Why feminine leadership is essential for the clean energy transition
GreenBiz
MARCH 13, 2020
It's time to embrace traits like collaboration, empathy and flexibility, no matter your gender.
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Report highlights UK and US financial institutions’ contribution to Amazon deforestation
Envirotec Magazine
MARCH 13, 2020
A report released on 12 March by Amazon Watch reveals the involvement of five American and British financial institutions in billions of dollars in debt and equity financing for crude oil extraction projects in the western Amazon. Already, millions of acres of the western Amazon have been auctioned for oil extraction, with tens of millions more slated by the Peruvian, Ecuadorian, and Colombian governments.
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Learning from social enterprises creating an inclusive circular economy
GreenBiz
MARCH 13, 2020
The transition will require people to work together across companies and sectors, using skills such as empathy, craftsmanship and ingenuity.
Modular tiny home on wheels can fit a family of 6
Inhabitat - Innovation
MARCH 13, 2020
Although tiny home living has typically been geared to young couples looking to downsize, Barcelona-based creative studio, In-Tenta has used their savvy, space-efficient skills to show us that tiny homes can be a great choice for families as well. Their latest design, the TENZO, is a modular 430 square foot home on wheels that comfortably accommodates an entire family of six!
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.
Childhood hunger in the US is a solvable problem
GreenBiz
MARCH 13, 2020
There’s no shortage of food in the country. Here's how one organization is connecting hungry kids to the abundance of food and existing programs previously inaccessible to them.
Could the Oil Price Collapse Drive More Investment Into Renewables?
GreenTechMedia
MARCH 13, 2020
Low oil prices will test the resolve of the majors’ energy transition plans, but analysts expect the companies' long-term commitments to decarbonization and renewable energy to remain intact. A dispute between Russia and Saudi Arabia has sent a flood of cheap oil and gas into global markets just as the COVID-19 pandemic is stifling demand.
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Solar-powered Harvard ArtLab to meet net-zero energy targets
Inhabitat - Innovation
MARCH 13, 2020
Harvard University has added yet another sustainable building to its campus — the Harvard Artlab, a contemporary art space projected to meet net-zero energy targets. Designed by Berlin-based architecture studio Barkow Leibinger in collaboration with Boston-based Sasaki Associates, the 9,000-square-foot facility was created for students, teachers, visiting artists and the wider community.
The future of plant-based meat
GreenBiz
MARCH 13, 2020
Progress might be slower than the current hype suggests, but the products will almost certainly get better.
PAU unveils carbon-neutral Sunnyside Yard masterplan in NYC
Inhabitat - Innovation
MARCH 13, 2020
Global architecture firm Practice for Architecture and Urbanism (PAU) has revealed a masterplan for transforming over 180 acres of underutilized land in Western Queens’ Sunnyside Railyard into a thriving mixed-use neighborhood with a net carbon-neutral footprint. Developed in collaboration with a multidisciplinary design team on behalf of the City of New York, the ambitious urban revitalization project seeks multiple sustainability targets, from equitable economic growth and placemaking to the i
How A Healthcare Facility Can Reduce Their Environmental Impact
The Environmental Blog
MARCH 13, 2020
Healthcare is an incredibly important industry and one which everyone relies upon. It is important that healthcare is able to provide a high-quality service to its patients so that people can lead happy and healthy lifestyles and manage any health problems that they encounter, but it is also important that health care facilities know how they can be eco-friendly.
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.
Episode 211: Sustainable consumption, victory in Virginia
GreenBiz
MARCH 13, 2020
Plus, why microgrids and indoor agriculture are a combination worth consideration.
Cheops Observatory frames views of the Great Pyramid of Giza
Inhabitat - Innovation
MARCH 13, 2020
The design and orientation of the building was also informed by sight lines to the Great Pyramid of Giza and the trajectories of the sun and moon.
17 large-scale solar projects planned in Upstate New York
Solar Power World
MARCH 13, 2020
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo today unveiled the details of the awards for 21 large-scale solar, wind and energy storage projects across upstate New York, totaling 1,278 MW of new renewable capacity. These projects include 17 planned solar systems, which New York Energy Research and Development Authority (NYSERDA) and other state and local agencies will ensure… The post 17 large-scale solar projects planned in Upstate New York appeared first on Solar Power World.
How to make a delicious vegan pie for Pi Day
Inhabitat - Innovation
MARCH 13, 2020
Here are pie tips from an expert baker just in time for Pi Day.
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.
Sungrow inverters used in California’s 200-MW Wright Solar Project
Solar Power World
MARCH 13, 2020
Sungrow, a global supplier of inverter solutions for renewables, announced that the 200-MW utility-scale Wright Solar project used Sungrow SG2500U-MV turnkey inverters. The project has been operational since early this year in California’s Central Valley, making another milestone for the company’s involvement in the utility-scale segment in the North American solar market.
Agents of Impact: Frontline healthcare workers
Impact Alpha
MARCH 13, 2020
ImpactAlpha, March 13 – Sports leagues can suspend seasons. Tech workers can go remote, Schools can shutter classrooms. And politicians can flinch. Doctors and nurses and other healthcare workers are facing the pandemic directly. The virus has claimed Li Wenliang, the Wuhan doctor who first warned of the outbreak; thousands of other medical workers in.
Share&Charge launches Open Charging Network for European market
Charged
MARCH 13, 2020
The Share&Charge Foundation, a nonprofit whose purpose is to “enable open innovation for a better electric vehicle charging experience,” has launched its Open Charging Network (OCN), a decentralized e-roaming product for EV charging across different networks. OCN, which uses the e-roaming standard Open Charge Point Interface (OCPI v2.2) protocol, will begin by serving the European market, including the UK, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland and Austria.
Recent Deals-13 March 2020
CleanTech Group
MARCH 13, 2020
Agriculture & Food Biotalys, a developer of innovative formulations of crop protection products, raised $11.5 million from Novalis LifeSciences to bring the Series.
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?
Study: Climate impact of butter 3.5 times greater than plant-based spreads
Business Green
MARCH 13, 2020
Cow's methane-heavy burps and farts blamed for CO2 associated with butter in study commissioned by margarine maker Upfield. The climate impact of consumer diets has yet again fallen under the spotlight, after research this week concluded butter is 3.5 times more harmful to the environment on average than margarine and plant-based spreads, due in large part to cows' methane emissions.
Proterra and Freightliner partner on electric delivery truck chassis
Charged
MARCH 13, 2020
Proterra and Freightliner Custom Chassis Corporation (FCCC) will partner to develop the MT50e, an electric delivery truck chassis. The chassis will offer 226 kWh of energy capacity, 125 miles of driving range, and the ability to support a gross vehicle weight rating of 16,000 to 23,000 pounds. The MT50e can fully charge in three hours using CCS DC fast charging, according to Proterra.
Everyone needs their lead pipes replaced, not just those who can afford it
EDF Voices
MARCH 13, 2020
Given the health risks to children and adults, it's critical to replace lead pipes the right way, taking environmental justice into account.
NABCEP CE Conference rescheduled to July 6-9
Solar Power World
MARCH 13, 2020
The NABCEP Continuing Education Conference has been rescheduled for July 6 to 9 following a postponement from rising concerns about COVID-19. The conference will be held at the same planned venue, the St. Charles Convention Center in St. Charles, Missouri. The event was originally going to be held from March 16 to 19. “After a… The post NABCEP CE Conference rescheduled to July 6-9 appeared first on Solar Power World.
Heathrow Airport inks deal with ENGIE to supply terminals with 'green gas'
Business Green
MARCH 13, 2020
The deal will see biomethane from UK anaerobic digestion producers replace fossil fuel gas supplies across all Heathrow terminals. All terminals at Heathrow will soon to be supplied with "100 per cent green" biomethane gas, after the airport inked a deal with French energy giant ENGIE to replace fossil fuel gas sources at the site. The agreement announced today will see ENGIE supply the airport with biomethane produced by breaking down a "variety of feedstocks" from within the UK - such as food
The Week in impact investing: Resilience
Impact Alpha
MARCH 13, 2020
TGIF, Agents of Impact! Thanks to all of you who turned out for yesterday’s Call No. 13. We’ll post a roundup of ImpactAlpha U, and an audio replay, next week. Impact Briefing. On ImpactAlpha’s newest podcast, host Brian Walsh talks with Amy Cortese about the disruption in energy markets and Dennis Price offers a personal take on this week’s Agents of Impact.
‘Why We Do’ with Sara Chandler, Director of Equity & Access Innovation
Elemental Excelerator
MARCH 13, 2020
We often think about what we do at Elemental as building a machine for deploying climate technologies. Over the past decade that we’ve been at this work, though, we have learned again and again that innovation is really about people, not just technology. The why behind what people choose to do is the driver of progress. It’s an engine steered by ingenuity, but powered by hearts.
Clenergy’s First PV-ezRack STMAC Solar Project Connected to the Grid
altenergymag
MARCH 13, 2020
Clenergy's first PV-ezRack SolarTerraceMAC (Magnesium Aluminium Alloy Coating) solar project has been connected to the grid.
Want To Understand Carbon Credits? Read This
Forbes Green Tech
MARCH 13, 2020
By the time you finish this article, you will understand how carbon credits work and learn about some of the innovative business opportunities in this emerging field - a field that has the mother of all tailwinds supporting future demand.
O2 and SSE team up for supply chain renewables offer
Business Green
MARCH 13, 2020
Mobile operator partners with SSE Business Energy to offer its suppliers and partners chance to buy renewable energy at a reduced rate. O2 has taken a major step in support of its recently announced net zero goal, teaming up with SSE Business Energy to launch a new service that allows all O2 suppliers and business partners in Great Britain to buy renewable electricity at an exclusive reduced rate.
The Autonomous EV Quarter Car Offers Modular Private Zones For Hire
Forbes Green Tech
MARCH 13, 2020
London industrial design studio Seymourpowell’s Quarter Car is an interior-led design study of an electric autonomous ride-sharing vehicle for urban commutes with physical partitions to allow for adaptable communal and private journeys
IV International Exhibition and Convention Verde.Tec - Environmental Technologies
altenergymag
MARCH 13, 2020
Launched in 2016, Verde-Tec is Greece's only Expo covering environmental issues. The 4th Edition of Verde-Tec will take place between 29-31 May 2020 at the MEC Exhibition Hall, Paiania, Attica, Greece.
COVID-19 Emergency Measures In Belgium To Avoid Italian-Style Lockdown
Forbes Green Tech
MARCH 13, 2020
Belgian government announced on Thursday some of the strictest measures adopted in Italy, to avoid further spread of the coronavirus disease (COVID-19).
Sungrow Supplies the 200 MW Wright Solar Project in California's Central Valley
altenergymag
MARCH 13, 2020
Sungrow, the global leading inverter solution supplier for renewables, announced that the 200 MW utility-scale Wright Solar project, utilizing Sungrow SG2500U-MV turnkey inverter solutions, has been operational since early this year in California's Central Valley, making another milestone for the Company's continued commitment to utility-scale segment in the North American solar market.
Funding boost for pioneering Scottish floating wind projects
Business Green
MARCH 13, 2020
Eight winners of Scottish Government-funded floating wind competition announced. The Scottish Government has today announced the eight winners of a technology competition designed to catalyse innovation in the fast-evolving floating wind turbine industry. A 3D printed anchor, a self-charging mooring line monitor, and a temporary crane for wind turbine maintenance were all among the ideas selected for a share of £1m of funding from the Holyrood government.
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