Jim Conca
JULY 21, 2020
Extremophiles like the bacterium D. radiodurans that can withstand levels of radiation thousands of times what most animals can, are able to help us make vaccines faster, cheaper and safer. They use special molecular protectors to shield their repair proteins but not their DNA or RNA.
Grist
JULY 23, 2020
Imagine that it’s 2035. The COVID-19 pandemic — with its partisan infighting over masks and economic and political meltdown — feels like a bad dream. With the help of a vaccine, the world finally escaped the novel coronavirus. Then you hear something on the news. A mysterious virus is spreading overseas. The symptoms are fevers, chills, and coughs.
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Green Living Guy
JULY 19, 2020
Globally, the need to embrace eco-friendly energy options are more evident than ever before. As a way of reducing greenhouse gases to save the planet, more people are now opting for an off-the-grid home system. In simple terms, an off-the-grid home system means running your home without being connected to Continue Reading. The post What Is An Off-The-Grid Home System And How To Convert Your Home Into One appeared first on Green Living Guy.
GreenBiz
JULY 20, 2020
How a Blue New Deal charts a course for a sustainable sea change. Joel Makower. Mon, 07/20/2020 - 02:11. Last week, a group of activists, scientists, academics and others issued a report calling for policies and other initiatives to generate prosperity while addressing inequity and the climate crisis. They called it the Blue New Deal. Its focus: an ocean-based blue economy.
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.
Inhabitat - Innovation
JULY 20, 2020
A recent publication in the journal Angewandte Chemie brings attention to an improved way of generating clean hydrogen. For many years, hydrogen production has proven costly to the environment, as industrial hydrogen production uses partial methane oxidation and fossil gasification.
GreenTechMedia
JULY 23, 2020
This article is an extract from Wood Mackenzie's report ‘ The US solar trade barriers (almost) worked. But they won't any more ’ In January 2018, the U.S. government implemented Section 201 solar tariffs on imported cells and modules. After initial successes, our analysis shows that the effectiveness of this approach is now on a decline.
CleanTech Focus brings together the best content for cleantech professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
GreenBiz
JULY 22, 2020
Paul Polman: 'Businesses cannot succeed in societies that fail'. Deonna Anderson. Wed, 07/22/2020 - 01:30. As people across the United States and the world grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic and calls for racial justice, the business community has an integral role to play in both the dialogue and the solutions to these social issues. Last week, former Unilever CEO Paul Polman urged business leaders to be courageous in their response.
Inhabitat - Innovation
JULY 23, 2020
For the first time, scientists have confirmed that methane leaking is from Antarctica's sea bed. They say the methane is likely escaping into the atmosphere.
GreenTechMedia
JULY 22, 2020
U.K. smart storage startup Moixa has raised £4.6 million ($5.8 million) of funding, and aims to raise another £10 million by the end of the year, as it prepares to expand its energy storage management platform across the U.S. and Europe. Japanese conglomerate and battery maker Itochu, which is Moixa's partner in the Japanese market, led the Series C funding round.
U.S. Green Technology
JULY 18, 2020
Many people do not realize just how much energy they waste in their own homes on a daily basis. While many of us are keen to do our bit for the green cause and to save money on energy bills, we often waste energy without knowing. This means that we not only damage the environment. The post What You Can Do to Reduce Energy Wastage appeared first on U.S.
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.
GreenBiz
JULY 21, 2020
Apple embeds racial justice into new supply-chain carbon neutrality pledge. Heather Clancy. Tue, 07/21/2020 - 04:13. Apple already has ventured far beyond most other companies when it comes to pushing for climate action within its supply chain. . Consider that it has convinced more than 70 Apple suppliers to use renewable energy to produce products on its behalf , an effort funded in part by close to $5 billion in green bonds issued by the technology giant as well as a dedicated pool of money in
Inhabitat - Innovation
JULY 21, 2020
While a plate of Swedish meatballs has long been a standard part of an IKEA visit for omnivores, vegetarians endured the shopping trip on an empty stomach. Now, they hunger no more. IKEA has just announced its new plant ball, which allegedly has all the taste of a meatball but only 4% of the climate footprint.
Solar Power World
JULY 21, 2020
The Greenest Contractor award celebrates the greenest contractors making their companies and communities as environmentally friendly as possible. It’s not enough to just install solar panels to be considered a green-minded company in 2020. Office operations, transport, equipment, materials, installation itself — everything can contribute to carbon production.
The City Fix
JULY 20, 2020
As some countries creak open in the wake of COVID-19, businesses and workers rightly fear the rough road ahead. Over the past 10 weeks, 40 million U.S. workers have lost their jobs. Researchers at the University of Chicago estimate that. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.
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.
GreenBiz
JULY 20, 2020
Sustainability and the never-ending battle against burnout. Chris Gaither. Mon, 07/20/2020 - 01:04. I felt sure I’d put burnout in the past. I’d quit my high-stress job at Apple, started my own executive-coaching business and found balance in my life. Then, with shame burning my face, I had to cancel a GreenBiz workshop I was leading about how to take care of yourself.
Inhabitat - Innovation
JULY 22, 2020
Melting ice makes it harder for polar bears to capture food, leaving them vulnerable to extinction by the end of the century.
Solar Power World
JULY 21, 2020
Solar permitting has been a stubborn soft cost for residential installers. The forms needed, time it takes to process them and cost of the applications vary widely from county to county and state to state. The National Renewable Energy Lab wants to standardize, digitize and speed up the process to help AHJs with the increasing… The post It’s time to move to instant online residential solar permitting appeared first on Solar Power World.
Forbes Green Tech
JULY 23, 2020
It’s official: in the first half of 2020, for the first time, Europe generated more electricity from renewable sources than from fossil fuels.
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?
GreenBiz
JULY 22, 2020
What makes Al Gore hopeful: Tech innovation, science-based targets and the racial 'awakening'. Heather Clancy. Wed, 07/22/2020 - 02:00. Who is responsible for emissions? Where did they originate? How can we be sure? A global coalition fronted by former Vice President Al Gore promises granular insights and data into those sources — down to individual power plants, ships or factories.
Inhabitat - Innovation
JULY 20, 2020
It's a classroom, tool shop, design studio, gallery and community center all in one van!
Solar Power World
JULY 21, 2020
Derik Kendrick never expected to learn American Sign Language as a second language. In his past 20 years working in construction, he never knowingly worked alongside anyone who was deaf. But as co-owner of Plano, Texas, solar installation company Axium Solar (No. 60 on the 2020 Top Solar Contractors list), that all changed. An Axium… The post Texas contractor gives deaf installers opportunities to shine appeared first on Solar Power World.
Impact Alpha
JULY 23, 2020
ImpactAlpha, July 23 –Investors may debate the merits of competing sustainability frameworks, or which environmental or social factors are truly material to corporate performance, or how fast they can align their assets with the 2-degree scenario called for in the Paris climate agreement. But a wide swath of investors appear united in pushing back against.
Charged
JULY 20, 2020
Volkswagen wanted to determine what could happen when an EV is plugged into a 350 kW DC fast charger on the hottest days, so the company spent the past year building an EV charging test site at its Arizona Proving Grounds. The 50 charging stations, which feature a mix of standards and power levels from around the world, are designed to test how electric systems handle recharging at desert temperatures up to 120° F (49° C).
Inhabitat - Innovation
JULY 21, 2020
The newly developed QuenchSea has potential to become a life-saving device.
Solar Power World
JULY 21, 2020
There’s something icky about companies being associated with just one face. I can’t name one other high-level Amazon employee besides Jeff Bezos. We all saw what happened to Papa John in recent years when the spotlight got too hot on the pizza founder. Even Solar Power World is a team effort — we share responsibilities… The post Employee-ownership nets positive results in both the workplace and community appeared first on Solar Power World.
Impact Alpha
JULY 24, 2020
ImpactAlpha, July 24 – Dawn Sherman says the buffalo is the perfect metaphor for what it’s like to be at the helm of a Native enterprise. “Buffalo face the storm. During any kind of winter storm, they face it and they walk into the storm, because they know that eventually they will walk out.” This. The post Agent of Impact: Dawn Sherman, Native American Natural Foods appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
DeSmogBlog
JULY 21, 2020
Read time: 28 mins The Three Percenters, a loosely organized group of far-right militants, appear to have established a significant presence in North Dakota’s Bakken oilfield, one of the most productive oilfields in the nation. “There is a lot of membership in the oil and gas industry up there,” says Matt Marshall, a Three Percenter running for state legislature in Washington.
Inhabitat - Innovation
JULY 24, 2020
Accumulated plastic waste in the ocean could reach the weight of 2 million blue whales.
Planet Pulse
JULY 23, 2020
We are thrilled to announce that Wendy Tan White has joined Planet’s Board of Directors, taking Google’s seat. With over 25 years of experience working in technology and investment, she brings extensive entrepreneurial experience and leadership to Planet as we grow our business in existing and new markets. Wendy is currently the Vice President at X, Alphabet’s moonshot factory of diverse investors and entrepreneurs aiming to improve lives through the development of breakthrough technologies. .
Impact Alpha
JULY 21, 2020
ImpactAlpha, July 21, 2020 — A conservation project in the Tanintharyi region in southeast Myanmar aimed to protect the area from unsustainable palm oil and rubber plantations and overfishing. Indigenous Karen and other communities, however, objected that the top-down project cut them off from their livelihoods, jeopardized ceasefires that had ended a civil war and.
Forbes Green Tech
JULY 24, 2020
The $5 billion XpressWest project will connect Southern California to Las Vegas with electric trains traveling up to 200 miles an hour.
Inhabitat - Innovation
JULY 20, 2020
Climate TRACE is developing a tracker using AI to help the public access climate data in real time.
Solar Power World
JULY 21, 2020
Solar Power World, the solar industry’s leading business-to-business publication, today announces the release of the 2020 Top Solar Contractors list. The Top Solar Contractors list is the most recognized annual listing of solar contractors in the United States working in the utility, commercial and residential markets. “The Solar Power World team is so pleased to highlight more… The post Solar Power World announces the 2020 Top Solar Contractors list appeared first on Solar Power Wor
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