GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Startup tackles decarbonizing industrial heat processes. Myisha Majumder. Wed, 09/16/2020 - 01:30. Skyven Technologies, founded in 2013, is a company with a unique proposition for companies in the industrial sector — a way to save money through decarbonizing. Skyven CEO Arun Gupta said the idea came when he applied the thinking behind his Ph.D. dissertation in microelectronics to an entirely different field: climate change.

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Startups Technology Natural gas Carbon-neutral 533

Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

A new analysis released on 15 September by Environmental Defense Fund Europe (EDF Europe), based on data from the Waze for Cities Programme, appears to show that traffic congestion is currently increasing in London and it is now worse than 2019 levels outside the city centre. The analysis examines data from May 2020 onwards. In the week preceding the study’s announcement, average congestion on roads outside the central London Congestion Charging zone was 18% higher than last year.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Circular Electronics: Creating a Responsible Supply Chain, Part 1. Can we create a responsible circular supply chain for circular electronics? This more in-depth series of case studies will explore how electronics companies are designing waste out of products and offerings, including easily repairable and modular consumer electronics. This discussion explores deeper nuances of the circular economy approaches to recycling electronics.".

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Recycling Recycling Waste Waste 435

Inhabitat - Innovation

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

A new investigation by NPR and PBS Frontline reveals that for decades, executives in the oil and plastic industries invested millions of U.S. dollars into misleading the public about the recycling of plastics. As a good citizen, you sort your trash, thinking that the plastic will be recycled to reduce pollution. Unfortunately, all that effort might be in vain.

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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.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Sustainable Innovation in the Textile Industry. As global apparel consumption continues to rise—an expected increase of 60% by 2030—that growth could have a dangerous impact on the environment. Currently, 87% of textiles are landfilled or incinerated and 10% of GHG emissions come from fashion industry. As Earth’s resources become more and more constrained, the global fashion industry is looking toward innovative materials and strategies to reduce its environmental impact and carbon footprint.

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Innovation Sustainability Fashion Demand 461

Inhabitat - Innovation

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The Bioclimatic Community Mosque of Pamulang follows passive solar principles and boasts and active green roof to reduce the urban heat island effect.

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Cooling 256

Inhabitat - Innovation

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

New fashion house Valani has launched its new debut collection of biodegradable separates and dresses inspired by light living.

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Biodegradable Fashion 249

GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Don’t be square: How to tell a successful, circular story that sticks. How can companies effectively communicate circular initiatives without confusing or alienating customers and stakeholders? The circular economy is becoming a centerpiece of many corporate sustainability strategies. Yet companies often struggle to translate this into stories that inform and engage employees, customers, investors and other stakeholders.

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Education Sustainability 332

Inhabitat - Innovation

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The International Olympics Committee has a brand-new home in Lausanne, Switzerland. The stunning new Olympic House brings together 500 employees who were working at different offices scattered throughout the city.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Stemming the Tide: Investment, Infrastructure and Innovation in Ocean Plastics. How can investment, infrastructure and innovation help solve ocean plastics? Speakers. Dave Ford, Ocean Plastics Leadership Network. Ellen Jackowski, HP. Dune Ives, Lonely Whale. Holly Secon. Wed, 09/16/2020 - 01:06. Featured. Off.

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Plastics Innovation Investment 307

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.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Incidences of orcas ramming into boats along the Portuguese and Spanish coasts have left sailors terrified and scientists confused.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The quality of your working environment can have an effect on your productivity, health, and happiness. We often use lighting, ergonomic office furniture, and organization as tools to enhance our workspaces. However, due to a lack of fresh air and consistent circulation, you may be working in an environment that has a concentrated amount of toxins or excessive dryness.

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Pollution Medicine HVAC Health 174

GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Few grid policy battles have been fought as bitterly as those surrounding replacements for net-metering, which determines how much rooftop solar customers get paid for power they export to the grid. Utilities across the country have pushed to move away from paying full retail rates, arguing it shifts costs onto other ratepayers. Solar installers typically respond by calling utility proposals, which often propose additional costs for rooftop solar customers, punitive and unreasonable.

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Solar Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 130

Forbes Green Tech

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The German auto giant, which has worked on hydrogen technology for decades, is developing a fuel-cell semi with range of up to 600 miles (1000 kilometers) per fueling and a next-generation battery truck.

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Hydrogen Batteries Technology Innovation 141

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.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Hitachi has confirmed it is walking away from a proposed new nuclear power plant in the U.K., raising serious questions about government plans to fund new nuclear projects. Speculation began earlier this week but has finally been confirmed by Hitachi on Wednesday. The Wylfa Newydd project in Wales was put on pause by Hitachi in January 2019 after its subsidiary, Horizon Nuclear Power, said it could not secure financing.

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U.S. Green Technology

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Eco-friendly has become more than just a trendy platitude spouted by condescending hipsters. There is a genuine need for us to take measures to reduce our carbon footprint if there is any hope for a future on this planet. It needn’t all be bleak though, and there are some home upgrades you can make that. The post 5 Eco-Friendly Home Upgrades To Transform Your Lifestyle appeared first on U.S.

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Carbon Technology 123

Charged

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Hitachi ABB Power Grids, a newly formed joint venture between the two electronics giants, has launched a new “grid-to-plug” EV charging system for public transport and commercial fleet operators. The new solution, called Grid-eMotion Fleet, is designed to enable fleet operators to efficiently scale up their operations. The Grid-eMotion Fleet solution comes in standard containers that integrate the grid connection and charging systems.

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Business Energy Monitoring Power grid Energy Monitor Transportation 126

Impact Alpha

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

ImpactAlpha, Sept. 16 – Mexico has issued a $890 million Sustainable Development Goal bond. Proceeds from the seven-year bond will target vulnerable populations across Mexico, with a city-level focus, covering SDGs for hunger, health, education, work and infrastructure. The issuance is the first sovereign SDG bond, according to the U.N. United Nations Development Programme.

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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?

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altenergymag

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Two combined heat and power (CHP) engines, supplied by Edina, are delivering low cost, low carbon to the award-winning Gateshead Energy Company.

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Energy Energy Carbon 113

Impact Alpha

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Can asset managers, RIAs and other fiduciaries act both as responsible fiduciaries as well as promote long-term societal good through their investment actions? This question has taken on increased significance in recent months as ESG investing has gained a broader foothold among institutional investors – at least in terms of awareness. Reporting made manifest earlier.

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Green Living Guy

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

So here are the dates folks! I’ve been so glad to see and hear of all the events in the Hudson Valley. Especially as the President of the Electric Auto Association for the Greater Hudson Valley. The one I’ve been dealing with the most is a virtual event in mount. The post Drive Electric Week Events through the Hudson Valley appeared first on Green Living Guy.

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Impact Alpha

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

When the coronavirus pandemic shut down much of the world economy this spring, Emmanuel Lagarrigue worried the momentum toward a clean energy economy would be lost. The concern was strategic for Lagarrigue, the chief innovation officer for Schneider Electric, the French equipment giant, which has carved out a leading role helping customers shift to what.

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Electricity Innovation Energy Energy 93

U.S. Green Technology

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Today more than ever, more people are relocating from rural to urban areas. With the human population growing at a rapid scale, providing a roof over our heads has become a challenge, especially in densely populated places. This has led many city dwellers to downsize to smaller studio apartments to adapt to these changes and. The post Environmental Benefits of Living in a Studio Apartment appeared first on U.S.

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Technology 86

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Iceland managing director Richard Walker calls on government to make plastic packaging tonnage disclosure mandatory in order to tackle plastic pollution crisis. Iceland has for the first time unveiled the full scale of plastic packaging used for both products on its supermarket shelves and throughout its business, as it urged other retailers and companies to be more transparent about their impact on the UK's growing plastic pollution crisis.

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Packaging Plastics Retail Pollution 100

Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Summary - The corona virus is shaking up the German automotive world to the core A tsunami of subsidized electric models is flooding the market; never have this many occasions been sold as in the month of July 2020 in the Netherlands and Germany. This gives an extra impulse to new revenue models such as private leases that can change Europe's largest car market for good.

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Automotive Demand Startups Transportation 78

Low Impact

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Hailed as ‘essential viewing’, ‘painful’ and ‘terrifying’ by viewers, Sophie Paterson shares her reflections on the hard-hitting BBC documentary Extinction: The Facts. Did you tune into BBC One’s Extinction: The Facts on Sunday evening? If not, here’s a trailer clip of what you missed. You can also catch up here on BBC iPlayer.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Range of targets on deforestation, habitats, oceans, plastic pollution adopted a decade ago have all been missed or are heading in wrong direction, UN report warns. The world is set to miss all its targets to safeguard biodiversity and halt the destruction of ecosystems that are critical to slowing climate change, according to an alarming UN report published today by the Convention of Biological Diversity.

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Biodiversity Plastics Pollution Climate change 96

altenergymag

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Reed Exhibitions Limited has announced that All-Energy, the UK's largest annual renewable and low carbon energy exhibition and conference, and the co-located Dcarbonise, are now scheduled to take place on Wednesday 12 - Thursday 13 May 2021 at the Scottish Event Campus (SEC). This follows the announcement by SEC that NHS Louisa Jordan will continue to be in place at the venue until 30 April 2021.

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Energy Energy Carbon 83

Charged

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

IC Bus, a school bus manufacturer owned by Navistar, has secured an order for 18 Type C electric school buses to be delivered to 14 school districts in British Columbia. “We are very happy to announce the first order of our electric CE school bus,” said IC Bus VP Trish Reed. “Electric is an exciting opportunity for IC Bus and we look forward to expanding our presence following this initial purchase.”.

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Electricity North America Transportation Construction 91

Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Energy Innovation partners with the independent nonprofit Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) to provide climate and energy research updates. The research synopsis below comes from AGCI Executive Director Dr. James Arnott , and a full list of AGCI’s quarterly research updates covering recent climate change research on clean energy pathways is available online at [link].

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Climate change Policy Politics Innovation 80

altenergymag

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Solar energy jobs grew 9%, energy storage up 4% as utilities transition away from coal power; employers expected 2% growth for advanced energy in 2020 before COVID-19 health crisis hit

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Energy Energy Health 75

Terra Infirma

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

Oh dear. Nothing like a journalist who doesn’t understand statistics– or deliberately misunderstands them in search of a cheap headline. Arwa Mahdawi, writing in today’s Guardian, takes the statistic that only 9% of all plastic ever produced has been recycled and concludes that all the sorting and cleaning we do as householders is just a scam by big business to make us feel better about using plastic.

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Plastics Recycling Recycling Politics 78

Impact Alpha

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

ImpactAlpha, September 16 – Social enterprises need new sources of capital, as well as non-financial support, to maintain and expand operations now that it’s needed most. “For decades, social entrepreneurs have effectively reached and helped vulnerable populations and have served as the guardians of people and the planet,” write the authors of a new report.

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