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Sponsored Content: Ashtead Technology partners with Gas Data to expand analyser fleet

Envirotec Magazine

Combined, these instruments will provide Ashtead’s customers with a complete choice of technologies for the measurement of methane and other gases in applications such as landfill, biogas, contaminated land, petrochem, gas leaks, gas utilities and wastewater.

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‘Wood vaulting’: A simple climate solution you’ve probably never heard of

Grist

In northwestern Montana’s Swan Valley, a pile of about 100 small logs, 10 feet long or so, sits neatly stacked, ringed by berry bushes, a few white wildflowers, and towering larch trees. Surrounding the logs are several acres of U.S. Another concern with wood vaulting is that it may incentivize more logging than necessary.

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A wood-burning EV charger?

Charged

The obvious application is for remote logging or land-clearing operations that use electric vehicles and/or machinery. According to Air Burners, the BioCharger can permanently eliminate up to 20 tons of vegetative waste per hour without emitting greenhouse emissions like methane and black carbon.

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Secrets of a long partnership in gas detection (Sponsored content)

Envirotec Magazine

This included appropriate gas detectors connected to a controller with logging capability and a live display of gas levels. The company’s products are employed in commercial, institutional, municipal and light industrial markets, and in a wide variety of applications.

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Can burning biomass be sustainable?

Low Impact

Many local people are furious at the damage done to their forests by logging corporations ripping out whole trees with Star-Wars machinery that first churns up and then compacts the soil. In any case, why send wood pellets to Europe to substitute for coal, when North Americans burn more fossil fuels than Europeans do?

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Hotel Sustainability & Waste Management: Reducing Food, Water and Plastic Waste

Green Business Bureau

Food waste is a global issue, releasing toxic ammonia-filled leachate and planet-warming methane into the environment. Create a food waste log to keep track of where your food waste comes from, how much and at what frequency. Minimize Food Waste. Start by characterizing and quantifying waste.

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The hidden emissions in the global food supply chain

Business Green

Palm oil production and logging for timber are often connected, according to the reports, which found that companies used the capital and newly cleared land associated with logging a site to later fund the development of a palm oil plantation. In other words, the impact could be either negligible or catastrophic.

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