GreenBiz
JULY 17, 2020
The future of the fashion industry requires innovative circular systems. Nicole Pamani. Fri, 07/17/2020 - 00:15. Agricultural waste from food crops either is traditionally left to rot or is burned, contributing to greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution. About 270 million tons of banana waste are left to rot annually, and in India, 32 million acres of rice straw are burned.
Inhabitat - Innovation
JULY 17, 2020
Mumbai-based architecture firm Morphlab has unveiled designs for "Shift-ing Earth," a luxury residence designed to harmonize with nature. Created as part of a proposed township masterplan on densely forested land in India, the design concept marries contemporary architecture with natural materials and passive solar principles.
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GreenBiz
JULY 17, 2020
AMD's energy-slashing feat. Heather Clancy. Fri, 07/17/2020 - 01:00. It isn’t often I have the mindspace to proactively follow up on every commitment proclaimed by the companies I cover. But I recently paused to catch up about one that has particular relevance as more companies act to address their Scope 3 emissions reductions, those generated by supply chains and customers: AMD’s bold pledge back in 2014 to improve the energy efficiency of its mobile processors — the components used in notebook
Inhabitat - Innovation
JULY 17, 2020
Just a year ago, people might have taken their neighborhood park for granted, passing it by on their way to a boutique fitness studio.
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.
GreenTechMedia
JULY 17, 2020
Less than two weeks after emerging from an 18-month bankruptcy caused by its multibillion-dollar wildfire liabilities, Pacific Gas & Electric faces yet another lawsuit for a 2019 fire that California investigators say was caused by its power lines. On Thursday, the state's Department of Forestry and Fire Protection confirmed that the Oct. 2019 Kincade fire was caused by a failure of a PG&E transmission line in Sonoma County.
Inhabitat - Innovation
JULY 17, 2020
The Plus boasts 1,200 solar panels and a green roof that doubles as a public park.
CleanTech Focus brings together the best content for cleantech professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Inhabitat - Innovation
JULY 17, 2020
A new species of alga found in Hawaii is emerging as a potential threat to coral reefs. Researchers from the University of Hawaii conducted a study establishing that the red algae have been growing on the island for several years now.
Grist
JULY 17, 2020
Ever since Thomas Mathus got it started in 1798 , people have been warning that population growth, given enough time, would lead to famine and environmental destruction. There would eventually be too many mouths to feed. But now a new study, published in The Lancet , forecasts new threats to the economic and social order caused by precipitous population decline.
Inhabitat - Innovation
JULY 17, 2020
Hand sanitizer has become an essential part of life during the COVID-19 pandemic, but its environmental impact via plastic waste increases with each empty bottle. As a consumer, it's frustrating wanting to do the right thing for the planet, but being unable to get the hand sanitizer you need without contributing to plastic pollution.
altenergymag
JULY 17, 2020
Fuel cell power will reduce GHG emissions, air pollution and electric costs, and increase reliability
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.
DeSmogBlog
JULY 17, 2020
Read time: 4 mins A Louisiana state appeals court has ruled that the Bayou Bridge Pipeline Company illegally “trampled” on the rights of landowners by starting pipeline construction without the landowners’ permission. The pipeline company must pay the landowners $10,000 each plus attorneys fees. “ This is a victory not only for us but for all landowners,” said Theda Larson Wright, one of the three Louisiana landowners who sued Bayou Bridge Pipeline Company ( BBP ) in September 2018.
altenergymag
JULY 17, 2020
Hyperion Executive Search, a global talent acquisition company that works exclusively with clean energy and e-mobility, released results from a recent COVID-19 related survey of cleantech CEO's and founders.
DeSmogBlog
JULY 17, 2020
Read time: 12 mins Having no nationwide testing and contact tracing protocol several months into the pandemic is taking its toll in Louisiana, and especially in its predominantly African-American communities in Cancer Alley. It pains retired Lt. General Russel Honoré to watch the United States lose the war against COVID -19, but it does not surprise him.
Forbes Green Tech
JULY 17, 2020
Not everyone has the background or capacity to start a company like Carbon Engineering, GlassPoint Solar, or Heliogen, but that doesn’t mean everyone is off the hook. Ex-Economic Hit Man, John Perkins, wants you to change the world by changing your perceptions.
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.
DeSmogBlog
JULY 17, 2020
Read time: 15 mins Warren Buffet has a famous quote about investing: “Only when the tide goes out do you discover who's been swimming naked.” . When it comes to his $10 billion investment in Occidental Petroleum, Buffett will need to take that one to heart now that other investors have sued Occidental for the merger financed in part by Buffet’s stake, alleging that the amount of debt required for Occidental to merge with Anadarko left the company “precariously exposed” if oil prices went lo
Charged
JULY 17, 2020
Adamas Intelligence —the developer of a web-based platform that helps users track monthly deployment of battery materials, battery capacity, battery chemistries and cell suppliers—will provide an informative overview of the EV battery market in the past half-year at the Charged Virtual Conference on EV Engineering. In a new webcast session announced this week, Alla Kolesnikova, Head of Data and Analytics, will discuss the global EV market’s performance in 2020 H1 and its implications on the ever
Business Green
JULY 17, 2020
Around 500,000 tonnes of valuable electricals lost, binned, hoarded or stolen in the UK last year, research suggests. Roughly a third of the 1.45 million tonnes of electrical waste produced by UK households and businesses was either lost, thrown away, hoarded or stolen last year, costing the economy more than £370m of lost valuable raw materials and metals, new research indicates.
Forbes Green Tech
JULY 17, 2020
If everything on our planet is connected, then the better we understand those connections, the more we can understand our impact on them.
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?
Business Green
JULY 17, 2020
Thousands of green projects are raring to go across Europe to help build resilient Covid-19 recovery, study suggests. As EU leaders meet - physically - in Brussels today to thrash out crucial details of the bloc's proposed €750bn Covid-19 recovery package and new long-term budget, new evidence suggests there are thousands of 'shovel-ready' green projects raring to go across Europe that could help stimulate the economy, create new jobs, and accelerate the push towards net zero emissions by t
GreenTechMedia
JULY 17, 2020
Business Green
JULY 17, 2020
Start-up working with Welsh Government to develop 30GWh battery manufacturing plant and accompanying 200MW solar farm. The UK's first 'gigafactory' has moved a step closer to reality with the announcement today that start-up Britishvolt has chosen a site in South Wales to develop a 30GWh battery manufacturing plant and accompanying 200MW solar system.
Impact Alpha
JULY 17, 2020
TGIF, Agents of Impact! True colors, shining through. A handful of investors have risen to the triple challenge of COVID, climate and systematic racism. But it’s clear too few are meeting the moment with transformative strategies. “I do feel like the high-net-worths haven’t really stepped up,” says Ceniarth’s Diane Isenberg, this week’s Agent of Impact.
Business Green
JULY 17, 2020
A group of exciting start-ups are exploring whether the world's trash mountains could become a valuable source of low carbon hydrogen fuels. One novel spin on emerging hydrogen fuel options is "clean hydrogen" made from trash. Early pioneers of these hydrogen-from-waste technologies such as Ways2H, SGH2 Energy (SGH2), and Standard Hydrogen say not only are they making carbon-free, energy-rich fuel, their approaches also will divert mountains of trash from landfills and waterways, cutting greenho
EDF Voices
JULY 17, 2020
Climate pollution is making heat waves longer, hotter and more frequent.
Business Green
JULY 17, 2020
The BusinessGreen Leaders Awards are going digital - and we'd love for you all to join us. It's been a long, winding, and pandemic-hit road, but this week we're delighted to announce the full shortlist for the BusinessGreen Leaders Awards 2020. It is a truly inspiring list of green-minded corporates, innovative start-ups, and pioneering leaders that provides further evidence that the foundations are in place from which to build a green recovery.
AGreenLiving
JULY 17, 2020
A new species of alga found in Hawaii is emerging as a potential threat to coral reefs. Researchers from the University of Hawaii conducted a study establishing that the red algae have been growing on the island for several years now. First spotted in 2016, the species has spread rapidly throughout the island. Published in the journal PLOS ONE , the study revealed that a thick layer of red algae has been spreading in Hawaii.
Business Green
JULY 17, 2020
Marsha Willard of Presidio Graduate School reflects on some of the emerging best practices and more businesses embrace the need to provide electric vehicle charging for their employees. Businesses are reaping the environmental and social benefits of providing electric vehicle charging for employees. That's according to research published last week by Presidio Graduate School (PGS) and ChargePoint, providers of the world's largest EV charging network.
AGreenLiving
JULY 17, 2020
“Producer responsibility is a strategy that engages manufacturers in the … The post The State of Producer Responsibility in the United States appeared first on Earth 911. Read the rest here: The State of Producer Responsibility in the United States.
Business Green
JULY 17, 2020
Global green business coalition to work with tech giant to encourage businesses to adopt more ambitious net zero goals. The We Mean Business group of corporates committed to climate action has formally partnered with tech giant Amazon in a bid to quickly expand the coalition of companies working to delivering net zero emissions. Last year Amazon launched its own green business grouping, dubbed The Climate Pledge, alongside its pledge to achieve net zero emissions by 2040, a decade earlier than t
AGreenLiving
JULY 17, 2020
Mumbai-based architecture firm Morphlab has unveiled designs for “Shift-ing Earth,” a luxury residence designed to harmonize with nature. Created as part of a proposed township masterplan on densely forested land in India, the design concept marries contemporary architecture with natural materials and passive solar principles. The highly geometric house would primarily use rammed earth walls with large openings for a strong indoor/outdoor relationship.
Eco-Business
JULY 17, 2020
FSC has postponed an investigation into companies alleged to have deforested an area about half the size of Singapore. NGOs are concerned about a conflict of interest and lack of transparency. FSC blames Covid-19 for the hold up.
AGreenLiving
JULY 17, 2020
The future of the fashion industry requires innovative circular systems Nicole Pamani Fri, 07/17/2020 – 00:15 Agricultural waste from food crops either is traditionally left to rot or is burned, contributing to greenhouse gas emissions and air pollution. About 270 million tons of banana waste are left to rot annually, and in India, 32 million acres of rice straw are burned.
Eco-Business
JULY 17, 2020
With Covid-19 having made us all more dependent on digital technology than ever before, now is the time to ensure that the revolution does not leave the world's poorest communities further behind.
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