GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

The State of Green Business 2021. Joel Makower. Mon, 01/25/2021 - 02:11. Adapted from the 14th annual State of Green Business report, our annual report card on progress by the world’s largest companies. The report, published in partnership with S&P Global Trucost, is a free download. Now, where were we? A year ago at this time, we looked ahead and confidently saw more engagement, new initiatives and a continuation of the forward march of progress that constitutes a typical year in the world of s

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Jim Conca

JANUARY 25, 2021

Centralized power systems are inefficient and cumbersome in our new technological future. Like the old telephone system that gave way to autonomous locally-controlled hand-held devices, nuclear batteries can make the same change for power to small, mobile, safe, clean, and affordable markets.

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Batteries Technology Innovation Energy 522

Inhabitat - Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2021

President Joe Biden is expected to issue a suite of directives by end of the day today that will kickstart the process of combating climate change.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2021

Rich Matthews, MD at water technology firm Siltbuster Process Solutions (SPS), makes the case for offsite manufacturing treeatment facilities, which he says can deliver multiple benefits for water and wastewater infrastructure projects. He argues for a more “enterprise thinking” approach to capital delivery. Given the ever more exacting compliance and efficiency pressures being felt by water firms, the 2020-2025 investment cycle could be a time for offsite manufacturing to demonstrat

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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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GreenBiz

JANUARY 29, 2021

This acquisition could help make sustainable packaging the norm . Deonna Anderson. Fri, 01/29/2021 - 00:30. In Manteca, California, a small company is pioneering the creation and production of paper bottles for brands such as L'Oreal and Seventh Generation. Across the U.S. in St. Petersburg, Florida, a manufacturing giant is strategizing on design, development and packaging services for the likes of Apple, Cisco Systems and HP Inc.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 29, 2021

The Moorburg coal power station boasts an eventful inception, a landmark closure, and now, a bright future. It was opened in 2015 by Swedish utility Vattenfall on the banks of the Elbe river, just outside the German port city of Hamburg. Its planning and construction were drawn out amid fierce opposition. According to Clean Energy Wire , a local newspaper marked its first day of operations with the headline “Greetings From the Stone Age.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2021

Photo credit: Emma_Griffiths/Shutterstock.com. Environmental management technology firm Envirosuite has been shortlisted in Singapore PUB’s Global Innovation Challenge (GIC). Out of 104 applicants, the firm has been selected in the “Seamless Coagulation” category. PUB is the national water agency that manages Singapore’s water supply, water catchment and used water.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 27, 2021

SteelZero commitments represent a new era in heavy manufacturing production. Jesse Klein. Wed, 01/27/2021 - 00:30. Decarbonizing steel has a chicken or the egg problem. Industry experts say current processes for doing it are so extremely expensive that few manufacturers have the financial ability. And right now, there isn’t enough demand for decarbonized steel for manufacturers to justify investing several millions of dollars into lower-carbon steel facilities.

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altenergymag

JANUARY 24, 2021

Switch2 Energy has welcomed publication of the new CIBSE CP1 (2020) Heat Networks Code of Practice, which will drive further improvements in the planning, design, development, commissioning and operation of UK district and community heating schemes.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JANUARY 25, 2021

The team beat out over 70 proposals from around the world in an international competition.

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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

Energy

Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2021

Singapore, Asia – 4 June 2019: Esplanade Drive bridge over to the financial district of Singapore. Image: Shutterstock.com/Emma_Griffiths. Environmental management technology firm Envirosuite has been shortlisted in Singapore PUB’s Global Innovation Challenge (GIC). Out of 104 applicants, the firm has been selected in the “Seamless Coagulation” category.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 29, 2021

Proposed model shows potential for circular practices in construction steel. Niraja Chopade. Fri, 01/29/2021 - 01:00. Contrary to popular belief, a profitable business model for reused construction steel is not nearly as impossible as one may believe. Steelmakers have almost perfected the "recycle" element of the four hierarchical elements of the circular economy — reduce, reuse, remanufacture and recycle — with steel recycling rates of almost 90 percent.

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altenergymag

JANUARY 25, 2021

Leading solar and storage developer, EPC and O&M provider charts ambitious gigawatt-scale course

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JANUARY 27, 2021

A study published in the British Journal of Ophthalmology has revealed that exposure to air pollution increases the risk of blindness in elderly people.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2021

As part of the drive to implement the EU Floods Directive, the World Bank has partnered with both Bulgaria and Romania to update these countries’ national flood hazard and risk maps. Important contracts were recently announced in this respect with geo-data specialist Fugro and engineering consultancy HR Wallingford. The World Bank will use Fugro’s digital terrain and surface models for flood hazard mapping in Romania.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 27, 2021

Amazon aims to clean up aviation. Katie Fehrenbacher. Wed, 01/27/2021 - 02:00. The aviation sector in a pandemic has 99 problems. And climate change remains a big one. . The industry aims to build back better, aware that it's one of the few sectors that hasn't yet embraced electrification. The key solutions today are biofuels, only displacing a mere fraction of fossil fuels-based jet fuel, and offsets.

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altenergymag

JANUARY 27, 2021

The smaller capacity and reduced weight of the 1200 HLX and 1200 CHLX make them ideally suited for applications such as marine and RV/camper use, golf carts, medical devices, and off-grid solar energy storage.

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Batteries Energy Energy 159

Inhabitat - Innovation

JANUARY 26, 2021

A new report has found that the rate of global ice loss is now in line with worst-case scenario predictions. Find out what this means for our planet.

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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.

Sustainability

Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2021

Malmsbury, Wiltshire, during the 2012 flooding: The Climate Suite products are intended to provide insight into future flood hazards. Terrain data from aerial mapping company Bluesky is being used to upgrade the first national climate change flood model for the UK. Created by flood risk modelling firm Ambiental Risk Analytics , the FloodFutures map brings together the latest river flow, rainfall, storm surge and climate change predictions and addresses all major sources of flooding.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 28, 2021

Moving beyond 100% recyclable goals. Scott Breen. Thu, 01/28/2021 - 01:15. Numerous companies have set 100 percent recyclable, reusable or compostable packaging goals such as Colgate-Palmolive and Kellogg. Virtually all these companies, though, are not tracking whether their packaging is actually recycled and what new products their packaging becomes.

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CleanTech Group

JANUARY 27, 2021

The last five years have seen unprecedented enthusiasm for recycling in the private and public sphere. Many companies, such as Coca-Cola (the worst.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JANUARY 26, 2021

The first phase of construction on the new Nordic Harvest vertical farm has been completed after just 6 months of work.

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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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altenergymag

JANUARY 27, 2021

-163MW Elm Branch and 153MW Briar Creek solar projects expected to offset greenhouse gas emissions by a total of 370,000 metric tons of CO2 annually -Power contracts with energy partners Allianz and L3Harris Technologies supported project financing -Projects will create 500 or more local jobs during construction

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

Let’s rid our work environments of the toxic smoke of dysfunction. Chris Gaither. Mon, 01/25/2021 - 01:30. Before he saw the smoke, he felt it in his throat. It tasted foul. It curled into his nose, his mouth, his lungs. He looked up from his computer. His colleagues were tapping at their keyboards. The smoke hovered around them. He walked to his manager’s door.

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Forbes Green Tech

JANUARY 25, 2021

The results are in: last year, for the first time, renewables generated more electricity than fossil fuels across the EU, spurred on by new solar and wind power projects.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JANUARY 28, 2021

Toronto-based New Earth Solutions is offering a sustainable and compact method for natural air purification. Respira, a hydroponic smart garden, helps improve the air quality of indoor spaces, something that society has found an additional need for since spending more time inside the home.

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Sustainability 259

altenergymag

JANUARY 27, 2021

A high-insulation, DPST/DPDT 5A, PCB power relay series that meets glow-wire test requirements of the IEC/EN60335-1 standard.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 28, 2021

Salesforce, Accenture and a tipping point for carbon accounting. Heather Clancy. Thu, 01/28/2021 - 01:30. The events of 2020 thrust the issue of corporate sustainability front and center in many C-suites. With that heightened visibility comes questions about accountability and accounting — specifically carbon accounting. It’s a dilemma decades in the making: How to properly track and declare a company’s carbon dioxide emissions in real time, not just in lag time after an annual data hunt.

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Carbon Real Estate Sustainability Waste 384

GatesNotes

JANUARY 26, 2021

The world has an important opportunity to turn the hard-won lessons of this pandemic into a healthier, more equal future for all.

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Health 145

Inhabitat - Innovation

JANUARY 28, 2021

President Joe Biden has announced his administration's plans to replace the entire federal fleet with electric cars. According to his remarks while signing the "Made in America" executive order, all the new electric cars will be made in the United States.

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Electric vehicle Electricity 252

Grist

JANUARY 25, 2021

The Great Lakes are threatened by toxic, greenhouse-gas-emitting algae that thrive on phosphorus pollution. The muck suffocates fish and contaminates drinking water, posing a threat to the 1.3 million jobs that depend on proximity to Great Lakes shipping routes and beauty. Since the 1970s, farmers and cities have been cutting phosphorus pollution — in the form of fertilizer washing off fields and sewage — but algal blooms keep killing fish and grossing out tourists.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

Ambitious partnerships on climate action are taking root and bearing fruit. Dominic Waughray. Mon, 01/25/2021 - 00:30. Buried beneath the dour daily headlines on COVID-19 infections, lockdowns and travel bans, the latest science about our planet released during 2020 makes for tough reading. Despite the reductions in air travel and the global economic slowdown caused by the pandemic, climate change sadly has not slowed down this past year.

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