Inhabitat - Innovation
JUNE 24, 2020
In addition to providing a fascinating new dive site for scuba divers, the Coral Greenhouse and its 20-plus “Reef Guardian” sculptures will provide new reef habitat for local marine creatures.
The Environmental Blog
JUNE 24, 2020
Do you think Hurricane Katrina was bad? Wait until you see how climate change is leading to more devastating hurricanes. Read on to learn more. Harvey , Ike, Michael, Katrina and Sandy. These are only a few of the devastating hurricanes that have hit the United States, leaving trails of unprecedented destruction in their wake. Unfortunately, our battle with these storms is far from over — meteorologists are already warning us to beware of an active hurricane season in 2020.
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Inhabitat - Innovation
JUNE 24, 2020
By now, most people have heard about polar ice melting due to global warming. But the coming and going of the sea ice surrounding Antarctica still leaves scientists puzzled.
Michael Grossman
JUNE 24, 2020
Does your green brand meet its mission if it doesn't appeal to all races? . Dear Michael's Marc: I've always considered myself an ally for equality, regardless of a person's color, religion, gender, etc. All human beings deserve respect, regardless of the color of their skin. But as I've been taking stock after the murder of yet another black man by a white police officer, I'm feeling like a guilty, over-educated, white liberal more than ever.
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
JUNE 24, 2020
The Elm Street House promotes community connection and indoor-outdoor living.
GreenTechMedia
JUNE 24, 2020
A tie-up between Vodafone and Energy Web is evidence that an emerging flexibility services opportunity is luring new players to the energy sector, insiders believe. The mobile giant and the energy blockchain leader last month announced a partnership to use subscriber identification module (SIM) technology as a means to identify distributed electricity system assets on the grid.
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altenergymag
JUNE 24, 2020
The breakthrough design of RBI’s Sunflower® II single-axis tracker has been equipped with enhanced capabilities, making it the most complete single-axis tracker system in the marketplace.
Inhabitat - Innovation
JUNE 24, 2020
Tungestølen is a cluster of timber hiking cabins with cozy interiors and panoramic glacier views.
Charged
JUNE 24, 2020
What could be more logical than running electric refuse trucks on power generated by a waste-to-energy plant? That’s just what Portland, Maine-based waste collection company Ecomaine plans to do, as Haley Rischar writes in Waste Today. Ecomaine opened a waste-to-energy plant in 1989, but a decrease in the value of the energy produced caused the company’s revenue to dwindle.
Forbes Green Tech
JUNE 24, 2020
The most efficient energy storage technology may be as close as the nearest hill, according to former Energy Secretary Steven Chu, and almost as old.
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
JUNE 24, 2020
Solar Brings On-Site Energy Production in Compliance with Title 24 Standards to New California Desert Community.
Impact Alpha
JUNE 24, 2020
ImpactAlpha, June 25 – This season’s plotline on Billions, Showtime’s saga of wealth and corruption co-created by financial journalist Andrew Ross Sorkin, finds Wendy Rhoades (played by actor Maggie Siff) and Taylor Mason (Asia Kate Dillon) maneuvering to turn Bobby Axelrod’s (Damian Lewis) Axe Capital into an impact investment fund. Now comes activist investor Jeff.
altenergymag
JUNE 24, 2020
Research from Cornwall Insight shows that Feed-in Tariff (FiT) costs for the upcoming quarterly levelisation could reach an all-time high, covering the period April - June 2020.
Charged
JUNE 24, 2020
In Europe, the buzz is all about Volkswagen’s upcoming ID.3, but we Yanks are much more excited about the next vehicle in the pipeline, the ID.4, because, unlike so many of the current generation of EVs, it’s slated to be sold here in the US. Few details of VW’s electric crossover have been released, beyond the basic specs and pricing. Now some photos that were submitted to China’s Ministry of Industry and Information Technology have been revealed on the Chinese web site Autohome (via Motor Auth
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
JUNE 24, 2020
Register for this FREE webinar on July 16 (11:00am PT/2:00pm ET) & learn smart restoration strategies from PV experts at Solar Support, Depcom Power, GCube & Nextracker. Explore how to get damaged plants back online through a staggered plan that prioritizes quick recovery.
Forbes Green Tech
JUNE 24, 2020
Why has a government that put decarbonization and the fight against the climate emergency among its electoral pledges now offering money to the Spanish people to buy diesel and gasoline cars?
DeSmogBlog
JUNE 24, 2020
Read time: 7 mins Minnesota has officially joined the climate accountability movement with the announcement on Wednesday, June 24 of a groundbreaking lawsuit against fossil fuel behemoths such as ExxonMobil and Koch Industries and the nation's largest oil and gas lobbying group for alleged deception on climate change. Minnesota Attorney General Keith Ellison announced the lawsuit at a press conference Wednesday.
The City Fix
JUNE 24, 2020
By 2030, more than 145 million people across the world will be impacted by flooding each year – many of whom live in coastal areas of the United States. Wildfires are growing rapidly in areas of the U.S. where they once were. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.
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?
Impact Alpha
JUNE 24, 2020
ImpactAlpha, June 24 – The annual Moskowitz Prize for research on sustainable and responsible investing and the financial implications of responsible business practices is moving to the Kellogg School of Management (also the home of the Kellogg-Morgan Stanley Sustainable Investing Challenge and the Sustainable Finance Faculty Consortium, which is meeting this week).
Business Green
JUNE 24, 2020
Covid-19 stimulus plan must prioritise green building upgrades, tree planting, fossil fuel taxes, and skills training, advises Committee on Climate Change. The government must immediately embark on a major green investment drive to upgrade homes and buildings, plant trees and restore peatland, upskill the workforce, and roll out low carbon transport infrastructure if it is to deliver a resilient recovery from Covid-19 and lay the foundations for a net zero economy, the UK's top climate advisors
Impact Alpha
JUNE 24, 2020
ImpactAlpha, June 24 – Amazon has earmarked $2 billion to invest in “visionary companies whose products and solutions will facilitate the transition to a low-carbon economy,” the company said in its sustainability report. Target sectors include transportation and logistics, energy generation and storage, and food and agriculture. Amazon says the fund has a global mandate to invest.
Business Green
JUNE 24, 2020
Property giant unveils new sustainability strategy designed to transform its entire portfolio, slashing both embodied and operational emissions in the process. One of the UK's largest commercial property firms has announced ambitious new plans to deliver net zero emissions across its entire portfolio, including new developments by the end of the decade.
Forbes Green Tech
JUNE 24, 2020
Amazon's 2020 climate report has many exciting ideas. However, Amazon should focus on absolute emission reductions (not emission intensity), include all its Scope 3 emissions, and stop selling cloud computing services to the fossil fuel sector.
Business Green
JUNE 24, 2020
Major new report urges government to provide clarity on nuclear development plans and insists sector can bring down costs - but will Ministers be convinced? The nuclear sector has become the latest industry to wade into the debate about the government's imminent green recovery package, arguing that it has a critical role to play in delivering on the UK's net zero emission target.
Low Impact
JUNE 24, 2020
We share a first instalment of a beginner’s guide to foraging from our friends at Ethical.net, starting with the basics of when and where, and the importance of safety and sustainability. Foraging can be a wonderful way to engage with the natural world – an important step in achieving a more sustainable and ethical lifestyle. It’s also a great exercise where the amount of energy spent in an hour can be as much as an hour of running.
Charged
JUNE 24, 2020
Electra Commercial Vehicles is the latest EV-builder to sign up to the Battery Passport service, which will roll out on all the company’s new vehicles. Battery Passport is a real-time battery monitoring service that captures information on battery usage in real time, enabling alerts, reporting and a detailed history. It is designed to help vehicle owners extend the in-vehicle lifespan of their batteries, and to provide a pathway for those batteries to be sold into the second-life market when the
Impact Alpha
JUNE 24, 2020
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Call No. 20: Moving your assets to impact. COVID. Climate. Racial injustice. Multiplying crises mean it’s time to move your assets. Chris Earthman of the Aragona family office in Austin will join Alabama Power Foundation’s Myla Calhoun, Ford Foundation’s Margot Brandenburg and Grove Foundation’s Rebekah Saul Butler to talk about getting asset owners off the sidelines, with Patrick Briaud and Steven Godeke, The post The Brief: Greening infrastructure (replay), Amazon
Business Green
JUNE 24, 2020
Aldersgate Group urges UK government to lower trade tariffs and barriers for low carbon goods and services after Brexit. Future UK trade deals should include enforceable environmental and climate commitments for all parties, while tariffs should be lowered for low carbon goods and services in order to "strengthen the UK's competitive advantage" after Brexit.
Impact Alpha
JUNE 24, 2020
ImpactAlpha, Jun 24 – The action in climate action is shifting to infrastructure. Driven by falling price curves for renewables, mispriced risk, and the need to ramp up climate finance to avert a planetary crisis, investors are finding opportunity in distributed solar and wind plants, waste-to energy facilities, wastewater systems and sustainable agriculture.
Business Green
JUNE 24, 2020
The Arctic is sweltering and emissions are climbing again, but the technologies we need to avert catastrophe exist, we just need to deploy them. I've been distracted today. That kind of gnawing sense that your attention should be elsewhere, that something big is going on that should not be ignored. The spark for this diversion was a Tweet (isn't it always) from the European Commission's Directorate-General for Defence Industry and Space confirming that data from the Sentinel 3 satellite had show
Impact Alpha
JUNE 24, 2020
ImpactAlpha, June 24 – Water-tech venture Zero Mass Water’s rooftop panels look like solar panels. Instead of converting sunlight to energy, they capture water vapor in the air for drinking water. “The amount of water vapor in the air is six times the amount of water in all of the earth’s rivers, and it’s constantly. The post BlackRock leads Zero Mass Water’s $50 million round appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
Business Green
JUNE 24, 2020
Business for Clean Air group debuts today in bid to prevent air pollution levels from soaring as lockdown lifts. Environmental charity Global Action Plan has today launched a new initiative aimed at helping businesses reduce their contribution to air pollution as lockdown measures lift and millions of employees return to workplaces across the UK. Dubbed Business for Clean Air, the new initiative is backed by a taskforce that includes the Department of Environment, Food & Rural Affairs (Defra
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