How corporations can create an environmental justice policy
GreenBiz
JUNE 6, 2022
U.S. corporations have both a unique opportunity and a responsibility to reset their and the nation’s course on social and environmental justice.
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Local governments must take responsibility for clean heat
Envirotec Magazine
JUNE 9, 2022
Net zero energy goals for heating need to be owned and delivered by regional and local governments, according to a new report led by the University of Birmingham. In addition, the report emphasises the need to balance these on-the-ground local decisions with long-term policy decisions from Government. For example, it calls on the Government to fund pathfinder projects that will decarbonise 30,000 homes in the next five years and recommends the sale of natural gas boilers in the UK be banned by 2
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Is A Bad Climate Tech Brand Name Holding Your Company Back?
Michael Grossman
JUNE 5, 2022
Companies spend massive amounts of money worldwide to increase brand recognition. But what if your brand isn’t recognizable, or worse, what if your brand name makes it difficult for end-users and customers to find you? I often see this problem in the cleantech/climate tech startup world where the lack of attention to the brand name detail holds great ideas back from their full potential.
Is Sustainability Consulting Better Than An In-House Team?
Green Business Bureau
JUNE 9, 2022
Sustainability Consulting in Businesses Today. Sustainability Consulting has become an increasingly popular option in recent years as businesses and municipalities face evolving challenges in the regulatory environment and in maintaining a good public image. Consultants bring their specialty knowledge and experience to firms to provide both short-term solutions and long-term guidance.
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.
Brooklyn startup addresses gun violence with climate jobs
GreenBiz
JUNE 9, 2022
BlocPower’s Civilian Climate Corps program provides training and job opportunities to New Yorkers in neighborhoods impacted by gun violence, while helping NYC tackle its largest source of GHG emissions: buildings.
Solar superior to nuclear for powering Mars mission
Envirotec Magazine
JUNE 9, 2022
Photovoltaics could be efficiently deployed across half the planet, says peer-reviewed study. A paper published in the journal Frontiers in Astronomy and Space Sciences argues that a human expedition on the surface of the Red Planet could be powered by harvesting solar energy. The concept is not new. The main source of power for some NASA Mars rovers comes from a multipanel solar array.
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ESG vs Sustainability: What’s the Difference?
Green Business Bureau
JUNE 9, 2022
ESG vs. Sustainability. The meanings of the terms “ESG” and “Sustainability” are evolving and it’s important to understand the difference. Although ESG (Environment, Social, and Governance) was coined for the investment community as a framework for companies to report on and be measured on, the term has recently become synonymous with the term “sustainability”.
The exponential innovation potential of circular, social purpose businesses
GreenBiz
JUNE 7, 2022
A single circular innovation can be a gateway to many add-on customer and social benefits, whether circular or not.
Demo plant produces industrial sugars from mixed household waste fractions
Envirotec Magazine
JUNE 8, 2022
A UK-based demonstration plant that generates industrial biotechnology sugars and other recycled material streams from the paper and card in mixed household waste has come online in May 2022. The products will be used in the production of several high-performance bio-based materials. The South Wales-based plant’s commissioning marks the next phase of the innovative VAMOS (Value Added Materials from Organic Waste Sugars) project, set up to examine the feasibility of innovative resource recovery t
U.S. Solar Industry Sees Worst Quarter Since 2020
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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
Erosion Control: 7 Ways to Protect Your Property from the Forces of Nature
Green Living Guy
JUNE 10, 2022
For most of us, our homes are our biggest investment, and, like any investment, we want to protect them from any potential harm. Unfortunately, nature can sometimes be one of the biggest threats to our property. From severe weather to wildfires, there are several ways that the forces of nature can damage or destroy our […]. The post Erosion Control: 7 Ways to Protect Your Property from the Forces of Nature appeared first on Green Living Consultants, Companies, Electric Car Expert, Green L
Renewable energy projects power up in tribal nations
GreenBiz
JUNE 9, 2022
Dozens of tribes are investing in solar, wind and hydro projects, building toward a more sustainable future.
New EU nutrient directive essential to halt ecosystem breakdown
Envirotec Magazine
JUNE 9, 2022
The ongoing nitrogen crisis in the Netherlands and Flanders illustrates how ineffective management of nutrients can lead to both serious ecological damage and political and societal upheaval. To halt ecosystem breakdown and limit costs of further damage, the European Union (EU) needs an integrated nutrient directive that regulates the combined agricultural use of nitrogen and phosphorus, urges a new comment in Nature Reviews Earth & Environment.
RE+ Events Sets International Focus on Egypt, Partners with Egytec
altenergymag
JUNE 9, 2022
Desert-Tec focused on renewable energy in Egypt, part of the 7igears event.
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.
Green Living Guy Interviews Stephanie Moram of Good Girl Gone Green
Green Living Guy
JUNE 10, 2022
As her website says: It’s one thing to say you want to live a more eco-conscious and sustainable lifestyle. It’s quite another to actually do it. Stephanie and I are old friends and we talk so many diverse things about going green to give a quick show to the idea of how everything is green! […]. The post Green Living Guy Interviews Stephanie Moram of Good Girl Gone Green appeared first on Green Living Consultants, Companies, Electric Car Expert, Green Living, Electric Car News, New York, C
Five trends shaping the renewable energy sector
GreenBiz
JUNE 10, 2022
Sponsored: As renewables in North America rapidly expand, understanding industry trends allows businesses to capture the greatest value from the energy transition. ESG profiles of renewable energy projects vary widely. It’s critical to strive for an inclusive sustainable energy future, not just net zero.
Sanitisation chamber to support clothing and PPE reuse
Envirotec Magazine
JUNE 7, 2022
The UWS project team (left to right: Dr Mohammed Yaseen, Dr Mostafa Rateb, Dr Emanuel Epelle, Dr Luc Rolland, and Anthony Burns COO of ACS (image credit: Elaine Livingstone). A technology to sanitise clothing without the water-intensive drawbacks of traditional methods is being publicised as a useful way to advance the reuse of items like clothing and PPE.
Bowen slams Morrison and Taylor for hiding extent of Snowy 2.0 delays
Renew Economy
JUNE 9, 2022
Delays in the government-funded Snowy 2.0 could have big impact on timing of coal plant closures and shape of energy policy. The post Bowen slams Morrison and Taylor for hiding extent of Snowy 2.0 delays appeared first on RenewEconomy.
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.
Audi’s Battery Testing Center is Balancing Energy Density and Charging Capacity
Green Living Guy
JUNE 10, 2022
Electric models must be suitable for everyday use. Purchasing decisions are significantly affected above all by range, but also by the charging performance of the built-in high-voltage batteries. For this reason, Audi designs develop, and checks battery cells and battery components on its own at its battery testing center in Gaimersheim. Black, red, and gold […].
The bar for corporate climate leadership is rising
GreenBiz
JUNE 6, 2022
The 3,000+ companies taking action with Science Based Targets now represent more than one-third of the global economy.
Portable hydrogen cartridge prototype demonstrated for home and similar applications
Envirotec Magazine
JUNE 9, 2022
A working prototype portable hydrogen cartridge is able to transport and supply hydrogen energy to power a broad range of everyday applications both in and outside the home. The demonstration system has been produced by Toyota and its subsidiary Woven Planet. The firms will conduct Proof of Concept (PoC) trials in various locations, including Woven City, a human-centered smart city of the future, currently under construction in Susono City, Shizuoka Prefecture, in Japan.
Thousands petition Toyota to cease anti-EV lobbying efforts
Charged
JUNE 8, 2022
It’s an open secret that, even as automakers announce ambitious plans for new EV models, and air EV ads featuring smiling grandparents, the companies actively fight against the kind of government regulations that are forcing them to produce EVs in the first place. Corporate watchdog SumOfUs recently delivered a petition to Toyota signed by more than 110,000 members, including 10,000 Toyota drivers, demanding that the carmaker stop “lobbying to prevent electric vehicle mandates and clean air laws
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?
EPP Group Says Most European Cars Will be Electric by 2035
Green Living Guy
JUNE 10, 2022
“Let’s not put all our eggs in one basket when setting new rules for electric cars. We have to deliver on emission reductions while ensuring that the economy can manage the social transition. Mandating a phase-out of combustion engines could put up to 500,000 jobs at risk in the automotive industry. Member States whose economies […]. The post EPP Group Says Most European Cars Will be Electric by 2035 appeared first on Green Living Consultants, Companies, Electric Car Expert, Green Living,
The ranting critics of sustainability may have a point
GreenBiz
JUNE 6, 2022
Finally, people understand what you do and why you do it. Be careful what you wish for.
Recycling more precious metals from nuclear and electronic waste using the Picasso pigment
Envirotec Magazine
JUNE 7, 2022
A new method helps recover gold from E-waste at a higher rate than it can be extracted from fresh ore (image credit: Reiko Matsushita, Shinta Watanabe). A big problem with the disposal of nuclear and electronic wastes is that the process wastes precious metals such as gold and platinum-group metals, which are key metals in computer chips. Nagoya University in collaboration with Tokyo Institute of Technology have discovered that a solution to this pressing environmental and technological problem
ACT reaps dividend from 100 pct renewables as energy bills fall despite market chaos
Renew Economy
JUNE 5, 2022
Canberra households will see their electricity costs fall from 1 July, as renewables contracts shield consumers from surging wholesale electricity prices. The post ACT reaps dividend from 100 pct renewables as energy bills fall despite market chaos appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Air Officials in California to Hear Public Comments on EV Transition
Green Living Guy
JUNE 9, 2022
Science Group Calls on Board to Strengthen Rule and Reject Automakers’ Appeal for Loopholes SACRAMENTO (June 8, 2022)—The California Air Resources Board will hold a hearing in Sacramento on Thursday, June 9 to hear public comments about proposed standards to guide the state’s transition to making all new cars zero-emission vehicles by 2035. The Advanced […].
Why green chemistry is the right formula for the circular economy
GreenBiz
JUNE 8, 2022
Cycling materials require that we ensure those materials make use of safe and sustainable chemicals.
AI expedites digital mapping of electricity cables
Envirotec Magazine
JUNE 9, 2022
Image credit: Korostylev Dmitrii / Shutterstock.com. Google’s AI division is creating digital versions of – normally hand-drawn – maps of electricity cables, in a move that could benefit the global utility industry. The firm’s DeepMind engineers have partnered with UK Power Networks which delivers electricity across London, the East and South East, to create digital versions of maps covering more than 180,000km of electricity cables.
5 great books for the summer
GatesNotes
JUNE 6, 2022
I loved all of them and hope you’ll find something you enjoy too.
Paul Smith Converts Classic 1998 Mini into Zero-Emissions Vehicle
Green Living Guy
JUNE 9, 2022
Munich/Milan. Upcycling of the highest order: a legendary classic is transformed into a newly designed and modernized electric car for emission-free driving. Sir Paul Smith, long familiar to fans of the iconic British brand that has been in the business for over 50 years, is the creative mind behind this collaboration. The presentation of this […].
'Using your buying power' isn't enough
GreenBiz
JUNE 10, 2022
The concept of using your buying power only comes with privilege.
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