In the travel industry, ‘sustainable tourism’ gives way to ‘regenerative hospitality’
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Regenerative hospitality has the potential to unlock the broader systemic changes we need to limit climate change and protect ecosystems.
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Air pollution and trees study overturns “rough and hairy is good” dictum
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 29, 2024
Surrey researcher Yendle Barwise assembling one of the pollution monitors. If you’re trying to take pollution out of the air, choose evergreen trees with smaller leaves. That’s according to a new study from the University of Surrey. Researchers from Surrey’s Global Centre for Clean Air Research (GCARE) tested ten trees beside a busy main road.
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PFAS: No forever exemptions for forever chemicals
NRDC onEarth
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
The goal is safer and better solutions, so any exemptions from laws and regulations restricting PFAS must be temporary.
Final concrete turbine foundations poured for Australia’s biggest wind farm
Renew Economy
JANUARY 31, 2024
All of the concrete foundations have been poured at the site of the massive MacIntyre wind farm, ready to accommodate 162 wind turbines. The post Final concrete turbine foundations poured for Australia’s biggest wind farm appeared first on RenewEconomy.
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.
AstraZeneca, Atlassian and Philips: How to convince suppliers to lower greenhouse gas emissions
GreenBiz
JANUARY 29, 2024
Companies are committing to help suppliers set science-based targets and lower emissions. Here’s how pharma company AstraZeneca, software firm Atlassian and healthcare tech maker Philips approach it.
Seagrass planting robot to reinstate vanishing ocean meadows and tackle climate change
Envirotec Magazine
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
The Seagrass planting prototype. A team of young engineers is launching a £100,000 project to build a robot that will plant seagrass to help fight climate change, thanks to help received from Converge, a group describing itself as a pan-Scotland springboard for university entrepreneurs. Here, Converge shares both news of the project and details of its ethos and ways of working with entrepreneurs.
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Global Clean Energy Investment Jumps 17%, Hits $1.8 Trillion in 2023, According to BloombergNEF Report
BloombergNEF
JANUARY 29, 2024
• BloombergNEF’s Energy Transition Investment Trends 2024 finds that renewable energy, electric vehicles, hydrogen and carbon capture all drive investment growth year-on-year • China leads with $676 billion invested in 2023, or 38% of the global total • Together, the EU, US and UK invested more than China in 2023, which was not the case […] The post Global Clean Energy Investment Jumps 17%, Hits $1.8 Trillion in 2023, According to BloombergNEF Report appeared first on BloombergNEF.
How beverage companies can step up their actions to prevent water pollution
GreenBiz
JANUARY 29, 2024
A Ceres report highlights what the beverage industry can do to better mitigate water quality impacts.
Reducing cars’ emissions easier said than done, says EU audit institution
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 29, 2024
The EU’s CO2 emissions reduction targets for new passenger cars will not be achievable as long as important prerequisites are missing, says a report published on 24 January by the European Court of Auditors. Despite lofty ambitions and strict requirements, most passenger cars on EU roads still emit the same quantity of CO2 as 12 years ago. Electric vehicles can help the EU to come close to a zero-emissions car fleet.
Act Locally: How to Activate Bold Infrastructure Ideas
NRDC onEarth
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
This guide identifies key strategies to use historic new resources to transition away from the failed policies of the past to a cleaner, more sustainable future
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
Origin to build 650 MWh battery next to gas plant in Victoria
Renew Economy
JANUARY 28, 2024
Origin unveils plans to spend $400 million on a 650MWh battery in Victoria. The post Origin to build 650 MWh battery next to gas plant in Victoria appeared first on RenewEconomy.
As electric bus market expands in US, manufacturers struggle to keep up
GreenBiz
JANUARY 31, 2024
Fueled by federal funding, the transition to low-emissions public transportation represents a big opportunity for the struggling U.S. electric bus manufacturing industry.
ADBA welcomes Government response to Green Gas Support Scheme mid-scheme review
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 29, 2024
The Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association (ADBA) welcomed the government’s full outcome published on 25 January on the Green Gas Support Scheme (GGSS) Mid-Scheme Review. As announced in October 2023, the scheme will be extended by 3 years to 31 March 2028, providing continuity for the sector. “This is good news for the UK’s growing green gas industry,” said ADBA Chair Chris Huhne, welcoming the announcement. “The extension until 2028 gives investors and d
Seizing the Opportunity for Old-Growth Protections
NRDC onEarth
JANUARY 31, 2024
The Forest Service has started to formalize protections for our oldest national forests. Now we must ensure the process lives up to its potential.
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.
Climate change has killed 4 million people since 2000 — and that’s an underestimate
Grist
JANUARY 30, 2024
In the early 2000s, as climate denialism was infecting political institutions around the world like a malevolent plague, an Australian epidemiologist named Anthony McMichael took on a peculiar and morbid scientific question: How many people were being killed by climate change? McMichael’s research team tallied up how many lives had been lost to diarrheal disease, malnutrition, malaria, cardiovascular disease (a proxy for heat-related illness), and flooding, worldwide, in the year 2000.
New Jersey has made it illegal to discard EV batteries in landfills
GreenBiz
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
The Garden State’s legislation is designed to create a circular economy for EV batteries.
Solar solution aims to reduce dairy production costs and emissions
Envirotec Magazine
JANUARY 28, 2024
Researchers working on the ASTEP project , a European Union Horizon 2020 collaborative project, and a key initiative within the Crowdhelix Solar Energy Helix , have developed what they describe as a cutting-edge solar heating and cooling technology for dairy industry processes: the SunDial Solar Collector. SunDial is undergoing trials at Mandrekas, a prominent dairy operation located in Corinth, Greece.
Final North Atlantic Right Whale and Offshore Wind Strategy Released
NRDC onEarth
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
New federal strategy aims to protect and promote the recovery of North Atlantic right whales while responsibly developing offshore wind energy.
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.
Cost of UK’s flagship nuclear project blows out to more than $A92 billion
Renew Economy
JANUARY 28, 2024
Cost of UK's flagship nuclear project blows out again, this time to a potential $A92 billion. Is the Australian Coalition still pushing this technology? The post Cost of UK’s flagship nuclear project blows out to more than $A92 billion appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Which of these 46 sustainability certifications is right for you?
GreenBiz
JANUARY 30, 2024
Here are 46 professional certifications to demonstrate your expertise across 9 subcategories of sustainability.
Molecular sensor enables water bear hardiness by triggering dormancy
Envirotec Magazine
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
Microscope image of a tardigrade. Free radicals sensor triggers tardigrades to enter dehydrated tun state to withstand extreme stress Tardigrades – hardy, microscopic animals commonly known as “water bears” – use a molecular sensor that detects harmful conditions in their environment, telling them when to go dormant and when to resume normal life, according to findings reported in a January edition of the open-access journal PLOS ONE.
Why Wood Pellets Won’t Solve California’s Wildfire Problem?
NRDC onEarth
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
GSNR's project will not only waste time and drain critical funding but may even worsen wildfires.
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?
Research Undermines Claims that Soil Carbon Can Offset Livestock Emissions
DeSmogBlog
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
A recent study has found it is currently “not feasible” for the global livestock industry to sequester enough carbon to cancel out its planet-warming emissions — and that policy efforts geared toward that goal may be deeply misguided. The study, which was published in the journal Nature Communications, shows that 135 gigatons — or 135 billion metric tons — of carbon would need to be returned to soils to balance out the amount of methane emitted annually by ruminants like cattle, sheep, bison, an
Modernizing the world’s power grid
GreenBiz
JANUARY 29, 2024
Sponsored: A clean energy future will require the transformation of today’s power grid. To get there, businesses, utilities and governments must work together.
EU project aims to curb release of world’s most potent GHG
Envirotec Magazine
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Gas-insulated electrical switchgear is one of the few applications that still uses sulphur hexafluoride. A major new Horizon Europe project is seeking to reduce the release of a greenhouse gas with a global warming potential more than 25,000 times higher than CO2. The contributors include the University of Aberdeen’s Professor Dragan Jovcic, who brings to the table his expertise in High Voltage DC (Direct Current) switchgear.
Using Community Hardening and Forest Resiliency to Mitigate Wildfire Harm
NRDC onEarth
FEBRUARY 1, 2024
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Report: Biden Administration Will Provide $1.5 Billion for Palisades Nuclear Restart
POWER Magazine
JANUARY 31, 2024
The Palisades nuclear power plant in Michigan could be another step closer to restarting, with reports saying the Biden administration in February will announce $1.5 billion in funding for the […] The post Report: Biden Administration Will Provide $1.5 Billion for Palisades Nuclear Restart appeared first on POWER Magazine.
Follow these 4 tactics to close the world's circularity gap, report says
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FEBRUARY 1, 2024
The Circularity Gap Report focuses on the three industries with outsize impacts on the planet.
Comment: Agriculture and pharma key to solving micropollutants problem
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FEBRUARY 1, 2024
Dr Pablo Campo Moreno is a senior lecturer in applied chemistry at Cranfield University’s water science institute. In the face of growing public concern about the presence of micropollutants in water and wastewater, Dr Pablo Campo Moreno identifies initiatives that he says are taking the lead in tackling the problem. As the phrase ‘forever chemicals’ enters the Oxford English Dictionary for the first time in 2024, and these fluorinated substances expand the list of micropollutants, it might be t
Danish offshore wind project cancelled after area redignated as bird sanctuary
Renew Economy
JANUARY 30, 2024
European Energy cancels plans for offshore wind farm due to the area being redesignated as a natural bird sanctuary. The post Danish offshore wind project cancelled after area redignated as bird sanctuary appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Nikola barrels forward with hydrogen fueling stations network
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JANUARY 31, 2024
The fuel cell truck maker is taking leaps ahead on building out the necessary refueling infrastructure. Nikola stocks saw some positive movement upon the announcement of the speed at which it is building its network of hydrogen fueling stations for refueling its Class 8 Tre fuel cell trucks. The company’s refueling center in Ontario, California has been servicing its demonstrator fleet.
The fossil fuel era is waning. Here’s what investors need to know
GreenBiz
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What corporate climate action says about the fossil fuel industry’s 'terminal decline.
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