GreenBiz
MARCH 12, 2021
Episode 259: Badass woman banter, circular cities in motion. Heather Clancy. Fri, 03/12/2021 - 02:05. Week in Review. Stories discussed this week (3:28). 25 badass women shaping climate action in 2021. The risky business of climate risk: "Stop predicting the future ". Can C-suite paychecks save the world? Features. Experiments in circular city innovation (18:50).
The Environmental Blog
MARCH 12, 2021
If you want to make your business more sustainable in 2021 and bounce back from the current economic crisis, reducing your business waste is a great place to start. Even if you believe you already have an effective waste reduction strategy in place, taking a closer look will help you find ways to make additional improvement. And it’s not just your business that will benefit- you could also lower costs, attract new eco-friendly customers and encourage private households to follow your excel
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GreenBiz
MARCH 12, 2021
The (not so) green recovery: New report warns world is failing to 'build back better'. Cecilia Keating. Fri, 03/12/2021 - 01:30. The fiscal spending plans of major economies in the wake of the coronavirus crisis have fallen far short of ensuring the recovery from the crisis does not exacerbate ongoing climate and nature crises, with just one in every $40 committed by governments in the wake of the pandemic set to deliver a positive impact for the planet.
Jim Conca
MARCH 12, 2021
We just aren’t recycling the materials that we need to recycle to address climate change as well pollution. America landfilled 27 million tons of plastic in 2018 but only recycled 3 million tons. It’s even worse worldwide.
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
MARCH 12, 2021
Just 9 miles from downtown Aspen, one of the world’s best ski resorts will soon welcome the Electric Pass Lodge, a luxury residential building that will run entirely on renewable energy.
GreenTechMedia
MARCH 12, 2021
In 2015, I was sitting with representatives of Strata Solar, Southern Company and the Arkansas Public Service Commission, waiting to go onstage. We were the last session of the last day of the conference in question — a tough time slot. The speakers were talking about that bit of bad luck and joking that utility solar doesn’t get any love.
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GreenTechMedia
MARCH 12, 2021
This will be my final piece for Greentech Media. It’s been an honor and a privilege to track Europe’s energy transition for the sector’s most discerning audience. Find me on Twitter @jk_parnell if you want to say hi. Thanks for reading, and keep crushing that carbon. ~ JP. It’s 2007. The failed Copenhagen climate talks are still two years out.
Inhabitat - Innovation
MARCH 12, 2021
Paris-based Vincent Callebaut Architectures has revealed new photos of Tao Zhu Yin Yuan, a LEED Gold-certified high-rise slated for completion in the second half of 2021.
Envirotec Magazine
MARCH 12, 2021
This article contains paid-for content created in collaboration with Warden Biomedia. Warden Biomedia’s moving bed biofilm reactor (MBBR) media, which is being designed to give enhanced nutrient removal to meet the challenges of AMP7, is currently being tested at Cranfield University’s National Research Facility for Water and Wastewater Treatment. The MBBR process, which uses specially designed buoyant media to support a variety of microbial colonies in a biofilm, is increasingly being used in m
Inhabitat - Innovation
MARCH 12, 2021
Nestled into the slope of dormant Palo Huérfano volcano in central Mexico, Casa Eterea is a passion project of Singapore writer, photographer and designer Prashant Ashoka. It’s not only self-sustaining, but animal and environmentally friendly too. Casa Eterea is located just twenty minutes from San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, a UNESCO World Heritage Site.
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
MARCH 12, 2021
KiloVault®, a provider of innovative and affordable residential and commercial renewable energy solutions, today unveiled the 2V 1000 XLC advanced lead carbon, sealed AGM, deep cycle battery.
Inhabitat - Innovation
MARCH 12, 2021
A terrifying new study predicts dire changes to all living things on Earth as every season shrinks except long, fire-, drought- and mosquito-filled summers.
Charged
MARCH 12, 2021
EV startup Canoo has announced plans for an electric pickup truck. Executive Chairman Tony Aquila said the Los Angeles-based company will begin taking pre-orders in the second quarter of 2021, and aims to launch the truck in the first quarter of 2023. “This is like no truck you’ve ever seen,” Aquila said at a recent press event. “It’s the size of a Ford Ranger, can take the payload of a full-sized pickup and [has] the turning radius of a Prius.”.
The City Fix
MARCH 12, 2021
Recent events in Texas and elsewhere in the U.S. are reminding us that our existing energy system infrastructure and operating structures are increasingly being challenged by severe weather-related events. In Texas, unprecedented freezing temperatures created a “perfect storm” of disruption, including. 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.
Charged
MARCH 12, 2021
Lion Electric , a manufacturer of electric medium- and heavy-duty urban vehicles, has secured an order for its electric school buses from the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD). The initial order of 10 LionC buses follows Lion’s recent delivery to the Twin Rivers Unified School District in Sacramento. LAUSD is the second-largest school district in the US, with over 1,000 schools in a 720-square mile area that includes 31 municipalities.
Renewable Energy World
MARCH 12, 2021
Salzgitter AG, subsidiary Avacon and Linde have announced commissioning of the “Wind Hydrogen Salzgitter – WindH2” project, which will use wind energy to produce hydrogen. This project is the only one of its kind in Germany, according to the companies. WindH2 is a central component of Salzgitter AG’s SALCOS, a Salzgitter low CO 2 steelmaking technology project.
Greentown Labs
MARCH 12, 2021
This winter, we were proud to celebrate the culmination of the Offshore Wind Challenge —a corporate partnerships accelerator run by Greentown Labs and Vineyard Wind with support from the Massachusetts Clean Energy Center (MassCEC) that advanced innovations in the responsible development of offshore wind. The Offshore Wind Challenge focused on marine mammal monitoring, specifically for data collection and real-time transmission or data analysis.
Impact Alpha
MARCH 12, 2021
TGIF, Agents of Impact! Impact Briefing. On this week’s podcast, host Monique Aiken, Erika Seth-Davies of The Racial Equity Asset Lab, and ImpactAlpha’s. The post The Week in Impact Investing: Bottom-up appeared first on Impact Alpha.
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?
Grist
MARCH 12, 2021
If you watched news about climate change on TV last year, chances are you saw a white man on-screen. According to an analysis published this week by Media Matters For America, a nonprofit media watchdog, people of color made up just 8 percent of guests interviewed or featured in the major broadcast networks’ climate coverage in 2020 — we’re looking at you, ABC, NBC, CBS, and Fox Broadcasting Company.
Impact Alpha
MARCH 12, 2021
Host Monique Aiken, Erika Seth-Davies of The Racial Equity Asset Lab and ImpactAlpha’s David Bank join to talk about the American Rescue Plan and… a bottom-up reconstruction. The post Impact Briefing: Week of March 12th appeared first on Impact Alpha.
Forbes Green Tech
MARCH 12, 2021
The Ohio-based electric truck maker is the latest target of short seller Hindenburg Research, which accuses the company of misleading investors.
Grist
MARCH 12, 2021
2021 already seems more full of promise for decisive progress on climate than several past years. But what great things hover on the horizon? What else can we look forward to? Grist CEO Brady Piñero Walkinshaw, Grist Executive Editor Nikhil Swaminathan, and Fix Director Lisa Garcia convened for a conversation about Grist’s new focus, climate opportunity in 2021, and how stories can change the climate crisis.
Business Green
MARCH 12, 2021
Major new international funding programme designed to help protect tropical rainforests and catalyse £850m of private sector investment. The UK government has today launched a new multi-million pound fund designed to protect tropical rainforests that cover an area equivalent to the size of Wales. Dubbed the Mobilising Finance for Forests Programme, the new initiative will see the government invest £150m in businesses and investors who support and deliver sustainable land-use projects and p
Charged
MARCH 12, 2021
T/CCI Manufacturing, a maker of compressor technology, including reciprocating, swash plate, wobble plate and variable compressors, is introducing a range of electric compressors for the heavy-duty and mass transport markets. T/CCI’s new compressors include high-voltage electric designs spanning 15 cc/24 V to 120 cc/850 V, with power ratings from 2 kW to 30 kW.
Business Green
MARCH 12, 2021
Workplace pension scheme expects to invest around £250m this year in clean energy on behalf of its members. Workplace pension scheme Nest has appointed Octopus Renewables to lead its plan to invest an estimated £250m in clean energy infrastructure across the UK and Europe this year, as part of a potential £1.4bn investment drive through to the end of the decade, it announced yesterday.
Impact Alpha
MARCH 12, 2021
ImpactAlpha, Mar. 12 – At 31, Brian Deese helped plan and execute then-President Obama’s auto industry bailout. As the White House’s top climate official. The post Brian Deese, National Economic Council appeared first on Impact Alpha.
Business Green
MARCH 12, 2021
Hospitality operators announce they will unveil net zero target for Covid-afflicted sector this summer, after recruiting leading sustainability advisors. A group of the UK's leading pubs, hotels, and restaurants have announced they will unveil a net zero pledge this summer, after hiring sustainability consultant Carbon Intelligence to design a decarbonisation roadmap for the hospitality sector.
Renewable Energy World
MARCH 12, 2021
by Michael Lotfy, Senior Vice President for Smart Building Solutions, ABB. Multi-site retailers are under tremendous pressure to increase sales, cut costs, and provide shareholders with consistent revenue and earnings growth year-over-year. They are expected to deal with competitive, political, and socio-economic conditions that threaten margin by reducing differentiation and affecting costs.
Business Green
MARCH 12, 2021
Mobilising billions of dollars of low carbon investment is a huge challenge, but it is also a massive opportunity for those financiers willing to innovate in pursuit of net zero emissions. Net zero is suddenly everywhere, from Rishi Sunak's budget to Larry Fink's latest annual letter to CEOs , which declared that "the world is moving to net zero". But amid the pronouncements and declarations of intent, a number of inconvenient truths remain.
Forbes Green Tech
MARCH 12, 2021
If there’s anything I’ve learned from decades of work to build awareness of – and action to tackle – the economic risks posed by climate change, it is this: market signals matter.
Renewable Energy World
MARCH 12, 2021
The anticipated launch of the California Mobility Center (CMC) was made official last week as it formally shifted into full commercial operations in support of its mission to accelerate the pace of future mobility commercialization in California and the world, announced CMC’s Board Chair, Arlen Orchard. . The CMC helps early-stage companies and industry incumbents intelligently navigate the last mile of the innovation process to successfully launch products in the California market, providing
Business Green
MARCH 12, 2021
Deal will see GRIDSERVE take a 25 per cent stake in Ecotricity's national charging network. The UK's electric vehicle (EV) charging network received a further boost today, with the news green energy supplier Ecotricity and infrastructure developer GRIDSERVE are to team up in a move designed to "turbocharge" the roll out of Ecotricity's Electric Highway network.
Renewable Energy World
MARCH 12, 2021
Empresas Públicas de Medellín (EPM) in Colombia will hold a public auction to sell 2 million certificates of carbon credits from three hydroelectric plants and one wind farm. According to BNamericas, the credits will come from EPM’s x-MW La Vuelta and x-MW La Herradura mini hydroelectric plants and the 19.5-MW Jepírachi Wind Farm, which are registered with the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM), and the 660-MW Porce III hydroelectric plant registered with Certificara de Carbono SA (Cercarbono).
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