GreenBiz
SEPTEMBER 10, 2020
Hard truths from a decade of investing in regional food systems. Meredith Storton. Thu, 09/10/2020 - 02:00. The COVID-19 crisis has highlighted the inequities and fragility of our industrialized food system and accelerated the movement to create strong regional food systems that support local growers, provide food security, give communities agency over their food supply and yield environmental benefits.
GreenTechMedia
SEPTEMBER 10, 2020
Laura Sherman is president of the Michigan Energy Innovation Business Council. Building electrification is a potential game-changer for energy efficiency, demand management, distributed energy and other advanced energy industries, as well as for the broader task of reducing emissions. The goal of electrifying heating and other systems in all buildings might seem very far off but, like many other developments in clean energy, a great deal of progress has been made only recently.
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Inhabitat - Innovation
SEPTEMBER 10, 2020
A new study published in the Journal of Insects as Food and Feed has revealed that yellow mealworms can serve as an alternative protein source for animals and, possibly, humans. The study comes at a time when global food demands keep rising.
GreenTechMedia
SEPTEMBER 10, 2020
Duke Energy submitted a settlement with large solar developers including Cypress Creek Renewables and Strata Solar to North Carolina regulators on Thursday that aims to resolve longstanding interconnection issues in the utility’s territory. The agreement should resolve issues for more than 100 disputed projects in the Carolinas, said spokesperson Randy Wheeless, clearing the way for up to 800 megawatts of solar projects to move forward in coming years.
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.
The Environmental Blog
SEPTEMBER 10, 2020
The COVID-19 pandemic was a gut check for U.S. cities. There’s no need to go into detail about the scale of lives lost, businesses that have gone under, and overall negative impact on urban centers. But for businesses and residents, tracking these changes can mean anticipating and responding to key shifts that have changed the game for many. Here we take a look at some of the macro-trends facing cities during this very turbulent year.
Inhabitat - Innovation
SEPTEMBER 10, 2020
Unfortunately, fires are still breaking out and more destruction is expected.
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Inhabitat - Innovation
SEPTEMBER 10, 2020
The architects carefully placed a modern, energy-efficient home within old brick ruins.
GreenTechMedia
SEPTEMBER 10, 2020
European oil majors BP and Equinor will partner up for the U.S. offshore wind market, marking BP's first substantial move into the offshore wind industry. The deal will see BP paying $1.1 billion for a 50 percent stake in Equinor’s Empire Wind project off New York and its Beacon Wind project off southern New England. The Empire Wind project, located in the region known as the New York Bight south of Long Island, already has a 816-megawatt contract with New York state , and can hold up
Inhabitat - Innovation
SEPTEMBER 10, 2020
Fantails Estate welcomes kids to play and learn within a sustainable environment.
The City Fix
SEPTEMBER 10, 2020
Children are often under-prioritized or even disregarded in urban planning and design. It’s estimated that up to 500 children die daily in road crashes around the world; thousands more incur injuries and psychological trauma from collisions with vehicles that can. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.
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.
Inhabitat - Innovation
SEPTEMBER 10, 2020
Hollandse Nieuwe has enlisted the help of virtual reality to create a dynamic and colorful workspace for civil servants.
Impact Alpha
SEPTEMBER 10, 2020
ImpactAlpha, Sept. 10 – UBS said today that it will make sustainable investments “the preferred solution” for clients of its 2.6 trillion global wealth management business. “We believe sustainable investments will prove to be one of the most exciting and durable opportunities for private clients in the years and decades ahead, says UBS’ Iqbal Khan.
Charged
SEPTEMBER 10, 2020
In a year packed with new EV launches, few vehicles have been as eagerly anticipated as the Lucid Air. Lucid had already been around for over a decade when we profiled the company in our March/April 2018 issue. The company has built some impressive prototypes, including a converted delivery van that beat a Ferrari and a Model S in a drag race. It’s led by Peter Rawlinson, who worked at Jaguar and Lotus before becoming the Chief Engineer behind Model S.
Impact Alpha
SEPTEMBER 10, 2020
ImpactAlpha, September 10 – Berkeley, Calif.-based software company Terabase helps monitor and automate utility-scale solar projects. The company is pushing to lower the cost of solar power below $0.01 per kilowatt-hour in the next five years. (A recent Terabase project in Qatar will sell power for $0.01449/kWh). The company has raised a $6 million Series.
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.
Forbes Green Tech
SEPTEMBER 10, 2020
Smoke from wildfires caused eery orange-red skies in California. Here is the science of why it happened.
Impact Alpha
SEPTEMBER 10, 2020
ImpactAlpha, Sept. 9, 2020 –– Business and finance reporting will never be the same. The pandemic, the protests and the climate emergency have made sustainable finance, impact investing and “ESG” the fastest-growing categories of financial services. And that means a media battle for that audience is brewing as well. ImpactAlpha, the purpose-built impact investing media.
Charged
SEPTEMBER 10, 2020
General Motors will use an almost completely wireless battery management system (wBMS)—the first of its kind, according to GM—for production EVs. This wireless system, developed with Analog Devices, will allow GM to power many types of EVs from a common set of battery components. The wBMS is expected to drive GM’s Ultium-powered EVs to market faster by cutting the time needed to develop specific communication systems or redesign complex wiring schemes for each new vehicle.
Impact Alpha
SEPTEMBER 10, 2020
In a world where innovation is revered, it can be easy to forget the value of tried and tested tools. When Covid-19 revealed itself as a global pandemic, CDC turned to one of the oldest forms of international finance to support financial stability with systemic liquidity: Trade Finance. This age-old instrument has not attracted many. The post Trade finance provides ‘systemic liquidity’ to emerging-market businesses in COVID crisis appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
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?
Charged
SEPTEMBER 10, 2020
Volkswagen’s ID.3 is all very well, but we Americans are more excited about the ID.4, an electric SUV that’s slated to go on sale here in the US in late 2020 or early 2021. Production has started in Germany, and VW recently revealed some details of the interior. Now VW has released a new video that shows the ID.4 towing a trailer. The Germans confirmed that the new EV will have a towing capacity of up to 4,200 pounds, which is comparable to that of legacy SUVs in its size class.
Impact Alpha
SEPTEMBER 10, 2020
ImpactAlpha, September 10 – TPG Pace Group, a holding company of TPG, launched TPG Pace Beneficial Finance to acquire an unnamed business on the grounds of its environmental, social and governance, or ESG, profile. Special purpose acquisition company, or SPAC, is looking to raise $350 million, though TPG has not indicated the type of business. The post TPG’s ‘special purpose acquisition company’ aims at sustainable business appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 10, 2020
WWF's landmark Living Planet Index warns that nature 'in freefall' due to the impact of humans, with wildlife populations declining nearly 70 per cent in less than 50 years. A clutch of sobering reports published this week that set out the threat posed to the global economy by nature and biodiversity loss have further bolstered the case for nation states and businesses to funnel investment into nature-based solutions that can slow escalating climate impacts.
Impact Alpha
SEPTEMBER 10, 2020
Greetings, Agents of Impact! Featured: ImpactAlpha Original Impact On: Impact investing’s confident and compelling new narrative. Every day, with their commitment and their capital, impact investors and other Agents of Impact are writing a new narrative for business and finance. And every week, ImpactAlpha tries to encapsulate that narrative, rounding up our Friday Brief under.
Forbes Green Tech
SEPTEMBER 10, 2020
Seven European nations that are to be awarded billions of dollars to help them go carbon neutral are planning to stick with coal-fired electricity generation until at least 2030, a new report has revealed.
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 10, 2020
Loop Industries and SUEZ reveal plans to build giant plastic recycling facility, as pressure grows for sector to boost capacity across Europe. A giant recycling plant capable of producing infinitely-recyclable, virgin-quality plastic is being planned to cater for soaring European demand for recycled materials, it has been announced. The plant, which would be the largest in the world to date, would be dedicated to Polyethylene Terephthalate (PET) plastic and would boast the potential to produce t
altenergymag
SEPTEMBER 10, 2020
Advanced energy beat state job growth overall; employers expected strong 5% growth for advanced energy in 2020 before COVID-19 health crisis hit
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 10, 2020
TechUK, Solar Trade Association, and RenewableUK announce new partnership to advance use of power purchase agreements and improve links between the technology and clean energy sectors. Trade bodies representing the technology, solar power, and wind and marine energy industries have this week issued a joint declaration calling for a business-led green recovery.
altenergymag
SEPTEMBER 10, 2020
Stagecoach's newly opened green mass transportation scheme in Manchester is being powered by Centrica's Electric Vehicle (EV) enablement solution.
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 10, 2020
Loopholes in the Environment Bill must be closed if the UK is to take responsibility for its global footprint, argues Kerry McCarthy MP. The climate and nature emergency is a truly global crisis. While we focus on reducing emissions at home - which are calculated according to what we produce, not what we consume - it can be easy to forget the contribution we make to environmental destruction overseas.
altenergymag
SEPTEMBER 10, 2020
[NEWPORT BEACH, CA] - 10 September, 2020 - Enersponse, Inc. was named the winner of a Gold Stevie® Award in the Company of the Year in Energy category in The 17th Annual International Business Awards® today.
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 10, 2020
BP makes first major move in support of new net zero emissions strategy, with $1.1bn move to secure stakes in wave of US offshore wind projects. BP has backed up its high profile pledge to put itself on a trajectory to net zero emissions with the announcement today it is teaming up with rival oil major Equinor to develop a fleet of US offshore wind farm.
Forbes Green Tech
SEPTEMBER 10, 2020
The report comes two days after Nikola’s shares surged on surprise news of a far-ranging manufacturing and technological tie-up with General Motors.
Business Green
SEPTEMBER 10, 2020
Conclusion based on research conducted by the magazine, which asked how banks were measuring and evaluating the climate impacts of their investments. The overwhelming majority of UK banks offering current and savings accounts lack convincing plans to reduce their carbon impact, according to new research from Ethical Consumer magazine. Of 36 banks surveyed, 94 per cent failed to meet the magazine's expectations, it reported today.
Forbes Green Tech
SEPTEMBER 10, 2020
The energy industry evolution provides opportunities for businesses to engage in a highly digitized and integrated environment and gain revenue from new value streams and business models.
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