3 smart ways Seattle is at the forefront of reuse
GreenBiz
JUNE 1, 2023
The city and Washington state’s support of closed loop economic models through public-private partnerships and grant programs is inspiring entrepreneurs throughout the region.
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List presents safer chemicals for manufacturing IT products
Envirotec Magazine
JUNE 1, 2023
When it comes to chemicals used in the manufacture of IT products, very few have been studied for their impact on humans and the environment. To accelerate the shift to safer alternatives, the TCO Certified Accepted Substance List presents substances proven to be a better choice, a move which the group behind it suggests as ground-breaking. Six more process chemicals have recently been added to the list.
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Slenergy Launches iShare-Home Residential Energy Solution in Munich
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JUNE 1, 2023
During the event, Slenergy officially introduced its innovative residential energy solution, iShare-Home, with an ambition to assist customers in reducing energy costs, achieving energy independence, and minimizing their carbon footprint.
Harnessing the power of your people to drive impact
GreenBiz
MAY 30, 2023
Sponsored: Pentair’s head of social responsibility shares how the company is engaging its global employees to advance the positive impacts of its business.
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.
Mountain Valley Pipeline Pushed Forward on False Claims of Need
NRDC onEarth
MAY 30, 2023
Claims that MVP is needed for energy security or demand—or that it is nearly built and has no legal hurdles ahead—are contradicted by data.
Scope 3 emissions preparation causing data overload, suggests study
Envirotec Magazine
JUNE 2, 2023
‘Road to Net Zero’ study profiles difficulties, as many of the largest UK companies begin implementing Scope 3 emissions reporting Sixty per cent of large enterprises with more than 1,000 employees captured by a new study have begun implementing Scope 1 and 2 direct carbon emissions reporting. Two thirds (66 per cent) of these large UK firms had begun implementing Scope 3 reporting, including indirect emissions from upstream and downstream ‘value chain’ activities.
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How regenerative tourism can help avert a sixth extinction
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John Pagano, Group CEO of Red Sea Global, examines the benefits regenerative tourism can bring and explores the importance of biodiversity to both business and planet.
California Assembly Passes Climate-Resilient Food & Farming Bill
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JUNE 1, 2023
With AB 408, California can reduce climate emissions, protect farmworkers, stimulate economic growth, and increase equity across the food and farming system.
£3.25 million available for the creation and restoration of woodlands along the HS2 Phase One route
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MAY 31, 2023
Kenilworth, Warwickshire: Construction diggers and workmen working on HS2 railway line near a wood in May 2020. The HS2 Woodland Fund has re-opened for applications (on Tuesday 30 May), supporting projects that create and restore woodland along the High Speed Two (HS2) Phase One route. The HS2 Woodland Fund has reopened to new applications (on 30 May), with £3.25m available to support woodland creation and the restoration of plantations of ancient woodland sites (PAWS).
Lightning eMotors to deliver 126 commercial EVs to Macnab EV Sales
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JUNE 2, 2023
Canadian commercial EV provider Lightning eMotors has contracted with Canadian vehicle distributor Macnab EV Sales to supply 126 Lightning ZEV3 and ZEV4 cargo vans, passenger vans and shuttle buses by the end of the year. Lightning says it is ramping up production of its GM-based ZEV4 platform in school bus, box truck and shuttle bus configurations.
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
Cities and states suing Big Oil just got a boost from the Supreme Court
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JUNE 1, 2023
Complaints from Minnesota to Massachusetts, and from Honolulu to New York City, have a better shot at prevailing.
Affordable Housing Is Infrastructure
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MAY 30, 2023
We need to invest in our housing stock to protect residents from displacement and help them fight and prepare for the climate crisis.
CIRCUL-A-THON finalists present solutions for transport, electronics, packaging and healthcare
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JUNE 2, 2023
Hungry on energy, materials and manpower, vehicle manufacturing presents a formidable appetite for new ideas that will reduce waste, and winners in the ‘transportation’ category showcased some of the latest thinking along these lines. Finalists have been announced for the CIRCUL-A-THON design competition – run by chemicals firm SABIC – which lauds designers’ efforts to create reusable and recyclable products.
LG Energy Solution to build a $5.5-billion battery manufacturing complex in Arizona
Charged
MAY 29, 2023
South Korean battery manufacturer LG Energy Solution will invest approximately $5.5 billion to construct a battery manufacturing complex in Queen Creek, Arizona. The complex will consist of two manufacturing facilities—one for cylindrical batteries for EVs and another for lithium iron phosphate (LFP) pouch-type batteries for energy storage systems (ESS).
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.
Preparing for the EU’s new reporting directive
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MAY 31, 2023
Sustainability consultants and professionals offer advice on how to prepare for the European Union’s new reporting framework.
Big Oil Still Raking it in as Public Pays for Pollution
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JUNE 1, 2023
U.S. needs to hold industry accountable for harm it continues to inflict on communities, the environment, and the global climate.
Marine fish are responding to climate change by relocating towards the poles
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JUNE 2, 2023
The majority of fish populations in the sea are responding to global warming by relocating to wards colder waters nearer the north and south poles , according to the latest research on the impact of climate change on our oceans. Analysing the breadth of current world-wide data on marine fish change s in recent years, researchers from the University of Glasgow have revealed how fish populations across the Earth’s oceans are responding to rising sea temperatures.
Another climate tipping point to worry about: Plankton
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JUNE 2, 2023
Rising temperatures could transform plankton and other tiny aquatic organisms into a huge source of carbon emissions, a little-known — and potentially catastrophic — climate tipping point that could accelerate global warming. A study , published Thursday in Functional Ecology, found that rising temperatures cause a sudden shift in these microbes’ eating habits, flipping them from carbon absorbers to carbon emitters.
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.
Why nature-based investments could be ESG’s crowning glory
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MAY 31, 2023
In the face of geo-economic and geopolitical uncertainty, investors are beginning to understand why nature can represent an attractive long-term play.
Making Our Water Safe AND Affordable
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Senate Hearing on May 31 Will Spotlight Water Affordability Challenges and Solutions
Powder uses sunlight to disinfect contaminated drinking water
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MAY 31, 2023
A group at Stanford University say they have invented a low-cost, recyclable powder that kills thousands of waterborne bacteria per second when exposed to ordinary sunlight. The discovery of this ultrafast disinfectant, they suggest, could be a significant advance for nearly 30 percent of the world’s population with no access to safe drinking water.
Victoria blows past wind energy output records
Renew Economy
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Wind output records blown away as weather system sweeps across Victoria. The post Victoria blows past wind energy output records appeared first on RenewEconomy.
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?
Stalled energy projects may finally move forward
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JUNE 1, 2023
The U.S. debt-ceiling deal could finally advance energy projects that have been waiting in limbo.
A New ERA of Clean Energy for Rural America
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USDA pioneers the largest investment in rural electricity since the Great Depression.
Water innovation recognised at Edinburgh awards ceremony
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MAY 30, 2023
Group picture of 2023 Lighthouse Award winners. From left to right: Giovanni Annicchiar, Ecopetrol; Ralph Exton, Grundfos; Per Overgaard Pederson, Aarhus Vand ReWater; Molun Zhang, The Coca-Cola Company; and Devesh Sharma, Aquatech International. Collaboration was cited as the key to success for the seven winners of the 2023 Lighthouse Awards, which were presented during BlueTech Forum in Edinburgh, Scotland.
Australia’s first 2GWh battery is aimed at eliminating a very big solar duck curve
Renew Economy
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The country's first 2GWh big battery is clearly focused on eliminating the growing solar duck curve in Western Australia. The post Australia’s first 2GWh battery is aimed at eliminating a very big solar duck curve appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Crafting a global strategy for impact investment at Acumen
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REE Automotive adds P7-C Chassis Cab to its electric truck lineup
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REE Automotive (Nasdaq: REE), a provider of EV platforms, today revealed P7-C, a Class 4 chassis cab offering a new cabin design built on REE’s P7 modular electric platform. The P7-C is designed to meet the requirements for the Inflation Reduction Act incentives, which are more stringent for EVs in Class 4 and above. It’s also designed to simplify vocational upfits.
‘Get on, get back or get out of the energy queue’ – ESO announces urgent action to speed up grid connections
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A note of cautious welcome was apparent from renewable energy firms as National Grid Electricity Systems Operator (ESO) announced (on 2 June) new actions to help speed up electricity grid connections by up to 10 years. The firm said it was introducing targeted further reforms, which build on its five-point-plan , to speed up connections to the electricity grid.
Fossil gas death spiral: Regulator caps exit fee to “socialise” cost of mass disconnection
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JUNE 1, 2023
Regulator sets exit fee for households seeking to quit gas as they electrify, and allows networks to impose higher fixed charges to recoup investments in face of death spiral. The post Fossil gas death spiral: Regulator caps exit fee to “socialise” cost of mass disconnection appeared first on RenewEconomy.
'Disappointing': Few asset managers back shareholder biodiversity proposals, report finds
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MAY 30, 2023
New research from Planet Tracker warns major investors are still failing to take nature loss seriously.
GenH2 and ZeroAvia to develop liquid hydrogen technologies for airports
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MAY 29, 2023
Hydrogen infrastructure system specialist GenH2 has executed an MOU with ZeroAvia to develop liquid hydrogen aviation infrastructure solutions for use at airports. ZeroAvia is developing a hydrogen-electric aviation powertrain. The company aims to retrofit its fuel cell-powered engines to existing fixed-wing and rotorcraft airframes in order to reduce time to market, and is also partnering with clean-sheet designers.
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