GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

More pieces of IKEA's sustainability puzzle come together. Deonna Anderson. Wed, 11/25/2020 - 08:00. Black Friday is upon us. For IKEA, that marks the expanded launch of a program to buy back furniture in an effort to curb consumption. "We don't want to encourage people to overconsume. That's one of the challenges we've identified that we feel like we can make a big impact on within our whole strategy," said Jenn Keesson, sustainability manager at IKEA U.S. .

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

During 2019, the UK Government set out its plans for reducing the levels of specific air pollutants, in a document called the Clean Air Strategy. Of the five main types of pollution identified by DEFRA, three of them can be treated effectively using activated carbon filtration – volatile organic compounds (VOCs), ammonia (NH3) and sulfur dioxide (SO2).

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Will shifting to smaller turkeys help combat food waste? Jesse Klein. Wed, 11/25/2020 - 05:00. Thanksgiving looks different this year in America. Grandpas and grandmas, uncles and aunts, and cousins of all numbers probably aren’t gathering together for dinner, unless it’s over Zoom. That reality is creating challenges for producers and suppliers — and new implications for holiday food waste.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Researchers have come up with a new, more eco-friendly and effective form of building insulation material. The new material was developed due to the shortcomings of the traditional polyurethane-based foam insulators.

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Speaker: Kevin Kai Wong, President of Emergent Energy Solutions

In today's industrial landscape, the pursuit of sustainable energy optimization and decarbonization has become paramount. Manufacturing corporations across the U.S. are facing the urgent need to align with decarbonization goals while enhancing efficiency and productivity. Unfortunately, the lack of comprehensive energy data poses a significant challenge for manufacturing managers striving to meet their targets.

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altenergymag

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Centrica Business Solutions set to optimise new virtual power plant to act as environmentally friendly back up to the grid in Belgium.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Profits from the sunglasses go toward the organization's cleanup efforts in the Great Pacific Garbage Patch.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

While animal-lovers may rejoice at the end of Kopenhagen Fur, it comes after the culling of 17 million mink.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Leading global wind turbine manufacturer Vestas has launched a venture capital unit as it looks to stoke the energy transition. Vestas Ventures will focus on four areas: long-duration storage and other grid flexibility technology; "power-to-X" technologies to use renewable electricity to produce carbon-neutral fuels; wind energy technologies; and sustainability and advanced materials.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

City Oasis is expected to serve as an example of sustainable urban planning for the future.

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altenergymag

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Reed Exhibitions Limited has announced that All-Energy, the UK's largest annual renewable and low carbon energy exhibition and conference - and the co-located Dcarbonise - will now take place on Wednesday 18 and Thursday 19 August 2021 at the Scottish Event Campus (SEC).

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Speaker: Ayesha Choudhury - Senior Vice President, Head of Capital Markets at Infinium

With the first wave of the energy transition, renewable energy sources (such as solar and wind) have begun replacing coal power generation. However, some sectors are lagging behind and struggling to decarbonize more than others, including large-scale transportation like commercial aviation, shipping, and rail transit. Electrofuels (aka eFuels) are the next generation of solutions to help the hardest-to-abate sectors pivot from their reliance on fossil fuels.

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Inhabitat - Innovation

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The building follows the architects' vision "that architecture exemplifies how we care for our environment.

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U.S. Green Technology

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

According to the Energy Saving Trust of UK, you can save as much as USD 100 per year by making your house energy efficient. But what does it mean to be energy efficient? It means using household items that have the same function for half the energy consumption. For one, an energy-efficient home allows you. The post Top 7 Ways To Make Your Home Energy-Efficient appeared first on U.S.

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altenergymag

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Highview Power is beginning site work on 50MW/250MWh liquid air energy storage facility in Greater Manchester, United Kingdom.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Researchers at Pacific Northwest National Laboratory ( PNNL ) claim to have increased the conductivity of copper wire by about five percent. That may seem like a small amount, but it could make a big difference in motor efficiency. Higher conductivity would also mean that less copper would be needed for the same efficiency, which could reduce the weight and volume of various components that power EVs.

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Speaker: Nik Gowing, Brenda Laurel, Sheridan Tatsuno, Archie Kasnet, and Bruce Armstrong Taylor

With 191 country signatories to the Paris Climate Agreement now hard at work in the race to zero carbon by 2050, much of the heavy lifting in ecosystem sustainability falls on the shoulders of the world's densely populated urban centers. This conversation considers how today's AI-enabled simulation media, such as AR/VR, can be effectively applied to accelerate learning, understanding, training, and solutions-modeling to sustainability planning and design.

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Impact Alpha

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

ImpactAlpha, November 25 — Vallejo, Calif.-based Factory_OS is addressing the affordable housing crisis in the San Francisco Bay Area using digital technology to.

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Charged

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Battery manufacturers are striving to increase capacity, reduce charging time and ensure an adequate supply of raw materials. BASF developed its new Licity range of binders in order to meet these needs. Depending on their requirements, customers can choose a series with a certain application focus, such as binders suitable for pure graphite or silicon-containing anodes.

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Impact Alpha

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

ImpactAlpha, Nov. 25 – The pandemic’s disproportionate impact on women is exposing the need and opportunity for more investors to embrace a gender lens.

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Sustainability Consulting

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Everyone loves a good TED Talk. Here is one of our favorites: In this timely TEDTalk, Hal Harvey, climate expert and CEO of Energy Innovation and John Doerr, engineer, venture capitalist and chairman of Kleiner Perkins discuss how to radically shift to a carbon free economy by 2050. In their view, it’s a simple formula: decarbonize the grid and electrify everything using renewable energy resources such as solar and wind energy.

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Speaker: Bruce Armstrong Taylor, Co-Founder & Managing Director of SmartNations Foundation, Jimmy Jia, Venture Partner at Pi Labs, Fabienne Durand, Senior Advisor to the SmartNations Foundation, & Roger Strukhoff, Executive Director of the Tau Institute

The Climate 4.0 Economy. Climate change is here. We see it in many ways already. Weather catastrophes: Texas freezing over, the wildfires of California, the increasingly unpredictable violence and frequency of hurricanes, the rapid melting and disappearance of polar ice caps. Much more evidence all around us. What can we do in our corporate organizations, in our homes and communities, to change the current course?

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Impact Alpha

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

ImpactAlpha, November 25 — The economic shock of the COVID pandemic has devastated small businesses – and driven many others to open one.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Collaboration follows new research showing nearly two-thirds of UK households do not use technology to help run their home more efficiently. Communications giant BT and environmental campaign group Hubbub are teaming up to encourage households to boost their energy efficiency and drive down carbon emissions by deploying smart technologies in their homes, the organisations announced today.

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Impact Alpha

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The post-mortem on this election is far from over, but as the news of the past few weeks has unfolded, we are seeing.

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Green Living Guy

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

I really want to thank Thrive Global, and Luis Jorge Rios, Combat Veteran Freelance Journalist at luisjorgerios.com for publishing the story. It’s not often I get interviewed on feelings or stress. Moreover life itself. So it was nice to have the opportunity. I also want to thank my publicist Colin. I’m truly grateful. The post Thrive Global Interview with Seth Leitman, The Green Living Guy appeared first on Green Living Guy.

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Impact Alpha

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Greetings, Agents of Impact! We’re taking a brief break for the Thanksgiving holiday here in the U.S. We’ll be back in your inbox.

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U.S. Green Technology

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

One of the recent studies shows that food spends costs, on average, about 10% of household earning. While there is nothing wrong with having a good meal, overspending on food can hurt, particularly if you have a debt to pay for your restaurant outings. Millions of Americans struggle with this. If you also have the. The post Ways to make dining out and entertainment more affordable appeared first on U.S.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

European energy giant unveils investment strategy that will see it invest €160bn directly in green infrastructure, while leveraging a further €30bn from other parties. Italian energy giant Enel has outlined plans to invest €160bn in decarbonisation and electrification efforts over the next decade, as it works to become a net zero power producer by 2050.

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U.S. Green Technology

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The advance of online shopping The internet has offered an easy and quick solution to our love for shopping with a variety of options to select from. We can not only access products made in our locality but we can also purchase things from across borders without ever stepping out of our homes. As of. The post Is Online or In-Store Shopping More Eco-Friendly?

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Agencies facing fresh calls to cut their ties with laggard fossil fuel firms, leaving many in the advertising and PR sector with difficult decisions to make. As fossil fuel companies' social license to operate becomes increasingly frayed, more and more industries in their orbit are getting entangled in the reputational quagmire that is now part and parcel of any activity that exacerbates the climate crisis.

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CleanTech Group

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates 92% of the global population live in areas where air pollution exceeds safe limits. Following global lock-downs due to Covid-19, people.

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Impact Alpha

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

ImpactAlpha, November 25 — Nearly 75% of all venture capital investment goes to California, New York and Massachusetts. Revolution intentionally invests in entrepreneurs.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

The government should introduce dedicated annual auctions for onshore wind and solar that can boost their deployment, argues RSPB's Seb Berry. In an otherwise encouraging set of announcements, surprisingly, the Prime Minister's 10 Point Plan failed to say anything about solar PV, or the other cheapest renewable, onshore wind. Twenty years ago, the then nascent UK solar PV sector was ignored for being too expensive.

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Impact Alpha

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

That the network of trade associations and advocacy groups blocking meaningful action on climate change was bankrolled by fossil fuel interests comes not.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

Green brewer brings together leading B Corp food brands to launch new campaign to raise awareness of sector's huge environmental impacts. Toast Ale has this week announced plans to launch a new range of limited edition beers in support of a major new campaign to raise awareness of the environmental impacts of the global food system in the run up to the crucial COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow next year.

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Forbes Green Tech

NOVEMBER 25, 2020

There’s no question that the future will be climate-friendly. We already have innovative solutions to address the climate crisis. What we need now is significant, long-term investment from governments, corporations and individuals.

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