Bee kind to bees, celebrate National Honey Bee Day
Inhabitat - Innovation
AUGUST 16, 2019
The holiday on Saturday, August 17 is a good time to show extra support for these winged creatures, as they play an important role in producing our food.
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Peat use must be banned to hit zero-carbon targets, says Veolia
Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 16, 2019
4M tonnes of peat-free compost available on our doorsteps can replace peat. It’s time to stop excavating our precious peatlands says Veolia , “the UK’s largest peat-free composter” The damaging practice has continued to grow despite national targets to phase it out. In 2011 the Government called for retailers to reduce peat use by 2020, but industry has shown lack of commitment to embrace these ambitions.
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The 'tipping point' has arrived as temperatures rise in 70 US counties
Inhabitat - Innovation
AUGUST 16, 2019
Looks like the heat is on this summer … even in Alaska thanks to what has been referred to as the “tipping point.” Apparently, the warnings about 2 degrees Celsius of warming — or the global average forewarned against in the 2015 Paris Agreement centered on climate change -- has hit some places in the United States pretty hard. Related: For example, according to the Washington Post the fastest state to experience such warming is Alaska which has seen a recent increase of.
The energy transition is underway: 10 charts tell the story
Renewable Energy World
AUGUST 16, 2019
The renewable energy transition promises to reduce carbon emissions, but it’s happening at different speeds around the world. Read on for some key insights from BloombergNEF’s New Energy Outlook 2019, which provides a detailed road map to the future.
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.
Forgotten urban spaces get new lives as beautiful gathering areas on Skid Row
Inhabitat - Innovation
AUGUST 16, 2019
Brooks + Scarpa has revitalized a couple of unloved service courtyards and a debris-filled alley into beautiful outdoor gathering spaces.
Greenland's Massive Ice Melt Wasn't Supposed To Happen Until 2070
Forbes Green Tech
AUGUST 16, 2019
The human race is a passenger in the car of climate change that's hydroplaning to the cliff edge of an environmental catastrophe.
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The Ocean Cleanup Has Good News, Hopes To Resume Plastic Cleanup Soon
Forbes Green Tech
AUGUST 16, 2019
The Ocean Cleanup isn't giving up. Its inventor thinks an "overtopping" issue may be the last one to solve, and an upcoming modification brings the effort closer than ever to cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
Christopher Leonard's New Book Puts an Ever-Expanding 'Kochland' on the Map
DeSmogBlog
AUGUST 16, 2019
Read time: 8 mins Christopher Leonard’s new book, Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America , begins, appropriately enough, with an FBI agent, who is investigating criminal activity by the company, standing in a field with a pair of binoculars, trying to catch a glimpse of the daily operations of a company that prizes secrecy.
Europe’s wind potential is 100 times higher, could power the world
Renewable Energy World
AUGUST 16, 2019
Europe can potentially generate 100 times the current amount of energy generated, and produce enough power to power the world until 2050, if it were to maximize land use for onshore wind capacity.
Sungrow Supplies Argentina's Largest Solar Plant with 1500Vdc Central Inverter Solutions
altenergymag
AUGUST 16, 2019
The project is located in Cafayate, a region optimized for solar energy due to a high-volume of sunny days, while frequented by sandstorms, putting solar project equipment susceptible to significant wear-and-tear.
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.
Can Fashion Reduce Conflict In The Middle East? This Israeli-Palestinian Brand Believes So
Forbes Green Tech
AUGUST 16, 2019
Founders Amit Luzon and Eyal Eliyahu did just that, launching the brand ADISH almost two years ago with a determination not to use “empty words about peace.
Big Oil Can't Fight the 'Irresistible' Rise of Electric Vehicles — Report
DeSmogBlog
AUGUST 16, 2019
Read time: 4 mins By Paul Brown for the Climate News Network. The days of oil as a fuel for cars, whether petrol or diesel, are numbered — because the economies offered by wind and solar energy and other cheap renewables, combined with electric vehicles, are irresistible, a French bank says. BNP Paribas Asset Management calculates that oil majors like Exxon, BP and Shell will have to produce petrol from oil at $10 a barrel (the current price is $58) to compete with electricity on price, while f
Softbank invests $110M in new energy storage system
Renewable Energy World
AUGUST 16, 2019
Energy Vault, the creator of a new way to perform utility-scale energy storage, announced that SoftBank Vision Fund (Vision Fund) invested $110 million in its Series B funding round. Energy Vault will use the funds to accelerate global deployment of its technology, which enables renewables to deliver baseload power for less than the cost of fossil fuels 24 hours a day, said the company.
Amazon Announces Renewable Energy Projects In Virginia And Ireland
Forbes Green Tech
AUGUST 16, 2019
According to the company, its solar projects in the US have offset the CO2 equivalent of more than 200 million miles of truck deliveries
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.
Wave energy gets boost to pioneer green economy with US patent approval.
altenergymag
AUGUST 16, 2019
US Patent Office grants AW-Energy’s Patent Application for WaveRoller® technology.
Rural `EV BnBs' Let Tesla And EV Roadtrippers Travel Off The Beaten Path
Forbes Green Tech
AUGUST 16, 2019
To enable EVs to travel all the backroads, it should be possible for rural BnBs – some just with tents – to spring up and let EV road trippers stay the night and get a full charge. The open road is calling, and here's how to make it happen.
Neutrino Energy - Game-Changing Energy-Generation Technology
altenergymag
AUGUST 16, 2019
How Renewable Energy Is Possible Without Environmental Degradation
Smiles Always Win The Day
Unsustainable
AUGUST 16, 2019
Re-Published with permission from “ Where To Next? “, a blog by John and Peggy Bright from Canberra, Australia that relishes the love of travel and the joy of experiencing different cultures. words and photographs Leggy Peggy A smile is sure to brighten your day Children’s happiness, a important part of African values Let’s be honest—life in Africa can be tough, really tough.
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?
Environmental Masters Degrees from Vermont Law School
Green Market Oracle
AUGUST 16, 2019
Vermont Law School (VLS) offers three environmental masters degrees. A master's degree from VLS is different from other law degrees. Instead of studying theories about how policies work, VLS master's candidates learn the law and how to use it to effect change. By studying advocacy, regulations, legislation, and markets, students acquire the tools to create more just systems and a more sustainable world.
The Future Of EcoTech Visions
Ecotech
AUGUST 16, 2019
Now in its largest location in the Miami area, EcoTech Visions has found a permanent home. This unique green business incubator and makers space is the cumulation of years of hard work and focus by founder and president, Pandwe Gibson. Located in the Green Corridor in Miami and offering over 26,000 square feet of space, it provides a community-based location for green businesses, entrepreneurs and the smaller Mom and Pop companies that want to move into environmentally-friendly and innovative wa
Making the Most of Our Carbon
Clean Energy Trust
AUGUST 16, 2019
Clockwise from upper left: pictures of NET Power, Fulcrum BioEnergy, and Lanzatech facilities Addressing climate change is a complex and difficult challenge, but we have more figured out than you might think. Most people actually agree on what a good game plan looks like, which is generally in line with this framework which I’ve borrowed from Shayle Kann of Energy Impact Partners: A.
10 Considerations When Developing A Bot To Filter Sensitive Information
Forbes Green Tech
AUGUST 16, 2019
Using a bot to filter sensitive business information? Here are some important things to consider before you automate.
Threat to terrestrial ecosystems and food security detailed in IPCC land use report
Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 16, 2019
Land is under growing pressure from human activity and climate change is adding to these pressures, according to a report released by the IPCC on 8 August. The effects include water scarcity, desertification, soil erosion, declining crop yields and wildfire damage, with the prospect that these will only worsen unless urgent action is taken. Improvements to land use are one pathway to tackling these problems.
The Trump administration tried to bury a climate study on … rice?
Grist
AUGUST 16, 2019
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is supposed to use the “latest available science” to help the nation’s farmers avoid risk, according to its own mission. So it was more than a little surprising when, last year, the agency decided not to promote an alarming study (that two of its employees had contributed to) that showed climate change could lessen the nutritional value of rice — a crop the agency says the U.S. is a “major exporter” of.
EV charging stations outnumber fuel stations, less than 100 years after the first petrol pump was installed
Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 16, 2019
There are now almost 1,000 more public places to charge electric cars than there are forecourts to pump petrol in the UK – 9,300 EV charging locations compared to 8,400 fuel stations, according to a press release from EV manufacturer Nissan. The crossover happened more than a year before Nissan’s 2016 prediction of August 2020 – a sign of the accelerating adoption of EVs (electric vehicles) amongst UK motorists.
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