Forbes Green Tech
JULY 5, 2020
The developers of the Atlantic Coast Pipeline have said they are throwing in the towel -- a decision that comes shortly after the U.S. Supreme Court had given them permission to proceed.
U.S. Green Technology
JULY 5, 2020
Here’s a glimpse at a few bamboo items you can incorporate into your everyday life to live in a more eco-friendly manner. The post Going Green Is Super Simple with Bamboo Products appeared first on U.S. Green Technology.
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Low Impact
JULY 5, 2020
Today I’m interviewing Laurence Anderson of Tradeswap – a mutual credit network in Australia. I’m very interested in what you’re up to Laurence, because as you know, a group of us are trying to set up mutual credit networks in the UK, with a view to building a global credit commons. Now if viewers, listeners, readers – however you’re consuming this – don’t know what mutual credit is, here’s a link.
Business Green
JULY 5, 2020
Yet just one in ten firms listed climate risk assessments as a priority, according to new survey results published today by earth science AI firm. Three quarters of UK businesses feel threatened by the climate crisis, yet only one in 10 have undertaken climate risk assessments and regard the issue as a priority, a news study from Earth Science AI company Cervest has revealed.
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.
Forbes Green Tech
JULY 5, 2020
A climate scientist started composting during the pandemic. Here's what he learned.
Green Market Oracle
JULY 5, 2020
The Economist presents a Sustainability Week Insight Hour webinar titled "The post-covid sustainability agenda: revolution, retreat or return to normal?" will take place on July 7th 2020, 6am PST | 2pm BST | 3pm CET | 9am EDT. This webinar features a conversation with Axel Weber, Chairman, UBS Group. Covid-19 has caused an unprecedented hiatus in human activity and offered the natural environment a short-lived reprieve.
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Business Green
JULY 5, 2020
How can businesses stand out in the run up to COP26 in Glasgow next year? Peter Browning of Browning Environmental Communications offers his thoughts. In the era of Covid-19, you could be forgiven for thinking climate change has slipped off the agenda. The UN climate talks, set to take place in Glasgow in November, have been delayed by about as long as they possibly could be - a full year.
Eco-Business
JULY 5, 2020
The Covid-19 pandemic has devastated Indonesia's tourism industry, leaving hundreds of thousands without work. A new initiative aims to provide employment and clean the archipelago's plastic-littered beaches.
GreenTechMedia
JULY 5, 2020
U.S. utility group Dominion Energy agreed Sunday to sell most of its natural gas business and abandon its multi-billion dollar Atlantic Coast Pipeline project with Duke Energy meant to supply its home-state market of Virginia. The announcement marks a major shift for Dominion away from competitive natural gas markets and toward state-regulated utilities focused increasingly on clean energy.
Eco-Business
JULY 5, 2020
Covid-19 has made clear the need for reliable power in rural health facilities—including to cool an eventual coronavirus vaccine.
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.
CleanTechnica
JULY 5, 2020
It makes sense for police departments all across America to make the switch to electric vehicles, and Tesla, with its affordable Model 3, is a prime candidate.
Eco-Business
JULY 5, 2020
At present, the United Kingdom is only expected to see 40C heat once in every 100 to 300 years. But new research has found that it could occur every three and a half years in a scenario of very high greenhouse gas emissions.
CleanTechnica
JULY 5, 2020
Elon Musk spent the 4th of July standing in an empty field outside Tulsa, Oklahoma, trying to make up his mind whether to build his new US factory there or in Austin, Texas.
Eco-Business
JULY 5, 2020
Done properly, the system can drive down emissions and raise hundreds of billions of yuan to support low-carbon projects.
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.
CleanTechnica
JULY 5, 2020
Faurecia has been working to design the "Cockpit of the Future," and I have to say that it looks appealing. Here are a few visualizations from that link with notes in the captions.
CleanTechnica
JULY 5, 2020
Global battery giant LG Chem has reportedly secured a bigger order of batteries from Tesla due to higher demand and an inability for Tesla to produce enough batteries for its cars on its own. At least, that's the news out of Korea, where LG Chem is based.
CleanTechnica
JULY 5, 2020
The 20 most popular stories of last week on CleanTechnica were led by an interesting story of a solar manufacturing equipment maker moving into the solar cell manufacturing game (got that?), followed by a lot of Tesla stories, some hype for lithium-iron-phosphate batteries, Toyota announcing that it had done a horrendous job forecasting demand for the RAV4 Prime (leading to a battery shortfall and production suspension), Sydney inspiring the world by going 100% renewable (for electricity).
CleanTechnica
JULY 5, 2020
Tesla has begun taking orders for the Cybertruck in China and is planning a cross country tour for its electric pickup truck.
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?
CleanTechnica
JULY 5, 2020
Does Argo.AI give Volkswagen and Ford the potential to be genuine leaders in the self-driving vehicle revolution.
CleanTechnica
JULY 5, 2020
In CleanTechnica's exclusive, in-depth interview with Peter Mertens, former board member of Audi, Volkswagen Group, Volvo, & Jaguar Land Rover and former R&D head of Audi (published yesterday), Dr. Mertens briefly discussed a few startups he's now on the board of. One of those was Recogni, and no offense to the others (which I'll come back to in another article), but Recogni seemed to be the one that got him most lit up.
CleanTechnica
JULY 5, 2020
Now that we've seen Tesla's actual Q2 2020 production and delivery numbers, the next thing Tesla bears and bulls turn their attention to is trying to determine what the financial impact will look like, and will Tesla make money.
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