It’s time for companies to make the leap from action to advocacy
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 21, 2019
Reimaging silent about the need for climate solutions is no longer an option. Here's what a science-based, all-in climate policy agenda would look like.
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Higher air pollution days trigger hundreds of cardiac arrests and hospitalisations for strokes and asthma
Envirotec Magazine
OCTOBER 21, 2019
New data from King’s College London show 124 additional out-of-hospital cardiac arrests and 424 hospital admissions for stroke and asthma on higher pollution days. Head of NHS in England warns “this is a health emergency”. Data covers 9 major cities: London, Birmingham, Bristol, Derby, Liverpool, Manchester, Nottingham, Oxford and Southampton. New data being released by King’s College London and UK100, a network of local leaders, shows that hundreds of children and adults are suffering out-of-ho
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It’s official: The first sustainability standard for professional services
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 21, 2019
The new framework includes metrics specific to the industry, such as key performance indicators for supplier diversity.
Stroodles lets you eat your straw
Inhabitat - Innovation
OCTOBER 21, 2019
Now you can one-up your eco-conscious friends. Instead of composting your straw after you finish your drink, you can eat it. Stroodles, a new straw made out of pasta, solves the ethical straw problem. You can snap a Stroodle to correctly size it for any drink. The pasta straws are made out of only two ingredients: durum wheat and water. So vegans are in luck, but people with Celiac disease aren't.
Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization
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.
World Biogas Association’s newest members applaud mission to bring industry together to achieve its huge potential and build a long term sustainable circular economy
Envirotec Magazine
OCTOBER 21, 2019
Global Potential of Biogas report estimates industry greenhouse gases abatement potential at 12% of today’s global emissions. SHV Energy, ENGIE, SUEZ latest companies to join WBA’s existing members to identify road map to achieve this potential. As the urgency to decarbonise grows, the World Biogas Association (WBA) is bringing the industry together to look at how fast its members could build the infrastructure to collect and treat all the organic wastes generated by society, which if left untre
Halloween generates frightening amounts of plastic waste each year
Inhabitat - Innovation
OCTOBER 21, 2019
Two eco-minded British charities, Hubbub and the Fairyland Trust, have revealed that Halloween generates mounds of plastic waste equal in weight to millions of plastic bottles.
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10 tips to address 'Entrenched Thinking Disease'
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 21, 2019
How do you crack through those who are rigid in their views, both internally and externally?
All ballast water organism sizes should be tested, advises monitoring firm
Envirotec Magazine
OCTOBER 21, 2019
Large cargo ship discharging ballast water out from the Anchor’s hub. Microbiological monitoring equipment firm LuminUltra has advised the shipping industry of the importance of testing all sizes of ballast water organisms identified by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to prevent the spread of aquatic invasive species. More than 4000 species of organism are carried in ballast water, ranging in size and resilience to treatment, with the IMO having specified the type and size of
With the clean economy, it's (still) a sink-or-swim moment
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 21, 2019
A tsunami of clean-economy solutions are emblematic of a moment that is as filled with potential as it is fraught with challenges.
Calm Booth is a soundproof office retreat made out of recycled plastic bottles
Inhabitat - Innovation
OCTOBER 21, 2019
The stresses of work often make us want to crawl under our desks. One innovative firm is providing offices with a designated place to tune out the noise and find inner peace.
Electrofuels Are the Future: The Driving Force to Decarbonizing Heavy Transport
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.
Inside Oakland’s clean energy economy strategy
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 21, 2019
Climate change is an intersectional issue, and cities are beginning to treat it that way in adaptation strategies.
How to have a plastic-free Halloween
Inhabitat - Innovation
OCTOBER 21, 2019
When planning for a plastic-free Halloween, remember to encompass all aspects of the event to eliminate the greatest amount of waste.
Highview Power to Develop First Major Cryogenic Storage Plant in UK
GreenTechMedia
OCTOBER 21, 2019
Highview Power is taking its unusual cryogenic or liquid air storage from demonstration to commercial scale. The company is developing its first large-scale system in the north of the U.K., it revealed Monday. The first project will have a capacity of 50 megawatts/250 megawatt-hours, and could be up and running by 2022. It's not a done deal: Highview is still looking for offtakers to secure contracted revenue that could balance merchant activity in Britain's wholesale markets.
Eco-resort in Finland charges guests based on their carbon emissions
Inhabitat - Innovation
OCTOBER 21, 2019
A Finnish hotel is changing the eco-tourism industry by showing that sustainability can really pay off.
AR/VR Simulations for Sustainable, Regenerative, Circular Cities
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.
Widespread drying of European peatlands in recent centuries
Envirotec Magazine
OCTOBER 21, 2019
A view across the Carn Glenshane Pass peatland in the Sperrin Mountains Northern Ireland. A team of researchers, including experts from Queen’s University Belfast, have examined 31 peatlands across Britain, Ireland, Scandinavia and continental Europe to assess changes in peatland surface wetness during the last 2,000 years. They found that nearly half of the study sites are the driest they have been for the last 1,000 years.
The Bank of England Has a Coal Problem
GreenTechMedia
OCTOBER 21, 2019
Calls for the financial system to wake up to the looming threat of climate change are growing louder by the day. Those calls have been coming most clearly from the Bank of England under Governor Mark Carney, who last week warned the treasury committee of global finance’s role in driving the climate crisis. The problem is that despite his rhetorical leadership on climate change, the Bank of England has a coal problem.
Northern Ireland waste firm invests £5m in facility to produce fossil fuel alternative for industry
Envirotec Magazine
OCTOBER 21, 2019
Waste management firm Re-Gen Waste has invested £5m in the development of its existing processing facility, to produce a high specification replacement for traditional fossil fuels, for use in cement kilns and power stations. Located at Carnbane Industrial Estate in Newry, the plant expansion has generated 20 construction jobs in the build phase and will create a further 30 permanent positions when up to full production, upon completion in early November.
Siemens Gamesa to Buy Three Senvion Businesses Saving 2,000 Jobs
GreenTechMedia
OCTOBER 21, 2019
Siemens Gamesa has agreed a €200 million ($223 million) deal for three units of insolvent German manufacturer Senvion. The all-cash deal, which is expected to close before March 2020, includes all the firm’s intellectual property, its European service business and a Portugal-based blade manufacturing site. Around 2,000 Senvion employees will join Siemens Ganesa, equivalent to around 60 percent of its workforce as of September this year.
How Digital Transformation will Bend the Curve of the Linear Economy Toward the Circular
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?
All ballast water organism sizes should be tested, advises monitoring firm
Envirotec Magazine
OCTOBER 21, 2019
Large cargo ship discharging ballast water out from the Anchor’s hub. Microbiological monitoring equipment firm LuminUltra has advised the shipping industry of the importance of testing all sizes of ballast water organisms identified by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to prevent the spread of aquatic invasive species. More than 4000 species of organism are carried in ballast water, ranging in size and resilience to treatment, with the IMO having specified the type and size of
Blog – Applications Now Open for Founders Business Accelerator Cohort 2
LA CleanTech Incubator
OCTOBER 21, 2019
Just a few months ago, the Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI) and Mayor Eric Garcetti introduced the first 13 participants in Cohort 1 of the Founders Business Accelerator (FBA) program. Today, we celebrate the successful completion of the program for our inaugural business participants and the launch of the application process for our Cohort 2.
Grant award for project to tackle air pollution in West African cities
Envirotec Magazine
OCTOBER 21, 2019
Abidjan in Cote d’Ivoire is one of the cities where the project aims to help governments develop policies to reduce pollution. Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) and the University of York have been awarded a total of £674,023 for a project that aims to give West African cities access to low-cost air pollution monitoring technologies. The project will create an online, open source platform to share designs for low-cost air quality monitors developed by scientists at the University of York, in
The Brief: Rockefeller’s impact manager, e-Winnebagos, inclusive growth grants, fintech catalysts, off-grid in Africa, startup cities
Impact Alpha
OCTOBER 21, 2019
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: ImpactAlpha Original Rockefeller’s $60 million impact fund manager leverages ‘catalytic capital’ for scale. On the hunt for billion-dollar innovations to meet the Sustainable Development Goals, the Rockefeller Foundation has spotted more than a few such potential unicorns. Possible investors to its “Zero Gap” grant portfolio, raised an obvious objection: “If this The post The Brief: Rockefeller’s impact manager, e-Winnebagos, inclusive growth grants, fintec
These Girl Scouts are saving wild bees, one ‘hotel’ at a time
Grist
OCTOBER 21, 2019
Last month, millions of youth activists around the world took to the streets to fight for their right to breathe clean air, drink clean water, and not have to suffer the wrath of the climate crisis. But that’s not the only way kids are taking climate action into their own hands. In Colorado, the task of saving bees from the consequences of climate change has fallen to the girls who sell us the best cookies.
Rockefeller’s $60 million impact fund manager leverages ‘catalytic capital’ for scale
Impact Alpha
OCTOBER 21, 2019
ImpactAlpha, Oct. 21, 2019 – On the hunt for innovations able to mobilize at least $1 billion to meet the Sustainable Development Goals, the Rockefeller Foundation in the last several years has spotted more than a few such potential “SDG-finance unicorns.” In trying to attract investors to the promising products in its “Zero Gap” grant The post Rockefeller’s $60 million impact fund manager leverages ‘catalytic capital’ for scale appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
International Event Organizers Announce New Partnership, New Solar Power Event in Africa
altenergymag
OCTOBER 21, 2019
Solar Power Africa will bring together leading solar businesses, utilities, non-profits, and policymakers for an exclusive two-day event—blending conference, technical education and trade show to further develop Africa’s solar energy market.
Creating physical spaces where innovation can flourish
Impact Alpha
OCTOBER 21, 2019
ImpactAlpha, October 21 – Entrepreneurship drives economic renewal, but how can cities foster entrepreneurship? The folks at Revolution and The Rise of the Rest Fund have a suggestion: create a physical space. “The most successful emerging ecosystems recognize that scaling a startup requires network density — being in close, regular contact with other creators who The post Creating physical spaces where innovation can flourish appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
Solar PV World Expo 2020 (PV Guangzhou )
altenergymag
OCTOBER 21, 2019
As the largest solar PV expo in South China, Solar PV World Expo 2020 is going to cover a show floor to 40,000 sq.m, with 600 quality exhibitors displaying all range of pv products. We have welcome featured exhibitors like JA Solar, Chint Solar, Mibet, Yingli Solar, LONGi, Hanergy, LU'AN Solar, Growatt, Goodwe, Solis, IVNT, AKCOME, SOFARSOLAR, Toyray Solar, SAJ, CSG PVTECH, UNIEXPV, Afore, Kingfeels, Fivestar Solar, Horad, Sangong Intelligent Equipment, SINHONGHUA, AUTO-ONE, Yeniu Automation, AP
Free eBook: Battery thermal management in hybrids & EVs
Charged
OCTOBER 21, 2019
Sponsored by Elkem. Thermal management is an important discussion topic in battery-powered systems when considering insulation, heat and power transfer, conduction and convection, in order to maintain the battery pack temperature within a tight tolerance to reduce thermal runaway. Thermal management of batteries in H&EVs is essential for the effective operation of motors in all climates and environments and is the main focus in the design of battery modules and packs for pre-production proto
2020 Western China (Chengdu) Int’l Solar Photovoltaic & Energy Storage Technology Exhibition (PV Chengdu 2020)
altenergymag
OCTOBER 21, 2019
PV Chengdu 2020 is envisioning an exhibition floor of 15,000 sq.m, with 200 quality exhibitors displaying state-of-the-art PV technology, like raw material, PV panels, batteries, cells, inverter, controller, connector, cable, mounting system, production, monitoring, testing, cleaning equipment, PV application, storage battery, etc.
Webasto starts battery production, prepares to enter China
Charged
OCTOBER 21, 2019
German automotive supplier Webasto has begun producing EV batteries at the company’s manufacturing plant in Schierling, Germany. The first battery packs will go to an unnamed European bus maker. Three years ago, Webasto decided to branch out of its core business of roofs and heaters and expand into electromobility , with charging solutions and battery systems.
How Organic Winemakers Are Turning Chianti’s Red Rooster Green
Forbes Green Tech
OCTOBER 21, 2019
In the cellars of Il Palagio di Panzano wine estate, 20 miles south of Florence, Monia Piccini is clambering energetically up ladders and on top of the wine tanks, swishing and swilling the vino with verve.
Ford generates headlines with proactive EV charging strategy
Charged
OCTOBER 21, 2019
Ford is currently selling only one plug-in vehicle, the Fusion Plug-in Hybrid (formerly the Fusion Energi). The company’s Focus Electric and C-MAX Energi seem to have been swept away in the recent sedan massacre. However, the company is planning to introduce a “ Mustang-inspired electric crossover ” in 2020, and is working on an electric pickup truck.
New Jersey is home to the country’s largest floating solar array
Solar Power World
OCTOBER 21, 2019
Ciel & Terre USA, floating solar power systems providers, in conjunction with Solar Renewable Energy and RETTEW are pleased to announce the completion of its Hydrelio floating solar solution for a 4.4.-MW floating array on the town of Sayreville, New Jersey’s pre-treatment water storage pond. This represents the largest floating solar array installed in North… The post New Jersey is home to the country’s largest floating solar array appeared first on Solar Power World.
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