Archive | October 2021

“This ingenious wall could harness enough wind power to cover your electric bill”

This ingenious wall could harness enough wind power to cover your elec (fastcompany.com)

Harnessing wind power could soon become a breeze. Today, most of our wind power comes from large-scale wind farms set upon rolling hills and windswept coastlines. Floating wind farms are also cropping up in deeper waters, where the winds are stronger. But what if we could build wind turbines in our cities, right here in our own backyards? Not the tall and bulky poles with the huge spinning blades, but a new kind of wind turbine—one that could hide in plain sight and easily be mistaken for a wall?

“Google’s Biggest Moonshot Is Its Search for a Carbon-Free Future”

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Google’s New Green Campus Brings Sustainability to Silicon Valley – Bloomberg

Sundar Pichai wants to head the first giant company run without emissions around the clock. It will take far more than money to achieve

“Japan to use foreign reserves for ESG investments”

Japan to use foreign reserves for ESG investments

Japan to use foreign reserves for ESG investments By Reuters (investing.com)

Japan will start using foreign reserves to buy securities that meet environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria, Finance Minister Shunichi Suzuki said on Friday, joining a trend among global investors to focus on combating climate change.