Are bioplastics really better for the environment? Read the fine print
GreenBiz
AUGUST 28, 2019
Confusion among terms like bioplastics, bio-based and biodegradable plastics makes it hard to discern and make the environmentally responsible choice.
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Railway heat to be repurposed to warm London homes this winter
Inhabitat - Innovation
AUGUST 28, 2019
Besides riding the railway, or 'tube,' to go from one end of the U.K. to another, some North Londoners will benefit from excess heat generated by the Northern Line by year's end with a new initiative to reuse this heat to warm hundreds of houses and businesses in Islington.
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World’s Largest All-Electric Ferry Enters Revenue Service In Denmark
CleanTechnica
AUGUST 29, 2019
Ellen, the world's most powerful all electric ferry, has entered revenue service in southern Denmark, moving the zero emissions transportation revolution forward another step.
The truth about hydrogen, the latest, trendiest low-carbon solution
GreenBiz
AUGUST 30, 2019
As misconceptions about the emerging tech abound, we can dispel common myths to encourage hydrogen's potential for decarbonization.
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.
Nuclear Power And The 2020 Presidential Candidates
Jim Conca
AUGUST 8, 2019
14 candidates support nuclear in some way, 9 do not, and 1 is unclear. Leading climate scientists say we can't address climate change without nuclear power. Supporting nuclear power is a clear signal about how serious a candidate is about climate change and how serious they are about science.
Dundee to host conference on climate change science and law
Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 27, 2019
Scotland will host world-leading experts in climate change law and science in September, as they attend a major conference on global climate at the University of Dundee. Held at the University’s Dalhousie Building from 27-28 September, this inaugural event will focus on identifying elements of a global climate consensus and the legal practicality of effective climate action.
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Vertical forest buildings designed by Stefano Boeri set to center new Cairo Administrative district
Inhabitat - Innovation
AUGUST 22, 2019
In a world of high population growth, it’s increasingly difficult to find adequate housing, and green space is diminishing throughout most urban areas. But when Cairo began developing a new administrative capital area architects and designers jumped into the planning with vertical forest block buildings. Italian architect Stefano Boeri collaborated with Egyptian designer Shimaa Shalash as a local partner, as well as landscape agronomist Laura Gatti to create three, seven-story buildings includin
Japan – Asia’s Biggest Energy Market Opportunity in 2019?
CleanTech Group
AUGUST 2, 2019
One of the largest economies in the world and the fourth largest consumer of electricity, Japan has long been a recognized leader in energy technology development. The 2011 earthquake and the subsequent Fukushima nuclear accident triggered a major overhaul of the energy market in Japan. As a result, local and foreign innovators are now looking […].
The world is going sideways. What's a sustainability professional to do?
GreenBiz
AUGUST 27, 2019
The Amazon and the Arctic are burning, Greenland and Antarctica are melting, and longstanding concerns such as plastic waste, air pollution and water security that don’t seem to be getting better. How do you stay positive?
A Very Fast, Very Safe, Very SLIMM Nuclear Reactor
Jim Conca
AUGUST 31, 2019
The SLLIM is a liquid sodium nuclear fast reactor that generates 10 to 100 MW for many years, even decades, without refueling. It can’t meltdown, can operate without water, is factory fabricated and shipped to the construction site where it is installed below ground in a seismic-resistant cocoon.
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.
Bristol announces low carbon housing development, and selection of heat pump technology
Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 19, 2019
Borehole drilling rig for the installation of heat pumps at Ashton Rise. A sustainable housing development is to be developed in Bristol, featuring innovative low-carbon heating. Bristol City Council’s 133 homes at Ashton Rise are being built using the high efficiency Sig iHouse solution, and heated by individual ground source heat pumps connected to a shared ground loop array of boreholes.
Investments in ‘people and places’ start to demonstrate impact in Opportunity Zones
Impact Alpha
AUGUST 28, 2019
ImpactAlpha, Aug. 28 – Capital is finally flowing to projects in U.S. Opportunity Zones that promote inclusive development and community empowerment. In other words, impact is investable. Locally led development efforts, homegrown startup activity and affordable housing investments from Erie, Pennsylvania to South Los Angeles are demonstrating that capital-gains tax incentives available in Opportunity Zones can The post Investments in ‘people and places’ start to demonstrate impact in Opportuni
Chattanooga becomes first 100% solar-powered airport in US
Inhabitat - Innovation
AUGUST 19, 2019
Tennessee’s fourth largest city, Chatanooga, becomes the first American airport to be 100 percent solar powered – and joins only a handful of airports who claim the same across the world. The $5 million dollar project has been seven years in the making and was funding by the Federal Aviation Administration. “This is a momentous day for the Chattanooga Airport as we complete our solar farm and achieve a major sustainability milestone,” said Terry Hart, president and CEO of the Chattanooga.
Environmental Education Will Shape A New Generation Of Decision-Makers
Forbes Green Tech
AUGUST 25, 2019
Natural environment has been critical in shaping our species and how we have evolved over millennia. As nations worldwide continue to tackle climate change-related issues, many have identified that the next generation will need to be educated about the challenges ahead of them.
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.
Here's how e-scooter and e-bike companies could embrace the circular economy
GreenBiz
AUGUST 28, 2019
Shared micromobility services may reduce emissions, but the short lifespan of the scooters and bicycles raises questions about materials use and deeper supply-chain impacts.
Energy's Future - Battery and Storage Technologies
Jim Conca
AUGUST 26, 2019
Battery technologies have to catch up with other new low-C tech, and V-flow batteries may be the breakthrough we need. They are fully containerized, nonflammable, compact, reusable over semi-infinite cycles, discharge 100% of the stored energy and do not degrade for more than 20 years.
Treat citizens as partners, not participants, to improve air quality research
Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 30, 2019
Encouraging citizens to take part in almost every step of scientific air quality research improves their understanding of how air pollution affects their health, finds a new study from the University of Surrey. In a paper published in Sustainable Cities and Society journal, researchers from Surrey’s Global Centre for Clean Air Research (GCARE) together with the IAAC Fab Lab Barcelona, Connected Places Catapult and T6 Ecosystems under the iSCAPE project, provide details about how introducing a mu
Documents Show Koch Network's 'Structure of Social Change' in Action
DeSmogBlog
AUGUST 19, 2019
Read time: 10 mins Back in 1996, the president of the Charles Koch Foundation laid out a blueprint for the Koch network’s goals of social transformation — a three-tiered integrated strategy to roll back government regulations, promote free market principles, and, in doing so, to protect the industries that turned the Koch brothers into billionaires. .
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?
Kids are hungry for books about eco-activists, in what publishers call 'the Greta effect'
Inhabitat - Innovation
AUGUST 14, 2019
The soaring popularity of the feisty, outspoken environmental advocate – who is only 16 – has caused a rise in young people seeking stories about saving the planet. Publishers coin the new trend the “Greta Thunberg Effect” and are turning around children’s book about climate change in record time. Publishers have pumped out books across a range of topics related to the environment, from endangered species to climate change, and sales have doubled in the last year, according to Nielsen.
The World's Largest Electric Ferry Has Completed Its Maiden Voyage
Forbes Green Tech
AUGUST 18, 2019
The world's largest all-electric ferry, named E-ferry Ellen, made its first trip early this morning, connecting the ports of Søby and Fynshav, on the islands of Ærø and Als, in southern Denmark. The ship, capable of carrying 30 vehicles and 200 passengers, is powered by a 4.3MWh battery system.
Toxic chemicals can enter food through packaging, so we made a list
GreenBiz
AUGUST 23, 2019
Environmental NGO EDF has identified toxic chemicals of concern that must be addressed to ensure health and safety.
Renewable energy sources produced 20% of U.S. electricity in first half of 2019
Solar Power World
AUGUST 27, 2019
Renewable energy sources (biomass, geothermal, hydropower, solar, wind) accounted for more than one-fifth (20.1%) of net domestic electrical generation during the first six months of 2019, according to a SUN DAY Campaign analysis of just-released data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). A year earlier, renewables’ share was 19.9%.
Government is “passing water pollution buck to the car industry”, experts warn
Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 22, 2019
Poisonous particle pollution from brake and tyre wear is carried in runoff then enters rivers and streams. The Government acknowledged the serious and growing impacts of poisonous particle pollution from brake, tyre and road surface wear on the environment and human health – but diverted attention away from the immediate and urgent need to stop it entering directly into rivers and streams, water quality specialists have warned.
Nine policy wonks on how to catalyze private capital for public good
Impact Alpha
AUGUST 26, 2019
ImpactAlpha’s What’s Next series, produced in partnership with the Global Impact Investing Network, provides a platform for practitioners and experts to reflect on the future of impact investing. ImpactAlpha, Aug. 26 – Impact investing is among the last of a vanishing species: a bipartisan issue. In the U.S., some of the few legislative achievements of the last The post Nine policy wonks on how to catalyze private capital for public good appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
Couple's tiny home 'Ohana' overlooks picturesque Vancouver
Inhabitat - Innovation
AUGUST 28, 2019
At just 100 square feet, the Galiano 100 is a tiny home affectionately dubbed “Ohana,” meaning family in Hawaiian, by its owners. The compact house overlooks the Strait of Georgia and the twinkling lights of downtown Vancouver.
US Businesses Are Benefiting From Ambitious Environmental Goals
Forbes Green Tech
AUGUST 4, 2019
The study shows that although businesses are still driven to manage their resources efficiently from an economic standpoint, they have also become more engaged in sustainable development. Environmental considerations have become a more serious talking point among company decision-makers.
Inside ExxonMobil's hookup with carbon removal venture Global Thermostat
GreenBiz
AUGUST 29, 2019
Could the funding and engineering resources of a major fossil fuels company help direct air capture technology for carbon removal scale more quickly?
New report shows tremendous growth of U.S. renewable energy generation in last decade
Solar Power World
AUGUST 22, 2019
A new report from Environment America Research & Policy Center and Frontier Group finds that the United States has increased its solar power generation 40-fold and upped its electric production from wind by more than 270% in the last decade. The study also highlights advances in energy savings, the increased use of energy storage and the… The post New report shows tremendous growth of U.S. renewable energy generation in last decade appeared first on Solar Power World.
The energy transition is underway: 10 charts tell the story
Renewable Energy World
AUGUST 16, 2019
The renewable energy transition promises to reduce carbon emissions, but it’s happening at different speeds around the world. Read on for some key insights from BloombergNEF’s New Energy Outlook 2019, which provides a detailed road map to the future.
Fracking and Shale Drilling Caused Spike in Climate-Warming Methane Pollution, Says New Study
DeSmogBlog
AUGUST 14, 2019
Read time: 8 mins Climate-changing pollution reached unprecedented levels in 2018. That's both judged against the last 60 years of modern measurements and against 800,000 years of data culled from ice cores, according to the U.S. government’s State of the Climate report , which was published this week with the American Meteorological Society. That pollution creates a greenhouse effect that is over 42 percent stronger than it was in 1990, the report added.
A playful home built of recycled materials takes in sunrise views in Ecuador
Inhabitat - Innovation
AUGUST 19, 2019
Built largely from recycled materials, the home that architect Daniel Moreno Flores recently completed for an artistically inclined client in Ecuador oozes playfulness and creativity as well as a reduced environmental footprint.
The Energy Revolution Happening At The End Of The World
Forbes Green Tech
AUGUST 17, 2019
Innovation and perseverance. These are two of the most important qualities that Dr. Laura Watts identifies as the driving force behind the renewable energy revolution in the Orkney Islands. The Scottish archipelago is on the leading edge of the world’s energy future.
ESG performance also matters for pre-IPO companies
GreenBiz
AUGUST 26, 2019
Newly public companies, from Uber to Beyond Meat, are facing extra scrutiny on sustainability issues. Pre-IPO companies should pay attention.
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