GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
How to Design for the Future. . How do we design for the future amid the disruptive present? Speakers. Tim Brown, Chair, IDEO. Lauren Phipps, Director & Senior Analyst, Circular Economy, GreenBiz Group. Holly Secon. Wed, 09/09/2020 - 13:17. Featured. Off.
Inhabitat - Innovation
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
The Galapagos Islands are famous for several endemic species that evolved to fit the exact niche required to live on rocky islands 600 miles off the coast of Ecuador in the Pacific Ocean. Now, marine scientists have found 30 new species deep beneath the ocean's surface around the Galapagos.
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GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
Network Effect: From Neurocircuits to Circular Economies. Structuring circular economies like a neural network enables our transition from linear use, lowers risk through collective action and unlocks low-hanging circular wins. Hear from neuroscientist turned circular economy start-up founder Garry Cooper, whose company, Rheaply, is generating millions in savings for partnered organizations by scaling corporate reuse and facilitating circular materials flows.
Envirotec Magazine
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
A legal bid to halt sweeping changes to planning laws in the UK will be heard in October. The challenge to the Statutory Instruments (SIs) used to bring in the changes is being made by campaigners Rights: Community: Action (RCA) whose claim for judicial review will be heard at a ‘rolled up’ hearing in the High Court sitting as a Divisional Court. The rolled-up hearing means that two judges will hear the group’s application for permission to apply for judicial review, which if successful, will le
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.
GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
A Conversation about Chemical Recycling. What is chemical recycling, and how does it factor in to the circular economy? Speakers. Mark Costa, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Eastman Chemical Company. Joel Makower, Executive Editor, GreenBiz. Holly Secon. Wed, 09/09/2020 - 12:02. Featured. Off.
GreenTechMedia
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
What’s the problem with nuclear energy? At a time when lawmakers are scratching their heads over how to decarbonize national energy systems, nuclear is sitting on a technology that is low-carbon, mature and, despite the odd meltdown, relatively safe. Yet across North America and Europe, nuclear can’t seem to get a look-in. More than half of the 48 new reactors that the World Nuclear Association (WNA) lists as being built worldwide are in just four countries: China, India, the United
CleanTech Focus brings together the best content for cleantech professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Inhabitat - Innovation
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
The international design competition intended to spark public dialogue about the Brooklyn Bridge, which has become one of New York’s most recognizable landmarks since its opening in 1883.
The Environmental Blog
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
Humans are merely animals, just like any other species. We may be smarter than most, but we’re still flesh and blood, and our environment matters. We can only be healthy and content if everything around us is balanced. Unfortunately, there are plenty of things that some of us live close to that can harm us. You need to be aware of the following environmental factors if you want to stay healthy and live a long, fulfilling life.
Inhabitat - Innovation
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
Inhabitat caught up with Shannon Evers, the CEO of Girl Scouts Western Oklahoma, to learn more about Camp Trivera.
GreenTechMedia
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
A year after launching, solar software startup Terabase Energy has raised $6 million to keep growing its team and services. The Berkeley-based company emerged when SunPower wound down its project development business. Several former SunPower employees built a software tool to manage costs at the kinds of massive solar plants they used to develop: everything from site selection and layout to shipping logistics for millions of panels and the movements of laborers onsite.
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.
Envirotec Magazine
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
Throughout unmanned facilities within the oil and gas industry, a human presence is generally still needed for regular inspection work, so deploying Ex certified robots (ATEX and IECEx Zone 1) that incorporate the appropriate gas detection system, can have a significant positive impact on safety by minimising worker field trips, which in turn reduces operating costs.
GreenTechMedia
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
Denmark's Ørsted, the world's leading offshore wind developer, has appointed Mads Nipper as its next CEO. Nipper will replace Henrik Poulsen as of January 1, 2021. Poulsen, who resigned in June, led the company for eight years, overseeing its transformation from Danish Oil and Natural Gas (Dong) to its status today as a renewable energy major.
Envirotec Magazine
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
Zero Waste Scotland has partnered with Scottish Water to turn grit that is found in the wastewater system into a valuable raw building material for the construction industry. A trial project has successfully shown that the grit, which would otherwise be sent at a cost to landfill, can potentially be recovered and converted into aggregate for use in products such as kerbstones.
GreenTechMedia
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
This is the third part of a series examining the McMicken battery fire of 2019 and its ramifications for the energy storage industry. This installment addresses the lessons for fighting fires at battery facilities. Part I covered how battery developers have enhanced fire safety in battery plant designs since last year, and Part II tackled the quest to identify the root cause of the incident.
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.
Envirotec Magazine
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
A t the Port of Rotterdam, one of the largest petrochemical clusters in Europe, the Zero Brine project – coordinated by Delft University of Technology (TU Delft) – has launched its second site as part of its demonstration of industrial circularity combining residual heat and wastewater streams to eliminate brine effluent in the production of demineralised water.
Inhabitat - Innovation
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
Sarah Turner is an eco-friendly artist with a mission to get creative with post-consumer waste.
Envirotec Magazine
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
Environmental consultancy Aqua Enviro has announced the programme for the virtual event “Delivering Net Zero Carbon in Wastewater Management”, scheduled to take place on 29 September 2020. At around five million tonnes (CO2-e), the UK water industry is the nation’s fourth largest emitter of greenhouse gases (GHG), representing just under 1% of the country’s total emissions.
DeSmogBlog
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
Read time: 8 mins Almost a week after Hurricane Laura struck Louisiana's coast , which is studded with oil and gas industry pipes, tanks, wells, and rigs, I photographed from the sky oil sheen along at least 20 miles of marsh and bayous that absorbed the full strength of the storm. Scientists say warmer ocean waters due to human-caused climate change is making hurricanes like Laura stronger and causing them to intensify more rapidly ; Hurricane Laura spun up to a Category 4 storm in just 24 hour
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?
Inhabitat - Innovation
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
Did you know that your favorite jeans are polluting the environment?
Charged
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
When it comes to automobiles, Sandy Munro knows whereof he speaks. His company specializes in taking new cars apart and analyzing every little bracket and screw—what it’s made of, who made it, and how much it cost. Charged was fortunate enough to have Sandy present a couple of video sessions at our Virtual Conference on EV Engineering in which he looks at the most critical components of today’s EVs.
The City Fix
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
Mumbai’s suburban rail system is the world’s busiest, serving 7.5 million riders a day. This photo story is an attempt at documenting moments of precarious travel in Mumbai city, as part of a larger investigation focused on infrastructure design that. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.
Solar Power World
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
By Lucia Woo, Environmental Planner, LaBella Associates In August of 2018, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) identified over 80,000 brownfields and municipal solid waste landfills across the country that could be used for renewable energy facilities. This screening included maps depicting locations of EPA tracked sites and their potential for supporting renewable energy generation.
Impact Alpha
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
ImpactAlpha, September 9 – Akiptan, a community development financial institution in South Dakota, launched last year to support Native-owned agriculture businesses that are shut out of most traditional commercial lending. The Native-owned CDFI, has originated nearly $3 million in loans in 13 tribal nations. RSF Social Finance is providing Akiptan with a seven-year, $250,000 loan.
Green Market Oracle
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
Once again we are witnessing the annual reality of worsening hurricanes and tornadoes in the east and ever expanding wildfires out west. However, this year these events are being compounded by a global pandemic. It is becoming increasingly clear that climate change is exacerbating both extreme weather and wildfires it is also making diseases like the coronavirus worse.
Impact Alpha
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
ImpactAlpha, September 9 – Credit Suisse is launching an investment fund this month to help clients invest in pollution prevention, the low-carbon transition and ocean conservation, Citywire Selector reports. The Swiss bank is partnering with Rockefeller Asset Management and the nonprofit Ocean Foundation, which is helping define the fund’s impact and scope.
Planet Pulse
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
Planet is partnering with Everbridge , the global leader in Critical Event Management, to bring a powerful new data source to global security and operations teams. High-cadence satellite imagery can enhance situational awareness around critical events, and combined with Everbridge’s high-cadence alerts and critical event management capabilities, it becomes even more valuable.
Impact Alpha
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
ImpactAlpha, September 9 – Stockholm-based BIMA provides mobile health, life and accident microinsurance to first-time customers. It has issued more than 35 million policies in Asia and Africa. COVID has spurred a surge in demand for its telehealth consultations and health policies. China-based fintech investor CreditEase Fintech Investment Fund led the funding round.
Charged
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
Journalists sometimes have to write the same articles over and over, like teachers repeating the same lecture for a new class each semester. The myth of the “long tailpipe”—the notion that EVs generate just as much carbon emissions as ICE vehicles do—has been debunked by dozens of scientific studies (see below for a partial list). However, it’s such an attractive argument to the anti-EV movement that it never seems to go away.
Impact Alpha
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Signals: Ahead of the Curve Another rule from the Department of Labor, another attack on ESG investing. The U.S. Department of Labor is seeking to sharply curtail the ability of private sector retirement funds to engage companies on environmental, social and governance, or ESG, issues. The tipoff comes in a clause. The post The Brief: ESG proxy fight, ocean equities, RSF backs Native CDFI, Bima’s microinsurance, Valor’s inclusion premium, #EmancipateTheVote appeared
Low Impact
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
Already suffering a downturn as an industry in recent years, the Covid-19 crisis has resulted in a particularly woeful year for wool in 2020. How have producers been faring and what can we do to support them as best as possible? This year, the pandemic has resulted in British Wool almost halving the price paid for the 2019 clip to 32p/kg*, with no advance payments being made against the 2020 clip.This means the price will not go near covering the cost of shearing in most cases.
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
Uber pledges to ensure all its drivers have fully electric vehicles in Europe, the US, and Canada by 2030, and across the rest of the world by 2040. Ride-hailing giant Uber has announced that 100 per cent of its journeys will be fully electric by 2030 in Canada, the US, and Europe, and by 2040 across the rest of the world, in a move it said underscored its role in helping in tackling the climate crisis.
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 9, 2020
City moves to further cement its position as a clean tech hub with the launch of plans for a major district heating network. Thousands of Hull residents could soon be enjoying low carbon heat, as a multi-million-pound heating network project this week took a step closer to reality. The Hull District Heating Project is designed to provide heating for homes, offices, and other buildings from a central energy centre, with the heat delivered through an underground piped network that would replacing
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