Why Amazon's commitment to working forests matters
GreenBiz
APRIL 30, 2020
It’s not just about carbon removal, it’s about creating or preserving economic opportunities in rural communities.
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New Airstream camper uses solar panels for off-grid power
Inhabitat - Innovation
APRIL 30, 2020
Airstream's latest model, the Atlas 2020 is a stunning design that features a rooftop solar array and luxurious interior living space.
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5 ways we can innovate to solve two crises at once
GreenBiz
APRIL 30, 2020
It would be devastating if the COVID-19 crisis killed off climate tech startups. We only have a few months to get it right.
Amid COVID-19, Deep Borehole Disposal Of Nuclear Waste Marches Forward
Jim Conca
APRIL 30, 2020
Deep Isolation announced the completion of a Post-Closure Safety Analysis for their proposed deep borehole disposal of nuclear waste. It shows that, even under the worst conditions, possible radioactivity releases are a thousand times less than the normal background radiation of anywhere in America.
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.
Agtech startup Pivot Bio snags $100 million amid busy April for climate tech
GreenBiz
APRIL 30, 2020
Agtech company Pivot Bio snags $100 million more in funding, while AI developer Hypergiant spins up COVID-19 emissions modeling tool.
Sole US Nuclear Plant Under Construction Plods on Despite Virus Infections
GreenTechMedia
APRIL 30, 2020
The modern American nuclear power industry is not known for its punctuality, but the spread of a tenacious virus certainly doesn't help. Utility Southern Company reported Thursday that the "COVID-19 pandemic has impacted productivity levels and pace of activity completion" at Vogtle 3 and 4, the only nuclear power plant construction currently underway in the U.S.
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Your guide to preserving, storing and canning food
Inhabitat - Innovation
APRIL 30, 2020
You've stockpiled some fresh food — now what? To prevent food waste, check out these tips for canning, pickling and freezing your food for the future!
These key investments can build resilience to pandemics and climate change
GreenBiz
APRIL 30, 2020
Here's what will help beyond immediate disaster response.
Solar-powered hotel on Grand Cayman features turtle-friendly lighting
Inhabitat - Innovation
APRIL 30, 2020
Kimtpon's Seafire Resort + Spa saves energy and sea turtles.
Marc Andreessen Says It’s Time to Build. But Build What, Exactly?
GreenTechMedia
APRIL 30, 2020
Famed software pioneer and venture capitalist Marc Andreessen is out with a new piece, called “ It’s time to build ,” that is making the rounds among the thinkfluencer crowd. It’s part call-to-arms and part flogging over America’s inability to build. “Every step of the way, to everyone around us, we should be asking the question, what are you building?
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.
Project Lunark to test a prototype moon habitat powered by solar
Inhabitat - Innovation
APRIL 30, 2020
“What does it take to live on the moon?
Watt It Takes: From Self-Replicating Machines to Decarbonization
GreenTechMedia
APRIL 30, 2020
Saul Griffith has a doctorate in materials science and information theory. He’s co-founded over a dozen companies. And now he’s determined to prove that we already have what it takes to decarbonize the economy. “The reality is I think it's still possible to completely decarbonize by 2030 and save everyone money. And we've just got to start thinking about it correctly,” says Saul in this interview.
Let’s Invest In An Energy Future That Preserves The Economy – And Life On This Planet
Forbes Green Tech
APRIL 30, 2020
COVID-19 has infected millions and hundreds of thousands are dead. Policymakers are responding by injecting trillions of dollars to help the sputtering economy. But for economic and environmental reasons, one sector should not receive a taxpayer bailout – the oil and gas industry.
So, What Exactly Is Community Solar?
GreenTechMedia
APRIL 30, 2020
Residential solar has grown by leaps and bounds in the U.S. over the past two decades, but let's face it: Not everyone can have solar on their own roof. As many as three-quarters of American households are unable to access rooftop solar — because they rent, or live in an apartment building, or a rooftop system is not affordable for them. Enter community solar: a simple, even elegant concept.
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.
Lessons Learned: How Liberia and Sierra Leone rebounded after the Ebola shutdown
Impact Alpha
APRIL 30, 2020
ImpactAlpha, April 30 – A health crisis shattered families, quarantined communities, closed borders and shut down businesses. Lenders pulled in their horns, figuring shellshocked borrowers would default on their loans and they would be unable to make new ones. They were wrong. When BRAC Microfinance returned to Liberia and Sierra Leone after the months-long shutdowns.
Shell and BP Slash Spending but Renewables Largely Spared
GreenTechMedia
APRIL 30, 2020
Shell just did the thing CEO Ben van Beurden said no leader of the company would ever want on their record: cut its shareholder dividend for the first time since the Second World War. In slashing Shell's dividend on Thursday from 47 to 16 cents per share, van Beurden made a dramatic statement on the global oil industry's current predicament.
Solar And Wind Costs Continue To Fall As Power Becomes Cleaner
Forbes Green Tech
APRIL 30, 2020
Solar and wind power costs are still falling, making more and more fossil fuel generators around the world uncompetitive.
Fighting Energy Injustice and Coronavirus in African American Communities
GreenTechMedia
APRIL 30, 2020
African Americans are struggling with a disproportionate death toll from COVID-19 and severe financial strain from the economic downturn. This crisis has exposed preexisting racial disparities created by deep-seated social, economic and political factors. These same underlying issues make African Americans more vulnerable to health damage from pollution, as well as from heat waves, storms and other effects of climate change.
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?
Vote Solar calls for clean energy investment to combat inequities exposed by COVID-19
Solar Power World
APRIL 30, 2020
The economic devastation of the coronavirus pandemic is projected to plunge 20% of families into utility bill debt over the next four months as layoffs and other economic losses continue throughout the country. The average household pays more than $250 per month for critical utilities, and over a four month period of non-payment average household… The post Vote Solar calls for clean energy investment to combat inequities exposed by COVID-19 appeared first on Solar Power World.
What you need to know about the COVID-19 vaccine
GatesNotes
APRIL 30, 2020
Humankind has never had a more urgent task than creating broad immunity for coronavirus.
3 Ways China’s Transport Sector Is Working to Recover from COVID-19 Lockdowns
The City Fix
APRIL 30, 2020
Ghost-like cities with deserted metro cars and empty buses have been a vivid manifestation of how COVID-19 has affected society worldwide. As elsewhere, public transport ridership in Chinese cities dipped precipitously during the early days of the pandemic. But as. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.
You are invited to 'New Climate Conversations: where we go from here' with E8 and Climate Solutions
E8 Cleantech Angels
APRIL 30, 2020
Conversation I. Courage and Change. Mimi Casteel Hope Well Wine. Maren Costa Amazon Employees for Climate Justice. May 6, 2020 11:00am - noon PDT, via Zoom. , RSVP. Amidst the pervasive harm of the pandemic we have also seen we can unite in common purpose. We have even witnessed a softer global footprint, and we know it is possible to have both the clean air of today and a robust economy, if we so choose.
So You Want To Save Humanity? Manage Nature Like A Business
Forbes Green Tech
APRIL 30, 2020
To prevent pandemics and slow climate change, people need to be convinced of the need to protect biodiversity. But how? One solution, suggests a UN expert, is to account for "natural capital," just as we do in business.
Air France coronavirus bailout package to demand steep emissions cuts
Business Green
APRIL 30, 2020
Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire tells French Parliament €7bn support package would require ailing airline to set goal of becoming world's most environmentally-friendly carrier. The French government looks poised to set a high bar for countries considering attaching 'green strings' to airline bailout packages, announcing that support for Air France is contingent on it agreeing to ambitious new emissions goals.
Impact management is hot: Recapping Agents of Impact Call No. 15 (audio)
Impact Alpha
APRIL 30, 2020
ImpactAlpha, Apr. 30 – The first annual assessments of impact investors are coming in under the International Finance Corporation’s Operating Principles for Impact Management. While the assessments revealed shortcomings in impact oversight, particularly around investment exits, observers applauded the transparency as an important step in the evolution of the market.
ABB to supply high-voltage chargers for Volvo heavy vehicle charging project
Charged
APRIL 30, 2020
Electronics giant ABB will be supplying chargers capable of charging batteries at up to 920 VDC for Volvo’s Low Impact Green Heavy Transport Solutions (LIGHTS) project. The Volvo LIGHTS project is a partnership among the Volvo Group, charging solution provider Greenlots. (a Shell subsidiary), and several other players in the charging infrastructure space.
THE WORLD’S WIND TURBINES ARE REGISTERING MORE THAN 400 BILLION INDIVIDUAL DATA POINTS EVERY YEAR
altenergymag
APRIL 30, 2020
- Research from Greenbyte AB puts a figure on ‘big data’ in the wind power industry - Digital innovation must continue to ensure growing volume of data does not become an obstacle to decision-making
Standard Solar installs 12 solar carports for Arizona fire department
Solar Power World
APRIL 30, 2020
Standard Solar completed a 12-building solar carport project for the Northwest Fire District in Tucson, Arizona. The project uses parking lot shade canopies at multiple fire stations, a training center and an operations warehouse in the Northwest Fire District. The 657-kilowatt system was completed in partnership with CI Labs, a commercial and industrial underwriting, engineering… The post Standard Solar installs 12 solar carports for Arizona fire department appeared first on Solar Power W
Study: Cleaner European air during Covid-19 lockdowns has helped to avoid 11,000 deaths
Business Green
APRIL 30, 2020
Reduced road traffic and industrial activity has cleaned up Europe's air, likely averting thousands of air pollution deaths, study argues. Restrictions placed on the economy aimed at halting further spread of the coronavirus have led to far cleaner air throughout much of Europe, helping to avoid an estimated 11,000 deaths over the past month alone, according to the Centre for Research on Energy and Clean Air (CREA).
9-MW solar array to be installed near Wisconsin regional airport
Solar Power World
APRIL 30, 2020
Madison Gas and Electric (MGE) has received approval from the Public Service Commission of Wisconsin for an agreement to partner with Dane County on a 9-MW solar array near the Dane County Regional Airport. The solar array should generate enough electricity to provide Dane County with about 40% of the energy used by all county-owned… The post 9-MW solar array to be installed near Wisconsin regional airport appeared first on Solar Power World.
COVID-19 And The Future Of Development And Commuting In Los Angeles
Forbes Green Tech
APRIL 30, 2020
Will fear of exposure to COVID-19 coupled with social distancing guidelines solidify the automobile’s dominance in Los Angeles?
‘Energy Policy Advocates’ and the Fossil Fuel Boosters Attacking Legal Efforts to Hold Climate Polluters Accountable
DeSmogBlog
APRIL 30, 2020
Read time: 11 mins While fossil fuel companies defend against mounting climate liability lawsuits in court, their surrogates are working in parallel to target the attorneys, academics, and institutions supporting these lawsuits. This defensive strategy involves vigorous public records requests, and in some cases legal action or intervention, to try proving a supposed conspiracy by those working to hold polluters accountable.
Recyclers urge public not to recycle face masks and other PPE
Business Green
APRIL 30, 2020
Confederation of Paper Industries issues plea for public to ensure PPE is disposed of safely, amidst fears waste material could contaminate recycling. With growing numbers of people taking to wearing face masks in public and debate continuing as to whether official advice should advocate their use, recyclers are this week warning that any Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) used by the public should be disposed of safely.
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