Inhabitat - Innovation
OCTOBER 2, 2019
Alder Creek, a 530-acre forest billed as the largest privately-owned giant sequoia property, will be acquired by century-old conservation group, Save the Redwoods League. The group will ultimately transfer the land to the United States Forest Service to safeguard the trees as a national treasure.
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 2, 2019
What’s at stake: the future of farming.
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Inhabitat - Innovation
OCTOBER 2, 2019
Converting an old school bus into a permanent tiny home on wheels is an overwhelming task, but for those who'd like to get a taste of skoolie living on a temporary basis, this Calabasas Glamping Bus is just the ticket.
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 2, 2019
Anuvia Plant Nutrients aims to improve farm yields while reducing the emissions associated with fertilizer.
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
OCTOBER 2, 2019
Built to use nearly a third less energy than the typical baseline design, Sitka features numerous energy-saving systems as well as a stunning courtyard that mimics the Pacific Northwest landscape with a running stream, tree-covered hilltops and a treehouse.
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 2, 2019
The case for using human-centered design to deliver the Sustainable Development Goals.
CleanTech Focus brings together the best content for cleantech professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 2, 2019
Nearly a quarter of all the greenhouse gases emitted by man come from the way we manage our forests, farms and fields.
Inhabitat - Innovation
OCTOBER 2, 2019
Just in time for the annual celebration of Energy Efficiency Day, the nonprofit American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) has released its 2019 State Energy Efficiency Scorecard.
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 2, 2019
From BASF to BMW to PRI, Europe holds major innovation in sustainability.
GreenTechMedia
OCTOBER 2, 2019
This week on Watt It Takes : how a computer nerd who loved assembling electronics became obsessed with designing a solar-storage system to light up Africa. In this episode, Powerhouse CEO Emily Kirsch sits down with Xavier Helgesen, the co-founder and chief technology officer at Zola Electric. Zola is a provider of solar and storage systems in Africa.
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.
Green Business Bureau
OCTOBER 2, 2019
GBB’s Customers Prove that Green Business Practices Attract Customers, Drive Sales, & Retain Employees. Boston, MA, Oct 2, 2019 — The Green Business Bureau, the trusted authority in green business and leader in green business certification, today announced the release of two new online applications, GBB EcoPlanner and GBB EcoAssessment , that enable businesses of any size to understand, prioritize, manage and certify green initiatives and sustainable business practices.
GreenTechMedia
OCTOBER 2, 2019
Sun Tribe Solar is expanding from commercial development and construction into the utility-scale business, as Virginia's renewables market prepares for rapid growth. Four-year-old Sun Tribe is a leader in Virginia's distributed solar market. But the state's utility-scale market is now poised to grow considerably, supported by Dominion Energy's plans for gigawatts' worth of new installations and Governor Ralph Northam's new goal of 30 percent clean energy by 2030.
Clean Energy Canada
OCTOBER 2, 2019
Canada’s energy sector: its future is often seen as foggy and facing inevitable decline. But the fossil fuel energy sector does not equal our entire energy sector. Canada’s clean energy sector will employ 559,400 Canadians by 2030—in jobs like insulating homes, manufacturing electric buses, or maintaining wind farms. And while 50,000 jobs are likely to be lost in fossil fuels over the next decade, just over 160,000 will be created in clean energy—a net increase of 110,000 new energy jobs in Cana
Grist
OCTOBER 2, 2019
If it seems like just last week that summer ended, you are correct — so why does the first day of October look like the dead of winter in the Northern Rockies? Over the weekend, Montana Governor Steve Bullock issued a state of emergency after an unusually intense “winter” storm dropped 48 inches of snow on some parts of the state. This year has already included a slew of record-setting weather events in the Northern Hemisphere, all courtesy of climate change.
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.
Impact Alpha
OCTOBER 2, 2019
Amsterdam, Netherlands – More than 1,000 impact investors and other Agents of Impact filled up the vast Beurs Van Berlage in the center of Amsterdam on Wednesday for the Global Impact Investing Network’s investor forum. “In just 10 years we’ve built an industry,” declared the GIIN’s Amit Bouri. “But we need to move capital at a The post Feeling the heat: Overheard at the Global Impact Investing Network investor forum appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
Charged
OCTOBER 2, 2019
EIT Raw Materials, a European Union consortium, has granted €4.7 million (about $5.2 million) to the Recycling Li-ion batteries for electric Vehicle (ReLieVe) project to develop a closed-loop process for recycling Li-ion batteries and support the production of new Li-ion batteries in Europe. ReLieVe will carry out its development for two years beginning in January 2020.
Forbes Green Tech
OCTOBER 2, 2019
Artificial intelligence (AI) can save lives, money and livelihoods from climate disasters. What key questions should you be asking to avoid being blindsided?
Charged
OCTOBER 2, 2019
Freudenberg Sealing Technologies is launching a new line of conductive seals that are designed to allow for durable connections between housings and shafts, while preventing bearing damage from electricity and electromagnetic radiation. The first functional models should be available within the next few months. Tim Leichner, Head of Strategic Product Advance Development at Freudenberg, said, “Our goal is to achieve constant resistance values over a long period of operation, even in adverse condi
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?
Solar Power World
OCTOBER 2, 2019
Hecate Energy announced an agreement with Google to purchase 250 MWac of clean, renewable electricity from 500 MWac of new Hecate Energy solar facilities in Texas. Google recently announced that it has made its largest ever purchase of renewable energy, totaling more than $2 billion in new energy infrastructure produced by solar panels and wind turbines located around the… The post Google will purchase half of energy coming out of 500-MW Texas solar portfolio appeared first on Solar Power
Charged
OCTOBER 2, 2019
NewMotion, Shell’s charging network subsidiary, and ChargePoint have announced a roaming partnership that will enable EV drivers in the UK to access both charging networks without the need to create a new account. ChargePoint users will gain access to NewMotion’s public charging network both in the UK and across Europe. The agreement also includes the InstaVolt rapid DC charging network, of which ChargePoint has been the exclusive technology partner since 2017.
DeSmogBlog
OCTOBER 2, 2019
Read time: 3 mins By Karen Savage, Climate Liability News. Originally published on Climate Liability News. A federal appellate judge ruled that Baltimore’s climate liability suit will proceed in state court, rejecting a motion by more than two dozen fossil fuel defendants to halt the suit while they try to convince the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals that the case belongs in federal court.
Impact Alpha
OCTOBER 2, 2019
ImpactAlpha, October 2 – The U.K.’s development finance institution CDC is aiming to invest $1.7 billion in Asia in support of the U.N. Sustainable Development Goals by 2021. Its latest effort toward that goal: a $30 million loan to BRAC Bank, Bangladesh’s largest commercial bank. BRAC Bank currently serves 1.2 million commercial, retail and small business The post CDC invests $30 million in Bangladesh’s BRAC Bank to promote jobs and financial inclusion appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
DeSmogBlog
OCTOBER 2, 2019
Read time: 6 mins While Canadians turned out en masse for large climate protests last week, the country's oil and gas industry continued its plans to ramp up and export its massive and polluting reserves of tar sands oil, also known as bitumen, to the rest of the world. . Several recent developments in the rail arena are setting up the tar sands industry to realize those plans in a major way.
Impact Alpha
OCTOBER 2, 2019
ImpactAlpha, October 3 – The successor to the Overseas Private Investment Corp. was set to begin operations Oct 1. But most of the new capacities of the DFC, as it will be called, are on hold pending the passage of a federal budget. Temporary funding passed by Congress finances only existing programs. “Right now we continue The post New U.S. Development Finance Corp. is all dressed up with nowhere to go appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
Enervee
OCTOBER 2, 2019
Energy Efficiency Day is October 2nd, and Enervee and our Partners are celebrating! SoCalGas reminds customers they can save energy on the SoCalGas Marketplace. Read the press release here [link] Our partners are offering savings of up to $100 instantly on smart from 10/2–10/4 in honor of EE Day. Shop Con Edison Marketplace Shop AEP Ohio Marketplace Shop SCE Marketplace Shop Duquesne Light Marketplace [link] Enervee + Energy Efficiency Day was originally published in Enervee Blog on Medium, wher
Solar Power World
OCTOBER 2, 2019
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. Battery management systems are powerful tools to “see inside” battery banks and improve lifespan, reliability, safety and performance. In this video, we’ll explain all of these BMS functions. Based… The post Solar Basics: What is a battery management system?
altenergymag
OCTOBER 2, 2019
The system supports over 128,000 high power 425 watt First Solar Series 6™ thin film modules and is scheduled for completion late 2019.
Impact Alpha
OCTOBER 2, 2019
ImpactAlpha, October 2 – Kayonza Tea Factory in southwestern Uganda is an economic pillar in the region, supporting nearly 7,500 nearby smallholder tea farmers that are also owners. The farmers have been so successful that the facility has been operating at full capacity. Dutch impact investor Oikocredit is extending a $3.2 million long-term loan to Kayonza The post Oikocredit backs Uganda’s Kayonza Tea Factory with expansion loan appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
Forbes Green Tech
OCTOBER 2, 2019
Chris Taylor and Michael Rose provide a deep-dive analysis of Indoor Agriculture, tracking more than 1,000 companies to capture the technology ecosystem of controlled-environment agriculture: vertical farms, greenhouses, urban farms, plant factories, and container farms.
altenergymag
OCTOBER 2, 2019
Ballard Power Systems today announced receipt of a purchase order for 3 of its FCveloCity® 100 kilowatt (kW) fuel cell modules from Berlin-based BEHALA
Forbes Green Tech
OCTOBER 2, 2019
Hurricane Lorenzo completed an extratropical transition and is now a Post-Tropical Cyclone. What does all of that mean?
Business Green
OCTOBER 2, 2019
ClientEarth analysis of new government data shows 83 per cent of UK areas failed to comply with EU legal limits on nitrogen dioxide last year.
Impact Alpha
OCTOBER 2, 2019
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Signals: Ahead of the Curve Rolling up impact across sectors and strategies. Impact investors have beefed up the case that social and environmental impact can generate competitive financial returns. What hasn’t been as well documented is, uh, impact. The increasingly sophisticated practice of impact measurement and management is changing that.
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