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Energy Efficiency: 18 Easy To Implement Tips For Your Business

Green Business Bureau

Energy Efficiency: 18 Easy to Implement Tips for Your Business. Most electricity is generated by burning fossil fuels which emit greenhouse gasses and other harmful pollutants into the atmosphere. Fossil fuels, water, and land are all scarce resources that are at risk without proper energy efficiency initiatives. Energy Source.

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3 Ways IoT can help reduce carbon emissions

Smart Energy International

The growing IoT devices market could be a silver bullet for climate change. Consumers, businesses, and government organisations can use IoT monitoring systems to improve the energy efficiency of everything from individual homes to entire cities – potentially helping to slash carbon emissions.

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Comment: Technology will be crucial to the success of vertical farms

Envirotec Magazine

According to the World Bank, agricultural development is one of the most powerful tools to end extreme poverty, boost shared prosperity, and feed a projected 9.7 These challenges are of course exacerbated by climate change. The food and beverage sector is therefore seeking to lower climate risk in its supply chains.

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As climate change threatens cultural treasures, museums get creative to conserve both energy and artifacts

Grist

But climate control represents a particularly bedeviling problem, since more energy use contributes to climate change, which in turn causes greater temperature extremes that necessitate even more energy use to maintain a controlled indoor environment (sometimes known as the “doom loop” of AC ).

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Sustainability Guide for Gyms and Fitness Centers: Getting Started

Green Business Bureau

The younger generation of today cares about climate change, the planet and who they do business with. These gyms find unique ways to reduce energy and water usage and focus on using products safe for human and planet health. Instead of grid-run, there are now human-powered exercise machines.

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5G-enabled solutions to play a key role in decarbonising US economy – study

Smart Energy International

The study, 5G Connectivity: A Key Enabling Technology to Meet America’s Climate Change Goals , states that 5G-enabled solutions will help avoid the emissions of up to 330.8 MMtCO2e of carbon by 2025, the equivalent to removing greenhouse gas emissions from electricity consumed by 12 million homes in a year. Have you read?

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How energy providers can prepare for summer heat with innovative solutions

Renewable Energy World

Last summer’s record heat waves triggered a surge in power demand that maxed out supplies and led to outages across the West. But rising temperatures from climate change are just one challenge. And the state’s last nuclear power plant and numerous coastal gas power plants are facing retirement. THE BIG RETHINK.