GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Decarbonized energy systems are completely feasible, technically. The only barriers are political and cultural.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Hell, hath no fury like Hurricane Dorian. Those on Abaco and Grand Bahama Island recently met Dorian as she made her presence known causing havoc to around 13,000 homes and at press time killing seven in her wake. Her fierce 185 m.p.h. winds forced people to hunker down or leave the islands altogether but they weren’t the only ones affected. Animals such as the endangered Bahama nuthatch bird living in the biomes aka pineyards also felt Dorian’s wrath.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

And three residential policies can promote economic development, improve health and reduce carbon emissions.

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Health Policy Carbon Politics 379

Inhabitat - Innovation

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Sustainable design practice A-01 (A Company / A Foundation) has combined traditional tropical architecture elements with modern prefabrication to produce the No Footprint House, a contemporary and energy-efficient abode that boasts a minimal environmental footprint.

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Cooling Sustainability Energy Energy 202

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.

Energy

GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Two new global reports conclude that climate change could exert strong downward pressure on global economic performance.

Climate change 354

Climate change Investment 354

Inhabitat - Innovation

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Singapore-based architecture firm WOHA has unveiled plans to create a net-zero energy green oasis for 2020 World Expo Singapore Pavilion in the Dubai desert.

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Energy Energy 203

Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Improved habitat for birds, bees and other wildlife is to be created along the River Thames in Kent and Essex in a new partnership between the Port of London Authority (PLA) and the RSPB. The Thames Estuary contains some of the most important and protected wetland habitat in the UK, supporting a wide range of flora and fauna, including many species in decline or under threat.

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Investment Biodiversity Education Packaging 187

Inhabitat - Innovation

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Reaching for the weed killer glyphosate in Germany won’t be an option much longer.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Plus, how reporting can help investors and more on China's Belt & Road Initiative.

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Sustainability Agriculture Energy Energy 207

Inhabitat - Innovation

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Experimental architect Margot Krasojevi? has proposed a fantastical, solar-powered crematorium in Santa Monica that would not only use renewable energy for cremation, but would also give people the option to turn the ashes into tattoos, a concrete reef or even fireworks.

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Solar Power Energy Energy 172

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.

Transportation

Michael Grossman

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Like millions of parents around the country, I took my daughter to college last week. It’s a bittersweet ritual that started when I let her hand go on her first day of kindergarten and is now complete. She has chosen a path, and it forevermore will diverge from mine. I mention this not to remind you to offer me a Kleenex when you see me, but rather to share the connection and the emotional impact of a story that’s as old as homo sapiens have walked the planet.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

If they can decaffeinate coffee, why not decarbonize it, too? Berkeley-based Bellwether Coffee proposed to do just that by building a fully electric micro-roaster. The product replaces conventional gas-burning machines to turn raw beans into perfectly browned vehicles for caffeination and delectation. Coffee roasters don't often drip into the pages of Greentech Media, even if their products regularly fuel our journalistic process.

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U.S. Green Technology

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Residential structures consume nearly 40 percent of all energy produced in the United States. For most homeowners, monthly energy bills are one of the largest expenses they have. Instead of spending more money than you need to on energy, you need to work on reducing this expense. Homeowners have to work a bit harder in. The post 8 Energy-Efficient Tips For Your Home appeared first on U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Each year wind turbines get taller in pursuit of steadier, stronger breezes. From 2000 to 2018, the average hub height of utility-scale wind turbines installed in the U.S. jumped from 58 meters to 88 meters, according to the American Wind Energy Association (AWEA). A new National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) report on tower heights for land-based turbines in the U.S. presents data that supports the industry’s quest for taller towers.

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Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor North America 100

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.

Sustainability

Solar Power World

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

By Caitlin Garrity, marketing specialist, Third Sun Solar Appalachian Ohio still feels the effects of its not-so-distant coal mining past. From the health impacts on the people who worked in the mines, to the hills from which it was extracted, to the remaining under-employed workforce, there has long been a need for a sustainable economic… The post Appalachian Ohio: A case study in compassionate transition from coal to solar appeared first on Solar Power World.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

This week on Watt It Takes : How an energy researcher obsessed with electric vehicles stumbled upon a vast trove of transportation data and built a company that is reshaping infrastructure planning for mobility. Powerhouse CEO Emily Kirsch sits down with Laura Schewel, the founder and CEO of Streetlight Data. Laura spent her career studying storage, electric vehicles, and transportation systems at the Rocky Mountain Institute, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission, and then as a research fellow a

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Forbes Green Tech

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Renewables are also increasing electricity prices and making energy supplies less secure in Australia, California, and Britain.

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Energy Energy Electricity 111

Solar Power World

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

SunSystem Technology (SST) has acquired New Jersey-based operations and maintenance (O&M) provider, Power Overhaul. The transaction will unify the operations and field technicians of both companies, providing additional resources to partners, solar site owners and portfolio owners. The deal solidifies SST as the nation’s largest third party residential service provider.

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Technology Solar Power 86

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?

Carbon

Charged

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Mercedes-Benz has announced three compact plug-in hybrids under the company’s EQ Power label. The A 250 e, A 250 e Saloon, and B 250 e will each feature a 15.6 kWh battery, electric range of 70-75 km, electric output of 75 kW, total system output of 160 kW, and system torque of 450 Nm. Each of the new models has a transversely mounted engine, compact hybrid traction head, low-loss wet clutch and on-demand stator and rotor cooling.

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Cooling Batteries Europe Electricity 86

altenergymag

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Only one year into the program, Massachusetts is more than halfway toward the 1.6 gigawatt program limit, prompting a review and new program proposal from the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources (DOER).

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Energy Energy 75

Impact Alpha

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

ImpactAlpha, Sept. 5 – Not even superior performance by investment managers of color, it seems, dispels lingering racial bias in the allocation of capital by institutional investors. The latest Returns on Investment podcast took another look at the study from Illumen Capital and Stanford SPARQ, released last month, that found that biases, implicit or otherwise, The post Applying a racial lens to overcome persistent bias in investment management (podcast) appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Investment 82

altenergymag

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

-Siemens to replace four floating power generation barges in the Upper Bay of New York City -SeaFloat turnkey solution will provide reliable peaking power for New York City’s renewable ambitions -Boost power generating efficiency by nearly 50 percent -20-year long-term service agreement signed

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Energy Energy 71

Impact Alpha

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

ImpactAlpha, Sept. 5 – The growth of Beyond Meat and other alternative protein sources underscores the sustainability challenges of animal meat and dairy suppliers. An update to the Coller FAIRR Protein Producer Index shows that two-thirds of 60 publicly-listed meat and dairy producers are at “high risk” on most factors tracked by the index, including greenhouse The post Sustainability risks in animal agriculture appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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altenergymag

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

KORE Power provides an update about the manufacturing, assembly, testing and development process for its Mark 1 Energy Storage System in advance of expected production in Q1 2020 and confirms that the Company is on target to produce over 5,000 cells/10 Mark 1 Energy Storage System racks, per day.

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Energy Energy 68

Forbes Green Tech

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

This article examines how internet marketing is creating cultural change as its messages are increasingly bringing to the fore new ideas of power, selfhood and authenticity springboarding selfhood through technologies that are effecting our culture and the way we perceive ourselves as a society.

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Technology 74

Solar Power World

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

CleanChoice Energy, a renewable energy company that empowers people and businesses to cut emissions and live cleaner lives, and Hartz Solar, a developer, and owner of over 40 MW of solar assets in the Mid-Atlantic, have opened 1.9 MW of new community solar for Maryland residents serviced by Baltimore Gas & Electric. The new community… The post CleanChoice Energy, Hartz Solar open 1.9 MW of new community solar for Maryland residents appeared first on Solar Power World.

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Energy Energy Solar Power Electricity 72

Forbes Green Tech

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

"The next 30 years are the most important 30 years there will EVER be in the history of agriculture." Thus agriculture expert Jack Bobo asserts in conversation with Robert C. Wolcott at Alltech ONE in 2018. Aligning science, values and food for the future of humanity.

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Agriculture 73

AFN Sustainable Protein

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

For former yogurt maker and company co-owner Tom Moffitt, if you can’t beat the plant-based dairy alternatives, it’s best to join them. The post Former dairy yogurt guy raises $11m Series A to convert dairy facility to plant-based factory appeared first on AgFunderNews.

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Startups Sustainability Europe Investment 72

Forbes Green Tech

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

When most people think of solar power, they think of rooftop electricity. But there is another critical purpose — to properly distribute water, which in turn is boosting productivity for Africa’s agricultural sector.

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Agriculture Solar Power Electricity 71

altenergymag

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

The deal solidifies SST as the nation's largest 3rd party residential service provider. Collectively, the two companies have serviced over 160,000 residential and commercial systems across 20 U.S. states.

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Technology 60

Enervee

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Driving private investment into efficient products, solar and electric vehicles We are pleased to announce that Con Edison’s choice engine platform – powered by Enervee – has logged over 2.8 million visits, helping New Yorkers make better energy-related buying decisions. Empowering New Yorkers: One of REV’s top-line goals In line with fundamental tenets of NY’s signature policy initiative, Reforming the Energy Vision – most notably, empowering New Yorkers to make more informed energy choices – C

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Electric vehicle Logging Innovation Energy 60

Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Steel Pony, established in 1992, is a specialty boutique manufacturer and retailer of a line of clothing and handbags that are 100% Made in America. The company is located in the heart of the Fabric District of Philadelphia, where each piece is custom made, dyed by hand, and individually crafted. Using only eco-friendly materials, including California-grown cotton and Massachusetts-sourced dyes, the fabrics are knit in North Carolina and upstate New York, then finished, sewn, and sold in Philad

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Fashion Retail Waste Waste 60

Impact Alpha

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

ImpactAlpha, September 5 – The Australian investment bank Macquarie already has A$20 billion ($13.6 billion) in renewable energy deals under its belt. But that’s chump change compared to the opportunity. Macquarie expects $8.8 trillion will be invested in new zero-carbon energy capacity by 2040. “Renewables are becoming the pragmatic choice rather than the brave one,” Macquarie Capital’s Mark The post Macquarie Group fills its coffers for ‘pragmatic’ green infrastructure appeared first on Impact

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