COVID-19 could accelerate a global shift from planes to trains
GreenBiz
APRIL 21, 2020
UBS analysis suggests the pandemic is set to curb air travel growth 10 percent over the next decade as high-speed rail flourishes.
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Clear Skies Over Germany Lead To Record Amount Of Solar Energy
CleanTechnica
APRIL 22, 2020
Germany set a solar power record last week thanks in part to clear skies as a result of the coronavirus.
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The case for exploring jute as an alternative to plastic
GreenBiz
APRIL 10, 2020
For starters, it's a material that is readily available, biodegradable and affordable.
We Should Not Bail Out Oil Companies
CleanTechnica
APRIL 23, 2020
We should not bail out oil companies. But we probably will since Trump is scrambling to do just that. As we know, the price of oil in the US fell below zero for the first time ever the other day.
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.
Snazzy garden shed doubles as rainwater runoff solution
Inhabitat - Innovation
APRIL 9, 2020
Maryland-based practice Gardner Architects was tasked with installing a small garden shed for homeowners in the community of Bethesda, they came up with a gorgeous 100-square-foot shed that not only blends in harmoniously with the main home, but actively helps manage stormwater runoff.
How Artificial Intelligence, IoT And Big Data Can Save The Bees
Forbes Green Tech
APRIL 21, 2020
Artificial intelligence (AI), internet of things sensors, big data analytics, and other technologies are being used to monitor and develop solutions to mitigate the global issue of declining honey bee and pollinator populations.
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Green swans and the new economic order: an Earth Day conversation with John Elkington
Impact Alpha
APRIL 22, 2020
ImpactAlpha, April 23 – Whether or not the COVID-19 crisis qualifies as a ‘black swan’ – global pandemics have been widely predicted for years – it is the kind of highly disruptive event that can enable radically new solutions and systems to emerge. Such ‘green swans’ can “deliver exponential progress in the form of economic, The post Green swans and the new economic order: an Earth Day conversation with John Elkington appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
In semi-arid Africa, farmers are transforming the 'underground forest' into life-giving trees
GreenBiz
APRIL 9, 2020
Revitalization of a traditional agricultural practice known as farmer managed natural regeneration is bringing new life to millions of acres of degraded land while boosting food, fuel, habitat and carbon storage.
As oil crashes, ‘America’s untapped energy giant’ could rise
Grist
APRIL 10, 2020
The coronavirus pandemic has mostly yielded bad news for renewable energy. Disruptions to supply chains and slowdowns in permitting and construction have delayed solar and wind projects, endangering their eligibility for the soon-to-expire investment tax credits they rely on. There’s another form of renewable energy, however, that might see a benefit from the recent global economic upheaval and emerge in a better position to help the United States decarbonize its electricity system: geothermal.
Architects propose produce markets designed for social distancing
Inhabitat - Innovation
APRIL 9, 2020
Shift architecture urbanism has developed self-initiated designs for hyper-local micro markets to make shopping for food faster, safer and more accessible.
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.
7 pollinator-friendly solar systems
Solar Power World
APRIL 8, 2020
There isn’t much room for other major developments on ground-mounted solar sites once a system is in place and running. One solution developers are putting into practice is planting pollinator-friendly vegetation and placing hives to encourage bees and other pollinating insects to visit solar project sites. Bees and other pollinating species play an integral role… The post 7 pollinator-friendly solar systems appeared first on Solar Power World.
Big Oil Foresaw Extreme Flooding Now Predicted to Hit US Coasts Almost Daily
DeSmogBlog
APRIL 17, 2020
Read time: 6 mins Oil companies have long been aware that their products cause global warming and the impacts, including from rising seas, could be catastrophic. From a scientist who warned executives in 1959 that New York could be submerged, to a confidential 1988 Shell report that raised the possibility of abandoning inundated low-lying areas, the industry has shown clear internal acknowledgement of the potential consequences of unabated fossil fuel burning.
Investments in the creative economy will help drive an inclusive COVID recovery
Impact Alpha
APRIL 14, 2020
In the month since SXSW canceled its annual arts and tech festival in Austin, Texas, artists and other creatives have been on the front line of COVID-19 economic collapse. Investments in food, fashion, media and creative manufacturing and community spaces will be key to an inclusive economic response and recovery. Social distancing and sheltering in.
Biodiversity, pandemics and the circle of life
GreenBiz
APRIL 20, 2020
Addressing biodiversity, like so many other things, seems to have been shunted aside by the coronavirus outbreak. It would make much more sense to keep it front and center.
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.
Is Fusion Really Close To Reality? Yes, Thanks To Machine Learning
Forbes Green Tech
APRIL 26, 2020
Fusion is energy's boy who cried wolf. It’s been just around the corner for so long that people can't believe it’s just around the corner now.
This modular, off-grid design can adapt to any landscape
Inhabitat - Innovation
APRIL 27, 2020
TEKE Architects' modular, sustainable and off-grid MU50 Home takes all of the complications out of DIY home design!
People may not be thinking about solar power during a pandemic, but soon everyone will
Solar Power World
APRIL 15, 2020
By Jared McKenzie, CEO, Headline Solar Like most solar power companies across the globe, would-be clients of Headline Solar are simply not thinking about installing solar panels right now. The COVID-19 pandemic has created uncertainty about the future, and most people are rightly focused on the immediate needs of their family. Clean electricity is not… The post People may not be thinking about solar power during a pandemic, but soon everyone will appeared first on Solar Power World.
What you need to know about the COVID-19 vaccine
GatesNotes
APRIL 30, 2020
Humankind has never had a more urgent task than creating broad immunity for coronavirus.
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?
Agent of Impact: Kizzmekia Corbett, National Institutes of Health
Impact Alpha
APRIL 17, 2020
ImpactAlpha, Apr. 17 – Dr. Kizzmekia Corbett had a jump on COVID-19. The viral immunologist has been studying coronaviruses like SARS and MERS since she arrived at the National Institutes of Health in 2014. Now, as scientific lead on the Coronavirus team at the NIH, she plans to make COVID-19 a preventable disease by fall. The post Agent of Impact: Kizzmekia Corbett, National Institutes of Health appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
This is climate tech
GreenBiz
APRIL 22, 2020
The stunning array of technologies emerging to decarbonize the world and make it more habitable for flora, fauna and humans goes far beyond cleantech 2.0.
Medical Cannabis Adds Deep Inspiration To Hope Grows For Autism
Forbes Green Tech
APRIL 14, 2020
Four years ago, my son, Leo, was struggling so with anxiety, OCD and epic meltdowns as a result of his symptoms associated with autism.
The many ways fungi are saving our planet
Inhabitat - Innovation
APRIL 10, 2020
Find out how fungi are saving the planet, from cleaning the water and air to providing medicinal benefits.
Air France coronavirus bailout package to demand steep emissions cuts
Business Green
APRIL 30, 2020
Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire tells French Parliament €7bn support package would require ailing airline to set goal of becoming world's most environmentally-friendly carrier. The French government looks poised to set a high bar for countries considering attaching 'green strings' to airline bailout packages, announcing that support for Air France is contingent on it agreeing to ambitious new emissions goals.
The first modern pandemic
GatesNotes
APRIL 23, 2020
The scientific advances we need to stop COVID-19.
Catholic institutions commit to move $40 billion towards impact
Impact Alpha
APRIL 21, 2020
ImpactAlpha, April 21 – From an empty St. Peter’s Square, Pope Francis reminded Catholics that the COVID pandemic is an opportunity to attune lives and actions to injustice, the poor and “our ailing planet.” A group of 21 Catholic organizations representing $40 billion in assets is demonstrating how, pledging to align their investment portfolios to.
Where is capitalism headed?
GreenBiz
APRIL 11, 2020
The 2020s will be the worst of times for those clinging to the old order, yet potentially the best of times for those embracing and driving the new.
New Michael Moore-Backed Documentary On YouTube Reveals Massive Ecological Impacts Of Renewables
Forbes Green Tech
APRIL 21, 2020
“Planet of the Humans” documents how industrial wind farms, solar farms, biomass, and biofuels are wrecking natural environments.
Dark Chalet in Utah will generate over 350% more energy than it needs
Inhabitat - Innovation
APRIL 24, 2020
The mysterious, net-positive energy building will generate 364% more power than it needs.
'Not mere divestment': Oxford University unveils sweeping net zero investment strategy
Business Green
APRIL 28, 2020
Multi-billion pound endowment to divest from fossil fuel companies and request evidence of net zero business plans right across its investment portfolio. The global divestment movement chalked up another major victory this week as Oxford University announced it would divest its multi-billion pound endowment from fossil fuel assets and enact a new investment policy that would call on companies to provide evidence of their net zero business plans.
Samsung researchers describe all-solid-state battery with silver-carbon composite layer
Charged
APRIL 1, 2020
Researchers from the Samsung Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT) and the Samsung R&D Institute Japan (SRJ) have published a study on high-performance, long-lasting all-solid-state batteries in the journal Nature Energy. Compared to lithium-ion batteries, which employ volatile liquid electrolytes, all-solid-state batteries use non-volatile solid electrolytes that support greater energy density.
Study: The tiniest bit of air pollution makes COVID-19 more deadly
Grist
APRIL 9, 2020
Dirty air in the United States is linked to higher death rates from COVID-19, according to a new study from researchers at Harvard’s school of public health. Scientists found that people who lived in counties in with elevated levels of fine particulate matter known as PM 2.5 in the air were more likely to die from the virus. PM 2.5 is one of the world’s most dangerous invisible pollutants.
Why protecting soil carbon is a win-win for farmers and the planet
GreenBiz
APRIL 2, 2020
The benefits of protecting and restoring soil carbon go well beyond any one farm or any one year. But not enough people are taking these steps.
COVID-19 'Liberate' Groups Are the Same Ones Pushing Climate Denial
DeSmogBlog
APRIL 20, 2020
Read time: 13 mins This story is a part of Covering Climate Now’s week of coverage focused on Climate Solutions, to mark the 50th anniversary of Earth Day. Covering Climate Now is a global journalism collaboration committed to strengthening coverage of the climate story. The response among many American public officials and the public at large to the COVID -19 pandemic has, in many ways, paralleled the response to the climate crisis.
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