GreenBiz
AUGUST 24, 2020
The rise (and rise) of sustainability-linked finance. Joel Makower. Mon, 08/24/2020 - 02:11. One silver lining of this horrific moment is the rise of loans, bonds and other financial instruments linked to sustainability outcomes. In this sense, "sustainability" is broadly defined to include environmental issues as well as social ones. And, more recently, a new subcategory of, yes, pandemic-related issues.
Inhabitat - Innovation
AUGUST 24, 2020
Tetra Pak beverage containers are used in the roof and wall construction of this unique home. Tiny Tetra has 688 square feet of space with a diagonally-oriented floor plan. It is elevated 40 centimeters off the ground via point foundations in order to help blend the structure into the surroundings. There is a bedroom, ensuite bathroom, and open kitchen, living room and outdoor terraces.
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Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 24, 2020
Eleanor Shield, a wildlife biologist and conservationist, is among those recruited by Kaitiaki Consulting. A Scots firm that focuses on large scale land redevelopment and rewilding has hired 20 environmental consultants after a global recruitment drive. Kaitiaki Consulting, which is based in Scotland and New Zealand, has brought in specialists in forestry, ornithology, botany, soil science and a raft of other key sciences as it ramps up its activities.
GreenTechMedia
AUGUST 24, 2020
A new residential grid flexibility service available in parts of the U.K. will combine energy storage, vehicle-to-grid and smart EV charging for the first time. The project, led by energy technology firm Kaluza, will trade that flexibility in close to real-time conditions. The program looks to shift EV charging away from times of high demand while tapping those EV batteries and an existing network of sonnen battery systems to bolster the grid as required.
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 24, 2020
Locally procured materials and energy-efficient building systems make up the Wohnhaus am Eichenberg (Residence on the Eichenberg), a contemporary timber home designed by Austrian architecture firm Berktold Weber Architekten in 2019. Built into the mountainside in the Austrian village of Eichenberg, the home opens up to breathtaking views of Lake Constance.
Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 24, 2020
The oceans play an important role in regulating our climate and its change by absorbing heat and carbon. Scientists from the Department of Physics at Oxford University say they have discovered that the influence of circulation changes on shaping ocean warming will diminish in the future. This is despite having been identified and modelled as a key factor over the past 60 years.
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GreenTechMedia
AUGUST 24, 2020
Gregory Wetstone is president and CEO of the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE), a Washington, D.C.-based industry group. In the thick of a global pandemic, it’s sometimes hard to predict what the next day holds, let alone the next month or year. Business confidence can be difficult to come by and even more challenging to maintain. Yet when the nation’s most prominent financial institutions and renewable energy development companies were surveyed on their confidence in the
Inhabitat - Innovation
AUGUST 24, 2020
Even the best intentions can have undesirable effects.
Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 24, 2020
IRRC Waste-to-Energy, a long-standing international event that offers perspective on recycling and recovery, has decided to go online this year. Organiser Elisabeth Thomé-Kozmiensky explained the decision: “We always enjoy our yearly meetings in Vienna. That is why we did not make it easy for ourselves, when we determined what to do with this year’s IRRC Waste-to-Energy.
altenergymag
AUGUST 24, 2020
We're taught that electricity and water don't mix. The truth is they mix very well — far too well, in fact. Electricity travels through water far more efficiently than it can through air, so it's not hard to imagine the problems that water can cause when it gets into electronics. Here, Steve Hughes, managing director of wound component manufacturer REO UK, covers the challenges modern electronics face on the high seas.
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.
Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 24, 2020
The Unified Water Label. Research carried out by the Bathroom Manufacturers Association (BMA) appears to highlight the need for retailers and installers to promote water efficient products to the consumer – or so says Unified Water Label MD Yvonne Orgill. Orgill said, “This latest research shows us once again that consumers would be influenced in their buying choices, if they had more information about the water efficiencies of the bathroom products they are buying.
CleanTech Group
AUGUST 24, 2020
Recent years have seen a boom in the development and application of 3D printing, also known as additive manufacturing, technologies.
Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 24, 2020
The event aims to explore how satellite services can improve asset management for utilities and other firms. Described as ‘Glastonbury meets Tomorrows World’ the four day innovation festival held annually by Northumbrian Water is going fully digital for the first time, and will take place on 14-17 September. It has attracted more than 6,500 visitors across previous events.
Charged
AUGUST 24, 2020
For years, we’ve been hearing about an EV technology that promises to be a game-changers: Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) bidirectional charging. My recent work with one V2G charger developer, Fermata Energy, has convinced me that V2G has found its proverbial killer app : load peak shaving for commercial/industrial energy customers. This article is going to concentrate on the technical aspects of bidirectional chargers, but understanding why the added headache of bidirectional operation is worth the price
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
AUGUST 24, 2020
ImpactAlpha, Aug. 24 – AA Fisheries is the kind of enterprise impact investors talk about all the time. But too few turn talk into the capital such businesses need to survive and thrive. The fish farm supplier in Eastern Uganda was a solid performer until the COVID crisis shut it down. But solid is not. The post With ‘mezzanine capital,’ iungo seeks to fill a gap for East Africa’s small and growing family businesses appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
Charged
AUGUST 24, 2020
Q&A with CEO Ajay Kochhar. It’s usually one of the first objections cited by EV naysayers: batteries can’t or won’t be recycled, and they contain hazardous materials that will end up in landfills. In fact, no such sinister scenario is likely—most of the components of Li-ion batteries are valuable, and it’s quite feasible, technically and economically, to recycle them.
Impact Alpha
AUGUST 24, 2020
When the Detroit City Football Club faced financial challenges due to COVID, the owners didn’t turn to typical investors for capital to help the organization recover. The pro soccer team turned to the people of Detroit. In just a few days, the team’s Wefunder equity-crowdfunding campaign raised over $1 million from more than 3,000 fans. The post Business founders embrace equity crowdfunding to raise capital during COVID appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
Charged
AUGUST 24, 2020
Electric utilities have always been pretty keen on EVs, for obvious reasons. However, now that the possibilities of V2G technology are coming into focus, some utilities are becoming fervent EVangelists. Aggregating large numbers of EVs into giant “virtual batteries,” which is already taking place in pilots around the world, facilitates the integration of renewable energy resources, and offers an economical way to provide grid services such as load balancing and frequency regulation.
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?
Forbes Green Tech
AUGUST 24, 2020
Regardless of what some people want to believe, what’s really important about Tesla is not its electric vehicles. What is really important, apart from the fact that it has chosen to leverage technologies subjected to very strong economies of scale, will be its role in leading the energy revolution.
Charged
AUGUST 24, 2020
The state of California is offering $27 million in funding to replace polluting trucks with zero-emission vehicles. This is the first installment of $90 million that will be made available for the Zero-Emission Class 8 Freight and Port Drayage Trucks category, which includes freight trucks (including drayage), waste haulers, dump trucks and concrete mixers.
Inhabitat - Innovation
AUGUST 24, 2020
Wayks is an all-in-one backpack that operates as three different types of luggage.
Charged
AUGUST 24, 2020
Vitesco Technologies , a maker of electric powertrains, will provide drive control units for the Volkswagen ID.3. “This product makes us part of Volkswagen’s electrification ecosystem, which is proof of our strong system and electronics expertise across the entire vehicle propulsion system and beyond,” said Vitesco VP Wolfgang Breuer.
Business Green
AUGUST 24, 2020
Highways England confirms latest details of government's road building and upgrades programme, despite concerns over climate impacts. The government is pressing forward with its controversial £27.4bn road building and repair programme despite fears over the impact of rising private car use on the climate, reigniting calls for the money to be diverted towards greener transport initiatives and boradband upgrades in the wake of Covid-19 crisis.
Terra Infirma
AUGUST 24, 2020
I’m writing this blog in what appears to be the only house in our Victorian neighbourhood which managed to hold on to its wrought iron fence during the second world war. Maybe the shame of the apparently unpatriotic owner explains why said fence is now embedded in a privet hedge, but their parsimony was probably justified. According to Emily Cockayne’s enjoyable and anecdotal history of recycling and reuse, much of the iron collected for the war effort wasn’t suitable for munit
Business Green
AUGUST 24, 2020
Government unveils proposals designed to help curb deforestation linked to demand for forest-related products from UK consumers. New legislation could see UK firms fined for using products sourced from illegally cleared land in the tropics, as the government seeks to step up efforts to curb demand from British consumers for products that are thought to contribute to unsustainable rates of deforestation around the world.
Impact Alpha
AUGUST 24, 2020
Greetings! And a warm welcome to all of the Agents of Impact from USAID and The Conduit. Featured: ImpactAlpha Original With ‘mezzanine capital,’ iungo capital seeks to fill a gap for East Africa’s small and growing family businesses. Longstanding financing challenges for small and growing businesses in Africa have only been exacerbated by the COVID.
Business Green
AUGUST 24, 2020
Warrington Borough Council's CMI aims to raise £1m, making it the second local authority to launch a green bond via ethical investment platform Abundance. Warrington Borough Council is launching a green investment scheme that will enable local residents to help fund a new solar farm, as part of its ambitious Green Energy Strategy to reach net zero emissions by 2030.
Solar Power World
AUGUST 24, 2020
Barely whisper the name “Sandy” on Long Island and PTSD sets in for many residents. The 2012 hurricane cost New York $41.9 billion in recovery and mitigation expenses, and millions in the Northeast were without power for almost two weeks. When Hurricane Isaias hit earlier this month in the middle of a pandemic, concern was… The post Contractors Corner: SUNation appeared first on Solar Power World.
Business Green
AUGUST 24, 2020
UK-listed clean energy and tech stocks grew by an average of 170 per cent over the past year, the report finds. A new investment analysis has revealed a widening gulf opening up between what it calls "good energy stocks", primarily geared towards renewables, gas, and LNG, that have performed well since the onset of the pandemic, and "bad energy stocks" in the oil, tar sands, and petrochemical sectors that are increasingly at risk of becoming stranded assets.
GatesNotes
AUGUST 24, 2020
We want more people to be able to travel without contributing to climate change.
Business Green
AUGUST 24, 2020
The Prime Minister recently wrote to the Council for Science and Technology to broadly welcome proposals for a sweeping national net zero decarbonisation programme. Boris Johnson has further underscored his commitment to the UK's net zero emissions target, signalling his backing for a "whole systems approach" that he regards as "particularly vital" if the government is to meet its ambitious decarbonisation goals.
GreenTechMedia
AUGUST 24, 2020
Business Green
AUGUST 24, 2020
Pioneering beer company confirms it has secured 'carbon negative' status as it steps up efforts to slash emissions and plant new Brewdog forest. Leading beer company Brewdog hailed Saturday as "the best day in [the company's] history" as it announced it has been officially certified as 'carbon negative' and unveiled plans to plant a new "Brewdog Forest" in the Scottish Highlands.
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