MVRDV designs a Dutch office building covered in potted plants
Inhabitat - Innovation
AUGUST 15, 2019
MVRDV has unveiled designs for the Green Villa, a striking mixed-use building draped in greenery for the Dutch village of Sint-Michielsgestel.
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ClimeMET: Connecting People with the Weather and Environment Around Them
Green Business Bureau
AUGUST 15, 2019
From tide clocks to barometers, rain gauges to hygrometers, ClimeMET provides its customers with everything they need to be able to monitor the weather. Based in the UK, and run as a small family business, ClimeMET designs weather stations and a range of home and garden weather dials from their company workshop in rural Suffolk. Through their products and commitment to improving the environment, ClimeMET is showing other small businesses that success and sustainability can go hand-in-hand.
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Energy-efficient home uses recycled heat to reduce C02 emissions
Inhabitat - Innovation
AUGUST 15, 2019
The Lane End House by PAD studio incorporates natural building material and sustainable solutions to increase energy-efficiency. The resulting design creates a passive home with a smaller environmental footprint and a focus on sustainability. The exterior of the house contains balcony areas that act as solar shading for the property, complete with thoughtfully-places openings to create a greater distribution of natural ventilation to rid the home of intense heat during the hot Summer months.
UPS Joins Self-Driving Race By Investing In Autonomous Tech Startup TuSimple
Forbes Green Tech
AUGUST 15, 2019
The first investment by a major fleet operator into an autonomous truck company gives UPS a minority stake in the San Diego-based startup that also has operations in China. Neither company is disclosing the amount.
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.
Digging deeper for climate solutions: deep-root GMOs could feed world and store carbon
Inhabitat - Innovation
AUGUST 15, 2019
Scientists are experimenting with new genetic modification technology that will “supercharge” plants to enhance what they are already recognized for excelling at – sequestering carbon. As the world scrambles to find innovative mitigation solutions, plants have been doing what they quietly perfected over millions and millions of years – taking carbon from the atmosphere and converting it into carbohydrates, energy and oxygen.
Planet Analytic Feeds No Longer in Beta, Achieve Global Scale
Planet Pulse
AUGUST 15, 2019
Today, Planet Analytic Feeds are moving out of beta, and our three flagship Analytic Feeds—Road Detection, Building Detection, and Vessel Detection—can now scale globally and are offered off-the-shelf. This means that customers can leverage these feeds on top of Planet imagery products and get automated road, building, and vessel detections over their areas of interest, with no custom builds required.
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TERRASMART ANNOUNCES A BREAKTHROUGH BIFACIAL RACKING SOLUTION
altenergymag
AUGUST 15, 2019
Carrying forward TerraSmart’s long tradition of accommodating slope tolerances up to 36%, GLIDE’s intuitive design pulls forward 10 years of direct field experience to improve install velocity with simplified connections, agile parts and a significant reduction in hardware.
Helsinki launches a sustainability app for the city
Inhabitat - Innovation
AUGUST 15, 2019
The app helps users decide on activities, transportation options and shops by toggling specific sustainability filters to find choices that best suit their preferences and meet environmental metrics.
Can That Be Recycled? New Instagram Hotline Can Help
Forbes Green Tech
AUGUST 15, 2019
A bottled water company and national recycling nonprofit are promoting an Instagram hotline to help people figure out what can and can't be recycled, including plastic bottles. Use hashtag #NotTrash and tag @PolandSpringWtr.
SimpliPhi Power Slashes Prices on Company’s Most Popular PHI 3.8 kWh 48V Batteries to Support Energy Safety and Security Amid Growing Climate Threats
altenergymag
AUGUST 15, 2019
“Energize California” initiative expands globally and will include PHI 3.8 discount in addition to previously announced special all-in-one energy storage solution pricing.
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.
ARENA to provide $40 million funding for South Australia’s first pumped hydro plant
Renewable Energy World
AUGUST 15, 2019
The Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA), on behalf of the Australian government, has announced up to $40 million in funding towards the deployment of a pumped hydro energy storage (PHES) project in South Australia.
Energy Vault Closes Series B Funding With $110 Million Investment From Softbank Vision Fund
altenergymag
AUGUST 15, 2019
New Financing Will Accelerate Growth and Rapid Global Deployment of Company’s Transformative Utility-Scale Energy Storage Technology
Rebranded Ginkgo-spinout & ingredients innovator Motif FoodWorks raises $27.5m, hones in on animal-free
AFN Sustainable Protein
AUGUST 15, 2019
Food ingredients innovator Motif has raised $27.5 million in funding led by global growth equity firm General Atlantic with participation from CPT Capital, and has rebranded as Motif FoodWorks. . The rebrand emphasizes Motif’s plans to become a supplier of innovative ingredients to food innovators with a particular emphasis on its partnership with parent company Ginkgo Bioworks, the microbe manufacturer.
How To Fix The Ethanol Industry
Forbes Green Tech
AUGUST 15, 2019
The ethanol industry relies on the federal government to keep it in business. But there is another way that could expand ethanol markets while placing the industry's fate into more reliable hands.
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.
Stanford researchers develop technology to harness energy from mixing of freshwater and seawater
Renewable Energy World
AUGUST 15, 2019
A new battery made from affordable and durable materials generates energy from places where salt and fresh waters mingle. The technology could make coastal wastewater treatment plants energy-independent and carbon neutral.
Senator Boozman Visits LM Wind Power Production Plant in Recognition of American Wind Week
altenergymag
AUGUST 15, 2019
Production plant employs more than 500 to manufacture turbine blades for wind farms in the region
Rebranded Ginkgo-spinout & ingredients innovator Motif FoodWorks raises $27.5m, hones in on animal-free
AFN Sustainable Protein
AUGUST 15, 2019
Ginkgo Bioworks spin-off company has also added key hires including a head of regulatory compliance as the protein alternatives spaces begins to tackle new challenges. The post Rebranded Ginkgo-spinout & ingredients innovator Motif FoodWorks raises $27.5m, hones in on animal-free appeared first on AgFunderNews.
Net zero carbon emissions ‘impossible’ without hydrogen says UK energy alliance
Renewable Energy World
AUGUST 15, 2019
The UK’s North West Hydrogen Alliance (NWHA) is calling for government investment in hydrogen projects to meet ambitious carbon reductions targets in Britain.
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?
Say No To Styrofoam: Eco-Friendly Take Out Boxes
Green Business Bureau
AUGUST 15, 2019
Eco-friendly restaurants are making the switch from the classic, white styrofoam boxes to cardboard take out boxes. Styrofoam is detrimental to the environment, the material takes over five hundred years to biodegrade. It is also made from cancer-causing chemicals that become dangerous when they come in contact with hot foods or liquids, because the material begins to decay.
We’ve got another ozone problem, and it’s not what you think
Grist
AUGUST 15, 2019
Most of us know ozone as that benevolent stratospheric layer that absorbs the sun’s harmful UV light and keeps us safe. In the 1980s, scientists found a “ hole ” in the ozone layer — really just a large section that was getting precariously thin — caused by the use of potent chemicals called CFCs. The world took action and rapidly banned CFCs, effectively solving the problem.
Trump's Ongoing War with Science
Green Market Oracle
AUGUST 15, 2019
This Trump administration's relationship to reality is tenuous at best, when research does not support their narrative they censor scientists and hide reports. Trump resists science just as he opposes all serious efforts to delineate truth from falsehood. Trump is a monumental liar. According to the Washington Post Trump has lied more than 12,000 times since becoming president (he has recently ratcheted-up his deceit increasing his lies per day average from 12 to 20).
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