The City Fix
JUNE 24, 2021
The global coronavirus pandemic brought a wave of public and private initiatives to help societies adapt and recover, from economic stabilization and safety measures to new business models and shifts in consumption. Many of these initiatives are not green, despite. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.
Jim Conca
JUNE 22, 2021
On May 8th, the Columbia Generating Station, the only nuclear power plant in the Pacific Northwest, disconnected from the grid for its biannual refueling. It refueled and connected back to the grid only 42 days later. Just in time for summer’s increased electricity demand.
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Inhabitat - Innovation
JUNE 21, 2021
Potentially harmful traces of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), also known as "forever chemicals", have been found in several makeup products sold in the U.S. and Canada.
Envirotec Magazine
JUNE 21, 2021
An EV charging station (image credit: Vattenfall , CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 license). According to figures released on 17 June by power management firm Eaton, half (51%) of NHS trusts in the UK have installed EV Charging Infrastructure (EVCI) on-site for their staff, patients and the wider community. While this would seem to be a positive step towards a low-carbon future, a similar proportion (53%) of NHS trusts are either behind on decarbonisation targets or do not have a clear set of emissions reductio
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.
altenergymag
JUNE 21, 2021
Participation will help Sunstone achieve its goal to expand into new markets and develop new products that provide digital infrastructure in remote locations
Green Business Bureau
JUNE 23, 2021
The Playbook for Becoming a Sustainable Business. If your company is working toward improving its sustainability performance, 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. All 10 steps below were summarized in the first article, The Executive Guide for Becoming a Sustainable Business : Step 1: Define your vision, mission and values.
CleanTech Focus brings together the best content for cleantech professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Green Living Guy
JUNE 22, 2021
So I love the ID.4. For it is Volkswagen’s first all-electric SUV and the brand’s first global EV. Built on Volkswagen’s MEB electric vehicle architecture—the modular electric drive matrix—it marries the strengths of a purpose-built EV with performance, packaging and… Read More Test Drive Results VW ID4 Electric Car. The post Test Drive Results VW ID4 Electric Car appeared first on Green Living Guy.
altenergymag
JUNE 25, 2021
Using impact indicators and tilt sensors on packages enables companies to constantly check up on their items to make sure they're still in top condition.
Green Business Bureau
JUNE 25, 2021
A member of the Shutterfly Inc. family, BorrowLenses , is an online camera rental giant with small business-style customer service. Their mission is to advance the photographic and cinematic dreams of their customers by delivering superior, cutting-edge gear through their stress-free rental process. Rent, shoot, return – it’s as easy as that! Customers can choose the gear they want, when they want to receive it and for how long they want to rent it for.
Inhabitat - Innovation
JUNE 25, 2021
Sun umbrellas are an ubiquitous scene on coastal beaches, offering shade from the blistering sun. So it makes sense that the same umbrella could be adorned with solar panels and allowed to collect the sun’s energy in order to provide a cooling result.
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.
Grist
JUNE 25, 2021
A draft version of an upcoming report from the United Nations climate science advisory body, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, scheduled for release in February 2022, was leaked this week to Agence France-Presse. It illustrates the existential risks posed by climate change to life on earth — and climate tipping points loom large. Climate tipping points are the phenomenon by which small increases in temperature can trigger self-perpetuating loops in the natural world, “tipping”
Charged
JUNE 23, 2021
Every company, in or out of the EV industry, seems to be want to build Gigafactories these days. Aspiring EV manufacturer Canoo is pursuing a different strategy, or at least a different terminology. The company plans to rely on several “mega microfactories,” and has now announced that the first will be built near Tulsa, Oklahoma. The company says it will establish a 400-acre campus at an industrial complex strategically located near some of the region’s busiest thoroughfares.
altenergymag
JUNE 23, 2021
The Elk Neck behind-the-meter virtual power plant project has been approved by the Maryland Public Service Commission and Sunverge will now begin this groundbreaking project.
Inhabitat - Innovation
JUNE 25, 2021
The Kept Animals bill, which is expected to pass later this year, seeks to protect captive animals from unnatural treatment.
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.
Green Living Guy
JUNE 20, 2021
UX 250H: NEW-GENERATION LEXUS HYBRID DRIVE Expect in good weather a 50 MPG in ECO on highway and 35 in bad locations. Great fun also a sporty interior for this 2021 Lexus UX 250h! Featuring the Lexus Hybrid Drive powertrain, the… Read More Test Drive Results Lexus UX 250h Hybrid Electric Car. The post Test Drive Results Lexus UX 250h Hybrid Electric Car appeared first on Green Living Guy.
Charged
JUNE 21, 2021
To celebrate its 100th anniversary next year, Ford’s luxury brand Lincoln will debut its first global fully electric vehicle, the first step in a plan to electrify its entire portfolio of vehicles by 2030. Lincoln expects half its global volume to be zero-emissions vehicles by 2025. Ford has announced investment of $30 billion in electrification by that date.
The City Fix
JUNE 21, 2021
The residents of Rosario, Argentina’s third-largest city, are no strangers to crises. When the country’s economy collapsed in 2001, a quarter of Rosario’s workforce was suddenly unemployed; more than half of its population dropped below the poverty line. Faced with. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.
Inhabitat - Innovation
JUNE 23, 2021
Nearly every species of sea turtle is endangered, some of them at critical levels. That’s a remarkable statement, considering they’ve roamed the Earth’s waters and beaches for more than 100 million years.
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?
Impact Alpha
JUNE 21, 2021
ImpactAlpha, June 21 – All of a sudden, there is a public market for public benefit corporations. In the decade or so since the. The post A stock market test for stakeholder capitalism as public benefit corporations go public appeared first on Impact Alpha.
altenergymag
JUNE 21, 2021
“Fiercely” cost-effective, innovative designs eliminate catastrophic breakdowns, production downtime by upgrading points of vulnerability.
Renewable Energy World
JUNE 23, 2021
By Bill Ireland, Logan Energy. This year’s COP26 summit is widely viewed as one of the last chances to fulfil the 2015 Paris climate agreement and ensure meaningful progress is made towards tackling our net zero targets and the climate emergency. Hydrogen is one of the energy solutions that can significantly address climate change and has a vital role to play in decarbonization.
Inhabitat - Innovation
JUNE 22, 2021
This year, several states have witnessed persistent scorching temperatures that cannot pass for the normal summer heat.
Impact Alpha
JUNE 23, 2021
ImpactAlpha, June 23 — Arlan Hamilton created Backstage Capital in 2015 to back “underestimated” founders and unlock value (see, “Arlan Hamilton, Backstage Capital”). The post Backstage Capital portfolio companies raise follow-on investments appeared first on Impact Alpha.
Charged
JUNE 22, 2021
Transit provider Keolis , which operates fleets of electric buses in the Netherlands, Norway and several cities in France, has added two 100% electric bus rapid transit lines to its Chronoplus network, which serves eleven municipalities in the Basque Country in southwestern France. The electric buses serving the new lines were built by the Spanish manufacturer Irizar.
Renewable Energy World
JUNE 24, 2021
Oracle is giving itself 4 years to be 100% powered by renewable energy while Amazon claims to be world’s largest buyer of renewable energy. This week two large American companies made big claims about their use of renewable energy. Oracle pledged to power its global operations, both its facilities and its cloud, with 100% renewable energy by 2025. Amazon announced several new projects that make it the top corporate buyer of renewable energy in the United States, it said.
Inhabitat - Innovation
JUNE 25, 2021
How many tubes of toothpaste do you think you've used and tossed in your life?
Impact Alpha
JUNE 22, 2021
ImpactAlpha, June 22 — Google launched its inaugural $5 million Black Founders Fund last year as part of its $175 million initiative to. The post Google for Startups launches second $5 million Black Founders Fund appeared first on Impact Alpha.
altenergymag
JUNE 23, 2021
Highview Power announced that Maria Elena Ruiz Paños will join the company as Head of Legal, effective July 1, 2021.
Charged
JUNE 24, 2021
As the world’s automakers prepare for an electric future, what do the world’s auto dealers have to say about what’s going on? As regular readers of Charged know, dealers have long been considered a major roadblock for EV adoption. (Advocacy group Plug in America, believing that the problem is one of education rather than will, established the PlugStar Program to educate consumers and dealers about EVs.).
Inhabitat - Innovation
JUNE 24, 2021
Acts of environmental degradation could soon be classified as international criminal offenses.
Impact Alpha
JUNE 23, 2021
ImpactAlpha, June 23 – In Nigeria, Primero Transport Services, a bus company with a concession from the Lagos government, securitized receivables from its bus. The post Securitizing future cash flows to advance the Sustainable Development Goals in Africa appeared first on Impact Alpha.
Renewable Energy World
JUNE 24, 2021
Crews have started work installing the first energy storage battery units at Florida Power & Light’s massive Manatee Energy Storage Center. The utility says FPL Manatee Energy Storage Center will be the biggest solar power-battery storage facility in the world when operational. The Parrish, Fla., center will have 400 MW of output and 900MWh of capacity, enough to power about 329,000 homes for more than two hours, according to the release.
Charged
JUNE 23, 2021
Proterra (NASDAQ: PTRA) and Miami-Dade County have announced a major fleet electrification project. The Florida metropolis will acquire an additional 42 Proterra ZX5+ electric transit buses, bringing its total fleet of Proterra electric buses to 75. Proterra will install 75 of its branded chargers, packing a total of 9 megawatts of power, at 3 bus depots.
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