GreenBiz
AUGUST 12, 2020
Sustainable fleets are at an inflection point. Katie Fehrenbacher. Wed, 08/12/2020 - 00:15. Companies and cities are increasingly adopting lower-carbon fleets — including trucks and buses that run off electricity, renewable diesel and renewable natural gas — according to a new report from the research team at Gladstein, Neandross and Associates (GNA). .
Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 12, 2020
A trial is underway in forests in Surrey and Northumberland to assess the potential for Internet of Things (IoT) technology to monitor tree growth and the impacts of environmental change on the UK’s forests. Vodafone is funding the project, which is being conducted in partnership with Defra and the UK research organisation Forest Research. It will monitor tree growth and the impacts of environmental change on the UK’s forests.
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GreenBiz
AUGUST 12, 2020
How cities can influence the energy system. Heather House. Wed, 08/12/2020 - 00:45. As U.S. cities and counties transition to clean energy for their own operations and communities, many are finding that stakeholders and policies beyond their jurisdictions affect their ability to purchase clean energy. Policy and regulatory decisions made by states, utilities, public utilities commissions and wholesale market governing bodies determine the clean energy procurement options available to cities and
Inhabitat - Innovation
AUGUST 12, 2020
Cod lovers might have to change their preferences soon. According to new research published in the Journal of Applied Ecology, global warming may cause a decline in cod populations. Cod thrive in cool water, and global warming pushes the species to the brink of extinction.
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.
Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 12, 2020
Renewable energy projects in the agri-food sector excluded from BEIS’s RHI Covid-19 Extension. Includes 20MW of previously-eligible renewable heat projects on farms and factory sites. Undermines Government ambitions to deliver Carbon Net Zero and to ‘build back better’. British biogas businesses are urging Kwasi Kwarteng MP, Minister for Business, Energy and Clean Growth, to include all eligible renewable heat projects in the Covid-19 Extension of the Non-Domestic Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI),
Inhabitat - Innovation
AUGUST 12, 2020
Indigenous communities in Brazil leverage technology to protect the Amazon and its resources. For a long time, Indigenous communities have protected the forest from illegal loggers and poachers.
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Inhabitat - Innovation
AUGUST 12, 2020
The eBussy doesn't look like your typical electric vehicle. This innovative creation offers more than you might expect!
Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 12, 2020
Shrill carder bees. A conservation project at Thames Water’s Long Reach sewage works in Kent has created an unexpected haven for the rarest bumblebee in England. Shrill carder bees ( Bombus sylvarum ) have made an unlikely home in the grounds of the sewage treatment works and their local population at the site has been seemingly boosted after an extensive effort by Thames Water and the Bumblebee Conservation Trust.
Inhabitat - Innovation
AUGUST 12, 2020
When Faulkner Architects was asked to design a house on a spectacular site in Truckee, California, the Placer County-based design practice allowed the beautiful landscape to dictate the design. The contemporary home, aptly named Lookout House for its views, emphasizes indoor/outdoor living with its full-height glazing and natural material palette.
GreenTechMedia
AUGUST 12, 2020
Denmark's Ørsted, the world's leading offshore wind developer, posted a quarterly loss on Wednesday with sagging power demand a major factor. But the company remains bullish on its growth prospects even as competition in the offshore wind sector heats up. Ørsted recently lost to Shell and Dutch utility Eneco in a major Dutch offshore wind tender.
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.
CleanTech Group
AUGUST 12, 2020
Energy Retail Innovation: Opportunities for Better Consumer Engagement Electricity retailing, the fourth and final stage in the electricity delivering process. is a model.
Inhabitat - Innovation
AUGUST 12, 2020
It's time to escape to Everland for family- and eco-friendly fun.
altenergymag
AUGUST 12, 2020
Support from wind champions is resulting in tangible benefits for families and businesses across the country, as evidenced by AWEA’s just released case studies report, Wind Builds the Future in Rural Communities.
The City Fix
AUGUST 12, 2020
Cities in Africa are in something of a quandary when it comes to COVID-19. To date, the impact of the disease has been much less than most experts predicted. As of this writing, the continent has had over 890,000 confirmed. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.
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 12, 2020
Organizations need data-based energy management solutions to succeed in the era of digitalization, says a new ABB whitepaper
Impact Alpha
AUGUST 12, 2020
ImpactAlpha, Aug. 12 – More than two-dozen investment funds are making investments in tropical forests and communities. The funds have at least $2.6 billion in capital to invest in firms and projects generating revenue from tropical forestry and agriculture products and benefiting smallholder farmers and forest-dependent communities. “Combating deforestation, incentivizing conservation, and improving livelihoods requires.
Charged
AUGUST 12, 2020
Lucid Motors has announced independent verification of a 517-mile range for its upcoming Lucid Air luxury sedan. The tests were conducted by FEV North America in Auburn Hills, Michigan, using the EPA’s Multicycle Test procedure. This appears to be a new record for a passenger EV, handily besting the 402-mile range of the 2020 Tesla Model S Long Range Plus.
altenergymag
AUGUST 12, 2020
• Stagnant growth despite nationwide reopenings raises long-term concerns • Approx.
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?
Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 12, 2020
Drivers and passengers can inhale significantly lower levels of air pollution by setting their vehicle’s ventilation systems more effectively and taking a ‘cleaner’ route to their destination, a new study appears to reveal. Road transport emissions are a major source of urban air pollution, and these comprise nitrogen oxides (NOx) and particulate matter (PM) coming from vehicle exhausts, plus non-exhaust emissions such as brake dust, tyre wear and road dust in the case of PM.
Impact Alpha
AUGUST 12, 2020
ImpactAlpha, August 12 – TemperPack makes thermal insulation for delivery of perishable goods and medicine. The Richmond, Va.-based company raised its Series C round amid “significant growth,” accelerated by COVID and the rising demand for home delivery. The pandemic is likely to spur “lasting changes in e-commerce behavior as well as increased interest in sustainability.
Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 12, 2020
In April IEMA welcomed the launch of Health, Safety and Environmental training specialist Astutis Ltd’s first online ‘Green-Career boosting’ course for everyone working in environment and sustainability. Martin Baxter, IEMA’s Chief Policy Advisor, welcomed Astutis’ new online course delivery which he said “will allow more learners to take the Foundation Certificate in Environmental Management in a way that fits in with their everyday lifestyle.
Grist
AUGUST 12, 2020
The photos are truly the stuff of nightmares: Swarms of desert locusts blocking out the sun, blanketing fields, and devouring crops in East Africa, the Middle East, and South Asia. It’s the worst outbreak those regions have seen in decades. The locusts were already becoming a crisis , threatening food security and livelihoods in Kenya and Ethiopia by the time the novel coronavirus began crossing borders in late January.
Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 12, 2020
United Utilities is inviting companies to contact it with new and effective solutions for the treatment of sludge. The water and wastewater firm has issued a Prior Information Notice (PIN) to ask for ideas for sludge collection, transport and treatment services in the north of its region. Regionally, it is forecast that future sludge growth will exceed treatment capacity and United Utilities is looking to the market for innovative ways to tackle this issue.
Impact Alpha
AUGUST 12, 2020
Sharing wealth with hourly employees has not been a major part of the private-equity playbook, which has more often called for layoffs, plant closings and large helpings of debt. But at least in its industrial manufacturing portfolio, the private-equity firm KKR has distributed about a half-billion dollars in dividends and other proceeds to about 20,000.
Low Impact
AUGUST 12, 2020
Monday marked the beginning of National Allotments Week 2020, at a time when the number of prospective allotmenteers far exceeds the number of available allotments. So what do allotments have to offer that means so many of us are itching to get our hands dirty? Proudly flying the flag for all things allotment is the National Allotment Society , which each year runs a themed National Allotments Week as part of their effort to protect, promote and preserve allotments across the UK.
Greentown Labs
AUGUST 12, 2020
Startups will participate in accelerator program to develop data monitoring technologies focused on protecting marine mammals. Somerville, Mass., Aug. 12, 2020 — Greentown Labs , the largest climatetech startup incubator in North America, and Vineyard Wind , developer of the first utility-scale offshore wind energy generation facility in the United States, have selected three startups for the Offshore Wind Challenge.
Impact Alpha
AUGUST 12, 2020
Greetings, Agents of Impact! The Call: Systemic impact investing. Tomorrow’s subscriber-only Call brings together the too-often separate conversations around systemic racism and systemic risk. Living Cities’ Demetric Duckett, Cambridge Associates’ Sarah Hoyt, Sinclair Capital’s Jon Lukomnik and The Investment Integration Project’s Bill Burckart join ImpactAlpha’s David Bank, Monique Aiken and other Agents of Impact, Thursday, The post The Brief: Hourly employee ownership, seeding vertical farms
DeSmogBlog
AUGUST 12, 2020
Read time: 4 mins Communities in the Ecuadorian Amazon are calling for an end to “violence against Indigenous peoples and nature” as a trial into a devastating oil spill resumes today. . The Kichwa and Shuar tribes launched a lawsuit against the government and state-owned oil company Petroecuador in April after two pipelines ruptured. Around 27,000 Indigenous people already isolated by COVID -19 were left with little or no access to freshwater and fishing after more than 15,000 barrels of crude
altenergymag
AUGUST 12, 2020
With more than 140GW of new PV plant expected to be added to grids around the world this year, up almost 15% on 2019*, leading renewable energy consultancy and service provider Natural Power is gearing up to support the global industry build-out the expansion.
Business Green
AUGUST 12, 2020
EXCLUSIVE: City Hall has today set out a programme of work to help London adapt to a changing climate, focusing on the elderly and young children who are less able to control their environment. The sweltering temperatures and sweaty nights that have gripped the capital this week are further testament to the fact that London's climate is changing. With temperatures set to steadily increase over the decades to come and the 10 hottest years on record occurring since 2002, it is clear citizens and o
Grist
AUGUST 12, 2020
A recent study found that Americans could deal with heat waves by … spraying themselves with water and turning on their electric fans. You’d be forgiven if your initial reaction was a facepalm over how obvious that conclusion sounds, because that’s what this reporter initially did. But remember the lesson of the treadmill for shrimp : Every time a comedy-show host or conservative-radio shouter makes fun of money wasted on a seemingly ridiculous study , there’s always more to the story.
Impact Alpha
AUGUST 12, 2020
ImpactAlpha, August 12 – Vertical farming ventures are raising capital on the promise of the technology’s impact on food security. Nascent technology means the approach remains costlier than traditional horizontal greenhouses. Bayer and Temasek’s new venture, Unfold, will develop seed varieties meant for indoor growing conditions using genetic material from agri-health giant Bayer’s repository.
Varuna
AUGUST 12, 2020
In walking, eating lunch with, and talking to water system managers and operators there is one thing that has come to the surface as the real problem they have. Actually, it became more obvious because of how difficult it is to get to talk to water system operators and managers; they lack time.
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