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Acoustic landscape monitoring suggested as a game-changer for biodiversity improvement

Envirotec Magazine

AgriSound team member Calum Pheby with “Polly” What’s described as the world’s first fully automated acoustic ‘panoramic’ landscape monitoring system, which can report in real-time on the landscape of natural sounds in a given area, is being developed by bioacoustics firm AgriSound.

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Advanced Techniques for Vegetation Monitoring With Planetary Variables

Planet Pulse

Vegetation monitoring involves inspecting and measuring the growth of trees and other plants to understand ecosystem health. Governments and industries need accurate, up-to-date data to assess vegetation health and manage resources effectively. However, traditional data-gathering methods often fall short.

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The State of Green Business 2021

GreenBiz

The State of Green Business 2021. Adapted from the 14th annual State of Green Business report, our annual report card on progress by the world’s largest companies. Such turmoil easily could have spelled the end, or at least the pause, of anything having to do with business and sustainability. Two words: business fundamentals.

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Synop to provide charging management for electric school buses in 14 Illinois school districts

Charged

Synop’s intelligent charging management platform will help to optimize the charging schedule for electric school buses, ensuring efficient and reliable operations. Source: Synop

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Maintaining confidence: strategies for securing more sustainable operations

Envirotec Magazine

Efforts to ensure the continuity of today’s mission-critical industrial operations are blunted by the burden of aging and increasingly complex electrical systems. Halting a chemical, pharmaceutical or other industrial process due to sudden electrical failure means an immediate loss in revenues.

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Double-skin building façade that contains microalgae and uses machine learning to generate energy

TechXplore

Operating a building is often costly given the price of heating and energy usage, accounting for 37% of global CO2 emissions. As more commercial and mixed-use buildings are constructed across Canada, using sustainable energy measures to manage their environmental impact is vital to the health of our planet.

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Why Empty Office Buildings Still Consume Lots of Power During a Global Pandemic

GreenTechMedia

What happens to an office building’s electricity demand when almost everyone who works there is stuck at home? The coronavirus pandemic has forced broad swaths of the economy to shut down, as state after state forced non-essential businesses to close. pecent this year. pecent this year.