We need to think beyond urban farming
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 26, 2020
But the broader agricultural world can learn much from how those operations use data.
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Futuristic air-purifying masks combat air pollution with innovative fan system
Inhabitat - Innovation
FEBRUARY 26, 2020
A? Air has recently unveiled its Atm?s face mask — a high-tech, futuristic mask that wraps comfortably around the face while purifying the air you breathe.
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Cities need to change for people to thrive amid a changing climate
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 26, 2020
There's a resilient, zero-carbon, equitable vision for the future. How do we get there from here?
6 slow cooker vegan soup recipes
Inhabitat - Innovation
FEBRUARY 26, 2020
Here’s a roundup of simple vegan soup recipes to get you through the end of winter and the chilly start of spring.
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.
5 hot technologies for cold trucking
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 26, 2020
Refrigerated trucks use a quarter more fuel (usually diesel) than non-refrigerated trucks do. These solutions could help reduce that impact.
Geothermal-powered education center anchors Louisvilles new Waterfront Botanical Gardens
Inhabitat - Innovation
FEBRUARY 26, 2020
A notorious old landfill in Louisville, Kentucky is being transformed into the new Waterfront Botanical Gardens, a verdant 23.5-acre site designed by architecture firm Perkins + Will.
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An Avangrid Yieldco? CEO Says ‘Maybe’
GreenTechMedia
FEBRUARY 26, 2020
After years of lackluster growth, renewable energy yieldco stocks recovered in dramatic fashion in 2019 — and Avangrid, one of the largest U.S. renewables operators, is paying close attention. Avangrid is open to the idea of launching its own separately listed yieldco company to house its huge portfolio of wind farms, CEO James Torgerson said Wednesday.
UN Global Compact's Marie Morice on where we are with the Sustainable Development Goals
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 26, 2020
Marie Morice, head of sustainable finance at the U.N. Global Compact, says that there's strong interests with corporates for the Sustainable Development Goals — often referred to as SDGs — but with many of goals, "we're not there yet.".
Washington moves to ban "detrimental" bottled water operations
Inhabitat - Innovation
FEBRUARY 26, 2020
To protect its mountains, glaciers and rainforests, the state senate has passed a bill that will ban any new water bottling permits.
HSBC's Paul Stanley on the financial institution's sustainability goals
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 26, 2020
HSBC's Paul Stanley, senior manager of corporate sustainability, joined Heather Clancy and Sarah Golden, Sidebar cohosts during GreenBiz 20, to discuss the company's sustainability program. Stanley says HSBC has been involved with its clients' sustainability work for a long time but didn't talk about it publicly until a couple years ago when it announced five commitments.
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.
BAS breaks ground on energy-efficient Discovery Building to study climate change in Antarctica
Inhabitat - Innovation
FEBRUARY 26, 2020
The building is expected to meet the highest environmental standards.
Dow's Jeff Wooster on how circularity fits into the company's greater sustainability strategy
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 26, 2020
Jeff Wooster, global sustainability director at Dow, joined GreenBiz Editorial Director Heather Clancy, who hosted the Sidebar, to discuss the company's circular economy goals. Wooster notes that one of the goals is to increase the amount of materials it reclaims to use in its products. Its also working on chemical recycling. "It's really our goal to try to let consumers put all of their plastic back into the system," Wooster said.
Midwest installer Moxie Solar to open 100-MW solar panel assembly plant in Iowa
Solar Power World
FEBRUARY 26, 2020
Iowa-headquartered solar installer Moxie Solar, which installed almost 5 MW of projects in 2018 and likely tripled its business in 2019, has announced plans to set up a 100-MW solar panel assembly operation in Iowa. “If we are going to continue growing solar in the United States, we believe installers need a more reliable supply… The post Midwest installer Moxie Solar to open 100-MW solar panel assembly plant in Iowa appeared first on Solar Power World.
Ecolab's Emilio Tenua on the nexus of water, circularity and sustainability
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 26, 2020
Emilio Tenuta, chief sustainability officer at Ecolab, says that water is often treated in a linear way and as a liability, rather than as the renewable resource that it is. Tenuta notes that we have to go beyond conservation to stave off the water shortage that is anticipated in 2030.
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.
Lordstown electric pickup to use in-wheel motors. A good idea?
Charged
FEBRUARY 26, 2020
Lordstown Motors , the startup headed by Workhorse CEO Steve Burns , is building an electric pickup called the Endurance at a former GM factory in Lordstown, Ohio. The Endurance is expected to be available in the fourth quarter of 2020 at a base price of $52,500. The new e-pickup will feature in-wheel hub electric motors, according to specs published on the Lordstown’s website.
Bruce Klafter of Flex on driving collective action across the company's supply chain
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 26, 2020
Bruce Klafter is vice president of corporate social and environmental responsibility at Flex, an electronics manufacturing services company. Klafter joined Heather Clancy and Sarah Golden, Sidebar cohosts during GreenBiz 20, to discuss how the company is improving its supply chain through IoT and blockchain technology as well as working closely with its customers.
Climate Technology: What Your Business Should Know
Green Business Bureau
FEBRUARY 26, 2020
Increased awareness of the negative impact of business on the environment is driving companies to develop sustainable and climate-friendly goods and services. This shift in the world of business created a new category — Climate Technology, or simply ClimateTech — made up of business solutions whose offerings are designed to help work against climate change.
EY's Veli Ivanova on the company's 2020 carbon neutral commitment
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 26, 2020
Just before GreenBiz 20 in February 2020, financial services company EY announced that it would become carbon neutral by the end of the year. Veli Ivanova, Americas climate change and sustainability services leader at EY, joined GreenBiz 20 Sidebar cohosts Heather Clancy and Sarah Golden to discuss the announcement. Ivanova noted that EY has been doing similar work with client organizations for about a decade and that it was important for the company to do the same.
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?
Mission investors seek to give nature a boost with early-stage capital for high-tech agriculture
Impact Alpha
FEBRUARY 26, 2020
ImpactAlpha, Feb. 26 – Humans have deployed technology to defy nature’s limitations on the cultivation of food – to nature’s detriment. Now, a growing number of venture capitalists are doubling down on technology – to harmonize agriculture and nature. Mission-driven investment firms are writing early checks to companies making biological crop treatments, food preservation techniques and.
Ecolab's Emilio Tenuta on the nexus of water, circularity and sustainability
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 26, 2020
Emilio Tenuta, chief sustainability officer at Ecolab, says that water is often treated in a linear way and as a liability, rather than as the renewable resource that it is. Tenuta notes that we have to go beyond conservation to stave off the water shortage that is anticipated in 2030.
TDK invests in Germany electric VTOL company AutoFlightX
Charged
FEBRUARY 26, 2020
TDK Ventures has dipped into its $50-million corporate venture capital fund to invest in electric vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) company AutoFlightX. With their ability to navigate dangerous or hard-to-reach environments, eVTOL vehicles can help eliminate human risk in mining inspections, or deliver payloads of supplies and medicine in emergency response scenarios.
Needed: New models for ‘pandemic-lens investing’
Impact Alpha
FEBRUARY 26, 2020
ImpactAlpha, Feb. 26 – SARS. Zika. Ebola. The coronavirus is the latest infectious outbreak wreaking social and economic havoc. The World Health Organization has warned that dangerous pathogens may become more common in the face of climate change, urbanization and overuse of antibiotics. On Tuesday, the Centers for Disease Control warned Americans that things “could.
Mining and Automation – How an Industry is Addressing Challenges
CleanTech Group
FEBRUARY 26, 2020
Since hitting its lowest levels in 2016, the mining industry has witnessed rising demand from the renewables and IT sectors. Increasing capital expenditure and declining productivity levels has led to limited access to quality resources. Also, fluctuating demand (largely from renewable systems demand) and a lack.
Solar + storage PPAs for C&I — current hurdles and solutions
Solar Power World
FEBRUARY 26, 2020
By Philippe Hartley, Managing Director, CleanFinancing.com Commercial solar installers see battery system design and installation as their present and future, and they’re getting amped up. In California, 31% of the commercial SGIP applications over the last three years are for storage only, according to SGIP data. The segment may increase dramatically this year as California… The post Solar + storage PPAs for C&I — current hurdles and solutions appeared first on Solar Power World.
Are Bio-Based Plastics the Answer to the Plastic Crisis?
CleanTech Group
FEBRUARY 26, 2020
As our global addiction to plastic worsens, bio-based plastics offer an alternative solution.
Become a Leader in the Construction Industry by Incorporating These 5 Innovative Strategies
U.S. Green Technology
FEBRUARY 26, 2020
Leadership and Innovation in the Construction Industry The construction industry is one of the largest industries in the world. Since the stone age, when early humans lived in caves, to the present day when we inhabit gigantic skyscrapers, humanity has accomplished extraordinary feats in the field of construction. However, in the past few decades, innovation.
Jordan Cove Backers Double Down on Efforts to Push Project Following Federal Permit Delay
DeSmogBlog
FEBRUARY 26, 2020
Read time: 6 mins Last Thursday, the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission ( FERC ) took the highly unusual step of declining to move forward on permits for the proposed Jordan Cove LNG export terminal in Coos County, Oregon. If built, the $10 billion Jordan Cove project would become the largest source of global warming pollution in the state. FERC commissioners voted 2 to 1 to postpone a decision on federal approvals for the project after a string of permit denials from the state of Oregon.
Kimberly-Clark boots up 3-MW solar array in Georgia
Solar Power World
FEBRUARY 26, 2020
A 3-MW solar project has been completed and commercialized by United Renewable Energy at Kimberly-Clark’s facility in LaGrange, Georgia. The project was the result of collaboration between Kimberly-Clark’s facility, United Renewable Energy as the project developer and builder, and NextEra Energy Resources, through a subsidiary, which is the long-term project owner.
Wärtsilä technology enables Graciólica to increase the use of renewables from 15% to 65% in the Azores
altenergymag
FEBRUARY 26, 2020
The technology group Wärtsilä has completed the delivery of an island grid energy solution on Graciosa in the Azores. The order for Graciólica, announced in January 2018, is a project by HowardScott. It was placed by Portuguese project company Graciolica Lda and supported by its majority shareholder, Denmark based Recharge A/S. The inauguration of the Graciosa Hybrid Renewable Power Plant took place on Graciosa on 20 February 2020.
BNP Paribas closes sustainability-linked loan with JetBlue Airways
Impact Alpha
FEBRUARY 26, 2020
ImpactAlpha, Feb. 26 – BNP Paribas closed a sustainability-linked loan with JetBlue Airways, one of first such loans in the aviation industry. The margin JetBlue pays on its loan from the French bank will fluctuate with the airline’s environmental, social and governance score. JetBlue earlier this year announced it would operate carbon neutral on all.
LONGi strengthens presence in Mexico with 191MW Pachamama PV power plant
altenergymag
FEBRUARY 26, 2020
Invested by French solar energy firm Neoen, the Pachamama photovoltaic power plant, located in the state of Aguascalientes in central Mexico, has a total installed capacity of 375MW, of which 191MW is deployed by LONGi. The plant was completed and handed over to Neoen in January 2020.
New Oklahoma utility solar projects will help power Chickasaw and Choctaw Nations
Solar Power World
FEBRUARY 26, 2020
Oklahoma Gas and Electric (OG&E), a subsidiary of Oklahoma City-based OGE Energy Corp., announced it will expand its renewable energy portfolio with the construction of two, 5-MW universal solar energy centers in southeast Oklahoma. The company-owned projects will help meet the renewable energy needs of the Chickasaw Nation and Choctaw Nation. Both tribes will purchase… The post New Oklahoma utility solar projects will help power Chickasaw and Choctaw Nations appeared first on Solar Po
PepsiCo applies strengthened palm oil rules to entire supply chain
Business Green
FEBRUARY 26, 2020
Drinks giant developed new policy in partnership with the Rainforest Action Network and the International Labor Rights Forum (ILRF) In bid to guard against deforestation and labour rights abuses. PepsiCo has moved to strengthen its palm oil sourcing policy, aiming to eliminate deforestation, peatland destruction, and human rights abuses from all parts of its supply chain, in a move hailed by green groups as an industry first.
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