GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020
Scaling Circular Fashion in North America: Part 2. What will it take to transition the fashion industry toward circularity at scale? The need for urgent action is clear: While the lifespan of individual garments dwindles, the environmental footprint of the apparel industry continues to grow. But where there’s inefficiency, there’s often opportunity.
Inhabitat - Innovation
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020
Organic urban agriculture, renewable energy and beautiful landscaping come together at the Thammasat University Rooftop Farm (TURF), Asia's largest organic rooftop farm that spans 236,806 square feet. Bangkok-based landscape architecture and urban design firm LANDPROCESS designed the productive landscape in response to both the Thai capital's sprawling urbanization and rising food and water scarcity concerns amid the climate crisis.
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GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020
Policy for a Circular Economy: Part 2. How should diverse corporate stakeholders —such as brands and packaging producers — help shape the U.S. policy landscape around plastics, recycling and solid waste management? This two part policy session, organized in collaboration with the The Recycling Partnership, will focus on the role that brand and packaging producers can play in forging a stronger policy environment in the U.S. to create more circular outcomes.
Inhabitat - Innovation
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020
Vegans often face limited options for frozen treats. Sure, you can put a banana in the freezer, get a little fancier with a sherbert or maybe cool off with some vegan frozen yogurt. But now, thanks to Halo Top's new line of vegan ice cream flavors, consumers can enjoy a range of choices with the creamy texture that makes ice cream summer's perfect treat.
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
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020
Policy for a Circular Economy: Part 1. How should diverse corporate stakeholders — such as brands and packaging producers — help shape the U.S. policy landscape around plastics, recycling and solid waste management? This two part policy session, organized in collaboration with the The Recycling Partnership, will focus on the role that brand and packaging producers can play in forging a stronger policy environment in the U.S. to create more circular outcomes.
Inhabitat - Innovation
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020
Only 30 electric Rolls-Royce Phantom V models will be produced.
CleanTech Focus brings together the best content for cleantech professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Inhabitat - Innovation
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020
Google announced that it has now invested in enough high-quality carbon offsets to erase its carbon footprint.
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020
Shifting your Business Model: How to Resale. How can your company implement a resale business model? The resale of used, worn or simply returned consumer products, also known as recommerce, holds tremendous promise for the retail industry. Beyond diverting substantial landfill waste, resale represents a rapidly growing revenue opportunity with a market valued at $20 billion in the apparel industry alone.
GreenTechMedia
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020
It took a while, but the Texas grid battery market is officially heating up. Developer-owner-operator Broad Reach Power confirmed Tuesday that it has commenced construction on a pair of 100-megawatt batteries, each of which is bigger than any battery plants currently operating in Texas' ERCOT power market. They are slated to come online next year in Mason and Williamson counties, alongside 15 smaller systems rated at 10 megawatts/10 megawatt-hours each.
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020
Financing Circularity. What new strategies are enabling companies and sectors to finance circularity at scale? The circular economy offers significant value and new growth opportunities. In the plastic value chain alone, research shows that compared with business-as-usual, a circular economy has the potential to reduce the annual volume of plastics entering our oceans by 80 percent, reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 25 percent, generate savings of $200 billion per year, and create 700,000 addit
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
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020
The shift to low-carbon energy will transform oil companies, and BP wants to be at the vanguard of the industry in making those changes — having set a net-zero target for 2050 earlier this year. But there's one thing BP doesn't want to change: the returns it offers its investors. In a three-day event for investors this week, BP provided more detail on how it hopes to build 50 gigawatts of renewable power capacity while pocketing the kind of returns it's used to.
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020
Don’t be square: How to tell a successful, circular story that sticks. How can companies effectively communicate circular initiatives without confusing or alienating customers and stakeholders? The circular economy is becoming a centerpiece of many corporate sustainability strategies. Yet companies often struggle to translate this into stories that inform and engage employees, customers, investors and other stakeholders.
GreenTechMedia
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020
With wildfires burning north, south and east of its Menlo Park, California headquarters, Facebook on Monday announced it will expand its emissions-reductions goals, encompassing not only emissions from its own operations but also those produced by its suppliers. The social networking corporation expects to eliminate or offset all of its own emissions this year, while completely decarbonizing its supply chain by 2030.
Green Business Bureau
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020
?STTLG Sustainability Consulting is a sustainability company based in Canada’s capital of Ottawa, built by students and graduates to help small to medium sized businesses attain, leverage, and promote their positive social and environmental efforts as a competitive edge in a largely overshadowed industry. Their mission is to provide businesses the technical approach along with tools to effectively and efficiently engage and report on sustainability.
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.
Inhabitat - Innovation
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020
You can still make a difference, even during the pandemic.
Charged
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020
EMT Madrid, which operates a fleet of 2,100 buses and a network of 213 bus lines, has ordered thirty 40-foot electric buses from Chinese manufacturer BYD. The company describes the deal as Spain’s largest order for electric buses to date. The announcement follows the delivery of an initial order of fifteen BYD 40-foot models in May. Some of these e-buses are now operating on EMT’s busy route 52, which connects the Puerta del Sol, one of the city’s main squares, with the suburb of Santamarca; oth
Impact Alpha
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020
ImpactAlpha, September 15 – Bridges Fund Management and AEA Investors filed to float a $400 public offering for AEA-Bridges Impact Corp., a “special purpose acquisition company,” or SPAC, that will hunt for mid-cap private companies to take public. New York-based AEA, with $15 billion in assets under management, will tap Bridges’ impact investing experience to.
The City Fix
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020
Left unchecked, urban freight will continue to be a major driver of the global climate crisis. 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
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020
ImpactAlpha, September 15 – Netherlands-based Lumos sells solar systems to West African businesses and households that lack reliable access to energy. Lumos sells 80-watt and 160-watt systems on a pay-as-you-go basis through partnerships with mobile operators like MTN. An investment from the U.S. International Development Finance Corp. aims to help Lumos produce and sell 160,000.
Forbes Green Tech
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020
Of course wildfires don't stop at the Canadian border, but poor geographic literacy fueled such claims.
Charged
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020
Enel X provides a range of smart charging and e-mobility solutions. The company’s latest product is JuiceEco, which enables EV drivers to power their rides with 100% renewable energy. JuiceEco provides Green-e certified Renewable Energy Certificates (RECs) to match the consumption of any EV anywhere in the US with carbon-free electricity. “JuiceEco provides EV drivers with a choice for their JuiceBox charging station’s electricity source,” said Giovanni Bertolino, Head of e-Mobility at Enel X No
Planet Pulse
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020
A new study has successfully combined Planet imagery with information processing algorithms in order to study and reconstruct medieval archaeological sites without causing any damage to these historical locations. Using a synthesis of remote sensing and geoinformatics , an archeological exploration has uncovered the layout of a medieval village located at ?
Charged
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020
Wallbox , a Barcelona-based manufacturer of smart charging solutions, has announced the acquisition of Electromaps , a digital platform for locating and accessing charging points. The Electromaps app, which allows users to access and pay for charging directly from their mobile phones, features a database of over 120,000 recharging points in 120 countries, and has some 100,000 registered users.
altenergymag
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020
The name change reflects the Company’s continued commitment to lead the world to clean mobility
Impact Alpha
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020
No matter where you are in the world, if you work somewhere in the entrepreneurial ecosystem – entrepreneur, investor, support organization – your life has unavoidably changed in recent months. You likely spend a lot more time on a webcam and a lot less time “grabbing coffee” or hopping on a plane to meet partners. The post Weathering the Storm: COVID-19 lessons from social entrepreneurs in Southeast Asia appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
altenergymag
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020
On a global level, construction of hydropower dams is anticipated to reach unparalleled rates in the coming years, specially in countries with developing economies. The above-mentioned factors are likely to drive the demand for hydropower turbine in the coming years.
DeSmogBlog
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020
Read time: 6 mins The standard, pre-operational testing of a new natural gas compressor station in the Massachusetts community of Weymouth, south of Boston, had barely begun last week when a gasket failure prompted an emergency shutdown of the facility and resulted in an unintentional gas leak. Weymouth's compressor station, once open, would keep gas pumping through a regional pipeline system, but even before this gas leak, its road to get there has been bumpy, with outcries over its air pollu
Charged
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020
Do you struggle with inconsistencies in your plant? Are you dealing with a skills gap and aging workforce? Learn how to overcome current challenges and stay competitive in these changing times with our webinar, Eliminate waste in your factory to optimize production. Tune in to this webinar to see the latest advancements in pump technology and sealant equipment from Nordson.
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020
Tech giant unveils plans for new Climate Science Information Centre as it pledges to reach net zero emissions across its value chain by 2030. Following years of criticism for its part in the spread of climate misinformation, Facebook has announced plans for a new virtual Climate Science Information Centre that will connect its users to up-to-date science-based climate information.
Mr. Sustainability
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020
How much biomass is produced each year and how much can we sustainably harvest? The annual global production of biomass is roughly 100 billion tons, about half of which is in the ocean and half is on land. Land biomass can be divided into four distinct groups suitable for energy production: wood and processing waste, agricultural crops and waste materials, food, yard and wood waste in garbage, and finally animal manure and human sewage.
Impact Alpha
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: Impact Voices COVID-19 lessons from Southeast Asia’s social entrepreneurs. The Philippines, Indonesia and other Southeast Asian nations have moved in recent weeks from crisis management to the COVID era’s new normal. In Indonesia, women-led e-commerce platform Ecodoe pivoted to production of personal protection equipment and is using its experience to.
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020
A new report argues that with demand for clean hydrogen set to boom, the nascent mocular reactor industry could have a key role to play in meeting surging demand. The world can meet the Paris climate goals and save "trillions" of dollars by building a new generation of modular nuclear reactors to create clean hydrogen, a new report suggests. Hydrogen is increasingly seen as an important component of efforts to decarbonise the global energy system, providing a potential means of eradicating emiss
U.S. Green Technology
SEPTEMBER 15, 2020
For the businesses of our times, having a website is a default need. At the first point, it is the website, and the brand’s online presence helps generate customer interest in any product or service. There are many techniques and strategies to make a website attractive and user friendly to the users, but the immediate. The post Should Company Outsource to SEO Agency or DIY to bring Your Site on Top of Search Results appeared first on U.S.
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