GreenBiz
MARCH 20, 2020
Making sustainability core to business strategy and aligning corporate sustainability and government relations teams helps companies deal with short-term crises such as the novel coronavirus (COVID-19).
Envirotec Magazine
MARCH 20, 2020
People living in polluted cities are more at risk from Covid-19, according to health experts cited in a 16 March report from the European Public Health Alliance (EPHA), an advocacy group. Mortality rates for Covid-19 have been linked to the presence of pre-existing conditions such as diabetes, heart disease, and respiratory conditions – all factors with a demonstrable link to air pollution.
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GreenBiz
MARCH 20, 2020
We are now beyond business-as-usual approaches for water, which is critical for watersheds such as the Colorado River Basin.
GreenTechMedia
MARCH 20, 2020
Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker’s administration has finalized a major rule for promoting clean energy during the most expensive hours of electricity production. On Friday, the state's Department of Energy Resources filed its Clean Peak Standard regulations with the appropriate committees at the state legislature, kicking off a 30-day review period.
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.
GreenBiz
MARCH 20, 2020
Looking at washing machines, research from Sweden's Linköping University tries to solve part of the puzzle about how to shift business models to find more traction when it comes to being circular, as well as adding a social element.
GreenTechMedia
MARCH 20, 2020
For all their momentum, the clean-energy sectors — solar, wind, energy storage, and companies transforming the power grid — will not escape the COVID-19 downdraft. These industries face daunting questions about every aspect of their business, from supply chains to potential workforce shortages, to broader questions about the economy, demand for energy and the availability of finance.
CleanTech Focus brings together the best content for cleantech professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Inhabitat - Innovation
MARCH 20, 2020
For nearly 50 years, Bangladesh-based nonprofit BRAC has championed change for good, and now the NGO will take its do-gooding a big step forward with the establishment of BRAC University in Dhaka. Designed by Singaporean architecture firm WOHA, the university will be a beacon of environmental and social sustainability as well as a catalyst for positive change in the local community.
GreenBiz
MARCH 20, 2020
Insights from employee engagement expert Susan Hunt Stevens, Earth Day Network President Kathleen Rogers and Cornerstone Capital founder Erika Karp.
Inhabitat - Innovation
MARCH 20, 2020
Goodyear tire company has a history of innovation with products like the living moss tire that cleans the air as you drive and crazy spherical tires. Their newest concept could see a self-regenerating tire with customized capsules that renew your tire and allow it to adapt to varying mobility needs.
Envirotec Magazine
MARCH 20, 2020
On 16 March, the Cabinet Secretary for the Environment, Climate Change and Land Reform laid regulations in the Scottish Parliament that will create the legal framework for the Scottish Government’s Deposit Return Scheme (DRS). The Regulations were due to lie before the Scottish Parliament for fifty-four days to allow a further period of scrutiny. There will then be a vote in the Scottish Parliament, after which the scheme will become law.
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.
Inhabitat - Innovation
MARCH 20, 2020
Geoship is creating affordable, zero-carbon dome homes.
GreenTechMedia
MARCH 20, 2020
France's Total announced two significant wind deals in recent days, becoming the latest oil company to push into floating offshore wind as it builds on its existing momentum in the solar market. Total this week bought an 80 percent share of the 96-megawatt Erebus floating wind project in the Celtic Sea from developer Simply Blue Energy. Then on Friday the company confirmed its Total Quadran subsidiary had acquired developer Global Wind Power (GWP) France from its Danish parent, adding a 1-gi
Inhabitat - Innovation
MARCH 20, 2020
One architect has used Ibiza's spectacular beauty to design a modern, energy-efficient home.
GreenTechMedia
MARCH 20, 2020
Tesla will close both its Fremont, California factory, where it produces electric vehicles, and its Buffalo, New York factory, where it produces solar and energy storage products, the company said Thursday. The decision to shutter operations in those two states comes after urging from local governments. On Monday, six San Francisco Bay Area counties — including Alameda County, where the Fremont plant is located — enacted “shelter in place” orders.
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.
Forbes Green Tech
MARCH 20, 2020
Despite reports of cleaner air due to a strong decrease in transports, a long-tradition of pollution may have intensified the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in certain areas, the European Public Health Alliance (EPHA) warned on Monday.
Inhabitat - Innovation
MARCH 20, 2020
The modern cottage features green roofs and low-E glass.
Charged
MARCH 20, 2020
Cold weather poses a challenge for EVs (though hardly a deal-breaker, as thousands of Norwegian drivers can attest). Not only does battery performance take a hit in low temperatures, but the resistance heating systems used in most EVs consume power, reducing range. Tesla has addressed that issue with the design of the Model Y, which will be the company’s first vehicle to use a heat pump in place of a resistance heater.
Impact Alpha
MARCH 20, 2020
TGIF, Agents of Impact! Impact Briefing. On ImpactAlpha’s newest podcast, host Brian Walsh talks with Amy Cortese about emergency small business bridge loans and David Bank reveals this week’s Agent of Impact. Check out this week’s show – and subscribe on Apple, Spotify or wherever you listen. The Week’s Big 6 1. Short-term loans are a safety net for social enterprises facing an ‘unexpected OMG moment.
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?
Solar Power World
MARCH 20, 2020
Solar training organization Solar Energy International is postponing all in-person training that was scheduled for March through May, but will have an expanded focus and training options through the SEI Online Campus during that time. “We wanted to reach out to all of our students, alumni, employers and supporters to let you know SEI is… The post Solar Energy International expanding online solar training during pandemic appeared first on Solar Power World.
Forbes Green Tech
MARCH 20, 2020
Scientists have been warning for several years that deforestation is creating an accidental laboratory for the emergence of new viruses in environments that have been altered by humans.
The City Fix
MARCH 20, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic is laying bare two unavoidable facts about our new reality: we are more interconnected than ever, and cities are at the frontlines of this crisis and will be at the frontlines of any similarly globalized crisis in. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.
altenergymag
MARCH 20, 2020
Mike Tolson has accepted the position of solar business development manager at GEM Energy, a Rudolph Libbe Group company based near Toledo, Ohio. He will be responsible for customer relationships throughout the eastern half of the United States.
Charged
MARCH 20, 2020
In a paper published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute demonstrated how they can overcome the dendrite problem to create a metal battery that performs nearly as well as a lithium-ion battery but relies on potassium, which the researchers say is a more abundant and less expensive element.
altenergymag
MARCH 20, 2020
Total, through Total Quadran - its 100% renewable developer and producer in France, acquires 100% of Global Wind Power (GWP) France, a company with a 1000-megawatt (MW) portfolio of onshore wind projects, including 250 MW scheduled to come on stream by 2025.
Business Green
MARCH 20, 2020
The current pandemic crisis offers a chance to reimagine our approaches to managing natural resources, argues Martin Noponen of the Rainforest Alliance. On Saturday 21 March, the world will be celebrating the UN's International Day of Forests. But instead of stepping out into nature or joining one of the many activities planned to recognise this day, many of us are - voluntarily or not - staying put in our homes, amid the bleak global fallout from the coronavirus outbreak.
Charged
MARCH 20, 2020
Electric powertrain manufacturer Equipmake has teamed up with additive manufacturing company HiETA Technologies to develop a next-generation motor, codenamed AMPERE. The project is the group’s attempt to produce a lightweight, efficient, low-cost electric motor with peak power density of more than 20 kW per kg. AMPERE is made using additive manufacturing, which allows its metal structure to be 3D printed rather than milled from a solid billet.
Impact Alpha
MARCH 20, 2020
ImpactAlpha, March 20 – As the world reels, you are stepping up in so many ways. Social distancing is becoming social responsibility… is becoming mutual aid… is becoming community resilience… is becoming inclusive recovery is becoming… sustainable, healthy prosperity. Or at least pointing the way. The fabric of that narrative is you and your friends.
Forbes Green Tech
MARCH 20, 2020
Now that the World Health Organization has declared the spread of the coronavirus a pandemic, many of us are asked to work remotely. Spending more time at home may increase the volume of waste we produce, but we can take this sign as a “wake up call on our habits”.
altenergymag
MARCH 20, 2020
The European Union increased its solar energy market by more than 100% making 2019 the most successful year so far. Being one of the five countries contributing to this growth the most, Poland has almost quadrupled its solar capacities in one year to reach 784MW. The leading solar developer in the region, Sun Investment Group, credits the self-consumption model and government efforts for unprecedented growth.
Charged
MARCH 20, 2020
The BMZ Group , an international company headquartered in Germany, produces Li-ion batteries for everything from power tools to stationary storage to industrial vehicles such as forklifts. Now the company is seeing a surge in demand for its batteries from makers of a wide variety of medical equipment, especially ventilators. In some cases, the volume of inquiries has risen by 50%.
Business Green
MARCH 20, 2020
Saipem and Equinor ink agreement to develop floating solar farm technology. Italian oilfield engineering specialist Saipem and Norwegian energy giant Equinor have today announced that they have signed a cooperation agreement to jointly develop a floating solar panel park technology for near coastal sites. The project will be led by Moss Maritime, part of Saipem's XSIGHT division, with a view to developing a modularised floating solar system, designed for easy fabrication, transportation and inst
altenergymag
MARCH 20, 2020
This 4-day comprehensive workshop gives you clear explanations of the new models of PPA risk allocation, of designing and managing competitive power markets, attracting private investments in renewable energy, through a series of real case examples of contracts and markets.
Business Green
MARCH 20, 2020
Latest swoop from green energy investor sees it acquire solar farms with a combined capacity 123MW. Octopus Renewables has snapped up eight fully operational solar PV farms across the UK in a deal worth over £144m, as the green energy investor continues to expand its interests in both the domestic and European renewables markets. The deal announced today sees Octopus Renewables take a 100 per cent stake in the 122.8MW solar portfolio for an initial cash consideration of at least £144
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