GreenBiz
JANUARY 7, 2020
There’s no shortage of efforts to reform capitalism and corporate governance. Can disparate actors, particularly civil society movements, converge under the banner of corporate redesign?
Inhabitat - Innovation
JANUARY 7, 2020
Danish architecture studios Open Platform and JAJA Architects have won an open competition to design Denmark’s first all-timber parking garage in the coastal city of Aarhus. Designed with a reduced environmental footprint, the new multi-level parking garage will be built from cross-laminated timber and partly enveloped in greenery to help contribute to the country’s goal of becoming climate neutral by 2050.
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GreenBiz
JANUARY 7, 2020
Despite myriad efforts, the aviation industry unlikely to succeed in reducing its emissions given the current hurdles. In fact, the case is quite the opposite.
Inhabitat - Innovation
JANUARY 7, 2020
Enjoy the fresh air, the vegan eats and the eco-hotels that sunny Bend, Oregon has to offer with this guide.
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.
GreenBiz
JANUARY 7, 2020
The modifications, proposed in November and now out for public comment, seem to have been advocated by a network of oil and gas interests.
Inhabitat - Innovation
JANUARY 7, 2020
VRA Design made the most of a long, narrow plot by creating an internal courtyard in a house in Vietnam.
CleanTech Focus brings together the best content for cleantech professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
GreenTechMedia
JANUARY 7, 2020
Siemens Gamesa Renewable Energy, the world’s largest supplier of offshore wind turbines, won the order for Dominion Energy’s 2,640-megawatt project off the coast of Virginia, solidifying its leading role in the burgeoning U.S. offshore market. The deal not only ranks among the largest offshore turbine orders in history, but among the largest the global wind industry has ever seen.
DeSmogBlog
JANUARY 7, 2020
Read time: 23 mins This report was produced as part of ivoh’s Restorative Narrative Fellowship. On the evening of January 6, Louisiana state regulators issued 15 key permits to the Taiwanese petrochemical corporation Formosa for its $9.4 billion plastics manufacturing complex proposed for the historically black area of St. James Parish. Word spread today about the approvals, which pave the way for the project’s construction, opposed by local and national environmental advocates.
Greentown Labs
JANUARY 7, 2020
The NBD Nano team, including co-founders Deckard Sorensen (front row, center) and Miguel Galvez (front row, left). A Q&A with Co-founder Deckard Sorensen. NBD Nano changes the way surfaces interact with water and oil. Co-founders Deckard Sorensen and Miguel Galvez turned down the job offers they had upon graduating college to make NBD Nano a reality, and their gamble worked out. .
Fairsnape
JANUARY 7, 2020
This is Part 2 of Zero Carbon Series. See Part One Carbon That Was then This is Now. Writing in FutuREstorative back in 2016, I looked at what a construction project would look like in response to the Living Building Challenge ‘s “what if every act of construction made the world a better place” … Projects would be net positive in all aspects, on place, nature, water, health, even knowledge and of course carbon.
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.
DeSmogBlog
JANUARY 7, 2020
Read time: 4 mins This article originally appeared in The Guardian and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalistic collaboration to strengthen coverage of the climate story. By Michael Mann. After years studying the climate, my work has brought me to Sydney where I’m studying the linkages between climate change and extreme weather events.
Forbes Green Tech
JANUARY 7, 2020
Paris Smalls, 26, Ammar Alali, 29, recognized the potential for novel extraction techniques to recover oil and created Eden GeoPower as a solution.
Inhabitat - Innovation
JANUARY 7, 2020
The Golden Globes made history by switching to a vegan menu.
Forbes Green Tech
JANUARY 7, 2020
Japanese car giant Toyota has teamed up with the renowned architecture firm BIG to create Toyota Woven City, an urban incubator in Japan dedicated to the advancement of all aspects of mobility
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.
Women in Cleantech and Sustainability
JANUARY 7, 2020
Part One: Leadership and Negotiation Introduction | August 27, 2020; 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm PT. Part Two: Developing the Skills: Think like a CEO | October 1, 2020: 8:00 am – 10:30 am PT. Part Three: Skills Assessment and Lessons Learned | November 12, 2020: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm PT. Virtual Events. Register. About this Event. Member Notes: This event is complimentary for all WCS members.
Impact Alpha
JANUARY 7, 2020
Impact Alpha, Jan. 7 – Reforming capitalism is all the rage. Many of us in the ESG and impact investing communities are enthusiastic about calls from business and economic leaders for a ‘stakeholder economy’ that benefits more than our bottom lines. Ray Dalio, Marc Benioff, Jerome Powell, Peter Georgescu, Paul Collier, and John Elkington, as The post Leverage, compensation and taxation: Doing due diligence on investment fund managers appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
altenergymag
JANUARY 7, 2020
An additional day of 2020 National Electric Code (NEC) update training will be offered preceding the conference on February 24. Early Bird pricing is available until Friday January 17. To purchase tickets, visit the Conference’s eventbrite page. For detailed breakout session information, visit altE's event page.
Solar Power World
JANUARY 7, 2020
Global solar installations will continue double-digit growth rates into the new decade, according to the new 2020 Global Photovoltaic (PV) Demand Forecast by IHS Markit. New annual installations in 2020 will reach 142 GW, a 14% rise over the previous year. The expected 142 gigawatts are seven-times that of the entire capacity that had been… The post IHS Markit predicts U.S. solar installations will grow 20% in 2020 appeared first on Solar Power World.
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
JANUARY 7, 2020
• Dominion Energy selects Siemens Gamesa for USA’s largest offshore wind power project to date • Long-term service and maintenance agreement included at site off the coast of Virginia • Installations of Siemens Gamesa Direct Drive offshore wind turbines expected to be completed by end of 2026.
Impact Alpha
JANUARY 7, 2020
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Impact Voices Leverage, compensation and taxation: Doing due diligence on investment fund managers. Impact investors have become well-practiced in measuring the environmental and social impacts of the companies they invest in. They are increasingly vocal about good governance and accountability. But what about the structures of their own investment funds?
altenergymag
JANUARY 7, 2020
Wells Solar & Electrical Services is now a Tesla Powerwall Certified Installer in Texas, offering a customized solar-plus-battery solution that enables you to access the free, abundant power of the sun and reduces your reliance on fossil fuels.
CleanTech Group
JANUARY 7, 2020
Agriculture & Food Decisive Farming, a developer of a cloud-based data management and analysis platform with integrated service providers for crop farmers, was.
altenergymag
JANUARY 7, 2020
The second in the series of the future network research papers from Cornwall Insight has been released. Future Networks - Flexibility Platforms, focuses on how the role of Distribution System Operators (DSOs) will evolve if flexibility exchange platforms - tools which enable providers to trade flexibility in multiple markets - become widespread.
Impact Alpha
JANUARY 7, 2020
After years studying the climate, my work has brought me to Sydney where I’m studying the linkages between climate change and extreme weather events. Prior to beginning my sabbatical stay in Sydney, I took the opportunity this holiday season to vacation in Australia with my family. We went to see the Great Barrier Reef – one of The post Climate scientist in Australia: dangerous climate change is here now appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
altenergymag
JANUARY 7, 2020
The future of fast and ultra-fast charging has arrived. EVBox, the leading global manufacturer of electric vehicle charging stations and charging management software, has revealed its new fast-charger EVBox Troniq 100 (up to 100 kW), and the redesign of its HPC Ultra-fast charger EVBox Ultroniq (up to 350 kW) at CES 2020 (Las Vegas)—the world’s largest global stage for innovation.
Solar Power World
JANUARY 7, 2020
The end of 2019 saw the official first step down of the federal ITC, so it was really no surprise that the utility-scale solar pipeline hit a historic high of 37.9 GW — 11.2 GW of new utility projects were announced in H1 2019 alone. Huge proposed installation numbers are great, as long as the… The post Continued tariffs may keep U.S. module prices inflated <br><span style='color:#404040;font-weight:600;font-size:15px;'>2020 Trends in Solar</span> appeared
Green Market Oracle
JANUARY 7, 2020
Greenhouse gas emissions are rising and our carbon budget* is dwindling. Between 2014 and 2016, global carbon emissions remained mostly flat, but emissions began to rise again in 2017. They rose in 2018, and there is good reason to believe they have risen again in 2019. According to the UN's 10th Emissions Gap Report , global emissions are expected to keep climbing putting us on track to push past dangerous upper threshold temperature limits.
altenergymag
JANUARY 7, 2020
Leader in energy management and industrial automation previews residential solutions at CES that integrate with Wiser to reinvent the new electric home
Impact Alpha
JANUARY 7, 2020
ImpactAlpha, January 7 – By global standards, American startups’ access to capital is good. U.S.-based businesses take in half of all venture capital funding worldwide. But national figures obscure regional realities: only about 5% of U.S. venture investments flow to startups in the Southeast and Midwest, according to PitchBook’s data. Park City, Utah, and Kansas City, The post Royal Street Ventures raises $16 million for Middle America’s startups appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
Forbes Green Tech
JANUARY 7, 2020
Impossible Foods, the buzzy plant-based meat company that made a big splash at CES 2019 with its Impossible Burger 2.0, is back. At CES 2020, it unveiled its next products: Impossible Pork and Impossible Sausuage.
Solar Power World
JANUARY 7, 2020
Nexamp, a national community solar program developer, was selected to build three new projects of more than 11 MW in New Jersey as part of that state’s Community Solar Energy Pilot Program. These new community solar sites will make it possible for residents to save money on their electricity costs while supporting the growth of… The post Nexamp will construct 11-MW of New Jersey community solar systems appeared first on Solar Power World.
Forbes Green Tech
JANUARY 7, 2020
Tesla has begun delivery of its China-made Model 3 sedans to much fanfare and enthusiasm, but analysts say the company will have to do a lot more to energize longer-term demand in the world’s largest auto market.
Solar Power World
JANUARY 7, 2020
Texas-based Wells Solar & Electrical Services announced it is now a Tesla Powerwall Certified Installer. The Powerwall consists of a 13.5-kWh lithium-ion battery pack, liquid thermal control system, an integrated inverter and software that intelligently dispatches electricity when it’s needed most. The unit mounts on a wall or on the ground, indoors or outdoors, and is… The post Wells Solar is now a Tesla Powerwall certified installer appeared first on Solar Power World.
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