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Become a Leader in the Construction Industry by Incorporating These 5 Innovative Strategies

U.S. Green Technology

Leadership and Innovation in the Construction Industry The construction industry is one of the largest industries in the world. Since the stone age, when early humans lived in caves, to the present day when we inhabit gigantic skyscrapers, humanity has accomplished extraordinary feats in the field of construction. However, in the past few decades, innovation.

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Cities need to change for people to thrive amid a changing climate

GreenBiz

There's a resilient, zero-carbon, equitable vision for the future. How do we get there from here?

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Innovative food tracker uses app to help you live zero-waste

Inhabitat - Innovation

The Bubble Food Tracker is an app-controlled food tracker that monitors products in your kitchen, keeping you aware of what you have in stock and your regular consumption habits, all to bring you closer to a zero-waste lifestyle.

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Boeing has been a steady partner in doing right by the environment

CleanTech Alliance

Washington has enormously benefited from Boeing over the years. We should appreciate that — even in hard times.

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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 Renewable Energy Is Being Used by Construction Companies

U.S. Green Technology

In the last decade, the U.K. has decreased their dependency on carbon energy more than any other country in the world. In 2019, for the first time since the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, renewable power supplied more electricity than fossil fuels in the U.K. Government regulation plays a crucial role in defining the success. The post How Renewable Energy Is Being Used by Construction Companies appeared first on U.S.

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Inside Bill Weihl’s quest to give employees and job seekers a 'ClimateVoice'

GreenBiz

A new initiative aims to press companies to have a strong and active voice on climate policy in the United States. Your company and its campus recruiters just may be a target.

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Can Electric Cars Rise In Time To Save Us? Washington State Says Yes

Jim Conca

WA State is committed to decarbonizing by mid-century and has passed legislation to do just that, like replacing all gasoline cars, mostly with electric vehicles. But that needs preparation, charging stations and knowledge of how we fit them into our lives, plus software like that supplied by EnelX.

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Coul Links golf snub is victory for common sense, says environmental scientist

Envirotec Magazine

The beach of Embo Sands lies alongside Coul Links (photo credit: Julian Paren). A leading environmental scientist has hailed the ‘landmark decision’ to refuse planning permission for the Coul Links golf course – labelling it a victory for ‘common sense’. On 21 February Scottish Ministers opted not to grant permission for the controversial plan to build an 18-hole golf course on the dune system at Coul Links, Embo, near Dornoch.

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We need to think beyond urban farming

GreenBiz

But the broader agricultural world can learn much from how those operations use data.

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Saving the Scottish Wildcat from extinction

Inhabitat - Innovation

Conservationists are rushing to save this unique wildcat.

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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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Ameren Missouri Looks to Harness Wind, Solar and Batteries With $7.6B ‘Smart Energy Plan’

GreenTechMedia

Ameren Missouri, the largest investor-owned utility in the Midwestern state, has filed a $7.6 billion grid modernization plan that includes smart meters for its nearly 1.3 million customers by 2025, adding nearly 700 megawatts of wind power, plus more solar and battery storage systems to boost rural reliability. Ameren’s “ Smart Energy Plan ,” filed Wednesday with the Missouri Public Service Commission, will direct most of its spending — $5.3 billion, on top of $1 billion

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Project secures EU funding to create sugars, chemicals and plastics from household waste

Envirotec Magazine

Resource recovery technology firm Fiberight is one of the consortium partners. An 11-strong European consortium has secured funding for a project to demonstrate the commercial feasibility of generating waste sugars derived from household waste and producing a range of high-performance bio-based materials and products. The VAMOS (Value Added Materials from Organic Waste Sugars) project has received €6,984,813 funding from the Bio Based Industries Joint Undertaking (BBI JU) under the European Unio

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Why Silicon Valley is taking a big interest in trees

GreenBiz

Forest data startups such as Pachama and Silviaterra can help the biggest players in tech tackle their emissions.

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Rundown lodge near the Nile River is now a solar-powered eco-resort

Inhabitat - Innovation

Once known as one of Uganda's most popular hotels, the Nile Safari Lodge had fallen into disrepair over the years. Now, it's a solar-powered, luxury resort.

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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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Shell Exploring World’s Largest Green Hydrogen Project

GreenTechMedia

Oil major Shell has started feasibility work on what would be the largest green hydrogen project in the world. The plans would see 3 to 4 gigawatts of offshore wind capacity established in the North Sea by 2030 purely for the manufacture of green hydrogen. Electrolyzers will be based in Eemshaven, along the northern coast of the Netherlands, and potentially offshore as well.

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‘Urgent action’ needed if Scotland’s transport sector is to meet net zero targets, according to new report

Envirotec Magazine

Net zero offers ‘huge economic development opportunity’ for Scotland. But significant investment and urgent action is required. Interconnectivity between different modes of transport is critical. A new report suggests immediate action aimed at achieving net zero carbon can still offer a significant economic opportunity for Scotland – and the transport sector is “hugely optimistic” about the country’s prospects of decarbonisation.

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13 sustainability podcasts that will keep your earbuds plugged in

GreenBiz

Looking for solutions to some of the biggest problems of our time? So are these podcasts.

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Reintroducing the Eurasian Lynx to Scotland

Inhabitat - Innovation

The Eurasian lynx is so-called because it has been found in forests that stretch from Europe to central Asia, thus distinguishing it as the widest-ranging cat on our planet. Despite this, the species disappeared from Great Britain during the Middle Ages due to excessive hunting, according to the Journal of Quaternary Science.

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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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Solar Repowering Could Be Coming Sooner Than You Think

GreenTechMedia

Solar technology is getting cheaper and more efficient. That winning combination means that many of the oldest projects in the global solar fleet may be set for a facelift. Throw in sunsetting subsidies, worthless warranties and a smattering of poorly built projects, and repowering and revamping (the latter involves changes that don’t increase capacity) will be an obvious choice for many developers in the years ahead, creating a big new subsector of the global solar industry.

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Nesting in the thrush hour: Leeds traffic light hosts endangered bird species

Envirotec Magazine

The traffic light in Leeds city centre (photo credit Ben Andrew). Mistle thrush aka stormcock has set up nest in Leeds traffic light. Chicks hatched during height of storm Dennis. Nesting has taken place more than a month earlier than usual. A pair of mistle thrush has set-up home and are rearing their four chicks surrounded by the hustle and bustle of Leeds city centre in front of an amber traffic light.

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Kellogg's bows to pressure on palm oil, deforestation

GreenBiz

The activism was inspired by a petition created by two pre-teen sisters.

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Why should the Scottish woodlands be protected?

Inhabitat - Innovation

Although Scotland is more heavily forested than England or Wales, much of its woodlands have been lost to human factors, like logging and urban sprawl, or to environmental pressures, such as climate change.

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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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The Key to Unlocking 100% Renewables

GreenTechMedia

The 100 percent renewable energy future doesn’t start with a country, state or region. It starts with a city. One power plant in a city, in fact. In Glendale, California. Glendale is a city of 200,000 people just north of Los Angeles. And in 2014, Glendale was in a tricky spot. The city’s natural gas plant was old. The City Council faced a decision that would impact the municipality for decades to come: revamp the 252-megawatt gas plant, or find local alternatives?

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Unlocking the energy potential of Scotland’s parks

Envirotec Magazine

Aerial shot of Kelvingrove Park: Glasgow is rated as the local authority with the greatest potential to meet its heat demand from sub-surface heat collectors. Research published on 24 February by social enterprise greenspace scotland appears to reveal how the untapped energy potential from Scotland’s parks and green spaces could provide low carbon heat for homes and reduce Scotland’s carbon footprint.

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How Main Street Project creates healthier farms and stable economics for farmers

GreenBiz

It’s not enough to just blame Big Ag. We need to create new ways of thinking and doing when it comes to food production.

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Autonomous Draper Drone to detect microplastics in the water

Inhabitat - Innovation

Microplastic pollution is everywhere, but its size—less than five millimeters in length—makes the threat almost invisible to the naked eye. That’s why Cambridge-based research and development lab Draper has teamed up with the Environmental Protection Agency and design firm Sprout Studios to create the Draper Drone, a concept for an autonomous underwater vehicle that implements Draper’s portable microplastics sensor.

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‘No Debate’: Bifacial Solar the New Normal for Lightsource BP

GreenTechMedia

Bifacial solar modules are the new normal for developer Lightsource BP, the company tells GTM. Lightsource BP, among Europe's largest solar developers, installed a bifacial test system in Northern Ireland in 2018. Real-world data from that has made the company comfortable using the technology for its latest projects. Now other big European developers are gearing up to do the same in 2020.

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MAYO Designs, Inc.

Green Business Bureau

MAYO Designs is a web design and marketing firm that believes in making the world a better place. Through their philosophy of being purpose-driven, passion-fueled, and people-oriented, they help companies build strategies, attract customers, and convert sales. It can be challenging to effectively scale impact and see the results in revenue when juggling so many moving parts and bringing green business products and services to the market, and this is where MAYO comes in.

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What will it cost to save the earth's oceans?

GreenBiz

Achieving Sustainable Development Goal No. 14 could require spending $175 billion per year.

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Futuristic air-purifying masks combat air pollution with innovative fan system

Inhabitat - Innovation

A? Air has recently unveiled its Atm?s face mask — a high-tech, futuristic mask that wraps comfortably around the face while purifying the air you breathe.

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Sunrun Deploys Record Solar Capacity in Q4 as Battery Interest Increases

GreenTechMedia

The nation's top rooftop solar installer finished the year with a burst of home solar-plus-storage deals. Sunrun installed a record 117 megawatts of solar in Q4, within its most recent guidance for the quarter and up 9 percent from Q3. The company achieved double digit annual growth in installations, though it grew slower than originally expected.

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Solar accounted for 2.6% of U.S. electrical generation in 2019 — a 15% increase over 2018

Solar Power World

Renewable energy sources (biomass, geothermal, hydropower, solar, wind) accounted for 18.2% of net domestic electrical generation during 2019, according to a SUN DAY Campaign analysis of just-released data from the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA). A year earlier, renewables’ share was 17.5%. The latest issue of EIA’s “Electric Power Monthly” (with data through December 31,… The post Solar accounted for 2.6% of U.S. electrical generation in 2019 — a 15%