Sculptural, tree-filled tower supports sustainable urbanism in Singapore
Inhabitat - Innovation
AUGUST 12, 2019
Designed with a mix of boutique retail and office spaces, the skyscraper champions the firm’s ideas of “sustainable urbanism.
Inhabitat - Innovation
AUGUST 12, 2019
Designed with a mix of boutique retail and office spaces, the skyscraper champions the firm’s ideas of “sustainable urbanism.
Forbes Green Tech
AUGUST 12, 2019
Micromobility is great but limited. Cars with one person are ubiquitous and inefficient. The real self-driving transport revolution may come from "Minimobility" -- half width cars for 1-2 people that use half the energy, half the road and 1/5th the parking, and are more efficient than transit.
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Inhabitat - Innovation
AUGUST 12, 2019
In case there weren’t already enough reasons to limit global warming to less than 1.5 degrees Celsius, a new study released in Nature reveals that even a 1 degree increase in ocean temperatures leads to a significant increase in mercury exposure among fish — and the people that consume them.
Forbes Green Tech
AUGUST 12, 2019
Installing electric vehicle chargers that pop up out of the sidewalk when you need them and then back down again when you don't is the idea behind the new UEOne from Urban Electric.
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.
Sun Valley Solar
AUGUST 12, 2019
It’s that time of year again when companies start planning their capital budget for the following year. While evaluating and incorporating needs are important, like replacement machinery, new plants, or new research and development projects, you shouldn't miss this opportunity to consider solar as a smart, long-term investment with immediate bottom line impact.
AFN Sustainable Protein
AUGUST 12, 2019
A worldwide pork deficit is impending and one virus is to blame. But who’s going to fill in the gaps? Meat giant Tyson’s latest earnings reveal it’s not them, with the US-China trade war largely to blame. Could they lose out to alternatives like Impossible Foods? Though harmless to humans, African Swine Fever (ASF) has the world’s top pork producer China reeling.
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Forbes Green Tech
AUGUST 12, 2019
The eco-system, the economies and the responsibilities around carbon foot print is going to affect us all. Listen to the US president of CDP, Bruno Sarda as he talks about that future world ten years from now and what it is going to take to get there and beyond.
AFN Sustainable Protein
AUGUST 12, 2019
A worldwide pork deficit is impending and one virus is to blame. But who’s going to fill in the gaps? Meat giant Tyson’s latest earnings reveal it’s not them, with the US-China trade war largely to blame. Could they lose out to alternatives like Impossible Foods? The post Who’s bringing China its bacon now that it’s running low? appeared first on AgFunderNews.
Green Market Oracle
AUGUST 12, 2019
Many of the 23 million Pakistani children who do not attend school work during the day. They cannot attend school at night because some of the places where these kids live do not have electricity. work during the day so they cannot attend school. In 2016 two schools in Faisalabad began offering night courses using electricity from solar energy to power lights, fans, and IT equipment.
Renewable Energy World
AUGUST 12, 2019
Coming on the heels of Gap’s announced 90-MW PPA with Enel Green Power, BloombergNEF released its 2H 2019 corporate energy market outlook in which it said that corporations signed contracts to purchase 8.6 GW of clean energy in 2019 through July, up from 7.2 GW at the same time last year.
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.
Terra Infirma
AUGUST 12, 2019
Recently, I’ve been looking enviously at the Manchester Beelines project to bring together 1000 miles of cycle routes across the Greater Manchester area. While the project itself is fantastic, I’m particularly taken with the branding. The worker bee has long been associated with the city, formalised as part of Manchester’s coat of arms in 1842.
Renewable Energy World
AUGUST 12, 2019
According to Vattenfall, the project will help provide less pronounced energy peaks and an overall more efficient use of energy infrastructure.
Unsustainable
AUGUST 12, 2019
Tree Planting: July 29th, 2019 – Ethiopia breaks the record for the most trees planted in a single day. (This article is reposted from The Earthbound Report, a blog which deftly addresses equity amongst all the world’s peoples, protection of all non-human life, and ethical responses to the challenges that face our planet.) words Jeremy Williams A hundred years ago Ethiopia was a forest nation, with over 40% of its land forested.
Defend Our Future
AUGUST 12, 2019
DEFEND OUR FUTURE – ARIZONA CAMPUS AMBASSADOR. ABOUT DEFEND OUR FUTURE. As the Trump administration cedes climate leadership on the world stage, doubles down on its assault on bedrock environmental and public health protections, and undermines sound science to thwart commonsense policymaking, it is more important than ever to be involved in the fight against climate change.
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?
Renewable Energy World
AUGUST 12, 2019
The Trump administration cast the fate of the nation’s first major offshore wind farm into doubt by extending an environmental review for the $2.8 billion Vineyard Wind project off Massachusetts.
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