GreenBiz
MARCH 4, 2020
The current methods and systems that are being used to feed us, are not only ineffectively getting sufficient food to everyone, they are also are rapidly degrading the very resources required to produce healthy food.
Inhabitat - Innovation
MARCH 4, 2020
As 2020 gets underway, the deluge of CBD products continues. Suddenly, CBD oil is everywhere: from CBD skincare to lattes to CBD-laced treats for Fido and Fluffy’s aging joints. But is the craze legitimate or is it all hype? We’ve delved into recent studies to get the facts on the current state of CBD products.
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GreenBiz
MARCH 4, 2020
The renowned entrepreneur and investor discusses the evolution of Heliogen and his new concept for capturing carbon.
GreenTechMedia
MARCH 4, 2020
Florida regulators unanimously approved Florida Power & Light’s proposed community solar program this week, rubber-stamping the build-out of nearly 1.5 gigawatts of utility-built solar in the state. The installations would nearly double the 2 gigawatts of community solar currently installed across the U.S. Under the new program, called SolarTogether , FP&L will build 20 new solar plants (at 74.5 megawatts each) by mid-2021.
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
MARCH 4, 2020
This year's Emerging Leaders "are the game changers that this industry needs — critical, compassionate, and tremendously capable.".
The Environmental Blog
MARCH 4, 2020
The US is one of the countries with the highest number of motorized vehicles per capita, with a fleet of well over 250 million. With over 80% of the population owning and using a car, it’s clear to see that the environmental impact of these numbers is enormous. Fortunately, there’s a new trend on the rise – that of electric vehicles (or EVs for short).
CleanTech Focus brings together the best content for cleantech professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Inhabitat - Innovation
MARCH 4, 2020
Messner House represents adaptive reuse at its finest.
GreenBiz
MARCH 4, 2020
Courtney Thompson, vice president of global sustainable finance at Morgan Stanley says sustainability finance has taken off in recent years. "I think it's mainstream and I think the sources of data that are enabling smarter decisions around this are also bringing the conversation around sustainability to the forefront for many, many investors," says Thompson.
Envirotec Magazine
MARCH 4, 2020
Sheffield based Environmental Monitoring Solutions recently hosted a session between North East Derbyshire MP, Lee Rowley, and water industry stakeholders to present the case for AI to protect customers and the environment against recent extreme rainfall events. Held at the University of Sheffield’s new £9.2m infrastructure research facility, ICAIR, the group focused on the relationship between Government policy and the wastewater industry’s plans to tackle the challenges that we face due to cli
GreenBiz
MARCH 4, 2020
Gabriela Burian, senior director of sustainable food systems at Bayer, says that hunger is an issue that the company is trying to combat. "Our goal is to make sure we empower especially farmers that are very small across the world and farmers that don't have access to technology or to information," Burian says.
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.
Inhabitat - Innovation
MARCH 4, 2020
This stylish piece of minimalist furniture is made out of recycled materials and fit for two. The piece, simply titled “PVC Bench,” is made up of four different components. Broken and discarded plastic pipe parts make up the main top part of the seat while.
GreenBiz
MARCH 4, 2020
Sharon Basel, senior manager of sustainability at General Motors, works a lot on the company's environmental, social, and governance (ESG) reporting. "I think it's a really important thing not to be taken lightly," she says. "A lot of people inside of General Motors call it the encyclopedia of GM and I think how we portray what our mission is and how we're all marching towards a vision that we have for the company becomes really evident in that reporting.".
Inhabitat - Innovation
MARCH 4, 2020
This family's solar-powered home sensitively responds to the landscape in more ways than one.
GreenBiz
MARCH 4, 2020
A about four to five years ago management consulting firm Oliver Wyman looked at the largest emerging risks facing companies and climate was a standout. From there, the firm began to work on, including its collaboration with the U.N. Environment Program Finance Initiative, to better manage and understand those risks, says Edwin Anderson, partner at Oliver Wyman.
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.
GreenTechMedia
MARCH 4, 2020
Brooklyn startup David Energy on Wednesday announced a $1.5 million pre-seed funding round, as it looks to transform into an energy retailer that helps customers get more value out of their solar and storage systems. Over the past few years, David Energy has built a roster of customers using its software-as-a-service platform to improve energy efficiency in their buildings, shift loads to avoid demand and capacity charges, tap into demand response programs, and find other ways to save and make m
GreenBiz
MARCH 4, 2020
Victoria Mills, managing director at EDF, works at the intersection of sustainability, public policy and business. "What we've realized — EDF and other NGOs — together is that it's time to raise the bar for leadership to include climate policy advocacy," says Mills. "We've been really encouraged by the number of companies that are setting ambitious climate goals, committing to use 100 percent renewable energy, working through their whole supply chain to drive down emissions.".
Inhabitat - Innovation
MARCH 4, 2020
The minimalist hotel room uses a series of rainwater harvesting systems estimated to offer 70% water savings as compared to a standard hotel room.
GreenBiz
MARCH 4, 2020
Three advances are bringing the concept into the mainstream: better communications, policy support and meaningful collaboration.
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?
Charged
MARCH 4, 2020
General Motors opened the doors of its Design Center Wednesday to show off a promised lineup of future electric vehicles to be sold in North America by Chevrolet, Cadillac, GMC, and Buick—a dozen vehicles all told, part of the 20 new EVs by 2023 it promised more than two years ago. Sadly, the journalist-only event was a “no photos, no cameras” event, strictly enforced.
GreenBiz
MARCH 4, 2020
Electric plans and sustainability will pave the road to the future for General Motors, Ford and Fiat-Chrysler.
Solar Power World
MARCH 4, 2020
Solar Basics is a video series by Solar Power World created to help installers learn about the business, tools and tricks of the solar power trade. Floating solar arrays float on bodies of water like reservoirs and dams. These unique installations come with many benefits including easier siting, no worries of obstructions and more. Learn… The post Solar Basics: What is a floating solar array?
Impact Alpha
MARCH 4, 2020
ImpactAlpha, March 4 – The creative economy in the U.K. contributes more than $10 billion and generates some 364,000 jobs. Nesta’s new £20 million ($25.6 million) Arts & Culture Impact Fund will make affordable and flexible loans of up to £1 million to arts and heritage organizations, theaters, museums, comedy clubs, music venues and libraries.
Solar Power World
MARCH 4, 2020
Inovateus Solar, a Midwest solar developer, has released its first annual sustainability report. The report outlines the company’s 2019 sustainability initiatives and sets new decade goals for developing sustainable solar projects with zero-waste construction and sustainable end-of-life-cycle decommissioning. Inovateus Solar’s sustainable roots began in 2006 with its mission of “Building a Brilliant Tomorrow.
Charged
MARCH 4, 2020
Electric truck maker Workhorse Group (NASDAQ: WKHS) has been around for a while— Charged wrote about the company’s plug-in pickup back in 2017—and it continues to make steady progress. Now the company has announced that its new C-Series electric delivery trucks have each received an EPA Certificate of Conformity, confirming that the new vehicles conform to all EPA regulations and emission standards.
Impact Alpha
MARCH 4, 2020
ImpactAlpha, March 4 – More than two million people are incarcerated in the U.S., exacting an economic toll on individuals, families and communities. “It isn’t just the individuals doing time, it’s the families too,” says Buck Adams, who founded Art for Redemption to help inmates support themselves and their families by selling their art. Adams, The post Art for Redemption secures early funding to launch marketplace for prison art appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
Solar Power World
MARCH 4, 2020
A new report by Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory highlights income trends among residential rooftop solar adopters. The study is based on address-specific income estimates and other financial metrics for roughly 1.4 million residential rooftop solar adopters across the country, representing the most extensive analysis of this topic to-date. The study describes the income distribution of… The post Berkeley Lab report finds lower income ranges adopting solar over time appeared first on
altenergymag
MARCH 4, 2020
• Ørsted conditionally selects Siemens Gamesa to supply 900 MW Borkum Riffgrund 3 and 242 MW Gode Wind 3 offshore wind power plants in the German North Sea. • SG 11.0-200 DD offshore wind turbine to be employed featuring rotor with 200-meter diameter and new B97 blades. • Approx 1.2 million German households to be served by projects; approximately 3.7 million tons of CO2 avoided annually.
CleanTech Group
MARCH 4, 2020
Last month, Swedish Steel producer, SSAB, announced new plans to start selling fossil-carbon-free steel for the European and North American markets starting in.
altenergymag
MARCH 4, 2020
Switch2 Energy has welcomed the Scottish government's leadership in accelerating the deployment of heat networks to help tackle fuel poverty and meet climate change targets.
Impact Alpha
MARCH 4, 2020
ImpactAlpha, March 4 – India-based Arya supports smallholder farmers in getting their goods to market by providing warehousing facilities that are often unavailable to small producers. It also offers farmer financing backed by warehouse receipts. Impact investor Omnivore invested in the company’s $6 million funding round alongside LGT Lightstone Aspada (see, “LGT acquires Aspada from.
Business Green
MARCH 4, 2020
Water UK promises to deliver 2030 net zero strategy focused on energy efficiency, emissions reduction from water treatment processes, and ramping up clean energy sources. Britain's water industry has set its sights on delivering full decarbonisation within the next decade, today promising to develop plans that would see companies across the sector achieve net zero CO2 emissions by 2030.
Solar Power World
MARCH 4, 2020
Faced with extreme weather events and unexpected and planned power outages, flexible energy storage solutions provide solar array owners with backup power from batteries when the lights go out. Recently, OutBack Power released an AC coupling firmware update to its SkyBox hybrid inverter. AC coupling is ideal when users have an existing solar PV system… The post OutBack’s SkyBox hybrid inverter now offers AC coupling for add-on batteries appeared first on Solar Power World.
Business Green
MARCH 4, 2020
EU Commission President Ursula von der Leyen claims law will see net zero taken into account 'in all future policy and legislation'. A Europe-wide 'Climate Law' that would legally require all EU members to build net zero economies by 2050 has been unveiled today by the European Commission as the key pillar of its Green Deal vision. Backed by a renewed commitment to ramp up the continent's interim emissions goals from the 2030s onwards, the Commission said the Climate Law was designed to "protect
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