GreenBiz

JUNE 15, 2020

To make offices safe during COVID-19, buildings need a breath of fresh air. Jesse Klein. Mon, 06/15/2020 - 02:00. The coronavirus thrives inside. A Hong Kong paper found that of over 7,000 COVID-19 cases, only one outbreak was contracted outdoors. In Seoul, an infection cluster was so concentrated that even on a 19-floor building, the outbreak was contained to just one floor, and almost entirely on one side of that floor.

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Sustainability Carbon-negative Energy Energy 515

Inhabitat - Innovation

JUNE 15, 2020

To meet a client brief focused on sustainability and cost-effectiveness, these architects turned to shipping containers.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 15, 2020

Inside Cargill’s experiment to pay farmers for carbon sequestration. Heather Clancy. Mon, 06/15/2020 - 00:15. Over the past year, agricultural commodities giant Cargill stepped up its global sustainability initiatives substantially, with a series of programs created to support its science-based target of reducing supply chain emissions by 30 percent by 2030. .

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Carbon Agriculture Soil Sustainability 386

Inhabitat - Innovation

JUNE 15, 2020

This stunning 4,585 square foot home in San Jose del Cabo, Mexico exemplifies sustainable indoor-outdoor living at its finest. In 2018, architecture firm FabrikG completed the home, which is located in an off-grid community about five and a half miles from downtown San Jose del Cabo on the East Cape hillside.

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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.

Energy

GreenBiz

JUNE 15, 2020

The unmasking of Corporate America. Joel Makower. Mon, 06/15/2020 - 02:11. The past two weeks have seen an outpouring of concern and commitment by companies about racism in the United States. Pronouncements on company social media accounts often take the form of graphics — white type against a black background seems to be de rigueur in the current environment.

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Investment Sustainability Pollution Organic 350

Inhabitat - Innovation

JUNE 15, 2020

SysHaus has recently installed a new floating home on an idyllic São Paulo lake.

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Sustainability 341

Inhabitat - Innovation

JUNE 15, 2020

Fnji's Iceberg Sofa resembles glaciers, which are rapidly melting due to global warming.

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Global warming 216

GreenBiz

JUNE 15, 2020

How Businesses Can Overcome Barriers to Achieving Climate Goals. Join us and discover the findings of research conducted by NRG Energy and GreenBiz Group, examining key plans and actions businesses are taking to address climate change. The research represents responses from hundreds of business executives and thought leaders, revealing that many are taking the right steps to reach their goals.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 15, 2020

Japan's offshore wind market finally looks set to take off over the next few years, potentially acting as a springboard for floating wind around the world. Japan has the world's most generous incentive for offshore wind, according to the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC): a feed-in tariff worth ¥36,000 (equivalent to $335 today) per megawatt-hour of power.

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Construction Wind power Law Technology 130

Inhabitat - Innovation

JUNE 15, 2020

Celebrate Dad with these eco-friendly gifts.

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Sustainability 170

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.

Transportation

GreenTechMedia

JUNE 15, 2020

Ørsted CEO Henrik Poulsen has resigned after eight years at the helm of the world's leading offshore wind developer. Poulsen will stay on no longer than January 31, 2021, with his successor to be appointed by the firm’s board at its annual general meeting in March 2021. Since taking over Danish Oil and Natural Gas (Dong), as it was known eight years ago, Poulsen oversaw the near-total divestment of the company's fossil fuel activities and its emergence as the global offshore

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Impact Alpha

JUNE 15, 2020

ImpactAlpha, June 15 – Obran is a holding company owned by the workers of two Baltimore-based staffing agencies: CORE Staffing, a temporary job-placement company launched and owned by formerly incarcerated individuals, and Tribe Works, which is focused on digital creative services. Obran’s goal is to “create a very big holding company” that fuels profits back.

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CleanTech Group

JUNE 15, 2020

In May, the US Department of Energy launched the $230 million Advanced Nuclear Reactor Demonstration Program. Through a public/private collaboration, two reactors will.

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Energy Energy Nuclear Power 101

Planet Pulse

JUNE 15, 2020

This June and July will be busy times for the Launch and Satellite Operations teams at Planet. In addition to the successful launch of three new SkySats this past Saturday (with three more launching this summer), we have another five SuperDoves (Flock 4e) launching on Rocket Lab’s “Pics or It Didn’t Happen” Electron launch later this month. It’ll be good to see our Doves back on New Zealand soil (at least temporarily), and we plan to have the pics to prove it.

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Soil Technology 101

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.

Sustainability

DeSmogBlog

JUNE 15, 2020

Read time: 9 mins In April, the Center for Global Energy Policy ( CGEP ) at Columbia University released a report concluding that, without major new subsidies from the American public, technologies for capturing heat-trapping carbon dioxide from coal and natural gas-fired power plants will remain uneconomical. However, CGEP , which has a history of strongly supporting the interests of the fossil fuel industry, concludes in this report that the government should implement new publicly financed po

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Impact Alpha

JUNE 15, 2020

ImpactAlpha, June 15 – The Global Impact Investing Network launched its first survey of impact investors in the wake of the Great Finance Crisis. The network published its 10th survey last week in the midst of a global pandemic. “If crisis exacerbates our most troubling trends,” writes the GIIN’s Amit Bouri, “I am convinced that. The post GIIN estimates impact investing market at $715 billion, but few investors rally to COVID crisis appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Investment 96

DeSmogBlog

JUNE 15, 2020

Read time: 17 mins Over the past few months, amid the COVID -19 pandemic and stay-at-home orders, Shell Pipeline Company has pressed onward with the construction of a 97-mile pipeline running through Ohio and western Pennsylvania. Shell plans to use the Falcon pipeline to supply its $6 billion plastics plant currently being built in Beaver County, Pennsylvania, with ethane, a raw material pulled from shale wells in the state and from neighboring Ohio.

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Plastics Construction 98

Charged

JUNE 15, 2020

We’ve been reading a raft of articles speculating on how the COVID-19 health crisis will affect the EV industry. So far, the consensus is that, while the overall auto industry is heading for a very rough time, the e-mobility transformation will experience only a temporary setback , and Tesla, the world’s main producer of EVs, is likely to weather the crisis better than the legacy automakers.

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Europe Fossil fuels Transportation Investment 100

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?

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U.S. Green Technology

JUNE 15, 2020

Integrating Technologies For Scalable Ecology And Conservation Rescuing planet earth from anthropogenic environmental collapse is a tall order. The solutions to climate change and wasteful economic models lie at the intersection of scientific development and civic participation. But before we can improve the health of our ecosystems, we have to understand them better than we.

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Technology Climate change Health Waste 86

Charged

JUNE 15, 2020

Sponsored by Momentive. As electronic devices continue to get smaller, the amount of heat they dissipate continues to increase. Cooling and temperature control of these devices are needed for proper operation. Silicone thermal interface materials (TIMs), which contain a high ratio of fillers that exhibit outstanding thermal conductivity, have shown to be excellent for such applications.

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Automotive Cooling Plastics Packaging 94

altenergymag

JUNE 15, 2020

Jurisdiction over net metering rests with the states and local regulatory bodies and granting a petition to have the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) regulate retail programs would represent an unlawful federal power grab, the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) will say in response to the petition today.

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Solar Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Retail 78

Charged

JUNE 15, 2020

The Polish city of Cracow has ordered 50 Solaris Urbino 18 electric buses, along with 50 plug-in charging stations. The city’s transit agency, MPK, already operates 400 Solaris buses, including 28 electric buses. The new vehicles will be delivered within a year. The order is worth approximately 36 million euros. MPK was awarded an EU subsidy of 110 million Polish Zlotys (24 million euros) for the purchase of the vehicles.

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Electricity Europe Pollution Sustainability 99

altenergymag

JUNE 15, 2020

Simplified planning, optimized use of material and easy handling – these are the points that make this year’s product innovations from the Schletter Group stand out. With the “Schletter Configurator 3.0”, the global solar mounting manufacturer is launching a new, greatly improved generation of its configurator tool.

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Innovation 78

Business Green

JUNE 15, 2020

Oil and gas giant warns of 'enduring impact' of Covid-19 crisis which it expects will accelerate transition to net zero economy. BP expects to slash the value of its oil assets by as much as $17.5bn in the wake of the coronavirus crisis, as the company today predicted the pandemic is likely to have an "enduring impact" on the global economy that will accelerate the transition towards low carbon energy sources.

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Charged

JUNE 15, 2020

Nexperia has announced a new range of GaN FETs featuring next-generation high-voltage GaN HEMT H2 technology. The devices will be available in both TO-247 and the company’s proprietary CCPAK surface-mount packaging. Nexperia says its devices achieve superior switching FOMs and on-state performance with improved stability, and simplify application designs.

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Technology Packaging Automotive Cooling 82

Business Green

JUNE 15, 2020

Broadcaster pledges to cut and offset CO2 emissions from all Sky Originals shows made since 2019. All original TV series made by Sky since last year - including hit shows such as Chernobyl and Brassic - have been classified as 'carbon neutral', with the broadcaster today pledging to offset the emissions generated by its UK productions from 2019 onwards.

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Carbon-neutral Carbon Climate change Sustainability 90

Impact Alpha

JUNE 15, 2020

LeapFrog Investments goes into this recession with capital on hand, the fortuitous result of having raised more than $700 million for its third fund last year. That’s a stark contrast to the last recession, when LeapFrog launched its first fund a week after the collapse of Lehman Brothers in 2008. The emerging market impact investor. The post Leapfrog’s Andy Kuper on impact, exits and scaling growth in emerging markets through the COVID crisis (podcast) appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Investment 72

GreenTechMedia

JUNE 15, 2020

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JUNE 15, 2020

June 15th is Global Wind Day, an opportunity to explore the power of wind energy to help reshape our energy systems, decarbonise our economies and boost jobs and growth. Wind is key to our energy mix because it reduces fossil fuel use which combats climate change and contributes to cleaner air. There is now more than 591GW of wind power capacity installed globally in 91 countries, with continued growth predicted.

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Wind power Fossil fuels Electricity Climate change 71

Business Green

JUNE 15, 2020

Carbon Tracker analysis details how four European oil majors have now taken hits to their asset valuation as net zero transition gathers pace. The "clock is ticking" towards yet more major write-downs across the oil and gas sector, Carbon Tracker has warned, with four European companies having now wiped billions of dollars off the value of their fossil fuel assets as the low carbon energy transition gathers pace.

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Fossil fuels Demand Carbon Sustainability 77

Impact Alpha

JUNE 15, 2020

ImpactAlpha, June 15 – VestedWorld invests in early-stage companies based in or serving Africa. Chicago-based impact investor’s two latest investments are Vanu, a Boston-based internet tech company, and Kigali, Rwanda-based GET IT, a food distributor. Vanu makes equipment and software to help mobile operators affordably build and operate cellular networks in rural areas.

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Investment Africa 69

Business Green

JUNE 15, 2020

Deep dive analysis of European funds from Morningstar reveals 'investing in sustainable funds doesn't require taking a performance trade-off'. The fast-expanding library of reports demonstrating the attractive returns on offer from green investments grew further today, as leading analyst firm Morningstar published an overview of nearly 5,000 European funds which confirmed there is no financial trade-off from supporting funds with strong environmental, social, and governance (ESG) credentials.

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Sustainability Investment Resilience Europe 77

Charged

JUNE 15, 2020

Sensata Technologies has announced the availability of its new GV210 series of hermetically sealed, gas-filled contactors for applications carrying up to 150 A at 12 to 900 VDC. The series is the latest addition to Sensata’s GIGAVAC brand product line, and is suitable as the main contactor for applications such as forklifts, home energy storage and small EVs, as well as the pre-charge contactor in larger battery pack applications such as utility-scale energy storage and large EVs.

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Technology Batteries Startups Energy 74