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Adobe flips the switch on all-electric building

Business Green

The structure, certified under the Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) rating system, contains the largest all-electric commercial kitchen in North America - a 50,000-square-foot space equipped with induction cooking equipment and an all-electric pizza oven from Italy.

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From lower carbon flights to greener traffic lights: Google unveils package of sustainable updates

Business Green

The moves include a new service called Nest Renew that allows Nest thermostat users to automatically shift electricity usage for heating and cooling to times when energy is cleaner or less expensive. These features will start to roll out in the US this year, with more to come in 2022. "Of

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Massachusetts Passes Climate Bill Focused on Clean Energy and Offshore Wind

Energy and Cleantech Council

5060 ), titled An Act Driving Clean Energy and Offshore Wind, into law on Thursday August 11, 2022. See our related blog post covering the transportation policies implemented by this climate act. DPU is instructed to study how to make it easier for communities to adopt geothermal heating and cooling systems.

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Sip or guzzle? Here's how Google's data centres use water

Business Green

With a pledge to restore 120 per cent of the 'water it consumes' by 2030, Google is rethinking the approaches used to cool its massive data centres. On Monday, Google published some metrics it will use to benchmark that progress, focused predominantly on the data centres that drive its revenue, many of which rely on water to keep cool.

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Hydrogen Powered Propulsion for an Offshore Crane Vessel

Mr. Sustainability

A technical, environmental and economical evaluation from a shipowner’s perspective by Gilles Hagen Summary - This thesis performs a technical, economical and environmental feasibility study of dense hydrogen carriers as a fuel to power the largest semi-submersible offshore crane vessel in the world – Heerema’s Sleipnir.

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20 C-suite sustainability champions for 2021

GreenBiz

In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S. As electric vehicles drive toward the mainstream, General Motors has come full circle as well. It mass-produced the first electric car in the 1990s, then literally crushed most of them in 2003. and globally by 2040. LinkedIn | Personal website.

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From banks to bunds: how Africans are harnessing satellite data to financially derisk pastoral livelihoods

Planet Pulse

And while these two commercial projects demonstrate the scalability of satellite-based agricultural programs as they expand from Kenya through East Africa, scientists, too, are exploring new methods to use near-daily monitoring of fields through our Education and Research Program. © 2022, Planet Labs PBC. All Rights Reserved.

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