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Can crypto create the world’s first authentic global carbon marketplace?

GreenBiz

The World Bank is teaming up with Bram Cohen’s San Francisco startup to prove that cryptocurrency can be part of the solution, not a problem, for climate change.

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How Green Companies Can Use Search Engines To Find Customers

U.S. Green Technology

The use of search engines, in particular Google, has grown so universal that it is estimated that there are over 5 billion Google searches a day. For businesses, search engine marketing (SEM) has become a huge driver for site visits, customers, and revenue. But what about green companies? Can green companies use SEM to profitably. The post How Green Companies Can Use Search Engines To Find Customers appeared first on U.S.

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Canada And The United States CrissCross Support For Nuclear Energy's Bright Future

Jim Conca

The United States and Canada have a lot to collaborate on in the nuclear energy field, and they seem to be doing a good job of it. Each country is considering each other’s reactor designs and each has funded or chosen to review some of those from both countries.

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Zero waste homes are 3D printed in less than 24 hours

Inhabitat - Innovation

Industries around the world are constantly innovating, however, the construction industry has been slow to adopt new technologies. Mighty Buildings is changing all that with the development of a concrete-replacement known as light-stone material (LSM) used to 3D print a home in less than 24 hours.

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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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This Puerto Rican farm-to-fork app is creating a sustainable food system on the island

GreenBiz

Puerto Rico imports 85 percent of its food. This app helps people buy the other 15.

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Britain’s gas grid to be ready to deliver hydrogen across the country from 2023

Envirotec Magazine

Britain’s gas grid is seemingly set to be ready to start to blending hydrogen around the country from next year, helping provide families with more secure, homegrown energy supplies, according to plans published by energy network firms on 13 January. Energy Networks Association (ENA) has published Britain’s Hydrogen Blending Delivery Plan , setting out how all five of Britain’s gas grid companies will meet the Government’s target for Britain’s network of gas pipes to be ready to deliver 20% hydr

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Aptera upgrades its unique solar-charging EV

Inhabitat - Innovation

Aptera's three-wheeler enclosed electric car has already made its mark as a unique new offering on the EV scene. The solar self-charging car never needs to be plugged in, all while competing with mid-level Teslas for range when charged as a traditional EV. Now, Aptera says it has completed some major upgrades to make the cars even more competitive. Here's what's new with Aptera's revolutionary EVs.

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5 climate priorities for cities

GreenBiz

Without getting cities right, we cannot solve the climate crisis.

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CH4nge is in the air? Comparing laser and FID for landfill emissions monitoring

Envirotec Magazine

Laser technology overcomes many of the limitations of better established landfill gas measurement methods such as FID, as QED Environmental explains (pictured: The Geotech SEM5000). The accurate and effective monitoring of surface methane emissions levels is critical to the safe operation of landfill and waste management sites. However, methane monitoring equipment can sometimes be more of a hinderance than a help.

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7 Ways to Make Your Ecommerce Business More Sustainable

U.S. Green Technology

Ecommerce is becoming an increasingly popular way to make money online. However, it also tends to produce the most carbon footprint in the digital age. Whether sustainability is part of your core values or not, it would help to be eco-friendly. For one, doing so allows you to win the support of eco-conscious consumers. Second, The post 7 Ways to Make Your Ecommerce Business More Sustainable appeared first on U.S.

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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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Energy efficient bamboo device in Vietnam is a cooling system

Inhabitat - Innovation

AREP, a multidisciplinary architecture agency, created a cooling system prototype based on the history, culture and original designs used by ancient civilizations. Called an adiabatic urban cooling system, the idea dates back centuries, yet is still perhaps the most natural solution for the challenges of cooling modern Vietnamese cities facing regular heat waves.

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What would MLK have to say about sustainable business?

GreenBiz

A lesson about a great leader began at age 13.

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Pristine groundwater seeps support native algae on Hawai‘i’s coasts

Envirotec Magazine

Native marine macroalgae, also known as limu, or as seaweed, thrive in environments created by natural groundwater seeps, specifically benefiting from the combined effects of enhanced nutrients despite lowered salinity levels, according to a review published recently by a team of University of Hawai‘i at M?noa researchers. Conversely, in areas where the seeping groundwater is tainted by excess nitrogen typical of wastewater, the study found it is invasive species that typically flourish in Hawai

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Companies’ Carbon Neutrality Necessary for Tackling Climate Change

U.S. Green Technology

Climate change has had dire impacts worldwide, from rising sea levels and flooding to extreme heat and droughts. These consequences also affect food production, access to clean water, and loss of biodiversity. While it’s taken a long time to address the global emissions crisis, so far, 195 countries have signed the Paris Agreement to curb. The post Companies’ Carbon Neutrality Necessary for Tackling Climate Change appeared first on U.S.

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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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IMMERST floating community is adaptable, modular and prefab

Inhabitat - Innovation

As buildable land becomes increasingly scarce, long-standing yacht company Stephens Waring Design has developed a new design concept called OASys (Ocean Architectural System), which could be the answer for coastline challenges like animal habitat conservation, erosion and lack of suitable development space.

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Embracing a wetter future, the Dutch turn to floating homes

GreenBiz

These communities are inspiring more ambitious projects in flood-prone nations as far-flung as French Polynesia and the Maldives.

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Fish oils to create eco-friendly surfactants for detergent

Envirotec Magazine

Scottish start-up Eco Clean Team is undertaking a research project with experts from the University of St Andrews to develop a new process that uses by-products from fish farming to produce surfactants – one of the main components in detergents and other industrial and institutional cleaning products. With six-figure funding support from the Industrial Biotechnology Innovation Centre (IBioIC), Eco Clean is aiming to develop a more sustainable alternative to traditionally petrochemical-based surf

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Battery Technology Veteran Timothy Ellis Joins Gridtential's Advisory Board

altenergymag

Gridtential Energy today announced that battery technology scientist and executive Timothy Ellis, Ph.D., has joined the firm's technical advisory board. Dr. Ellis will advise on the rollout of Gridtential's Silicon Joule battery technology as it approaches commercial production with manufacturing partners.

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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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Urban Forest is set to be the greenest residential building

Inhabitat - Innovation

Urban Forest designed by Koichi Takada Architects and developed by Aria Property Group received approval to be built in South Brisbane, Australia. The 20-storey building will house 194 apartments, all trimmed out with luscious vertical garden balconies.

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GM’s BrightDrop gears up to electrify massive delivery fleets of Walmart, FedEx

GreenBiz

Electric vehicle and last-mile delivery company BrightDrop, a subsidiary of General Motors, kicked off 2022 with splashy new deals with Walmart and FedEx.

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Guidance document helps understand regulations for Packaging Export Recovery Notes (PERNs) for plastics

Envirotec Magazine

Baled plastic bottles (image credit: Burke Museum , CC BY-NC 2.0 license). The Recycling Association has produced guidance on the issuance of Packaging Export Recovery Notes (PERNs) for plastics. This document helps members interpret the regulations for the 2022 accreditation year. The Recycling Association chief executive Simon Ellin said: “Towards the end of 2021, the Environment Agency had a purge on material that had been exported to some European destinations, particularly the Netherl

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A Beginner’s Guide To Organic Recycling

U.S. Green Technology

The word ‘recycle’ is no longer a stranger to everyone. Particularly now that society is becoming more aware and mindful of the environment and how the continuous production of waste affects it. In general, recycling means to process or repurpose materials instead of disposing of them and sending them to landfills. It’s one of the best practices that help preserve nature.

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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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Polar researchers discover enormous icefish nesting site

Inhabitat - Innovation

They have see-through skulls, transparent blood, and they built 60 million nests beneath the frigid waters of the Antarctic Sea. They’re Jonah’s icefish, and a polar research team has just discovered what might be their largest breeding colony in the world.

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Carbon offset market faces uncertain long-term outlook

GreenBiz

Influential analyst firm argues prices for carbon offsets could reach as high as $120 a ton by 2050 or as low as $47 a ton.

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Floating house concept earns students place in global disaster preparedness competition

Envirotec Magazine

A team of students from Coventry University have developed a concept for a house that can float whenever a flood approaches and shelter people for at least six weeks during catastrophic weather. ‘The Floating House’, can also be used as storage for food, water, medicines, and sanitation products and is designed to enhance disaster resilience within a local community at family level.

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XChange: Workflow Automation Solutions for Sustainable Commercial Printing

Green Business Bureau

Operating across both the US and UK , XChange provides workflow automation software and consultancy to the printing and publishing industries. Since 1992, XChange has helped companies transition from a historically manual production process to an automated system, and have found that this change to benefit both their customers and the environment. AUTOMATION BRINGS GREATER EFFICIENCY, LESS WASTE.

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ExxonMobil plays dirty to deny role in the climate crisis

Inhabitat - Innovation

ExxonMobil has turned to intimidation in attempts to stop its critics from taking legal action. The giant oil company is trying to use an unusual Texas law to target critics outside the state. Exxon has asked the Texas Supreme Court to allow it to use rule 202 to take on California municipal officials.

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What is wishcycling? Two waste experts explain

GreenBiz

The gist: Just because you wish to recycle something doesn't mean that you can.

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Micropollutants under the (electron) microscope: Project reveals drainage detritus

Envirotec Magazine

Left: Scanning Electron Microscope image of suspected paint or acrylic fragment, embedded within synthetic fibers captured from a domestic washing machine filter (image courtesy of CGG). Right: ATR-FTIR image of synthetic fibers from household laundry (courtesy of Brunel University London). A recent project seems to lift the lid on some of the microscopic material washed into drainage systems by commercial and industrial activity.

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TÜV SÜD to assess wind turbines for the Korean market

altenergymag

TÜV SÜD can now offer design examination of wind turbine generators (WTGs) to be placed on the market in South Korea. The international testing and certification company has recently been approved by the Korean Energy Agency (KEA) for this task. Design examinations are a prerequisite for KEA certification and thus market access.

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Ambitious new EV charging network launches in the US

Inhabitat - Innovation

Access to charging stations is one of the stumbling blocks for America's proposed electric vehicle future. Missouri-based EOS Linx found a way to combine its work in advertising, security, data analytics and renewable energy into an interesting package that could quickly boost EV drivers’ charging options.

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New forest certification standards offer nature-based solutions to the climate crisis

GreenBiz

Sponsored: The new Sustainable Forestry Initiative 2022 standards will ensure healthy forests that lead to benefits such as avoiding deforestation and fighting climate change.