Rare earth minerals power the world, but mining leaves local and global footprints in the land
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 4, 2019
The mining industry has work to do to ensure that communities and workers are safe from pollution and injury.
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The Ocean Cleanup has first success collecting plastic from Great Pacific Garbage Patch
Inhabitat - Innovation
OCTOBER 4, 2019
After years of trials that left its engineers scratching their heads over design challenges, the nonprofit’s newest prototype device has consistently collected plastic waste from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
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BMW accelerates into the circular economy
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 4, 2019
The luxury automaker is using circular practices to cut out costs and emissions from its manufacturing processes.
New app could save Puget Sound whales from boat strikes
Inhabitat - Innovation
OCTOBER 4, 2019
This week, Washington State Ferries implemented a whale report alert system (WRAS) app that notifies ferry captains of the whereabouts of orcas and other cetaceans in Puget Sound to help prevent collisions.
Manufacturing Sustainability Surge: Your Guide to Data-Driven Energy Optimization & Decarbonization
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.
A former McDonald's exec on planetary health, human health and brand health
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 4, 2019
Ex-CSO Bob Langert talks behind-the-scenes of the food giant's sustainability journey.
How to grow your own pumpkins
Inhabitat - Innovation
OCTOBER 4, 2019
While every supermarket has mounds of pumpkins ready for purchase, with a little planning you can grow and harvest your own pumpkins for everything from jack-o'-lanterns to pumpkin bread.
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Spectacular installation in London turns scaffolding planks into sculpture
Inhabitat - Innovation
OCTOBER 4, 2019
Named Please Be Seated, the installation provides Broadgate, London’s largest pedestrianized neighborhood, with a beautiful piece of art that doubles as seating.
Amazon fires decreased in September but crisis far from over, says conservation group
Envirotec Magazine
OCTOBER 4, 2019
The number of fires in the Amazon in September decreased compared to the same period last year, according to the latest data from the Brazilian National Institute for Space Research (INPE). But the crisis is far from over: while the temporary reduction in the number of fires can be attributed to Brazil’s firefighting response, deforestation continues to mount in preparation for more fires.
Stunning boho-style tiny house comes with open-air bar
Inhabitat - Innovation
OCTOBER 4, 2019
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Electrofuels Are the Future: The Driving Force to Decarbonizing Heavy Transport
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.
BP Names Next CEO as Zero-Carbon Era Looms
GreenTechMedia
OCTOBER 4, 2019
Bob Dudley will retire next year after a 40-year career at BP, and on Friday the oil and gas supermajor named his successor as CEO. Bernard Looney, currently head of BP's upstream business, will take over the hot seat in early 2020. What does Looney's appointment say about the company's direction of travel? “Our company has amazing people, tremendous assets and a set of core values that guide our actions, but most of all we have a desire to be better," Looney, a native of the R
Toolkit aims to help foodservice firms get flush on FOG (rather than flushing it away)
Envirotec Magazine
OCTOBER 4, 2019
Restaurants and the wider foodservice sector must act now to cash in on the potential rewards presented by fats, oils and grease (FOG), rather than face the risk of an expensive prosecution and clean-up operation for blocking the sewers, according to the Sustainable Restaurant Association (SRA) and engineering firm Kingspan Water & Energy. The two published a toolkit on 3 October “designed to help operators say goodbye to fatbergs and hello to pay-back on their waste.” Seven out
NextEra and Southern Company Rank as Largest Solar Owners Outside China
GreenTechMedia
OCTOBER 4, 2019
NextEra Energy is the largest owner of solar PV capacity outside China, in a “highly fragmented” global market, according to a new ranking from Wood Mackenzie. NextEra has long dominated the U.S. wind market, where its 15-gigawatt base of installed capacity is nearly twice the size of No. 2 Berkshire Hathaway Energy’s wind fleet. But unlike some of the other big U.S. wind developers, NextEra has pivoted aggressively toward solar in recent years, taking advantage of the falling
Noise correlation technology delivers major leak reduction
Envirotec Magazine
OCTOBER 4, 2019
The Enigma3hyQ logger in situ. A project jointly undertaken by Anglian Water and leak detection expert Primayer has seemingly seen leakage reduction of 1.4 million litres of water per day in targeted areas. Primayer’s managing director Roger Ironmonger explains “how new technology and close collaboration led to the fantastic results.” Leakage remains one of the biggest concerns for the water industry – in the UK about 20% of water supplied is lost through leaks.
AR/VR Simulations for Sustainable, Regenerative, Circular Cities
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.
Did Climate Strikes and the UN Summit Influence American Politics?
GreenTechMedia
OCTOBER 4, 2019
Millions of young people took to the streets last month to demand governments take bolder action on climate. Days later, world leaders assembled at the United Nations for the Secretary General's high-profile Climate Action Summit, where dozens of countries pledged to strengthen their climate goals. But did any of this resonate with American policymakers?
Amazon fires decreased in September but crisis far from over, says conservation group
Envirotec Magazine
OCTOBER 4, 2019
The number of fires in the Amazon in September decreased compared to the same period last year, according to the latest data from the Brazilian National Institute for Space Research (INPE). But the crisis is far from over: while the temporary reduction in the number of fires can be attributed to Brazil’s firefighting response, deforestation continues to mount in preparation for more fires.
Already Burning for a Month, Fracked Gas Blowout in Louisiana Could Last Two More Months
DeSmogBlog
OCTOBER 4, 2019
Read time: 7 mins For the fifth week since the blowout began , a large flare is still burning at the site of GEP Haynesville, LLC ’s blown out fracked gas wells in northwestern Louisiana. The blowout occurred on August 30, shortly after the company began a frack job, igniting two adjacent wells. A state official estimated that efforts to contain the blowout could take another two months, or more.
The Ocean Cleanup project finally cleaned up some plastic
Grist
OCTOBER 4, 2019
Well, folks, there’s a first time for everything — the Ocean Cleanup project has successfully deployed a device that collects plastic pollution. Our ocean cleanup system is now finally catching plastic, from one-ton ghost nets to tiny microplastics! Also, anyone missing a wheel? pic.twitter.com/Oq0rkXO3TH. — Boyan Slat (@BoyanSlat) October 2, 2019.
How Digital Transformation will Bend the Curve of the Linear Economy Toward the Circular
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?
How Do Solar Panels Produce Electricity?
Sunrun
OCTOBER 4, 2019
Solar energy is one of the most affordable, renewable energy sources available today. So how do solar panels actually generate electricity? Here’s the process demystified. Basic Solar Components To find out how solar panels work, you need to understand how they’re made. Many solar panels use silicon, one of the planet’s most common elements. But since creating silicon crystals of suitable quality is difficult and expensive, home solar systems are usually built from similar, but less expensive ma
The Week in impact investing: Catalyzing capital
Impact Alpha
OCTOBER 4, 2019
TGIF, Agents of Impact! It’s called impact investing for a reason. The real action at the Global Impact investing Network’s investor forum this week was in de Grote Zaal, the grand hall of the Beurs Van Berlage, Amsterdam’s old commodity exchange. Dealmakers and fund managers from at least six of the seven continents hawked their wares and The post The Week in impact investing: Catalyzing capital appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
Washington Petrochemical Plant Subsidies Would Violate Federal ‘Double Dipping’ Rules Say Environmental Groups
DeSmogBlog
OCTOBER 4, 2019
Read time: 7 mins A plan to build a natural gas–fueled petrochemical plant in Kalama, Washington, ran into a new legal hurdle last week, as a coalition of environmental groups raised new objections to its construction. The Port of Kalama methanol plant, if built on the Columbia River between Washington and Oregon, would expand North America’s capacity to export products produced by fracked shale gas wells, and is part of a $5.2 billion plan to develop methanol plants in this corner of the Pacif
Agent of Impact: Nuveen’s Vijay Advani
Impact Alpha
OCTOBER 4, 2019
ImpactAlpha, Oct. 4 – The $1 trillion asset-management arm of TIAA is the world’s largest farmland owner and an increasingly visible impact investor. “You cannot be in farmland and not look at water conservation,” Advani said at this week’s GIIN investor forum. “You cannot buy Nike stock, or Volkswagen or Exxon or IBM, without looking at The post Agent of Impact: Nuveen’s Vijay Advani appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
Hanergy Inaugurates the World's First Automated HanTile Production Line
altenergymag
OCTOBER 4, 2019
The HanTile automatic production line is U-shaped with a curved transparent tempered glass which is exactly the same size of the thin film solar chip. This thin film can export the generated current after connected.
On our watch… biodiversity breakdown
Fairsnape
OCTOBER 4, 2019
Although over recent years in the built environment, ‘on our watch’, we have been discussing and to varying degree implementing biodiversity net gain, biodiversity units, action plans, habitat exchange, ecology of place, connectivity with nature and biophilic design. Yet today’s State of Nature report paints a dire picture of decline and loss of so many species and habitats.
Bloom Energy and EnergyPower to Supply Reliable, Renewable, Zero Carbon Electricity From India’s BioWaste
altenergymag
OCTOBER 4, 2019
Bloom Energy plans to install and operate 4 MW of Bloom Energy Servers at the plant in Shirala, Maharashtra in the first half of 2020.
Sense Delivers Insight into Home Energy Usage
Greentown Labs
OCTOBER 4, 2019
Photo courtesy of Sense. If your house could talk to you about your energy usage, what would it say? The creators of Sense think it would say you could reduce your energy usage by at least 20 percent—and tell you how. Sense is a home energy monitor that gives real-time insight into your home’s energy usage. Its co-founders got their start in speech recognition, developing a predecessor to Siri that became the voice interface for Samsung and others.
Cree to build silicon carbide device manufacturing facility in New York
Charged
OCTOBER 4, 2019
Silicon carbide manufacturer Cree plans to build a new manufacturing facility in Marcy, New York. The fabrication facility for 200 mm power and radio frequency wafers, which will have a footprint of 480,000 square feet upon completion, will help increase capacity for the company’s Wolfspeed SiC and GaN business. The facility is the result of a partnership between Cree, the office of Governor Andrew M.
Here Is What 1200 Of The World’s Leading Impact Investors Focus On
Forbes Green Tech
OCTOBER 4, 2019
This week at the 10th annual Global Impact Investing Network Forum, impact investors and professionals discussed some of the most pressing challenges and developments in the field.
Safari Energy completes rooftop solar system at New York mall
Solar Power World
OCTOBER 4, 2019
Washington Prime Group announced as part of its sustainability efforts the completion of the solar panel system at Jefferson Valley Mall, located in Yorktown Heights, New York. The system is comprised of 2,746 PV modules, spanning more than 73,000 SF, offsetting approximately 22,190 tons of CO2 equivalent per year. Under the terms of the agreement,… The post Safari Energy completes rooftop solar system at New York mall appeared first on Solar Power World.
Green shoots: UK green and ethical fund investments hit £23.5bn
Business Green
OCTOBER 4, 2019
EIRIS Foundation reports strong growth in green UK investment, as separate survey suggests many Brits remain unaware of how their pensions are invested.
IRS Fails To Stop Electric Car Tax Credit Cheats
Forbes Green Tech
OCTOBER 4, 2019
Should there be a tax break for buying an electric car? A report on lax IRS enforcement of the $7,500 plug-in tax credit adds to the debate.
Carbontech, the trillion-dollar circular market opportunity
Business Green
OCTOBER 4, 2019
Products made from embedded CO2, from soap to fuels to vodka, are great examples of the circular economy in action.
New Cementex YouTube Channel Features Demonstrations and Educational Videos
altenergymag
OCTOBER 4, 2019
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