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Take these 3 steps, add $500 million and create a circular economy for packaging, report urges

GreenBiz

It will take $500 million by 2025 to create the recycling system of the future and dramatically increase the collection of post-consumer plastics, according to the Recycling Partnership.

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Natural Gas And Renewables Will Rule America’s Electricity Future

Jim Conca

As much as wind and solar are increasing, natural gas is increasing more. And gas will continue to grow faster than all other sources in the United States for some time. By mid-century, gas should exceed 50% of our generation, with renewables in second at over 25%.

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The Best Option for Airlines to Shrink Their Carbon Footprint

GreenTechMedia

The airline industry has committed to curbing emissions growth to zero by the end of 2020. That’s no small task. Emissions from the sector are rising rapidly. The International Civil Aviation Organization anticipates that in 2020, global international aviation emissions will be 70 percent greater than in 2005. Last year flights worldwide produced 895 million tons of CO2 in total.

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What Are the Key Technologies for Cleaning Our Water

U.S. Green Technology

As we approach 2020, humanity still has widespread difficulties meeting people’s need for clean water. This is true even in the U.S., where it’s a profitable commodity, but where we also use gallons to chase the homeless off our sidewalks. Homelessness exists everywhere in the world, and so does the unmet need for clean water. The post What Are the Key Technologies for Cleaning Our Water appeared first on U.S.

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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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Build a better battery for wind and solar storage, and the energy sector will beat a path to your door

GreenBiz

As demand for renewable electricity surges, so too does demand for efficient, safe and sustainable storage.

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Girl Scouts build bee hotels to help save wild bees

Inhabitat - Innovation

To help save these vital pollinators, a Denver-based Girls Scouts day camp built miniature hotels to house and protect solitary wild bees.

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4 Out of 5 EU Coal Plants Are Losing Money

GreenTechMedia

Four out of five of coal power plants in the European Union are losing money, according to a report by think tank Carbon Tracker. The report, Apocalypse Now , warns governments and investors to concentrate on enabling shutdowns that are as low in cost as possible and to find ways to compensate communities hit hardest by the closures. Carbon Tracker puts losses from European coal plants this year at €6.6 billion ($7.2 billion).

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How the cleanest U.S. cities are progressing toward zero carbon

GreenBiz

This article originally appeared on MeetingoftheMinds.org.

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New biofabricated clothing made from algae goes through photosynthesis just like plants

Inhabitat - Innovation

Related: SAOLA offers sustainable sneakers sourced from algae and recycled plastic + Roya Aghighi Via Dezeen biogarmentry, roya aghighi, living clothes eco fashion, eco clothing

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Political and business leaders meet to agree new action for tackling air pollution

Envirotec Magazine

The International Clean Air summit has been convened by the Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan and UK100, a group of 95 mayors and local authorities. An international clean air summit, hosted on 23 October by the Mayor of London, attended by government ministers and the head of the World Health Organization (WHO) will see a group of city and business leaders launch a joint declaration to tackle air pollution.The signatories, which include 22 political and corporate leaders propose that Government and b

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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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PG&E Outlines Path to Easing Future Power Grid Outages

GreenTechMedia

Pacific Gas & Electric's top executives and members of its post-bankruptcy board of directors faced a nearly five-hour grilling from the California Public Utilities Commission on Friday over the communications, planning and execution failures of its massive fire-prevention power outage earlier this month. Amidst a public outcry over its handling of the five-day blackout of an estimated 2 million people, PG&E’s leaders had few successes to speak to, beyond the absence of fires.

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Solar booms and surging investment: 5 takeaways from the IEA's latest renewables report

GreenBiz

All you need to know about the IEA's projections for the global renewables market for the next five years.

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Global renewable energy is projected to rise by 50% in the next 5 years, IEA finds

Inhabitat - Innovation

The International Energy Agency (IEA) recently released its Renewables 2019 market forecast, detailing analysis on renewable energy and technologies. In the report, industry trends show that the world’s total renewable-based power capacity will grow by 50% between 2019 and 2024, increasing by 1.2 terawatts. Solar photovoltaic (PV) systems shall account for 60% of that increase. .

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Data analytics firm wins £500k funding to build the UK’s first digital waste tracking system

Envirotec Magazine

Alastair Hanlon, chief commercial officer of PragmatIC, with Dr Michael Groves, Topolytics founder and CEO. Award-winning data analytics business Topolytics has been awarded £500,000 to build a prototype for a UK wide comprehensive waste tracking system. The system will monitor and analyse all waste transactions across the UK every year. It will seemingly enable the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA) and the environmental regulators in England, Scotland, Wales and Norther

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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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What Are The Marketing Tools Every Cleantech Company Must Have?

Michael Grossman

Part 1--Research. This column is the first of a five-part series on the critical elements necessary for a cleantech company to successfully market itself, regardless of the budget. Do I Have To Pay For Marketing? One of the most frequent questions I hear from companies in the cleantech world, whether a pre-revenue startup, growth stage, or in competitive niches like solar, battery storage, or water treatment is, "What are the essential things we should be doing to market our company?".

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Palm oil buyers cultivate Mexico's ambition to grow a sustainable industry

GreenBiz

Food companies Oleopalma and PepsiCo lead smallholder certification drive.

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Green-roofed CLT classrooms immerse children in nature

Inhabitat - Innovation

After transforming a historic castle into a secondary school for the Groenendaal College, Antwerp architectural firm HUB was approached once again by the same client to tackle another inspiring school project—an energy-efficient primary school addition in the middle of leafy Groenendaal Park. Fittingly titled the Park Classrooms, the recently completed project provides four classrooms and a large central gathering space for up to 90 Groenendaal Primary School children aged between 6 to 7 years.

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World Biogas Association’s newest members applaud mission to bring industry together to achieve its huge potential and build a long term sustainable circular economy

Envirotec Magazine

Global Potential of Biogas report estimates industry greenhouse gases abatement potential at 12% of today’s global emissions. SHV Energy, ENGIE, SUEZ latest companies to join WBA’s existing members to identify road map to achieve this potential. As the urgency to decarbonise grows, the World Biogas Association (WBA) is bringing the industry together to look at how fast its members could build the infrastructure to collect and treat all the organic wastes generated by society, which if left untre

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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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Businesses Need To Get Serious About Sustainability

Green Business Bureau

Most executives aspire to creating great companies. Business owners aspire to creating great businesses. In today’s world, to be a great business, you also have to be a green business. Employees and customers care about how eco friendly and socially responsible a business is, some demand it. Being a green business will enable executives, business owners and managers to hire great people, create a great culture, have great customer relationships, and create a great place to work.

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Clean Energy Deal Tracker: This corporate renewable thing is kind of a big deal

GreenBiz

In Q3 2019, the big deals kept getting bigger.

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Amazon rainforest might reach irreversible tipping point as early as 2021

Inhabitat - Innovation

Relentless Amazon deforestation and gross mishandling of the region by Brazilian authorities and agricultural advocates are pushing the world’s largest tropical rainforest closer to the brink of catastrophic ecological collapse.

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World Biogas Association’s newest members applaud mission to bring industry together to achieve its huge potential and build a long term sustainable circular economy

Envirotec Magazine

Global Potential of Biogas report estimates industry greenhouse gases abatement potential at 12% of today’s global emissions. SHV Energy, ENGIE, SUEZ latest companies to join WBA’s existing members to identify road map to achieve this potential. As the urgency to decarbonise grows, the World Biogas Association (WBA) is bringing the industry together to look at how fast its members could build the infrastructure to collect and treat all the organic wastes generated by society, which if left untre

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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 study: Antarctica’s tipping point is closer than we thought.

Grist

Antarctic ice sheets have been melting rapidly for hundreds of years, much longer than scientists previously thought, according to a study out Thursday. The findings suggest that estimates for global sea-level rise need to be reworked and that we’re even closer to the day that fish start chasing each other through New York City’s subway tunnels. The scientists behind the new study in Scientific Reports were able to reconstruct a 6,250-year record of how fast Antarctic glaciers slipped into the s

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It’s time for companies to make the leap from action to advocacy

GreenBiz

Reimaging silent about the need for climate solutions is no longer an option. Here's what a science-based, all-in climate policy agenda would look like.

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Research finds heart attacks and strokes surge on high pollution days in England

Inhabitat - Innovation

A new study published by King’s College London (KCL) reports that elevated levels of air pollution contribute to increased spikes in cardiac arrests, stroke admissions and asthma hospitalizations.

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South African start-up provides app that brings together independent truck owners and customers needing waste removal and recycling.

Envirotec Magazine

In South Africa, a new app-based service, working off the grid from a used ship container, is seemingly bringing convenience and simplicity to businesses and professionals who need waste removed from worksites. WRAPP (Waste Recycling App) is bringing together independent truck owners and the customers who need waste removed – all via an easy-to-use mobile app, says the firm behind it.

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Massachusetts Sues ExxonMobil For Climate Disinformation, Greenwashing

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 2 mins Massachusetts filed a lawsuit against ExxonMobil today over the company's misinformation campaign to delay action to address climate change. . Attorney General Maura Healey told reporters in a press conference today that “Exxon has fought us every step of the way,” and was “completely uncooperative,” noting that the company failed to comply with requests for documents and depositions.

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The sensible, sexy and strange world of carbontech

GreenBiz

The trillion-dollar market is growing startups, products and technologies, though capital deployment remains an obstacle.

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Sculptural, solar-powered home generates more energy than it uses

Inhabitat - Innovation

Certified LEED Platinum, the single-family home offsets all its energy use with a 10 kW rooftop solar array and geothermal wells drilled beneath the driveway.

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All ballast water organism sizes should be tested, advises monitoring firm

Envirotec Magazine

Large cargo ship discharging ballast water out from the Anchor’s hub. Microbiological monitoring equipment firm LuminUltra has advised the shipping industry of the importance of testing all sizes of ballast water organisms identified by the International Maritime Organization (IMO) to prevent the spread of aquatic invasive species. More than 4000 species of organism are carried in ballast water, ranging in size and resilience to treatment, with the IMO having specified the type and size of

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Tesla Unveils Latest Version of Solar Roof While Dodging Big Questions

GreenTechMedia

Three years in, Tesla is beginning to publicly acknowledge the difficulties involved in creating and scaling a solar roof tile. The electric car company turned clean energy provider has tended to downplay or ignore the long history of failures and disappointments in the solar roof industry. In October 2016, Tesla pitched the tiles as an aethetically stunning tool for a renewably powered future.

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California pulls no punches on climate action

GreenBiz

Governor Gavin Newsom is unabashed about fighting climate impacts and the White House. He's got good company.

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