California pulls no punches on climate action
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 23, 2019
Governor Gavin Newsom is unabashed about fighting climate impacts and the White House. He's got good company.
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 23, 2019
Governor Gavin Newsom is unabashed about fighting climate impacts and the White House. He's got good company.
Inhabitat - Innovation
OCTOBER 23, 2019
One of the largest obstacles in HIV prevention is the lack of clinics and resources in developing countries around the world. Now, British product designer Hans Ramzan has unveiled a solution that could potentially save thousands of lives.
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GreenBiz
OCTOBER 23, 2019
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Inhabitat - Innovation
OCTOBER 23, 2019
Renowned for beautiful views, indigenous history, and a famous golf resort, Ontario’s Bigwin Island will also soon be home to a new planned community spearheaded by MacKay-Lyons Sweetapple Architects, a Halifax-based studio that won the bid for the project with their contemporary and eco-friendly proposal. The first three cabins of the 40-unit community have recently been completed and feature a locally sourced natural materials palette, an oversized roof reminiscent of Muskoka’s historic cottag
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. 📊 Join us for a practical webinar hosted by Kevin Kai Wong of Emergent Ene
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 23, 2019
Goods deemed “Climate Neutral” are coming to stores soon thanks to a user-friendly approach to carbon accounting.
Inhabitat - Innovation
OCTOBER 23, 2019
The plant-based meat wave is sweeping the nation, and Pizza Hut is the latest fast food franchise to join the meatless bandwagon.
CleanTech Focus brings together the best content for cleantech professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Inhabitat - Innovation
OCTOBER 23, 2019
True to its fame as Norway’s most sustainable airline and as the two-time International Council on Clean Transportation (ICCT) recipient of the “Most Fuel-Efficient Airline on Transatlantic Routes” award, Norwegian Air is ambitiously targeting a carbon emissions reduction of 140,000 tons per year. It will do so by leveraging the SkyBreathe fuel efficiency app.
GreenTechMedia
OCTOBER 23, 2019
Tesla broke a streak of disappointing results for both its automobile and solar businesses last quarter, according to the company's latest earnings report. Coming into the back half of 2019, Tesla needed to prove it could ramp vehicle deliveries after a slow start to the year. To meet the company’s annual delivery target it would have to reach or exceed 100,000 deliveries in each subsequent quarter.
Envirotec Magazine
OCTOBER 23, 2019
The eye-catching #Infinitinny installation which has been unveiled in St Andrew’s Square: Drinks containers appear in an iterative manner, once the installation has been switched on at nighttime. Bubble-blowing ?bins and an eye-catching art installation will appear in Edinburgh City Centre from Tuesday 22 October, as a new on-the-go recycling initiative is launched by environmental charity Hubbub and The City of Edinburgh Council.
GreenTechMedia
OCTOBER 23, 2019
Out of this year’s collapse of German wind turbine manufacturer Senvion comes a major development in the wind turbine service industry. Earlier this week, Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy confirmed the purchase of Senvion’s European service fleet for €200 million ($222 million). The acquisition is expected to fully close by March 2020, and it will add nearly 9 gigawatts' worth of Senvion service contracts — and more than €200 million in associated annual services r
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.
Inhabitat - Innovation
OCTOBER 23, 2019
A tour of the Seattle Chocolate factory helps visitors deepen their appreciation of one of the world’s favorite treats.
GreenTechMedia
OCTOBER 23, 2019
The U.K.’s contracts for difference scheme has been praised for delivering projects at ever more competitive prices with investor-friendly guaranteed revenue. This has certainly proved the case for the scheme’s largest beneficiary, the offshore wind sector. But there is growing discontent, especially among trade unions , that developers awarded these 15-year deals from the U.K. government in Westminster are not doing enough for the local communities they impact.
Impact Alpha
OCTOBER 23, 2019
ImpactAlpha, October 23 – Forests are climate-negative technology at scale. So investments in tropical forests should be investment-ready, and fund managers able to tap the opportunity should be rolling in capital. But fund managers with an eye to conserving the world’s biggest carbon sink had had trouble getting traction. Terra Silva, a new $90 million fund The post Terra Silva has $90 million in ‘catalytic capital’ for carbon reduction in tropical forests appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
Forbes Green Tech
OCTOBER 23, 2019
Floating cities have now become real solutions to the global climate change crisis, and entrepreneurs have been scrambling to create the technology that will allow humanity to move out into the sea. Yes, it has really come to this.
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.
Charged
OCTOBER 23, 2019
Electrify Canada will install EV chargers at more than 20 Canadian Tire stores across the country. The charging stations will offer 150 to 350 kW DC fast chargers with liquid-cooled cables, and will be compatible with both CCS and CHAdeMO. Rob Barrosa, COO of Electrify Canada, said, “Canadian Tire is one of Canada’s most recognizable and trusted retailers, making this collaboration a natural fit.
Solar Power World
OCTOBER 23, 2019
Deals for utility-scale solar installations are accelerating on tribal lands in the Southwest U.S., according to a report published by the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis (IEEFA). The report, “Tribal Utility-Scale Solar Initiatives Advance Across Southwest U.S.,” cites the emergence of battery-storage technology, state energy policy changes and the rapidly falling prices of… The post Report finds tribal utility-scale solar is booming in the Southwest appea
altenergymag
OCTOBER 23, 2019
Dalkia (EDF Group), one of the leaders in energy services, is continuing its international expansion and is bringing together its subsidiaries in the United States under its brand name.
Andrew Winston
OCTOBER 23, 2019
(I doubt many of my readers missed this news item, but late in August, the Business Roundtable — CEOs from the country’s biggest companies — put forward new principles of business. For the first time in decades, they said that shareholders were not the only stakeholder that mattered. Below was my take on it in HBR. After a couple of months reflection, I’m still unsure how much it all means, but it could be an important turning point for business and sustainability —
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?
altenergymag
OCTOBER 23, 2019
Research from Cornwall Insight's Flexible Asset Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) Market Report has allowed for a comparison between the different markets for PPAs for renewables and flexible assets. The below graph highlights that one of the primary differences between the two sectors is the size.
Andrew Winston
OCTOBER 23, 2019
(I doubt many of my readers missed this news item, but late in August, the Business Roundtable -- CEOs from the country's biggest companies -- put forward new principles of business. For the first time in decades, they said that shareholders were not the only stakeholder that mattered. Below was my take on it in HBR. After a couple of months reflection, I'm still unsure how much it all means, but it could be an important turning point for business and sustainability -- if we all hold our compani
altenergymag
OCTOBER 23, 2019
With module efficiency of 20.78%, the new Tiger module is capable of generating up to 460 Wp of peak power output which is suitable for both utility and rooftop installations.
Impact Alpha
OCTOBER 23, 2019
ImpactAlpha, October 23 – Agents of Impact are making news. Seated next to Prime Coalition’s Sarah Kearney, Packard Foundation’s Susan Phinney Silver announced a commitment to the Prime Impact Fund for early-stage climate innovation. “Now is the time to be bold and really push ourselves to make new and different types of investments in our fight The post Show me the money: Overheard at SOCAP appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
altenergymag
OCTOBER 23, 2019
Consumers Energy’s residential battery storage pilot program is utilizing the Sunverge real-time DER Control and Aggregation Platform to test and measure how aggregated battery storage can offer benefits to Michigan’s electric grid and utility customers.
Forbes Green Tech
OCTOBER 23, 2019
In the past, threats to the legitimacy of climate science came almost exclusively from those opposed to action on climate change. Now that seems to be changing. Today, there is a new effort underway to delegitimize mainstream climate science, and it’s being waged by climate activists.
Charged
OCTOBER 23, 2019
Munich-based startup Magment has partnered with EDAG, a development partner for automotive products and production, to develop wireless charging solutions for Cooperative Intelligent Transportation Systems (C-ITS). Magment is focused on developing and manufacturing wireless chargers using magnetized concrete. In the partnership, EDAG will focus on developing wireless charging products that use Magment’s magnetic materials for Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) and Vehicle-to-Grid (V2G) applications
Greentown Labs
OCTOBER 23, 2019
Photo courtesy of Promethean Power Systems. Imagine you’re a dairy farmer in a rural Indian village. Your village only gets seven hours of power a day, which isn’t enough to operate a traditional milk chiller to keep your milk from spoiling. . Diesel generators are a flawed option, since they’re expensive and harmful to the environment. So your milk has to travel many miles to a chilling center.
EDF Voices
OCTOBER 23, 2019
Under mounting pressure from stakeholders, CEOs have a huge opportunity to use their existing technology investments for both business and the planet.
Impact Alpha
OCTOBER 23, 2019
ImpactAlpha, Oct. 23 – Social media giant Facebook became the third tech company this year to commit capital to affordable housing in West Coast cities (Microsoft pledged $500 million in Seattle; Alphabet’s Google committed $1 billion in San Francisco). Today, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg will testify before Congress about allegations that Facebook allowed third-party advertisers to exclude The post Facebook, under scrutiny in Washington DC, pledges $1 billion for affordable housing in
U.S. Green Technology
OCTOBER 23, 2019
As we approach 2020, humanity still has widespread difficulties meeting people’s need for clean water. This is true even in the U.S., where it’s a profitable commodity, but where we also use gallons to chase the homeless off our sidewalks. Homelessness exists everywhere in the world, and so does the unmet need for clean water. The post What Are the Key Technologies for Cleaning Our Water appeared first on U.S.
Impact Alpha
OCTOBER 23, 2019
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Locavesting on ImpactAlpha. Local goes global. Journalist Amy Cortese, who literally wrote the book on “Locavesting,” has brought her local investing beat to ImpactAlpha. As Amy wrote to the Locavesting community yesterday, she joined up to marry “the grassroots perspective, energy and authenticity to the broader conversation around impact investing, just as capital is beginning to The post The Brief: Tropical forest fund of funds, Locavesting on ImpactAlpha, Faceboo
Solar Power World
OCTOBER 23, 2019
Horne Brothers Construction (HBC) has completed the civil and mechanical construction on a 1-MW community solar project in North Carolina for municipal utility Fayetteville Public Works Commission (PWC). Other local partners on the project include the NC State Clean Energy Technology Center, Dewberry and Directional Services. The project is located beside the Butler-Warner Generation Plant,… The post Horne Brothers Construction completes 1-MW community solar project in North Carolina appea
Charged
OCTOBER 23, 2019
EV Connect , which builds cloud-based software for managing charging networks, has closed a $12-million Series B funding round, led by Japanese conglomerate Mitsui & Co and Ecosystem Integrity Fund. This funding round brings the total capital raised by EV Connect to over $25 million. EV Connect is based on international open standards, so customers can use a wide range of charging equipment.
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