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The key to climate progress in the digital age

GreenBiz

It will take these ingredients: unprecedented transparency, intelligent systems, mass collaboration and mixed reality feedback.

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Can the Shipping Industry Go Green?

U.S. Green Technology

How Cargo Ships Can Go Green The shipping industry is one of the pillars of modern commerce, as it allows global markets to send goods anywhere in the world. You can have Japanese candy delivered to your door or you can send American snacks to Australia all thanks to the global shipping network. Most people. The post Can the Shipping Industry Go Green?

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Zero Mass Water Transforms Columbian Community With New Hydropanel Installation

CleanTechnica

Zero Mass Water and Conservation International partnered to transform the Columbian community of Bahia Hondita with the installation of a SOURCE Field comprised of 149 of Zero Mass Water's Hydropanels. The new system will transform life in the community with an infusion of renewably sourced water pulled from the atmosphere using abundant sunshine.

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Hundreds of companies crack down on plastic from fast fashion to supermarkets and beyond

GreenBiz

The initial headline-grabbing pledges to phase out single use plastic may have become old news, but the new normal is seeing hundreds of companies quietly advance their plastic reduction strategies.

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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.

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The best plants for attracting pollinators to your yard

Inhabitat - Innovation

Ready to start a pollinator garden? These are the best plants to attract bees, butterflies, hummingbirds and more.

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Biomethane could deliver 30% of the UK’s 2030 carbon budget in hardest to decarbonise sectors, says report

Envirotec Magazine

With a supportive policy environment, anaerobic digestion (AD) technology could produce 8 billion m3 biomethane/year, enough to heat 6.4 million homes, by 2030, according to a new report from the industry group ADBA. This would deliver a 6% reduction in total UK greenhouse gases emissions, specifically within the hard-to-decarbonise sectors of heat, transport, waste management and agriculture, and 30% of the reduction needed by 2030 to meet our legally binding carbon budget.

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25 badass women shaking up the climate movement in 2020

GreenBiz

In honor of International Women's Day, we recognize courageous executives, investor advocates and policy visionaries who are role models for any gender.

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Upcoming vegan festivals around the US in 2020

Inhabitat - Innovation

Find a vegan fest near you and enjoy all the plant-based food you could ever dream of eating.

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Three billion tons less CO2 emissions by 2030 possible with photonics, says study

Envirotec Magazine

Photonics technologies can contribute to reducing carbon dioxide emissions by three billion tons per year by 2030, according to a new study by German industry association SPECTARIS, the Fraunhofer Institute, TEMATYS and Messe Munchen appears. This is the equivalent of 22.2 million diesel trucks all driving 100k miles in a year[i]. According to the research, light technologies are already providing solutions for environmental sustainability and climate protection.

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NextEra’s FP&L Wins Approval for Massive Utility-Crafted Community Solar Program

GreenTechMedia

Florida regulators unanimously approved Florida Power & Light’s proposed community solar program this week, rubber-stamping the build-out of nearly 1.5 gigawatts of utility-built solar in the state. The installations would nearly double the 2 gigawatts of community solar currently installed across the U.S. Under the new program, called SolarTogether , FP&L will build 20 new solar plants (at 74.5 megawatts each) by mid-2021.

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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

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Trend: Commercial buildings go all-electric

GreenBiz

All signs point to the next generation of commercial buildings becoming all-electric.

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Temple of Poop grows a flowering rooftop with human waste

Inhabitat - Innovation

Answering the call of nature has never been more sustainable.

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British Water launches micropollutants technical group

Envirotec Magazine

A collaborative technical focus group has been set up by British Water to find new ways to reduce levels of micropollutants in wastewater. The group, which comprises British Water members, had its first meeting in February and will meet again in May. Chaired by Fabio Bacci, innovation manager at consultancy Glan Agua, the group will work to develop solutions to treat emerging pollutants – contaminants that were unknown or that little was known about until recently – present in substances s

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Offshore Wind to Attract More than $200B Between 2020 and 2025

GreenTechMedia

Where will investors in offshore oil and gas look as the energy transition starts to take hold? While the oil and gas sector remains the largest for the offshore supply chain, we expect the offshore wind market to grow more attractive for traditional oil and gas players. There is limited crossover today, but first movers have gone with the wind and more will soon follow.

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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.

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How using biodiversity indicators can improve conservation effectiveness

GreenBiz

Data can help companies make decisions about their conservation initiatives — and improve outcomes.

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1850s barn in Italy becomes a modern, sustainable family home

Inhabitat - Innovation

Messner House represents adaptive reuse at its finest.

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MP meets stakeholders to discuss flooding and AI

Envirotec Magazine

Sheffield based Environmental Monitoring Solutions recently hosted a session between North East Derbyshire MP, Lee Rowley, and water industry stakeholders to present the case for AI to protect customers and the environment against recent extreme rainfall events. Held at the University of Sheffield’s new £9.2m infrastructure research facility, ICAIR, the group focused on the relationship between Government policy and the wastewater industry’s plans to tackle the challenges that we face due to cli

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WoodMac: Wind Developers Ordered a Record-Smashing 100GW of Turbines in 2019

GreenTechMedia

Wind developers ordered up nearly 100 gigawatts of turbines last year, an unprecedented flood of demand that comes amid deepening uncertainty over the impact the coronavirus outbreak will have on global supply chains and economies. Last year’s orders crushed previous records in the wind industry and represented 65 percent growth over 2018, according to new figures from market researcher Wood Mackenzie Power & Renewables.

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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.

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Microgrids, indoor agriculture go together like peas and carrots

GreenBiz

Vertical farms can help produce food close to urban areas, but plant factories require a staggering amount of energy.

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What you need to know about CBD products

Inhabitat - Innovation

As 2020 gets underway, the deluge of CBD products continues. Suddenly, CBD oil is everywhere: from CBD skincare to lattes to CBD-laced treats for Fido and Fluffy’s aging joints. But is the craze legitimate or is it all hype? We’ve delved into recent studies to get the facts on the current state of CBD products.

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Is the U.S. Fracking Boom Based on Fraud?

DeSmogBlog

Read time: 11 mins In a 2016 interview with Fraud Magazine , former Enron CFO Andrew Fastow explained what he thought made him so successful while at the former energy corporation that's now infamous for financial scandal. “I think my ability to do structured financing, to finance things off-balance sheet and to find ways to manipulate financial statements — there's no nice way to say it.

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Solar Basics: What is a floating solar array?

Solar Power World

Solar Basics is a video series by Solar Power World created to help installers learn about the business, tools and tricks of the solar power trade. Floating solar arrays float on bodies of water like reservoirs and dams. These unique installations come with many benefits including easier siting, no worries of obstructions and more. Learn… The post Solar Basics: What is a floating solar array?

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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?

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How innovator Bill Gross’s solar breakthrough could decarbonize heavy industry

GreenBiz

The renowned entrepreneur and investor discusses the evolution of Heliogen and his new concept for capturing carbon.

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This modern art museum was once a cheese factory in Arkansas

Inhabitat - Innovation

In Bentonville, Arkansas, a giant factory that once processed cheese for Kraft Foods has been given new life as The Momentary, a modern art museum satellite to the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.

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Food From Thin Air: The Forgotten Space Tech That Could Feed Planet Earth

Forbes Green Tech

Forgotten for half a decade, a microbial recipe for sustaining astronauts on long space missions might not only feed hundreds of millions of hungry people on Earth, but also hold the key to a truly carbon neutral, circular economy.

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FERC expects 50 GW of rewnewables to be added in next three years – far outpacing fossil fuels

Solar Power World

FERC released its year-end energy infrastructure report today, and initial analysis by the SUN DAY Campaign finds that renewable energy sources provided 57.26% of new U.S. electrical generating capacity added in 2019 — swamping new additions provided by coal, natural gas, oil and nuclear power combined. FERC’s latest monthly “Energy Infrastructure Update” report (with data… The post FERC expects 50 GW of rewnewables to be added in next three years – far outpacing fo

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5 strategies that achieve climate mitigation and adaptation simultaneously

GreenBiz

Otherwise known as a win-win for nature and more.

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Powerbarn is a bioenergy plant offering power to 84,000 families

Inhabitat - Innovation

In addition to solar, the Powerbarn is fueled with wood chips and organic materials sourced within a 70 kilometer radius of the site.

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The New Corporate Stakeholder: Earth

Green Business Bureau

Capitalism as it has been practiced in recent decades has been focused and almost obsessed with maximizing profits for shareholders. It’s hard to argue that capitalism is not the most beneficial way to run a country. Great economists have proven that it maximizes the output of society, creates great wealth, and in most cases improves the quality of life for the majority of people.

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Sun Tribe installs Virginia’s first gold-certified pollinator-friendly solar project

Solar Power World

Westmoreland County Public Schools in Virginia and Sun Tribe, a Charlottesville-based solar company, announced that their Cople Elementary School solar array was awarded the Commonwealth’s first Gold Certified Pollinator Smart Project label. The Virginia Pollinator-Smart Program — led by the Virginia Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) and the Virginia Department of Conservation and Recreation (DCR)… The post Sun Tribe installs Virginia’s first gold-certified pollinator-friendl

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Will Mexico City's massive new park be a climate adaptation paragon for other cities?

GreenBiz

An architect and officials are hoping that a huge park in Mexico City can restore the water systems of the region and serve as a model for others around the world.

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Sophisticated backyard cottage built with 90% reclaimed wood

Inhabitat - Innovation

The beautiful, 700-square-foot, two-bedroom rental is energy-efficient and constructed using 90% reclaimed wood.