Charged
FEBRUARY 24, 2021
In 2020, Porsche delivered just over 20,000 units of its luxury Taycan EV—the first vehicle from a major automaker to sport an 800 V (nominal) battery, which is more than double the voltage of its competitors (and firmly into light-rail and switchyard locomotive territory, actually). It appears that many other EVs will soon follow in the Taycan’s tracks.
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 22, 2021
Aquaculture becomes a net-positive. Heather Clancy. Mon, 02/22/2021 - 00:15. This article originally appeared in the State of Green Business 2021. You can download the entire report here. The practice of farming finfish, shellfish and aquatic plants — by land and by sea — dates back 3,000 years as first the Chinese and then the Romans sought ways to supplement their food supplies with species such as carp and oysters.
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Envirotec Magazine
FEBRUARY 24, 2021
Microplastics from textiles may inhibit the lung’s ability to repair damage caused by conditions such as COVID-19, according to research findings released on 24 February. Finding both nylon and polyester negatively affected the growth and repair of airway tissue, researchers – from Groningen University, The Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research, and Plymouth Marine Laboratory – said the microfibres could make it more difficult for those with COVID-19 to mend their
GreenTechMedia
FEBRUARY 26, 2021
Plans for a new 3.6-gigawatt natural gas power plant in the U.K. have been shelved by the developer Drax, highlighting the challenging economics of converting coal-fired power to a cleaner, but still fossil-fuel-fired, alternative. It would have been the largest gas plant in Europe and, unsurprisingly, drew the attention of environmental groups. They had claimed that the project’s permit was not compatible with the U.K.
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
FEBRUARY 26, 2021
Informed by 3D-modeling tools, the skyscraper features a futuristic, energy-efficient design with terraced levels, dramatic curves and expansive glazing.
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 22, 2021
Bill McDonough at 70: A look back … and ahead. Joel Makower. Mon, 02/22/2021 - 02:11. Architect, designer and author William McDonough is well-known to many in sustainability — as a pioneer in green building; as the erstwhile "green dean" of architecture; as co-author of the seminal 2002 book "Cradle to Cradle"; as a designer of breakthrough buildings and materials; as a deep thinker about how design relates to a healthy and abundant future; and as an enthusiastic framer of the concepts and lang
CleanTech Focus brings together the best content for cleantech professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
GreenTechMedia
FEBRUARY 24, 2021
Malta has raised a $50 million Series B round to bring its super-long-duration energy storage to market, the company said Wednesday. The startup spun out of Google parent company Alphabet's moonshot factory, X, in 2018. Many startups tackling energy storage breakthroughs have looked to batteries and other electrochemical devices. Malta turned instead to thermal energy: It uses grid power to compress air for storage in hot molten salts and cold antifreeze liquid.
Inhabitat - Innovation
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
Several animals, including monkeys, chimpanzees and lemurs, have died at a Texas animal sanctuary due to freezing temperatures and a power outage.
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
General Mills, Danone pilots provide proof for regenerative agriculture success. Jesse Klein. Tue, 02/23/2021 - 01:30. A few years into Danone’s and General Mills’ regenerative agriculture pilots, one thing has become clear: It’s about data collection. Holistically changing our agriculture system to become more sustainable comes later. . "We really don’t have a great understanding of what happens when farmers make these transitions to regenerative systems," said Steven Rosenzweig, senior soil sc
Envirotec Magazine
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
Shops that sell large volumes of batteries have to provide a battery recycling collection. So next time you’re in the supermarket look out for a collection point, says ZWS. The Scottish government-funded circular economy advisory group Zero Waste Scotland is reminding Scots that they should recycle batteries separately to other household waste after a new survey revealed a quarter of people dispose of them incorrectly.
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.
Green Business Bureau
FEBRUARY 25, 2021
Green Procurement Policy. A green procurement or green purchasing policy (GPP) is put in place to guide businesses when acquiring materials, supplies and services and selecting such products based on their impact on the environment and human health. GPPs can apply to both products bought to run the business internally (Ex. office supplies and equipment) as well as for producing the goods and services of the business itself (Ex. materials used in business products).
Inhabitat - Innovation
FEBRUARY 24, 2021
Just over half of the world’s fish species are freshwater species, consisting of about one-quarter of all vertebrate species on Earth.
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 22, 2021
Harder but not impossible: COVID-19 and the Sustainable Development Goals. Alan AtKisson. Mon, 02/22/2021 - 01:00. In 2015, the world, acting through the United Nations, set in place a system of 17 very ambitious goals to guide humanity’s development toward sustainability through 2030. Now it is 2021. Neither nature nor global politics has been especially kind to the U.N.
Envirotec Magazine
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
The Chartered Institute of Logistics and Transport (CILT) believes its sector “can achieve net-zero by 2050” through a range of measures recommended to government and others in its latest report, Routes to Net-Zero 2050: 2020 Year End Summary. The report includes 21 recommendations for action covering all transport modes and activities. Following a year of study, debate and events, CILT has published (on 17 February) its year-end report summarising its work on Routes to Net Zero 2050 and looking
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.
U.S. Green Technology
FEBRUARY 22, 2021
Over the last couple of years, sustainability and environmental issues grew from something that was discussed only in select circles to the topics that dominate all aspects of our lives. To put it simply, the damage we are inflicting on the environment becomes more apparent with each passing day, and the fight for a greener. The post 7 Effective Ways to Make the Moving Process More Environmentally-friendly appeared first on U.S.
Inhabitat - Innovation
FEBRUARY 26, 2021
Almost one-third of crop-growing land in the upper Midwest is now devoid of its most fertile topsoil, says a controversial new study.
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 26, 2021
Circular business model lessons from IKEA, REI and Eileen Fisher. Deonna Anderson. Fri, 02/26/2021 - 00:30. . Moving from a linear business model to a circular takes time, effort and trial and error. But it also has its hidden benefits. "It can help you with some operational efficiencies. It can also position you to be sort of a company of the future, and also, frankly, tackle the environmental challenges that we have of our consumption model," said Tensie Whelan, director at New York Universit
Envirotec Magazine
FEBRUARY 26, 2021
Cooling towers of a coal-fired power plant in Saxony, Germany. “We cannot rely on linear developments and a steady energy transition over the next 30 years to 2050,” according to William Gillett, Energy Programme Director of the European Academies’ Science Advisory Council (EASAC). The group believes the European Commission’s public consultation on the revision of the renewable energy directive provides an opportunity to remind the EU to step up its game.
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?
altenergymag
FEBRUARY 25, 2021
Solar-energy experts are working together to utilize artificial intelligence (AI) diagnostic ability to increase performance in solar power systems.
Inhabitat - Innovation
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
Looking for low site impact, a focus on nature or a retreat? YEZO is all of that and more.
Grist
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
Kids want to trust that grown-ups have a plan. But when it comes to climate change, adults have left the next generation with more questions than answers. Growing up, I thought my parents knew what to do about everything, including caring for the environment. It was the early ’90s, and most environmental campaigns were focused on individual behaviors; our family engaged in small actions — cleaning up parks, recycling, carpooling — hoping to make a difference.
U.S. Green Technology
FEBRUARY 24, 2021
QA managers have been researching to identify the root causes of software failures. One of the main reasons for such failures were caused due to poor quality assurance during the software development lifecycle. The main purpose of QA is to prevent releasing poor quality software apps. Small mistakes in the process can lead to huge. The post How Testing Tools can Improve your Team’s Efficiency appeared first on U.S.
Charged
FEBRUARY 22, 2021
Cargo ships, powered by heavy fuel oil with a high sulfur content, are some of the largest and most polluting vehicles on the planet, so electrifying them could be very cost-effective in terms of reducing air pollution. Last year, a consortium of Japanese companies announced a collaboration to develop an all-electric oil tanker. Now Asahi Tanker has ordered two of the new electric tankers, and plans to put them into operation as soon as March 2022 and March 2023.
Inhabitat - Innovation
FEBRUARY 24, 2021
No trees were harmed in the making of HempWood.
Impact Alpha
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
ImpactAlpha, Feb. 23 – Real estate speculators have new competition on the block: neighborhood trusts organized by residents determined to have a say – and. The post Neighborhood trusts are taking on speculators and building community wealth appeared first on Impact Alpha.
U.S. Green Technology
FEBRUARY 24, 2021
Manufacturing Uses Up Huge Amounts of Energy. How are Metal Fabricators Improving their Energy Efficiency to Go Green? Over the last few months, partly thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, manufacturers have had to find new, more sustainable ways of working. As the industry starts to rebuild and grow, there is an opportunity for metal fabricators. The post How are Metal Fabricators Improving their Energy Efficiency to Go Green?
Charged
FEBRUARY 26, 2021
Charged has been reporting on electric trucks for a decade, but the electrification of real-world fleets has been frustratingly slow, and several would-be e-truck builders have gone bust waiting for fleet operators to conduct years-long pilots. Now we’re finally starting to see some large orders. Will 2021 be the year of the electric truck? A recent article in Transport Dive discusses the current state of electrification, and the relative merits of battery-electric versus fuel cell technology fo
Inhabitat - Innovation
FEBRUARY 25, 2021
When life gives you oranges, make electricity.
Impact Alpha
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
ImpactAlpha, February 23 – Serial entrepreneur Vicki Saunders launched SheEO in 2015 to redesign how women-led businesses are supported. The Toronto-based network of 30,000. The post Women’s investment community SheEO commits $500,000 to five entrepreneurs appeared first on Impact Alpha.
Renewable Energy World
FEBRUARY 22, 2021
The world’s largest experimental nuclear fusion reactor is in development in Provence, southern France. ITER (originally the International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor) is an international nuclear fusion research and engineering megaproject funded and run by seven member entities: the European Union, China, India, Japan, Russia, South Korea, and the United States; Overall, 35 countries are participating in the project directly or indirectly.
Charged
FEBRUARY 24, 2021
Hyundai officially launched its upcoming IONIQ 5 midsize CUV at a virtual press event. The IONIQ 5 will be the first model built on Hyundai’s new Electric-Global Modular Platform (E-GMP). It’s based on the previously-unveiled Concept 45 vehicle. The IONIQ 5 will be available with two battery pack options—the Standard Range model will have a 58 kWh pack, and the Long Range model will have a 72.6 kWh pack (or 77.4 kWh in the North American market).
Forbes Green Tech
FEBRUARY 23, 2021
The funding move comes ahead of the release of the Lucid Air, a premium electric sedan initially priced at $169,000, in the second half of 2021.
Impact Alpha
FEBRUARY 24, 2021
ImpactAlpha, February 24 — Before the growth of Bitwise Industries, few would have mistaken Fresno, California, for a tech hub, even though the. The post Bitwise Industries raises $50 million to go national with its model for inclusive tech ecosystems appeared first on Impact Alpha.
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