Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 26, 2021

BCP Council, Hubbub and McDonald’s partner on ground-breaking campaign. Local businesses and community groups urged to join forces as lockdown eases. Bournemouth, Christchurch and Poole will be the focus of a pilot scheme this summer which will see drone-based technology used to tackle the issue of litter. BCP Council is partnering with the environmental charity Hubbub and McDonald’s to trial a unique approach which will see intelligence gathered from drone data to inform the future placement of

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 22, 2021

Electrification of everything is not necessarily the best path to decarbonization if was also want reliable energy delivery, argues David Cox. David Cox, Founder and CFO of the Coalition for Renewable Natural Gas. The power outages in Texas are an all too painful reminder how extreme weather events can expose weaknesses in our energy infrastructure.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 23, 2021

It’s time to speed up the sustainability shift. Katie Thompson Levey. Tue, 03/23/2021 - 01:45. "I am discovering a whole new respect for chief sustainability officers," I texted the facilitator of Leading the Sustainability Transformation. I was general manager of a mock company, Rio Negro Bioproducts, with the express goal to transform it from a traditional business to a sustainable one — economically, environmentally and socially — over a 20-year period compressed into a 10-week virtual simula

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Jim Conca

MARCH 25, 2021

Energy Northwest in Richland, WA, which operates the only nuclear power plant in the region, the Columbia Generating Station, has earned the American Public Power Association’s Safety Award of Excellence for safe operating practices in 2020. Not to mention breaking all generation records.

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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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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 20, 2021

Ireland’s first real-time acoustic monitoring project of cetacean species (whales, dolphins and porpoise) was launched last week off the South Coast of Ireland, with the goal of creating a near real-time detection model for these species and examining the impact rising ocean noise pollution is having on Ireland’s marine life. Following months of development, a 13ft 2-tonne specially designed data gathering buoy will be deployed 9 km off the coast of Baltimore, Co.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

MARCH 25, 2021

The problem is rising waters and limited landmass; the solution is floating structures.

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Jim Conca

MARCH 24, 2021

As of 3/20, VHA has delivered over 3 million COVID-19 vaccine doses have been given to over 2 million veterans, VA employees, health care workers and support personnel, this out of about 9 million veterans enrolled in the VA health care programs and about 400,000 employees at the agency.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 26, 2021

· New HydroPRS process creates raw ingredients for “infinitely recyclable new products” · World-first commercial-scale plant starts construction in Teesside, UK, backed by global partners and UK Government. · Plans for one million tonnes of capacity in development worldwide by 2025. Mura Technology, a UK-based technology firm, has announced that construction has started on the world’s first commercial-scale plant to use its ground-breaking “hydrothermal” process, which is said to be

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Inhabitat - Innovation

MARCH 24, 2021

Prepare for more drought in the West and flooding in the East, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association's spring outlook report. Most of the western half of the country is already in moderate to exceptional drought conditions, which, unfortunately, is likely to expand into the most significant spring drought since 2013.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 24, 2021

For a clean, resilient grid, look to EV infrastructure. Katie Fehrenbacher. Wed, 03/24/2021 - 00:30. Electric vehicle charging infrastructure could provide a major benefit — boosting both clean energy and resiliency — for the power grid. On Monday, automaker BMW and northern California utility PG&E announced a new expanded program that could help incentivize 3,000 BMW drivers to shift the charging of their vehicles to times of day when clean energy (namely solar power) is abundant.

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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

altenergymag

MARCH 23, 2021

Intelligent Power Generation, a British climate-tech company, announces a £2 million first close of their latest funding round. The new capital will support continued development of their turbine technology designed to accelerate the decarbonisation of fuel-based power.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 24, 2021

Cruachan dam (image credit: Drax Group). Price floor should fill gap in ‘fragmented’ market. Report funded by Scottish Renewables, the British Hydropower Association, Buccleuch, CCSQ, Drax Group, Intelligent Land Investments Group, SSE Renewables. Vital electricity storage capacity needed to help the UK meet its net-zero target should be supported by an innovative funding mechanism, new research launched on 24 March appears to have found.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

MARCH 26, 2021

A recent paper published in Frontiers in Veterinary Science has established that there is a connection between deforestation and the occurrence of zoonotic and vector-borne diseases.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 25, 2021

Unilever sets out net-zero plans for shareholder vote. Michael Holder. Thu, 03/25/2021 - 00:30. Unilever has become one of the first multinational companies in the world to publish a corporate net-zero action plan for oversight by its shareholders, as it prepares to put the climate strategy to an advisory vote at its upcoming AGM in early May. The consumer goods giant this week unveiled its strategy for achieving net-zero emissions across its entire supply chain by 2039 in line with recommendati

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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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altenergymag

MARCH 26, 2021

Stackable energy storage solution provides homes, businesses and communities with safe, reliable electricity on demand

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 26, 2021

Over the past five years, organizations ranging from the United Nations , the G20 , the World Economic Forum and the International Organization of Securities Commissioners (IOSOC), are pushing for companies to expand on environmental, social, and governance (ESG) information and uphold sustainability standards for business. Across Europe, we see the European Directive requesting 500+ companies to report on a variety of non-financial metrics.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

MARCH 22, 2021

The bottom trawling fishing technique is more harmful to the environment than previously thought, according to a new study.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 24, 2021

Is harmonization of reporting standards possible or even desirable? Antonio Vives. Wed, 03/24/2021 - 01:14. Interest in corporate sustainability metrics has skyrocketed in the last few years, particularly in the financial industry. With it has come a surge in demand for information related to these activities, one accommodated by existing reporting standards and frameworks produced by organizations such as the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI), the Sustainability Accounting Standards Board (SASB

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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.

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altenergymag

MARCH 23, 2021

Building owners, design professionals, solar installers and S-5! distributors can stay up-to-date with S-5!’s product offerings, training videos and educational webinars?all in Spanish.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 25, 2021

Working From Home Reduces Our Carbon Footprint. Employers shifting to a remote workforce and enabling their employees to work from home is resulting in very positive effects on business, their employees’ lives and the planet. With people having the flexibility to work from home, companies open up the opportunity for employees to save money and time, for business operations to reduce their expenses and overhead , and for the business world to lower their carbon footprint and make progress o

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Inhabitat - Innovation

MARCH 26, 2021

IUCN now ranks African forest elephants as critically endangered and African savanna elephants as endangered.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 26, 2021

Episode 261: Sea changes, strategy shifts. Heather Clancy. Fri, 03/26/2021 - 02:00. Week in Review. Stories discussed this week (4:22). How infrastructure is banking on green banks. Unilever sets out net-zero plan for shareholder vote. Power struggle: The looming high-tech battery crisis. Features. A new wave for ocean adaptation? (19:30). Oceanographer John Englander chats with Senior Editor Deonna Anderson about his upcoming book, " Moving to Higher Ground: Rising Sea Level and the Path Forwar

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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

MARCH 22, 2021

A study carried out to +100 diverse industry experts evidenced their confidence on the fact that solar power generation will expand to record levels in 2021. This will be led by countries with supportive government policies and investment strategies while in conjunction with digitalization and innovation.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 25, 2021

Working From Home Reduces Our Carbon Footprint. Employers shifting to a remote workforce and enabling their employees to work from home is resulting in very positive effects on business, their employees’ lives and the planet. With people having the flexibility to work from home, companies open up the opportunity for employees to save money and time, for business operations to reduce their expenses and overhead , and for the business world to lower their carbon footprint and make progress o

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Sustainability Real Estate Fossil fuels Investment 148

Inhabitat - Innovation

MARCH 26, 2021

Hop into the season with a plan for plastic-free meals, egg hunts and baskets.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 23, 2021

China’s new frontier for VOC regulations. Shuying Xu. Tue, 03/23/2021 - 01:15. As the global economy reawakens after the COVID-19 shutdown, air emissions and VOC enforcement in China remain a hot topic. Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) combine with nitrogen oxide to create ozone, a key precursor to smog. Over the past several decades, public health and environmental concerns have made controlling smog a top national policy goal in China and enforcement an increasingly critical issue for compani

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Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Pollution 275

altenergymag

MARCH 25, 2021

Fred. Olsen Renewables has welcomed the approval by Scottish Ministers for two of its onshore wind farm applications in two consecutive days. The consents for extensions to two operational wind farms, Windy Standard Wind Farm in Dumfries and Galloway and Crystal Rig Wind Farm in the Scottish Borders, will deliver enough electricity to power the equivalent of more than 300,000 homes annually and provide the local communities with more than £20m in community benefit during their lifetime.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 25, 2021

The Government will not deliver on its commitment to net zero by 2050, say the authors of a new research paper, without taking radical action to decarbonise the 12 most carbon-intensive industries, which together represent three-fifths of UK emissions and employ one in every five jobs. But if ministers take the right steps, they believe, the new demand for renewables and low carbon technologies could deliver up to 1.7 million new green jobs, half of which are likely to be located in the North, M

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Inhabitat - Innovation

MARCH 24, 2021

Can Tomeu, a preserved historical site, has been renovated into a gorgeous off-grid home.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 24, 2021

Is TCFD a catalyst for transformational climate adaptation? Karl Schultz. Wed, 03/24/2021 - 01:00. This commentary is part of a series on emerging issues from Adaptation Leader. The Taskforce on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), an initiative of the influential Financial Stability Board (FSB) , offers a framework for disclosure of climate risks.

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altenergymag

MARCH 22, 2021

Leading lithium battery provider donates battery upgrade for ocean research vessel

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MARCH 26, 2021

Bus manufacturer New Flyer of America has unveiled its next-generation electric heavy-duty transit bus, built on its proven Xcelsior platform. New Flyer’s battery-electric Xcelsior CHARGE and fuel cell-electric Xcelsior CHARGE H2 buses have logged 4.5 million service miles to date. The new and improved Xcelsior CHARGE NG incorporates three distinct technology advancements: a next-generation battery pack extends range up to 13%; new protective battery packaging makes installation and service easi

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