TechCrunch: Climate

JANUARY 9, 2025

Founded in 2017, Xocean has built a fleet of remotely-controlled USVs that can remain offshore for long periods of […] 2024 TechCrunch. All rights reserved. For personal use only.

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GreenBiz

JULY 6, 2020

It was April 2017. The pain reached a 10 that spring of 2017. The author with Lisa Jackson at the Apple campus, Earth Day 2017. Chris Gaither. Mon, 07/06/2020 - 02:15. Earth Day, when we remember the planet’s fragility and resilience, was when I finally understood that I had nothing left to give. And still I tried to soldier on.

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TechXplore

DECEMBER 9, 2023

Between 2013 and 2017, its growth rate was twice the African average. The east Africa region has the fastest growing population in Africa. The region is also experiencing strong economic growth. It's sub-Saharan share of GDP has risen from 14% in 2000 to 21% in 2022.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

This often takes the form of a statue or plaque, but following the Santa Rosa fires in October 2017, one artist took her own approach to remember the devastation, in the form of a living quilt. Memorials and national landmarks are common across the country as a way to draw respectfully remember events of historical relevance.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

SEPTEMBER 22, 2021

Frederick Fisher & Partners recently completed a project at the Ojai Valley School’s Upper Campus in Ojai, California, replacing structures previously lost to the Thomas Fire in 2017.

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TechXplore

MARCH 11, 2024

21, 2017, the skies darkened as the moon crossed in front of the sun. During the most recent total solar eclipse visible in the U.S., It blocked out all sunlight—except for that from a golden ring visible around the moon's shape, called the corona.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Meanwhile, the OGCI today announced that its members collectively have reduced the cut their absolute upstream methane emissions by 22 percent since 2017, shrinking the methane intensity of members' upstream oil and gas to operations to 0.23 It surpasses its target to cut methane intensity to 0.25 percent by 2025.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 11, 2020

Americans create a lot of solid waste – to the tune of 268 million tons in 2017 alone. Is There a Role of Waste to Energy in the Circular Economy? While many localities and companies are championing zero-waste plans to divert materials that have a second life (think recycling, reusing and composting), the majority of U.S.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

The piece is a redesign of the company’s Calatea chair, originally developed in 2017, with new, eco-friendly materials and organic aesthetics for a greener version of the classic chair.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 31, 2020

The company went bankrupt in 2017 and was renamed Solar Spectrum, only to merge with Horizon Solar Power — another residential solar company — and recommence operating under the Sungevity brand. In March 2017, Sungevity laid off two-thirds of its workforce, or about 400 people, according to Greentech Media reporting.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 11, 2020

Clark Reed, a driver with Nussbaum Transportation, is one of the most energy-efficient drivers on the road today and also participated in NACFE’s Run on Less 2017 fuel efficiency demonstration. During a three-week period in 2017, seven drivers operating trucks specified with commercially available technology demonstrated that 10.1

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 5, 2025

The study evaluated 20 key reports from grey literature non-academic industry publications such as the Ellen MacArthur Foundations A New Textiles Economy (2017).

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2024

The Renewables 2024 report, the IEA’s flagship annual publication on the sector, seems to find that the world is set to add more than 5,500 gigawatts (GW) of new renewable energy capacity between 2024 and 2030 – almost three times the increase seen between 2017 and 2023.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 3, 2020

Founded in 2017, unspun is a denim company that specializes in customized, automated and on-demand manufacturing, designing out inventory altogether. We started with the hardware in 2017 and still haven't commercialized on it — but hopefully we will in the next six months.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 26, 2020

As a result, community projects swept the board in Germany’s 2017 and 2018 auctions, which together saw 5.1 gigawatts in 2017, according to figures from the German wind association Bundesverband WindEnergie. “The rise in installations is largely attributed to the auction projects awarded back in 2017 and 2018," Barla said.

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NRDC onEarth

APRIL 12, 2023

In a boost for energy efficient buildings, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan adopted the Energy Conservation Building Code (ECBC) 2017 last month. Building energy codes are effective tools to ensure energy efficiency in the construction and operation of buildings.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

DECEMBER 27, 2022

Tesla has been planning on a semi truck to disrupt shipping since 2017. Tesla has promised a semi truck to electrify shipping for years, and it's finally here. Can it haul as promised? Here is the first EV heavy duty truck from the automaker, and how it really performs.

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JANUARY 30, 2025

Royal Mail purchased its first 100 EVs in December 2017. The UK Royal Mail, a subsidiary of International Distribution Services, has deployed its 6,000th electric delivery van, adding it to 15 others at its Manchester mail center for deliveries and collections. So far, more than 240 Royal Mail offices use EVs.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 6, 2020

In 2017, when LimeLoop, an IoT solution for sustainable e-commerce shipping logistics, started, it was in response to the amount of waste caused by e-commerce. In 2017, containers and packaging made up a significant portion of municipal solid waste (MSW), about 80.1 It's easy to use and easy to sanitize. million tons (29.9

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ThinkGeoEnergy

MARCH 27, 2025

Click here to access the full paper “2025 Geothermal Drilling Cost Curves Update” Recent projects set new industry-leading drilling rates The study updates the Well Cost Simplified (WCS) model initially produced in Sandia (Lowry et al, 2017) and updated in 2022 by NREL.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

Another example is a 2017 study by the NAACP and the Clean Air Task Force that showed that African-American citizens are 75 percent more likely to live in a "fence-line" community that borders a toxic industrial facility. For example, designers made medical grade face masks for white men and many don’t fit women very well.

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Canary Media

MAY 21, 2024

Form Energy launched in 2017 to tackle one of the biggest problems hindering the clean energy transition: how to cheaply store renewable energy for days on end. In developing its iron-air battery, though, the company stumbled on a potential breakthrough for another notorious climate challenge: cleaning up the iron…

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 15, 2024

Washington Influencers’ In an internal presentation from early 2017, BP outlined its plans for a $10 million ad campaign targeted at “D.C. Power Past Impossible’ In other 2017 emails released by the Congressional investigation, BP leadership and Jack N. BP did not immediately respond to a request for comment. opinion leaders.”

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NRDC onEarth

APRIL 11, 2023

In a boost for energy efficient buildings, Chhattisgarh and Rajasthan adopted the Energy Conservation Building Code (ECBC) 2017 last month. Building energy codes are effective tools to ensure energy efficiency in the construction and operation of buildings.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 27, 2025

The launch of the Sustainable PLFs 2040 initiative is the latest step in ongoing work first started in 2017. The Sustainable PLFs 2040 initiative will bring together leading companies operating across the supply chains with the capability to develop, scale and commercialise novel polymers with significantly improved environmental credentials.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 10, 2020

GTM : 2017 Primer–Too Much of a Good Thing? Climate Action Tracker : How the Pledges of Each Nation Stack Up. GTM : California Curtailment Surge as Coronavirus Cuts Demand. ITWeb : Eskom’s COVID-19 power curtailment bid stuns wind sector. An Illustrated Guide to Solar Curtailment on California’s Grid.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 17, 2020

AGCO has made many, many acquisitions to amass this portfolio, including the buyout of Precision Planting from Monsanto (now Bayer) in 2017. With new CEO Eric Hansotia poised to step up Jan.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Now, some incumbents are using SPAC mergers to go further: Engie, for example, just used a SPAC to spin-out EV Box, a charging business it acquired in 2017, which should incentivize the EV Box team to continue creating value for shareholders including Engie.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 31, 2025

More recently, the work has continued with the university spin out TTPi, which Professor Empringham and Dr de Lillo co-founded with others in 2017. Professor Empringham said: The world is turning to electricity as a source of sustainable energy to achieve Net Zero carbon emissions, which is vital for the future of our planet.

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Renew Economy

MARCH 27, 2024

The owners of the largest gas plant in South Australia have been hit with a heavy fine for the role it played in a major blackout in early 2017, when it sat idle and failed to comply with market rules. The post Gas plant owner hit with big fine for sitting idle in major blackout first blamed on renewables appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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JUNE 4, 2020

In 2017 , Wisconsin produced 5.4 Another factor leading to Ocean Spray’s milestone was the structural history of the cranberry crop. Cranberries are already a very consolidated operation with almost all of the U.S.’s s cranberries grown in Wisconsin or Massachusetts. billion barrels and Massachusetts produced 1.9

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 22, 2020

Separating recyclable materials in a local cooperative in the Glicerio neighborhood in São Paulo in 2017: The report also points to a number of encouraging ‘bottom-up’ initiatives, that are advancing circularity in certain regions of the world. billion tonnes in 2017, the latest year for which data is available. 5] [link]. [6]

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Canary Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Most famously, in 2017, he became the only person to have climbed Yosemite National Park’s 3,000-foot vertical rock formation, El Capitan, without ropes or harnesses, a feat chronicled in the Oscar-winning documentary Free Solo. Alex Honnold is no stranger to challenges. Last summer, Honnold completed another…

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 15, 2024

.” Material-specific insights include: Paper and card Compared to previous Valpak PackFlow reports in 2019 and 2017, paper and card POM has reduced. Plastic Plastic POM has fallen since Valpak’s reports in 2019 and 2017. Aluminium Compared to 2019 and 2017, aluminium packaging placed on the market has increased.

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Renew Economy

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Musk's big battery tweets set Australia on a path to a renewables revolution in 2017. His utterings on X in this election could help shape the future of energy in Australia. The post Elon Musk’s Tesla big battery tweets put Australia on road to green energy, now he might derail it appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

When I joined as the company’s first global director of sustainability in December 2017, I was tasked with developing a global ESG strategy that would include attainable goals and the action plans that would enable the company to demonstrate continuous improvement and progress toward achieving those goals. An extended dialogue.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 1, 2021

The commitment focuses on Cargill’s aquaculture and aquaculture feed business, targeting a reduction in Scope 3 emissions of 30 percent by 2030, from a 2017 baseline. . Cargill’s new sustainability program, SeaFuther , expands its carbon reduction commitments from the terrestrial to the oceanic. percent.

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