Are bioplastics really better for the environment? Read the fine print
GreenBiz
AUGUST 28, 2019
Confusion among terms like bioplastics, bio-based and biodegradable plastics makes it hard to discern and make the environmentally responsible choice.
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Energy's Future - Battery and Storage Technologies
Jim Conca
AUGUST 26, 2019
Battery technologies have to catch up with other new low-C tech, and V-flow batteries may be the breakthrough we need. They are fully containerized, nonflammable, compact, reusable over semi-infinite cycles, discharge 100% of the stored energy and do not degrade for more than 20 years.
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Railway heat to be repurposed to warm London homes this winter
Inhabitat - Innovation
AUGUST 28, 2019
Besides riding the railway, or 'tube,' to go from one end of the U.K. to another, some North Londoners will benefit from excess heat generated by the Northern Line by year's end with a new initiative to reuse this heat to warm hundreds of houses and businesses in Islington.
Dundee to host conference on climate change science and law
Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 27, 2019
Scotland will host world-leading experts in climate change law and science in September, as they attend a major conference on global climate at the University of Dundee. Held at the University’s Dalhousie Building from 27-28 September, this inaugural event will focus on identifying elements of a global climate consensus and the legal practicality of effective climate action.
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.
The truth about hydrogen, the latest, trendiest low-carbon solution
GreenBiz
AUGUST 30, 2019
As misconceptions about the emerging tech abound, we can dispel common myths to encourage hydrogen's potential for decarbonization.
A Plan to Unlock Local Clean Energy for A Climate-Resilient California Grid
GreenTechMedia
AUGUST 27, 2019
Like much of the country, California is faced with a “new abnormal,” in which wildfires and other climate-related disasters are becoming more frequent and destructive. It’s exposing both the vulnerability of our existing electric system and the opportunity to use clean energy as a critical resilience strategy. Policymakers have directed California’s major utilities to proactively shut off power as a public safety measure when fire risk is high, and the utilities have aler
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Treat citizens as partners, not participants, to improve air quality research
Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 30, 2019
Encouraging citizens to take part in almost every step of scientific air quality research improves their understanding of how air pollution affects their health, finds a new study from the University of Surrey. In a paper published in Sustainable Cities and Society journal, researchers from Surrey’s Global Centre for Clean Air Research (GCARE) together with the IAAC Fab Lab Barcelona, Connected Places Catapult and T6 Ecosystems under the iSCAPE project, provide details about how introducing a mu
Here's how e-scooter and e-bike companies could embrace the circular economy
GreenBiz
AUGUST 28, 2019
Shared micromobility services may reduce emissions, but the short lifespan of the scooters and bicycles raises questions about materials use and deeper supply-chain impacts.
Form Energy Raises $40M Series B for Super-Long-Duration Grid Storage
GreenTechMedia
AUGUST 26, 2019
Long-duration storage startup Form Energy thought that solving the problem of months-long grid storage would take a decade. But its last year of work advanced faster than expected. Based on that progress, the team of industry veterans has fast-tracked development and raised a $40 million Series B, co-founder Mateo Jaramillo told Greentech Media. Italian oil and gas major Eni signed on as lead investor, joined by Capricorn Investment Group and most of the existing investors from last year's $
Artist submerges 24 portraits underwater to raise attention about our plastic waste
Inhabitat - Innovation
AUGUST 29, 2019
It's common knowledge that our oceans are suffocating because of our addiction to plastics. But there are some eco-warriors, like Austrian artist Andreas Franke, who are determined to bring more visual attention to the burgeoning issue, all in the name of saving our planet.
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.
UK households still stockpiling old gadgets, says Royal Society of Chemistry survey
Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 28, 2019
UK households are continuing to stockpile electronic devices and failing to recycle them, it seems, with early August seeing the publication of the results of a survey commissioned by the Royal Society of Chemistry which suggested that 51% of households have at least one gadget lingering somewhere unused, while 45% have between two and five. The survey, conducted by Ipsos MORI on a sample of 2,353 people, suggested that UK homes have up to 40 million such unused electrical devices.
The world is going sideways. What's a sustainability professional to do?
GreenBiz
AUGUST 27, 2019
The Amazon and the Arctic are burning, Greenland and Antarctica are melting, and longstanding concerns such as plastic waste, air pollution and water security that don’t seem to be getting better. How do you stay positive?
2020 Looks Like the Breakout Year for Building Decarbonization in California
GreenTechMedia
AUGUST 26, 2019
California has just 25 years to achieve its economywide carbon-neutrality target. Buildings account for about a quarter of California’s greenhouse gas emissions, so concerted efforts will be needed to squeeze carbon out of the sector, especially existing buildings. State policymakers are increasingly coalescing around a solution: electrification.
G7 summit: Fashion companies make a pact to protect the planet
Inhabitat - Innovation
AUGUST 26, 2019
Known as The Fashion Pact, a group of 32 major luxury brands, labels and companies, such as Adidas, Burberry, Kering, Hermes, Nike, Prada and Puma, shared its ideas to improve sustainability in the fashion industry at the G7 summit from August 24 to 26.
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?
PAS 110 Complacency? Time to raise the bar, says organic waste firm
Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 28, 2019
According to Gemidan, plastic, glass and metal still pollutes the soil – despite PAS 110. As the Environment Agency begins to review its Quality Protocol’s (QPs), it is time, according to one technology provider, to raise the bar much higher on PAS 110 regulations on the physical contamination in digestate. Gemidan, which recently opened its third pre-treatment facility, believes that whilst PAS 110 has served a worthy purpose, the waste industry isn’t challenging itself enough, citing competiti
Apparel industry fashions sustainability roles; insurers look to cut risk with new chiefs
GreenBiz
AUGUST 27, 2019
From new ventures from sustainability stalwarts to tech executives in energy management, it's an interesting time of the year for the sustainability field.
Chlorophyll Water – Good For the Mind, the Body, and the Planet
Green Business Bureau
AUGUST 26, 2019
If you’ve been around family or friends who are focused on living a healthier lifestyle or if you’ve been noticing more articles on “non-toxic” or “detoxing,” you’ve no doubt heard or read about the health benefits of chlorophyll. One impressive company, Chlorophyll Water , has captured this rapidly expanding market by combining the health benefits of vitamin-enhanced chlorophyll water with eco-friendly, sustainable, non-toxic bottles.
High-tech public toilets proposed for San Francisco can recycle rainwater for reuse
Inhabitat - Innovation
AUGUST 29, 2019
The San Francisco Department of Public Works (DPW) has crowned SmithGroup the winner of its design competition for public toilet proposals.
Crane vehicle assists with flood-damaged dales
Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 28, 2019
After a month’s worth of rain fell in just two hours, Cogden Beck bridge was completely destroyed by boulders and debris washed down in the early August floods. Heavy vehicles firm Collett provided crane vehicles for the operation, delivering four giant steel tubes to the site in the Yorkshire Dales – which are being used to help construct a temporary bridge.
The power of job crafting for sustainability jobs — and beyond
GreenBiz
AUGUST 28, 2019
Even if your title isn't 'corporate sustainability specialist,' there are still many ways to have an impact.
Investments in ‘people and places’ start to demonstrate impact in Opportunity Zones
Impact Alpha
AUGUST 28, 2019
ImpactAlpha, Aug. 28 – Capital is finally flowing to projects in U.S. Opportunity Zones that promote inclusive development and community empowerment. In other words, impact is investable. Locally led development efforts, homegrown startup activity and affordable housing investments from Erie, Pennsylvania to South Los Angeles are demonstrating that capital-gains tax incentives available in Opportunity Zones can The post Investments in ‘people and places’ start to demonstrate impact in Opportuni
KFC partners with Beyond Meat for vegan chicken nuggets
Inhabitat - Innovation
AUGUST 29, 2019
KFC’s legendary Colonial Sanders and plant-based meat might not sound like a match made in chicken heaven, but the chain is keeping its fingers crossed. KFC and Beyond Meat recently shook things up in the quick service restaurant by whipping up a limited one-off test sampling of its Beyond Fried Chicken nuggets, a combo of both companies’ products for select fans.
Ordnance Survey involved in project to reduce traffic jams and air pollution
Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 30, 2019
A partnership between Ordnance Survey, the Department for Transport, the British Parking Association, and GeoPlace, could dramatically reduce traffic congestion on UK roads by making crucial data on planned changes to the road network available to tech companies to build artificial intelligence routing platforms. Through the Department for Transport’s review of legislation around Traffic Regulation Orders (TROs), the data could soon be made available to tech firms to develop and enhance navigati
Inside ExxonMobil's hookup with carbon removal venture Global Thermostat
GreenBiz
AUGUST 29, 2019
Could the funding and engineering resources of a major fossil fuels company help direct air capture technology for carbon removal scale more quickly?
Environmental Education Will Shape A New Generation Of Decision-Makers
Forbes Green Tech
AUGUST 25, 2019
Natural environment has been critical in shaping our species and how we have evolved over millennia. As nations worldwide continue to tackle climate change-related issues, many have identified that the next generation will need to be educated about the challenges ahead of them.
Engineers invent origami-inspired self-watering pots that are made from 100% recycled materials
Inhabitat - Innovation
AUGUST 26, 2019
Engineers design flat pack self-watering plant pot Related: + POTR POTS Via BBC POTR Pots, flat pack self-watering plant pot
Quantum Air orders 26 electric airplanes from Bye Aerospace
Charged
AUGUST 26, 2019
Air taxi operator Quantum Air has purchased 26 electric planes from Bye Aerospace , including 22 all-electric four-seat eFlyer 4s and 2 two-seat eFlyer 2s. Bye Aerospace will also deliver two future aircraft models currently under development. Bye aims to be the first FAA-certified all-electric plane in use for general aviation and flight training. In July, the company tested a new 90 kW Siemens SP70D production motor in its eFlyer 2.
ESG performance also matters for pre-IPO companies
GreenBiz
AUGUST 26, 2019
Newly public companies, from Uber to Beyond Meat, are facing extra scrutiny on sustainability issues. Pre-IPO companies should pay attention.
Renewable energy sources produced 20% of U.S. electricity in first half of 2019
Solar Power World
AUGUST 27, 2019
Renewable energy sources (biomass, geothermal, hydropower, solar, wind) accounted for more than one-fifth (20.1%) of net domestic electrical generation during the first six months of 2019, according to a SUN DAY Campaign analysis of just-released data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). A year earlier, renewables’ share was 19.9%.
Millions of acres of Alaskan rainforest may be opened for business
Inhabitat - Innovation
AUGUST 29, 2019
As Amazon wildfires blaze, the world’s largest intact temperate rainforest faces a wholly different threat: corporate exploitation.
Electrify America wants consumers to understand that EVs are Normal Now
Charged
AUGUST 27, 2019
Electrify America is more than just a charging network – it also has a mission to increase consumer awareness and acceptance of EVs. The company’s new marketing campaign, titled Normal Now , uses humorous ads across several media (online videos, streaming TV ads, digital banner ads, social media ads, paid search and podcasts) to deliver the message that EVs are just like any other new technology – they may have appeared weird and impractical at first, but once you get used to them, t
Blockchain, the missing link for reporting?
GreenBiz
AUGUST 29, 2019
A new blockchain project is connecting over 450 chambers of commerce around the world that want to address climate change.
Chicago’s Blacks in Green org partners with Sunrun on South Side solar, jobs
Solar Power World
AUGUST 29, 2019
Blacks in Green (BIG), an environmental economic development organization designed to tackle pollution and poverty, announced it is partnering with Sunrun to expand access to solar energy and jobs in the Chicagoland area. The goals of the partnership are to increase opportunities for South Side Chicago homeowners to access clean, affordable home solar energy, as… The post Chicago’s Blacks in Green org partners with Sunrun on South Side solar, jobs appeared first on Solar Power World.
Brazil turns down international aid for Amazon wildfires
Inhabitat - Innovation
AUGUST 28, 2019
Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro is busy tweeting and arguing with French president Emmanuel Macron while enormous Amazon fires burn.
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