GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 23, 2020
A corporate water strategy manifesto: We can and will do better. Will Sarni. Wed, 09/23/2020 - 01:30. We have decided to craft this brief manifesto to challenge the status quo, accelerate innovation, solve wicked water problems and achieve United Nations Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 6, "Ensure availability and sustainable management of water and sanitation for all.".
Envirotec Magazine
SEPTEMBER 23, 2020
Coffee-drinking commuters are being encouraged to “Sip, Save and Recycle” their cups in the UK’s biggest and busiest stations, with Network Rail announcing – on 23 September – the rollout of the first of its new coffee cup recycling bins at King’s Cross, Leeds, London Bridge, Waterloo, Liverpool Street, Charing Cross and Cannon Street.
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GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 23, 2020
Walmart drives toward zero-emission goal for its entire fleet by 2040. Katie Fehrenbacher. Wed, 09/23/2020 - 01:50. If you needed any more evidence that America's vehicle fleets are driving toward zero-emission status, it's this: Walmart just announced that it will electrify and zero out emissions from all Walmart vehicles, including long haul trucks, by 2040. .
Inhabitat - Innovation
SEPTEMBER 23, 2020
It's a loss for golfers but a big win for plant lovers. After decades in the planning stage, the Houston Botanic Garden finally opened September 18 on the former Glenbrook Golf Course in southeast Houston. The garden serves as yet another draw for locals and visitors to explore Sims Bayou, a watershed area near Hobby Airport that already includes miles of walking and biking trails and countless places to launch canoes.
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
SEPTEMBER 23, 2020
How Keurig Dr Pepper is increasing its packaging recyclability. In 2019, Keurig Dr Pepper launched its Drink Well. Do Good. corporate responsibility platform aimed, in part, at reducing its environmental footprint. One of the goals of the platform was to convert all packaging to recyclable or compostable formats by 2025, while increasing the use of recycled content. .
Inhabitat - Innovation
SEPTEMBER 23, 2020
The home “brings nature back to the city” with inviting outdoor areas for gathering with friends and neighbors.
CleanTech Focus brings together the best content for cleantech professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Inhabitat - Innovation
SEPTEMBER 23, 2020
The Climate Clock shows that we have about 7 years to stop irreversible effects of global warming.
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 23, 2020
How Tetra Pak plans to reach net zero by 2030. If you’ve ever drank juice from a carton package, it may have been supplied by Tetra Pak, a multinational food processing and packaging company. One of its ambitions is to deliver “packages made entirely from renewable and/or recycled materials that are fully recyclable,” according to the company site. And it seems to be moving toward that goal.
Inhabitat - Innovation
SEPTEMBER 23, 2020
A sculpture of Florida panthers is melting in the sun to show the impacts of climate change.
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 23, 2020
Morgan Stanley’s role in addressing the plastic waste problem. When Morgan Stanley decided to launch its Plastic Waste Resolution in April 2019, it had realized that plastic waste was a business issue. That was after looking at its global client base, which includes companies across industries from chemicals to consumer packaging, as well as individuals and governments. .
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.
GreenTechMedia
SEPTEMBER 23, 2020
Array Technologies, a solar tracker company based in New Mexico, filed paperwork on Tuesday indicating plans to take the company public with an initial offering of $100 million. The move would make Array, which would trade under the ticker ARRY, the second largest publicly-owned tracker company in the world in terms of shipments. Array did not respond to request for comment on when it expects to launch the IPO.
Envirotec Magazine
SEPTEMBER 23, 2020
Aluminium packaging recycling organisation Alupro has thrown its full support behind Recycle Week (21-27 September). Organised by Recycle Now, this year’s campaign will run under the banner ‘Together We Recycle’ and aims to celebrate household recycling through the COVID-19 pandemic. With aluminium recycling rates continuing to increase, the UK has already collected and recycled more than 95,000 tonnes of aluminium packaging to date in 2020.* Changing public perceptions and positive action from
GreenTechMedia
SEPTEMBER 23, 2020
Southern Company intends to test the proposition that a U.S. utility can reach net-zero carbon emissions by 2050 while still keeping natural gas as a central part of its business, both to generate electricity and to sell to its customers. That’s a key takeaway from Tuesday’s net-zero carbon plan fleshing out the multi-state utility’s May commitment to zero out its net carbon emissions by midcentury.
Charged
SEPTEMBER 23, 2020
Can new electric entries in a hugely popular segment convince U.S. buyers to buy EVs from Nissan and VW as family vehicles? Two new battery-electric models from major global car brands are about to bring electric cars into a category where they’ve been notably absent: family crossover utility vehicles. The 2021 Volkswagen ID.4 and 2022 Nissan Ariya will join the Tesla Model Y that’s already on sale to bring EV transport to tens of thousands of new U.S. buyers who’d never consider a compact hatch
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.
Inhabitat - Innovation
SEPTEMBER 23, 2020
Redress has announced the 2020 winners for the Redress Design Award.
Impact Alpha
SEPTEMBER 23, 2020
ImpactAlpha, Sept. 23 – The race is on to get to zero emissions. Joining the list of corporations pledging to reach net-zero emissions by 2050: Morgan Stanley, Walmart and Facebook. As Climate Week begins, such pledges have doubled from last year, according to Data-Driven EnviroLab and NewClimate Institute, to more than 1,500 companies globally with.
altenergymag
SEPTEMBER 23, 2020
-Reliance on publicly available solar datasets may hold back development and operation of profitable solar projects in Japan -Solargis sees growing demand for high-resolution, validated solar data from international and domestic developers
Impact Alpha
SEPTEMBER 23, 2020
ImpactAlpha, Sept. 23 – This spring, organizations supporting entrepreneurs in Latin American scrambled to help small and growing businesses survive the COVID disruption. This fall, they’re turning their new collaboration into an ongoing network. The more than 50 organizations that created Emprendedores Frente al COVID-19 (Entrepreneurs Facing COVID-19) are working together to share resources and.
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?
EDF + Business
SEPTEMBER 23, 2020
When shopping online, consumers can filter searches based on product price, color or even “best sellers”. But that same ability to sort products doesn’t exist when it comes to environmental and ingredient data. This lack of information serves as a barrier for shoppers to make more informed decisions that impact their health and the planet. Companies have to change that.
Forbes Green Tech
SEPTEMBER 23, 2020
Congress is considering a bill to legalize marijuana -- something that will put added emphasis on the industry's environmental footprint. What's being done?
Charged
SEPTEMBER 23, 2020
Kentucky-based Virtual Peaker and Fermata Energy have announced a partnership to integrate Fermata’s vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology with Virtual Peaker’s residential demand response platform, which is currently in use by several US utilities. Virtual Peaker’s Distributed Energy Resource Management System (DERMS) application is a cloud-based energy management platform that can connect to any in-home smart device to allow utilities to run residential demand response programs.
LA CleanTech Incubator
SEPTEMBER 23, 2020
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Statement from LACI CEO and Transportation Electrification Partnership Chair Matt Petersen LOS ANGELES, CA – After today’s announcements from California Governor Gavin Newsom on climate initiatives, Matt Petersen, CEO of Los Angeles Cleantech Incubator (LACI) and Chair of the Transportation Electrification Partnership (TEP), released the following statement: “On behalf of LACI and.
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 23, 2020
But new PwC report warns 'rapid injection of capital, talent and public-private support' still required for climate tech to deliver on its massive promise. Venture capital (VC) investment in climate tech grew five time faster than the average seen across the market as a whole between 2013 and 2019, according to fresh findings from PwC. Research published this morning by the consultancy giant has revealed that throughout the seven year period, roughly $60bn of early stage capital was invested glo
Forbes Green Tech
SEPTEMBER 23, 2020
The same technology used for satellites can monitor both lands and seafloors, helping adaptation and mitigation practices against climate change.
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 23, 2020
Paula Radcliffe and Mo Farah among hundreds of athletes to warn Prime Minister that the 'acute threat from climate change' threatens future Olympic and Paralympic games. More than 300 British Olympians and Paralympians have joined the barrage of calls for the government to deliver a green recovery, today urging the Prime Minister to take urgent action to tackle climate change in the wake of the pandemic.
Impact Alpha
SEPTEMBER 23, 2020
Community development financial institutions are having a moment – finally being recognized for their critical role in supporting low-wealth communities. CDFIs are on the front line responding to communities that are feeling the strain of COVID-19 and confronting deep racial and social inequities that have persisted for generations. They provide individual and enterprise loans, technical.
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 23, 2020
Billionaire offers glimpse of EV firm's efforts to develop cheaper, more efficient battery cells at Tesla's AGM. Elon Musk claims Tesla engineers have achieved a "major breakthrough" in battery technology, which he predicts could dramatically cut production costs, boost the range of electric vehicles and accelerate the shift towards renewable electricity.
Impact Alpha
SEPTEMBER 23, 2020
Greetings! Thanks to the hundreds of Agents of Impact who joined the great discussion on Call No. 23 yesterday. Keep an eye out for our roundup, resources and replay. Featured: Impact Voices Corporate deposits in CDFIs are good. Equity investments would be even better. Community development financial institutions have become the go-to solution for corporations.
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 23, 2020
'Block Fossils Out' aims to block users from accessing websites and social media accounts belonging to firms which produce or fund coal, gas and oil. An internet browser tool designed to "block out" websites and social media accounts belonging to companies involved in financing, extracting or burning of fossil fuels has been launched today by climate campaigners, who argue such firms are "undermining our collective future".
Forbes Green Tech
SEPTEMBER 23, 2020
Volkswagen will launch its first dedicated electric vehicle for North America in early 2021. The new ID.4 is a compact crossover with 250 miles of range, 3 years of unlimited fast charging and a starting sticker price of $40K.
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 23, 2020
A fifth of supplier selection criteria will depend on commitments to carbon reduction and circular economy principles alongside diversity, inclusion and health & safety policies, the firm said. Vodafone announced today it will evaluate future suppliers on their commitment to tackling carbon emissions and building a circular economy, as it works towards its company-wide goal of halving its environmental impact by 2025.
Low Impact
SEPTEMBER 23, 2020
From archaeology to folklore and more, Sean Fagan of Pioneer Bushcraft sets out three great uses of maps beyond the obvious. “ Maps are a universal medium for communication, easily understood and appreciated by most people, regardless of language or culture ”. (Merriam, 1996). A weathered, early Christian cross (Photo: Sean Fagan – Skellig Michael island, southwest Ireland).
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 23, 2020
Executive director of the UK energy firm and grid operator joins BusinessGreen editor in chief James Murray to discuss the challenges and opportunities for the energy sector from the rapidly escalating net zero transition. Nicola Shaw's illustrious career has taken in high level positions across a range of industries and organisations, including the World Bank, Irish airline Aer Lingus, and the 67-mile High Speed 1 rail project linking London with the Channel Tunnel.
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