Solar Power World
MARCH 1, 2021
Although residential solar customers want systems with the highest power ratings for maximum utility cost savings, aesthetics still reign supreme when it comes to solar panel choice. If even a sliver of an array will be seen by neighbors, homeowners will usually pick all-black modules for a sleek, finished system. There aren’t many differences between… The post All about all-black solar panels appeared first on Solar Power World.
Jim Conca
FEBRUARY 28, 2021
With 78% of the population supporting nuclear power, Sweden’s plan to prematurely shut down its entire nuclear fleet is bizarre, especially since it will add over 2 billion tons of CO2 emissions, cause the loss of $120 billion in taxes and undermine their grid reliability when it's really cold.
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GreenBiz
MARCH 4, 2021
Why investors are putting biodiversity on the balance sheet. C.J. Clouse. Thu, 03/04/2021 - 02:11. Reprinted from GreenFin Weekly, a free weekly newsletter. Subscribe here. Last summer, the investment arm of northern Europe’s largest financial services group dropped Brazilian meat giant JBS from its portfolio. Nordea Asset Management, which manages roughly $280 billion, gave several reasons for the decision, including JBS’s links to farms involved in Amazon deforestation. .
Envirotec Magazine
MARCH 2, 2021
(Image credit: Parilov/Shutterstock.com). Team Portables, a consortium for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) recycling incentivization, has received Phase II funding from the US Department of Energy’s (DoE) Lithium-Ion Battery Recycling Prize. The initiative “Closing the loop on portable lithium-ion batteries” aims to help the DoE capture 90% of all discarded or spent lithium-based batteries in the US for eventual recovery of key materials for a sustainable re-introduction into the supply chain.
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
MARCH 2, 2021
Manatee mortality in Florida has shot up this year, with 358 recorded deaths in January and February. Last year, the first two months had a combined total of 143 deaths — less than half this year's current toll. Conservationists worry that the manatees are starving to death.
altenergymag
MARCH 5, 2021
• Soltec Power Holdings has signed a contract in Brazil with Focus Energia to supply solar trackers for a total of 852 MW. • This is the first phase of what will be the largest project with bifacial trackers in Latin America. • Soltec is committed to Brazil for its potential as a strategic PV market, where it already has a market share of 35.7% and a track record of more than 2.2 GW in projects executed in the country.
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Envirotec Magazine
MARCH 4, 2021
Research project to create new materials from recycling’s waste products. Heriot-Watt University has joined forces with Brewster Bros, a recycling business based in Livingston, to create new materials from the residual waste left over during the recycling process. Recycled clay can account for up to 25% of the output produced when excavation waste is recycled via a washing process.
Inhabitat - Innovation
MARCH 4, 2021
The Australian government has confirmed 13 more extinct species, including the Christmas Island pipistrelle and forest skink and several endemic bandicoots.
Green Business Bureau
MARCH 3, 2021
Leaders in Housing Development Training and Community Resilience. With nearly 240 members operating in every state, plus Washington D.C. and Puerto Rico, NeighborWorks America is a nonpartisan nonprofit organization working to achieve housing affordability and community resilience across the nation. As the leading trainer of housing and community development professionals, NeighborWorks offers grant funding, peer-exchange, technical assistance and other resources for building stronger communitie
GreenBiz
MARCH 1, 2021
Walgreens Boots Alliance exec talks plastic, packaging and COVID-19. Deonna Anderson. Mon, 03/01/2021 - 01:45. Walgreens is a fixture in the United States. About 78 percent of the U.S. population lived within five miles of a Walgreens or Duane Reade store as of August, according to the company. And the company has even more properties under the parent organization, Walgreens Boots Alliance (WBA).
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.
Envirotec Magazine
MARCH 3, 2021
• Call for cities to commit to Clean Air Zones to protect the public. • Traffic across major cities in January 2021 at 83% of the levels seen before COVID-19. New data, sourced by Siemens Mobility in partnership with HERE Technologies, appear to show that traffic levels in some of the UK’s largest cities have returned to near pre-pandemic levels, sparking concerns about air quality.
Inhabitat - Innovation
MARCH 3, 2021
Migrating monarch butterflies declined 26% in December 2020 compared to December 2019.
Green Business Bureau
MARCH 2, 2021
The Playbook for Becoming a Sustainable Business. If your company is working toward becoming a more sustainable company, you need a strategy, plan and roadmap. There are ten steps we’ve defined at Green Business Bureau to gear your company’s purpose, culture, focus and actions towards sustainability. The steps below were summarized in Executive Guide for Becoming a Sustainable Business – Step 1.
GreenBiz
MARCH 3, 2021
FedEx pledges to be carbon neutral by 2040. Katie Fehrenbacher. Wed, 03/03/2021 - 07:26. Global logistics giant FedEx on Wednesday announced a goal to be carbon neutral by 2040. The plan includes a $2 billion investment across electric vehicles, clean energy for operations and a new academic center with Yale focused on capturing carbon. FedEx — which uses over 180,000 vehicles to deliver packages across continents and operates the world's largest cargo airline — has been implementing sustainabil
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.
altenergymag
MARCH 4, 2021
More than 150 companies applied for the chance to present their cleantech innovations to potential investors and engaged industry experts at the 26th annual event.
U.S. Green Technology
MARCH 5, 2021
Back in 2017, there are around 350,000 Instagram posts tagged as “zero-waste.” Add to that the zero-waste blogs and websites that are sprouting left and right. Consumers these days also have an increasing option of zero-waste products, from beauty and hygiene to household items. This shows that living a sustainable life is no longer a. The post 6 Simple Ways to Achieve Environmental Sustainability in Life Science Laboratories appeared first on U.S.
The City Fix
MARCH 1, 2021
When the COVID-19 pandemic hit, concerns surrounding virus transmission on public transportation led many to choose alternate mobility options – most notably, cycling. Cycling gained popularity for both recreational use and commuting, a trend especially evident in the United States, Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.
Grist
MARCH 2, 2021
When Weatherly Oil and Gas filed for bankruptcy in February 2019, the company was walking away from several hundred Texas wells. Many hadn’t produced a drop of oil in years. Companies are legally required to “plug” wells that they’re no longer using to extract oil and gas by pouring concrete into all their openings and cracks; this prevents them from leaking fossil fuels or harmful pollutants into the air and water sources nearby.
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?
Charged
MARCH 1, 2021
Washington may soon become the third US state to fix a date for the end of the Oil Age. The state House Transportation Committee has voted 17-12 to advance a bill that would require all light-duty vehicles of model year 2030 and later registered in the state to be electric. The bill will now move on to the House Rules committee to be considered for a floor vote.
U.S. Green Technology
MARCH 4, 2021
2020 has been one of the toughest years. However, one thing that we have learned from the past year is, it is hard to imagine a world without technology. The COVID-19 pandemic has entirely changed the customer experience. It is believed that these changes won’t go as the pandemic ends. They are expected to prevail. The post How will the Tech Industry be different in 2021 appeared first on U.S.
The City Fix
MARCH 3, 2021
In some ways, cities are like households: they must make adjustments in spending based on cash flow. If your income is cut in half, then you may have to dramatically rethink your standard of living. COVID-19 has hit many households. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.
Grist
MARCH 4, 2021
During the final months of 2020, while a record number of Americans turned out to vote and the first essential workers were treated to jabs of the COVID-19 vaccine, another historic event was unfolding on the U.S. electricity grid. The amount of battery storage connected to the grid, capable of saving extra wind and solar energy and dispatching it when the wind dies or the sun goes down, shot up dramatically.
Impact Alpha
MARCH 3, 2021
ImpactAlpha, March 3 – Investors and customers are pushing food, apparel, energy, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and mining companies to address water security along with. The post Net-zero means water, too, for corporations serious about climate risk appeared first on Impact Alpha.
Charged
MARCH 4, 2021
FedEx has announced a goal to achieve carbon-neutral operations by 2040. The delivery giant will invest $2 billion in vehicle electrification, sustainable energy and carbon sequestration. By 2040, FedEx says its entire parcel pickup and delivery (PUD) fleet will consist of electric vehicles. The goal will be met through phased programs to replace existing vehicles—by 2025, 50% of FedEx Express global PUD vehicle purchases will be electric, rising to 100% of all purchases by 2030.
Renewable Energy World
MARCH 1, 2021
Originally published at ILSR.org. An advocacy group in Boulder, Colo. has made the case for why utilities, not customers, should be responsible for the cost of retiring fossil fuel assets. For this episode of the Local Energy Rules podcast, host John Farrell speaks with Leslie Glustrom, an advocate with Clean Energy Action in Boulder. They discussed Clean Energy Action’s white paper on utility accountability and how we can equitably transition to a clean energy future for a recent episode of ILS
Grist
MARCH 4, 2021
Big news: Global warming is over. Just the phrase itself, though. A new report shows how differently people talk about climate change from how they did 10 years ago. Researchers at BayWa r.e., a German renewable energy company, scoured 1.3 trillion tweets, Reddit posts, news articles, and other publicly available sources, along with Google search data.
Impact Alpha
MARCH 2, 2021
ImpactAlpha, Mar. 2 – Chevron’s venture arm has launched a $300 million low-carbon tech fund. Future Energy Fund II is the oil and gas. The post Chevron’s venture arm stands up $300 million low-carbon tech fund appeared first on Impact Alpha.
Charged
MARCH 5, 2021
ArcelorMittal is investing €13 million in its plant in Saint Chély d’Apcher, France, which specializes in iCARe electrical steels for the automotive sector. The company has been undergoing a series of transformations as a supplier for the electromobility market. Its iCARe range of electrical steels for automotive traction motors is a flagship product range.
Renewable Energy World
MARCH 5, 2021
A University of South Australia researcher is helping establish a lifetime stewardship scheme to manage renewable energy waste from solar panels. by Sezen Bakan, The Lead, Australia. Australia has the highest proportion of household photovoltaic (PV) systems in the world, with more than 21 percent of homes — or around 2.59 million — now possessing a solar energy system.
Forbes Green Tech
MARCH 3, 2021
Otto Chrons calls it a bit of an accident. When Revonte, his three-year old company, created an innovative new drive system for electric bikes called Revonte ONE engineers discovered it provided increased power and torque. That combination proved perfect for an emerging new ebike segment, cargo.
Impact Alpha
MARCH 1, 2021
ImpactAlpha, March 1 — The United Nations’ Joint SDG Fund is aiming to bring together Wall Street and the growing focus on ESG, The post Joint SDG Fund allocates $41 million to catalyze strategic financing for the SDGs appeared first on Impact Alpha.
Charged
MARCH 5, 2021
Six of the eastern US’s largest major utilities have announced a plan to develop a seamless network of DC fast charging stations connecting major highway systems from the Atlantic Coast through the Midwest and South, and into the Gulf and Central Plains regions. The newly-formed Electric Highway Coalition is made up of American Electric Power, Dominion Energy, Duke Energy, Entergy, Southern Company and the Tennessee Valley Authority.
Renewable Energy World
MARCH 4, 2021
According to recent data released from the Energy Information Administration (EIA), in both 2019 and 2020, project developers in the United States installed more wind power capacity than any other generating technology. In its Preliminary Monthly Electric Generator Inventory, annual wind turbine capacity additions in the United States set a record in 2020, totaling 14.2 gigawatts (GW) and surpassing the previous record of 13.2 GW added in 2012.
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