Amazon eliminates 15 billion plastic ‘air pillows’ from delivery boxes
GreenBiz
JUNE 20, 2024
The retailer’s latest step to remove single-use plastic across its North American distribution network.
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Material gains: Overcoming the recycling challenge with aluminium
Envirotec Magazine
JUNE 21, 2024
To reach Net Zero, manufacturing more products in the UK that contain recycled content, and ensuring that they are reprocessed domestically, will be crucial. One material that exemplifies progress in this direction is aluminium, says resource expert EMR, which outlines important initiatives and progress, below. The aluminium recycling process requires only 5-10 percent of the energy needed to produce the primary metal, resulting in significant carbon emissions savings.
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Vermont Becomes Second State to Take Big Steps for Bees
NRDC onEarth
JUNE 18, 2024
The Vermont legislature enacted a bill curbing the use of bee-toxic neonic pesticides on the first day of Pollinator Week.
Peter Dutton vows to override state nuclear bans as he steps up attack on PM
The Guardian: Energy
JUNE 21, 2024
Opposition leader tells Liberal party officials that state premiers ‘won’t stop us’ and labels Anthony Albanese a ‘child in a man’s body’ Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast Peter Dutton has vowed a Coalition government would override the states’ legislated ban on nuclear power, telling party officials on Saturday that state premiers “won’t stop us”.
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.
$10 billion Bezos Earth Fund director: ‘Next wave’ in green finance is climate adaptation
GreenBiz
JUNE 20, 2024
Two key areas for climate investment are resilience to warming temperatures and phasing down fossil fuels, says Paul Bodnar
Call to make London a ‘sponge city’
Envirotec Magazine
JUNE 19, 2024
The River Rom in Dagenham, East London (image credit: ©Thames21). London will need to urgently become a ‘sponge city’ – a city better designed to absorb and hold rainwater – in order to ward off the negative impacts of the climate emergency, the organisers of London Rivers Week have urged. The climate emergency has increased the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events and governments, businesses and communities must protect London’s rivers in order for them to be better prepared to tac
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Dutton’s plan to nuke Australia’s renewable energy transition explained in full
Renew Economy
JUNE 20, 2024
The Coalition's nuclear plan is more about the destruction of an existing industry - wind and solar - than the creation of a new one. Here's why. The post Dutton’s plan to nuke Australia’s renewable energy transition explained in full appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Salesforce commits $25 million to ‘steep learning curve’ of carbon removal
GreenBiz
JUNE 18, 2024
The company also signed its first renewables contract in Europe with projects in six Italian regions.
Much of the Nord Stream gas remained in the sea
Envirotec Magazine
JUNE 20, 2024
The researchers took water samples in an area northeast of Bornholm, near the site of the Nord Stream leaks (Image credit: Adele Maciute). A lot of the methane simply dissolved in the surrounding water of the southern Baltic Sea following the September 2022 explosion, according to measurements taken by the University of Gothenburg, and reported in Nature Scientific Reports.
By the Numbers: How Are U.S. Fisheries Doing?
NRDC onEarth
JUNE 17, 2024
Here is our breakdown of the NOAA’s 2023 Status of Stocks report, which shows more progress is needed to ensure healthy and resilient fisheries.
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
Nuclear engineer dismisses Peter Dutton’s claim that small modular reactors could be commercially viable soon
The Guardian: Energy
JUNE 20, 2024
Hugh Durrant-Whyte says 2045 is a realistic timeframe, adding it was likely to be ‘more expensive than anything else you could possibly think of’ Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast Australia would need “many decades” to develop the regulations and skills to operate a nuclear power plant, and the experience gained at the existing Lucas Heights facility won’t help much, according to New South Wales’ chie
Amazon, Google and Harvard demonstrate the value created by regenerative buildings
GreenBiz
JUNE 20, 2024
Featuring all-electric systems, water reuse and innovative solar power, these buildings improve “the health and resilience of economies, cultures, and people.
AI-driven robotic arm to increase recycling at Southwark facility
Envirotec Magazine
JUNE 20, 2024
An AI-driven robotic arm – said to be as accurate as the human eye – is being used at Veolia Southwark IWMF to pick out paper, card, mixed plastics and beverage cartons, which often contain some aluminium layers, from the aluminium line leaving just pure aluminium items for effective recycling. The project is a collaboration between Veolia and Recycleye, an AI robotics business for innovative waste and materials management.
Sea Turtle Week Highlights a Need to Safeguard Ocean Habitat
NRDC onEarth
JUNE 21, 2024
The Blake Plateau is home to several sea turtle species and requires greater protection.
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.
Power bills could rise by $1,000 a year under Coalition plan to boost gas until nuclear is ready, analysts say
The Guardian: Energy
JUNE 20, 2024
Experts predict major electricity price hikes if opposition proposal to slow rollout of large-scale renewable projects goes ahead Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast Australians could face an increase in annual household power bills of up to $1,000 under a Coalition plan to slow the rollout of large-scale renewable energy and use more gas-fired electricity before nuclear plants are ready, analysts say.
Sustainable packaging helps drive superior product experience
GreenBiz
JUNE 17, 2024
Procter & Gamble’s Responsible Beauty approach focuses on delivering superior consumer experience and value with sustainable packaging playing a key role.
Getting to the bottom of EPDs
Envirotec Magazine
JUNE 19, 2024
Pumps specialist Dutypoint explains the significance of Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs), and introduces its EPD-certified, all-in-one tank and booster set, ScubaTANK®, with details on how it fulfills these requirements. Although it may seem like environmentalism and sustainability have exploded in recent times, in fact, it’s nothing new. The concept of sustainability was first embraced in 1972 as a vision recognising the interconnectedness of social, economic and environmental issues.
NYC Proposes Bill to Shift Cost of Lead Pipe Replacement to Property Owners
NRDC onEarth
JUNE 18, 2024
The New York City Council has proposed a controversial new bill that would require property owners to take on the task and expense of replacing all of their building’s lead water service lines within the next ten years, costing them thousands.
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.
Why the newest large nuclear plant in the US is likely to be the last
Renew Economy
JUNE 19, 2024
After years of delays and cost over-runs, the US has finally opened its newest large scale nuclear unit, using the design favoured by Peter Dutton. Here's why it could be the last the US ever builds. The post Why the newest large nuclear plant in the US is likely to be the last appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Construction giant CRH’s reuse strategy is winning customers such as Google
GreenBiz
JUNE 17, 2024
40 percent of the company’s revenue comes from climate-resilient infrastructure or concrete and asphalt with reduced emissions.
RenewableUK CEO and former COP President call for bold leadership on offshore wind
Envirotec Magazine
JUNE 19, 2024
Speaking at the opening session of RenewableUK’s Global Offshore Wind 2024 conference and exhibition at Manchester Central, RenewableUK’s Chief Executive Dan McGrail has called for the sector to put the troubles of recent years behind it. His address came a few days after the group published a report showing that global offshore wind operational capacity had increased by 21% over the last 12 months, from 61.5 gigawatts a year ago to 75GW today.
Illinois’s REAP Charts a Path to the State’s Clean Energy Future
NRDC onEarth
JUNE 17, 2024
Planning for a decarbonized future is crucial if Illinois wants to meet its clean energy goals on time.
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?
Nuclear thuggery: Coalition will not take no for an answer from local communities or site owners
Renew Economy
JUNE 19, 2024
Coalition vows to override objections of states, asset owners and local communities to their nuclear plans. The post Nuclear thuggery: Coalition will not take no for an answer from local communities or site owners appeared first on RenewEconomy.
Nearly half of all $1 billion-plus companies are failing the Plastics Scorecard
GreenBiz
JUNE 17, 2024
107 of 225 companies received an F grade, Amazon and Macy’s among them, as “plastic intensity” increases.
Chart: Electric vehicle growth is slowly eating into global oil demand
Canary Media
JUNE 21, 2024
By the end of this decade, global demand for oil will peak — and that’s largely thanks to the rise of electric vehicles and clean energy technologies, according to the International Energy Agency’s “ Oil 2024 ” report.
The Coalition’s nuclear power plan offers the worst of all energy worlds: higher emissions and higher electricity costs | Malcolm Turnbull
The Guardian: Energy
JUNE 18, 2024
If the first episode of Australia’s climate wars was a tragedy, the second is an expensive and dangerous farce, writes Malcolm Turnbull Follow our Australia news live blog for latest updates Get our morning and afternoon news emails , free app or daily news podcast Back in the early years of the climate wars , the opponents of renewables would argue that coal-fired generation was cheaper and, in any event, global warming was a hoax.
Australia’s first floating wind farm edges closer with feasibility licence awarded to 2GW project
Renew Economy
JUNE 19, 2024
An up to 2GW offshore wind project proposed for the New South Wales Hunter region, has been awarded a feasibility licence by the federal government. The post Australia’s first floating wind farm edges closer with feasibility licence awarded to 2GW project appeared first on RenewEconomy.
The dos and don’ts of corporate tree planting efforts
GreenBiz
JUNE 19, 2024
Credible partners ensure companies get behind high-integrity restoration projects with lasting benefits.
Mississippi just got its first utility-scale wind farm
Canary Media
JUNE 18, 2024
Wind energy development has long been stuck in the doldrums in the southeastern United States. Until very recently, nine states in the region had installed precisely zero megawatts of commercial wind capacity, even as turbines spread across every other U.S. state. Mississippi, however, has just bucked that trend.
Oceans group takes UK government to court over oil and gas licences
The Guardian: Energy
JUNE 18, 2024
Issuing licences in the North Sea without accounting for environmental impact was unlawful, Oceana UK says A marine conservation group has initiated legal action against the UK government, claiming the Conservatives’ decision to issue North Sea oil and gas licences without taking into account their impact on the environment was unlawful. Oceana UK , part of an international conservation organisation, said that in issuing 82 licences, Claire Coutinho, the secretary of state for energy security, a
The same party that legislated for offshore wind farms now wants to ban them. It’s nuclear in reverse
Renew Economy
JUNE 20, 2024
Who could have predicted that the same party that opened the door to offshore wind in 2021 would slam it shut again in 2024? The post The same party that legislated for offshore wind farms now wants to ban them. It’s nuclear in reverse appeared first on RenewEconomy.
A new model for additionality can steer carbon markets to a sustainable future
GreenBiz
JUNE 21, 2024
The primary model for assessing additionality has limitations, according to Verra's founding CEO. He proposes more forward-looking approaches to accelerate the green transition.
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