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Pet sustainability, or the truth about cats and dogs

GreenBiz

One of the biggest environmental impacts is associated with the food for meat-eating pets, a product category that contributed at least 64 million metric tons of greenhouse gas emissions annually as of 2017.

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Study finds more microplastic in baby poop than in adult

Inhabitat - Innovation

In a recent study published in the American Chemical Society's Environmental Science and Technology Letters, scientists found 10 times more microplastic in babies' feces than in adults'.

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S-5! Presents at METALCON Sponsors New Solar Education Center & Launches its WindClamp2X

altenergymag

S-5!, the leading authority on metal roof attachment solutions, presents several sessions at METALCON in Tampa from Oct. 6-8, providing opportunities for attendees to earn continuing education credits.

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6 Benefits of Solar Microgrids for Local Energy Production

U.S. Green Technology

As the eco-conscious movement expands, the demand for sustainable energy sources increases. In the U.S., most of our electricity derives from fossil fuels. During combustion, they create greenhouse gas emissions and create atmospheric degradation. Environmental engineers and scientists evaluated energy-related challenges and developed sustainable solutions.

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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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What you should know about carbon removal purchase agreements

GreenBiz

The industry recognizes the need to share lessons, which is one reason you’ve seen companies including Microsoft, Shopify and Swiss Re all publish playbooks about how they are selecting and valuing projects that have verifiable permanence.

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Morgenfarm proposes vertical farms to replace Berlins Autobahn

Inhabitat - Innovation

Morgenfarm offers a utopian vision for Berlin’s infrastructure where toxic fumes are replaced by green space and healthy vegetables.

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Environmental Awareness Days In October

Green Business Bureau

There are countless environmental awareness days and events happening globally for you and your employees to celebrate year-round. Here are a few environmental awareness days coming up in October that you should really put on your calendar. Energy Efficiency Day – October 6th. Happening every first Wednesday of October, Energy Efficiency Day is a collaborative effort by energy efficiency advocacy groups across the U.S. such as the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE), U

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Is rental really the worst?

GreenBiz

The business model recently deemed “the worst green option.” But the devil’s in the (assumed) details.

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Wind tech jobs are one of the fastest growing in America

Inhabitat - Innovation

Are you mechanically inclined? Do you enjoy climbing tall ladders and yearn to join the green economy? If so, consider retraining and switching to the fastest-growing job in the U.S. — wind turbine technician.

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KROHNE Highlights New FLEXMAG 4050C Electromagnetic Flow Meter at INTERPHEX 2021

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Stop by Booth #2272to see meter for single use biopharmaceutical processes.

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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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Replate and Green Business Bureau Partner Together to Help Businesses Reduce Food Waste and Support the Planet

Green Business Bureau

Green Business Bureau (GBB) has partnered with Replate to offer members a food recovery service and an additional initiative for reducing their carbon footprint and achieving green business certification. Replate is a food rescue organization that leverages technology and logistics to match surplus food from businesses with communities in need. Through these efforts, companies reduce waste, mitigate climate change, and counter food insecurity.

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How employee health and well-being fit into the ESG wheelhouse

GreenBiz

The workforce of the future has identified a culture of health as a key factor in career decisions, and investors are increasingly aware that good health is smart business.

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These shipping container tiny homes provide for the unhoused

Inhabitat - Innovation

The pandemic showed us all how close anyone can come to having nothing. Many people are much closer to losing everything than they even want to know. Monarch Village, created by Studio 804, offers a shelter solution to meet the needs of unhoused people and families.

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American Clean Power: Resource & Project Energy Assessment Virtual Summit 2021

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Natural Power will be at American Clean Power's virtual Resource & Project Energy Assessment Virtual Summit 2021 on September 27-30.

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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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Food Rescue: Save Food the Same Way You Order It – With a Click!

Green Business Bureau

Sometimes it’s inconvenient to do the right thing. Recycling requires work. Composting can be messy. Think about how long boxes of clothes stay in your car before they make it to Goodwill? A month… if you’re proactive! Climate change requires our urgent attention however, and most of these efforts are imperative, food rescue being a primary example.

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Climate philanthropists, don’t make the VC mistake—invest in people of color

GreenBiz

Climate action without equity, justice and the transformative contributions of communities of color will continue to waste dollars and fail because barriers to equity are also barriers to building necessary political power and climate innovation.

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The City One is a compact, community-focused electric car

Inhabitat - Innovation

If less is more, then The City One is more car than you’ve ever seen before! This car is small, efficient, eye-catching, tough, and yeah — it’s electric.

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The reason I feel optimistic about the future of Alzheimer’s research

GatesNotes

New breakthroughs in Alzheimer’s diagnostics may someday soon let us substantially alter the course of the disease.

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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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China pledges to end (foreign) coal financing

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, Sept. 22 – With less than six weeks until the COP26 climate summit in Glasgow, global leaders are stirring to (modest) action. The post China pledges to end (foreign) coal financing appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Episode 286: Climate Week revelations and reflections

GreenBiz

Plus, TerraCycle's Loop service will soon offer refillable containers in Walgreens, Krogers stores.

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This apple factory turned artist ranch is a budding community

Inhabitat - Innovation

This is the story of how a decommissioned apple processing facility became a modern rural retreat. Created by Best Practice Architecture, Cloud Ranch is an amazing combination of the old and the new.

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Yotta Energy Partners with CPS Energy to Demonstrate Distributed Solar + Storage Technology

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The Battery Storage Project at Joint Base San Antonio Fort Sam Houston Military Post Will Serve as a Test Project for Deploying Distributed Energy Storage Resources

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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 World Health Organization’s new air quality guidelines ‘could save millions of lives’

Grist

On Wednesday, the World Health Organization, or WHO, published an update to its air quality guidelines — the international rubric that sets non-binding standards for safe levels of air pollution for the world’s countries. The update, which is the organization’s first since 2005, says that air pollution, alongside climate change, is one of the biggest environmental threats to human health.

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PepsiCo doubles down on reducing virgin plastic

GreenBiz

The food and beverage company is bringing all of its water, agriculture and new plastic commitments under an umbrella plan called pep+.

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Honeybee swarm kills 63 African penguins

Inhabitat - Innovation

Sixty-three endangered African penguins were the victims of a tragic attack last week. The culprits: a swarm of Cape honey bees.

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GM reveals 3 new EV motors for its Ultium platform

Charged

GM has revealed a group of three new motors that will power its upcoming Ultium-based EVs. The new motors, part of the Ultium Drive platform, were designed and calibrated in-house by GM. They share design principles as well as similar tooling and manufacturing strategies. The new happy family consists of a 180 kW front-drive motor, a 255 kW rear- and front-drive motor, and a 62 kW all-wheel-drive assist motor.

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Morningstar Corporation’s Advanced Solar Technology Helps Oil & Gas Production Facilities Reduce Carbon Emissions

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‘Digital oilfields' are going solar to reduce carbon emissions, minimize maintenance, and.

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ESG is under attack, and that’s a good thing

GreenBiz

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City of Telosa enlists Bjarke Ingels Group for urban utopia

Inhabitat - Innovation

A plan for the world’s most sustainable city has been designed and is expected to welcome its first residents by 2030. Proposed for construction in an undecided desert location in the United States, the city of Telosa is estimated to cost $400 billion and accommodate a population of 5 million.

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The value-add of tackling the Scope 3 emissions conundrum

Envirotec Magazine

Harriet Assem is Technical Director, ESG and Sustainability at ITPEnergised. Harriet Assem from technology and environmental planning advisory firm ITPEnergised offers a few thoughts on tackling one of the less well understood elements of emissions reduction, and one that is essential to achieving net zero goals. With tackling climate change top of the global agenda, we’re seeing companies around the world making great strides in reducing their Scope 1 and Scope 2 emissions.

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Bezos Earth Fund commits $1 billion in grants to nature conservation

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, September 22 — Bezos Earth Fund will begin deploying the capital this year to conserve and expand high-carbon stocks in Africa’s Congo. The post Bezos Earth Fund commits $1 billion in grants to nature conservation appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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6 questions on the future of indoor agriculture

GreenBiz

Q & A with Plenty’s co-founder and chief science officer Nate Storey about the companies take on indoor ag profitability, industry collaboration and promising markets in Asia