Electric bus fleets are the latest tool for improving air quality
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 8, 2019
And both North America and Europe are primed for market growth over the next decade.
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Sunlight-Reflecting ‘Cool Walls’ Can Save Building Owners Big Money, Study Says
GreenTechMedia
OCTOBER 11, 2019
Common sense tells you to reach for a white shirt in the morning when you know a scorching day of heat is coming. Scientists at Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory say similar thinking should go into what kind of paint goes up on the exterior walls of buildings in warm climates. The research team at Berkeley Lab found in a recent study that in much of the U.S., sunlight-reflecting “cool walls” could save as much or more energy than reflective cool roofs.
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FPL SolarTogether community solar program expanded to include low-income families
Solar Power World
OCTOBER 11, 2019
The Southern Alliance for Clean Energy (SACE) and Vote Solar have joined with Florida Power & Light to refine the company’s SolarTogether program design to include a low-income component and request Florida Public Service Commission approval. Other supporters of FPL SolarTogether include Sustainable Florida, Broward College, Florida Atlantic University, 7-Eleven, the counties of Brevard, Broward… The post FPL SolarTogether community solar program expanded to include low-income families
3 Battery Researchers Share Nobel Prize In Chemistry
CleanTechnica
OCTOBER 10, 2019
The Nobel Prize for chemistry has been awarded to three researchers who were instrumental in the creation of the lithium ion battery.
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.
Carbon Engineering - Taking CO2 Right Out Of The Air To Make Gasoline
Jim Conca
OCTOBER 8, 2019
Extracting CO2 from air is the best way to reverse global warming without resorting to expensive technologies, convoluted tax schemes or preventing billions from getting sufficient energy. If you then make gasoline from it, then you’d kill two birds with one stone. That stone is Carbon Engineering.
The First 100% Electric Taxi In Spain
CleanTechnica
OCTOBER 11, 2019
What were the experiences like of the first taxi driver in Spain to use an all-electric vehicle.
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So, You’ve Got 100% Renewable Energy — Now What?
CleanTechnica
OCTOBER 10, 2019
Denmark-based Novozyme has a renewable energy message for other companies seeking to decarbonize: don't stop at the factory gate.
California’s Clean Truck Rule: First Of Its Kind & Long Overdue
CleanTechnica
OCTOBER 6, 2019
California officials are gearing up to launch a momentous new rule to tackle one of the largest sources of pollution in the state: medium- and heavy-duty commercial trucks. After years of deliberation and public input, the rule is the first of its kind and long overdue.
Carlsberg moves a step closer to creating the world’s first ‘paper’ beer bottle
Envirotec Magazine
OCTOBER 11, 2019
Danish brewer reveals research prototypes for the ‘Green Fibre Bottle’ – containing beer for the first time. At the C40 World Mayors Summit in Copenhagen (11 October), Carlsberg Group provided an update on its journey to create the world’s first ‘paper’ beer bottle made from sustainably-sourced wood fibres that is seemingly both 100% bio-based and fully recyclable.
EVs To Revolutionize Postal Services, & More
CleanTechnica
OCTOBER 7, 2019
Parcel and Postal Expo is the largest event for courier services in Europe and it is taking place in Amsterdam this year. What is different is the new emphasis placed on e-mobility — not only EVs, but also charging infrastructure. Having followed the trade show for a few years now, the shift is visible and e-mobility has never played such a significant role here before.
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.
Sunterra installs rooftop solar project on Brisbane City Hall in California
Solar Power World
OCTOBER 9, 2019
Sunterra Solar has completed a 168-kW rooftop solar project for the City of Brisbane, California. The SunPower rooftop PV system was installed on Brisbane’s City Hall as part of the city’s comprehensive sustainability and energy efficiency program. In its first six months of operation, the city’s solar energy system has outperformed expected estimates, producing 166,900… The post Sunterra installs rooftop solar project on Brisbane City Hall in California appeared first on Solar Power World
Breakdown Of Interdependency Between Big Auto & Big Oil
CleanTechnica
OCTOBER 9, 2019
Some years back I visited one of the major automobile manufacturers with some investor clients of mine. We met the CTO of that particular company, who asked us "what is the biggest mistake the automobile industry has made in the last century?" Despite the varied responses from the audience, we were all surprised by his answer: "We never controlled the fuel value chain" and to that he added "and we won’t make the same mistake with electric cars.".
Sunfinity Renewable Energy enters Colorado, Arizona solar markets
Solar Power World
OCTOBER 10, 2019
Sunfinity Renewable Energy, a vertically-integrated residential, commercial and utility-scale solar power provider, has begun operations in two additional Western states — Arizona and Colorado — to expand the company’s existing footprint throughout California, Texas and Oklahoma. With the addition of Arizona, Sunfinity will now be operating in the top three states nationally for solar growth.… The post Sunfinity Renewable Energy enters Colorado, Arizona solar markets appe
Will guilt-free flying arrive at your terminal soon?
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 8, 2019
As flight shame rises, one company is on a quest to make green jet fuels.
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.
NYC bans processed meats served in public schools
Inhabitat - Innovation
OCTOBER 8, 2019
In an effort to improve the Big Apple’s public health, all processed meats will no longer be offered at New York City public school and public university cafeterias. That means no pepperoni, bacon, cold-cut deli meats, sausages or hot dogs for lunch.
‘Inevitable’ That GE Brings Offshore Wind Manufacturing to the US
GreenTechMedia
OCTOBER 11, 2019
Having won nearly 5 gigawatts of orders for its Haliade-X offshore wind turbines over the past month, GE is thinking about where its next production facilities will be built — and the U.S. looks like a prime candidate. “For us, I think it’s inevitable eventually to do something locally,” Derek Stilwell, commercial leader for North American offshore wind at GE Renewable Energy, said Friday in New York.
Take a stand and address single-use items and throwaway culture rather than just plastics, urges Zero Waste Scotland
Envirotec Magazine
OCTOBER 8, 2019
Ian Gulland of Zero Waste Scotland. The Scottish Government-funded circular economy advisory group Zero Waste Scotland is warning that the current focus on plastics is distracting from the real issue of ending the disposable throwaway culture and urges Scots to take a stand against unwanted extra materials in their daily lives. The environmental organisation is calling on people to use the period of Climate Week, running from Monday 7 October to Sunday 13 October, to make a point of refusing mat
Waste work shift: Inside the structural changes in the global waste sector
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 5, 2019
Informal waste workers have long managed the waste of the South, for whom new forms of collectives offer new hope, while the gig economy threatens to de-formalize waste management in the North.
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?
The Skai hydrogen-powered aircraft produces zero emissions
Inhabitat - Innovation
OCTOBER 7, 2019
The most impressive feature — that it runs on hydrogen fuel cells — gives this aircraft the potential to become one of the greenest modes of air transportation.
books about a planet in peril
Fairsnape
OCTOBER 9, 2019
Within FutuREstorative I included a list of books that have inspired me on my sustainability journey. However since its publication in 2016, the world of sustainability has moved on, we now have recognition of a climate and biodiversity emergency, we are asking how, not why, we have IPCC, UN and UKCC reports, we have extinction rebellion, we have school-strik activists and record breaking protests demanding climate change action.
Take a stand and address single-use items and throwaway culture rather than just plastics, urges Zero Waste Scotland
Envirotec Magazine
OCTOBER 8, 2019
Ian Gulland of Zero Waste Scotland. The Scottish Government-funded circular economy advisory group Zero Waste Scotland is warning that the current focus on plastics is distracting from the real issue of ending the disposable throwaway culture and urges Scots to take a stand against unwanted extra materials in their daily lives. The environmental organisation is calling on people to use the period of Climate Week, running from Monday 7 October to Sunday 13 October, to make a point of refusing mat
Let’s all become activists
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 7, 2019
Making the Global Goals a reality by 2030 is no longer just a topic for high-level people in conference halls — it's a global movement.
Nearly 300 trees transform a football stadium into Austrias largest public art installation
Inhabitat - Innovation
OCTOBER 8, 2019
An extraordinary forest has taken root in an unexpected place—the Wörthersee football Stadium in Klagenfurt, Austria. Designed by Swiss artist Klaus Littmann in collaboration by Enea Landscape Architecture, the temporary art intervention—titled FOR FOREST — The Unending Attraction of Nature—consists of nearly 300 native Central European trees, with some weighing up to six tons each.
The Purpose of Capital: The Musical
Impact Alpha
OCTOBER 9, 2019
ImpactAlpha, Oct. 9 – And now for something completely different… When Jed Emerson released “The Purpose of Capital” last year, he and video producer Mia Haugen, who are married, considered a promotional video “standing on windswept Norwegian tundra, looking deep and thoughtful as my voiceover reads sections of the book,” as Emerson recalls. “We immediately abandoned that The post The Purpose of Capital: The Musical appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
Birds benefiting from climate change may find their boost short-lived
Envirotec Magazine
OCTOBER 11, 2019
Cuckoos were among the bird species examined in the study (image credit: Ben Andrew). Conservationists have seemingly been flummoxed by studies which show climate change is having a stronger effect upon bird species which benefit from climate change compared to those which suffer negative impacts. The authors of a major study investigating 525 bird species over 30 years and across two continents believe there could be a time lag in the response of populations to climate change, creating an ‘exti
4 ways to cut campus food waste, from colleges to corporates
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 7, 2019
From data to design, there are ways that we can take a bite out of food waste in the restaurant sector.
When in Rome, recycle more to earn free metro and bus travel tickets
Inhabitat - Innovation
OCTOBER 10, 2019
Called "Ricicli + Viaggi" (or the “Recycle + Travel program”), consumers who recycle empty plastic bottles earn credits toward free public transportation travel tickets.
Bayou Bridge Pipeline Construction Mess Poses Major Risk to Atchafalaya Basin
DeSmogBlog
OCTOBER 10, 2019
Read time: 6 mins “ It is a crime against nature,” Jody Meche, president of the Louisiana Crawfish Producers Association-West, said while scanning the Bayou Bridge pipeline right-of-way on the west side of the Atchafalaya Basin, the country’s largest river swamp in a designated National Heritage Area. . His voice trembled with rage as he told me that he was speaking for all the animals living in the basin that can’t speak for themselves.
Steward’s ‘crowdfarming’ platform lets small investors back good food from local farms
Impact Alpha
OCTOBER 9, 2019
ImpactAlpha, Oct. 9 – Precision drones and other “ag tech” solutions may be sexier. But a $25,000 loan to buy a tractor or fencing is arguably more critical to the health of the soil and the livelihood of a farmer in Kansas. “There’s a mismatch between demand for sustainably grown products and the desire to The post Steward’s ‘crowdfarming’ platform lets small investors back good food from local farms appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
Shareholders vs. stakeholders: Fundamental changes in an old debate
GreenBiz
OCTOBER 9, 2019
In updating their corporate mission statement, CEOs are responding to three major factors that threaten their executive freedoms and responsibilities.
Zaha Hadid Architects completes futuristic, energy-saving airport in Beijing
Inhabitat - Innovation
OCTOBER 11, 2019
Seamlessly integrated into the city’s expanding transportation network, the new airport is defined by dramatic sweeping curves, an abundance of interior daylighting and energy-saving systems that include photovoltaic panels and a rainwater harvesting system.
The Hydrogen Economy Is Within Grasp And Progressive Energy Companies Know It
Forbes Green Tech
OCTOBER 8, 2019
The hydrogen economy is within grasp — the type of progress that can rollback the effects of climate change. The goal is to produce hydrogen from a carbon-free source and in doing so, displaces fossil fuels.
Kiva hits $1 billion in loans to women
Impact Alpha
OCTOBER 7, 2019
ImpactAlpha, October 7– Kiva is doing a lot these days to diversify the ways it promotes financial inclusion worldwide, but its crowdfunding platform is still the foundation of its work. The organization has reached a milestone, lending $1 billion to female borrowers, and $1.3 billion in all. Women comprise 80% of Kiva’s borrowers. The 2.7 The post Kiva hits $1 billion in loans to women appeared first on ImpactAlpha.
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