Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 27, 2024

UKWIR’s research programme aims to create a future where sewerage management is not just an essential service, but a key contributor towards a sustainable and healthy environment,” said Jenni Hughes, UKWIR strategic programme manager. He is also director of environment & innovation at Southern Water.

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Green Technology

MARCH 20, 2023

Forum Floorplan Advisory Board Register to Attend How County Agencies Partnered to Develop a Regional Model for Sustainable and Climate Resilient Schools that Can be Taken to Scale Across California This session answers the question: How can regional agencies partner with TK-12 schools and to catalyze environmental and climate action?

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Green Roof Technology

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

greenroofs #biophylilla #stormwater #greenrooftechnology #greeninfrastructure #optigreen #solargardenroof Both buildings are covered with over 500,000 sf of multiple types of green roofs. It is likely the world's first Solar Garden Roof. It is now on Goggle Earth.

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Greenability Magazine

APRIL 13, 2021

Starting Small: Simple Steps to a More Sustainable Lifestyle – The Resilient Activist. Stormwater Sunday Earth Day Celebration , The Little Red Hen’s Community Garden puppet show, 2400 E. Interwoven: An Earth Month Retreat – The Resilient Activist. After Party: Live Music & Conversation. Sunday, April 18.

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Greenability Magazine

JULY 7, 2020

To encourage property owners to use best practices for stormwater management, Johnson County Stormwater Management Program offers the refunds to homeowners and businesses that make improvements on their properties.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 16, 2024

The report continues that various solutions to green buildings already exist, but they often address singular areas such as pollution reduction, net zero goals or human-centric sustainability in isolation. Together, these levers are anticipated to have the potential to generate $1.8

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Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 7, 2022

Second, our nonprofit mission: Redesigning systems at the root of the climate crisis drives our work with startups, to help fast-track the sustainable and equitable deployment of technologies the world needs to help solve climate change. Climate resilience, zero carbon, and the built environment. Climate Resilience. Zero Carbon.

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Greenability Magazine

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Doug Tallamy, author of Nature’s Best Hope, Bringing Nature Home: How Native Plants Sustain Wildlife in Our Gardens. Their extensive root systems retain more water than traditional lawns, which reduces stormwater run-off, mitigates flooding and traps significant amounts of carbon.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 28, 2023

They are also, in part, a response to stricter performance targets, changing government legislation, and increased public scrutiny of combined sewer overflows (CSOs) releasing sewage and stormwater into rivers and seas during heavy rainfall. How much more is needed to ensure resilience with a changing climate? •

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 11, 2021

Orlando’s journey to accelerate sustainability and resilience Chris Castro Thu, 03/11/2021 – 01:00 Cities are home to more than 50 percent of the global population and as a result are presented with ever-growing challenges, including finding a balance between social equity, economic vitality and environmental sustainability.

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Greenability Magazine

MAY 19, 2020

As part of the city’s KC Green initiative, this program recognizes neighborhoods that have implemented sustainable practices. The city will award neighborhoods with a platinum, gold or silver designation based on the green/sustainable initiatives they have implemented. Registered neighborhoods can apply online at KCMO through July 31.

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Grist

AUGUST 10, 2023

As our nation sets about rebuilding our infrastructure and restoring our resilience, plastic will play an outsized role,” the American Chemistry Council, or ACC, a petrochemical industry trade group, says on one of its websites. The nonprofit Alliance for Sustainable Building Products, based in the U.K.,

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Greenability Magazine

MAY 10, 2021

Both a rain garden and bioswale retain or slow the movement of water from the property, decreasing stormwater runoff. Rain gardens and bioswales have similar results, but vary in how they are designed and work. Let’s look at what might be best for your situation.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

When New York-based architecture firm Archi-Tectonics won an international design competition to masterplan the Hangzhou Asian Games Park for the 2022 Asian Games — the largest international multi-sports competition after the Olympics — the architects knew from the start that their design vision would be guided by sustainable legacy use.

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Green Technology

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Green Technology’s Leadership Awards aim to recognize and honor individuals, organizations, and institutions that have made significant contributions to advancing sustainability efforts and reducing carbon footprints in various sectors.

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Green Technology

DECEMBER 6, 2024

Green Technology’s Leadership Awards aim to recognize and honor individuals, organizations, and institutions that have made significant contributions to advancing sustainability efforts and reducing carbon footprints in various sectors.

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Greenability Magazine

JULY 28, 2020

Land Use: MARC’s Tom Jacobs and Scott Schulte with Vireo Landscape Architects highlight green infrastructure for better soil health and stormwater retention. Watch it here. Watch it here.

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Greentown Labs

DECEMBER 17, 2018

A handful of our startups from Greentown Labs showcased the sustainable solutions they’re working on to fight climate change. Somerville Climate Forward builds upon work that is already being done by the City to advance sustainability and climate resilience. Net-zero and resilient new buildings standards.

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Varuna

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

drinking water, wastewater, stormwater and greywater?—?as as a single resource, a resource that must be managed holistically, viably and sustainably. ” One Water The buzzword within the water industry these days, when we aren’t talking about infrastructure spend, is ‘ One Water ’.

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Greenability Magazine

JULY 14, 2020

Rain-barrel kits and assembled barrels can be found at local garden centers.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The natural material selection provides a durable and functional walkway that naturally allows stormwater to permeate the surface. Their mission is to produce sustainable, resilient design, specializing in architectural responses to climate challenges.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MARCH 16, 2021

Fort Collins directly provides a full slate of municipal services, including operating its own electric, water, wastewater, and stormwater utilities. The City develops resiliency and sustainability through organization-wide systems and processes that ensure consistent employee work practices and alignment across service areas.

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The City Fix

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

The world recently experienced a 13-month streak of record-breaking global temperatures. And as blistering heat waves punish communities across several continents, 2024 is on track to be the hottest year on record. Global average temperatures are now perilously close to exceeding 1.5.

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The City Fix

DECEMBER 3, 2024

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) recently launched Mumbai’s first-ever climate budget, making it the first city in India and the fourth in the world (after Oslo, New York and London) to launch a climate budget. While Mumbai works to expand and institutionalize their.

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Unsustainable

FEBRUARY 2, 2020

inches of runoff water, according to the project specs from the Florida Stormwater Associations 2018 Winter Conference. One plan, drafted by Jacobs , a sustainably engineering firm, suggests converting – at least partially – the city-owned golf course into a “wetlands recreation center”.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 5, 2023

Think of inspiring examples across the globe, such as Philadelphia's Green City, Clean Waters stormwater management plan and Seoul's Cheonggyecheon Stream. These ideas need to be communicated properly and brought into the mainstream so the public gets behind them. We need a paradigm shift in how we think about landscape.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Designed and executed with care, net-zero carbon goals can offer more than sustainability window dressing for commercial buildings in the decades to come. The market has changed from seeing sustainability as an amenity to sell to being something that is actually about risk management," said Breana Wheeler, director of U.S.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 3, 2024

Durham, October 2023 Urban locations worldwide are struggling to manage stormwater drainage, in the face of extreme weather. And this seems to be a key factor in the increasing difficulties being faced worldwide, when it comes to managing the hydraulic capacity of sewer and stormwater networks.

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The City Fix

JANUARY 29, 2025

Moldovas capital city, Chiinu, recently secured a 20 million investment to tackle flooding and pollution of the Bc River, aiming to transform it into a valuable recreational amenity for 100,000 residents and mitigate future flood risks. This funding, which combines loans from.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

It facilitates social resilience. A resilient city is better prepared to fight climate change. Can we look forward to any other exciting sustainability projects in the future? Planning for physical and social connectedness is an important criterion in dealing with climate change. Inhabitat: What’s next for you?

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 25, 2022

A transformative experience, it fuelled a passion for nature-based treatment systems as viable alternatives to energy and capital-intensive centralised plants, reinforcing his belief that ecological engineering is essential in creating a sustainable and regenerative future. The Biosphere 2 project was 50 years ahead of its time.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 10, 2020

Former Governor Jerry Brown signed an executive order in July 2015 directing state agencies to develop a sustainable freight action plan. “There are real grid constraints to electrifying many ports’ infrastructure and they are interested in increasing resiliency while making these upgrades.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

This multi-pronged approach prioritises resource efficiency, natural solutions, and circularity; safeguarding water resources while nurturing healthier, more resilient ecosystems. The EU Water Framework Directive set ambitious targets for reducing pollution in water bodies, prompting companies to invest in improved treatment technologies.

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Elemental Excelerator

OCTOBER 5, 2020

We emphasized COVID resiliency when selecting companies, weighing the ability to thrive (or pivot) during the pandemic as well as the ability to help respond and recover from it. Beyond giving your jeans a second chance at life, this opens up an entirely new, sustainable garment recycling supply chain. FOOD & AGRICULTURE. “The

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GreenBiz

APRIL 15, 2021

They also are more equipped with the vital skills to adapt and be resilient to climate change when disaster strikes, and to influence how their communities mitigate against it. From classrooms to boardrooms. Jennifer Wagner, president, CarbonCure ( LinkedIn ) | Drawdown Solution No. 36 — Alternative Cement. million seed round last week.

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Elemental Excelerator

MARCH 9, 2021

” Our goal is to ensure clean drinking water and sustainability of water use in the face of these mounting threats. Stormwater management and flood resiliency solutions. Enhanced roadway infrastructure safety, resiliency, and disaster planning. Improving energy resiliency. Process optimization technologies.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 20, 2025

Data for nature Currently, the default option to reducing stormwater overflows into rivers and seas is to install concrete storage tanks, which are costly and, while effectively holding back water, provide few additional benefits. Image credit: Neil Moralee , CC BY-NC-ND 2.0

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