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☆ Inside climate tech's record-breaking year where the energy crisis, new regulation, and a maturing debt market helped European startups raise $17.5 billion
  + stars: | 2022-12-30 | by ( Tasmin Lockwood | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +7 min
Climate tech was a clear green shoot in a tumultuous 2022 but there will be a delayed correction. But there has been one green shoot: Climate tech. "We've just gotten started when it comes to climate tech," Emitwise's Cozzi said. Many climate tech companies have raised at high valuations, said Magda Lukaszewicz, principal at Balderton Capital. Energy and infrastructure companies are tipped as winners, while pure software plays may see some consolidation, climate tech investors and founders said.
☆ Eco standards and energy bills are key priorities for UK house buyers, says strategist
  + stars: | 2022-12-28 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: 1 min
Share Share Article via Facebook Share Article via Twitter Share Article via LinkedIn Share Article via EmailEco standards and energy bills are key priorities for UK house buyers, says strategistPete Gladwell, group social impact and investment director at Legal & General, says new research sends a message to home builders on the demand for better environmental standards — and that they must work with government and financial institutions on eco-retrofits and cutting-edge new builds.
☆ These Hollywood celebs and an NFL Hall of Famer want you to electrify your home to help solve the climate crisis
  + stars: | 2022-12-28 | by ( Catherine Boudreau | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +6 min
GoodLeap is the largest financier of residential solar loans in the US, with 28% of the market. The former NFL tight end and Pro Football Hall of Famer told Insider he often reflected on whether, in life's final moments, he'd be proud of his choices. Gonzalez, who's also invested in plant-based-food companies like Beyond Meat, told Insider the climate crisis was the most important issue of his — and his children's — lifetime. GoodLeap is the top provider of residential solar loans, with a 28% share of the market. "Part of my work has always been making sure folks who typically are unconsidered are considered," DeBerry told Insider.
☆ Google's popular program to turbocharge climate startups doesn't take equity and is open in Europe. Its sustainability boss explains how to land a spot.
  + stars: | 2022-12-15 | by ( Tasmin Lockwood | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
Google for Startups has launched an equity-free climate change accelerator in Europe. The Google for Startups Accelerator: Climate Change program has launched in Europe after running for two years in North America. Some 21 startups have taken part in the original program, chosen out of a pool of "hundreds," according to Google. It comes as Europe continues to grapple with high energy prices; Google hopes the accelerator will help respond to the crisis. He is looking for agenda-setting solutions that help companies or individuals "really leapfrog" forward.
☆ How covering old buildings in a 'second skin' could cut heating costs, and emissions
  + stars: | 2022-11-29 | by ( Nell Lewis | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +4 min
But old buildings that fail to keep in the heat are not only expensive for residents — they’re also costly for the climate. For that, old homes need to be retrofitted to make them more energy efficient. It then produces prefabricated panels that fit precisely over the old building, improving its insulation. © ecoworks © ecoworks Apartments near Düsseldorf before and after an Ecoworks renovation. Ecoworks' construction is mainly done in factories, which it says minimizes disruption on-site.
☆ These 15 people are shaping the office of the future, designing meeting pods, hologram calls, and buildings that actually make workers healthier
  + stars: | 2022-10-24 | by ( Robert Davis | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +27 min
These 15 power players are just a handful of the people designing workplaces to balance productivity, interaction, and employee well-being through indoor-air-quality monitoring systems, building amenities, holographic meeting spaces, and more. AftershipCities like Austin, Texas; Nashville, Tennessee; and Raleigh, North Carolina, began offering business-relocation incentives during the pandemic to boost their workforces and help increase occupancy in office buildings. Room's office suite includes a phone booth, a meeting room, an open meeting room, and a focus room. Room also makes a soundproof meeting room that fits two people, a more open meeting booth, and a focus room designed for quiet concentration. "The future of office work needs to be guided by a new, genuine form of flexibility in which the work, not the workers themselves, become even more malleable," Petersen writes.
☆ ‘All that money’s gone’: Utility hikes set off scramble to pay for heat this winter
  + stars: | 2022-10-13 | by ( J.J. Mccorvey | J.J. Mccorvey Is A Business | Innovation Reporter For Nbc News. | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +9 min
They heat their home mainly with fuel oil, which costs them $4.57 a gallon, up from around $3.10 last year. Duke Energy customers in Indiana were recently hit with a 7% hike after a temporary 16% increase just this summer. Fuel oil customers often must pay for deliveries up front, and many suppliers have been less willing to offer payment plans because of market volatility, experts said. “I don’t have savings, period.”Brickey and Parks applied for LIHEAP assistance through District Three, a government cooperative geared toward senior citizens in southwest Virginia. They had three months of electricity paid for this past summer, along with $800 worth of fuel oil assistance last winter.
☆ Ghost kitchen startup Reef is facing new trailer shutdowns and violations. Insiders have long said it skirts health and safety regulations.
  + stars: | 2022-09-28 | by ( Nancy Luna | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +7 min
Austin health inspectors suspended four Reef food trailers after a recent inspection. And this month, Philadelphia inspectors cited a Reef kitchen trailer for having the wrong retail operating license, food-safety inspection records show. The company has previously said its engineless mobile kitchen vessels are difficult to inspect under existing permitting frameworks. "In every city where Reef operates, Reef seeks the appropriate permits," a Reef representative said in an email to Insider. The violation occurs when a kitchen trailer has not been authorized through the inspection process to sell and prepare food.
☆ Amphibious houses and floating cities could protect coastal communities from sea-level rise
  + stars: | 2022-09-27 | by ( Lindsey Jacobson | In | ) www.cnbc.com   time to read: +2 min
Hurricane Fiona has just devastated Puerto Rico, flooding the island leaving hundreds of thousands without access to electricity or running water. To combat the some of the worst impacts of flooding, a new industry of floating infrastructure is emerging. There are two distinct approaches that are being put forth as possible solutions: retrofitting homes to be amphibious and building floating city blocks. English's design places a steel frame beneath a house, and then below that, in the crawl space, buoyancy elements. She does, however, hope that her design could help preserve culture and give communities one option to help as they decide how they want to adapt to rising sea levels.
☆ Meet Thomas Healy, the self-made billionaire who just became the youngest CEO of a publicly traded company
  + stars: | 2020-10-07 | by ( Taylor Nicole Rogers | ) www.businessinsider.com   time to read: +5 min
After his electric truck startup debuted on the New York Stock Exchange Friday, Thomas Healy became both the youngest CEO of a publicly traded company and one of America's youngest self-made billionaires. Healy has an estimated net worth of $1.6 billion, per a Business Insider analysis. In an exclusive interview with Business Insider, Healy shared what it's like to become a billionaire overnight. Now that Healy is the youngest CEO of a publicly traded company in the US and among its youngest self-made billionaires, it seems like he can barely believe it himself. "I think the best word I can use to describe it is surreal," Healy told Business Insider.
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