Inhabitat - Innovation

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

In 2010, representatives from 194 countries met in Nagoya, Aichi Prefecture, Japan, and agreed on 20 biodiversity targets to reach in the next decade. Ten years later, the signatories have fallen far short.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JULY 2, 2020

At the Winkerlaan in Utrecht, Dutch architecture firm EVA architecten has completed SO Fier, an energy-neutral primary school for Special Education Cluster 2 students that emphasizes sustainability, flexibility and connections with nature.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

MAY 6, 2021

The city of Los Angeles has been certified as biodiversity haven by the National Wildlife Federation.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Intended to support programmes for nurturing and boosting pollinator activity in the area, national rewilding project ‘Make it Wild’ has teamed up with Ag-tech start-up AgriSound in an initiative they say is already providing demonstrable evidence of the significant benefits to pollinators and local biodiversity.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 12, 2025

Seppic’s Fermentation Lab Signals a Strategic Expansion for Air Liquide A Step Beyond Traditional Expertise Air Liquide, best known for its leadership in the industrial gases sector, is venturing into new territory through its subsidiary Seppic’s latest innovation. Minimizes waste and eliminates harmful chemical catalysts.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

MAY 26, 2020

Following decades of car-oriented growth that replaced swaths of greenery with asphalt, the city of Montreal is attempting to bring nature back.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 27, 2023

The transition to greener chemicals offers holistic solutions to plastics pollution, climate change and biodiversity, but we need more investments to scale innovation.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

Atop a luxury home in Westmount, Montréal, MYTO Design d’espaces vivants created a biodiverse green rooftop dedicated to wellness.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 4, 2024

The aim will be to reveal if and how the rapid expansion of FLOW installations in these new sites may directly or indirectly impact on marine processes and biodiversity via ocean fronts. This innovation will complement a comprehensive suite of environmental sensors, providing a more mechanistic understanding of ocean ecosystem change.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

MAY 25, 2021

In a city characterized by iconic skyscrapers and commerce, the United Arab Emirates capital of Abu Dhabi is highlighting nature with a new urban biodiversity park in the heart of downtown. At 27,500 square meters, Al Fay Park is expertly designed to enhance the local microclimate by maximizing natural cooling through landscaping.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 19, 2022

National Highways and Manchester Metropolitan University aim to create “a highly detailed map of the habitats found alongside England’s busiest roads to help boost biodiversity” (image: drone photography of the M6 in Cumbria). ” For more on National Highways’ biodiversity work, visit [link].

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Inhabitat - Innovation

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

After nearly a year of renovations, the Netherland’s prized Naturalis Biodiversity Center — a museum and research center with one of the largest natural history collections in the world — has just reopened to the public.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

APRIL 15, 2021

After 33 years of working in an old drafty building in Oxfordshire, international nonprofit CABI has upgraded to a new low-energy home that combines beautiful design with employee wellness and environmental sustainability.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 14, 2023

A joint collaborative project funded through Innovate UK and Defra’s Farming Innovation Programme aims to test and demonstrate the effectiveness of digital technology as a means of remotely monitoring wildlife diversity in a farming context. There are too few experienced ecologists with sufficient time to manage it all.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 16, 2023

Farmers could soon be reimbursed for creating water storage ponds or water “batteries” as part of an innovative drought-prevention project that has received funding (on 16 May) from Ofwat’s Innovation Fund. This requires step change innovation that is more accurate and affordable than current leak detection tools.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

DECEMBER 9, 2021

At Alabama Power’s Plant Barry, more than 21 million tons of coal ash fill an unlined pond. The Mobile River surrounds this toxic stash on three sides, with wetlands, Mobile Bay and the Mobile-Tensaw Delta close by.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Innovation in textiles. The global fashion industry is looking toward innovative materials and strategies. How to add considerations for equity and biodiversity into renewables procurement? *This episode was sponsored by Amazon and WestRock. Resources galore. The social side of energy procurement.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 12, 2023

A new handbook aims to increase biodiversity in agriculture, by promoting innovative approaches to contract arrangements for government-funded payments to farmers. The handbook is the product of Contracts2.0, a four-year project funded under the EU Horizon 2020 programme.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Planting diverse corals under the sea could help save threatened coral reef ecosystems, according to a new study published in the journal Science Advances on October 13.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 4, 2022

The project aims to determine the viability of the initiative and to evaluate the potential positive biodiversity impact of scaling up the initiative. Climate change is becoming the biggest driver of biodiversity loss, and a substantial expansion of offshore wind is central to tackling these interlinked crises.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2024

Under thundery tropical skies, and amid ever more dire warnings on the precarious state of the world’s ecosystems, the United Nations Biodiversity Conference is unfolding in Colombia. Credit: Rachel Sherrington Corporations have turned out in large numbers at COP16, as they did at the last biodiversity summit in 2022.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JUNE 4, 2020

Forest dynamics being disrupted like this spells trouble for ecosystem equilibrium and biodiversity. Recently published research in Science magazine warns that older, taller trees are quickly becoming a thing of the past, consequently leaving forests in disarray.

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Planet Pulse

DECEMBER 17, 2024

These powerful models drive innovative technologies like ChatGPT and are reshaping our approach to intricate data challenges. This hyperspectral data can be useful for a variety of use cases including defense and intelligence monitoring, biodiversity assessments, mineral mapping, and water quality assessments.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JULY 13, 2021

The United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (U.N. CBD) has set out a plan to reverse ecological destruction, cut down extinction rates and promote human coexistence with nature. The plan will also protect at least 30% of the world's oceans and land to achieve significant climate crisis mitigation by 2030.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 17, 2022

The inventors of an innovative building material for sea walls are finalists in the European Inventor Award 2022. ECOncrete® founder and CEO, Ido Sella, has been nominated for the award, one of Europe’s most prestigious innovation prizes, alongside late co-founder Shimrit Perkol-Finkel.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 20, 2024

Among these, brown algae (Phaeophyceae) play a crucial role in sustaining coastal habitats, supporting marine biodiversity, and combating climate change through carbon capture. Covering over 70% of Earths surface, the oceans are home to countless life forms that maintain ecological balance and support human well-being.

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GreenBiz

JULY 20, 2020

And in order to encourage the approach beyond its supply chain, Danone recently founded the One Planet Business for Biodiversity (OP2B) initiative, a cross-sector effort to improve the private sector's approach to biodiversity. If we protect biodiversity, we are basically protecting the diversity of DNA," Soubeiran mused.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

It relies on the extraction and eventual disposal of finite materials and — to satisfy an ever-growing demand for resources — encroachment into natural ecosystems, resulting in greenhouse gas emissions and staggering biodiversity loss. The circular sustainable life should be a good life. Circular Economy. Ellen MacArthur Foundation.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

Human prosperity is killing the other species on the planet. An important new report shows what we stand to lose and offers some solutions.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 27, 2024

Through investment in some of Plymouth’s natural spaces, the project will support nature recovery, bringing benefits for biodiversity and improved recreational spaces for residents. The judges felt that it showed a different way of applying existing technology and demonstrated an innovative approach.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 10, 2020

As part of the exhibition, Art Works for Change commissioned Terreform ONE (for Open Network Ecology) to create Cricket Shelter Farm , an innovative living space that addresses both sustainable food systems and modular compact architecture. Cricket Shelter Farm is just one of Terreform ONE’s innovative solutions. Innovation.

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Impact Alpha

JULY 24, 2024

The post Peru’s path to inclusive prosperity runs through biodiversity and social innovation appeared first on ImpactAlpha. Last month, Peru hosted its first-ever Impact Investing Summit, a landmark event that signals a new era for sustainable investment in the country.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 5, 2021

Protect human health and biodiversity. This pollution also threatens biodiversity. Working towards a circular economy helps protect human health and biodiversity in many ways, including by making better use of natural resources (protecting water and land), and by mitigating the climate crisis. Boost economies.

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GreenBiz

JULY 6, 2020

Transparency leads to accountability, accountability drives innovation and innovation is key to resilience. The key questions that have arisen from the crisis are essentially ESG questions, such as: Will rising biodiversity loss and the changing climate influence the frequency and intensity of pandemics? Pull Quote.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 25, 2022

Lead author Dr Charlie Outhwaite (UCL Centre for Biodiversity & Environment Research, UCL Biosciences) said: “Many insects appear to be very vulnerable to human pressures, which is concerning as climate change worsens and agricultural areas continue to expand. “Our

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JUNE 10, 2021

The UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration aims to combat three crises: biodiversity loss, climate change and mounting pollution.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The guidance outlines best practices for conserving and regenerating healthy land, freshwater, oceans and biodiversity. During the session, with panelists from large agricultural companies Cargill and Mars, regenerative agriculture took center stage. .

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