Green Business Bureau

JUNE 1, 2021

The Playbook for Becoming a Sustainable Business. If your company is working toward improving its sustainability performance, you need a strategy, plan and roadmap. There are ten steps we’ve defined at Green Business Bureau to gear your company’s purpose, culture, focus and actions towards sustainability. All 10 steps below were summarized in the first article, The Executive Guide for Becoming a Sustainable Business : Step 1: Define your vision, mission and values.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 2, 2021

Better batteries will get us to an electrified future. Mike De Socio. Wed, 06/02/2021 - 00:04. The mass adoption of electric vehicles — and, well, electric everything — will rely heavily on cheap, dependable batteries. While the cost of lithium-ion batteries has dropped dramatically , the technology still leaves something to be desired. Creating new types of batteries that are lighter, lower-cost and more durable will allow big jumps in the performance of electric vehicles and devices.

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CleanTech Group

JUNE 3, 2021

Curb spaces have historically been a source of parking revenue for cities, but the COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated the need for regulating a.

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Jim Conca

MAY 31, 2021

The Finnish waste management company, Posiva Oy, announced the start of excavation on their deep geologic nuclear waste repository for their spent nuclear fuel. Operation of the repository is expected to begin in 2023. The total cost estimate is about €2.6 billion ($3.4 billion).

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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.

Sustainability

Inhabitat - Innovation

MAY 31, 2021

Recently unveiled by SeaCleaners, the Manta hybrid catamaran is designed to combat the oceans' plastic pollution in a brand new way.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 1, 2021

A new love story: Electric vehicles and the electric grid. Mike De Socio. Tue, 06/01/2021 - 01:45. In the accelerating push to electrify transportation, one big obstacle always comes up: The grid. How will the electrical grid handle so many vehicles charging at once? Especially when fast-charging stations gulp down prodigious amounts of power? These are valid questions, and often utilities need to make improvements to the grid before installing significant charging infrastructure.

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JUNE 1, 2021

The safe transfer of personnel between a support vessel and an offshore turbine platform is often the limiting factor in maintenance hours, where rough seas mean crews cannot land by walkway or from the air. In cases where maintenance can be carried out using robotics instead of personnel, the same restrictions would not apply.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JUNE 4, 2021

This fashion brand is making handbags with plant-based leathers made from apples, cactus and corn.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 3, 2021

5 circular economy startups we've got our eyes on. Sherrie Totoki. Thu, 06/03/2021 - 01:15. This week, we announced five startups pitching June 17 at Accelerate at Circularity 21. Accelerate is a fast pitch competition featuring startups across the circular economy value chain. Climate tech startups, and investments into them, are growing. In 2020, investments into early stage climate tech companies topped $60 billion and grew at a faster rate than all VC investments from 2013 to 2019.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 1, 2021

SEPA said improvement projects have had a positive impact at beaches with historically poor classifications, including Sandyhills beach in Dumfries and Galloway (image credit: James Johnstone , CC BY 2.0 license ). 94% of Scotland’s designated bathing waters have been rated sufficient or better by SEPA for the 2021 season. More bathing waters (34%) have been rated as ‘excellent’ since tighter standards first came into force in 2015.

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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

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JUNE 3, 2021

Register Now for the Virtual Event Experience on June 15-16

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Inhabitat - Innovation

MAY 31, 2021

Atomic City is Oakland, California's first net-zero condominium complex, and it's going to shape the future of building in the Bay Area.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 4, 2021

Second quarter food startup roundup. Jim Giles. Fri, 06/04/2021 - 02:30. Welcome to the second quarter edition of Food Weekly’s startup roundup. Here are the companies that caught my eye over the past few months for snagging funding, releasing products or breaking the mold with unexpected technologies. Kula Bio. Nitrogen compounds are heroes and villains on a global scale.

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 1, 2021

New program will enable maritime suppliers to verifiably demonstrate their sustainability. Green Business Bureau (GBB) has partnered with the International Marine Purchasing Association (IMPA) to bring the GBB sustainability program, framework and certification to the global maritime industry. GBB and IMPA are working together to make ship manufacturers, services, operators and suppliers more sustainable and protect our planet and workers by enabling businesses to manage a sustainability program

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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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MAY 31, 2021

Solar energy is available in abundance. The non-renewable sources of energy will deplete one day or the other if not utilized cautiously. With solar energy and its abundant availability, the challenge is to store it and utilize in the future.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JUNE 3, 2021

Among the top 10 emitters of methane, five are smaller firms. Their environmental footprint is now larger than their production.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 4, 2021

The future is climate-friendly software. Sarah Golden. Fri, 06/04/2021 - 01:30. Last week, Microsoft announced it is teaming up with Github, Accenture and Thoughtworks, a software consultancy, to inspire emissions reductions using a little-considered tool: software. The new nonprofit organization, Green Software Foundation , aims to change the culture of software development to prioritize sustainability.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 3, 2021

The European Parliament in Brussels (image credit: diamond geezer , CC BY-NC-ND 2.0 license). To live up to their climate pledge under the Paris agreement, EU lawmakers must ensure all 250 million existing as well as all new buildings in the EU become nearly zero greenhouse gas emitters – so says a new report from the European Academies’ Science Advisory Council (EASAC).

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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

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JUNE 2, 2021

SEIA has created supplier diversity guides and resources for the industry, but companies overwhelmingly stated that the biggest barrier to implementation was finding diverse businesses working in the solar industry.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JUNE 4, 2021

A drafted report from the National Park Service shows that last year's Castle Fire destroyed approximately 10% of all giant sequoias in the world.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 3, 2021

Benioff-backed software startup helps companies get smarter about climate risk. Heather Clancy. Thu, 06/03/2021 - 01:30. Will that new $50 million factory be threatened by flooding or wildfires? How many buildings in your company’s real-estate portfolio might require climate-adaption retrofits? . Questions such as these are fueling a flood of early-stage investment in climate tech that crosses over into the enterprise software realm, as companies seek to integrate data about emissions, resource

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 2, 2021

The proposals in the Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) consultation on business waste are anti-competitive and will force successful recycling businesses into administration, The Recycling Association has warned. While supporting the overall principles of EPR, and the idea that producers of waste should fund the collection and recycling of materials as proposed under the consultation, The Recycling Association said it is hugely concerned about what the business waste proposals will mean for

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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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JUNE 3, 2021

Pelosi and Wyden join all-star lineup of speakers including John Kerry, Gina McCarthy, Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, Senator Joni Ernst, Richard Glick,Anne Finucane, and Andrew Steer

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JUNE 1, 2021

The heat is on as shareholders in ExxonMobil and Chevron stage coups and demand accountability, and a court tasks Shell with cutting emissions.

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 4, 2021

Established in 2008 and operating nationwide, Link International Inc. partners with businesses to help develop waste stream management programs that achieve zero waste to landfill, improve supply chain efficiency, yield cost savings and elevate brand reputation. Given that waste management greatly differs across industries, Link International understands the importance of being able to custom-tailor waste and recycling programs to fit their clients’ needs and goals as well as governing regulatio

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Charged

JUNE 2, 2021

BYD, a major manufacturer of transit buses, is introducing a battery-electric Type D school bus. According to the company, the new e-bus offers “unparalleled safety features and performance, wrapped in a sleek design that will have students wanting to step onboard.”. BYD’s Type D school bus will come in 35-, 38-, and 40-foot lengths, and will offer a range of up to 155 miles.

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JUNE 2, 2021

Riverside County Project Covers Nearly 5 Square Miles

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JUNE 2, 2021

The Singaporean-registered ship is creating "the worst environmental disaster we have seen in our lifetime.

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Grist

JUNE 1, 2021

Every year heat kills tens of thousands of people. Their breathing grows shallow, their heart rates flutter, their muscles spasm, and then they die. Heat killed over 100,000 people in 2018, when high temperatures broiled the European Union. A new study suggests that climate change was responsible for many of those deaths. The paper, published Monday in Nature Climate Change, scrutinized summertime deaths in 43 countries between 1991 and 2018 — the largest collection of heat mortality data

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Charged

JUNE 2, 2021

Factorial Energy has introduced what it says is the first 40 Ah solid-state EV battery cell. . The Factorial Electrolyte System Technology (FEST) is a proprietary solid electrolyte material designed to enable safe and reliable cell performance with high-voltage and high-energy-density electrodes. Solid electrolytes like FEST are considered safer than conventional lithium-ion technology, as they replace the combustible liquid electrolyte with a more stable solid-state electrolyte that suppresses

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altenergymag

JUNE 1, 2021

The growing interest in sustainable next-generation battery technology underscores an opportunity for the UK to take a leading role in this industry,

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Inhabitat - Innovation

JUNE 1, 2021

The designers chose to include rammed earth and bamboo construction techniques both to reduce costs and to provide important sustainability aspects to the project.

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