Inhabitat - Innovation
AUGUST 13, 2019
The Polish city of Lublin will soon be home to an environmentally friendly bus station that not only offers a new and attractive public space, but also combats urban air pollution. Designed by Polish architectural firm Tremend, the Integrated Intermodal Metropolitan Station in Lublin will be built near the train station and aims to revitalize the area around the railway station.
CleanTech Group
AUGUST 13, 2019
Regenerative agriculture is about improving soil through better farm practices. The aim is to use farming practices that increase soil health through increased biodiversity, water retention, topsoil protection, and other farming process improvements. One key measure of healthy soil is carbon content. Therefore, a working carbon market for agricultural sequestration of carbon is a powerful […].
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Inhabitat - Innovation
AUGUST 13, 2019
Delaware has recently been named the first and only "no-kill" animal shelter state in the country.
Forbes Green Tech
AUGUST 13, 2019
Artificial intelligence and smart buildings are converging to improve residents’ lifestyles, and also serve to achieve sustainable development.
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
AUGUST 13, 2019
In New York’s Hudson Valley, a beautiful new beacon for sustainable, net-zero design has taken root.
Forbes Green Tech
AUGUST 13, 2019
Despite the rapid growth and evolution of technology, some business functions are still in need of innovation. Here are a few that could benefit from some new developments.
CleanTech Focus brings together the best content for cleantech professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
altenergymag
AUGUST 13, 2019
Pillsbury has appointed New York Project Finance partner Mona Dajani as co-leader of the firm's preeminent Energy and Infrastructure Projects team. Dajani, one of the foremost energy and infrastructure lawyers in the world, joins partner Robert James in leading the practice.
E2 Environmental Entrepreneurs
AUGUST 13, 2019
Last December, the 2018 Farm Bill passed with a first-time provision to add a new agricultural product to the market?—?carbon removal?—?with the Soil Health Demonstration Trial (SHDT), which was crafted and advanced by an E2-led coalition. Discussion of the role of agriculture in climate change is usually centered on the emissions associated with crop production: the fossil fuel content of fertilizer and pesticides and farm equipment.
altenergymag
AUGUST 13, 2019
For a utility company, these are their money-generating assets that have been purchased for vast sums of money and they have trained electrical engineers to run and maintain them 24 hours a day, every day so everyone can have power.
Green Business Bureau
AUGUST 13, 2019
As a lawn care service provider, you know what you put into the ground can be harmful for the lawn, pets, home owners, and the environment itself. One of the worst culprits, chemical fertilizers are not only harmful to the environment, but also to the long-term health of a lawn. Owners of lawn care businesses need to be aware of the dangers and detrimental effects of chemicals and shift to more eco-friendly fertilizer alternatives.
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.
altenergymag
AUGUST 13, 2019
Leading renewable energy consultancy and service provider, Natural Power, and Swedish district energy consultant and design engineering expert, FVB, have formed a strategic partnership to further the advancement of district heating projects in the UK and Ireland.
Forbes Green Tech
AUGUST 13, 2019
The 50th Pacific Islands Forum (PIF) opening in Tuvalu later today will see Pacific Leaders gather to discuss issues vital to the future the Pacific region, and the planet as a whole. Tuvalu is at the forefront of climate change, with fears such islands could be uninhabitable as early as 2030.
Renewable Energy World
AUGUST 13, 2019
The national average price of wind power purchase agreements dropped to below 2 cents/kWh in 2018, according to the annual Wind Technologies Market Report released by the U.S. Department of Energy.
Forbes Green Tech
AUGUST 13, 2019
How has the surveillance and storing of biometric data impinged upon our right to privacy? This article examines new technology and the larger political and ethical questions surrounding biometric data collection.
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.
altenergymag
AUGUST 13, 2019
Replacement of Tempered Front Glass with Flexible Polymeric Front Sheet for Thin Film Solar Modules Delivers Superior Robustness
Forbes Green Tech
AUGUST 13, 2019
A report from BNP Paribas says the oil industry is doomed to an irreversible decline. But the much-needed end of the oil industry should be brought about not by its profitability, because it could linger on for decades, but instead through political decisions guided by scientific evidence.
DeSmogBlog
AUGUST 13, 2019
Read time: 6 mins By John Quiggin , The University of Queensland The announcement by Suncorp that it will no longer insure new thermal coal projects, along with a similar announcement by QBE Insurance a few months earlier, brings Australia into line with Europe where most major insurers have broken with coal. U.S. firms have been a little slower to move, but Chubb announced a divestment policy in July, and Liberty has confirmed it will not insure Australia’s Adani project.
Renewable Energy World
AUGUST 13, 2019
Many of us are somewhat familiar with what an electric utility does. Our house receives electricity, and we get a bill in the mail each month for it. Here in North Carolina, that bill is likely coming from Duke Energy. In other parts of the country it may be PG&E or Dominion Power. For at least a century, these utility monopolies have built power plants, installed transmission and distribution lines, billed customers for their electricity use, and the utility made a predictable margin for their
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?
altenergymag
AUGUST 13, 2019
The PV plant will comprise 6,533 Soltec SF7 Bifacial solar trackers and 548,772 bifacial modules
Renewable Energy World
AUGUST 13, 2019
U.S. Secretary of the Interior David Bernhardt has unveiled changes to the implementing regulations of the Endangered Species Act (ESA) that Interior says is “designed to increase transparency and effectiveness and bring the administration of the Act into the 21st century.”.
Planet Pulse
AUGUST 13, 2019
Last week Planet engineers helped organize the Analysis Ready Data (ARD) Research Workshop in Menlo Park, California, an event where great minds met to tackle the burning topic of how to make ARD operational in 2019. The event’s purpose was to educate and create collaborations across various industries, including data analytics providers, researchers, EO data providers, NGOs, and government agencies like USGS, ESA and NASA.
Ecotech
AUGUST 13, 2019
At present time, EcoTech Visions has assisted more than 75 businesses to develop their idea, access product development support, and light manufacturing, and to learn more about marketing, networking and growing their green economy company. Many people do not know that the driving force behind this one of a kind business incubator and makerspace is one person.
LA CleanTech Incubator
AUGUST 13, 2019
Originally published on ACT News How to Curb Emissions From Trucking Did you know that the greatest single source of air pollution in Los Angeles comes from the trucks, trains, and ships that bring goods in and out of our Ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach, that 40% of all the goods that come. Read more » The post Blog – Tackling Trucking: How to Get Zero Emissions Trucks at Ports and on Freeways in Los Angeles appeared first on LACI.
Inhabitat - Innovation
AUGUST 13, 2019
It’s no secret that endangered species around the globe continue to face extinction, and the dilemma could get worse with the recent revamp of the Endangered Species Act (ESA).
Green Market Oracle
AUGUST 13, 2019
The Trump administration is behind a steady barrage of environmental insults but his most recent is one of the most devastating to date. There are so many assaults on environmental protections that it is hard to keep track--and that is precisely the point. Trump also uses sensational news stories as cover for his attacks on nature. On Monday August 12 Trump quietly gutted the Endangered Species Act knowing the story would get buried under the racist headlines he was generating.
Unsustainable
AUGUST 13, 2019
Could the end of capitalism pave the way towards a truly sustainable future? words Ashita Parekh The issue of waste disposal and contamination has become a fast growing global epidemic that threatens the lives of humans as well as millions of species of flora and fauna around the world. Global annual waste generation is expected to rise to 3.4 billion tonnes, from 2.01 billion tonnes , over the next 30 years.
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