Inhabitat - Innovation
APRIL 5, 2021
After living as a modern nomad for years, Ond?ej Koní?ek finally decided to settle down by realizing his dream cabin on a 20,000-square-meter wooded property in southeast Czech Republic.
altenergymag
APRIL 5, 2021
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Inhabitat - Innovation
APRIL 5, 2021
Water scarcity due to persistent droughts in California's Central Valley is forcing scientists and farmers to find innovative and sustainable ways of utilizing the available resource.
DeSmogBlog
APRIL 5, 2021
Read time: 11 mins On March 31, President Joe Biden unveiled the blueprint for a $2.25 trillion infrastructure package, which would include enormous investments in renewable energy, electric vehicles, and public transit, along with roads, bridges, and water infrastructure. The White House is billing it as a “generational investment” that will lead to “transformational progress in our ability to tackle climate change.”.
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
APRIL 5, 2021
With retirement and grandchildren on the horizon, a Manhattanite couple reached out to GRT Architects to design their new home in upstate New York's Dutchess County.
U.S. Green Technology
APRIL 5, 2021
Noise pollution, also known as environmental noise or sound pollution, is defined as regular exposure to elevated sound levels that may have adverse effects in humans and other living organisms. According to the World Health Organization, sound levels under 70 dB are not damaging to living organisms, regardless of how long or consistent the exposure.
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Charged
APRIL 5, 2021
Draper is developing a family of electric motors and generators based on fundamentally different principles from common e-motors used today. Underpinning the initiative is a recent patent on aspects of the technology. Draper says its approach to electric motors has numerous advantages over conventional electric motors, including lower weight, higher efficiency, higher specific power and lower cost of materials.
Inhabitat - Innovation
APRIL 5, 2021
When Sir David Attenborough talks, we listen.
Impact Alpha
APRIL 5, 2021
Editor’s note: ImpactAlpha is pleased to partner with Sustainable Research and Analysis LLC to provide timely market snapshots of trends and developments affecting. The post Sustainable investing strategies account for 30% of all SPACs appeared first on Impact Alpha.
Planet Pulse
APRIL 5, 2021
Planet is looking for creative submissions for its space-based exhibit as part of our Art at Planet program. Each year, Planet curates the largest art exhibit in space, selected from dozens of submissions of artwork by famous artists and members of the public alike. Planet laser-etches the selected works onto the side panels of our Dove satellites, which are then launched into orbit.
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
APRIL 5, 2021
The Spring 2021 sessions list for the Charged Virtual Conference on EV Engineering is out now. Just like the content Charged brings you every day, conference topics will span the entire EV engineering supply chain and ecosystem including motor and power electronics design and manufacturing, cell development, battery systems, testing, powertrains, thermal management, circuit protection, wire and cable, EMI/EMC and more.
Grist
APRIL 5, 2021
This story is part of a collaboration with The Texas Observer , with support by the Pulitzer Center. Amy Townsend-Small has been chasing methane her entire professional life. The quest has taken her from Southern California freeways to sewage plants to animal feedlots. Sniffing out the potent greenhouse gas, which traps 86 times as much heat as carbon dioxide after it’s emitted into the atmosphere, has required her to breathalyze cows and take chemical measurements at large manure lagoons.
Renewable Energy World
APRIL 5, 2021
Originally published on ILSR.org. In 2016, the Illinois Legislature passed the groundbreaking Future Energy Jobs Act (FEJA) with bipartisan support. The legislation includes strategies to make solar energy more accessible to low and moderate income communities through community solar projects, rooftop solar, and brownfield solar. Through the Illinois Shines program, the legislature created opportunities for citizens to have access to solar energy without putting solar panels on their roofs.
Impact Alpha
APRIL 5, 2021
Editor’s note: Contributing editor Imogen Rose-Smith, a longtime senior writer for Institutional Investor, continues her bi-weekly column, Institutional Impact, exploring the policies, practices. The post ‘Fossil-fuel free’ endowments and pension funds are rarely free of fossil fuels. Here’s why that’s a problem. appeared first on Impact Alpha.
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.
DeSmogBlog
APRIL 5, 2021
Read time: 16 mins It was Thursday, October 22, 2020, when the crew aboard the Transocean Deepwater Asgard, an ultra-deepwater rig in the Gulf of Mexico, started monitoring a weather disturbance in the nearby Caribbean Sea that bore the tell-tale signs of a forming hurricane. But the Asgard, which was drilling an oil well in the waters about 225 miles south of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, had other pressing matters to deal with.
Impact Alpha
APRIL 5, 2021
ImpactAlpha, April 5 — Greenland, New York-based Ecovative produces sustainable materials from mycelium for textile, food and packaging. The biotech company has raised. The post Ecovative secures $60 million to produce fungus-based materials appeared first on Impact Alpha.
Charged
APRIL 5, 2021
Everybody wants to get into the EV racket—Chinese hopefuls include search engine provider Baidu, e-commerce giant Alibaba and ride-hailing app DiDi Chuxing. Even vacuum cleaner vendor Dyson set out to suck up some coins from the electric carpet before conceding that it couldn’t see a way to commercial viability. The latest entrant to the crowded field (the BBC says there are “hundreds of companies in China jostling for a share of the world’s leading market”) is Chinese phone maker Xiaomi, which
Solar Power World
APRIL 5, 2021
Amphenol Aerospace Operations, a division of Amphenol Corporation, is one of the world’s largest manufacturers of interconnect products, providing the military, commercial aerospace and industrial markets with the cabling and connectors they need to operate. Located in Sidney, New York, the firm has a large presence in Delaware County, directly supporting more than 1,000 jobs… The post Case study: Multi-faceted solar technologies bring complex brownfield site to life in New York appeared f
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?
Impact Alpha
APRIL 5, 2021
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Make sure to add these ImpactAlpha partner events to your calendar: Island Innovation presents “Island Finance Forum” with prime. The post The Brief: Not so fossil-free, zero-carbon aviation, fungus-based textiles, mobile money in Kenya, housing for L.A.’s homeless, sustainable SPACs appeared first on Impact Alpha.
Business Green
APRIL 5, 2021
Tech giant reveals almost 8GW of clean power is due to come online via its manufacturing partners. More than 110 of Apple's manufacturing partners worldwide are moving to 100 per cent renewable electricity for the goods they supply to the tech giant, supported by almost 8GW of new clean power capacity which is due to come online, the tech giant announced late last week.
Impact Alpha
APRIL 5, 2021
ImpactAlpha, April 5 — Before the COVID-related declines in air travel, aviation was on pace to be one of the biggest remaining carbon. The post ZeroAvia aims to decarbonize air travel with hydroelectric engines appeared first on Impact Alpha.
Business Green
APRIL 5, 2021
Research led by the University of Oxford's Christian Brand shows people who walk or cycle have lower carbon footprints from daily travel. Globally, only one in 50 new cars were fully electric in 2020, and one in 14 in the UK. Sounds impressive, but even if all new cars were electric now, it would still take 15-20 years to replace the world's fossil fuel car fleet.
Renewable Energy World
APRIL 5, 2021
“ Climate action does not require economic sacrifice,” wrote Rachel Kyte, then CEO of the Sustainable Energy for All Initiative (SEforAll) in September 2015. Many studies and cases show that climate action does indeed yield economic benefits (see the case of China ). Going even a step further: if climate change proceeds unchecked, its negative impacts will effect the world’s economies at large.
U.S. Green Technology
APRIL 5, 2021
Most of us take general subjects in school for granted. From diving deep into the English language to discovering various scientific equations, students tend to think of these things as “boring” or “not interesting”. Of course, let us not forget that there is also one thing that most kids tend to despise – which is. The post 5 Benefits of Hiring a Maths Online Tutor for Your Child appeared first on U.S.
Business Green
APRIL 5, 2021
With issuance of green, social and sustainability bonds expected to hit a record $650bn this year, Schroders head of sustainable credit Saida Eggerstedt tackles the topic of greenwashing. "We are in a boom era for borrowing linked to sustainability criteria," according to Saida Eggerstedt, Schroders' head of sustainable credit. In 2020, the global issuance of green bonds alone totalled $226bn as governments and companies sought finance for planet-friendly initiatives, Bloomberg has revealed.
Impact Alpha
APRIL 5, 2021
ImpactAlpha, April, 5 – ECP will use the funds to repurchase a 50% stake in New York-based Terra-Gen that it had sold to. The post Energy Capital Partners closes $1.2 billion Continuation Fund to finance Terra-Gen appeared first on Impact Alpha.
Business Green
APRIL 5, 2021
Approving expansion of the airport would contradict the advice of the Climate Change Committee, argues Labour MP Hilary Benn. The government is currently preparing to host COP26 when countries from across the world will come to the UK to discuss the next steps needed to tackle dangerous climate change. Meanwhile sitting in Robert Jenrick's inbox is a rather significant document.
Green Living Guy
APRIL 5, 2021
Are you considering teleconferencing from a distant location to boost your sales team? Are you keen to make your new business pitch presentations via screen sharing? Have your colleagues voiced interest in chasing business leads and churn company profit from their one-room apartment? Welcome to Remote Work 2021. The new. The post 5 Must-Know Environmental Benefits Of Remote Working appeared first on Green Living Guy.
Ideas 4 Sustainability
APRIL 5, 2021
Originally posted on SCIENCE FOR SUSTAINABILITY : Multiple threats face the sustainability and survival of social-ecological systems. In recent years, a growing focus on the potential of different actions in producing lasting change has emerged. Meadows’ (1999) paper concerning leverage points has been a catalyst for the growth of this field.
AGreenLiving
APRIL 5, 2021
Water scarcity due to persistent droughts in California’s Central Valley is forcing scientists and farmers to find innovative and sustainable ways of utilizing this precious resource. Through collaboration, the community has found ways of reusing water several times in a bid to fully tap into its benefits. The process of conservation and recycling starts just a few miles downstream of all major rivers and streams in the state.
Eco-Business
APRIL 5, 2021
A powdered clay used to clarify palm oil has been removed from Indonesia’s list of hazardous wastes, prompting warnings from environmental activists about an increase in dumping of untreated waste.
AGreenLiving
APRIL 5, 2021
The human body makes its own collagen, but aging causes collagen production to take a… The post 8 Plant-Based Collagen Supplement Alternatives appeared first on Earth911. Go here to see the original: 8 Plant-Based Collagen Supplement Alternatives.
CleanTech Alliance
APRIL 5, 2021
Source: The Washington Business Alliance, March 25, 2021 According to a recent report, the CCA (SB 5126) would not only protect jobs but also generate up to 195,000 full-time-equivalent job-years and generate up to $13 billion in employee compensation through 2030. Job creation is expected in areas that emphasize local labor, leading to $17 billion […].
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