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This Coca-Cola bottler will capture carbon dioxide to put the fizz in its drinks

GreenBiz

Liberty Coca-Cola Beverages is building a “quadgeneration” system to generate electricity, run heating and cooling processes, and recover carbon dioxide to carbonate beverages.

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New lithium battery with simple production and high safety developed

TechXplore

Prof. Dr. Francesco Ciucci, Chair of Electrode Design for Electrochemical Energy Systems at the University of Bayreuth, in collaboration with his research partners from China, has succeeded in resolving the incompatibility between lithium nitrate and 1, 3‐dioxolane (DOL) for use in quasi-solid, battery electrolytes. They achieved this by integrating a novel nitrate-based additive.

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What Are Heat Pump Air Conditioners?

NRDC onEarth

They’re way more efficient and cost-effective than standard ACs. Even better, they double as carbon-slashing heating systems.

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Smart standpipe KTP supports PhD first for water technology firm

Envirotec Magazine

(Left) Bamidele Adebisi, Professor in Intelligent Infrastructure Systems, and (right) Paul Carrington, the CEO of Aquacheck Engineering with (centre) KTP associate Dario Chiantello with a prototype smart water meter developed via a Knowledge Transfer Partnership. Aquacheck Engineering is celebrating the graduation of the first student to be awarded a PhD via its partnership with Manchester Metropolitan University and Innovate UK’s Knowledge Transfer Network (KTN).

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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.

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How to keep your passion burning with a career in ESG

GreenBiz

Burnout is real and even more intense when climate change is your job. Here are 5 ways to keep your head on straight while trying to solve the world's biggest problem.

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Scientists invent micrometers-thin battery charged by saline solution that could power smart contact lenses

TechXplore

Scientists from NTU Singapore have developed a flexible battery as thin as a human cornea, which stores electricity when it is immersed in saline solution, and which could one day power smart contact lenses.

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Electric actuators awarded gas industry standard VA2/2020

Envirotec Magazine

National Gas has approved AUMA Actuators Limited’s explosion-proof range of high-performance electric actuators with the Gas Industry Standard VA2/2020 certification. Gas Industry Standard (GIS)/VA2/2020 specifies the requirements for electric-powered actuators, for use with two-position (open/closed) quarter-turn valves manufactured to the requirements of GIS/V6.

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3 developments for food companies from the pre-COP28 UN meeting

GreenBiz

How the UN food system summit stocktaking moment set the stage for food systems at COP 28.

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Coffee grounds offer performance boost for concrete

TechXplore

Engineers in Australia have found a way of making stronger concrete with roasted used-coffee grounds, to give the drink-additive a "double shot" at life and reduce waste going to landfills.

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At Long Last, the Vision of the Grand Canyon Tribal Coalition Is Realized

NRDC onEarth

The designation of the Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni—Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument is not only extremely popular but its protections are long overdue.

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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

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Renewables startup aims to disrupt domestic energy market

Envirotec Magazine

The Swarm team (top, left to right: Dan Martin (Co-Founder and CEO); Barry McMahon (Head of Engineering); Anthony Piggott (Co-Founder and CTO); front, left to right: Emily Ling (Head of Operations); Shanice Haley (Customer Experience Manager); Melissa Verdon (Office Manager); Matt Martindale (Head of Marketing). A green energy management startup, launched by two experienced energy sector entrepreneurs, aims to change the way people buy, generate and use power in their homes.

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Decades of messages about recycling have crowded out better ways to manage waste

GreenBiz

Wrong choices are typical in the confusing US recycling system, and recycling itself is often a poor choice among other options.

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Environmental group tried to shut down Diablo Canyon. Judge just dismissed case

TechXplore

PG&E can continue to operate California's last nuclear power plant past 2025 despite a contract it signed with environmentalists to shutter it, a San Francisco Superior Court judge ruled Wednesday.

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Partnering with Beavers to Adapt to Climate Change

NRDC onEarth

Beavers and their habitat increase ecosystem health and help people and wildlife adapt to a warmer planet.

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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.

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The swansong of African hydropower?

Envirotec Magazine

Kariba dam on the Zambezi river (image credit: DAFNE Project Politecnico di Milano). Hydropower, traditionally one of Africa’s most important sources of electricity, will rapidly fade in importance and cede its position to solar power. The attractiveness of new hydropower is decreasing fast, both due to the increasing economic competitiveness of solar panels and to the increasingly uncertain effects of climate change on river flows.

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11 training resources to bolster your climate and net-zero strategy

GreenBiz

Empower your organization to meet its climate goals by learning how to develop a strategy based on best practices and science.

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Japan's Fukushima nuclear plant begins releasing treated radioactive wastewater into the sea

TechXplore

The tsunami-wrecked Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant 's operator says it began releasing its first batch of treated radioactive water into the Pacific Ocean on Thursday—a controversial step, but a milestone for Japan's battle with the growing radioactive water stockpile.

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CARB Must Reform LCFS Program to Meet Climate Goals

NRDC onEarth

CARB's Low-Carbon Fuel Standard currently funnels millions of dollars a year to polluting fuels. Will CARB listen to the community voices calling for change ?

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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.

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Innovate UK funding for technology that generates water out of air

Envirotec Magazine

A first-of-its-kind ‘atmospheric water harvester’ has secured funding from Innovate UK. NovNat Tech is developing a technology that can generate water out of air, and is based in the Unit 9 incubator at the Birmingham Research Park. “The harvest uses a proprietary material that has already been vigorously tested for its water sorption characteristics, and has displayed breakthrough performance, capturing and releasing water from air at a faster rate and with less energy required than any existin

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Got tech to slash aviation emissions? Salesforce, JetBlue and Qantas want to know

GreenBiz

The Sustainable Aviation Challenge is calling for companies to share their innovations by Oct. 2.

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Computation model paves the way for more efficient energy systems

TechXplore

About 70% of the energy we use in everyday life is wasted in the form of heat, produced by engines, factories, and electrical devices. However, researchers from EPFL's School of Engineering have made a significant theoretical step forward that could boost sustainable energy generation.

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NOAA’s Proposed Seafood Rule: Too Weak to Improve Conditions

NRDC onEarth

NOAA’s Proposed Rule excludes protections for species at high-risk of illegal fishing & fails to help address human rights violations in the seafood industry.

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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?

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UK and NZ come closer on water knowledge

Envirotec Magazine

A water pipe in Auckland. A new knowledge-sharing partnership is bringing the UK and New Zealand closer together on shared water challenges. WRc, a centre of excellence in water sector innovation based in the UK, is working with ProjectMax, a New Zealand consultancy that helps water utilities and central government invest in their community’s water infrastructure, and share knowledge and expertise.

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Should you electrify your heavy-duty truck? Ask these 5 questions

GreenBiz

Electrification isn’t the only way to decarbonize transportation and logistics, but the path your company chooses to take will depend on these factors.

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New study finds ways to suppress lithium plating in automotive batteries for faster charging electric vehicles

TechXplore

A new study led by Dr. Xuekun Lu from Queen Mary University of London in collaboration with an international team of researchers from the UK and U.S. has found a way to prevent lithium plating in electric vehicle batteries, which could lead to faster charging times. The paper was published in the journal Nature Communications.

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At Long Last, the Vison of the Grand Canyon Tribal Coalition Is Realized

NRDC onEarth

The designation of the Baaj Nwaavjo I’tah Kukveni—Ancestral Footprints of the Grand Canyon National Monument is not only extremely popular but its protections are long overdue.

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Project aims to reduce impact of ammonia emissions from livestock

Envirotec Magazine

The PigProGrAm project includes Membracon’s Downflow Gas Contactor (DGC), described as “a patented technology that excels in a wide variety of gas separation applications, such as industrial carbon capture.”. Testing has begun with a project that aims to reduce the environmental impact of ammonia emissions from livestock by using ammonia-harvesting technology, which was installed in July at a pig farm running initial trials.

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Circularity, meet decarbonization

GreenBiz

A 'physicist turned sustainability professional' explains how to bring the two strategies together.

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Norway opens world's biggest floating wind park

TechXplore

Norway inaugurated the world's biggest floating wind park in the North Sea on Wednesday, an emerging technology considered promising for the transition from fossil fuels to green energy.

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Focus: Framing Your Brand Mission and Vision

Michael Grossman

Focus Is About The People You Serve Ask an climate tech engineer or scientist what the focus of their start up company is, and you’re likely to hear a statement beginning with the words, “we make…” That shouldn’t be surprising because scientists and engineers invent things. Ask a CFO what the focus of the company is, and you’re likely to hear the company’s vision and goals, and strategy for generating a specific amount of revenue or even the eventual sal

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University project resolves a sticky issue with adhesive recycling

Envirotec Magazine

Adhesive being dissolved from labels. Adhesive residue left on recyclable materials, such as glass and cardboard, can be a challenge to recycle. But a new approach that uses degradable polymers means it can be dissolved. It was developed at the University of Surrey. Sticky residue causes problems in the recycling industry, ranging from low-quality products, blocked water systems and damaged recycling machinery.

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3 strategies for embedding product circularity from the start

GreenBiz

Sponsored: Product manufacturers can make circularity a reality for their company with circularity readiness. Here are early-stage strategies to consider.

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