Jim Conca
AUGUST 14, 2019
4 billion people live under conditions of severe water scarcity at least one month of the year. We struggle to put programs in place to solve this problem, so NGOs and private companies, like PepsiCo, are essential, but we need so much more.
Inhabitat - Innovation
AUGUST 14, 2019
The soaring popularity of the feisty, outspoken environmental advocate – who is only 16 – has caused a rise in young people seeking stories about saving the planet. Publishers coin the new trend the “Greta Thunberg Effect” and are turning around children’s book about climate change in record time. Publishers have pumped out books across a range of topics related to the environment, from endangered species to climate change, and sales have doubled in the last year, according to Nielsen.
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Envirotec Magazine
AUGUST 16, 2019
4M tonnes of peat-free compost available on our doorsteps can replace peat. It’s time to stop excavating our precious peatlands says Veolia , “the UK’s largest peat-free composter” The damaging practice has continued to grow despite national targets to phase it out. In 2011 the Government called for retailers to reduce peat use by 2020, but industry has shown lack of commitment to embrace these ambitions.
Green Business Bureau
AUGUST 15, 2019
From tide clocks to barometers, rain gauges to hygrometers, ClimeMET provides its customers with everything they need to be able to monitor the weather. Based in the UK, and run as a small family business, ClimeMET designs weather stations and a range of home and garden weather dials from their company workshop in rural Suffolk. Through their products and commitment to improving the environment, ClimeMET is showing other small businesses that success and sustainability can go hand-in-hand.
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.
Renewable Energy World
AUGUST 16, 2019
The renewable energy transition promises to reduce carbon emissions, but it’s happening at different speeds around the world. Read on for some key insights from BloombergNEF’s New Energy Outlook 2019, which provides a detailed road map to the future.
Inhabitat - Innovation
AUGUST 16, 2019
The holiday on Saturday, August 17 is a good time to show extra support for these winged creatures, as they play an important role in producing our food.
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DeSmogBlog
AUGUST 14, 2019
Read time: 8 mins Climate-changing pollution reached unprecedented levels in 2018. That's both judged against the last 60 years of modern measurements and against 800,000 years of data culled from ice cores, according to the U.S. government’s State of the Climate report , which was published this week with the American Meteorological Society. That pollution creates a greenhouse effect that is over 42 percent stronger than it was in 1990, the report added.
CleanTech Group
AUGUST 13, 2019
Regenerative agriculture is about improving soil through better farm practices. The aim is to use farming practices that increase soil health through increased biodiversity, water retention, topsoil protection, and other farming process improvements. One key measure of healthy soil is carbon content. Therefore, a working carbon market for agricultural sequestration of carbon is a powerful […].
Inhabitat - Innovation
AUGUST 16, 2019
Looks like the heat is on this summer … even in Alaska thanks to what has been referred to as the “tipping point.” Apparently, the warnings about 2 degrees Celsius of warming — or the global average forewarned against in the 2015 Paris Agreement centered on climate change -- has hit some places in the United States pretty hard. Related: For example, according to the Washington Post the fastest state to experience such warming is Alaska which has seen a recent increase of.
Forbes Green Tech
AUGUST 16, 2019
The Ocean Cleanup isn't giving up. Its inventor thinks an "overtopping" issue may be the last one to solve, and an upcoming modification brings the effort closer than ever to cleaning up the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.
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.
DeSmogBlog
AUGUST 16, 2019
Read time: 8 mins Christopher Leonard’s new book, Kochland: The Secret History of Koch Industries and Corporate Power in America , begins, appropriately enough, with an FBI agent, who is investigating criminal activity by the company, standing in a field with a pair of binoculars, trying to catch a glimpse of the daily operations of a company that prizes secrecy.
Grist
AUGUST 14, 2019
For years now now, we’ve been hearing warnings about 2 degrees Celsius of warming — the global average cautioned against as part of the 2015 Paris accord. But according to a Washington Post interactive published on Tuesday, that so-called “tipping point” has already arrived in many towns across the country. The earth is warming at an uneven rate.
Inhabitat - Innovation
AUGUST 15, 2019
MVRDV has unveiled designs for the Green Villa, a striking mixed-use building draped in greenery for the Dutch village of Sint-Michielsgestel.
Forbes Green Tech
AUGUST 15, 2019
The first investment by a major fleet operator into an autonomous truck company gives UPS a minority stake in the San Diego-based startup that also has operations in China. Neither company is disclosing the amount.
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.
Renewable Energy World
AUGUST 16, 2019
Europe can potentially generate 100 times the current amount of energy generated, and produce enough power to power the world until 2050, if it were to maximize land use for onshore wind capacity.
Planet Pulse
AUGUST 15, 2019
Today, Planet Analytic Feeds are moving out of beta, and our three flagship Analytic Feeds—Road Detection, Building Detection, and Vessel Detection—can now scale globally and are offered off-the-shelf. This means that customers can leverage these feeds on top of Planet imagery products and get automated road, building, and vessel detections over their areas of interest, with no custom builds required.
Inhabitat - Innovation
AUGUST 15, 2019
The Lane End House by PAD studio incorporates natural building material and sustainable solutions to increase energy-efficiency. The resulting design creates a passive home with a smaller environmental footprint and a focus on sustainability. The exterior of the house contains balcony areas that act as solar shading for the property, complete with thoughtfully-places openings to create a greater distribution of natural ventilation to rid the home of intense heat during the hot Summer months.
Forbes Green Tech
AUGUST 13, 2019
Artificial intelligence and smart buildings are converging to improve residents’ lifestyles, and also serve to achieve sustainable development.
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?
DeSmogBlog
AUGUST 10, 2019
Read time: 7 mins On August 7, after Geraldine Mayho’s funeral, her body was laid to rest in the St. James Catholic Cemetery in southern Louisiana, across the street from a cluster of oil storage tanks. The tanks are like those that surround the Burton Lane neighborhood in St. James where she had lived, and are emblematic of the type of polluting industry she spent her last years rallying against.
altenergymag
AUGUST 14, 2019
KORE Power, a leading developer of high density, high voltage energy storage solutions has announced the appointment of Mark Hagedorn as VP of Operations. He will lead the organization's operational structure as it transitions from research and development to production and commercialization.
Inhabitat - Innovation
AUGUST 13, 2019
The Polish city of Lublin will soon be home to an environmentally friendly bus station that not only offers a new and attractive public space, but also combats urban air pollution. Designed by Polish architectural firm Tremend, the Integrated Intermodal Metropolitan Station in Lublin will be built near the train station and aims to revitalize the area around the railway station.
Forbes Green Tech
AUGUST 12, 2019
Micromobility is great but limited. Cars with one person are ubiquitous and inefficient. The real self-driving transport revolution may come from "Minimobility" -- half width cars for 1-2 people that use half the energy, half the road and 1/5th the parking, and are more efficient than transit.
DeSmogBlog
AUGUST 11, 2019
Read time: 4 mins Climate science deniers are becoming desperate as their numbers diminish in the face of incontrovertible evidence that human-caused global warming is putting our future at risk. Although most people with basic education, common sense, and a lack of financial interest in the fossil fuel industry accept what scientists worldwide have proven through decades of research, some media outlets continue to publish inconsistent, incoherent opinions of people who reject climate science.
altenergymag
AUGUST 14, 2019
Recognizing the industry need for qualified photovoltaic installers, ETA® International will host a hands-on solar panel training and certification workshop at ETA headquarters September 9-13, 2019. Attendees will gain hands-on experience that will qualify them to sit for ETA’s Photovoltaic Installer (PV1) Level 1 certification exam, prepare them for entry-level work in the solar energy field and provide experience with an installation build of a small photovoltaic array.
Inhabitat - Innovation
AUGUST 15, 2019
Scientists are experimenting with new genetic modification technology that will “supercharge” plants to enhance what they are already recognized for excelling at – sequestering carbon. As the world scrambles to find innovative mitigation solutions, plants have been doing what they quietly perfected over millions and millions of years – taking carbon from the atmosphere and converting it into carbohydrates, energy and oxygen.
Forbes Green Tech
AUGUST 14, 2019
Most people are familiar with the Heat Index but experts say Wet Bulb Globe Temperature is better. What is it and why isn't it used more often?
E2 Environmental Entrepreneurs
AUGUST 13, 2019
Last December, the 2018 Farm Bill passed with a first-time provision to add a new agricultural product to the market?—?carbon removal?—?with the Soil Health Demonstration Trial (SHDT), which was crafted and advanced by an E2-led coalition. Discussion of the role of agriculture in climate change is usually centered on the emissions associated with crop production: the fossil fuel content of fertilizer and pesticides and farm equipment.
altenergymag
AUGUST 16, 2019
The project is located in Cafayate, a region optimized for solar energy due to a high-volume of sunny days, while frequented by sandstorms, putting solar project equipment susceptible to significant wear-and-tear.
Inhabitat - Innovation
AUGUST 15, 2019
In many cities around the country, getting a parking ticket is an opportunity to do good. Police departments in cities from Anchorage Alaska, to Las Vegas to Woodstock Virginia allow parking violators to pay for their tickets by donating school or pet supplies to local schools or shelters. “Nobody likes to get a parking ticket. But if you can pay it forward and give a donation of school supplies that will help somebody, it kind of makes it less bad.
Forbes Green Tech
AUGUST 12, 2019
Installing electric vehicle chargers that pop up out of the sidewalk when you need them and then back down again when you don't is the idea behind the new UEOne from Urban Electric.
Green Business Bureau
AUGUST 13, 2019
As a lawn care service provider, you know what you put into the ground can be harmful for the lawn, pets, home owners, and the environment itself. One of the worst culprits, chemical fertilizers are not only harmful to the environment, but also to the long-term health of a lawn. Owners of lawn care businesses need to be aware of the dangers and detrimental effects of chemicals and shift to more eco-friendly fertilizer alternatives.
altenergymag
AUGUST 15, 2019
Carrying forward TerraSmart’s long tradition of accommodating slope tolerances up to 36%, GLIDE’s intuitive design pulls forward 10 years of direct field experience to improve install velocity with simplified connections, agile parts and a significant reduction in hardware.
Inhabitat - Innovation
AUGUST 12, 2019
Designed with a mix of boutique retail and office spaces, the skyscraper champions the firm’s ideas of “sustainable urbanism.
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