104

Batteries Investment Startups Lithium 104

altenergymag

JUNE 2, 2021

Riverside County Project Covers Nearly 5 Square Miles

Solar Power 140

Solar Power Construction Energy Energy 140

Fairsnape

JUNE 2, 2021

“We are on the cusp of something regeneratively wonderful regenerativeor something irreversibly disastrous” Along with the increased use of the term ‘regenerative’ we have a changing narrative. And this is important, as it is narratives that define us and contribute, in turn, to how we define and shape our future. The future is not something that just happens to us, but it is something that we create.

Construction 78

Construction Education Sustainability Technology 78

Green Living Guy

JUNE 2, 2021

Summer is a great time to spend time with your kids. With the vacation coming up, they have a lot of time on their hands. You can use this as an opportunity to spend some quality time with your family.… Read More 10 Green Activities To Try With Your Family. The post 10 Green Activities To Try With Your Family appeared first on Green Living Guy.

89

89

Business Green

JUNE 2, 2021

VIDEO: Ecosia CEO Christian Kroll, the Emergent Forest Finance Accelerator's Eron Bloomgarden, and Professor Nathalie Seddon of Oxford University's nature based solutions initiative, discuss the fraught and growing market for carbon offsets. Carbon offsetting seems simple enough - it's the route many of the world's biggest companies presently use to mitigate their CO2 and it is likely to play a key role in mitigating hard-to-abate emissions.

Carbon 94

Carbon Politics Demand 94

GatesNotes

JUNE 2, 2021

As a child, Dr. Mohamed Bailor Barrie thought he’d never become a doctor. Now he’s one of Sierra Leone’s health leaders.

Health 105

Health 105

altenergymag

JUNE 2, 2021

New commercial microgrid financing delivers clean, reliable energy with no capital outlay

Energy 113

Energy Energy 113

Business Green

JUNE 2, 2021

Data centre firm CyrusOne announces all its facilities are now running on a 100 per cent renewable energy tarrifs. Data centre firm REIT CyrusOne has announced that all its facilities in Europe are now running on 100 per cent renewable energy tariffs. The firm said on Tuesday that its entire European portfolio off energy-hungry data centres - which includes sites in Amsterdam, Dublin, Frankfurt and London - is now powered by green energy supplied through local suppliers.

Energy Monitor 85

Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Carbon-neutral 85

Renewable Energy World

JUNE 2, 2021

This week, ACCIONA said it has received the go-ahead to construct its first Kentucky solar farm from the state’s siting board. The 188-MW Fleming County project is one of four in Kentucky, Ohio, and Illinois that were part of a power purchase agreement with Amazon announced last year. The project is a significant step forward for solar energy in Kentucky, and has the opportunity to more than double the installed solar capacity in Kentucky, according to data from the Solar Energy Industry Associa

Construction 70

Construction Education Energy Energy 70

Business Green

JUNE 2, 2021

By working with our member companies we can help to ensure that no one gets left behind in the energy transition, writes RenewableUK's Melanie Onn. The UK's transition to renewable energy is an extraordinary success story. In 2020 we generated 43 per cent of our electricity from clean sources, outstripping fossil fuels for the first year ever. Wind alone generated a quarter of the nation's electricity needs, and it will become the backbone of our modern energy system over the course of this deca

Energy 82

Energy Energy Fossil fuels Hydrogen 82

Renewable Energy World

JUNE 2, 2021

Ørsted has announced that the first wind turbine for the Hornsea Two offshore wind farm has been installed, a significant construction milestone for the project. Located 89km off the Yorkshire coast in the North Sea and adjacent to Hornsea One, the sister site is expected to be completed in 2022. The first load out of turbines left the port of Hull earlier this week via the installation vessel Sea Challenger, owned by DEME Offshore.

Business Energy Monitoring 69

Business Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Construction 69

Business Green

JUNE 2, 2021

Tool aims to drive up standards for clean energy firms to help support workers and communities adversely affected by the burgeoning clean energy transition. Wind, wave and tidal power trade body RenewableUK has launched a tool designed to help its member companies deliver both strong environmental and social standards as demand for clean energy snowballs over the coming decades.

Ethics 76

Ethics Carbon Energy Energy 76

Sustainability Consulting

JUNE 2, 2021

Companies across the board are working hard to get to net-zero CO2 emissions by 2050. Their strategies include using renewable energy to power their buildings, transitioning to EV for their transportation delivery systems, and offsetting their carbon footprint by investing in “green” causes like reforestation. But for heavy industry and heavy-duty transport companies, reducing CO2 emissions can be much harder.

Aviation 66

Aviation Plastics Transportation Carbon 66