The Environmental Blog

JANUARY 14, 2020

If you think that there is nothing that you can do in order to help preserve the world’s beautiful wildlife, think again. You don’t have to be a hands-on conservationist to make a difference! Here is some great advice on everything that you, as an individual, can do to help. Preserve natural habitats. Grasslands, rivers, and forests are all natural habitats for a wide variety of animals, including birds and insects.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 14, 2020

Some researchers contend there is an opportunity for ecological restoration that could help fight climate change and stem the loss of biodiversity.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JANUARY 14, 2020

The modern, solar-powered home is situated on a hilly slope with the help of a protective and stabilizing wall along a surrounding orchard.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 14, 2020

Many big Bay Area companies such as Facebook and Genentech use large fleets of private commuter buses. This year more of these vehicles will run on batteries.

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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.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JANUARY 14, 2020

With the potential to grow up to 40 crops, the lush, green vest is irrigated by urine filtered through reverse osmosis.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 14, 2020

Carmakers are coming under increasing pressure to ensure the materials used for electric vehicle production are responsibly sourced.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 14, 2020

The move is becoming more common in Europe but is unprecedented among North American airlines.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 14, 2020

The U.S. Energy Information Administration has confirmed what it and industry watchers predicted a year ago—that wind and solar power will expand on their already-large share of new U.S. generation capacity in 2020. According to EIA data released Tuesday , wind and solar will make up 32 of the 42 gigawatts of new capacity additions expected to start commercial operation in 2020, dwarfing the 9.3 gigawatts of natural gas-fired plants to come online this year.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JANUARY 14, 2020

By reading carbon labels, consumers may be motivated to make better and more sustainable choices.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 14, 2020

German automotive giant Volkswagen will become the largest manufacturer of EVs before 2030, according to new analysis from Wood Mackenzie. WoodMac expects Volkswagen to produce 14 million battery electric vehicles (BEVs) cumulatively by 2028, and climb from its 2018 ranking as the 10th largest manufacturer to the very top of the global pile. VW’s own internal target is to produce 22 million BEVs by 2028.

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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.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 14, 2020

Read time: 6 mins By Joe Smyth, Energy and Policy Institute. This was originally posted on the Energy and Policy Institute. Analysts at Morgan Stanley and Moody’s Investors Service expect that more electric utilities will accelerate their transition away from coal, with major financial benefits for both ratepayers and shareholders. In a research report last month titled “The Second Wave of Clean Energy,” analysts at Morgan Stanley explained how “the surprisingly low cost of renewables” will driv

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GatesNotes

JANUARY 14, 2020

Using data and innovation, the Saha family is working to protect children from vaccine-preventable diseases in Bangladesh.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 14, 2020

In my annual review of big themes in sustainability and business — in other words, how companies manage environmental and social issues and opportunities — I’ve always included a changing climate as a big story. But it’s now not an annual story; it’s permanent. The list of extreme, tragic, and very costly weather events this year — record heat in Europe, hail in June in Mexico , record floods in Nebraska , endless Australian bush fires , and epic destruction from storms in Mozambique an

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Greentown Labs

JANUARY 14, 2020

Circularise co-founder Mesbah Sabur. The Circularity Challenge is a six-month accelerator program designed to advance innovative solutions to enable a circular economy. The five participants are disrupting the plastics, energy storage, and recycling value chains. The Circularity Challenge is run by Greentown Launch —Greentown Labs’ internal accelerator—and BASF , and supported by Stanley Black & Decker.

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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.

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U.S. Green Technology

JANUARY 14, 2020

Here are our top five easy ways to make your home more environmentally friendly We’re all aware of how serious climate change is, so if you’re looking to reduce your carbon footprint and help do your bit for the environment, your first port of call should be to get your home in order. While you. The post 5 Tips to Make Your Home More Environmentally Friendly appeared first on U.S.

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Charged

JANUARY 14, 2020

European charging network IONITY , a joint venture of BMW, Daimler, Ford, VW, Audi and Porsche, has purchased 324 new 350 kW chargers from Swiss electronics giant ABB. Purchased as part of the second phase of IONITY’s European network expansion, the chargers are scheduled to be installed in 24 countries by the end of 2020. IONITY bought 340 chargers from ABB in 2018.

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Impact Alpha

JANUARY 14, 2020

ImpactAlpha, Jan. 14 – Sustainability, and in particular climate risk, is disrupting asset management. “In the near future, and sooner than most anticipate, there will be a significant reallocation of capital,” BlackRock’s Larry Fink writes in his annual letter to CEOs. Fink put climate at the center of changes in the way it will manage The post With indexes and stewardship, BlackRock pledges to retool passive investing for climate action appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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altenergymag

JANUARY 14, 2020

Cornwall Insight Australia is pleased to announce the appointment of Alba Ruiz Leon as Managing Director. With the responsibility of Cornwall Insight's Australian business, Alba will play a key role in supporting the company's growth in Australia.

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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?

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R-Squared Energy

JANUARY 14, 2020

We begin 2020 with the stock market again testing record highs. We just finished a year in which oil prices rose by more than 30%. However, natural gas prices closed the year nearly 40% lower, emphasizing the extent to which these two commodities have become unlinked. It’s also an election year. Those tend to inject additional unpredictability into the markets, as short-term decisions are often made to influence voters (e.g., releasing oil from the Strategic Petroleum Reserve to drive gasoline p

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altenergymag

JANUARY 14, 2020

Altus Power America, Inc. ("Altus Power" or the "Company"), a market-leading solar power company that provides clean electricity to commercial, industrial and municipal clients across the U.S., announced today that Blackstone (NYSE: BX), through its GSO Capital Partners LP ("GSO") and Blackstone Insurance Solutions ("BIS") groups, has led a recapitalization with $850 million of funded and committed capital to refinance the existing capital structure and fund future development.

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R-Squared Energy

JANUARY 14, 2020

With tensions in the Middle East high, I have fielded a number of queries on how this might impact the world’s oil markets. Today I want to explore that issue. The Middle East presently produces about a third of the world’s oil. The most important producers there, ranked according to 2018 production, are: Saudi Arabia – 12.3 million barrels per day (BPD).

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Solar Power World

JANUARY 14, 2020

By Becky Nace-Grover, Value Creation Executive, ProSight Specialty Insurance The ongoing boom in community solar is shifting the role of solar providers from one-off residential or commercial projects to something that more closely resembles a traditional utility company. This changing role makes it important for providers of community solar to emphasize proper installation and inspection… The post As solar installers become direct power providers, here are tips for community solar success

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Clean Energy Canada

JANUARY 14, 2020

VICTORIA — Merran Smith, executive director at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement regarding the start of consultations for the next federal budget: “It’s encouraging that climate action is taking a front seat as budget consultations get underway this week. “Three-quarters of Canadians say the transition to clean energy will benefit Canada, according to a recent poll.

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Solar Power World

JANUARY 14, 2020

Following a vote by its board of directors, the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA) announced that George Hershman, president of Swinerton Renewable Energy, has become chair of the SEIA Board of Directors, effective immediately. Hershman has been with Swinerton, one of the largest engineering, procurement and construction contractors in the country, for 23 years, and… The post Swinerton’s president becomes board chair of SEIA appeared first on Solar Power World.

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altenergymag

JANUARY 14, 2020

Joint smart home energy management solution will allow utilities to holistically manage about 60 percent of household load in integrated and dynamic manner

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Impact Alpha

JANUARY 14, 2020

When it comes to corporations known for responsible business and sustainable practices, Unilever is often cited as one of the best examples. But when the Canadian research firm Impak Finance last year drilled deeper into corporate impact, Unilever scored only 302 out of a possible 1,000 points. The French energy equipment and management company Schneider The post Global corporations start to capitalize on ‘positive externalities’ appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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altenergymag

JANUARY 14, 2020

Ballard Power Systems today announced that it has signed Equipment Sales Agreements for the provision of an initial 500 FCgen®-1020ACS fuel cell stacks

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Solar Power World

JANUARY 14, 2020

Extensible Energy has released new features for DemandEx, its demand charge reduction software that works without energy storage. The most notable improvement is HardCap, an intelligent algorithm that automatically blocks demand spikes over a pre-set kilowatt level. When enabled, HardCap allows small solar PV buildings to limit demand spikes and qualify for an energy-only utility… The post Extensible Energy adds demand charge elimination feature to software appeared first on Solar Power Wo

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altenergymag

JANUARY 14, 2020

"How to get the best out of your heat network" is the topic of a free half-day workshop roadshow for social housing providers and their contractors.

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Impact Alpha

JANUARY 14, 2020

ImpactAlpha, January 14 – San Francisco-based utility-scale solar developer Lightsource BP is prepping a 4-gigawatt pipeline of projects with “solar tracking” equipment from Array Technologies. (Tracking equipment helps maximize the amount of sunlight that can be converted to energy.) The deal follows on the heels of a fresh equity agreement with oil major BP, which The post Lightsource BP spends $100 million on equipment to fuel solar expansion appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Solar Power World

JANUARY 14, 2020

Sunpin Solar, a California-based solar developer, held a groundbreaking ceremony on January 10, 2020, celebrating the start of construction on its 98-MW Titan Solar 1 Project in Ocotillo Wells, California. This is Sunpin Solar’s largest utility-scale solar project in California, following the successful completion of the 96.75-MW ColGreen North Shore solar project in Riverside County… The post Sunpin Solar begins construction on 98-MW California solar project appeared first on Solar Power

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Impact Alpha

JANUARY 14, 2020

Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: ImpactAlpha Original Global corporations start to capitalize on ‘positive externalities.’ When it comes to corporations known for responsible business and sustainable practices, Unilever is often cited as one of the best examples. But when the Canadian research firm Impak Finance last year drilled deeper into corporate impact, the French energy equipment and management company Schneider Electric far The post The Brief: Positive externalities, BP’s solar rev

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Solar Power World

JANUARY 14, 2020

Sunverge, the provider of Distributed Energy Resource (DER) control and aggregation platform, announced a strategic alliance with LG Electronics, a global leader in smart appliances and renewable energy technology. Sunverge and LG Electronics will jointly offer LG’s premium solar module technologies, energy storage systems and smart appliances integrated with Sunverge’s advanced intelligent energy management platform… The post Sunverge partners with LG on utility-side smart home energy man

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