Jim Conca
JULY 31, 2020
Achíni Scientific announced that they have developed a way to make fuel from air and water, which they call Green Crude – green because it doesn’t add to the atmospheric CO2 burden and it burns cleaner than petroleum-based fuels. .
GreenTechMedia
JULY 31, 2020
Dominion Energy is replacing its CEO as part of an executive shakeup accompanying the Virginia utility’s major shift away from natural gas and toward a renewable energy future, and its hefty financial penalty for its cancellation of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline project. Dominion announced Friday that CEO Tom Farrell would step down in October and be replaced by Robert Blue, now executive vice president and co-chief operating officer.
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Envirotec Magazine
JULY 31, 2020
Joseph Doherty of Re-Gen Waste Ltd. Joseph Doherty, MD of Re-Gen Waste, which provides materials recovery facilities for Council waste in the UK, has questioned the wisdom of Government plans to scrap the lower rate of fuel duty on red diesel from April 2022, which he says will add an extra £200,000 per annum cost to his company’s fuel bill. The changes to the tax treatment of red diesel will lead to a number of impacts on his firm’s profitability, he suggested, the most immediate being in
Inhabitat - Innovation
JULY 31, 2020
While tigers and elephants regally pose for endangered animal posters, many smaller creatures are fading away unnoticed.
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 31, 2020
Ryan Wiser leads the Electricity Markets and Policy Department at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, where Mark Bolinger is a research scientist. Aging is a fact of life, for people and equipment alike. But the negative impact of aging on wind and solar power plants is being reduced, thanks to maturing technologies and commercial practices. Researchers at Berkeley Lab have taken a new look at how wind and solar generators are performing in the field, leveraging data from the sizable U.S. uti
Inhabitat - Innovation
JULY 31, 2020
NLÉ is back with a Floating Music Hub as the next prototype in the firm's popular Makoko Floating System.
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Inhabitat - Innovation
JULY 31, 2020
A new report by KFC shows one-third of its chickens suffer from footpad dermatitis.
Envirotec Magazine
JULY 31, 2020
The majority of sustainability professionals (89%) think their company’s overseas travel in the next two to three years will be significantly reduced compared to pre COVID-19 levels. A cautious estimate based on the Climate Group’s analysis indicates a potential average decline in international business trips of up to 40%. If this were a trend repeated across all businesses, the reduced international flights alone could cut 28 million tons of CO?
Inhabitat - Innovation
JULY 31, 2020
It turns out there are many surprising uses for banana peels.
Envirotec Magazine
JULY 31, 2020
The newly rewilded Lady Fen, Welney Wetland Centre, Welney, Norfolk. A new project with the aim of spearheading rapid and massively upscaled rewilding will be launched by the charity Rewilding Britain later this year, to tackle the nature and climate emergencies, and help boost green recovery from the Covid-19 crisis. With many people wanting Britain to ‘build back better’ from the coronavirus pandemic, as a press release puts it, the charity’s new Rewilding Network will aim to create a rewildin
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.
Charged
JULY 31, 2020
General Motors announced Friday that it would partner with the EVgo charging network to add an additional 2,700 fast-charging stations by 2025. The announcement comes a week before it unveils the 2022 Cadillac Lyriq electric luxury SUV, the first of up to a dozen new battery-electric vehicles it says it will offer in North America by 2025. The new charging stations will be located in metropolitan areas, not on long-distance highway corridors.
Impact Alpha
JULY 31, 2020
TGIF, Agents of Impact! Purpose-built for impact. As the world tries to grapple with emergencies like COVID and climate, racial injustice and inequality, it’s arriving at vehicles and approaches that have been incubated, in some cases for decades, by community and impact investors. The Local Initiatives Support Corp. and other community development finance institutions, or.
DeSmogBlog
JULY 31, 2020
Read time: 5 mins Warning of an impending financial implosion driven largely by fossil fuel industry deception, a recent report calls on fossil fuel insiders and other potential whistleblowers to help expose and prosecute this fraud. According to this new report from the National Whistleblower Center ( NWC ) published July 23, fossil fuel executives’ deception on the financial risks of climate change—to their business and the economy at large—is widespread and is likely actionable fraud, meaning
Impact Alpha
JULY 31, 2020
ImpactAlpha, July 31 – Call it “best practices for billionaires.” As her ex-husband, Jeff Bezos, and three other tech billionaires prepared to face Congressional questioners, Scott detailed how she has started to give away her $36 billion fortune. Since signing the Giving Pledge a month after her divorce last year, Scott has given out $1.7 billion. The post Agent of Impact: MacKenzie Scott, author and philanthropist appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
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
JULY 31, 2020
Fugro has completed a positioning support contract for Bourbon Subsea Services (Bourbon) to help install the three units of the WindFloat Atlantic semi-submersible floating wind farm.
Forbes Green Tech
JULY 31, 2020
The International Labour Organization and the Inter-American Development Bank predict that decarbonisation, or a transition to a net-zero emission economy, would create 22.5 million jobs in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) by 2030— 19 million of which would be in plant-based food production.
Charged
JULY 31, 2020
Electric motor maker Linear Labs has announced that starting this September, it will be mass-producing its high-torque M200 e-mobility motor for off-the-shelf use. The announcement comes on the heels of a $68.9-million economic incentive deal with the city of Fort Worth to bring advanced automation manufacturing to the Texas metropolis. The company will start with a production allocation distributed between itself and several Tier 1 sub-contractors, in order to expedite the manufacturing ramp ra
Green Living Guy
JULY 31, 2020
DevOps tools guide according to leading admins on the platform As SalesForce states clearly: The environment is a key stakeholder. ?At Salesforce, they consider the environment to be a key stakeholder. So they are committed to harnessing our culture of innovation. That’s as well as improve the state of the Continue Reading. The post Green, Renewable, Comprehensive Salesforce. appeared first on Green Living Guy.
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 31, 2020
Climate study reveals average UK temperature in 2019 was 1.1C higher than between 1961 and 1990, with evidence of seasonal shifts already impacting the natural world. Global heating has set UK temperatures on a clear upwards trajectory which continues to accelerate, sparking seasonable shifts and knock-on impacts on the natural world, data contained in the latest Met Office climate report today show.
DeSmogBlog
JULY 31, 2020
Read time: 4 mins The Supreme Court of Ireland has ruled in favour of an environmental group challenging the Irish government’s climate plans, finding its policies did not meet legal requirements for detailing how the country will meet emissions-reduction targets. The decision is only the second time a country’s highest court has required a national government to reform its climate policy in order to meet legal obligations.
Business Green
JULY 31, 2020
Producer of Bulleit, Guiness, Smirnoff, Johnnie Walker and other beverages has committed to net zero by 2050 and 100 per cent renewable power by 2030. Even whiskey is going electric. Distilleries have long been difficult operations to electrify due to the large heat loads it requires to turn grain into one of humanity's oldest vices, alcohol. But Diageo's new 72,000-square-foot distillery is designed to be completely 'carbon-neutral'.
Forbes Green Tech
JULY 31, 2020
Thomas Healy was selected to the 2017 Forbes 30 Under 30.
Business Green
JULY 31, 2020
Investment bank joins growing number of financial institutions as a member of the Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials. Bank of America has become the latest major investment bank to commit to publishing the greenhouse gas emissions tied to its loans and investments, having joined the growing number of financial institutions backing the Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials (PCAF).
Forbes Green Tech
JULY 31, 2020
We sat down with Idealab founder, Bill Gross, to talk about his new ventures - Heliogen and Energy Vault - and his views on building and funding companies that can transform our economy to adapt to and mitigate the effects of climate change. Spoiler alert: Gross sees a trillion dollar opportunity!
Business Green
JULY 31, 2020
Plus nuclear fusion, French outdoor heating ban, Spanish green hydrogen plant and all the top green business news from around the world this week. Supreme Court orders Irish government to strengthen climate plan. The Irish government has been ordered by the Supreme Court to significantly strengthen its climate action efforts, today ruling that its current plans to reduce emissions lack the detail and ambition needed to comply with the country's climate obligations.
AGreenLiving
JULY 31, 2020
Sometimes the best ideas are the simplest. Silvr’s innovative design team proves this with the new Silvr portable fork. Compact enough to slip into a pocket, purse, lunchbox or backpack, the sleek bullet design can stay with you on-the-go. A lightweight aluminum handle hides a full-size fork inside and doubles as storage and a base. The actual fork uses durable anti-microbial 304 stainless steel, rounding out this waste-free alternative to single-use plastic utensils.
Business Green
JULY 31, 2020
Octopus Renewables Infrastructure Trust inks deal to purchase 119.5MW subsidised solar portfolio as UK investor expands into French market. British clean energy investor Octopus Renewables continues to sweep up solar assets across Europe, with the firm's Infrastructure Trust today having inked a deal to purchase 14 subsidised solar plants in France with a total installed capacity of 119.5MW.
AGreenLiving
JULY 31, 2020
Banana peels. They’re so associated with comedy, you probably crack a smile just thinking about these famous casings. Bananas are a delicious snack and a little taste of the tropics that just about everyone enjoys, but they’re also an environmental problem. So what can you do with banana peels once you’ve eaten the delicious treats they keep wrapped inside?
Business Green
JULY 31, 2020
The climate impact of artificial intelligence - both in terms of power consumption and all the electronic waste that gadgets create - is a growing concern. Plenty of prognostications, including this one from the World Economic Forum, tout the integral role artificial intelligence could play in "saving the planet". Indeed, AI is integral to all manner of technologies, ranging from autonomous vehicles to more informed disaster response systems to smart buildings and data collection networks monito
AGreenLiving
JULY 31, 2020
The year 2020 has been dominated by the twin terrors … The post Where Does Environmental Justice Fit? appeared first on Earth 911. Read more: Where Does Environmental Justice Fit?
Grist
JULY 31, 2020
When Apple announced new climate goals last week, the tech giant revealed that some of its sleek, silvery laptops will include a novel material: “low-carbon” aluminum. The lightweight metal is chemically the same as the mass-produced version used in products like foil, soda cans, bike frames, and car doors. But it’s made using a different industrial process — one that doesn’t result in the direct release of greenhouse gases.
AGreenLiving
JULY 31, 2020
International design practice NLÉ has unveiled its designs for the MFS IV, a prefabricated Floating Music Hub for the port city of Mindelo in Cape Verde. Developed as the fourth prototype of the firm’s Makoko Floating System, the project is the first in the series to be built in the Atlantic Ocean. The prefabricated floating hub , which is currently under construction, will consist of a cluster of three buildings of varying sizes that will house a large multipurpose performance hall, a pro
Envirotec Magazine
JULY 31, 2020
Plans for a Category 1 animal by-product processing facility at the renewable energy and recycling site of SecAnim in Widnes, Cheshire were announced in late July. The firm is a provider of safe and secure collection and disposal services to the farming and meat production sectors, and the “world-first” operation completes a two-stage site regeneration plan, supported by a capital investment of more than £15 million, says the firm.
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