Inhabitat - Innovation
DECEMBER 10, 2019
Located in London, U.K., the Citicape House by Sheppard Robson will feature a 40,000-square-foot green wall, the largest in Europe, that sets the standard for urban green development in the city.
GreenBiz
DECEMBER 10, 2019
This year’s United Nations Climate Change Summit (COP25) opened in Madrid against a backdrop of mounting urgency. In the last 12 months, the U.N.’s climate science body, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), has issued two special reports raising stark warnings of the risks climate change poses to food security and the oceans. .
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Inhabitat - Innovation
DECEMBER 10, 2019
Located on a hill in Pak Chong in northeastern Thailand, the home was carefully sited to preserve existing Siamese Rosewood trees and is elevated to reduce site impact.
GreenBiz
DECEMBER 10, 2019
Increasingly, consumers and social media users are voicing their concerns — and companies are listening.
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.
Envirotec Magazine
DECEMBER 10, 2019
Researchers at the University of Oxford and their collaborators have launched a new approach to tackling biodiversity loss “in a coordinated way.” Called the “ Conservation Hierarchy “, the approach – announced on 10 December – aims to support governments, businesses, individuals, communities and local authorities in their efforts to conserve the natural world.
GreenBiz
DECEMBER 10, 2019
Bioplastic car parts will reduce weight and lower petrol use to cut CO2 emissions.
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GreenBiz
DECEMBER 10, 2019
Policies to promote innovation and prevent pollution can help consumers and move the auto industry towards new progress.
Envirotec Magazine
DECEMBER 10, 2019
A view of the Perito Moreno glacier in Los Glaciares National Park, Santa Cruz, Argentina: The Southern Andes includes one of the world’s high-ranking water tower systems. Mountains and highlands are often referred to as natural “water towers” because they provide lowland communities with essential freshwater for drinking, irrigation, industry, food, and energy production.
GreenTechMedia
DECEMBER 10, 2019
This is a branded podcast made in collaboration between CohnReznick Capital and GTM Creative Strategies. Sheslie Royster is the person that big companies turn to when making an acquisition, investing in real estate, or finding a creative way to use tax credits. She’s a tax expert, focused mostly in wind and solar. Those deals include a lot of numbers and math, of course.
Inhabitat - Innovation
DECEMBER 10, 2019
Inhabitat reviews Slippy, a reusable cup sleeve that is both functional and stylish.
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.
GreenTechMedia
DECEMBER 10, 2019
The New Jersey Board of Public Utilities approved new solar incentives late last week, laying out the transition credit that will bridge the state's move from generous incentives to more moderate ones as it works to reach 100 percent clean energy by 2050. Among the country's top 10 states for residential solar, New Jersey numbers among many successful markets now modulating solar incentives while continuing to work toward significant renewables goals.
Solar Power World
DECEMBER 10, 2019
By Douglas Grubbs, applications engineer, Morningstar Corporation In its basic forms, solar PV is a very straightforward proposition. Hook a solar panel up to a DC load and it will run until the sun goes down. Connect solar panels to a grid-tied inverter and, as long as the sun is shining, power will be sent… The post How to select a solar charge controller appeared first on Solar Power World.
GreenTechMedia
DECEMBER 10, 2019
Arcadia, a startup with software that’s connecting hundreds of thousands of U.S. households to cleaner, cheaper energy options, raised $30 million Tuesday to fuel its expanding community solar and retail energy services business. Over the past three years, the Washington D.C.-based startup has built a novel business in the energy services space, based on software that can aggregate, analyze and package a variety of energy options for U.S. residential utility customers in different states a
Inhabitat - Innovation
DECEMBER 10, 2019
New research shows the waste generated by ugly holiday sweaters.
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
DECEMBER 10, 2019
Read time: 3 mins BlackRock, Vanguard, Citigroup, and JPM organ Chase are among the top global financers of new coal development, according to new research presented during the United Nations climate summit in Madrid. That research , published by the German NGO Urgewald along with BankTrack and 30 partner organizations, reveals and ranks the financial institutions sinking money into the dirtiest form of fossil fuels in the three years since the Paris Agreement was signed.
GatesNotes
DECEMBER 10, 2019
In a good way! The author explains the benefits of a good night’s rest.
DeSmogBlog
DECEMBER 10, 2019
Read time: 7 mins Last month, 11,258 scientists from virtually every country in the world published a study on climate change, writing that they collectively declared “clearly and unequivocally that planet Earth is facing a climate emergency.”. That comes six years after a widely cited 2013 study reported 97 percent agreement among publishing climate scientists that human activity causes climate change — a consensus that has grown stronger in the years since.
Fairsnape
DECEMBER 10, 2019
Reading the inspiring Letters to the Earth , I thought I would pen my own, in the runup to our election, when we have hope of a climate emergency facing government. The following, written on a recent train journey, influenced by (seasonal) tracks on the playlist and running around my head. Letters to the Earth was an invitation early in 2019, open to all, to think beyond the human narrative and to bear witness to the scale and horror of the climate crisis, an opportunity to pause and reflect.
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?
GatesNotes
DECEMBER 10, 2019
The five books on my end-of-year list will help you start 2020 on a good note.
altenergymag
DECEMBER 10, 2019
Ballard Power Systems today announced that it has signed a Product Development Agreement with Hydrogene de France, an Independent Power Producer dedicated to renewable power generation, for the development and integration of a multi-megawatt (MW) scale fuel cell system into HDF Energy's Renewstable® power plant designed for stationary power applications.
GatesNotes
DECEMBER 10, 2019
A charter school founder offers her insights on what our kids need to prepare for college and a good life.
Charged
DECEMBER 10, 2019
The record for “largest order of electric buses in Europe” is proving to be a rapidly moving target. In November, Volvo sold 157 e-buses to a French public transit operator , and proclaimed that this order was the largest in Europe to date. Now Keolis, a private public transport operator that manages bus and metro systems around the world, has ordered 259 buses from BYD.
CleanTech Group
DECEMBER 10, 2019
An overview of the latest cleantech deals across all our sectors. Agriculture & Food Plantix, a developer of monitoring software with automatic image.
Forbes Green Tech
DECEMBER 10, 2019
Getting back to their steeply priced accommodation (a room during the forum can set you back $ 10,000 per night), attendees may notice the sleeping bags of Homeless Entrepreneur, a Spain-based charity that is organizing a sleepout in Davos in the days of the forum.
altenergymag
DECEMBER 10, 2019
The American Wind Energy Association (AWEA) today praised the “Blue New Deal” by Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) and its mission in advancing offshore wind as an important source of energy.
Impact Alpha
DECEMBER 10, 2019
ImpactAlpha, Dec. 10 – The venture capital model has fostered a culture of growth at any cost – and of founder homogeneity. Pitchbook reports venture capital investment in female-founded startups reached an all-time high in 2019… to 2.8% of invested capital. Enough investors are offering alternatives to the venture capital model that a trade group The post Inclusive capital means more flexible terms and more diverse founders appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
altenergymag
DECEMBER 10, 2019
Ginlong Technologies, leading manufacturer and supplier of Solis PV string inverters, announces its partnership with LC Chem. The Solis Residential Hybrid Inverter is now fully compatible with LG's RESU 48V line-up to provide stable, reliable home energy storage to customers in the U.S. and other global markets.
GatesNotes
DECEMBER 10, 2019
The latest masterpiece from one of my favorite writers.
altenergymag
DECEMBER 10, 2019
National Grid ESO's project Wider Access - a project to increase accessibility to the Balancing Mechanism (BM) - is scheduled to go-live on 11 December 2019. Cornwall Insight has reviewed the recent activity of aggregated units and batteries in the BM and what impact this project will have on new entrants.
Business Green
DECEMBER 10, 2019
The one upside to this miserable election has been the clear mandate for the net zero transition, but with all parties promising to bolder climate action who should green business types vote for?
altenergymag
DECEMBER 10, 2019
Sungrow, the global leading inverter solution supplier for renewables, today officially announced that it reached a 100 GW shipment milestone at a press conference, demonstrating Sungrow's commitment in sustainable development and efforts in supporting global decarbonizing economies as the first company ever to hit this particular record.
Impact Alpha
DECEMBER 10, 2019
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Signals: Ahead of the Curve Inclusive capital means more flexible terms and more diverse founders. The venture capital model has fostered a culture of growth at any cost – and of founder homogeneity. Pitchbookreports venture capital investment in female-founded startups reached an all-time high in 2019… 2.8% of invested capital.
altenergymag
DECEMBER 10, 2019
ECA SOLAR, LLC is a New England based engineer, developer and installation firm that specializes in commercial and industrial solar PV systems. ECA SOLAR has now installed over 100,000 solar panels on commercial rooftops in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.
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