Jim Conca
JANUARY 14, 2021
The small modular nuclear reactor designed by NuScale has received an order to prepare for a combined construction and operating license application to build their SMR as part of the Carbon Free Power Project of Utah Associated Municipal Power Systems (UAMPS).
GreenBiz
JANUARY 14, 2021
How the EU’s new ‘toxic-free’ vision could shape your safer chemicals strategy. Bob Kerr. Thu, 01/14/2021 - 01:00. For the last two decades, the European Union has played a leadership role in tackling the risks hazardous chemicals pose to our health and environment. It has now proposed a new vision for a "toxic-free environment" and published a strategy for moving the EU towards that goal.
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Inhabitat - Innovation
JANUARY 14, 2021
Locally sourced bamboo and adobe bricks make up the new Meditation Cathedral & Sunset Sala, a cluster of organically shaped buildings on top of a hill in northern Chiang Mai.
GreenTechMedia
JANUARY 14, 2021
This is the second article in a series. Read part one here. It’s easy to see what’s motivating India’s emerging ecosystem of sustainable technology startups with a glance out the window from the office of Sangam Ventures in Gurugram, just outside of Delhi. Several floors below the firm’s balcony, power lines crisscross over piles of garbage, a fleet of rickshaws and cow patties on a rooftop, being dried for cooking fuel.
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.
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 14, 2021
Water flea (Moina macrocopa) under microscope view. Prolonged exposure to environmentally relevant concentrations of the weedkiller Roundup causes significant harm to keystone species according to new research at the University of Birmingham. A team in the University’s School of Biosciences used waterfleas, or Daphnia , to test the effects prolonged exposure to concentrations of Roundup deemed safe by regulatory agencies.
Inhabitat - Innovation
JANUARY 14, 2021
The European bison’s population has increased sufficiently for it to be removed from IUCN’s list of vulnerable species.
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Inhabitat - Innovation
JANUARY 14, 2021
While many big businesses and brands cause overwhelming environmental problems, Adidas works to clean up its act. In a bold move last January, Adidas acknowledged its contribution to plastic waste, noting the waste's negative impacts on the world's oceans.
GreenTechMedia
JANUARY 14, 2021
Wind turbine OEM Siemens Gamesa is cutting 266 jobs in Spain with the closure of two factories, it announced on Tuesday, with the falling appetite for smaller wind turbines cited as the chief cause. The facilities in Cuenca, in central Spain, and La Coruña in the north, are both unviable, according to the company. The La Coruña manufacturing plant has no Spanish orders at all for 2021 for its 2.X-114 model, according to Siemens Gamesa.
Inhabitat - Innovation
JANUARY 14, 2021
Turkey's capital Istanbul could run out of water in the next 45 days if rain does not fall.
GreenTechMedia
JANUARY 14, 2021
BlocPower CEO Donnel Baird is on a mission to clean up old, inefficient buildings in America’s cities -- and help people who are exposed to the worst pollution. BlocPower was founded in 2012. It’s raised venture capital from Kapor Capital and Andreesen Horowitz. But that process was not easy for a company with a mostly non-white leadership team.
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
JANUARY 14, 2021
How can architecture serve the needs of culture and civilization? IMK Architects, a pioneer in urban design founded in 1957, answers that question with Auric Hall, its new project in Aurangabad, India.
GreenTechMedia
JANUARY 14, 2021
We are going to build a lot more wind and solar over the coming decades. It will inevitably lead to oversupply of these resources on the grid. But is that a good thing? That’s the focus of this week’s show, featuring a conversation between Shayle Kann and Columbia University's Melissa Lott. The stars have aligned for a rare win-win-win situation: Solar and wind are popular with politicians; they’re popular with customers; and they’re often the lowest-cost resource, ma
Charged
JANUARY 14, 2021
German auto giant Daimler has announced a new plan to invest €70 billion ($85 billion) in “research and development and in property, plant and equipment” between 2021 and 2025, the lion’s share of which will be used “to accelerate the transformation towards electrification and digitization.”. Most of this investment will be at Mercedes-Benz Cars, but some will used for Daimler Trucks to accelerate its plans for emissions-free transportation.
DeSmogBlog
JANUARY 14, 2021
Read time: 15 mins It seems like nearly every day another hopeful article touts the potential of using hydrogen as a fuel to tackle climate change. What’s known as “green hydrogen” — which relies on renewable power for production — is getting the bulk of that attention.
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.
Impact Alpha
JANUARY 14, 2021
ImpactAlpha, Jan. 14 – Last January, some 170,000 attendees and 4,400 exhibitors flocked to Las Vegas for the annual Consumer Electronics Show. The. The post Sustainability is the new new thing at the Consumer Electronics Show appeared first on Impact Alpha.
Charged
JANUARY 14, 2021
Energy management specialist EnergyHub has partnered with charger manufacturer Enel X to expand the availability of smart charging stations as a flexible distributed energy resource (DER) for utilities. Utilities will now be able to manage customer-owned Enel X smart charging stations through EnergyHub’s Mercury DERMS platform. Enel X has over 60,000 consumer charging stations deployed around the US, and the new partnership allows utilities to use EnergyHub’s platform to manage enrolled Enel X J
Impact Alpha
JANUARY 14, 2021
ImpactAlpha, January 14 – Healthy coral reefs foster biodiversity and provide food, income and protection for more than 500 million people. But pollution and. The post Coral Vita secures $2 million to help corals adapt to climate change appeared first on Impact Alpha.
altenergymag
JANUARY 14, 2021
The US branch office offers the whole range of SunBrush® mobil´s solar panel cleaners, which can be mounted quickly and easily on carrier vehicles, such as tractors or wheel loaders and guarantee efficient and gentle cleaning either dry or wet.
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?
Impact Alpha
JANUARY 14, 2021
ImpactAlpha, January 14 — Cajon, Calif.-based guitar manufacturer Taylor Guitars is now 100% owned by its more than 1,200 employees through an Employee. The post Canadian pension fund backs Taylor Guitars’ conversion to employee ownership appeared first on Impact Alpha.
Business Green
JANUARY 14, 2021
Water UK becomes first trade body to join as official partner of UN campaign, which aims to rally ambitious corporate climate action ahead of COP26. Water UK has become the first industry trade body to join the UN's Race to Zero campaign as an official partner today, having last year drawn up a strategy to deliver net zero emissions water supplies across the UK by 2030.
Green Living Guy
JANUARY 14, 2021
Over the last decade, Americans have witnessed a shift towards renewable energy. The use of fossil fuels has created a harmful dependence on non-renewable resources, and homeowners have recognized a need to reprioritize. Concerned individuals have begun seeking alternative sources such as solar, wind and geothermal power. Solar water heating. The post Will Solar Water Heating Grow in 2021?
Impact Alpha
JANUARY 14, 2021
Featured: Sustainability is the new new thing at the Consumer Electronics Show. The post The Brief: Sustainable consumer electronics, outcome optimization, converting to employee ownership, commercial solar in West Africa, coral adaptation appeared first on Impact Alpha.
Business Green
JANUARY 14, 2021
Global drinks giant doubles interim emissions goal and pledges to become net zero emission business by 2040. PepsiCo has become the latest global brand to sign up to an ambitious net zero emissions target, pledging to fully decarbonise its business by 2040 and announcing it has strengthened its near-term emissions targets. The drinks giant said it had more than doubled its science-based climate goal, and was now targeting an absolute reduction in greenhouse gas emissions across its value chain b
Impact Alpha
JANUARY 14, 2021
ImpactAlpha, January 14 – Mauritius-based Daystar Power installs and manages commercial and industrial solar installations in Nigeria, Ghana, Togo, Senegal and Cote d’Ivoire. The. The post Daystar Power raises $38 million to expand commercial solar power in West Africa appeared first on Impact Alpha.
Business Green
JANUARY 14, 2021
Report argues ambitious Ocean Recovery Strategy could create 100,000 clean energy jobs, protect and restore carbon sinks, and allow fish stocks to recover. Restoring the UK's seas to health could deliver a multi-billion pound boost to the country's economy by 2050, generate thousands of new jobs, and help ameliorate the climate crisis and restore biodiversity, according to a new report launched today by WWF in partnership with Sky Ocean Rescue.
altenergymag
JANUARY 14, 2021
Investment Will Bolster Customer Experience and Fund Market Expansion
Business Green
JANUARY 14, 2021
Tim Davie confirms corporation will set net zero by 2030 target as he calls on organisation to 'dial up the focus on sustainability'. The BBC is set to become the latest high profile organisation to adopt a new net zero emissions target, after Director-General Tim Davie confirmed an ambitious new decarbonisation strategy will be introduced across the corporation this year.
altenergymag
JANUARY 14, 2021
Panasonic promotes 13 certified installers in Florida, Arizona, Texas, Iowa, Indiana and New Mexico
Charged
JANUARY 14, 2021
Group14 Technologies, a global provider of silicon-carbon composite materials for lithium-ion markets, has secured $17 million in a Series B funding round led by SK materials, a manufacturer of special gases and industrial gases. Group14 will leverage this operating capital to scale production to meet the increasing demand for its flagship product, SCC55, which it hopes will provide up to 50% more energy density than conventional graphite for lithium-ion batteries. “In our role as one of t
altenergymag
JANUARY 14, 2021
Solar Optimum will begin its deployment of Enphase Storage with homeowners across Southern California. The expansion of the partnership between the two companies will include closer collaboration on engineering, training, marketing, and customer support.
Business Green
JANUARY 14, 2021
Huge shortfall in financing for climate adaptation measures means global efforts to tackle the climate crisis are akin to 'going into battle blindfolded with one hand tied behind our backs', UN warns. Nature-based climate solutions are critical for combating the increasingly severe impacts of global warming and should be a top priority for governments and businesses worldwide, with global climate adaptation costs expected to soar to $500bn a year by 2050, the UN has warned.
altenergymag
JANUARY 14, 2021
The first project started production in 2020, and the remainder will be put on stream between 2022 and 2024. Located in Texas, Nevada, Oregon, Wyoming and Virginia the projects will produce clean and reliable energy across the U.S. and lead to the creation of jobs in engineering, construction and plant operations.
Business Green
JANUARY 14, 2021
Forty per cent of UK car sales could have self-driving capabilities by 2035 delivering a £42bn market, according to a new report from Connected Places Catapult, Element Energy, and Cambridge Econometrics. The UK stands on the cusp of a transport technology revolution, with the market for self-driving vehicles set to be worth nearly £42bn by 2035, according to a report exploring the economic potential of automated vehicles.
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