Friday, October 18, 2019
Recycling, Renewables and Sustainable Business 5
1 Driving Change: Transportation And Electric Utility Industries Will Soon Collide – In A Good Way
https://www.forbes.com/sites/peterdetwiler/2019/10/15/driving-change-transportation-and-electric-utility-industries-will-soon-collide–in-a-good-way/
Starting this coming year, energy pioneers in Toronto will wake up each morning, and jump into their gleaming new Nissan Leafs and purr quietly into the Downtown core of the city. They will navigate their way to designated parking garages, plug their vehicles into bi-directional EV chargers, and take elevators to their respective offices.
2 Does A Sustainable First World Exist?
https://cleantechnica.com/2019/10/18/does-a-sustainable-first-world-exist/
Sustainable citizens face a quandary. We can’t ‘buy’ ourselves into sustainability. Replacing plastic with bamboo, diesel with electric, it all sounds fabulous, but the carbon footprint calculator results are blunt and we’d still need multiple Earths to suit our eco-lifestyles.
3 Big Oil Leaders Take On The Climate Challenge
https://www.woodmac.com/news/the-edge/big-oil-leaders-take-on-the-climate-challenge/
The OGCI – a group of 13 companies, including all the largest western IOCs and some of the leading NOCs – is “dedicated to the ambition of the Paris Agreement to progress to net-zero emissions in the second half of this century”.
4 Big oil to be eclipsed by the sun
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/oct/18/big-oil-eclipsed-sun-renewables-revolution-fossil-fuels-upside
Oil has been a game-changer for humanity. It turbocharged more than a century of growth and destruction: people got bigger, went further, stayed warmer and lived longer. Oil powered travel, exploration, science, industry and innovation.
5 Floating wind growth could be ‘far slower’ than hoped: study
https://www.rechargenews.com/wind/1865313/floating-wind-growth-could-be-far-slower-than-hoped-study
The world’s floating wind power fleet could expand at a speed much slower than many in the emerging sector are expecting, with a new study from Scotland’s University of Strathclyde suggesting 4.3GW – rather than the 12-15GW forecast by a range of analysts and developers – is likely to be switched-on by 2030.
6 Confronting carbon: Comparing party platforms
https://www.cbc.ca/news2/interactives/confronting-carbon2/
Each plan goes to the heart of the party’s ideological approach to tackling climate change. The Liberals rely on market-driven measures, arguing that climate action and a strong economy can co-exist, while the Conservatives reject taxes on consumers or regulations on industry in favour of green technology. The Greens stress the dire warnings from scientists that even a 1.5 C increase in global temperatures could lead to severe climate disasters — and that emissions reductions should be seen as an urgent national security issue.
7 Warren Buffett-linked company to build $200M wind power farm in Alberta
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/wind-farm-warren-buffett-alberta-berkshire-hathaway-calgary-1.5321345
A company linked to U.S. investor Warren Buffett says it will break ground on a $200-million, 117.6-megawatt wind farm in southeastern Alberta next year.
8 Inovyn becomes first commercial producer of bio-attributed PVC
https://www.spglobal.com/platts/en/market-insights/latest-news/petrochemicals/101719-inovyn-becomes-first-commercial-producer-of-bio-attributed-pvc
European vinyls producer Inovyn has launched the world’s first commercially available bio-attributed PVC, company representatives said Thursday. The Biovyn product will be made using 100% renewable ethylene feedstock derived from biomass.
9 Leyline Renewable Capital Raises $150M to Support Early-Stage Solar and Biogas
https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/leyline-renewable-capital-raises-150m-to-support-early-stage-solar-and-biog
Leyline Renewable Capital has raised $150 million from private equity firm Newlight Partners to finance early-stage solar projects and anaerobic digesters backed by other developers.
10 The Recycling Partnership and The PepsiCo Foundation Raise $25m for US recycling
https://www.packagingnews.co.uk/news/environment/recycling/recycling-partnership-pepsico-foundation-raise-25m-us-recycling-16-10-2019
The PepsiCo Foundation and The Recycling Partnership has announced that their All In On Recycling challenge, the largest ever industry-led residential recycling challenge in the United States, has successfully raised $25m in a little more than a year since launch in July 2018.
11 Google in renewable energy investment plan to spur $1.5bn
https://www.rechargenews.com/transition/1864616/google-in-renewable-energy-investment-plan-to-spur-usd-15bn
Google said it will invest about $150m in renewable energy projects that can help to green its manufacturing base. The web giant said the investments to be made alongside partners aim to spur $1.5bn of capital for renewables projects “in key manufacturing regions”, which it did not specify.
12 Plastic bottles vs. aluminum cans: who’ll win the global water fight?
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-environment-plastic-aluminium-insight-idUSKBN1WW0J5
Global bottled water giants are ramping up trials of easily recyclable aluminum cans to replace plastic that pollutes the world’s seas. Sound like a slam-dunk for the environment? Not entirely.
13 Coca Cola and PepsiCo “responsible for 25% of packaging beach pollution”
https://www.packagingnews.co.uk/top-story/coca-cola-pepsico-responsible-25-packaging-pollution-14-05-2019
Ocean conservation charity Surfers Against Sewage (SAS) arranged the UK’s largest ever nation-wide survey of packaging pollution found on Britain’s beaches and rivers, conducted by environmental consultancy Eunomia Research & Consulting, featuring more than 45,000 volunteers during SAS’s recent Big Spring Beach Clean series.
14 Electric Vehicle Adoption Overshadowed By SUV Boom
https://oilprice.com/Energy/Energy-General/Electric-Vehicle-Adoption-Overshadowed-By-SUV-Boom.html
There are now 200 million SUVs on the roads globally, up from 35 million in 2010, according to data the International Energy Agency (IEA). In fact, 60 percent of the increase of the global vehicle fleet since 2010 came from SUVs.
15 Ships are illegally dumping plastic trash at sea, study suggests
https://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/sea-litter-ships-bottles-1.5318390
Thousands of plastic drink bottles are washing up on a remote, uninhabited island in the South Atlantic, and researchers say they’re evidence of illegal dumping from cargo ships.
