Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2021

While hydrogen, electric and renewable fuels (produced from waste-based feedstocks) can all radically cut emissions compared with their diesel-powered counterparts, there are major variations in their effectiveness and efficiency in terms of cutting emissions depending on choices made over the full well-to-wheel life cycle.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 10, 2022

Minimizing waste through reducing, reusing, and recycling and being more energy efficient will also lower your costs. Reducing carbon emissions caused by commuting and traveling saves money and your employees’ time. Turn off devices when not in use to reduce electricity. How Do Consulting Firms Affect the Environment?

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Charged

JANUARY 3, 2025

This would also reduce the potential negative environmental effects on water, soil and biodiversity from those mines. As well as reducing both extraction and imports of raw materials, recycling within Europe could cut the carbon footprint of sourcing lithium by around 19% compared to extracting it in Australia and refining it in China.

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Business Green

JULY 13, 2021

The latest edition of National Grid ESO's Future Energy Scenarios (FES) 2021 predicts there are a number of ways that power generation in Britain could become emissions net negative by 2034 helping to put the UK on track to become a net zero emission economy by mid-century. Both of these scenarios would meet the UK's Sixth Carbon Budget.

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Greentown Labs

JULY 26, 2023

FUNDING Capture6 , a Carbon to Value (C2V) Initiative Year 3 participant, received an $8M+ grant from the California Energy Commission for advancing water recovery and carbon removal through its use of direct air capture technology that uses saltwater to create a solvent for carbon capture. Onvector raised a $2.5M

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Business Green

AUGUST 16, 2020

SSE said its objective "where it has the influence to do so, is to support a fair transition from a high carbon economy to a net zero one and thereby command support from stakeholders so that the worst effects of climate change can be prevented". The firm last year sold its consumer energy services arm to OVO in a £500m deal.

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Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 21, 2021

All of Smog Armor’s materials are sourced in the US and they’ve partnered with a local green paint manufacturer to make the paints locally and reduce their carbon footprint. energy efficiency, reduction of water consumption and waste generation). energy efficiency, reduction of water consumption and waste generation).

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Collectively, these efforts undertake a variety of actions such as volunteering on projects in the community, improving environmental practices in the office and working on bigger issues, such as installing electric vehicle charging stations for the office building. Duro Cleaners also decided to take a stand against plastic waste.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 27, 2021

This article discusses measures the seafood industry can take in order to limit their negative impact on our world’s oceans. Prevent ocean waste from plastic netting. From litter and pollution to overfishing and habitat destruction, today’s unsustainable commercial fishing has a significant negative impact on the oceans’ ecosystems.

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Grist

MAY 27, 2024

And not only is it extracting magnesium from ocean water — and from waste brine generated by industry — it is doing it in a carbon-neutral way. Right now, China produces about 85 percent of the world’s magnesium in a dirty, carbon-intensive process. A company in Oakland, California, says yes.

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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. among other parameters.

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Elemental Excelerator

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

has created a platform for on demand repair of electric vehicle charging stations. Stacy Flynn and the Evrnu team are upcycling textile waste in collaboration with leading brands and supply chain partners. Carbon negative materials. Regenerative farmers are sequestering carbon in the soil while feeding us all.

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Business Green

JULY 17, 2020

A group of exciting start-ups are exploring whether the world's trash mountains could become a valuable source of low carbon hydrogen fuels. Other technologies are in the mix, such as battery electric vehicles. Hydrogen from waste is an even smaller fish than hydrogen from renewable energy. locations in 2021.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

You therefore hear people talking about reducing carbon footprints on the environment. It is posited that using this alternative can enable businesses to reduce their carbon footprint. This invariably means that companies will consider the product that does not negatively impact on their bottom line. How is HVO produced?

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Business Green

JULY 24, 2020

UK, Germany, South Korea among nations offering up green stimulus measures but these are still dwarfed by carbon-intensive bailouts, according to Vivid Economics. Across 17 major economies, announced stimulus packages will pump trillions of dollars directly into sectors that have a large and lasting negative impact on nature.".

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Hydrogen Fuel News

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Instead of becoming waste that’s incinerated and contributing to the pollution problem, the feathers could replace the non-biodegradable and toxic “forever chemicals” used to manufacture hydrogen fuel cells, effectively solving two problems with one solution. A hydrogen fuel cell requires a semipermeable membrane.

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Business Green

JULY 19, 2022

From 2047 onwards, the energy system could then become net negative, absorbing more emissions than it produces through a mix of carbon capture technologies and solutions, which operate on both a standalone basis and while attached to power stations. Systems thinking is critical to delivering a low-carbon economy.

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Elemental Excelerator

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Several ambitious pledges emerged to phase down fossil fuels, limit methane emissions, stop deforestation, and turbocharge the adoption of electric vehicles. In addition, companies like Full Harvest and Goodr are working to eliminate food waste — which is a major contributor to methane emissions — on farms and in landfills. .

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Business Green

MARCH 5, 2021

UN argues 'rapid deployment' of CCUS needed to meet carbon neutrality goals. The report acknowledges that CCYUS technologies alone will not be sufficient to deliver carbon neutrality in line with the goals ofthe Paris Agreement. ENGIE hails 'world first' gas from waste breakthrough.

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Green Market Oracle

MARCH 4, 2020

Technologies that draw-down carbon represent a massive economic opportunity. The global carbon capture and sequestration market is projected to reach USD 8.05 According to some estimates carbon capture and utilization (CCU)** alone will be a $1 trillion market by 2030. percent from 2016 to 2021. Subscribe in a reader

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Greentown Labs

JUNE 24, 2024

The AI-enabled system uses water as a refrigerant and taps into a building’s existing waste-heat sources, leading to significant cost savings for customers. Greentown Boston) Monaire ’s tech-enabled HVAC- and refrigeration-management service reduces HVAC energy use and repair costs while preventing downtime and food waste.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

With countries set to discuss potential blueprint for a Paris Agreement-style treaty for tackling plastic waste this week, leading experts give their views on what it should look like. If designed well and properly adhered to, global treaties have a lot going for them.

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Sustainability Consulting

JULY 8, 2020

, published by a team including Lord Nicholas Stern and Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz that argued that non-conditional support for high carbon industries would see a lower return on investment than green stimulus packages. Build carbon-capture-and-storage infrastructure around large industrial clusters ? They are: ?

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Oil and gas industry's bets on petrochemicals growth look increasingly dicey as world turns away from plastics, Carbon Tracker warns. But Carbon Tracker questions the credibility of this analysis, highlighting how governments are increasingly making moves against plastic waste, alongside their wider decarbonisation efforts.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The remaining 20 percent represents investments outside of fossil fuels, in areas such as renewables, carbon capture and storage, and research into new green technologies. . It also had the highest share of posts on carbon capture and storage technologies, with these making up one in five of the promos put out by the company.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 4, 2021

C when places reminiscent of Mordor continuously pump carbon into the atmosphere. Good-faith efforts to reuse carbon, heat and steam are underway with a target to reduce the Port’s emissions to 50% of 1990 levels by 2025. Those that can create artificial sinks with technological carbon capture, utilization, and storage.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Oil and gas industry's bets on petrochemicals growth look increasingly dicey as world turns away from plastics, Carbon Tracker warns. But Carbon Tracker questions the credibility of this analysis, highlighting how governments are increasingly making moves against plastic waste, alongside their wider decarbonisation efforts.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 23, 2022

How Do Landscapers Negatively Impact the Environment. Harmful Carbon Emissions from Equipment and Vehicles . The current standard for machinery and equipment is gas powered, which releases carbon into the atmosphere when in use. Negative Impact on Ecosystem. Wasteful Use of Water.

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Clean Energy Canada

JULY 31, 2024

A new study from Clean Energy Canada finds that, when considering the full costs of ownership over the course of a decade – from a car’s purchase price to fuel and maintenance – a typical electric vehicle saves B.C. drivers more than $30,000, or at least $3,000 a year. increase gas prices saw when compared to June 2021.

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2022

The electric vehicle (EV) market may be surging across major economies worldwide, but there are plenty of bumps in the road lie ahead on the journey to mass market adoption, and as a result some of the world's leading auto firms are starting to lag behind the leaders in the pack.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 6, 2022

However, some people reacted negatively to all the light, saying the LEDs were lighting up their porches. This prevents repeat trips, as well as wasted time, money and carbon footprint. I think EV (electric vehicles) is one of the biggest. It ensures that a maintenance crew has the right gear on hand.

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Clean Energy Trust

AUGUST 16, 2019

Decarbonize the electric grid (shift from fossil fuels like coal and natural gas to carbon-free sources like wind, solar, hydro, and nuclear, paired with storage and demand-side solutions), B. particularly technologies that make the most of the carbon that we continue to emit. This area is the subject of this post?—?particularly

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Business Green

AUGUST 17, 2022

As well, cultured meat doesn't produce vast amounts of waste, which leads to 92 per cent fewer CO2 emissions produced during the process. This will help limit the negative impacts of the industrialised meat industry by reducing the need for large-scale soy production in places such as the Amazon rainforest.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 15, 2022

Lithium is widely used in batteries in applications from small personal electronic devices up to electric vehicles and large-scale utility energy storage. Out with lithium, in with magnesium. But there are constant concerns about whether the supply can keep up with the growing demand as these technologies proliferate.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 9, 2023

ISO 14000 frameworks Environmental management system (EMS) An environmental management system aims to reduce the negative impacts a business has on the environment by integrating policy, procedures, and processes for measuring, analyzing, and reporting an organization’s impact on the natural world. raw materials, energy) and outputs (e.g.

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Energy Innovation

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

The public health benefits of realizing 100 percent zero carbon electricity by 2035 would be enormous. Moreover, avoiding all these negative health impacts creates massive economic productivity gains – getting to 100 percent in 2035 would avoid losing about 1.7 million workdays to poor health.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 15, 2020

Hydrogen from waste is an even smaller fish than hydrogen from renewable energy. There are only a few waste-to-hydrogen projects, most which are in early stages and relatively small scale. Still, there is potential for clean — low- or zero-carbon — hydrogen to take off, energy experts believe. locations in 2021.

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