How Starbucks doubled the number of its 'Greener Stores'
GreenBiz
JUNE 6, 2024
The coffee chain's new building standards are now a publicly available training course.
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Wind turbine processing centre opens in Glasgow
Envirotec Magazine
JUNE 7, 2024
A circular supply chain for wind turbines in Scotland is one step closer, says sustainable materials firm EMR, thanks to a pilot processing centre the group has opened at its Glasgow South Street site. While wind power delivers an increasingly high percentage of the UK’s energy demands, the oldest wind turbines are now reaching the end of their operational lifespans.
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New Yorkers Deserve to Know That Gas Stoves Emit Dangerous Pollutants
NRDC onEarth
JUNE 3, 2024
The New York Healthy Homes Right to Know Act would require signage and labels that detail the health risks of using a gas stove.
Dutch Government Supports Four New Nuclear Reactors
POWER Magazine
JUNE 6, 2024
The incoming new government of the Netherlands reportedly will support construction of at least four new utility-scale nuclear power reactors, as part of a program to more than triple the […] The post Dutch Government Supports Four New Nuclear Reactors appeared first on POWER Magazine.
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.
How rethinking carbon markets can forge a path to the green transition
GreenBiz
JUNE 4, 2024
Carbon markets, already a crucial tool in our climate toolbox, can catalyze the global shift to a green economy.
Could EV batteries have a second life in stationary storage?
Envirotec Magazine
JUNE 7, 2024
Image credit: Connected Energy. By Matthew Lumsden, CEO of Connected Energy, a firm with expertise in using batteries for energy storage. Picture this, it’s Friday night and you’re watching the ever-popular TV game show Family Fortunes. The question comes up: “What items are often discarded when still 75% full?” Stale bread, long forgotten condiments, and unloved cosmetics all come up as popular answers, but how many people would have guessed an EV battery?
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Southern California adopts landmark rule to electrify industrial heat
Canary Media
JUNE 7, 2024
Swimming pools and dry cleaners use them. So do aircraft-engine factories, textile mills, and facilities that make packaged snacks and bottled drinks. Wherever there’s a need for large amounts of steam or heat, industrial boilers and water heaters are likely to be found.
Shell’s climate transition plan wins shareholder blessing: Why it matters
GreenBiz
JUNE 5, 2024
Shareholders prioritize short-term profits over net-zero future with approval of Shell’s downgraded transition plan.
New CEO to oversee expansion of leading water treatment and handling businesses
Envirotec Magazine
JUNE 6, 2024
The firm behind water handling and treatment solutions Selwood and Siltbuster has appointed a new CEO. Dan Lee is now Workdry International CEO, with a brief to lead market-leading water handling and treatment businesses and oversee expansion into Europe Dan has 15 years’ experience at the helm of high-performing asset-based industrial services businesses.
Despite Temper Tantrum, Youngkin Cannot Reverse Va's Climate Progress
NRDC onEarth
JUNE 5, 2024
Youngkin's Latest, Senseless Attack on a Keystone Climate Law, Clean Cars, Like His Attack on RGGI, Is Divorced from the Facts and the Law, and Will Not Stand
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
Sorting fact from renewable fiction: Handy resources for debunking solar and wind myths
Renew Economy
JUNE 5, 2024
Do solar farms cause cancer? Will wind turbines send me deaf? A handy list of articles to help you sort fact from renewables fiction. The post Sorting fact from renewable fiction: Handy resources for debunking solar and wind myths appeared first on RenewEconomy.
The week in climate policy: 4 updates you need to know
GreenBiz
JUNE 7, 2024
Virginia is done playing by California’s rules on vehicle emissions standards; Jared Kushner is backing solar power.
AI solutions to sustainability challenges share £1 million as Manchester Prize names finalists
Envirotec Magazine
JUNE 2, 2024
Finalists included Greyparrot Insights, which tracks waste in recycling plants to build a digital map of the packaging value chain. After a nationwide search and entries from all corners of the UK, the Manchester Prize has awarded £1 million to ten teams of advanced AI innovators at Manchester’s Whitworth Gallery. The Manchester Prize is a multi-million-pound challenge prize from the UK’s Department for Science, Innovation and Technology to reward UK-led breakthroughs in artificial intelligence
New NRDC Analysis: Gov Shapiro's Energy Plan is a Winner
NRDC onEarth
JUNE 5, 2024
Two foundational power sector policies, cap-and-invest plus ambitious clean electricity targets, provide significant benefits
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.
Lithium-Ion’s Grip on Storage Faces Wave of Novel Technologies
BloombergNEF
JUNE 4, 2024
The domination of lithium-ion batteries in energy storage may soon be challenged by a group of novel technologies aimed at storing energy for very long hours. The post Lithium-Ion’s Grip on Storage Faces Wave of Novel Technologies appeared first on BloombergNEF.
Feeling stuck in your sustainability job? Here are 8 steps to reclaim your job satisfaction
GreenBiz
JUNE 6, 2024
Whether you’re feeling uninspired by your organization’s progress, or are just ready for new growth opportunities, here’s how to handle feeling stuck in your current role.
Preparations begin for underground nuclear waste storage in Finland
Envirotec Magazine
JUNE 2, 2024
2019 images of work at the underground site in Olkiluoto. Preparations are underway to start the disposal of spent nuclear fuel in the Finnish bedrock next year, as the first place in the world to implement underground storage of high-level nuclear waste. The storage site is at Olkiluoto in Eurajoki, southwest Finland (image credit: Posiva). After use, nuclear fuel becomes strongly radiating and dangerous waste.
Memo to Water Utilities: Don’t Pit Safe Water Against Affordable Water
NRDC onEarth
JUNE 6, 2024
Let’s reject water utility scare tactics on treatment costs for toxic forever chemicals.
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.
Nigel Farage’s Reform Party Has Accepted £2.3 Million from Fossil Fuel Interests, Climate Deniers, and Polluters Since 2019 Election
DeSmogBlog
JUNE 4, 2024
Reform UK has received more than £2.3 million from oil and gas interests, highly polluting industries, and climate science deniers since December 2019, amounting to 92 percent of the party’s donations. This week, Nigel Farage confirmed he would be returning as leader of Reform and standing in the general election, threatening to split the already fragile Conservative vote.
Circular textile ‘phoenix’ Renewcell is bought out of bankruptcy
GreenBiz
JUNE 7, 2024
Private equity firm Altor, which is renaming the company Circulose, recently raised 3 billion euros to invest in green businesses.
Work revives dew ponds in Sussex
Envirotec Magazine
JUNE 7, 2024
Ranger Lawrence Leather next to the restored Newbarn Pond at Seven Sisters Country Park (image credit: Jeff Travis). Eight derelict dew ponds have been lovingly restored and are now thriving with new life, thanks to funding of over £90,000 from the South Downs National Park Trust. After years of stagnation and dwindling water levels due to climate change, eight dew ponds across Sussex and Hampshire are once again providing a haven for scores of fauna and flora, including dragonflies, toads, frog
Eraring deal signals death of baseload power in Australia, and Dutton’s nuclear fantasy
Renew Economy
JUNE 3, 2024
The Eraring deal means that Australia's biggest coal generator will operate with the same capacity factor as the average solar farm. Baseload is dead, so what does Peter Dutton think he is going to do with a big nuclear plant? The post Eraring deal signals death of baseload power in Australia, and Dutton’s nuclear fantasy 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?
Electric lawn equipment, solar could be home-electrification ‘gateways’
Canary Media
JUNE 6, 2024
The best way to get people to electrify everything might be getting them to electrify something — anything at all.
Failure is an option: We already know the outcome of global plastic waste negotiations
GreenBiz
JUNE 3, 2024
Delegates at the final U.N. meeting in November will likely fail to produce a binding international treaty that will reverse the growing trend of plastic pollution.
Tiny crop-health sensors could help cut the cost of groceries
Envirotec Magazine
JUNE 6, 2024
The prototype comprises a filter made with a thin layer of vanadium dioxide that can switch between edge detection and detailed infrared imaging. A compact, lightweight sensor system with infrared imaging capabilities could be easily fitted to a drone for remote crop monitoring, according to the group behind it. The flat-optics technology is said to have the potential to replace traditional optical lens applications for environmental sensing in a range of industries.
Lazard: IRA brings LCOS of 100MW, 4-hour standalone BESS down as low as US$124/MWh
Energy Storage News
JUNE 6, 2024
According to Lazard, the impact of Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) incentives on the business case for battery storage in the US is now significant.
Massachusetts kicks off first pilot to shift gas utilities to clean heat
Canary Media
JUNE 4, 2024
Gas utilities could be key to the effort to get fossil fuels out of buildings — but only if they stop investing in pipes that deliver fossil gas and instead start building pipes for clean energy.
5 ways big companies can get more out of climate tech startups
GreenBiz
JUNE 4, 2024
Large companies are collaborating with green startups to advance their sustainability goals; these 5 tips can forge fruitful partnerships.
USVs set to collect water pollution data in SW England pilot
Envirotec Magazine
JUNE 6, 2024
MSeis USV on the River Dart (image credit: Daniel Rasmussen, HydroSurv). A consortium of British marine technology companies has secured Innovate UK funding to deploy non-invasive Uncrewed Surface Vessels (USVs) for water quality monitoring in three key South West regional ports; Dartmouth, Falmouth and Plymouth. Led by Somerset-based marine acoustic monitoring experts, MSeis, the ‘Smart Ports, Clean Waters’ project partners aim to transform public understanding of water ecosystems in ports and
“Unimaginable challenges:” World-first integrated wind, solar and battery hybrid finally at full capacity
Renew Economy
JUNE 5, 2024
Unique wind, solar and battery project in north Queensland finally overcomes connection challenges to reach full capacity five years after it was built. The post “Unimaginable challenges:” World-first integrated wind, solar and battery hybrid finally at full capacity appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Coal-producing Wyoming could soon host one of largest solar farms in US
Canary Media
JUNE 3, 2024
Wyoming, the nation’s leading coal-producing state , has begun the initial permitting for the construction of its largest utility-scale solar farm, by far.
Inside Shein’s plan to recycle ‘deadstock’ material into new clothing
GreenBiz
JUNE 3, 2024
The company wants to be ‘fully circular’ by 2050 but its emissions have increased by 52%.
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