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Project sets out to create compostable crop sensors

Envirotec Magazine

An international research collaboration is setting out to find new ways of monitoring crop growth with biodegradable sensors which can be composted at the end of their lifespan. Professor Dahiya said: “The internet of things has huge potential to revolutionise every aspect of human activity, from home lives to global industry.

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Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South

GreenBiz

The series is supported by the Temple Hoyne Buell Center for the Study of American Architecture at Columbia University, and is part of their POWER project. . As the Northeast Organizer for Clean Water for North Carolina , she’d met with residents of a small, majority Black town called Ahoskie, 40 miles from her home.

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Sustainable Facilities Forum 2023 Leadership Award Winners

Green Technology

Green Technology’s Leadership Awards aim to recognize and honor individuals, organizations, and institutions that have made significant contributions to advancing sustainability efforts and reducing carbon footprints in various sectors.

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Managing a Remote Workforce: During and After Coronavirus

Sustainability Consulting

As an organization, you may have already had a telework policy and the needed systems in place. million employees work at home, telecommuters can save the nation nearly 30 million gallons of gas per workday. A study conducted by Sun Microsystems found that office energy use is nearly twice that of home energy use.

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Women innovators celebrated as C40 tech challenge winners announced

Envirotec Magazine

Meiling Gao and Vivian Bi from California, who jointly won with their initiative “Clarity”, a smart, indoor-outdoor low cost air monitoring system that provides real-time air quality data. Uniquely the monitors’ data is captured and recorded by volunteer ‘citizen scientists.’ Anai Green (Lumiweave, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel).

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How Shell Is Selling the Petrochemical Buildout as ‘Sustainable’

DeSmogBlog

If you take Shell’s word for it, the oil giant’s growing petrochemical operations are indicative of its “commitment” to a cleaner energy future. Today, a peculiar sign still greets those who enter the town: residential homes are pictured next to an oil tank, surrounded by refinery towers, all basking together underneath the sun and blue sky.

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A North-Pole, How Much Longer?

Mr. Sustainability

An Awe-Inspiring Place The Arctic, also affectionately called the North Pole and home to Santa Claus, has always been a magical place that captivated our imagination. In the absence of thick multi-year ice, which can be up to five meters deep, any water that refreezes would take the form of much thinner, more navigable seasonable ice.