Watch these four clean energy trends in U.S. cities
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
Cities can ally with one another to overcome shared barriers.
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Tesla’s Advantage With Its Battery Technology — Low Cost
CleanTechnica
FEBRUARY 12, 2020
It appears Tesla has an advantage over its rivals, such as GM and Porsche, when it comes to the new battery technology that it is developing. Tesla has long been a leader on EV batteries, for years seeming to have a significantly lower cost (cost per kWh of capacity) for batteries than others.
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How to properly and safely dispose of these 10 items in your home
Inhabitat - Innovation
FEBRUARY 10, 2020
Before tossing items in the trash, check out these disposal options for items like batteries and paint that are safer for the planet.
Still in the dark about targets? Observers respond to the UK government’s Environment Bill
Envirotec Magazine
FEBRUARY 10, 2020
Following the announcement of the government’s Environment Bill on 30 January , many observers in the environmental arena reflected on the ambition and likely efficacy of the legislation, while highlighting areas of concern and suggested improvement. Envirotec reports. Intended to fill the policy vacuum emerging from the UK’s departure from the EU on 31 January, the Environment Bill has been eagerly anticipated, and seemingly gives government the power to set legally binding targets on all aspec
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.
The low price of freed parking
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
The 270 million vehicles in the United States are parked over 90 percent of the time. There are far more parking spaces than vehicles. How many spaces? The data is imprecise. There could be 500 million parking lot spaces and 1 billion spaces on streets. Add parking in home garages, carports and driveways, and another estimate is 2 billion parking spaces.
From Backwoods to Bankrupt: The Rise and Fall of Real Goods Solar
GreenTechMedia
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
Real Goods Solar ended its corporate life on the industry's periphery last month, penniless and trading for pennies. But this isn't just any bankruptcy. A decade earlier, Real Goods Solar grew organically and through acquisition and pulled in tens of millions in revenue. Four decades ago, the company helped kick off the residential solar phenomenon by supplying panels to off-grid dwellers in the remote forests of Mendocino County, California.
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CyberArk Ltd. – Protecting Critical Assets While Safeguarding the Planet
Green Business Bureau
FEBRUARY 10, 2020
CyberArk is the global leader in privileged access management– a critical layer of IT security to protect data, infrastructure, and assets across the enterprise, in the cloud, and throughout the DevOps pipeline. CyberArk delivers the industry’s most complete solution to reduce the risk created by privileged credentials and secrets. The company is trusted by the world’s leading organizations, including more than 50 percent of the Fortune 500, to protect against external attackers and malicious in
Conserving and restoring forests won’t be cheap and easy after all
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 10, 2020
The corporate world has fallen for trees. But to be effective, the cost of offsetting CO2 emissions with the sequestration power of forests will have to go up. Are companies willing to pay?
Tesla Cybertruck Gets New Electric Rival: Meet Nikola’s Hydrogen Badger Pickup
Forbes Green Tech
FEBRUARY 10, 2020
The electric vehicle startup aiming to shake up trucking with hydrogen-powered semis is also targeting drivers who want high-performance work trucks that don’t belch exhaust
Odd.Bot, the weed-pulling robot that could eliminate herbicides
Inhabitat - Innovation
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
The aging adage, “There’s an App for that,” is evolving into the idea that, “There’s a robot for that”. More and more automation is finding its way to the market for household chores like cleaning floors, and now that innovation is in farmer’s fields with Odd.Bot, an automatic weeding robot.
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.
Texas perovskite company reaches 18% efficiency with its ink-based solar cell process
Solar Power World
FEBRUARY 12, 2020
Hunt Perovskite Technologies (HPT), a Dallas, Texas-based perovskite material developer, reached a milestone in the development of a highly-durable perovskite technology for the manufacture of low-cost printed solar cells. In December 2019, HPT successfully demonstrated that its ink-based process was able to produce a perovskite solar cell that exceeded key benchmarks recognized by the solar cell… The post Texas perovskite company reaches 18% efficiency with its ink-based solar cell proces
Salesforce: Why corporate sustainability must change
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 10, 2020
This article originally appeared on the Salesforce corporate blog. 2019 was another year in which natural disasters occurred with unnatural (or at least unprecedented) force and frequency.
Circularity Challenge Spotlight: American Battery Metals Corporation
Greentown Labs
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
Ryan Melsert, CTO of American Battery Metals Corporation, speaks at the Circularity Challenge Final Showcase. The Circularity Challenge is a six-month accelerator program designed to advance innovative solutions to enable a circular economy. The five participants are disrupting the plastics, energy storage, and recycling value chains. The Circularity Challenge is run by Greentown Launch —Greentown Labs’ internal accelerator—and BASF , and supported by Stanley Black & Decker.
Climate-adaptive park in Copenhagen wins Arne of the Year Award
Inhabitat - Innovation
FEBRUARY 10, 2020
One of Copenhagen’s newest green parks, the Sankt Kjelds Square and Bryggervangen, has just received Copenhagen’s most prestigious architecture prize—the Arne of the Year Award. Designed by Danish design studio SLA, the 35,000-square-foot urban park is most notable for its effective solutions to cloudbursts, a term describing sudden heavy rainfall that can trigger violent flash floods.
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.
8 Powerful Examples Of AI For Good
Forbes Green Tech
FEBRUARY 9, 2020
Many of the headlines about artificial intelligence warn of its dangers. However, artificial intelligence (AI) can be and is being used for good in many ways from improving the accessibility for people with disabilities to building our resilience to natural disasters.
How big data and AI can make supply chains better for consumers and the planet
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 12, 2020
Mining information about what people want and what they buy (as well as when and why they buy) can lead to surprising innovations that can have far-reaching effects.
Second-life batteries used to charge buses in German pilot
Charged
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
The Volkswagen Group has partnered with MAN Truck & Bus on a pilot project that uses second-life batteries as stationary storage to support the charging of electric buses. At the bus depot of local transit operator VHH in the Bergedorf quarter of Hamburg, 50 battery packs, which were previously installed in VW Passat GTE plug-in hybrids, have been assembled to form a large virtual battery with a total capacity of 495 kWh.
12 tips for a vibrant spring garden
Inhabitat - Innovation
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
When the frost begins to thaw and the first signs of spring appear, it’s time to start thinking about your garden. While it’s true that many of your plants won’t fully come to life for another six months, the more you can knock off your list before spring, the better off your plants, lawn, and schedule will be.
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?
Plastic Recycling – What’s Next for Takeback Schemes?
CleanTech Group
FEBRUARY 10, 2020
Plastic has been a revolutionary substance. But since its invention over 100 years ago, our appetite for it continues to grow at an.
New Jersey sets its sights on a decarbonized economy
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
The state is planning comprehensively for economy-wide decarbonization, and putting meaningful, near-term policies in place to affordably reduce emissions.
Believe it or not, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill was even worse than previously thought
Grist
FEBRUARY 14, 2020
After the Deepwater Horizon explosion in the spring of 2010, oil poured into the Gulf of Mexico for nearly three months straight, resulting in the worst offshore oil spill in U.S. history. More than 200 million gallons of light crude flowed into the sea, devastating marine life and fisheries. Ten years later, scientists are still uncovering new facets of the disaster and its aftermath.
Barcelona's new solar-powered sports center features a green facade
Inhabitat - Innovation
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
Barcelona, a city well-known for its avant-garde architecture, both modern and historic, is going green. Local firm Architecture Anna Noguera has just completed work on the Turó de la Peira's Sports Center, a solar-powered complex covered in a lush green facade.
EU Plans to Measure True Climate Impacts of LNG Imports From US Fracked Gas
DeSmogBlog
FEBRUARY 12, 2020
Read time: 5 mins With growing evidence that the climate impacts of natural gas are comparable to coal, the European Commission is planning to study ways to reduce methane emissions across the life cycle of natural gas production and consumption, with potential implications for fracked gas producers in the U.S.
How China and the U.S. can innovate on plastic waste
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 14, 2020
The world's two biggest producers and consumers of stuff stand to play a pivotal role in creating a circular economy, but they'll both have to get out of their own way.
How community solar supports rural communities and farmers
Solar Power World
FEBRUARY 14, 2020
This article was originally posted to SEIA’s blog and is re-posted here with permission. By David Gahl, Senior Director of State Affairs, Northeast, SEIA There are nearly 2 GW of community solar installed across the United States, supporting our rural communities by generating local revenue and helping states make progress toward their clean energy and… The post How community solar supports rural communities and farmers appeared first on Solar Power World.
Antarctica reaches record high temperature
Inhabitat - Innovation
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
The frozen continent recently logged its warmest temperature to date, a whopping 65 degrees Fahrenheit. That’s quite a leap from its previous record of about 63 degrees Fahrenheit, set five years ago in 2015.
Cash is hot: Investors find new options to put deposits to work for community development
Impact Alpha
FEBRUARY 12, 2020
ImpactAlpha, February 12 – Denver-based and Native-owned Native American National Bank serves Native communities, governments and enterprises across the U.S. To boost the bank’s lending power, RSF Social Finance, Candide Group’s Olamina fund and other impact investors have created deposit accounts and CDs at the bank. “The best way to support our bank is through.
This company is turning food waste into a cleaning spray
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 14, 2020
97 percent of the cleaning product is made from the water, acids and alcohol from the food waste.
DOE announces 20 new competitors for Round 3 of American-Made Solar Prize
Solar Power World
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced the 20 competitors that have been invited to advance to the next phase of the American-Made Solar Prize Round 3, a competition designed to incentivize the nation’s entrepreneurs to strengthen American leadership in solar energy innovation and domestic manufacturing. The American-Made Solar Prize is designed to help… The post DOE announces 20 new competitors for Round 3 of American-Made Solar Prize appeared first on Solar Power World.
Off-grid geodesic cabins by FUGU can handle harsh climates
Inhabitat - Innovation
FEBRUARY 13, 2020
From remote snow-covered mountains to idyllic beaches in far-flung corners of the earth, Parisian studio FUGU has you covered with its new line of geodesic cabins. The solar-powered cabins, which come in a range of sizes and can be customized, are made with durable, eco-friendly materials and designed to be resilient in almost any harsh climate.
CyberArk Ltd. – Protecting Critical Assets While Safeguarding the Planet
Green Business Bureau
FEBRUARY 10, 2020
CyberArk is the global leader in privileged access management– a critical layer of IT security to protect data, infrastructure, and assets across the enterprise, in the cloud, and throughout the DevOps pipeline. CyberArk delivers the industry’s most complete solution to reduce the risk created by privileged credentials and secrets. The company is trusted by the world’s leading organizations, including more than 50 percent of the Fortune 500, to protect against external attackers and malicious in
Arizona and the momentum of 100 percent clean energy
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 11, 2020
The Arizona Public Service (APS) announced that it will fully decarbonize the electricity it sells. Here's what that looks like.
Packetized Energy Builds ‘Virtual’ Batteries for a Cleaner Grid
Greentown Labs
FEBRUARY 10, 2020
What if we broadened the definition of a battery? What if, rather than electrochemical cells with anodes and cathodes, batteries were composed of thousands, or even millions, of internet-connected devices? Packetized Energy creates “virtual” batteries by tapping into smart devices in peoples’ homes and businesses. The company’s software allows anything that stores energy in some form—think hot water heaters, electric vehicle chargers, and HVAC systems—to pull energy from the grid at an optimal t
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