The Verge: Energy

MAY 15, 2024

“In many ways the moon is five times as far away as it was in 2020” Back in 2020, Microsoft set a target of becoming carbon negative by the end of the decade. To translate the jargon, it pledged to slash greenhouse gas emissions by more than half and then capture a greater amount of carbon dioxide emissions than it would produce.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2023

Soletair Power (Finland) has developed a seemingly unique solution for extracting carbon dioxide (CO2) from building ventilation systems to help achieve carbon net zero and even carbon negative building projects. Are carbon-negative buildings possible? The Power-to-X unit being demonstrated.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Non-profit organisation’s report describes actions that would gear the buildings and construction sector towards a net zero future, through elimination of embodied carbon emissions. WorldGBC’s vision to fully decarbonise the sector requires eliminating both operational and embodied carbon emissions.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

All the more so when a greenhouse gas—carbon dioxide—is used to power the process. Municipal wastewater treatment plants in large cities are insulated from the negative effects of climate change, and treated wastewater can serve as a potential water source, provided appropriate sustainable and cost-effective technologies are available.”.

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Andrew Winston

DECEMBER 11, 2024

The short run is where the real debate happens, and its surprising how often you hear pundits (and CFOs) say with confidence that sustainability doesnt make sense because it costs more or has a negative NPV (net present value). Does the declaration of negative NPV for sustainability even calculate those things? But so what?

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Greentown Labs

MARCH 26, 2024

Buildings Carbon Negative Solutions is creating smart-city-ready, carbon-negative concrete products. Hub Controls ’ award-winning personal energy-management system, Hub Controller, saves customers money by knowing when their heating and cooling systems need to run—and, more importantly, when they can be turned off.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 15, 2021

British-Swedish pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca is partnering with Future Biogas to power its UK sites with low-carbon energy as part of company decarbonization efforts. Future Biogas will build a renewable energy plant that will enable AstraZeneca to replace natural gas with biomethane, for heating and cooling at its sites.

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 30, 2022

This could be by reducing an organization’s carbon footprint while also establishing a healthy work-life balance for employees. E.g. Delta Air Lines and Microsoft Corp pledged to drastically curb their carbon emissions, taking into account the carbon footprint of their associated law firms.

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Energy Central

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

A team of climate researchers lead by David Keller of the GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel and 12 other institutions investigated negative emission technologies with regard to their economic and social potential per the following graphic by Rita Erven of GEOMAR.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

The voluntary carbon offset market is rocketing, with the Ecosystem Marketplace reporting an annual market value of ~$1 billion in 2021, which was an all-time high. This can make things difficult for business leaders like you, looking to reduce their carbon footprint through purchasing offsets. The rules of carbon offsetting.

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Charged

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Components such as thermocouples, resistance temperature devices and negative temperature coefficient thermistors can directly measure temperatures, while infrared sensing is a non-contact option. For large-scale electric stationary storage systems, forced air convection cooling and liquid cooling are used.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Despite the additional complications posed by the coronavirus pandemic a record 312 institutions participated in Sierra's annual Cool Schools rankings in 2020. Schools give us a glimpse into what carbon neutrality looks like. Here is a countdown of Sierra's top 20 Cool Schools as described by Katie: 20.

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Grist

JULY 18, 2024

Unlike its carbon cousin, sulfur dioxide tends to cool the planet by creating aerosols that reflect sunlight while also making clouds brighter. Cutting carbon dioxide is, of course, critical. Luckily, when combined, the greenhouse gases methane and ground-level ozone warm the planet as much as aerosols cool it.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 27, 2022

One study reported that the average carbon footprint per skier could be as much as 74kg CO 2e per trip. Sustainability pushes resorts away from the negative spiral, where high carbon footprints catalyze climate change – which could ultimately render the ski industry obsolete. The benefits of sustainability for ski resorts.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 16, 2024

Smith’s comments were made in the context of home heating costs within a wider discussion concerning carbon taxes and the affordability crisis. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a three-year “carbon price carve out” for home heating oil in October 2023. The most extreme reaction was from Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 5, 2020

The goal of such a transition: all-electric buildings powered by solar, wind, and other sources of zero-carbon electricity. The California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) is busy writing the rules for a $200 million program that will provide incentives for low-carbon space and water heating technologies in new and existing buildings.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

As a result, the industry accounts for roughly 8 percent of annual carbon dioxide emissions, as well as a toxic soup of air pollutants. But in order to curb steel’s carbon emissions, the sector will have to transform how the material is traditionally made. The furnaces that melt iron ore to make steel consume vast amounts of coal.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Not only does reclaimed lumber give that rustic, farmhouse look and possess some unique history within its grain, but it also helps preserve our carbon-sequestering forests and rejects monoculture tree farms that do not support biodiversity or ecological health. Eco-Friendly, Ethically-Sourced Building Materials. RECLAIMED LUMBER.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Water management innovations already enacted by Microsoft include using water collected by air conditioning units for watering plants in Herzliya, Israel, and building a new data centre in Arizona which - set to open in 2021 - uses a zero water "swamp cooling" method for cooling for most months of the year.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 6, 2020

From carbon-negative polyester to dissolvable thread, here’s a handful of surprising startups making waves in the apparel industry. View original here: 5 seriously cool climate innovators in fashion.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 22, 2020

We came up with dozens of cool products and hosted tastings in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Kelp is also able to naturally remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, mitigating rising temperatures and climate change. ” Minimizing its carbon footprint is another crucial mission for AKUA.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The government confirmed £77m of new funding is to be made available to support the development of next generation nuclear reactors, alongside £25m for projects to produce hydrogen using sustainable biomass and waste that could deliver negative carbon emissions.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Recent findings from some peer-reviewed academic papers in agricultural journals sound like fodder for optimism: The United States cattle industry has helped to cool the climate almost every year since 1986. But unlike carbon dioxide, which can linger in the atmosphere for millennia, methane is a relatively transient greenhouse gas.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 29, 2022

For instance, a single pint of beer can have a carbon footprint as high as 900g CO 2e (for bottled beer that’s been extensively transported). This is ~14% of the daily average carbon footprint from meals per US citizen – having 2 to 3 pints ramps that percentage up to 42%. Challenge 5 : The brewing process is wasteful.

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Clean Energy Canada

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Out of the gate, a majority (53%) of British Columbians either already have a heat pump or feel positively about them, compared to 20% who have a negative impression or do not think a heat pump is right for them. Meanwhile, the percentage of people with a negative impression of heat pumps decreased from 20% to 15%. And with B.C.

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Clean Energy Canada

JANUARY 14, 2022

Proponents of fossil fuel use have implied that climate policies, like carbon pricing or other regulations, will have a negative impact on household spending, including home heating and gas for vehicles.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2020

Whatever your view is on climate change, we must all agree that climate change is constant; we are and will continue to move through the historical cooling and warming cycles. Terms such as climate change, climate crisis, carbon neutral, negative emissions, etc. Carbon Neutral vs. Zero Carbon – 1.5

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 16, 2024

The carbon dioxide emissions (CO 2 ) of just seven polluting winter sports sponsors — Audi, Ford, SAS, Equinor, Aker, Volvo, Preem — would melt an area of 1,968 square kilometres of spring snow each year. Money from those companies comes laden with carbon emissions. And, naturally, we sell more cars.”

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AGreenLiving

MAY 28, 2020

After a “rigorous” search, Stripe disclosed that it will support four “high potential” carbon capture and storage projects — picked from 24 applications. CarbonCure : The Canadian firm is using mineralized CO2 — aka calcium carbonate — in concrete. Last week, the company knocked that item off my checklist.

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Greentown Labs

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The climate impact here is clear: in residential buildings, for instance, energy transfer through windows is responsible for 25 to 30 percent of heating and cooling use. In other words, atmospheric carbon that was captured by trees can be stored long-term in buildings in the form of wood.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Whether it’s a new build or a retrofit (also referred to as greenhabbing , or green rehabbing an older building to be more eco-friendly), the real estate industry is moving towards sustainability because a low-carbon building is proven to have lower operating costs, improved resale value and higher occupancy rates. Lower carbon footprint.

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Grist

AUGUST 3, 2021

Other research groups before the Malaysia team have shown that the solar-powered and carbon-neutral metal extraction process works in practice — a key step to winning over mining industry investors, who have insisted on field trials of several acres to show proof of principle. “We Department of Agriculture named Rufus L.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 19, 2022

Research done in the US found that 42% of energy-related carbon emissions came from household machines, including cars. “They can only see a present negative aspect, like noise or dust originating from a building site,” she says. This project is aimed at individuals, since they are known to be big contributors to CO2 emissions.

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Business Green

JUNE 13, 2021

Last month, there was a backlash in The Sun and The Daily Mail on the cost of replacing gas boilers with low carbon alternatives. Indeed, recent surveys consistently list cost as the greatest barrier for consumers in switching to low carbon forms of heat, including the latest from consumer group Which?

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Fortunately, with current solar, battery and heat pump technology every building with a sunny roof under two stories can be a net generator of energy — essentially carbon negative. Moreover, with grid-connected batteries, buildings can easily provide the resiliency that our grid needs during power shortages and blackouts.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Businesses can reduce their carbon footprint by running their business in a more eco-friendly building that conserves energy, promotes recycling, reduces waste and enables sustainable business practices. Cooling & Heating. Cooling and heating is another big expense for businesses. So what is an eco-friendly building?

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

One tangible way to measure the positive contributions of investment portfolios on the climate is via reductions in carbon emissions and this is something more and more providers are reporting today, while a growing number of investment products are aligning themselves with the Paris Agreement goals. Rigorous standards. Beyond personal.

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