GreenBiz
JANUARY 25, 2023
Sponsored: Artificial intelligence carries great promise in advancing sustainability and resilience in sectors from agriculture to transportation. But it takes human intelligence to ensure AI solutions deliver positive outcomes.
U.S. Green Technology
JANUARY 25, 2023
Sustainability is more important than ever. A surprising 4 out of 5 people say that they’d rather choose a brand with a positive approach to sustainability, and a further 87% say they want businesses to act now to protect the future of the environment. Sustainability can also save businesses money and improve their profit margins. The post How Resource Management Can Help Businesses With Sustainability appeared first on U.S.
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Charged
JANUARY 25, 2023
Logistics company Schneider has ordered nearly 100 Class 8 electric trucks for its intermodal operations in Southern California. After the first order of 62 Freightliner Cascadias, manufactured by Daimler Truck North America (DTNA), Scheider’s second order of 30 additional units brings the total to 92 Class 8 EVs. According to the company, electric trucks are crucial in meeting Schneider’s sustainability goals of reducing CO 2 per-mile emissions by 7.5% by 2025 and 60% by 2035.
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 23, 2023
A criminal cyber-attack on a UK water company in August 2022, which saw hackers gain access to customer banking details, led utilities to urgently reassess cybersecurity strategies. In this Q&A, Philippe Willems, engineering manager at Ovarro, discusses the enduring challenge for the water sector and what it means for suppliers. What are the biggest cybersecurity threats facing the water sector today?
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.
GreenBiz
JANUARY 23, 2023
To look only at the positive outcomes belies the immense challenges ahead.
Inhabitat - Innovation
JANUARY 26, 2023
Octopuses, which are remarkably intelligent marine creatures, generally avoid contact with other animals and are thought to live solitary lives.
CleanTech Focus brings together the best content for cleantech professionals from the widest variety of industry thought leaders.
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 26, 2023
The report recommends ending routine oil and gas flaring by 2025, rather than 2030. An independent review of the UK’s current progress and plans in relation to achieving net zero – titled “Mission Zero” – was published on 13 January. Engineering and other stakeholder groups seemed in broad agreement with the report’s conclusions that “there is no future economy but a green economy”, and that it “correctly diagnoses the multitude of barriers holding back local net zero ambition”, as the Blu
GreenBiz
JANUARY 24, 2023
How three cities, Cupertino, Orlando and Boston, are using their communities, new technology and buildings to fight the effects of climate change.
Inhabitat - Innovation
JANUARY 24, 2023
Kiera Jeuitt is an expert at the three r's: reducing, reusing and recycling. She is the founder of "I Love Thrifting" and an expert on how to use thrifting to live more sustainably by reusing what's old, reducing the waste produced by new items you might possibly buy instead and offering amazing tips on how to recycle what's already there. Jeuitt shared some of her tips with Inhabitat.
altenergymag
JANUARY 23, 2023
Europe’s first major solar trade exhibition of 2023 – InterSolution in Ghent, Belgium – expected to capture the energised mood of a Belgian market poised for a record-breaking year.
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
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 27, 2023
China is a night-time ‘hot-spot’ for the production of nitrate radicals (PNO3) that could have a major impact on health-threatening ozone and fine particulates (PM2.5) in the atmosphere, a new study appears to reveal. The country has experienced a rapid increase in nocturnal production of NO3, whilst Europe and the US experienced a decline. Experts believe that this increase will have significant air pollution implications for China and other developing countries such as India.
GreenBiz
JANUARY 26, 2023
Victims of oppression in Xinjiang pay the price for cheap, coal-intensive solar modules.
Inhabitat - Innovation
JANUARY 27, 2023
Climate change is accelerating at an unprecedented rate. With it comes threats like global warming, pollution, natural disasters, degraded landscapes and threats to biodiversity, to name a few. In order to avoid the risks brought about by climate change, we must control greenhouse gases (GHGs) from being released into the atmosphere and boost the means of sequestering them.
Green Business Bureau
JANUARY 25, 2023
Our members continue to amaze us with their commitment to sustainability and their innovative green and social responsibility initiatives. They lead by example and demonstrate how business can be used as a platform for good. Now that 2022 is over, we’d like to take this time to recognize some of our member companies via our fourth Annual “ Best of GBB ” Awards.
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.
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 26, 2023
Unit installed on a roof opposite the Green Star facility. A waste to energy (WtE) plant in northern Paris, known as the ‘L’étoile Verte’ or ‘Green Star’ waste recovery facility, which was originally built in an industrial area, is now surrounded by residential development. This has presented a number of challenges; not least of which is odour.
GreenBiz
JANUARY 26, 2023
Demand, technological innovation and policy signals align to spur forward geothermal energy.
Inhabitat - Innovation
JANUARY 25, 2023
IKEA is coming to Austria, and the theme of the new location is: “We want to be a good neighbor.” Rather than a massive campus on the outskirts of town, the IKEA in Vienna makes use of a city lot, not only by providing the community a home goods shopping experience, but by incorporating lodging and a community garden.
Green Business Bureau
JANUARY 27, 2023
GBB Launches Green Certification Program for Westchester County, NY Green Business Bureau (GBB) has opened up an office in New York (NY) to provide the state with local support for GBB’s sustainability management solutions and green business certification program. GBB’s online platform helps businesses of all sizes become more sustainable and guides them in achieving certified levels of improved business sustainability. “ The green business movement is clearly accelerating in New Yor
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.
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 23, 2023
Infiltration of storm and ground water can increase during periods of heavy rain and storm events. Inflow of stormwater and infiltration of groundwater into sewers is a constant operational challenge, but a water utility in Norway is gaining better understanding of its network with an innovative digital approach, says Marco Westergren, chief analytics officer at water analytics platform provider InfoTiles.
GreenBiz
JANUARY 25, 2023
The practical upshot: There is no path to decarbonization without major investments in natural capital.
Inhabitat - Innovation
JANUARY 23, 2023
The EPA has announced its intention to mandate more biofuel use as part of the U.S. reaching its climate change mitigation goals. In late December, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed to increase the amount of ethanol and other biofuels that must be blended into the U.S. fuel supplies over the next three years. Renewable fuel providers and farm groups welcomed the move, but environmentalists and oil industry groups were not in favor.
Renew Economy
JANUARY 24, 2023
States most dependent on fossil fuels hit by surging prices, despite lowest ever coal output, the lowest gas generation for 18 years, and record wind and solar. The post Coal states miss out on benefits of cheap wind and solar, pay twice the price of power appeared first on RenewEconomy.
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?
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 26, 2023
A peat-forming wetland area near Hoo Field, Voe on Mainland, Shetland. A new exhibition opening at the University of St Andrews’ Wardlaw Museum explores the importance of peatlands in Scotland and across the world. While peat may conjure up images of whisky and wasteland, For Peatlands’ Sake aims to show how vital the resource is to our planet and to communities around the globe.
GreenBiz
JANUARY 27, 2023
Featuring Stacy Kauk, head of sustainability for Shopify, and an advocate for investments in carbon removal technology.
Inhabitat - Innovation
JANUARY 24, 2023
Gravity batteries are a new technology that supports the generation and storage of renewable energy through regenerative braking and gravity. A recent study on this technology has proved that old mines could be pivotal in enhancing the use of gravity batteries since they provide an ideal landscape.
Renew Economy
JANUARY 24, 2023
South Australia reached an "extraordinary" 91.5 pct wind and solar even when its main transmission links were down, in what AEMO says is a "glimpse of the future." The post “Glimpse of the future:” South Australia peaked at 91.5 pct wind and solar when links were down appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 25, 2023
A government-funded initiative aiming to accelerate innovation in the roads sector announced funding awards for several new projects on 25 January. The winning bidders who will take their projects forward as part of the £30 million ADEPT Live Labs 2: Decarbonising Local Roads programme were announced by Roads Minister, Richard Holden. Funded by the Department for Transport, the three-year, UK-wide programme has been developed by the Association of Directors of Environment, Economy, Planning and
GreenBiz
JANUARY 24, 2023
Deconstructing your company’s ESG goals to identify key performance indicators and setting milestones can be difficult. It requires the assistance of multiple stakeholders and departments to fully understand the problem, propose goals, and monitor progress towards them.
Inhabitat - Innovation
JANUARY 26, 2023
Despite low sales due to supply shortages and soaring vehicle prices in 2022, electric vehicle production is set to greatly expand in 2023. The U.S. government is aiming to phase out gas-powered cars and trucks within the next couple of decades, an ambitious, but necessary goal to curb climate change. In order to do that, new laws, including the Inflation Reduction Act, incentivize companies to produce EVs and all their components in the U.S.
Charged
JANUARY 26, 2023
Bl i nk Charging , a manufacturer and provider of EV charging equipment and services, has reached an exclusive agreement to provide its MQ 200 and IQ 200 Level 2 chargers, as well as DC fast chargers and turnkey installation services, to all 323 Mitsubishi dealerships in the US. According to Blink, the dealerships will have access to its newly rebuilt, cloud-based Blink Network, which allows hosts to easily onboard and connect its chargers.
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 27, 2023
A new report from energy consultancy Cornwall Insight has set out a range of regulation and policy changes the government could examine if it wants to avoid a slowdown or stalling of business investment in decarbonisation. The report “Business net zero: Making progress in a challenging economy” warns that against a backdrop of economic hardship, and reductions to government support, corporate investment in decarbonisation may be paused or cut back.
GreenBiz
JANUARY 27, 2023
One-thirds of young people in the UK have rejected a job over employers' weak ESG credentials, according to a new survey from KPMG.
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