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How ‘digital twins’ can model future effects of climate change

GreenBiz

Some projections call for the overall market to reach about $63.5 billion in 2027, compared with a relatively modest $3.1 billion for 2020.

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77-year-old launches waterproof hemp shoe company

Inhabitat - Innovation

8000Kicks hemp shoes opened in 2018 after founder Bernardo Carreira finished his business studies at Purdue University. He decided to make use of his grandmother Maria Otilia's 50 years of experience in the textile industry and launch a sneaker company with her.

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Natural Power wins Judges Award at Scottish Green Energy Awards

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Leading renewable energy consultancy and service provider, Natural Power, has picked up the coveted Judges' Awards at last night's Scottish Green Energy Awards in Edinburgh. The business was recognised for its internship programme, run in collaboration with the Galloway Glens Landscape Partnership (GGLP).

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Ginkgo Sustainability and Green Business Bureau Partner to Provide Living Wall and Living Roof Solutions to Businesses

Green Business Bureau

Green Business Bureau (GBB) has partnered with Ginkgo Sustainability to offer GBB members living wall and living roof solutions and services. The partnership is driven by our joint mission to connect the living and built environments through the installation of living roofs and the installation and manufacturing of living walls. Ginkgo offers custom solutions and support on the design, installation and maintenance of green roofs and living walls to help companies achieve their green building goa

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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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Why ESG will still be the Wild West in 2022

GreenBiz

For all the positive developments, the ESG landscape remains treacherous and unforgiving.

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Home built from 100 bio-based materials at Dutch Design Week

Inhabitat - Innovation

The Exploded View Beyond Building at Dutch Design Week was created out of 100 different bio-based materials. It also uses sustainable building methods to highlight the ways we as a global society can apply sustainable design and building in real-world house construction right now.

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First IMPA members successfully complete the IMPA Green Business Bureau Programme, now officially launched

Green Business Bureau

Now officially live, the IMPA Green Business Bureau Programme has now seen its first cohort of five “graduates” successfully complete the online self-assessment during a period of beta-testing. Following feedback, the programme has had its final touches added to it and is now officially open to the wider industry. Be one of the early adopters! Back in May 2021, we announced a long-awaited partnership with Green Business Bureau in order to bring the GBB Sustainability Programme, Framework and Cer

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Why sustainable cities are hitting a wall

GreenBiz

Inequality undermines the credibility of the international sustainability community.

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Over 80 fashion brands linked to Amazon deforestation

Inhabitat - Innovation

Turns out, it’s not just fast-food chains causing problems. According to a new study, many fashion brands source leather from opaque supply chains tied to decimating forests.

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Floating Solar Panel: A Promising Future for Solar Energy

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Floating solar panel is mounted on structures that float on water body. Waterbody typically includes drinking water reservoirs, quarry lakes, irrigation canals, remediation, and tailing ponds, and hydroelectric dam reservoirs. Floating solar technology has increased the attractiveness of the floating solar panels industry as it supports sustainability and efficiency.

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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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Corporate Sustainability Training: Career and Academic Education for Sustainability Professionals

Green Business Bureau

In my previous blog, Corporate Sustainability Training: Practical Employee Education , I discussed how sustainability education for the business consumer can be broken into two categories; Practical and Academic. The Practical article focused on courses that tackle smaller and more specific topics and focus on specifics to implement sustainability initiatives.

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Which creates more jobs? Green or polluting industries?

GreenBiz

Climate-friendly investments can create more jobs per dollar than polluting alternatives.

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Climate change may be driving albatross divorces

Inhabitat - Innovation

Ever heard of an albatross divorce? A new study published in the journal Royal Society found that Black-browed albatrosses may separate from their life partners due to global warming. According to the study, albatrosses are among a few species that mate for life, but climate change is affecting their mating.

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Key COP26 takeaways for manufacturers

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The UN Climate Change Conference - COP26 has come to an end, bringing world leaders, NGOs, activists and climate enthusiasts together in a global-scale climate event. What for some felt like a catastrophic failure, to others represented a successful showcase of the social and business benefits of getting back together after COVID-19. Here Neil Ballinger, head of EMEA at automation parts supplier EU Automation, offers an overview of key takeaways for manufacturers.

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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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ESG Reporting: Standards, Frameworks, Challenges and Benefits

Green Business Bureau

ESG and Reporting Standards. There are currently over 600 ESG (Environmental, Social, Governance) reporting provisions globally. This is creating a soup of ESG interpretations , muddling what constitutes a sustainable investment vs what does not. This lack of standardization and interoperability marks a significant challenge for financial institutions globally, which is having a knock-on effect on the businesses looking for investment.

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Renewable energy is even cheaper than previously thought

GreenBiz

A new report suggests early pricing prediction models have consistently underestimated how far the costs of renewable energy might fall and the benefits of an accelerated switch to clean energy.

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Brutalist home in Puerto Rico is resistant to weather

Inhabitat - Innovation

QBO3 Architects have created Casa Ethos, a home in Puerto Rico that explores brutalist architecture, or how a home can be left uninhabited safely for long periods while still adapting to the environment.

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COP26 must launch a reinvigorated UK effort on climate change, says CCC

Envirotec Magazine

A new independent assessment of COP26 and the critical next steps for the UK was published on 2 December by the Climate Change Committee (CCC). COP26 concluded with a material increase in ambitions to reduce emissions across the world and the launch of a raft of new initiatives and sector deals, said a statement from the group (which is an independent, non-departmental public body).

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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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Corporate Sustainability Training: Career and Academic Education

Green Business Bureau

In my previous blog, Corporate Sustainability Training: Practical Employee Education , I discussed how sustainability education for the business consumer can be broken into two categories; Practical and Academic. The Practical article focused on courses that tackle smaller and more specific topics and focus on specifics to implement sustainability initiatives.

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What electric boilers tell us about electrifying everything

GreenBiz

They can be swapped out without end-users needing to make substantial changes to their processes or equipment.

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Lamps by Biohm are made from coffee and orange peel

Inhabitat - Innovation

Biohm, a London biotech and biomanufacturing startup, has created a line of sustainable lampshades called Obscure that are made of 100% coffee chaff and orange peel. Biohm has become an example of what's possible in development and bio-manufacturing of natural materials for the built environment.

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Living walls can reduce heat lost from buildings by over 30%, says study

Envirotec Magazine

The ‘living wall’ at the University of Plymouth’s Sustainability Hub. Retrofitting an existing masonry-cavity-walled building with a green or living wall can reduce the amount of heat lost through its structure by more than 30%, suggests new research. The study, conducted at the University of Plymouth, centred around the Sustainability Hub – a pre-1970s building on the university campus – and compared how effectively two sections of its walls retained heat.

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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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New process cheaply extracts copper, nickel, cobalt and lithium from used EV batteries

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Sumitomo Metal Mining has developed a new proprietary process to extract high-grade metals from used EV batteries. Tapping its expertise in copper refining, Sumitomo says it can cheaply extract copper, nickel, cobalt and lithium from used EV batteries by crushing them, heating the resulting powder to specific temperatures, and adjusting oxygen levels.

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What front-line communities want from Illinois' equitable energy bill

GreenBiz

The bill has a focus on equity and expanding economic opportunities for disadvantaged communities and people of color in the clean energy sector.

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Hamama makes growing microgreens in your home effortless

Inhabitat - Innovation

There’s simply nothing more rewarding than growing your own food, except when an innovative product makes it ultra-easy to do so. Hamama is the newest option in the urban or indoor gardening trend, and it provides a breadth of options to keep your palate pleased.

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ESG data is a public good. Let’s open it up.

Impact Alpha

There is a lot of confusion about how to implement climate as well as environmental, social and governance, or ESG, analysis in finance. The post ESG data is a public good. Let’s open it up. appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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5 Planet-Friendly Reasons to Open a Green Restaurant

Green Living Guy

The planet is in trouble and needs a hero to save her. No, it’s not Superman, but the environmentally conscious restaurant owner that must answer the call. Wait—did I just say, restaurants? Yes, it’s true; they contribute a lot to the global carbon footprint and make a huge impact. Are you considering going green at your food establishment?

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What the passage of Article 6 means for carbon markets

GreenBiz

The guidelines create rules for the international transfers of carbon credits, a move intended to create more trust in the growing carbon market.

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Make your own bike with OpenBike's downloadable files

Inhabitat - Innovation

What's not to love about open-source printing instructions for the Arquimaña OpenBike? Their new design has greater stability and rigidity, is shared under a creative commons license and you can make it yourself.

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Stellantis and Factorial Energy team up to develop solid-state batteries

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Stellantis and Massachusetts-based solid-state battery developer Factorial Energy have signed a joint development agreement to advance Factorial’s high-voltage solid-state battery technology. The agreement also includes a strategic investment from Stellantis. Factorial says its solid-state batteries offer 20 to 50 percent more range and increased safety, at the same cost as conventional lithium-ion batteries.

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Sunverge and LG Partner on Residential Virtual Power Plant Project

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Solution Offers Holistic Flexible Load Management and Local System Resiliency, Features Sunverge Real-time DER Control, Orchestration and Aggregation Platform; LG ESS; LG ThinQ Energy App; and Eaton Energy Management Circuit Breakers

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The battle for leftovers

GreenBiz

Upcyclers are tackling the 133 billion pounds of food waste created in the U.S. each year.

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