The global economy depends on clean air
GreenBiz
APRIL 28, 2020
To repair our economy and ensure its resilience, we can — and we must — solve for public and planetary health at the same time.
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Florida Aquarium captures baby coral breakthrough on video
Inhabitat - Innovation
APRIL 28, 2020
Scientists at the Tampa-based aquarium successfully reproduced ridged cactus coral for the first time, and caught the process in a magical video. Since a major disease outbreak attacked Florida’s coral reefs in 2014, scientists from Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission and NOAA Fisheries.
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As COVID-19 and nature are linked, so should be the recovery
GreenBiz
APRIL 28, 2020
It's no coincidence that new diseases have risen as more ecosystems have vanished.
Inspiring rammed earth hospital brings affordable care to rural Nepal
Inhabitat - Innovation
APRIL 28, 2020
An inspiring beacon of humanitarian architecture has arrived to one of the poorest and most remote regions of Nepal — the new Bayalpata Hospital in Accham.
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.
Rethinking the Trillion Trees Act could help the US economy
GreenBiz
APRIL 28, 2020
Coronavirus has caused unemployment to skyrocket. Tree restoration could be a cost-effective way to put Americans back to work.
Offshore Oil Rigs Are A Special Case For COVID-19
Jim Conca
APRIL 28, 2020
Offshore oil platforms located in the middle of the ocean, provide a perfect storm for COVID-19: limited medical facilities, great distances from shore, and cramped quarters and bunks similar to a battleship. But the industry seems to be handling the pandemic well and no one has died yet.
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Planning a low-water garden with expert Guy Banner
Inhabitat - Innovation
APRIL 28, 2020
Planning a garden? Guy Banner of Salt Lake City's beautiful Red Butte Garden offers tips on how to build it, what plants to include and common mistakes.
Crops could face double trouble from insects and a warming climate
GreenBiz
APRIL 28, 2020
Watch the very hungry caterpillar.
A contemporary German home celebrates energy-saving, seasonal living
Inhabitat - Innovation
APRIL 28, 2020
With a layout that can expand in the summer and shrink in the winter, Haus am See embraces seasonal living and its energy-saving, sustainable effects.
Harley-Davidson Stands Behind Electric Motorcycle Bet Despite COVID-19 Headwinds
GreenTechMedia
APRIL 28, 2020
Harley-Davidson, the iconic American motorcycle maker, reaffirmed its commitment to electric models this week in a first-quarter earnings call overshadowed by COVID-19. The company launched its first electric motorcycle, the $29,799 LiveWire, last August. “We’ll expand our profitable iconic heritage bikes to excite our existing customers,” CEO Jochen Zeitz told investors this week.
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.
ODA designs an urban experiment masterplan for Chengdu
Inhabitat - Innovation
APRIL 28, 2020
Described by the firm as an “urban experiment in rearranging priorities for the public realm,” the masterplan emphasizes pedestrian-friendly design and indoor-outdoor living throughout.
Amply Power Draws Backing of Siemens, Soros Fund Management in Series A
GreenTechMedia
APRIL 28, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic may be crushing the electric vehicle market for 2020, but Amply Power CEO Vic Shao doesn't see that as a threat to the trend of fleet electrification. On Tuesday, he revealed a data point that bolsters that argument: His fleet-electrification startup managed to raise another $13.2 million despite the ongoing lockdown and tumult in the markets.
Circulate Capital invests in plastic recyclers in India and Indonesia
Impact Alpha
APRIL 28, 2020
ImpactAlpha, April 28 – Singapore-based Circulate Capital spun off from Closed Loop Partners two years ago to tackle plastic waste in Asia. Five countries are responsible for half of the plastic waste that ends up in oceans worldwide and Circulate founder Rob Kaplan wanted to seize the “opportunity to build new value chains out of. The post Circulate Capital invests in plastic recyclers in India and Indonesia appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
Huawei, Sungrow and SMA Were the Top Solar Inverter Players in 2019
GreenTechMedia
APRIL 28, 2020
Huawei, Sungrow and SMA remained the solar inverter market leaders for the fifth year running, based on a new Wood Mackenzie report on the inverter market in 2019. These top three vendors have now held the same positions from 2015 to 2019. Fimer (ABB) saw the most significant market gains last year, a result of its acquisition of ABB’s PV inverter line.
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.
ImpactAssets sets up donor-advised fund to channel flexible capital to COVID responses
Impact Alpha
APRIL 28, 2020
ImpactAlpha, Apr. 28 – ImpactAssets has set up a COVID Response Fund to channel donor-advised funds to unmet needs. The fund will leverage the nonprofit investment manager’s network of investors to move flexible capital to companies and individual’s hardest hit by the pandemic. A key strategy will be channeling charitable dollars to community banks and.
5 Key Threats for US Utilities as Earnings Season Kicks Off
GreenTechMedia
APRIL 28, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic is wreaking havoc on the U.S. economy, and while electric utilities may be relatively sheltered from the storm that’s overtaking other economic sectors, they are not immune. In the past month, crashing oil prices have roiled international energy markets and pushed some U.S. oil and natural gas producers to file for bankruptcy.
Corporates to Startups: Climate Innovation is Still a Long-term Priority
Greentown Labs
APRIL 28, 2020
BASF’s Bernhard Ulrich von Vacano spoke to Greentown members in April. Experts from BASF , Saint-Gobain , and Schneider Electric —three of Greentown Labs’ most engaged partners—joined the Greentown community to share their perspectives on how startups can traverse this challenging time, and provided insight into how their companies are thinking about innovation, climate action, and the road beyond COVID-19.
After the Crisis: How COVID-19 Can Drive Transformational Change in Cities
The City Fix
APRIL 28, 2020
Across the world, from Wuhan to New York City, cities are on the frontline of the unfolding COVID-19 crisis. Starting with overwhelmed heath care systems, cities are experiencing unprecedented strain across social, economic and environmental systems as economies grind to. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.
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?
COVID-19 is Driving Down Emissions and Buoying Hope for Climate Action
Green Market Oracle
APRIL 28, 2020
The coronavirus will result in one of the largest declines in greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) in history. This is the biggest emission reduction in more than seventy years. In a mere matter of weeks COVID-19 has done what we have been trying to do for decades. This modern day plague has also dealt a significant blow to the fossil fuel industry and thousands of extraction and production companies are expected to become insolvent due to the oil crash of 2020.
Will COVID-19 Sound The Permanent Death Knell For Public Transit?
Forbes Green Tech
APRIL 28, 2020
Traditional century-old styles of public transit were already under threat from 21st-century technology before the pandemic. In the aftermath of the current crisis, will people feel comfortable packed into a standing-room-only transit vehicle?
California Energy Commission clarifies that solar and energy storage installers are essential workers
Solar Power World
APRIL 28, 2020
The California Energy Commission (CEC) clarified that statewide orders in response to COVID-19 identifying essential electricity industry workers include solar photovoltaic and energy storage installers. The ongoing health and safety of all Californians is of upmost importance to the State of California and the (CEC). Consistent with Governor Gavin Newsom’s Executive Order to combat the… The post California Energy Commission clarifies that solar and energy storage installers are essential
FreeWire Technologies raises $25 million in new financing
Charged
APRIL 28, 2020
FreeWire Technologies, a provider of “power solutions for the grid edge,” has closed a $25-million Series B and venture debt financing round, which was led by existing investor BP Ventures, together with new investors ABB Technology Ventures and Energy Innovation Capital. The financing will support the commercialization of FreeWire’s fast charging technologies.
Duke Energy sets goal of 16 GW of renewables by 2025
Solar Power World
APRIL 28, 2020
Duke Energy released a pair of data-driven reports outlining the company’s recent accomplishments and path to advance its critical environmental, social and governance (ESG) initiatives. The company’s Sustainability Report details the company’s performance in four key areas — customers, growth, operations and employees. Duke Energy’s 2020 Climate Report discusses how the company is addressing climate… The post Duke Energy sets goal of 16 GW of renewables by 2025 appeared first on Sol
Heliogen Wins 2020 Fast Company World Changing Ideas Award for Its Technology That Replaces Fossil Fuels With Sunlight
altenergymag
APRIL 28, 2020
The company wins Energy category for its computer vision controlled, concentrated solar technology that commercially brings carbon-free, ultra-high temperature heat to traditionally carbon-intensive industries for the first time.
‘Stewardship’ under scrutiny as shareholder season gets started
Impact Alpha
APRIL 28, 2020
ImpactAlpha. April 28 – Even before the COVID crisis, this year’s annual general meeting season was shaping up as pivotal. The springtime ritual in which corporate directors meet shareholders face-to-face was to be the first since 181 CEOs signed a Business Roundtable pledge to elevate stakeholders – employees, customers, supplies and communities – along side.
Record solar outputs help UK to reach longest coal-free period since pre-industrial times
altenergymag
APRIL 28, 2020
Maximised levels of solar generation have ensured the delivery of a new coal-free record period for the grid. Coal power has been offline since 00:00 on Friday 10 April 2020, [1] and since then the UK has seen more than 1 terawatt hour of solar power put on the grid in that period [2] – enough to boil water for over 25 billion cups of tea or drive 6.7 billion kilometres in a Nissan Leaf.
'Not mere divestment': Oxford University unveils sweeping net zero investment strategy
Business Green
APRIL 28, 2020
Multi-billion pound endowment to divest from fossil fuel companies and request evidence of net zero business plans right across its investment portfolio. The global divestment movement chalked up another major victory this week as Oxford University announced it would divest its multi-billion pound endowment from fossil fuel assets and enact a new investment policy that would call on companies to provide evidence of their net zero business plans.
Heliogen Wins 2020 Fast Company World Changing Ideas Award for Its Technology That Replaces Fossil Fuels With Sunlight
altenergymag
APRIL 28, 2020
The company wins Energy category for its computer vision controlled, concentrated solar technology that commercially brings carbon-free, ultra-high temperature heat to traditionally carbon-intensive industries for the first time.
UK delivers longest coal-free power run since 1882
Business Green
APRIL 28, 2020
National Grid confirms UK has completed 438 consecutive hours without coal power – and counting. The UK grid has set a new record for its longest run without generating any coal power, surpassing the 18 day stretch completed last summer. Just after 6am this morning, National Grid confirmed the UK had completed 18 days, 6 hours and 11 minutes "and counting" without using coal power, delivering the longest coal-free period since 1882 when the grid was in its infancy.
The (Near) Future of Water
Varuna
APRIL 28, 2020
COVID Highlights Some Issues There are a few issues that water systems are having to deal with in the midst of the COVID pandemic. These issues aren’t particularly new, COVID19 has just highlighted difficulties the industry was already facing and might have been reticent to address. Increased water usage : Most of the country's (and world’s) population have had to shelter in place.
Abu Dhabi confirms plans for record-low cost solar farm
Business Green
APRIL 28, 2020
Giant 2GW project from Abu Dhabi Power Corporation set to claim title as world's largest solar farm. Abu Dhabi Power Corporation (ADPower) has confirmed plans for a record-breaking new solar farm, confirming that its latest project is set to be both the world's largest solar development and will deliver power at a record low cost. ADPower's subsidiary, Emirates Water and Electricity Company (EWEC), yesterday provided an update on the bids from five consortia looking to develop the 2GW Solar Phot
T-REX Achieves SOC 2 Type 2 Data Security Standards Compliance for the Fourth Year in a Row
T Rex Group
APRIL 28, 2020
New York, NY, April 28, 2020 – T-REX , a leading data services and software provider for complex fixed income markets, today announced that it has again successfully completed a Type 2 Service Organization Control (SOC) 2 examination of its proprietary cloud-based data and analytics systems. T-REX has achieved SOC 2 Type 2 compliance since December 2016. .
Government reveals plans to accelerate low carbon heating rollout
Business Green
APRIL 28, 2020
Proposals to replace RHI include Clean Heat Grants of up to £4,000 for homes and business for heat pumps and other technologies. The government has today unveiled a wide ranging package of proposals aimed at accelerating the much-needed decarbonisation of the UK's heating systems, setting out plans to replace the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) scheme for homes and businesses over the coming years.
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