5 emerging jobs in the circular economy
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 18, 2019
Nearly any job could "go circular" but these positions are critical to accelerating circularity.
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Environmentally friendly leather wins European circular economy startup award
Envirotec Magazine
OCTOBER 18, 2019
The winning entry from Gelatex Technologies is described as an eco-friendly alternative to conventional leather. The material is produced “without the use of toxins and comes at half the price.” Gelatex Technologies from Estonia has won the Green Alley Award 2019 – an annual prize recognising startups in the circular economy, which has been running since 2014.
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Proposed Florida bill could require prescription for sunscreens in effort to save coral reefs
Inhabitat - Innovation
OCTOBER 18, 2019
In a bid to protect the Sunshine State’s reefs from coral bleaching, a new legislative bill has been proposed that requires a physician’s prescription for sunscreens containing oxybenzone and octinoxate, on grounds that these chemicals are harmful to marine coastal environments.
Here’s what could go wrong with the circular economy — and how to keep it on track
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 18, 2019
We must make sure that increasing the efficiency of our industrial systems doesn't lead to more consumption.
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.
Recycled plastic to soon pave Los Angeles roads
Inhabitat - Innovation
OCTOBER 18, 2019
Substituting asphalt road materials with upcycled plastic waste could spell cost savings for both road construction and waste management endeavors.
Key ingredients for scaling circular reuse business models
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 18, 2019
It’s time to build this concept into our cultural and behavioral norms. Here are five things to consider.
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Episode 193: Combating food waste, measuring plastic footprints, get ready to advocate
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 18, 2019
Plus, meet the latest addition to the GreenBiz editorial team, Associate Editor Deonna Anderson.
Use texture, height and variety to create pizzazz in your small garden this fall
Inhabitat - Innovation
OCTOBER 18, 2019
With a plan and a few plants, you can bring a new season of life to your porch, patio or balcony, even during the short days of fall.
Iowa’s farmers are ready for a national discussion on transforming US agriculture
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 18, 2019
Incremental change in agriculture is not moving quickly enough.
Fashion collaboration repurposes leather offcuts into eco-friendly home and lifestyle products
Inhabitat - Innovation
OCTOBER 18, 2019
Award-winning design studio OPENUU has joined forces with RIL CREED, a sustainable handbag fashion brand, to create two collections for home and lifestyle using upcycled genuine Italian leather.
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.
New York Approves 316MW Battery Plant for Peak Power, First of Kind in Region
GreenTechMedia
OCTOBER 18, 2019
New York's utility regulator approved construction for a 316-megawatt battery storage plant that would replace fossil fueled capacity in New York City. The Ravenswood project, if built, will be the largest battery plant in the state, providing emissions free power to the New York City region during the hours of greatest demand. It also marks the first major use of energy storage for peaking power in the Northeast.
Will the Public End up Paying to Clean up the Fracking Boom?
DeSmogBlog
OCTOBER 18, 2019
Read time: 8 mins Increasingly, U.S. shale firms appear unable to pay back investors for the money borrowed to fuel the last decade of the fracking boom. In a similar vein, those companies also seem poised to stiff the public on cleanup costs for abandoned oil and gas wells once the producers have moved on. “ It’s starting to become out of control, and we want to rein this in,” Bruce Hicks, Assistant Director of the North Dakota Oil and Gas Division, said in August about companies abandonin
Grid Edge Trends From 2019 (So Far)
GreenTechMedia
OCTOBER 18, 2019
2019 has seen a steady evolution of policy, regulation and business model innovation at the grid edge. The themes of digitalization, decentralization, flexibility and resilienc" keep cropping up, touching sectors from EV infrastructure to microgrids, demand response and beyond. Reflecting on the third quarter, Wood Mackenzie's grid edge team highlighted key trends and developments in the U.S. and global grid edge ecosystem.
The EJ Task Force’s First Step
Front And Centered
OCTOBER 18, 2019
The Environmental Justice Task Force is now in full force. On September 30th, the Environmental Justice Task Force met for the first time at Clover Park Technical College in Lakewood (See here and here for video links on TWV). This meeting was a chance for the Task Force to come together for the first time to adopt our bylaws and principles, discuss the Health Disparities map, determine our team’s dynamics, subcommittee structure, and work plan for the year. .
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.
5 Observations on the Commercial Solar Market
GreenTechMedia
OCTOBER 18, 2019
The growth story in solar continues to be an exciting one. Earlier this year, SEIA announced that the U.S. had reached a milestone of 2 million solar systems just three years after reaching the 1 million mark. While the story is interesting for solar of all sizes, we find it to be most exciting in the commercial sector. With autumn conference season in high gear, the team at Madison Energy Investments took time to reflect on what we are seeing in the commercial solar market.
Volvo unveils XC40 Recharge electric SUV
Charged
OCTOBER 18, 2019
“More electric SUVs!” they all cried. Behold the XC40 Recharge, Volvo responded. This electric version of Volvo’s popular XC40 small SUV will be the first of a family of fully electric Volvos to be built on a dedicated modular platform. Recharge will be the new brand name for all plug-in Volvos. Over the next five years, the Swedes plan to launch a new fully electric model every year, eventually offering a Recharge variant of every model in the Volvo stable.
Can Venture Capital Make America Do Tough Things Again?
GreenTechMedia
OCTOBER 18, 2019
Venture capital is an effective source of money for scaling companies quickly. But what if your company needs 15 years to prove itself? That’s the time horizon for many “tough tech” companies in energy that are developing new semiconductors, industrial processes, chemical production methods, and long-duration storage innovations. The first cleantech bubble showed the limits of VC in backing tough, capital-intensive tech.
TERRASMART TO HOST OPEN HOUSE HIGHLIGHTING FROST SUSCEPTIBLE SOILS IN NEW YORK
altenergymag
OCTOBER 18, 2019
With solar developments increasing across regions that are susceptible to frost heave, developers and asset owners’ awareness in knowing what to look for in frost susceptible soils as well as what questions to ask, will prove paramount to ensure reliable long-term assets.
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?
5 Ways To Create Moments of Delight in the Water Utility Experience
Varuna
OCTOBER 18, 2019
What are moments of delight? And how can the water utilities create them with its stakeholders (customers, service providers, regulators, etc.)? What will the benefits be? Moments of delight are sometimes created via branding , with the company using design to influence the user from mere interest to delightful memories. Others believe that moments of delight make people feel a bit happier, calmer, more confident, in control , energetic, or in tune with the greater world around them.
OMG Roofing Products Names Solar Business Manager
altenergymag
OCTOBER 18, 2019
In his new role, Kevin is responsible for developing and implementing a strategic plan for the company’s solar business, as well as for managing solar sales, product development and profitability.
Baby Steps to Digital Water
Varuna
OCTOBER 18, 2019
The water utility industry has an opportunity to improve its infrastructure to meet the demands of climate change and customer needs. On one hand, climate change holds the potential to impact significantly on water supply for utility companies due to changes in precipitation (annual and seasonal patterns of rainfall), precipitation intensity and extremes (high and low).
What If … book review & notes
Fairsnape
OCTOBER 18, 2019
What if we lived in a time when the human imagination flourished and anything felt possible. It was back in 2008 when I first came across Rob Hopkins through his Transition Handbook. This helped shape a lot of my sustainability thinking at the time, ( Time for built environment transition? ) and in turn participation in Transition Town activities here in the North West.
Agent of Impact: Rodney Foxworth, Common Future
Impact Alpha
OCTOBER 18, 2019
ImpactAlpha, Oct. 18 – Rodney Foxworth knows how hard it can be to create change with meager resources. He created social and economic development initiatives in Baltimore—a city disparaged by the current occupant of the White House as “disgusting, rat and rodent infested”—to help lift up its residents. He cofounded Impact Hub Baltimore and created The post Agent of Impact: Rodney Foxworth, Common Future appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
Can California Fine-Tune the Blunt Tool of Fire-Prevention Power Outages? [GTM Squared]
GreenTechMedia
OCTOBER 18, 2019
The Week in impact investing: Mobilizing for transformative change
Impact Alpha
OCTOBER 18, 2019
TGIF, Agents of Impact! This fall’s impact investing and sustainable finance conference circuit needs to justify its carbon footprint, not to mention the many thousands of talent-hours it consumes. If Climate Week in New York established the urgency and scale of the challenges, and the Global Impact Investing Network’s investor forum in Amsterdam suggested financial The post The Week in impact investing: Mobilizing for transformative change appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
Pittsburgh International Airport’s microgrid will use 20-MW solar array
Solar Power World
OCTOBER 18, 2019
Pittsburgh International Airport (PIT) is planning to be wholly powered by solar power and natural gas microgrid. For the first time in the United States, a major airport will be completely powered by its own microgrid with the use of its own on-site natural gas wells and a solar array. Airports across the country have… The post Pittsburgh International Airport’s microgrid will use 20-MW solar array appeared first on Solar Power World.
Polls Reveal Unprecedented Support for Climate in Canada
Green Market Oracle
OCTOBER 18, 2019
Polls show that climate and environmental issues have unprecedented support in Canada. The question is whether this will impact voting behaviors. There are many reasons why Canadians are concerned about climate change. This includes the fact that Canada is warming twice as fast as the rest of the world. This is the first time in Canadian history climate change is a priority issue for Canadians.
Advocates ask Idaho PUC for grandfathered solar net metering
Solar Power World
OCTOBER 18, 2019
The Idaho Conservation League and Vote Solar are advocating for the Idaho Public Utilities Commission to protect existing Idaho Power Company residential and small business solar customers when new compensation rules replace net-metering next year. Idaho families and small businesses have made a significant investment in local clean energy. If they are not grandfathered, they… The post Advocates ask Idaho PUC for grandfathered solar net metering appeared first on Solar Power World.
Meet Team Defend Our Future Arizona!
Defend Our Future
OCTOBER 18, 2019
Greetings! We have an incredibly dedicated, talented and hardworking team of climate leaders working in Arizona this fall. Our campus ambassadors and Arizona campaign manager share below why they are in this fight to solve the climate crisis, protect Arizona communities and defend our future! Richard Gallon, Arizona Campaign Manager. Richard is a California native who moved to Arizona to attend the University of Arizona in 2012.
Why Extinction Rebellion needs to learn some Green Jujitsu
Terra Infirma
OCTOBER 18, 2019
The Extinction Rebellion (XR) climate crisis movement hit brutal reality yesterday when an attempt to halt the London Underground led to an ugly brawl as angry commuters tried to disrupt the disruption. Fortunately nobody has been reported as injured, but the incident made one important point very clear: being ‘right’ is not enough. XR supporters have stated that the climate crisis is more important than one day’s commute on one Tube line.
[Blog] How to Sell Real Estate Professionals on Sustainability Improvements
Home Energy
OCTOBER 18, 2019
Real estate investors and housing developers must consistently stay aware of trends. Recently, that's meant knowing about sustainability trends.
Green Brexit or no deal chaos? How the Brexit deal offers a path without a destination
Business Green
OCTOBER 18, 2019
Without environmental standards enshrined within Withdrawal Agreement, green experts fear Boris Johnson's new Brexit deal leaves the door open for a deregulatory blitz.
BMR Energy’s Spanish Town Estate Solar Restoration Project Awarded Best Resilience Project at CREF 2019
altenergymag
OCTOBER 18, 2019
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