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Can forensics tech solve the mystery of supply chain traceability?

Business Green

The good news is there is real innovation happening when it comes to the various sensors and "markers" that could be used for validation - everything from near field communications (NFC) tags to DNA and biome tracers. NFC forensics tags from IN-Code Technologies , used to collect data at specific points of the process.

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How Sustainability Innovation Is Driving The Green Economy

Green Business Bureau

While nature doesn’t come with a clearly labeled price tag, sustainability innovation understands that there is great economic value in preserving ecosystems, natural resources, biodiversity, and cultures and communities around the world. In addition to having a lower carbon footprint, S.I. Besides the shipping container itself, S.I.

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The 5 Most Promising Long-Duration Storage Technologies Left Standing

GreenTechMedia

The new school of pumped hydro focuses on isolated reservoirs that don’t disrupt river ecosystems; this simplifies permitting, but projects still face a decade-long development timeline and billion-dollar price tags. Nevertheless, a handful of such projects are inching forward.

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Drone data helps a Minnesota city conserve energy

Renewable Energy World

The college already had the drones (each with a price tag of $40,000) and used the project as a student learning opportunity. For concrete examples of how towns and cities can take action toward gaining more control over their clean energy future, explore ILSR’s Community Power Toolkit.

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What’s It Like to Be a Lawyer at an Environmental Nonprofit?

GreenTechMedia

” One exciting part of advocacy work at a nonprofit is how hard work can pay off in concrete ways. Typical programs have a price tag of several hundred thousand dollars. “It’s endlessly fascinating and there are always opportunities to learn a huge amount.” “I worked with wind developers in the U.S.

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Boris Johnson to pledge to 'build back greener'

Business Green

Johnson is expected to use the speech to reiterate his promise to avoid an austerity-style response to the current economic crisis and instead forge ahead with his plans to "level up" the UK's regions. "Our

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Who Is Going to Clean Up the Scrap Heap in the North Sea?

DeSmogBlog

Nearby, Mieras’ colleagues — workers dressed in protective suits — are busy with the steps involved in demolishing an offshore oil or gas platform: cutting pipes in half, smashing apart blocks of concrete. One is folding his grappling machine around an iron container. We depend on the availability of crane and other work vessels for the work.