GreenBiz

DECEMBER 1, 2021

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.

Climate change 520

Climate change 520

Inhabitat - Innovation

DECEMBER 1, 2021

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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altenergymag

DECEMBER 3, 2021

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).

Energy 172

Energy Energy 172

Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 3, 2021

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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Stormwater Sustainability Cooling Soil 148

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.

Sustainability

GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

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

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Inhabitat - Innovation

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

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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Construction Sustainability 268

Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 1, 2021

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

Sustainability 148

Sustainability Plastics Recycling Recycling 148

GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

Inequality undermines the credibility of the international sustainability community.

Sustainability 495

Sustainability 495

Inhabitat - Innovation

DECEMBER 2, 2021

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.

Fashion 258

Fashion 258

altenergymag

NOVEMBER 28, 2021

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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Demand Energy Energy Sustainability 164

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

Energy

Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

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.

Education 148

Education Sustainability Organic Policy 148

GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

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

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Pollution Investment 481

Inhabitat - Innovation

DECEMBER 2, 2021

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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Climate change Global warming 255

altenergymag

NOVEMBER 27, 2021

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.

Climate change 161

Climate change 161

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.

Transportation

Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 2, 2021

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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Organic Sustainability Government Investment 148

GreenBiz

DECEMBER 2, 2021

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.

Energy 462

Energy Energy 462

Inhabitat - Innovation

DECEMBER 2, 2021

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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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 2, 2021

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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Climate change COP Fossil fuels Carbon 147

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.

Sustainability

Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

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.

Education 148

Education Sustainability Policy Investment 148

GreenBiz

DECEMBER 2, 2021

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

Electricity 432

Electricity 432

Inhabitat - Innovation

DECEMBER 2, 2021

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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Biotech Startups Sustainability 245

Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

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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Soil Biodiversity Carbon Sustainability 147

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?

Carbon

Charged

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

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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Lithium Batteries Recycling Recycling 144

GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

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

Energy 399

Energy Energy 399

Inhabitat - Innovation

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

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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Innovation 243

Impact Alpha

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

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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Government Investment 141

Green Living Guy

DECEMBER 1, 2021

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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Carbon Global warming Organic Climate change 140

GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

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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Carbon 394

Inhabitat - Innovation

DECEMBER 3, 2021

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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Charged

DECEMBER 2, 2021

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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Batteries Energy Energy Lithium 140

altenergymag

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

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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Resilience Energy Energy 140

GreenBiz

DECEMBER 3, 2021

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

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Upcycling Waste Waste 381