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SEF Weekly: German interconnector, bp R&D and heat network retrofitting

Smart Energy International

Have you read: Energy blockchain startup FlexiDAO secures Google and Microsoft backing From unicorn to Gigacorn: the climate finance startup with a ‘secret sauce’. The existing heat network serves phases 1 and 2 of the development and was originally built between 2000 and 2009. Switch2 Energy win 30-year heat network retrofit contract.

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Mutual credit in Africa: interview with Will Ruddick of Grassroots Economics

Low Impact

And regular usage – about 2000 active traders per week. It’s a bit confusing, because at the end of 2019, we had 11 currencies, we’d gone digital, and trading was happening through ‘liquidity pools’ where a village could trade with another village, and we were experimenting with blockchain. million worth of trade last year.

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Bill McDonough at 70: A look back … and ahead

GreenBiz

Hannover had just won the World's Fair for 2000, and they wanted to do sustainability as the theme. That is somewhere we are working right now, with all kinds of tools — AI, blockchain, what we call material passports and buildings as material banks — we coined terms for all this. We wrote them from New York. it is design.

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Slow, Expensive and Amazing - Nuclear Power Part I

Mr. Sustainability

It also seems that generation III plants built from (roughly) the year 2000 onwards are faster to realize. I believe a future of decentralized renewable energy - potentially coupled with a blockchain - will ensure a just, fair and better future for mankind. What do others say? I do not think that represents a sustainable future.

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SDG15: The fight for life on land

Business Green

Emerging technologies, such as satellite mapping and blockchain, are giving firms ever greater insight into their land-based supply chains. Unless we reverse nature loss, trillions of dollars will be wiped off the world's economies - WWF's Global Futures report. However, despite the many daunting challenges there are sources of optimism.

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Bill McDonough at 70: A look back … and ahead

AGreenLiving

Hannover had just won the World’s Fair for 2000, and they wanted to do sustainability as the theme. That is somewhere we are working right now, with all kinds of tools — AI, blockchain, what we call material passports and buildings as material banks — we coined terms for all this. We wrote them from New York.