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Green Realtor® Guide: Marketing Eco-Friendly Homes and Sustainability

Green Business Bureau

Realtors® and Home Buyers Going Green. With continued advances in energy efficiency, green technology and design, houses built today operate more sustainably than they did several decades ago. There is also a growing number of homebuyers desiring green homes. Why Green Homes Should Matter to Homebuyers and You.

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Urban wood burning is soaring, with 18,000 complaints but only 3 fines

Envirotec Magazine

Having a wood stove in your home is like having 750 diesel trucks pumping their exhaust into your living room [1], as the group explains, yet 200,000 stoves are sold every year in the UK. Campaigners have written to the Health Secretary to call for wood stoves to be phased out by 2027. air pollution. [2]. air pollution.

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Powering ahead securely: Why EV charging stations need better protection

Smart Energy International

Jeff Hutchins, president and chief technology officer at EOS Linx, writes on the electric vehicle (EV) landscape and how its booming growth necessitates, now more than ever, a renewed focus on cybersecurity measures. Electric vehicles are the future. They’re not monitored by utility workers who are always on-premise.

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Reaching COP28 energy goals requires real VPP progress in 2024

Smart Energy International

Power grids globally must be upgraded by 2040 to keep the lights on. And while these upgrades will likely cost trillions, virtual power plants (VPPs), writes Autogrid’s Gisela Glandt , can curb these costs to the tune of $10B annually. Have you read?

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Geothermal drilling starts in Garges-lès-Gonesse, France

ThinkGeoEnergy

The drilling work for the geothermal energy system in the town of Garges-ls-Gonesse in the Val-d’Oise department of northern Paris, also part of the le-de-France region. The well is expected to tap into a geothermal resource hosted in the Dogger formation, with an expected temperature of 65 C at a depth of 1600 meters.

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Women innovators celebrated as C40 tech challenge winners announced

Envirotec Magazine

The winners were: Lorena Gordillo Dagallier from Cambridge (UK) who successfully pitched her initiative “open-seneca”- a mobile air quality sensor network that will be installed throughout the city alongside educational workshops. Uniquely the monitors’ data is captured and recorded by volunteer ‘citizen scientists.’

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Simple Actions You Can Take Today for a Greener Tomorrow

Hydrogen Fuel News

Choosing Sustainable Energy Another actionable step towards a greener future involves considering how the energy you use is produced. You can explore providers that use renewable sources, such as wind or solar power, on the Choose Energy platform. Green Commuting Transportation is a major contributor to carbon emissions.