GreenBiz

JULY 30, 2020

The future of organic coffee: Building a network of support for regenerative agriculture. Jean Orlowski. Thu, 07/30/2020 - 02:00. Nearly a decade ago, as we took in the lush plant life, clean air and warm sunshine surrounding us during a vacation in Hawaii, my wife, Danielle, and I knew a life shift was happening. A connection to the land — this island — was built on that trip, leading us to relocate permanently to Captain Cook, Hawaii.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 30, 2020

According to data released by the Environment Agency on 22 July, a record 40,653 tonnes of aluminium packaging were collected for recycling in Q2 2020. This indicates that 76,933 tonnes were collected for recycling in the first half of the year – a significant increase of 52% compared to the same period in 2019 (50,744). Aluminium packaging collected through kerbside, bring and on-the-go systems increased by 37% during the first half of the year (53,312 in 2020, compared to 38,882 in 2019), whil

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GreenBiz

JULY 30, 2020

AI doesn’t have to be a power hog. Heather Clancy. Thu, 07/30/2020 - 02:15. Plenty of prognostications, including this one from the World Economic Forum, tout the integral role artificial intelligence could play in "saving the planet." . Indeed, AI is integral to all manner of technologies, ranging from autonomous vehicles to more informed disaster response systems to smart buildings and data collection networks monitoring everything from energy consumption to deforestation. .

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JULY 30, 2020

The only thing that saved Clawde from the linguini sauce was her blue hue. As Lora Jones unpacked the Cuyahoga Falls, Ohio Red Lobster restaurant's air-lifted live lobster delivery, one crustacean stood out: a rare blue lobster.

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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.

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GreenBiz

JULY 30, 2020

Electric boilers fuel Diageo’s carbon-neutral whiskey distillery dream. Jesse Klein. Thu, 07/30/2020 - 00:30. Even whiskey is going electric. Distilleries have long been difficult operations to electrify due to the large heat loads it requires to turn grain into one of humanity's oldest vices, alcohol. But Diageo’s new 72,000-square-foot distillery is designed to be completely carbon-neutral.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 30, 2020

Motors and pumps are among the assets that can be monitored by 8Power sensors. Wastewater-based epidemiology (WBE) has a significant part to play in identifying ‘silent’ Covid-19 cases in the community, research presented at the latest Water Action Platform webinar appears to demonstrate. The regular webinars, which are open to all, are hosted by Isle chairman Dr Piers Clark and look at the new coronavirus and global pandemic through a water industry lens.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JULY 30, 2020

Agricultural officials from several states have expressed alarm over unsolicited packages of seeds delivered to residents. The packages appear to come from China, as they feature China Post labeling.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 30, 2020

In recent decades, exports of waste to non-European countries have risen steadily, pushing the waste issue far away but failing to properly address it. Repeated abuses in international waste shipments have highlighted the need for Europe to take care of its waste under EU environmental standards. The trade body ESWET (European Suppliers of Waste-to-Energy Technology aisbl) claims to present “a pragmatic approach” on the issue, and on 30 July released a policy briefing with a number o

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JULY 30, 2020

The home takes full advantage of the areas sunny climate.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 30, 2020

Residential solar company Sunnova came out of a daunting Q2 in better financial shape than it’s ever been in. Earlier in the year, the disruption of the coronavirus pandemic and the associated public safety response prompted most leading solar companies to revoke their financial guidance for the year. Vivint Solar, SunPower, Sunrun and Tesla all did.

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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.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 30, 2020

The Environment Agency’s Environmental Sensor Network (ESNET) comprises modular water quality monitoring systems that can be quickly and easily deployed at remote sites. By Matt Dibbs, Managing Director of Meteor Communications, a firm that designs, builds and installs remote environmental monitoring systems. The Coronavirus pandemic presented significant challenges to the collection of environmental data.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 30, 2020

The world looked bleak for startups in the spring. According to figures from Crunchbase , venture capital deals were down 44 percent from March to June compared with last year. Seed-stage deals took the biggest hit, down nearly 60 percent. But series B deals also took a hit. It was difficult at any stage of funding. Deals are finally coming back. Obviously, travel startups won’t be a hot category for a long time.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 30, 2020

By James Clements, Managing Director, Signal Group. As a British developer and manufacturer of gas analysers, Signal Group follows the emergence of international Standards very closely. This is because Standards ensure that monitors are fit for purpose, and also because regulators require operators to employ suitably certified equipment. Signal Group is therefore delighted to confirm that the latest version of its portable FID analyser, the 3010 MINIFID PURE is being submitted to TÜV for QAL1 te

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 30, 2020

Wind turbine maker Siemens Gamesa posted a €466 million ($558 million) loss on Thursday as a string of impairment charges and a slump in onshore sales took their toll. The company’s fiscal year Q3 results are the first under the leadership of new CEO Andreas Nauen, who previously headed up its offshore wind unit. Nauen replaced Markus Tacke on June 18.

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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.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 30, 2020

Work has been completed on a new fish ladder to support salmon in Scottish Water’s reservoir at Loch Venachar, in Stirling district. The utility announced the culmination of the £100,000 project in late July. In consultation with the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA), a number of enhancements have been undertaken to complement an existing Victorian fish pass on the south channel and improve fish passage around the dam.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 30, 2020

Chevron announced it will build 500 megawatts of renewable energy plants to power some of its global facilities, in what amounts to a sizeable clean-energy upscaling for an oil giant with comparatively few big investments in renewables to date. Chevron will work with Canada’s Algonquin Power & Utilities, a growing global renewables developer, to build the plants over the next four years in Permian Basin of Texas and New Mexico, Argentina, Kazakhstan and Western Australia.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 30, 2020

University of West London (UWL) researchers say they have developed pioneering techniques to map the architecture and mass density of tree roots within the soil to a high degree, all using ground penetrating radar technology, and without causing harm to the plants. The seemingly innovative methodology developed at UWL’s Faringdon Centre – which carries out research into non-destructive testing methods – can also create 3D images of the interior of a trunk to track decay caused by disease o

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 30, 2020

In its first quarterly earnings report since its exit from an 18-month bankruptcy caused by its massive wildfire liabilities, Pacific Gas & Electric laid out its progress on securing its grid from causing more fires and limiting the scale of future fire-prevention blackouts that affected millions of Northern California residents last year. PG&E is now on track to meet its 2020 wildfire mitigation goals, making up for slower-than-expected progress earlier this year due to the COVID-19 pan

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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?

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 30, 2020

The Itaipu dam, at the Brazil-Paraguay border, is the second largest hydroelectric power plant in the world, with an installed capacity of 14,000 MW. Photo credit: Jonas de Carvalho (Flickr). Hydropower is an extremely old source of energy, whose provenance extends back to the watermills that were relied upon by ancient civilisations. Here, Marek Lukaszczyk, European and Middle East marketing manager at global manufacturer of motors and drive technology, WEG, explains how plant managers can make

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JULY 30, 2020

This villa puts a modern twist on a traditional building style.

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JULY 30, 2020

Following a phased reopening of its Lancaster, California manufacturing plant in mid-May, BYD is back to building electric buses. The company’s first post-closure delivery completed an order of 10 battery-electric K9S buses to Link Transit in Wenatchee, Washington. The K9S 35-ft electric bus seats up to 32, has a range of 215 miles, and can be charged in 3 to 4 hours.

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Impact Alpha

JULY 30, 2020

As impact investors who have launched a new “gender-justice” impact investment fund, CARE wants to make it clear: we seek deep systems change. CARE— alongside its partners, Bamboo Capital Partners and International Trade Centre’s SheTrades Initiative — have designed the CARE-SheTrades Impact Fund with hopes of moving beyond counting women to tackling root causes of.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JULY 30, 2020

Luminary Inspiration Center teaches children in remote villages about clean energy and modern architecture.

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U.S. Green Technology

JULY 30, 2020

Installing solar panels on a residential or commercial scale can be a worthwhile investment. Solar energy is extremely cost-effective and can significantly cut down on your utility bills. What type of roofing is best, though? Thankfully, solar panels are extremely versatile. No one kind of roof is better than others, as they can be mounted. The post What Type of Roofing Should You Have for Solar Panels?

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Impact Alpha

JULY 30, 2020

ImpactAlpha, July 30 –– The daily outrages consume Twitter. Within the impact investing bubble, you might not even know there is an election coming up. With less than a hundred days to Nov. 3, it’s time to break out. As if there were a need for any more triggers, two recent incidents helped clarify for me. The post Raising the voices of impact investors in the November election appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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altenergymag

JULY 30, 2020

According to a recent study from market research firm Global Market Insights, the wind energy market is set to grow from its current market value of more than $70 billion to over $160 billion by 2024.gaining remarkable traction over the 2017 to 2024 period.

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Clean Energy Canada

JULY 30, 2020

VICTORIA—Merran Smith, executive director at Clean Energy Canada, made the following statement in response to the B.C. government putting in place regulations as part of its Zero-Emission Vehicles Act that will require automakers to sell a growing percentage of electric vehicles in the province: “While electric vehicle sales in B.C. have been among the highest in Canada, there are clear indicators that consumer appetite for EVs is bigger still.

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Business Green

JULY 30, 2020

Fully electric 16-tonne delivery vehicle to hit London's streets early next year as logistics firm bemoans market supply shortage for EVs. DPD has announced plans to trial "the world's first" purpose-built, fully electric 16-tonne delivery truck in London early next year, as the UK logistics firm accelerates its zero emission delivery vision. Built by the Scandinavian start-up EV manufacturer Volta Trucks, the Volta Zero vehicle has been designed to drive in central London's Ultra Low Emission Z

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Charged

JULY 30, 2020

A major government trial of vehicle-to-grid (V2G) technology in Australia will demonstrate the Nissan LEAF’s ability to supply energy to a home or commercial site, or to feed power back to the grid, thanks to its built-in bidirectional charging capability. The Realising Electric Vehicle Services (REVS) project is a precursor to the customer launch of Nissan’s V2G technology in Australia this year.

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U.S. Green Technology

JULY 30, 2020

The recent pandemic caused a lot of unrest. It has become difficult even to afford essentials. Gone are the days when you could invest in electric gadgets. Obviously, the gadgets use electric power. All this costs money. Nowadays, you go about looking for switchboard manufacturers so that you can have the most efficient electric connection. The post Comparing solar power with electric power appeared first on U.S.

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altenergymag

JULY 30, 2020

Noted Icelandic wind-based renewable energy company IceWind is pleased to announce their launch in the United States today. IceWind’s groundbreaking product, the Freya, is for residential uses.

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Varuna

JULY 30, 2020

It is not news to anyone who is involved in the utility industry that the workforce is retiring at a rate that the utility is unable to replace. In the water industry, it is projected that 30% of the workforce will be retiring over the next few years. According to the Brookings Institute, 1.7M people were involved in the operation, design, governing and management of U.S. water infrastructure.

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Business Green

JULY 30, 2020

For the first time ever electricity from wind, solar, biomass and others made up more than a third of UK power last year, government data shows. Yet more clean power records were sent tumbling last year, with the latest official statistics released today showing sources of renewable electricity for the first time ever provided more than a third of the UK's electricity in 2019.

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