5 seriously cool climate innovators in fashion
GreenBiz
APRIL 6, 2020
From carbon-negative polyester to dissolvable thread, here's a handful of surprising startups making waves in the apparel industry.
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The connection between coronavirus and wildlife exploitation
Inhabitat - Innovation
APRIL 6, 2020
Finding the source of this virus will help ensure that another outbreak of this magnitude does not happen again, and many experts are investigating wildlife exploitation as a possible cause.
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HSBC: Companies focused on climate change 'outperformed' as virus spread
GreenBiz
APRIL 6, 2020
Research note suggests businesses with strong ESG credentials are proving more resilient than peers to coronavirus turmoil. But there are regional differences.
A heritage industrial site becomes a dreamy wilderness retreat in Australia
Inhabitat - Innovation
APRIL 6, 2020
In the middle of Australia’s deepest lake, a historic industrial site has been reborn as Pumphouse Point, a charming getaway perfect for nature lovers and adventure seekers.
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.
How is the pandemic affecting the profession of sustainability?
GreenBiz
APRIL 6, 2020
Amid the global pandemic and economic meltdown, the profession of sustainability inside companies seems to be moving apace.
How to Slash the Industrial Emissions That Are Heating the Planet
GreenTechMedia
APRIL 6, 2020
Cement kilns, furnaces and boilers can’t compete with electric vehicles, wind turbines and batteries in stirring the public’s imagination. But industrial emissions are too important to overlook. Industry — think makers of iron, concrete and chemicals — accounts for one-third of global greenhouse gas emissions. And the problem has been getting worse: Direct industrial emissions rose by 65 percent from 1990 to 2014.
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Sunrun Pulls 2020 Forecast, Cuts Jobs as Coronavirus Hits Residential Solar
GreenTechMedia
APRIL 6, 2020
Rooftop solar market leader Sunrun withdrew its 2020 financial forecast Monday and announced cost cutting measures in response to the coronavirus pandemic. In February, Sunrun told investors that it expected to grow its installations 15 percent in 2020, from a base of 413 megawatts installed in 2019. It got off to a strong start, with 97.4 megawatts delivered in the first quarter, up 13 percent year-over-year, according to a statement released Monday.
How COVID-19 changes climate communications
GreenBiz
APRIL 6, 2020
Communicators must find ways to advance the conversation on climate, but sensitivity is required.
Reclaimed wood raft features an origami paper canopy
Inhabitat - Innovation
APRIL 6, 2020
Set sail on this whimsical raft made of recycled and reclaimed materials.
Coronavirus Is Forcing Home Solar Companies to Sell Virtually. Maybe That’s a Good Thing.
GreenTechMedia
APRIL 6, 2020
The coronavirus has halted many forms of commerce, but it poses a particular risk for rooftop solar. This is a product that, until a few weeks ago, relied on face-to-face contact for most transactions. Now such interaction is banned as a public health imperative. Confronted with a potentially cataclysmic shift in the business landscape, some U.S. installers are trying new approaches.
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.
First home solar pavement installed on a driveway
Inhabitat - Innovation
APRIL 6, 2020
Solar tiles aren’t just for roofs anymore.
Coronavirus Derailed COP26 Talks, But Not Europe’s Appetite for Climate Action
GreenTechMedia
APRIL 6, 2020
The COP26 climate talks scheduled for Scotland this November will not take place due to the coronavirus. But like the talks themselves, Europe's aggressive push to reduce its carbon emissions has been merely postponed , not canceled. Despite the vast economic challenges and immediate public health crisis from COVID-19, European companies and political institutions are restating the importance of tackling the climate emergency.
Solar-powered home in Maine stays warm with passive design
Inhabitat - Innovation
APRIL 6, 2020
This modern barn home on an old blueberry field uses solar power and passive design to keep toasty during the long winters of Maine.
World War II produced antibiotics, computers and nukes. What COVID may leave behind.
Impact Alpha
APRIL 6, 2020
ImpactAlpha, Apr. 6 – COVID-19 is our World War II. The science and tech mobilization that helped win the war also left behind antibiotics, microwaves, nukes and computers. Now, a new generation of impact-oriented investors, technologists, scientists and entrepreneurs are looking for breakthroughs in vaccines and therapeutics, telehealth, climate, information and education to face down a.
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.
Inovateus Solar completes three solar projects for Indiana electric utility
Solar Power World
APRIL 6, 2020
Inovateus Solar has completed three solar projects for Northern Indiana Public Service Company (NIPSCO). The projects, which are the utility’s first solar installations, include a ground-mount solar array at NIPSCO’s Merrillville, Indiana, headquarters. Consistent with NIPSCO’s steps toward a more sustainable energy future, Inovateus Solar achieved zero-waste construction by recycling equipment packaging and avoiding any… The post Inovateus Solar completes three solar projects for Indiana
Gates Foundation to invest in manufacturing facilities to accelerate COVID vaccine
Impact Alpha
APRIL 6, 2020
ImpactAlpha, April 6 – The Gates Foundation announced in February that it was turning its attention to climate change and gender equity. That was pre-COVID. The foundation now plans to build manufacturing facilities for seven of the most promising COVID vaccines to accelerate production even before their effectiveness is proven. “It’ll be a few billion.
Researchers track lithium ions in a fast-charging battery
Charged
APRIL 6, 2020
A team of scientists led by the DOE’s Brookhaven National Laboratory and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has captured in real time how lithium ions move in lithium titanate (LTO), a fast-charging battery electrode material made of lithium, titanium and oxygen. They discovered that distorted arrangements of lithium and surrounding atoms in LTO “intermediates” (structures of LTO with a lithium concentration in between that of its initial and end states) provide an “express lane” for the tran
VanderSat uses satellite data to expand farmer insurance coverage
Impact Alpha
APRIL 6, 2020
ImpactAlpha, April 6 – Hundreds of millions of smallholder farmers in East Africa are facing not only COVID, but also the worst locust swarm in decades. Most of their farmland is uninsured; when they lose crops, they lose income. Netherlands-based agtech company VanderSat uses satellite data to analyze farmland conditions using microwaves, rather than images.
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?
COVID-19 Fears Intensified for New Mexico Family Living in Fracking Industry’s Shadow
DeSmogBlog
APRIL 6, 2020
Read time: 10 mins Penny Aucoin and her husband Carl Dee George have worried about living near oil and gas producing sites in New Mexico's Permian Basin since the sites began springing up near their home six years ago. They have wondered what effect the industrial pollution might have on them and their son and daughter — even more so now with the COVID -19 pandemic — but with no money to pick up and relocate, they have remained in their home. .
DOE announces $4.5 million in funding for distributed energy training programs
Solar Power World
APRIL 6, 2020
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced $4.5 million in funding for training programs that target professionals who interact with distributed energy resources, including solar energy systems, storage systems, “smart” building technologies, and alternative-fuel vehicles. These professionals include those that lead the nation’s emergency response and resilience planning, like firefighters, first responders and safety officials.… The post DOE announces $4.5 million in funding for distri
St Petersburg, Florida transit authority deploys WAVE inductive charging station for e-buses
Charged
APRIL 6, 2020
The Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority (PSTA), which serves Florida’s St Petersburg/Clearwater metro area with 40 bus routes and a fleet of 210 vehicles, recently began construction on a new electric bus charging station at a transfer hub. The new wireless charging station, which PSTA claims will be the first on the US East Coast, uses 250 kW Inductive Power Transfer (IPT) technology from Utah-based WAVE.
April solar policy snapshots A guide to recent legislation and research throughout the country.
Solar Power World
APRIL 6, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has caused most state legislative bodies to shut down or focus specifically on public health efforts, and may cause some of the pending renewable energy legislation to stall. Here’s what was in motion before the shutdowns. Florida PSC unanimously approves largest community solar program in the country Tallahassee, Florida The Florida Public… The post April solar policy snapshots <br><span style='color:#404040;font-weight:600;font-size:15px;'
Community solar groups donate over £100,000 of profits to local coronavirus aid efforts
Business Green
APRIL 6, 2020
Rapid mobilisation of funds in crisis is evidence of "real value" of local, decentralised, community-run energy, says community energy facilitor Communities for Renewables. Four community-run solar enterprises have diverted more than £100,000 to 'coronavirus crisis funds', Communities for Renewables (CfR) has revealed. West Sussex's Ferry Farm Community Solar and Somerset's Burnham and Weston Energy CIC have each pumped £40,000 into community initiatives that include food banks, Covi
IEA starts construction on 25-MW Georgia solar project
Solar Power World
APRIL 6, 2020
Infrastructure and Energy Alternatives, an infrastructure construction company with specialized energy and heavy civil expertise, announced that it has begun construction on the 25-MWac Appling Solar Farm, located near the Baxley, Georgia. Nashville-based Silicon Ranch, one of the nation’s largest independent solar power producers, selected IEA’s subsidiary, IEA Constructors, as the EPC contractor for the… The post IEA starts construction on 25-MW Georgia solar project appeared
'We cannot afford to delay': Climate Week NYC to be virtual event in 2020
Business Green
APRIL 6, 2020
Flagship global green economy event to go ahead as scheduled this year, but for the first time via a new virtual platform. Climate Week NYC, one of the most high profile global events in the green economy calendar, is to go ahead as scheduled in September this year but will for the first time take place online as a result of the escalating coronavirus crisis, organisers announced today.
Webinar shows how to get more from heat network metering & billing
altenergymag
APRIL 6, 2020
Switch2 Energy is hosting a free webinar to show local authorities and housing associations how to get the most out of compliant heat network metering and billing.
Green grid: Surging renewables and low demand cause UK power prices to plummet
Business Green
APRIL 6, 2020
Sunny and breezy weather coupled with lower demand for power due to lockdown prompted negative electricity prices on Sunday. Low demand for power during the current coronavirus lockdown coupled with surging wind and solar generation caused electricity prices to plummet over the weekend, with some consumers on flexible tariffs even being paid to use their electricity, new data indicates.
The Brief: Corona-tech mobilization, agtech in India and East Africa, Gates’ vaccine production plans, Ceniarth’s pandemic principles
Impact Alpha
APRIL 6, 2020
Greetings, Agents of Impacts! Featured: ImpactAlpha Original World War II produced antibiotics, computers and nukes. What COVID may leave behind. COVID-19 is our World War II. The science and tech mobilization that helped win the war also left behind antibiotics, microwaves, nukes and computers. Now, a new generation of impact-oriented investors, technologists and entrepreneurs are.
Ed Miliband returns: Former Labour leader handed key climate role as Shadow Business Secretary
Business Green
APRIL 6, 2020
Key architect of the 2008 Climate Change Act returns to frontline politics, as Sir Keir Starmer unveils Labour's new front bench team. Ed Miliband has returned to frontline politics in a key climate role, taking up the post of Shadow Secretary of State for Business, Energy, and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) as new Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer unveiled his full front bench opposition team today.
Alauda’s Airspeeder Flying Electric Racer Wants To Speed Future Sustainable Transport
Forbes Green Tech
APRIL 6, 2020
Australian technology firm Alauda would like to accelerate the development and possibilities of future electric cars and transport by racing its Airspeeder in the sky
IRENA: Renewables accounted for three quarters of new power capacity in 2019
Business Green
APRIL 6, 2020
Data from International Renewable Energy Association points to slight slowdown in capacity growth last year, but clean energy sector still outpaced fossil fuels. Renewable electricity capacity growth slowed just a touch in 2019, yet still made up almost three quarters of all new power capacty that came into operation worldwide last year, according to the latest data released today by the International Renewable Energy Association (IRENA).
Why Polestar’s Precept Is At The Cutting Edge Of Design And Technology
Forbes Green Tech
APRIL 6, 2020
In an exclusive interview, head of Polestar design Maximillian Missoni explains why the Precept is at the cutting edge of vehicle design and technology - a car created by Volvo’s premium electric brand as a preview of things to come
Austin’s Park & Zoom buys more electric shuttle buses
Charged
APRIL 6, 2020
Parking service company Park & Zoom, which services the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, has acquired three ZEUS 400 electric shuttle buses from Phoenix Motorcars. The recent purchase follows the acquisition of three ZEUS 400s in early 2019. The ZEUS 400 model has a range of up to 110 miles. Bill Kelley, General Manager of Park & Zoom, said, “Our occupancy has increased over the past few years and that trend required us to add additional shuttles to our fleet.
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