Grist

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

According to a new study published in Environmental Science Technology, hundreds of active hydropower plants are making a worse impact on the climate than fossil fuels. Yup, you read that right: Hydropower, popularly seen as a green energy source — and a major clean energy source in a lot of emission-reduction plans — can release more greenhouse gases than coal- or oil-burning power plants, under certain conditions.

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Solar Power World

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

By Charlie Seltzer, Regional Sales Manager, CivicSolar Cities across the country have pledged to achieve ambitious renewable energy goals and mandates, but how important will residential rooftop solar be to reach these goals? A report from Cape Analytics found 1.8% of homes across the 21 largest metro areas have installed solar[1], with Californian cities showing… The post The role of residential rooftop solar in city renewable goals appeared first on Solar Power World.

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CleanTechnica

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Researchers at the University of Houston say they have developed a new catalyst composed of inexpensive non-noble metal nitrides that makes it possible to split seawater at low voltages.

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U.S. Green Technology

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Non-renewable energy industries, like gas and oil, are often considered by organizations and individuals — from consumers to national governments — to have a significant impact on the environment. And that impact isn’t viewed as a positive one. If these companies want to salvage their reputations, they’ll need to turn to cleaner and greener forms.

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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.

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Solar Power World

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Building on its legacy as a leader in sustainable business practices, today Sprint announced new corporate environmental goals. Among them is a commitment to source 100% renewable electricity across its entire operations — all retail stores, offices, call centers, and network sites — by 2025. Sprint also re-committed to responsibly reuse or recycle 100% of… The post Sprint commits to 100% renewables across all operations by 2025 appeared first on Solar Power World.

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CleanTechnica

NOVEMBER 15, 2019

Lyft will make 200 KIA Niro Electric cars available to lease for its drivers in Denver as part of its campaign to transition all the cars in its fleet to battery power.

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CleanTechnica

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Los Angeles has just ordered 130 electric buses from BYD, the largest single order for electric buses in US history.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Climate change is a faraway perceived risk, so how can we message its urgency and the cost of inaction?

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

But for electric vehicles to become mass market products, batteries need to improve.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Helia is a solar-powered electric car that is so energy efficient, it can travel more than 500 miles at 50 miles per hour on the same amount of power it takes to boil a kettle.

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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.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

There is no doubt that bifacial modules are ready for their breakout role in the world of solar photovoltaic projects. By the dawn of 2020, there will be a cumulative 5.4 gigawatts of bifacial solar capacity installed globally, mostly in Asia, according to Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables' first report focused on this market. In five years, there will be a nearly equal share of deployment divided among Asia and North America, with cumulative installed capacity growing tenfold, according

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

The GF77 from FLIR Systems is said to be an affordable, handheld methane detection camera allowing inspection professionals to actually see invisible methane leaks and other industrial gases at natural gas power plants, renewable energy production facilities, and other locations. The GF77 is spectrally filtered to optimally visualize methane gas, says FLIR Systems. “Spectral targeting improves visualization, while also reducing false negatives from gases that absorb in other wavelengths.&#

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Utilities expand the grid without building power plants. Consumers get backup power and a virtually free electric car. Such are the promises of V2G tech, even if the infrastructure isn't quite here yet.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

In Australia’s Kangaroo Valley, Paddington-based design studio Madeleine Blanchfield Architects carefully crafted a freestanding bathroom that all but vanishes into its surroundings.

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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.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

PARIS — Shell expects its filling stations to become fossil-fuel free, eventually. But getting there will require major changes, and in the energy business change often means subsidies. So it is with hydrogen, says Mark Gainsborough, executive vice president at Shell who heads up the New Energies unit. In addition to the power sector, Shell New Energies is responsible for the company's activities in new fuels, namely hydrogen and biofuels.

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Fairsnape

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

The biggest contribution we can make to the climate crisis is to urgently deliver buildings that are carbon sinks. Cuerden Valley Park Visitor Center, Lancashire,, designed and constructed to Living Building Challenge Standard, demonstrates that is possible. The plethora of climate, carbon and biodiversity targets, visions and reports within, and beyond, the built environment, may seem to cause confusion, but there is a core, science based purpose.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Automation, changing consumer appetites and the heightened focus on sustainable agriculture cultivate new interest in urban and indoor growers.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Technology has become an integral part of our everyday life. From smartphones to smart appliances, the advancements continue to make our lives easier while simultaneous distracting us from traditional hobbies and interests. How we spend our time has changed so much over the past few decades that those seeking to reconnect with non-techy hobbies sometimes struggle to think of ways to spend their time that doesn’t involve a screen of some sort.

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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?

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Quality Counts provides a variety of transportation data services to help guide infrastructure growth, improve network efficiency, and make the communities they serve better places to live, learn, work, and play. The QC team was born out of a vision to make data collection faster and more reliable, and they have been delivering on that vision since 2003.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Read time: 7 mins A recent paper analyzing the major players in the organized efforts to attack climate change science and delay action had a surprising revelation — the biggest contributing industry/sector was not oil and gas but rail/steel/coal with the most active organization in the climate denial movement being the Association of American Railroads ( AAR ).

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

It's not just about growing more food and using fewer inputs. It's also about creating local, adaptive food systems that can withstand the effects of climate change.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Hikers and outdoor enthusiasts can finally enjoy a solar panel that combines efficiency and durability with the added ability to fit snugly on top of a backpack.

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Forbes Green Tech

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

The climate debate has taken a nasty turn. It is no longer a shouting match between climate affirmers and climate deniers. Now the finger-wagging is taking place among climate affirmers on the subject of personal responsibility for combating climate change.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

The results are in, and there’s not mushroom for debate: fungi are an important, if undervalued, piece of the climate solutions puzzle. That’s the conclusion of a new global assessment published in Nature Communications last week. Humans have long relied on fungi for sustenance and, er, inspiration. Just ask Michal Pollan, who thinks they work just as well in a gruyère omelette as they do on the human psyche.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 9, 2019

From ceremonies to harvesting and food storage, to political leadership, to gender relations, indigenous groups have detailed understandings of how design societal institutions to support resilience. But colonialism changed that.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Many people and municipalities turn to road salt to de-ice wintry streets and sidewalks. Unfortunately, road salt poses serious environmental risks.

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Impact Alpha

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

ImpactAlpha, Nov. 14 – When Deval Patrick left office in 2015, he raised eyebrows by joining Bain Capital, the private-equity firm co-founded by another former Massachusetts governor, Mitt Romney. Rather than pursue distressed companies to “buy, strip and flip” with leveraged buyouts, however, Patrick was looking for plays in companies expanding economic opportunity, healthy living and The post With presidential bid, Deval Patrick puts impact investing on the ballot appeared first on ImpactAlpha

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Charged

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Well, what do you know! It appears the historic Lordstown deal is going to happen after all. Lordstown Motors (LMC) has formally announced its acquisition of the former GM manufacturing complex in Lordstown, Ohio. LMC, a spin-off of Workhorse Group (NASDAQ: WKHS), plans to begin production of an electric pickup at the Lordstown plant starting in late 2020.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

New approaches, from CO2-sucking materials to regenerative agriculture, were in the spotlight at VERGE 19.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

The couple’s modified yurt offers 930 square feet of light-filled living space furnished to ooze hygge vibes.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 12, 2019

Read time: 4 mins Koch Industries, the second largest privately held company in the United States, has significantly increased its lobbying spending this year, including efforts to influence policy on key climate and transportation issues and legislation.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

Electric buses are on a roll worldwide, thanks to their compelling economic and environmental benefits. South America, which is rapidly urbanizing, heavily dependent on bus transit and plagued by air pollution, is emerging as a major market for e-buses. According to Intelligent Transport , South American bus networks transport nearly 13 times more passengers than European ones do.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

New research shows that Americans are increasingly concerned about the environment, but don't currently have lifestyles that reflect that.

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