GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
Episode 254: David Crane chats, PepsiCo CSO talks business. Heather Clancy. Fri, 02/05/2021 - 02:00. Week in Review. Stories discussed this week (5:25). What’s a sustainable (and just) business model? What the US could learn from China about how leasing affects EV transition. How US government procurement can lead the clean economy. Features. It's risky business as usual (15:45).
Inhabitat - Innovation
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
Founded by brothers Travis Nagle and Ryan Schultz, Medley Furniture has brought its sustainable agenda a step further via a partnership with the National Forest Foundation. The project seeks to aid in reforesting the United States and reducing the impact of climate change.
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GreenTechMedia
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
Net-zero carbon pledges are becoming common for utilities. But a huge number of them are failing to decarbonize on any timeframe that truly matters. They’re not phasing out coal, they’re building lots of new gas plants, and they’re not building enough clean energy. We’ll talk about a damning new analysis of utility climate goals from the Sierra Club that digs into the actual numbers.
Inhabitat - Innovation
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
Milan-based firm Antonio Citterio Patricia Viel (ACPV) has unveiled plans for the sustainable renovation of energy company Enel’s historic Rome headquarters.
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.
GreenTechMedia
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
California regulators are on the cusp of breaking open a long-awaited opportunity to enlist rooftop solar, behind-the-meter batteries and other distributed energy resources (DERs) to substitute for expensive grid upgrades. It’s called the “ Partnership Pilot ,” and according to DER developers, it could be a major step forward in a distribution resources plan (DRP) effort that’s been underway in California since 2014 , and is being duplicated under names like distribution
Inhabitat - Innovation
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
This modular housing model conserves water and produces twice the energy it needs through solar panels.
CleanTech Focus brings together the best content for cleantech professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Inhabitat - Innovation
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
Brookesia nana dwells in the Madagascar rainforest and may be the smallest — and cutest — reptile on Earth.
Charged
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
Hydrogen fuel cells are controversial—several automakers, including Daimler , Honda , GM and Volkswagen , have abandoned the technology, while Toyota continues to pursue it. Hydrogen opponents cite its inefficiency relative to batteries, and question the wisdom of building a complex and costly new infrastructure. On the other hand, many believe that hydrogen may have a role to play in industrial processes, and for powering heavy-duty vehicles, including ocean-going ships and aircraft.
Inhabitat - Innovation
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
Using discarded face masks could lead to stronger, cheaper roads.
Defend Our Future
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
This Black History Month, we are happy to add on to our list from last year , as we recognize and amplify the work of five more young Black leaders that fight for racial and social justice and climate justice and lift the voices of Black and brown communities that are disproportionately impacted. Leah Thomas, environmental activist, Founder of Intersectional Environmentalist. “ I think it’s important to know that intersectional environmentalism and environmental justice are not competing.
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.
Renewable Energy World
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
U.S. residential solar and energy-efficient home improvement financing agency Mosaic this week announced it has surpassed $4 billion in loans funded through the company’s platform. The company has also added new features to its financing program including no payments for 18-months and a 25-year term loan, which it says will make it even easier for homeowners to go solar. “Last year was an unusual time, but solar loans have proven to be a strong asset through this credit cycle, COVID
Forbes Green Tech
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
Building gigawatt-scale offshore wind will be lousy for consumers, the oceans, offshore navigation, and marine life. Building 22 gigawatts (or more) of domestic offshore wind will require industrializing vast swaths of some of the most heavily fished and navigated waters on the Eastern Seaboard.
Charged
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
Merchants Fleet, a national fleet management company, plans to procure 12,600 light commercial EVs from BrightDrop , GM’s recently-announced business venture. Merchants Fleet expects the BrightDrop EV600, an electric van optimized for last-mile goods delivery, to enter its clients’ fleets starting in early 2023. BrightDrop’s EV600 will be built on GM’s Ultium platform.
Impact Alpha
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
ImpactAlpha, Feb. 5 – Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala has a warning for nations prioritizing self-interest in their pandemic responses: “No one in the world can be. The post Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, development economist appeared first on Impact Alpha.
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
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
U.S. Gain, a specialist in the development of alternative fuels, now plans to offer “credit generation” to electric “fleets and forklifts” in California, which the company says will open a new revenue stream for customers. U.S. Gain touts its experience with credit generation programs such as the Federal Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS), California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) and Oregon’s Clean Fuels Program (CFP).
Renewable Energy World
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
By Asaf Nagler. Transitioning the transportation sector to electricity is going to be transformative, and not just to the incumbent industry; it will create new companies, jobs, and change how we interact with our cars, trucks, buses, trains and ships. Industry transitions of this scale, however, do not happen in a vacuum. To position the country as a leader and to ensure that the maximum economic benefits equitably reach the most people, policymakers must create the market conditions for a heal
Charged
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
ODOS, a developer of IoT cloud platforms for remote real-time data streaming, and Eatron, a developer of AI-powered BMS and analytics software, have just signed a partnership agreement to provide EV battery analytics. The partnership will integrate a connected intelligent BMS with cloud analytics services to offer vehicle manufacturers and fleet owners full visibility of in-field battery state and health and enhanced diagnostics capability, in an effort to reduce warranty costs and optimize flee
The City Fix
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
Plummeting bus and train ridership, lost jobs, overflowing warehouses, more inequality: 2020’s disruptions to the transport sector were widespread and deep. Speaking at Transforming Transportation 2021, co-hosted by WRI and the World Bank, sustainable mobility leaders from around the world. 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?
Charged
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
Ford’s Q4 2020 earnings report included an announcement that the automaker will increase its investments in electrification to at least $22 billion through 2025, nearly twice the previously-announced level (the company also committed an additional $7 billion to autonomous vehicle tech). As auto analyst John Voelcker pointed out , Ford’s figure tops GM’s announced investment of $27 billion for EVs and AVs.
Planet Pulse
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
As we all know, 2020 was a disruptive, chaotic, and tumultuous year. Professionally though, it was a year that tested and demonstrated the capabilities and resiliency of Planet’s operations teams. . Like the entire company, mission operations’s transition to fully remote was abrupt. Within the span of two weeks, business continuity plans were developed and all employees transitioned to a 100% work-from-home posture.
Renewable Energy World
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
EPC and O&M provider Borrego (formerly Borrego Solar) this week announced it has been selected to develop a 110-MW-AC utility-scale solar project as part of the solicitation for large-scale renewables by New York State Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA). The project will be Borrego’s largest development announced to date. The solar project is one of 20 awarded as part of NYSERDA’s efforts to develop more than two gigawatts of new renewable energy capacity throughout New Yo
Business Green
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
Blistering heatwaves and devastating flood events are set to take an ever greater toll on the UK's mental and physical health, according to the Climate Coalition. The physical and mental health of more than 12 million people in the UK is under threat from the growing impacts of climate change, including blistering heatwaves and devastating flooding, a major new study today warns.
Forbes Green Tech
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
As Polestar picks up the Gold LEED award for its Chengdu factory environmental performance, the marque’s CEO Thomas Ingenlath explains his ambitions for this niche performance electric car brand.
altenergymag
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
MORBiZ has released a new blog to help businesses avoid SEO issues caused by a variety of Google My Business - GMB - issues.
Business Green
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
Nobody wants the food they consume to have destroyed forests, habitats, and wildlife on its way to their plate, and yet the system that underpins our global food supplies today continues to be one of the biggest drivers of biodiversity loss and climate change worldwide. Over the past half century, the conversion of natural ecosystems for crop production or pasture has been the principal cause of habitat loss, which in turn reduces biodiversity.
Forbes Green Tech
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
We all have responsibility to make the changes that will allow our civilization to adapt to and mitigate the effects of climate change. I’m lending my experience in financial analysis and the markets. What can you do to help civilization?
Business Green
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
Trade body charts rapid rise of battery storage market and growth of less-established storage technologies in update to Energy Storage Project Intelligence Report. The UK's battery storage pipeline has grown 50 per cent in the last 14 months amid soaring demand for projects that can balance an increasingly renewables-heavy grid, according to statistics published this morning by RenewableUK.
Green Living Guy
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
With rising levels of climate change and growing pollution, Planet Earth is in danger of environmental destruction. Medical authorities have been issuing health warnings to the global citizens on the health consequences of tampering with nature. But we are yet to take them seriously. Industrial development and massive production of. The post Top 5 Environmental Issues You Should Know appeared first on Green Living Guy.
Business Green
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
Swiss firm bolsters its science-based targets with plans to become carbon neutral, and then carbon positive by 2030. Perfume and flavour giant Firmenich has unveiled a flurry of new sustainability goals, yesterday committing to become a "carbon positive" company, recycle 100 per cent of its plastics, and produce 100 per cent renewable fragrances all by the end of the decade.
Green Living Guy
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
For example All Electric, Pollution Free, Battery-Powered Outdoor Power Tools a Growing Trend Among Landscapers So besides the solar light ideas you always wanted for your backward, check this out! Invest in Solar-Powered Outdoor Fixtures It’s no secret that investing in a solar power system can promote a healthier environment. The post 6 Backyard Makeover Ideas You’ll Love appeared first on Green Living Guy.
Business Green
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
Environmental groups argue government's decision to frame coal mine as a 'local issue' turns blind eye to global impacts of burning coal, as calls grow for government to intervene while it still can. The government is facing calls from a coalition of the UK's leading green groups for it to establish a public inquiry into plans for a new coal mine in Cumbria, just days after renowned climate scientist James Hansen warned the plans would lead to "ignominy and humiliation" for the UK.
Green Living Guy
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
Source: Pixabay So in recent years, “sustainability” has become a buzzword. It’s used throughout the agriculture industry. That’s because there’s a good reason for this. Put simply and in China for example, the Pinduoduo company deals with supply chain management for eco or sustainable crops. Also , soil and agriculture. For. The post Agricultural Practices That Are Both Practical and Eco-Sustainable appeared first on Green Living Guy.
Business Green
FEBRUARY 5, 2021
Renewable energy supplier's founder announces plan to step back into non-exec role, sparking search for new CEO. Good Energy is on the hunt for a new CEO after the green energy company's founder, Juliet Davenport, yesterday announced her intention to stand down after two decades at the helm. Davenport will remain CEO until a replacement is found, at which point she will take up a non-executive director position at the company and its electric vehicle charge point subsidiary Zap Map.
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