DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2023

Gavin Newom said on the NYC Climate Week stage on Sunday. Now more than three dozen states and municipalities are taking corporate climate polluters to court. Given its sheer size, California’s move to take legal action adds significant weight to this mounting roster of states. California Gov. Enough’s enough,” he said.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 4, 2021

That article was one of GreenBiz's most popular stories throughout the year. That's one reason a group of fleet leaders who spoke at the GreenBiz VERGE 20 conference late last year said they’re integrating renewable natural gas and other efficiency improvements alongside a long-term push to electrify. Mon, 01/04/2021 - 02:00.

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Charged

AUGUST 17, 2022

While the bond process is taking place, this allows for an immediate evaluation of the bond conditions and a judgment of bond quality. Wire bonding is serial in nature in that each bond has to be formed sequentially. Figure 2: Sketch Of Cross-Section Showing Unsupported Center Of Battery Cell Top Cover. In-process monitoring.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

While the bond process is taking place, this allows for an immediate evaluation of the bond conditions and a judgment of bond quality. Wire bonding is serial in nature in that each bond has to be formed sequentially. Figure 2: Sketch of cross-section showing unsupported center of battery cell top cover. In-process monitoring.

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Bidgely

MAY 12, 2021

Each year JD Power’s Utility Client Conference brings together leading electric, natural gas and water utilities to showcase model programs that are yielding big gains in customer experience, market share and profitability. In the face of all of this opportunity, utilities agree that customers must remain at the center of their strategy.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

Mars, Cargill put nature regeneration goals alongside avoiding climate catastrophe Jesse Klein Thu, 02/11/2021 – 01:00 Over 1,000 companies have committed to science-based targets for climate change, but the Science Based Targets Network (SBTN) thinks companies need to start making science-based commitments on nature as well as for climate.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 1, 2021

This article originally appeared in the State of Green Business 2021. Increasingly, the stars are aligning for industrial emissions to take center stage, for three key reasons: demand for clean solutions is growing; technologies are maturing; and the conditions for policy solutions are ripe. Sarah Golden.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

This article originally was published in our free Climate Tech Weekly newsletter, delivered Wednesday mornings. There will be more deals of this nature, although he wouldn't say when and who. It will obviously take many, many, many more offtake arrangements by Swiss Re and other corporations to stimulate the market.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 29, 2021

Suddenly, corporate sustainability folks are spending less time in the shadows and more in the limelight — or, at least, being invited onto the main stage. In fact, the opportunities should grow across sectors as more companies take on increasingly bold measures in response to the demands of customers, investors, employees and others.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 31, 2020

Circular economy startups compete at Circularity 2020, taking on shoes to shelf-life Holly Secon Mon, 08/31/2020 – 01:00 A circular economy is urgently required for the shift to a more sustainable planet. Borobabi Borobabi CEO Carolyn Butler took the virtual stage to pitch the sustainable children’s clothing rental startup.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 9, 2021

This article will focus on SDG 11: Sustainable Cities and Communities. Protect the world’s cultural and natural heritage. Reduce the adverse effects of natural disasters. Since the beginning of modern civilization, cities have been the centers of trade and commerce. What is SDG 11? .

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

It's an early-stage, sometimes loosely defined space, where many solutions remain unproven, but the long-term payoffs in terms of sustainability and cost reductions could be enormous. One new initiative is to build Microsoft Circular Centers to further the reuse of computer servers and other hardware from the company's data centers. . "We

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Business Green

JULY 17, 2020

There are only a few waste-to-hydrogen projects, most which are in early stages and relatively small scale. Still, there is potential for clean - low- or zero-carbon - hydrogen to take off, energy experts believe. It is energy-efficient, abundant and an environmentally friendly alternative to natural gas.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Adrian Kraus / AP Photo Bill Powell began working on chestnut genetics when he was a 28-year-old graduate student in Utah, which is actually outside the tree’s natural range. When I met Powell in 2022, he fretted that the chestnut restoration process was taking too long. Unfortunately, I see retirement on the horizon,” he told me.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 22, 2021

Taking deep breaths while lunging for tennis balls was a chore. Photo of Mark Jacobson (right) with Professor Gil Masters (center) and Peter Ramsey, who works in building energy and teaches at Stanford University. This is where Jacobson’s story takes on a cinematic glow, which I wrote about for HuffPost in 2011.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 15, 2020

There are only a few waste-to-hydrogen projects, most which are in early stages and relatively small scale. Still, there is potential for clean — low- or zero-carbon — hydrogen to take off, energy experts believe. It is energy-efficient, abundant and an environmentally friendly alternative to natural gas.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 15, 2021

It takes a lot of education.". And companies such as Ficosterra - which derives its name from ficos, the Greek word for algae, and terra, the Latin word for earth - believe seaweed can help transition farming back to the nature-based methods humankind used for millennia, before the invention of industrialized agriculture.

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 7, 2023

We spoke with Stark about what it will take to retire gas boilers, the necessity of mass-manufacturing for industrial heat solutions, and why no one has tried the supersized heat pump approach before now. You'll go out and look for [renewable natural gas (RNG)] first. ” Joule 5(3), 2021 Last week, AtmosZero announced a $7.5M

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Charged

DECEMBER 21, 2022

Identifying ideal routes is key to success,” says the LIGHTS group’s final report , and the learnings were underscored by the fleet operators taking part. The small number of operators who run mixed-fuel fleets (diesel and gasoline, or diesel and natural gas) will understand these tradeoffs better. Stay tuned. Subscribe here.

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Charged

MAY 13, 2020

The region, which centers on the city of Youngstown, was a booming center of steel production until the 1970s. These are very expensive to buy, so when a plant is shuttered, usually the OEM takes out the components to put in another place. Naturally, there’s a lot of great talent here. For us, it was great.

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Charged

AUGUST 24, 2020

It’s typically either mom-and-pops or individuals that are—in the case of laptop batteries—taking them apart, and selling the cells. That’s been our mantra from the start—to ensure that you can take any lithium-ion battery in a mixed fashion and ensure it’s scalable. Ajay Kochhar: No, not so much has been recovered.

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Clean Energy Trust

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

It’s also a different approach than rental car companies usually take, which is to buy base model vehicles at deep discounts. When solutions are still at an early stage, it is really, really hard to scrape together sufficient funding to develop these technology businesses.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

We were hoping [2020] would be a big year for forests and nature.” Progress takes root There were some hopeful signs over the past 12 months. ” But the companies interviewed for this article have differing strategies for how to handle suppliers that don’t comply with their mandates.

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Grist

APRIL 17, 2021

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. I think that’s a really big issue,” says Natalie Kofler, a molecular biologist and bioethicist who founded Editing Nature, a platform that advocates “for inclusive decision-making processes to steer” the use of genetic technology. “If The male mosquitoes will survive and carry the gene.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

With this in mind, in this Green Business Bureau article, we’ll define what Carroll’s CSR pyramid is, before looking at how this pyramid can be adapted to meet today’s social demands. Carroll was able to take this nuanced topic and simplify the CSR concept using a single pyramid diagram, promoting CSR into the mainstream. What is CSR.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

With this in mind, in this Green Business Bureau article, we’ll define what Carroll’s CSR pyramid is, before looking at how this pyramid can be adapted to meet today’s social demands. Carroll was able to take this nuanced topic and simplify the CSR concept using a single pyramid diagram, promoting CSR into the mainstream. What is CSR.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Christophe Beck is brand-new as Ecolab CEO this month, taking over from retiring Doug Baker , an established advocate of the "virtuous cycles" of sustainability and profitability. The next frontier is "connected chemistry," extending the internet of things to "the internet of natural resources," Beck said in 2019.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

After decades in the planning stage, the Houston Botanic Garden finally opened September 18 on the former Glenbrook Golf Course in southeast Houston. It wasn’t until 2015 that the Houston City Council unanimously approved a plan for the garden to take a 30-year lease on Glenbrook Golf Course.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 3, 2024

This article, a joint reporting project of Floodlight and NPR , is published here as part of the global journalism collaboration Covering Climate Now. In February, Chevron revealed that it was taking a loss of about $1.8 “I don’t read any of the articles about how wonderful their company is,” she says.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 4, 2021

That article was one of GreenBiz’s most popular stories throughout the year. That’s one reason a group of fleet leaders who spoke at the GreenBiz VERGE 20 conference late last year said they’re integrating renewable natural gas and other efficiency improvements alongside a long-term push to electrify.

Electricity 28

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Charged

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

In the previous article , we looked at the various losses incurred on the AC side of the circuit while charging an EV’s battery (from the breaker in the load center to the EVSE inlet on the EV), as well as things that could be done to minimize them, either by the OEM, the electrical contractor or the EV owner.

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Charged

MAY 18, 2021

Equality is also a priority—each of the 9 racing teams consists of one male and one female driver, who take turns at the wheel of a single car. Extreme E’s first race, the Desert X Prix, took place on April 3 and 4, on an 18 km course centered around three canyons in the vast desert surrounding Al-’Ula, Saudi Arabia.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

I saw a few construction vehicles that served as a backdrop to the makeshift stage where speakers, including Louisiana’s Gov. Thirty miles south of New Orleans is where the MBSD construction will take place. John Bel Edwards (D), gave celebratory remarks before posing with shovels full of dirt scooped up from a pre-dug pile.

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 28, 2021

Right now, prominent media companies are already setting the stage for sustainable business practices in the industry, so it is imperative that smaller companies follow suit or they may fall behind and miss out on the opportunities that come with being green. Reduce Carbon Emissions from Production. Lower Fossil Fuel Use .

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 1, 2021

Industrial decarbonization picks up steam Sarah Golden Mon, 03/01/2021 – 01:00 This article originally appeared in the State of Green Business 2021. Today, most process heating in the United States is fueled by natural gas, which can be plugged into many technologies and which already enjoys a robust infrastructure.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 11, 2023

This is discussed in more detail at the end of this article. City First Bank takes care of the triple bottom line, helping depositors earn a superior return while their money supports neighborhoods in and around the Washington, DC region. Let’s take a look at how certification has evolved and expanded over the years.

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Charged

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

ABB is currently providing UPS systems for Formula E’s broadcast center, and it provided 50-kilowatt chargers for the Jaguar I-Pace trophy, a racing series that was presented before the main Formula E races for two seasons from 2018 to 2020. We’re taking this [equipment for Formula E] and shipping it around the world.

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