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The top 25 most sustainable fleets

GreenBiz

Thanks to converging forces — including supportive policies, dropping battery costs and aggressive climate goals — transportation leaders at large and small organizations are increasingly turning to new zero-emission and low-carbon options that decarbonize fleets and in some cases save money. Fleet leaders are also facing increasing pressure.

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Utilities plus telcos: The case for an arranged marriage

GreenBiz

Cooling existing equipment and adding new sites to cater for 5G wireless networks will add to burgeoning energy costs. Several have taken major steps: Witness Google’s acquisition of Motorola’s cellular handset business in 2012 and its 2014 buy of smart thermostat provider Nest.

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Inside Eastman’s moonshot goal for endlessly circular plastics

GreenBiz

There are hundreds of buildings and countless miles of pipes, conveyors, distillers, cooling towers, valves, pumps, compressors and controls. Pyrolysis — heating of an organic material in the absence of oxygen — can turn mixed plastic waste into naphtha, which can be transformed back into petrochemicals and plastics.

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Can Asia’s infectious disease-producing wildlife trade be stopped?

Grist

The phenomenon is largely regional — a 2014 study found that 83 percent of Guangzhou residents had consumed wild animals in the previous year, while in Beijing only 5 percent had. Eating exotic species is about people showing on social media that they are cool.”. Previously, my friends would say nothing, or they’d say ‘cool’.

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This grass has toxic effects on US livestock, and it’s spreading

Grist

This story was produced in collaboration with the Food & Environment Reporting Network , a nonprofit news organization. Matt Poore, a professor of animal science at North Carolina State University, chairs the Alliance for Grassland Renewal, a national organization dedicated to eradicating toxic fescue.

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The Northeast’s hemlock trees face extinction. A tiny fly could save them.

Grist

It’s quiet, dark, and cool, even on a summer day. The Hemlock Initiative also employs Dietschler and organizes the release of the adelgid-eating flies. Brook trout depend on these cooling infusions of icy water, as do many species of salamander, frog, toad, and fly. That already happened in 2014 in the Harvard Forest.

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As climate change threatens cultural treasures, museums get creative to conserve both energy and artifacts

Grist

. “It’s because we have these really strict regulations on keeping temperature and relative humidity at certain levels in the name of preserving the collections,” said Caitlin Southwick, a former art conservator who now runs an organization called Ki Culture that helps museums transition to more sustainable practices.