There are constant murmurs about agriculture being on the cusp of another green revolution but this time it’s different. Enabling technologies are converging to deliver results greater than the sum of their parts and farming is seeing significant change, including: Artificial intelligence is driving more effective and timely decisions Computational biology is changing what we …
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Georgia Sends Renewable Energy Love Letter To Ohio
Clean Power Published on January 3rd, 2021 | by Tina Casey January 3rd, 2021 by Tina Casey With all eyes on Georgia, now would be a good time to draw attention to a new “just transition” study from the Georgia Institute of Technology that suggests how the US can …
A Blueprint for American Climate Action and a Modern Clean Energy Economy
The past few years have been a mixed bag for climate. U.S. emissions declined to their lowest level in three decade this year, but these reductions came at an incredible cost as the economy shut down amid the coronavirus pandemic. The challenge now is to make these emissions cuts sustainable for years to come, while …
Families turn old police station into sustainable co-housing
Belgian design firm Polygoon Architectuur and Jouri De Pelecijn Architect have brought to life the dream of four local families: a sustainable collaborative housing project that maintains sufficient privacy while providing shared functions. Dubbed Living Apart Together, the four-unit co-housing development is located within a former police station in Antwerp. The adaptive reuse project emphasizes sustainable design by …
Finding the Good in 2020: Clean Energy Trust’s Look Back
You may remember, this time last year, we were feeling really optimistic. There was an undeniable increase in cleantech investors, new technology and business models were being deployed in an impactful way, and a new generation was showing urgency and taking action to combat climate change. Planning for our big event Co_Invest Cleantech was underway. …
Tips For Saving Energy in The Kitchen – Greendiary Guide
Everybody’s looking to save energy. First, it’s good for the environment, but secondly, it can also save you a bunch of money in electric bills, even if you’re with the very cheapest energy providers Texas or other states have to offer. You may even be able to get hold of energy-efficient providers that’ll give you …
The sustainability year 2020 in review, in haiku
Editor’s note: Back by popular demand, smart cities consultant Sue Lebeck provides GreenBiz highlights from the past year in verse. You’ll find her haiku from 2019 here. Rise before the Surprise Leaders gather forthe first and last time in yearof shelter-in-place. Learning on the JobCould ways to flattencoronavirus’ curve helpbend climate’s curve too? From Farms to …
Recent Deals – 22 December
2020 is coming to an end, but if these deals are anything to go by, cleantech is alive and kicking. Agriculture & Food Nature’s Fynd, developer of alternative proteins grown from extremophiles from geothermal vents, secured $45 million in a Series B funding round from Oxford Finance and Trinity Capital Investment. The company had raised $80 million earlier in the …
Exxon essaie-t-il de minimiser l’article de Bloomberg en promouvant des tweets revendiquant l’opposé?
27 décembre 2020 par Johnna Crider UNE Bloomberg histoire révélant qu’Exxon était au courant de son avenir carbone et a intentionnellement gardé ces données de vue partout sur Twitter pour moi. Akshat Rathi, qui a écrit l’article, a partagé un fil qui a noté que les documents récemment divulgués montraient les émissions futures d’Exxon pour …
Saul Griffith on Mobilizing America to Fight Climate Change and Win the Future
It will take a massive war-time mobilization effort to effectively address the climate emergency, argues Saul Griffith — inventor, MacArthur genius fellow, CEO of Otherlab, and co-founder of Rewiring America, an organization dedicated to creating millions of American jobs while combating climate change. So, what does a war-time mobilization effort look like? How much will …