Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 29, 2024

The Scottish Government’s Innovation Minister, Richard Lochhead, on stage at the announcement of the companies chosen for the Accelerator stage of CivTech Round 9. Using the very latest technology, including artificial intelligence, we are tackling real world challenges to help build a stronger and fairer economy.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 15, 2023

This could lead to reduced emissions, increased numbers of high-skilled jobs and better delivery services in hard-to-reach parts of the UK. This will help companies realise the benefits of tracking devices without the cost challenges of battery change and sustainability impacts.

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Andrew Winston

MARCH 21, 2024

Unilever announced it will cut 7,500 jobs and spin out its ice cream business (after divesting from most of the tea biz a few years ago). And yet, when every other company stumbles, nobody says “you know, that shareholder profit maximization thing doesn’t work!”

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

Less visibly, more than 80 percent of the ocean in 2020 suffered marine heatwaves , providing more energy for tropical storms, as well as impacting sea life and spoiling fish harvests for the billions of people who rely on the ocean for their food and jobs. More than 200 companies and organizations are so far involved.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 2, 2022

Green Business Bureau (GBB) has partnered with the National Association of REALTORS® (NAR) to bring the GBB sustainability program, framework, and certification to the real estate industry. The partnership will enable companies to validate their commitment to sustainability and stand out among their peers. NAR Members Save 20%.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

With real collaboration and a healthy dose of courage, some gutsy decisions were made both in government and business. We could talk about why we haven’t acted, but the real question is about what we will do going forward: How will we provoke the world into attacking carbon as it has the virus? Gil Friend. Mon, 09/21/2020 - 01:00.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 11, 2021

For years, companies have focused voluntary social reporting on metrics that are, let’s say, comfortable: government-mandated data, such as occupational health and safety or certain hiring metrics, that has been measured and managed for years. The rise of social metrics in ESG reporting. Aman Singh. Thu, 03/11/2021 - 12:00. Subscribe here.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 15, 2021

With advanced location technology for instant situational awareness, coupled with data-driven gas monitoring, safety professionals are able to capture a comprehensive picture of their work environment to better understand existing threats and hazards in real-time. 2: Get connected, stay protected.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 3, 2021

In 2020, investments into early stage climate tech companies topped $60 billion and grew at a faster rate than all VC investments from 2013 to 2019. Facilitating the rental process helps companies launch and scale marketplaces to reduce the environmental impact of retail. Climate tech startups, and investments into them, are growing.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Over 50 biogas and biomethane trade associations and companies from around the world have written to the World Resources Institute (WRI), administrator of the Greenhouse Gas Protocol , 1 calling for a rethink of its position on the use of biomethane certificates for greenhouse gas reporting by corporate gas users.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 20, 2020

” This year Unily seemingly embarked on its own sustainability journey to actively review how they can do more as a company to reduce the impact of climate change. The result underscored the need for change with 83 per cent of respondents believing that their company is not doing enough to tackle these big issues.

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Charged

APRIL 11, 2023

The first act of the drama was a typical Rust Belt tragedy—shuttered auto plant, lost jobs. Foxconn has also made a deal with Fisker (another company with a highly colorful history) to assemble its planned EV model, the PEAR. We’ve heard nothing recently about the Endurance or the PEAR, but the electric tractors are real.

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Clean Energy Canada

JUNE 16, 2021

VANCOUVER — As jobs in fossil fuels decline amid a shifting global landscape, rapid growth in Canada’s clean energy sector will more than make up the difference. In terms of raw numbers, the 208,700 new clean energy jobs added by 2030 far exceed the 125,800 lost in fossil fuels. While currently behind provinces like B.C.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 19, 2022

What Is Sustainable Real Estate? Sustainable real estate includes commercial and residential real estate property that is designed, built and operated in a way that minimizes environmental impact. The Benefits of Sustainable Real Estate. The Challenges of Sustainable Real Estate. more than unrated homes.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 13, 2022

FastBlade is a partnership between the University of Edinburgh and engineering company Babcock International and supported by a £1.8 The Arrol Gibb Innovation Campus (AGIC) will work with companies in the marine, nuclear power and energy-transition sectors to transform large-scale manufacturing through innovation and skills development.

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GreenBiz

JULY 12, 2020

Is that good news for companies? At the event, SASB’s then-CEO Madelyn Antoncic called GRI too difficult for investors to understand and for companies to compare their performance with peers. GRI CEO Tim Mohin pointed out that its standard is used by 75 percent of the world’s largest companies. GRI and SASB are collaborating.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 7, 2023

The company turns difficult-to-recycle farm and paper waste which would otherwise go to landfills or be sent for incineration into a product called CreChar®. Cam Ross, CEO of Green Angel Ventures, said: “Green Angel Ventures invests exclusively in companies fighting climate change.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

AUGUST 31, 2022

The food-tech startup, which has raised over $30 million, is on a mission to create “real, guilt-free meat” to tackle one of the world’s biggest climate polluters – industrial agriculture – and to help the world reach its net zero goals. by 2030 from cultivated meat supporting up to 16,500 jobs across the UK in 2030.

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EDF + Business

JANUARY 11, 2024

And the good news is – there are millions of green jobs out there, or you can “green” the job you already have. Over the past few years, I’ve mentored hundreds of job seekers through Environmental Defense Fund’s Climate Corps program. I also host a podcast called Degrees: Real talk about planet-saving careers.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 15, 2021

Sustainability matters to job hunters. In the battle for top talent, especially when recruiting the younger generation, prospective employees need to know that you’re committed to a greater purpose and that both sustainability and social responsibility are important to your company. Businesses cannot fake sustainability.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

For example, a company that uses virgin plastic to produce PET bottles in California could purchase credits for the equivalent amount of plastic to be collected somewhere else in the world. The new term "plastic neutrality" is being used to convey that a company has offset its "plastic footprint.". node:field-gbz-pull-quote:0].

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

This platform will lead to jobs and skills for the future, created by those who deliver them.”. Apprenticeships enable individuals to develop practical skills for the job but also skills that will enable them to adapt throughout their career such as problem solving, communication and team working.

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Renewable Energy World

MAY 26, 2021

Cuomo announced the New York Power Authority’s Board of Trustees has approved three low-cost hydropower allocations that will create 102 jobs across Western New York and spur $145 million in private capital investments. ” Americold Real Estate L.P. .” ” Americold Real Estate L.P.—which

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 19, 2023

billion GRIP Program, which itself is one of several tools from President Biden’s Investing in America agenda that DOE is meant to use to strengthen, diversify, and expand America’s power grid while creating union jobs and building community climate resilience. The announcements represent a first round of selections under the broader $10.5

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 27, 2022

In this article, you’ll learn the benefits and challenges of running a company internship program, intern project ideas that will bring long-lasting benefits to your company, and strategies for facilitating intern engagement and ensuring quality work. Company Internship Program Benefits.

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Greentown Labs

MARCH 16, 2021

You’ve probably heard of the “pipeline problem,” which stipulates that there aren’t enough diverse, qualified candidates for companies to hire women and people of color. Maybe it’s the first thing your team, board of directors, or investors said when faced with the task of improving your company’s diversity.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Along with the above, the project also includes the real-time monitoring of 550 containers for electronic waste with Sensoneo sensors. This project upgrades the established systems of daily planning, real-time performance monitoring and evaluation.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Smart People + Smart Process = Smart Factory, led by Raynor Foods Limited – turning sustainability into a game at the Raynor Foods sandwich factory to enable staff to see and then act on their energy use and CO2 footprint in real time. We now look forward to working alongside them to deliver successful outcomes.”.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

APRIL 8, 2024

The significant overlap between these two sectors presents multiple energies for synergy, allowing traditionally O&G-oriented companies to contribute to the energy transition. Expro has been one of the companies that have successfully leveraged their O&G experience and provided services to many geothermal projects all over the world.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

As an intern in Lehman Brothers’ global power group in 2008, she watched the collapse of the investment bank happen in real time. Her job is to help get wind and solar deals done in the face of policy and financial risk. The Real Art of the Deal: How to Negotiate Billions in Renewables Projects. And in the U.S.,

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 1, 2021

Personally speaking, it is motivating and rewarding to be working for a company that recovers and recycles valuable resources, and diverts that material from landfill.”. “If She says Axion’s ‘friendly and co-operative team’ makes her job all the more enjoyable.

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EDF + Business

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

ESG: Using finance to drive real change. After working at a series of more “typical” purpose-driven jobs, Adam had an epiphany: the private sector–and in particular the world of finance– was THE best place to create lasting change.

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Elemental Excelerator

APRIL 16, 2024

Here are three things that will help companies succeed at scale. This is the latest in the round of public investments that are just starting to flow to climate companies — but with climate investment dropping 30% last year, these dollars cannot come soon enough. But that’s not enough to make a climate company succeed.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 10, 2021

On the day that MGT Teesside misses its latest deadline to begin operations (10 December), the Cut Carbon Not Forests (CCNF) coalition warns the Low Carbon Contract Company (LCCC) to reject any further deadline extensions for the biomass power plant. The Government must choose cleaner air and more jobs in cleaner energy in the North East.”

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 14, 2022

The Leicestershire-based clean-tech company unveiled the unit at COP26 in Glasgow last November. We need to embrace multiple renewable and clean energy solutions to achieve our net-zero ambitions and we need real investment in infrastructure to develop affordable, reliable, sustainable energy in the future.”.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The annual awards see more than 50 individuals, companies and projects vie to scoop prizes in 14 categories at a 1,200-guest ceremony on 30 November in Edinburgh. Claire Mack, Chief Executive of Scottish Renewables, said: “I’ve been absolutely blown away by the outstanding quality of nominations we received for this year’s awards.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

OCTOBER 27, 2023

The developer behind the geothermal project is the technology company QHeat , which had also been involved in a geothermal district heating project in Vantaa, Finland earlier this year. Drillers’ job satisfaction has improved because they now have a modern tool at their disposal. All operations are protected by a safety radar system.

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