How sustainability professionals can use their collective voice to speed climate progress
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 22, 2024
Sustainability professionals can take meaningful action to push companies to align their policy goals and climate objectives.
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Comment: The Energy sector will continue to thrive through HPC, even as Moore’s Law comes to an end
Envirotec Magazine
FEBRUARY 19, 2024
High-Performance Computing (HPC), has become critical in assisting the energy sector, offering the capability to analyse complex data, simulate intricate processes, and optimise operations. While immensely powerful, HPC faces several challenges as it continues to evolve and respond to exponential demands for computational power. With the end of Moore’s Law looming ever closer, Owen Thomas, founder of Red Oak Consulting, argues that the energy sector will continue to thrive as HPC invariably move
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The Definition Of PFAS Should Be Science Based
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[A fun exercise in storytelling and uncovering the core narrative we live in. Published first on LinkedIn. Some good discussion about it here.] For 20 years, I’ve worked to change how companies see their role in society, and help leaders embrace the vast potential in solving environmental and social challenges. Much of my work is writing, speaking, and other forms of storytelling.
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.
Why North Face is changing where it gets its rubber and cotton
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FEBRUARY 23, 2024
With its latest cotton and rubber sourcing efforts, the retailer is pursuing regenerative materials.
The UK offshores emissions through used vehicle exports, says study
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FEBRUARY 21, 2024
Published on 20 Februar in Nature Climate Change , the study appeared to find that exported used vehicles generate at least 13-53% more emissions per mile than those that are scrapped or on the road in Great Britain. The researchers used mandatory annual vehicle inspections – the MOT tests familiar to all in the UK – of all 65 million used vehicles on British roads between 2005 and 2021 to compare the pollution and emissions intensity of vehicles exported to those scrapped, destroyed, or driven
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Image credit: Veolia Water Technologies. Veolia Water Technologies says the firm’s organic coagulant has helped to optimise the Effluent Treatment Plant (ETP) at a large scale pet food production facility in the Northwest. By switching to Hydrex 62930 the facility is estimated to make a cost saving of over £65K p/a on chemicals for the ETP, says Veolia, combined with reduced chemical handling and a safer low-hazard product.
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Electrofuels Are the Future: The Driving Force to Decarbonizing Heavy Transport
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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.
The growing popularity of degrowth
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Coal-fired power plant on the Maasvlakte, the industrial harbour district of Rotterdam. The EU has reached a provisional agreement to establish the first EU-level certification framework for the technologies that will be used for permanent carbon removals, and long-term carbon storage. Announced on 20 February, the voluntary framework is presented as an advance in the effort to support deployment of carbon removal and soil emission reduction activities across the EU.
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AR/VR Simulations for Sustainable, Regenerative, Circular Cities
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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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