August, 2021

article thumbnail

Welcome to the Pyrocene

Grist

This piece is adapted from the forthcoming book The Pyrocene: How We Created an Age of Fire, and What Happens Next , which will be published by University of California Press in September. The fires of 2020 seemed to be everywhere, a pyric pandemic. Places that commonly burn, such as Australia, California, and Siberia, burned with epic breadth and intensity.

article thumbnail

The city as a living organism is circular by nature

GreenBiz

Urban metabolism is an approach that requires regarding cities as living organisms. There are practical reasons to adopt such a model, including the ability to derive a thorough understanding of an urban system’s dynamics and their redefinition in a circular and sustainable way.

Organic 545
Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Improving Sustainability in Agriculture Through Rendering Technology

U.S. Green Technology

Across the United States, a transformation in the agricultural industry is taking place. As the climate crisis continues, consumers and those interested in environmental causes demand that the farming industry rethink their practices to be more sustainable. The agricultural industry has taken on that demand and is innovating technology and sustainable methods to be more.

article thumbnail

Proterra to power Taylor container handler and forklift

Charged

Commercial EV innovator Proterra (NASDAQ: PTRA) and heavy-duty equipment manufacturer Taylor Machine Works have announced a new partnership to power Taylor’s next-generation ZLC-series electric container handler and ZH-series electric forklift using Proterra’s battery technology. The two companies will collaborate on strategies to deliver charging and infrastructure solutions to help ports and other customers electrify their heavy-duty material-handling machinery.

Batteries 145
article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

How To Lower Your Home’s Power Bill

Green Living Guy

Electricity is an important utility, to say the least. It is arguably the bedrock of modern civilization, and it is necessary for a vast percentage of modern luxuries. However, electricity costs money, and taking full advantage of modern conveniences without the proper considerations can be quite expensive. Finding ways to cut costs on your electric […].

article thumbnail

LACI makes SparkCharge its 10th investment from cleantech debt fund

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, August 12 – Los Angeles-based cleantech incubator LACI last year launched a debt fund for underrepresented founders “to play a role in. The post LACI makes SparkCharge its 10th investment from cleantech debt fund appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

More Trending

article thumbnail

Why Microsoft uses the term ‘net zero’ carefully

GreenBiz

The software giant, which famously pledged to pay back its carbon debt in January 2020, is reminding other corporations that avoiding carbon and removing carbon are two very different things.

Carbon 545
article thumbnail

This amazing breakthrough in fighting dengue is taking flight

GatesNotes

This mosquito has been transformed into a surprisingly powerful ally to save and improve lives.

145
145
article thumbnail

Proterra and LG Energy Solution sign long-term battery cell supply agreement

Charged

Commercial EV innovator Proterra (NASDAQ: PTRA) has formed a new agreement with LG Energy Solution to provide a long-term supply of cylindrical battery cells, to be manufactured at a new LG Energy Solution plant in the US. LG will deliver cells to Proterra’s factories for the manufacture of the company’s commercial EV battery systems. Proterra hasn’t released any specific numbers, saying only that it will commit “a low nine-figure dollar sum” to secure “multiple gigawatt-hours of dedicated US-ma

Batteries 145
article thumbnail

How Businesses Cut Energy and Fuel Usage

Green Living Guy

In less than a decade, the typical small business startup has changed a lot. Modern companies tend to have fewer workers, take up less office space (if any) and use less energy. The human imagination continued to come up with ways to get by with less fuel and energy. Especially when entrepreneurs make that philosophy […]. The post How Businesses Cut Energy and Fuel Usage appeared first on Green Living Guy.

article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

Climeworks and Swiss Re ink 'world's first' 10-year deal for direct air carbon capture and storage

Business Green

New $10m agreement will see Climeworks capture and store carbon emissions on behalf of the risk management giant. The fledgling direct air carbon capture sector has this week chalked off another major milestone, as Climeworks announced it has signed the world's "first and largest" 10-year carbon removal purchase agreement for direct air capture and storage with re-insurance giant Swiss Re.

Carbon 101
article thumbnail

The other greenhouse gas: UN report sets the record straight on methane

Grist

Most of the time carbon dioxide gets all the attention as the most villainous of greenhouse gasses, and the industries that pollute the atmosphere with methane would like to keep it that way. The new report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, however, presents the data on this secondary greenhouse gas that makes its impact inescapable.

Methane 143
article thumbnail

Why the U.S. needs to get on track with high-speed rail

GreenBiz

The possibilities for high-speed rail innovation are many, and once the lasting infrastructure is built, the benefits to communities are long-lasting.

article thumbnail

What sweat, wine, and electricity can teach us about humanity

GatesNotes

is Vaclav Smil’s most accessible book yet.

article thumbnail

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?

article thumbnail

LG Energy Solution secures access to nickel and cobalt from Australian Mines

Charged

LG Energy Solution, one of Tesla’s battery suppliers, has entered into “a binding long form offtake agreement” with Australian Mines Ltd. for nickel and cobalt, which will be supplied in the form of mixed hydroxide precipitate (MPH) from the Sconi Project in North Queensland. Under the agreement, LG will have access to 71,000 tons of nickel and 7,000 tons of cobalt for 6 years, starting from the end of 2024.

Energy 144
article thumbnail

6 Eco-friendly Things That You Didn’t Know About

Green Living Guy

The twenty-first century or the modern age has blessed its people with many boons. Today, you live in an age where you can make miracles just by sitting at home. Thanks to technology and innovation to provide humans with such advantages. But, with the boons come the bays. As times and technology has advanced, mother earth […]. The post 6 Eco-friendly Things That You Didn’t Know About appeared first on Green Living Guy.

article thumbnail

Unicef: One billion children at 'extremely high risk' from climate crisis

Business Green

UN agency's first ever child-focused climate risk assessment index reveals scale of youth vulnerability to events such as cyclones, heatwaves or flooding, and the lack of essential services to help them. More than half of all children on the planet live in the 33 countries at greatest peril from the climate crisis, putting one billion of them at "exteremly high risk", Unicef has warned.

article thumbnail

Planet and Google Cloud Partner to Bring Planetary-Scale Satellite Data Analysis To Governments And Enterprises

Planet Pulse

We are thrilled to announce that we are expanding our partnership with Google Cloud. Under this new agreement, Google Cloud will collaborate with us to create joint solutions that combine Planet’s high-frequency Earth observation data with Google Cloud’s cloud-based infrastructure to enable better data-driven decision-making. . Planet captures terabytes of daily, global satellite imagery, resulting in continuously refreshed insights about our changing Earth.

article thumbnail

Sustainability teams need forestry and natural resource experts

GreenBiz

Fully seizing nature-based solutions requires companies to hire those who study natural systems, natural products and their interactions with societies.

article thumbnail

Walmart Offers New Delivery Systems & Autonomous EVs

CleanTechnica

The superstore retailer continues to redefine its delivery systems, including a white label platform and a working relationship with autonomous middle-mile company Gatik.

Retail 0
article thumbnail

Thinner anode strips could lead to longer lithium metal battery life

Charged

Researchers from the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) have increased the lifetime of a lithium metal battery to a record 600 cycles. The research was done through DOE’s Innovation Center for Battery500 Consortium. The work was published in the journal Nature Energy. The PNNL team found a way to increase the battery’s lifetime using 20-micron-wide strips of lithium.

Lithium 143
article thumbnail

How Schools Can Practice and Promote Sustainability

Green Living Guy

Learning to live more lightly on the earth is a process that adults can often struggle with. However, many schools and preschools are setting a terrific example. Children who can learn sustainability in school will have the power to go home and educate their parents on ways to lower the pressure we’re putting on the […]. The post How Schools Can Practice and Promote Sustainability appeared first on Green Living Guy.

article thumbnail

Scottish Greens poised to join government in Holyrood

Business Green

Expected power sharing deal with SNP would take Green Party into government for the first time anywhere in the UK. The Scottish Greens are shortly expected to announce a power sharing deal with the SNP in Scotland, which would take the party into government for the first time anywhere in the UK and potentially place further pressure on the North Sea oil and gas sector to decarbonise.

article thumbnail

This startup helps companies price carbon

GreenBiz

Sinai Technologies, which just raised $10 million in seed funding, is a part of a wave of software startups focused on carbon accounting.

Startups 545
article thumbnail

AeroFarms is trying to cultivate the future of vertical farming

GreenBiz

The vertical farming company is poised for a momentous 18 months and the consequences will inform the future of sustainable agriculture.

article thumbnail

Why repair is the first step to tackling smartphone e-waste

GreenBiz

As smartphone sales have skyrocketed, so has the device’s contribution to waste streams and carbon emissions.

Waste 545
article thumbnail

The path to personal sustainability in ESG

GreenBiz

The good news: Sustainability professionals are in greater demand than ever before. That's also the bad news.

article thumbnail

Are you prepared to defend your recyclability claims?

GreenBiz

GreenBiz Default Summary

Recycling 537
article thumbnail

10 Tips for How to Afford a Solar Upgrade for Your Home

Green Living Guy

As eco-consumer rates increase, renewable energy device sales rise. In 2020, the solar energy industry achieved its most profitable year. An enhancement of renewable power production supports President Biden’s Build Back Better plan. He established a national carbon neutrality goal upon entering office. Converting our energy reliance away from fossil fuels and towards solar power […].

article thumbnail

'Expensive distraction': Chair of UK Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Association resigns citing blue hydrogen concerns

Business Green

Protium CEO Chris Jackson claims blue hydrogen risks locking UK into reliance on fossil fuels as he quits the trade body. Chris Jackson has stepped down from his role as chair of the UK Hydrogen and Fuel Cell Association (UKHFCA), arguing that he is no longer able to advocate in good faith on behalf of 'blue' hydrogen made using fossil fuel gas coupled with carbon capture technology.

Hydrogen 101
article thumbnail

Quorn on the Kop: Liverpool FC serves up meat-free steak pies at Anfield

Business Green

Club claims veggie version of classic match day steak pie could see Anfield cut up to 2,250 tonnes of CO2 in just one season. Liverpool Football Club has teamed up with Quorn to serve up meat-free pies at for fans at its Anfield homeground in a bid to encourage more climate-friendly dietary choices, the meat-alternative food brand announced yesterday.

article thumbnail

Hemp-based insulation firm secures Scottish National Investment Bank funding

Business Green

IndiNature says investment will help scale up production of its 'carbon negative' building material. Carbon negative insulation for homes and commercial properties is to be produced in Scotland for the first time following a £3m investment in a pioneering green materials firm from the Scottish National Investment Bank. IndiBreathe, an insulation material produced by sustainable construction materials business IndiNature, uses natural fibre made with UK-grown hemp.

article thumbnail

Welsh Government to ban fossil fuel heating in new social homes from October

Business Green

Devolved authority unveils fresh green guidelines for social house building, and hopes the private sector will soon follow suit. Fossil fuels will no longer be used to heat new social homes built in Wales from October this year, under new building standards unveiled by the Welsh Government yesterday, The fresh guidelines - ‘Welsh Development Quality Requirements 2021 - Creating Beautiful Homes and Places by 2025' - establishes a suite of green standards for new homes as part of the devolve

article thumbnail

'Net zero is not enough': Why climate experts are calling for 'net negative' emissions strategies

Business Green

Climate Crisis Advisory Group argues that atmospheric concentrations of CO2 could reach dangerous levels by 2050, even if net zero targets are met. Net zero emission climate targets may have swept the public and private sectors over the past two years, but businesses and governments must now step up their ambition further if they want to avert dangerous levels of climate change.