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COVID-19, 3D printing and the digital supply chain reckoning

GreenBiz

Dave Evans, founder and CEO of Fictiv and a former Ford engineer, said the pandemic has helped underscore the notion that digital manufacturing networks — ones that allow organizations to be more agile when it comes to sourcing — will be key to ensuring resilience in the long term, as disruptions brought on by climate change become more frequent.

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How do you take clean AC mainstream? This global health organization has some ideas.

Grist

Eric Lafforgue / Art in All of Us / Getty Images This problem caught the attention of the Clinton Health Access Initiative , or CHAI — a nonprofit organization founded by former President Bill Clinton in 2002. This global health organization has some ideas. There are a number of ways to achieve this. on Nov 8, 2023.

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Newsletter | Advancing Carpet Recycling in California’s Public Sector with CARE

Green Technology

CARE is a non-profit organization committed to developing and implementing market-based solutions for recycling post-consumer carpet. Join us at the Sustainable Facilities Forum in Sacramento on May 15th to connect with CARE and explore how your organization can enhance its sustainability strategy through effective carpet recycling!

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AQE 2024 will be “the largest air quality & emissions event in over 20 years”

Envirotec Magazine

AQE 2024, the Air Quality and Emissions show will take place on 9 and 10 October at the NEC in Birmingham, with the most exhibitors and most expansive conference program of any AQE or MCERTS event since 2002, as the organizers explain.

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Waste: an environmental justice issue we should be talking about

GreenBiz

So I would say on the small number, maybe close to 100 people, at least, that I've actually taken around to see this firsthand over the years, because I've been doing this since 2002. Catherine Coleman Flowers guides Senator Cory Booker through Lowndes County, Alabama, as part of his 2017 environmental justice tour. Social Justice.

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Using IR to measure TOC

Envirotec Magazine

Instrumenation firm Edinburgh Sensors offers some thoughts on the measurement of Total Organic Carbon (TOC) as a means of assessing water quality, and in particular the relevance of IR-based measurements. There are a variety of approaches for testing water for organic carbon. ml/l or less.3. References and Further Reading. References.

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Ocean oil pollution is growing — and not from oil spills

Grist

The report builds on decades of previous research from the National Academies — a federally chartered research organization — that highlights the growing risk of oil pollution in the world’s oceans. This story was originally published by Grist with the headline Ocean oil pollution is growing — and not from oil spills on Sep 29, 2022.

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