In the travel industry, ‘sustainable tourism’ gives way to ‘regenerative hospitality’
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Regenerative hospitality has the potential to unlock the broader systemic changes we need to limit climate change and protect ecosystems.
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Seagrass planting robot to reinstate vanishing ocean meadows and tackle climate change
Envirotec Magazine
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
The Seagrass planting prototype. A team of young engineers is launching a £100,000 project to build a robot that will plant seagrass to help fight climate change, thanks to help received from Converge, a group describing itself as a pan-Scotland springboard for university entrepreneurs. Here, Converge shares both news of the project and details of its ethos and ways of working with entrepreneurs.
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New Jersey has made it illegal to discard EV batteries in landfills
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
The Garden State’s legislation is designed to create a circular economy for EV batteries.
PFAS: No forever exemptions for forever chemicals
NRDC onEarth
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
The goal is safer and better solutions, so any exemptions from laws and regulations restricting PFAS must be temporary.
How to Drive Cost Savings, Efficiency Gains, and Sustainability Wins with MES
Speaker: Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions
Is your manufacturing operation reaching its efficiency potential? A Manufacturing Execution System (MES) could be the game-changer, helping you reduce waste, cut costs, and lower your carbon footprint. Join Nikhil Joshi, Founder & President of Snic Solutions, in this value-packed webinar as he breaks down how MES can drive operational excellence and sustainability.
Follow these 4 tactics to close the world's circularity gap, report says
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
The Circularity Gap Report focuses on the three industries with outsize impacts on the planet.
Act Locally: How to Activate Bold Infrastructure Ideas
NRDC onEarth
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
This guide identifies key strategies to use historic new resources to transition away from the failed policies of the past to a cleaner, more sustainable future
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Why Wood Pellets Won’t Solve California’s Wildfire Problem?
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FEBRUARY 1, 2024
GSNR's project will not only waste time and drain critical funding but may even worsen wildfires.
EU project aims to curb release of world’s most potent GHG
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FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Gas-insulated electrical switchgear is one of the few applications that still uses sulphur hexafluoride. A major new Horizon Europe project is seeking to reduce the release of a greenhouse gas with a global warming potential more than 25,000 times higher than CO2. The contributors include the University of Aberdeen’s Professor Dragan Jovcic, who brings to the table his expertise in High Voltage DC (Direct Current) switchgear.
Using Community Hardening and Forest Resiliency to Mitigate Wildfire Harm
NRDC onEarth
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
More fires are coming, but scientists know what will keep us safe and help firefighters do their jobs. Let’s take action to get it done. .
Comment: Agriculture and pharma key to solving micropollutants problem
Envirotec Magazine
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Dr Pablo Campo Moreno is a senior lecturer in applied chemistry at Cranfield University’s water science institute. In the face of growing public concern about the presence of micropollutants in water and wastewater, Dr Pablo Campo Moreno identifies initiatives that he says are taking the lead in tackling the problem. As the phrase ‘forever chemicals’ enters the Oxford English Dictionary for the first time in 2024, and these fluorinated substances expand the list of micropollutants, it might be t
The Key to Sustainable Energy Optimization: A Data-Driven Approach for Manufacturing
Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions
In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. ♻️ Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets. 📊 Join us for a practical webinar hosted by Kevin Kai Wong of Emergent Ene
Clean hydrogen is driving the next Gulf Coast energy boom
Canary Media
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
The scraggly grasses and standing water at the Spindletop oil field, near Beaumont in east Texas, don’t immediately suggest the site of a world-changing energy breakthrough.
New solar efficiency world record shows huge potential of tandem technology
Renew Economy
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
British solar developer announces new world record for solar panel efficiency using its perovskite-on-silicon tandem solar cells. The post New solar efficiency world record shows huge potential of tandem technology appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Clean energy experts break down hydrogen hype and hope
Canary Media
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Scroll down to watch the video. If you asked Michael Liebreich about the state of clean hydrogen policies in the U.S. and European Union, he wouldn’t say it’s a complete boondoggle — just “an almost complete boondoggle.
Vanadium merger bets on demand for 18-hour batteries
Renew Economy
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Two emerging vanadium producers have joined forces to mine the ore and develop a battery that could make solar energy available around the clock. The post Vanadium merger bets on demand for 18-hour batteries appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Electrofuels Are the Future: The Driving Force to Decarbonizing Heavy Transport
Speaker: Ayesha Choudhury - Senior Vice President, Head of Capital Markets at Infinium
With the first wave of the energy transition, renewable energy sources (such as solar and wind) have begun replacing coal power generation. However, some sectors are lagging behind and struggling to decarbonize more than others, including large-scale transportation like commercial aviation, shipping, and rail transit. Electrofuels (aka eFuels) are the next generation of solutions to help the hardest-to-abate sectors pivot from their reliance on fossil fuels.
Hydrogen trains and trucks are coming — for better or worse
Canary Media
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Canary Media thanks Verdagy for its support of the Clean Hydrogen series. When a sleek new train rolls into Southern California later this year, it will be the first in the nation, and one of only a handful globally, to be running on hydrogen.
Can Australia make its own solar? Landmark study says yes – and actually, it has to
Renew Economy
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Landmark Silicon to Solar Study finds establishing manufacturing capability is "credible and feasible" with the right government policy support – and will be crucial to Australia's decarbonisation plans. The post Can Australia make its own solar? Landmark study says yes – and actually, it has to appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Storage a ‘key element’ for new 2040 renewable energy targets, leaked EU draft says
Energy Storage News
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
The European Commission is targeting 90% renewable electricity by 2040 in the EU and sees energy storage as one of several key areas of investment to get there, according to a leaked draft.
Research Undermines Claims that Soil Carbon Can Offset Livestock Emissions
DeSmogBlog
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
A recent study has found it is currently “not feasible” for the global livestock industry to sequester enough carbon to cancel out its planet-warming emissions — and that policy efforts geared toward that goal may be deeply misguided. The study, which was published in the journal Nature Communications, shows that 135 gigatons — or 135 billion metric tons — of carbon would need to be returned to soils to balance out the amount of methane emitted annually by ruminants like cattle, sheep, bison, an
AR/VR Simulations for Sustainable, Regenerative, Circular Cities
Speaker: Nik Gowing, Brenda Laurel, Sheridan Tatsuno, Archie Kasnet, and Bruce Armstrong Taylor
With 191 country signatories to the Paris Climate Agreement now hard at work in the race to zero carbon by 2050, much of the heavy lifting in ecosystem sustainability falls on the shoulders of the world's densely populated urban centers. This conversation considers how today's AI-enabled simulation media, such as AR/VR, can be effectively applied to accelerate learning, understanding, training, and solutions-modeling to sustainability planning and design.
Unlike other automakers, BMW isn’t shying away from hydrogen vehicles
Hydrogen Fuel News
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
BMW is ditching EVs and backing hydrogen engines. Many believe that passenger hydrogen vehicles face too many challenges to ever reach the widespread adoption that electric cars have achieved, but BMW is not among them. The German automaker hasn’t given up on hydrogen-powered cars and believes that in the long term, hydrogen engines will prove vital in various parts of the world.
Is there any place for fossil fuels in the clean hydrogen future?
Canary Media
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Canary Media thanks Verdagy for its support of the Clean Hydrogen series. Should our clean energy future rely more on electrons or on molecules? That's the question at the core of the battle over clean hydrogen, a potential fossil-fuel substitute that burns without emitting carbon dioxide.
Hydrogen: ‘The Swiss Army Knife of Decarbonization’
POWER Magazine
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
It seems everywhere you go, both inside and outside of the power industry, people are talking about hydrogen. Last October, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced an investment of […] The post Hydrogen: ‘The Swiss Army Knife of Decarbonization’ appeared first on POWER Magazine.
Tata Motors Highlights Hydrogen-Powered Vehicles at Bharat Mobility 2024
FuelCellsWorks
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
At the Bharat Mobility Global Expo 2024, Tata Motors showcases its commitment to green mobility, with a special focus on its hydrogen-powered vehicles. The display includes the Prima H.55S, an.
How Digital Transformation will Bend the Curve of the Linear Economy Toward the Circular
Speaker: Bruce Armstrong Taylor, Co-Founder & Managing Director of SmartNations Foundation, Jimmy Jia, Venture Partner at Pi Labs, Fabienne Durand, Senior Advisor to the SmartNations Foundation, & Roger Strukhoff, Executive Director of the Tau Institute
The Climate 4.0 Economy. Climate change is here. We see it in many ways already. Weather catastrophes: Texas freezing over, the wildfires of California, the increasingly unpredictable violence and frequency of hurricanes, the rapid melting and disappearance of polar ice caps. Much more evidence all around us. What can we do in our corporate organizations, in our homes and communities, to change the current course?
NT launches plan to power 72 remote indigenous communities with 70 pct renewables
Renew Economy
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Northern Territory government has launches consultations on new strategy to power scores of remote indigenous communities with an average of 70% by 2030. The post NT launches plan to power 72 remote indigenous communities with 70 pct renewables appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Lhyfe Is Building the First Commercial Green Hydrogen Plant in Northern Germany in the Port of Brake in Lower Saxony
FuelCellsWorks
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Construction work on the plant has already begun Production of up to four tons of green and renewable hydrogen per day Potential buyers are regional industrial and mobility companies Lhyfe.
Will Toyota’s Mirai hydrogen car updates be enough to popularize it?
Hydrogen Fuel News
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Among the changes the H2-powered fuel cell car include the addition of the Beyond Zero badge. Toyota’s 2024 lineup includes a broad spectrum of different types of vehicles, including its one hydrogen car, the Mirai, and this year’s model has been given a number of updates, one of which is small but visible, as it is the same Beyond Zero badge that is seen on its Prius.
TECO 2030 and Umoe Mandal Submits Fuel Cell High-Speed Vessel Design for Approval in Principle
FuelCellsWorks
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Lysaker, Norway– TECO 2030 (OSE: TECO, OTCQX: TECFF, ISIN: NO0010887516) and Umoe Mandal has just delivered the documentation package to the Norwegian Maritime Authority for an approval in principle application.
Department of Homeland Security orders $4.8 million worth of Beam Global off-grid EV charging systems
Charged
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Government agencies and municipalities are lining up to buy Beam Global’s EV ARC solar-powered off-grid EV charging systems, which not only come in handy in a disaster-recovery scenario, but also offer a quick and simple way to deploy EV charging. The latest customer is the US Department of Homeland Security, which has ordered 47 Beam EV ARC systems and 16 ARC Mobility trailers to enable efficient transportation of the products.
UK’s battery storage assets subject to ‘weak revenue environment’, says Gresham House
Energy Storage News
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
The UK battery storage market is suffering a “weak revenue environment”, with assets not able to participate in balancing the GB grid or replacing gas-fired generation to their fullest capability, according to Gresham House Energy Storage Fund.
1 4 Dioxane Removal From Water For Global Life Sciences Company
Envirotec Magazine
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
This article contains paid for content produced in collaboration with Arvia. Regulations for the use of 1,4-dioxane tightened up in the US, putting pressure on chemical manufacturers. Several US states passed laws to control the concentration of 1,4-dioxane as a product ingredient. The new laws did not yet affect wastewater concentrations, but it seems a foregone conclusion that this would happen.
Panel: optimising co-located BESS is ‘much more complicated’
Energy Storage News
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Optimising co-located BESS is "much more complicated" than standalone and few companies can do it well, panellists on Day 2 of Solar Finance & Investment Europe (SFIE) said.
Ready for biogas – getting gas engines fit for the next decade
Envirotec Magazine
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
This article contains paid for content produced in collaboration with PowerUP. Politicians, scientists, and industry stakeholders alike are continuously seeking sustainable energy sources as a contribution to the international efforts in reducing greenhouse gas emissions. However, challenges in establishing alternatives to fossil fuels include costs, technology gaps, as well as accessibility and reliability.
ZeroAvia and flyv Partner on Clean, On-Demand Flight Across Europe
FuelCellsWorks
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Hydrogen-electric aircraft engine leader and innovative German start-up airline to explore transformation of regional connectivity Hollister, CA & Kemble, UK– ZeroAvia and flyv today announced that they have signed an agreement to explore powering.
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