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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Renew Economy

JUNE 2, 2024

The number of large scale solar PV projects under construction in Australia is lowest since 2017, raising fears some contractors will move on. The post Large scale solar PV projects at lowest level for seven years. Will contractors stay the course? appeared first on RenewEconomy.

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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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GreenBiz

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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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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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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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 31, 2023

First launched in November 2017 and managed by the Forestry Commission on behalf of HS2 Ltd, the fund is available for landowners located up to 25 miles from phase one of the route from London to the West Midlands.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

Globally, it is likely that over 80 percent of wastewater is released to the environment without adequate treatment ( UNESCO, 2017 ). For example: About 4 billion people, representing nearly two-thirds of the world population, experience severe water scarcity during at least one month of the year ( Mekonnen and Hoekstra, 2016 ).

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

A video of the prototype Odin tower, built in 2011 on Jeju Island, South Korea, and tested by the Korea Testing & Research Institute and the Jeju Energy Corporation between 2015 and 2017, also shows the concept is almost silent in operation, making it suitable for urban environments.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 12, 2021

I first learned of morning pages in 2017, when I was longing to rekindle my extinguished writing practice. Your well of creativity is where solutions to our deeply interconnected challenges live, waiting to emerge and play and meld with other people’s ideas. Daily practices help us open these creative reservoirs.

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GreenBiz

MAY 8, 2020

In 2017, semiconductor and technology manufacturing giant Intel committed to restoring 100 percent of its global water use. Why global engagement is essential to sustainable supply chains. Sustainable infrastructure investments can aid the post-COVID recovery. Two ways P&G is working toward its packaging goals. Intel's water world (16:25).

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 13, 2020

HSBC, which provided $87 billion in financing to top fossil fuel companies since the Paris Agreement and nearly $8 billion in loans and underwriting to 29 companies developing coal plants between 2017 and Q3 2019, has faced growing pressure from shareholders to cease financing companies heavily dependent on fossil fuels.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 29, 2024

As a result, and following the “Dieselgate” scandal, a new laboratory test cycle that reflected actual driving conditions better became mandatory in September 2017. The gap with real emissions, i.e. when actually driving on the road, was enormous.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 4, 2021

The founders of Atomo Coffee were motivated in part by the deforestation caused by the crop: According to the nonprofit Forest Trends, forest clearance in the top 10 coffee-producing countries generated 21 million tons of carbon dioxide in 2017. .

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Renew Economy

MAY 5, 2024

Australia’s very first big battery at the Hornsdale Power Reserve in South Australia may have taken less than 100 days to build in late 2017, but it seems that those were very special circumstances.

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The Verge: Energy

JULY 16, 2024

An aerial view of the flooded neighborhood of Juana Matos in the aftermath of Hurricane Maria in Cataño, Puerto Rico, on Friday, September 22nd, 2017.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

For example, state records suggest that the Chevron Richmond Refinery, one of California’s largest emitters, released more greenhouse gases in 2017 and 2018 — the last years for which data are publicly available — than it has since 2008. He replaced his 1995 Honda Civic with a fully electric 2017 Fiat 500e. "I

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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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