GreenBiz
MARCH 27, 2020
Corporations have been driving the uptake of renewables across the United States for years. Hundreds of companies have made voluntary commitments to transition to 100 percent clean energy, and companies of all sizes have spearheaded renewable procurement deals, adding clean energy capacity to the grid. .
Inhabitat - Innovation
MARCH 27, 2020
Sperry has just launched Bionic, a new type of eco-friendly boat shoe that is made from recovered waste in the oceans.
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GreenBiz
MARCH 27, 2020
From recipes for recommerce to changing packaging ingredients, the retail sector is integral to adoption of the circular economy. Don't expect a cookie-cutter approach.
The Environmental Blog
MARCH 27, 2020
Rear View Of Couple Standing In Front Of Their House. Many people around the world are having solar panels installed in their homes. For many, the core reason behind this choice the positive effects on the environment. However, there is also a financial benefit of having these panels installed. There are already two million homes in the US that have solar panels installed, and many more currently weighing up the benefits of making the switch.
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
MARCH 27, 2020
Local farmers could be part of the key to helping to prevent extinction.
Inhabitat - Innovation
MARCH 27, 2020
Mumbai-based firm Sanjay Puri Architects has just completed work on a beautiful hotel in northern India known for wine production. Built on a base of locally-sourced natural stone, the Aria Hotel is a stunning design carefully stacked onto the landscape that boasts several passive and active features to make it incredibly energy efficient.
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Inhabitat - Innovation
MARCH 27, 2020
Members of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe have, for many years, been voicing concerns about the likelihood of environmental hazards from the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL). And, once more, the DAPL has made headlines, thanks to a federal judge’s recent decision to strike down permits issued by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers (USACE).
GreenBiz
MARCH 27, 2020
Plus, highlights from this week's webcast on how retailers can embrace the circular economy.
Inhabitat - Innovation
MARCH 27, 2020
Dutch architecture firm MVRDV has unveiled its competition-winning designs for the Shimao ShenKong International Centre, a new “three-dimensional urban living room” for the heart of Shenzhen’s Longgang district.
GreenBiz
MARCH 27, 2020
"We must find other avenues for progress.".
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.
Inhabitat - Innovation
MARCH 27, 2020
Monarch butterflies are amongst North America’s majestic wildlife. They fascinate with their vibrant allure and migratory prowess. Yet these beauties are under serious threat, as evidenced by drastic population reduction throughout North America.
GreenTechMedia
MARCH 27, 2020
Residential and commercial energy storage installations are taking a hit as the U.S. tackles the coronavirus pandemic. The behind-the-meter storage segment will install 31 percent less capacity in 2020 than previously forecast, according to a new analysis by research firm Wood Mackenzie. It’s a preliminary estimate based on early data from the nation’s coronavirus response.
Grist
MARCH 27, 2020
Imagine working on an experiment that was two years in the making, and then watching it all melt away just before you could finish it. That’s the situation that Emily Bristol, a graduate student at the University of Texas at Austin’s Marine Science Institute, almost found herself in when her lab shut down on Tuesday to help prevent the spread of COVID-19.
GreenTechMedia
MARCH 27, 2020
Europe's solar renaissance looks set to continue blossoming despite the impact of the coronavirus and falling power prices, experts and investors say. A combination of new competitive tenders and the increasingly favorable economics of solar power-purchase agreements (PPAs) have dragged Europe's once world-leading solar market out of its post-subsidy malaise.
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.
Solar Power World
MARCH 27, 2020
One of the advantages of going solar for residential and commercial customers is the opportunity to get paid for the energy they generate. This is called net metering, when those customers push the electricity they aren’t using back onto the grid and receive a credit from their utility. Those customers are only billed for the… The post Which states offer net metering?
Inhabitat - Innovation
MARCH 27, 2020
Meghan Markle is returning to show biz to narrate a new Disney documentary about elephants.
Charged
MARCH 27, 2020
Tesla plans to drastically reduce staffing at its Nevada Gigafactory due to the coronavirus crisis, the local county manager said on Thursday. “Tesla has informed us that the Gigafactory in Storey County is reducing on-site staff by roughly 75% in the coming days,” Austin Osborne said in a post on the county’s web site. A week ago, battery partner Panasonic said it would pull its 3,500 employees from the Gigafactory for 14 days.
Econaur
MARCH 27, 2020
When insulating your home, you can choose from many types of insulation. To choose the best type of insulation, you should first determine the following: Where you want or need to install/add insulation The recommended R-values for areas you want to insulate. Installing Insulation. The maximum thermal performance or R-value of insulation is very dependent on proper installation.
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
MARCH 27, 2020
TGIF, Agents of Impact! Hope goes viral. This week we learned a lesson in exponential growth. Not just of COVID-19’s spread. But in how to fight it, with science, agency and hope. On Sunday morning, I woke to an email from my brother, Dave, an intensive-care doctor at a major hospital in New York City, the. The post The Week in impact investing: Urgency appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
Business Green
MARCH 27, 2020
Green transition efforts should be integrated into Covid-19 recovery plans, according to European Council statement. The European Union has signalled it will not lose sight of its green ambitions as it deals with the immediate priority of fighting the coronavirus pandemic, and that decarbonising the Europe's economy should form a core part of the continent's economic recovery.
Charged
MARCH 27, 2020
Bollinger Motors has unveiled its patent-pending E-Chassis, a Class 3 electric platform designed for commercial applications. “When we first built our Class 3 B1, we knew there was a commercial aspect to the platform,” says CEO Robert Bollinger. “Not only cab-on-chassis, but entirely new truck bodies can fit on our E-Chassis, and help propel the world to all-electric that much faster.” The E-Chassis is the same platform shared by the B1 Sport Utility Truck and the B2 Pick
Business Green
MARCH 27, 2020
The world may be reeling from unprecedented public health crisis, but the UK's latest greenhouse gas figures offer genuine cause for optimism. UK emissions are down. By a lot. And it has nothing to do with Covid-19. That, in a nutshell, was the shining gem of good news in another otherwise bleak day down the news mine. The government today published its preliminary emissions and energy data for 2019 and while there were few surprises it offered confirmation that last year was another very good y
DeSmogBlog
MARCH 27, 2020
Read time: 5 mins Electric cars are better for the climate than gas-powered vehicles in nearly every part of the world. That's the clear, unequivocal finding of the first study that conducted a global examination of the current and future greenhouse gas emissions of electric vehicles ( EV s) and gas-powered cars. This study directly refutes myths perpetuated by climate science deniers and EV antagonists, who claim that EV s are really not all that green.
Forbes Green Tech
MARCH 27, 2020
As the country’s coronavirus response reduced electricity demand, people in Italy are now discovering the long-term advantages of so-called “smart” working.
Business Green
MARCH 27, 2020
French energy giant looks set to lodge plans to build Sizewell C nuclear power station in Suffolk later than planned. EDF's ambitions to build another new nuclear power station in the UK have been put on hold as the country grapples with the coronavirus crisis, with the French energy giant yesterday confirming it has postponed plans to lodge its planning application for the Sizewell C project in Suffolk.
Solar Power World
MARCH 27, 2020
Solar Alliance Energy has completed the rooftop portion of the 519-kW solar system currently under construction for a division of Onni Group at Manhattan Beach Towers in California, a mid-rise and multi-tenant office building owned by the Vancouver-based developer. Solar Alliance is contracted for the design, procurement and construction management services for a combined rooftop… The post Solar Alliance completes rooftop installation of 2-part, 519-kW array appeared first on Solar Power W
Business Green
MARCH 27, 2020
All the key green business news from around the world this week. US EPA suspends enforcement activity, as EU lobbyists call for delay to emissions rules. Global emissions may have fallen as the coronavirus pandemic has shuttered businesses around the world, but environmental campaigners are increasingly fearful the crisis could yet be used to roll back environmental rules and regulations.
GreenTechMedia
MARCH 27, 2020
Charged
MARCH 27, 2020
KEMET Electronics Corporation has launched a new family of metal composite power inductors for the automotive market. The inductors are designed for switching power supplies in Electronic Control Units (ECUs). Available in various industry-standard SMD footprints, MPXV inductors can operate at temperatures up to 155° C, and can be used in all areas of the vehicle.
Impact Alpha
MARCH 27, 2020
ImpactAlpha, March 27 – When voluntary and then mandatory social distancing shut down businesses and nonprofits in New York, the effects were immediate. Revenues disappeared, employees were laid off, reserves dwindled. Government relief is still weeks away, but starting today, the Nonprofit Finance Fund is taking applications for no-interest loans to nonprofits in healthcare, food.
altenergymag
MARCH 27, 2020
North American firm helps complete restoration of historic Toronto building
Unsustainable
MARCH 27, 2020
Governments must use knowledge gained during this crisis to plan a more sustainable future, one that empowers everyone to use streets healthily and freely. Written by Ashita Parekh and Stuart Hamre The window of opportunity By now, nearly everyone around the world is witnessing the impacts of our collective social distancing and self-isolation efforts.
Business Green
MARCH 27, 2020
The UK's biggest celebration of the green economy will now take place this autumn. BusinessGreen can today confirm it is extending the deadline for this year's BusinessGreen Leaders Awards until 5pm on May 1st and will reschedule the annual ceremony for this autumn in light of the continuing coronavirus outbreak. Leading businesses, projects, executives, entrepreneurs, investors, and NGOs from across the green economy are invited to submit their entries ahead of the new May deadline and showcase
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