Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 23, 2023

For example, digital links accessible through a unique product identifier will need to be added to the products themselves rather than outer packaging or tags. Interested parties should be able to access information relating to raw materials, manufacturers, distributors, retailers, and recycling options.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 8, 2019

Tags: fracking fracking finance shale Pioneer Natural Resources Scott Sheffield Harold Hamm Over a year later, the fracking industry is having to reckon with many of the issues DeSmog highlighted, in addition to one new issue — investors are finally giving up on the industry.

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The Environmental Blog

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

While corporations are the biggest offender with inefficient use of resources, collectively improving the energy efficiency of homes can help reduce our personal impacts on the environment. Even bigger things like boilers and kitchen appliances can usually be upgraded to be more efficient, but they usually have a larger price tag.

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

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. HOW IS SUSTAINABILITY INNOVATION DRIVING THE GREEN ECONOMY?

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Business Green

MAY 23, 2021

It is clear that unprecedented levels of investment will be needed to enable countries to both recover and transition to climate and nature-smart economies. Linking financial instruments to NDCs and nature targets. However, we know that resource constraints are a barrier to the implementation of these plans for many countries.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

Duke’s 2020 integrated resource plan (IRP), filed Tuesday with state regulators, lays out six scenarios for reaching its challenging goals of halving its emissions by 2030 and hitting net-zero carbon by 2050. ” Looking at the price tags. gigawatts in its no-new-gas scenario. billion and nearly $9 billion.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2022

As interest and scrutiny involving the use of carbon credits toward net zero goals intensifies, resources from Shopify, Frontier Climate, and Ecosystem Marketplace have some answers for corporate buyers. Here is a brief download on three resources released in the last quarter. Shopify's carbon removal buying guide. 6-7, online.].

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 28, 2020

That 2-gigawatt development was rejected by Texas regulators in August 2018 on the grounds that its $3 billion price tag and the need for a new $1.6 AEP’s integrated resource plan calls for the building of more than 8,000 megawatts of wind and solar and 1,600 megawatts of natural gas between 2020 and 2030.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 7, 2020

What's more, the state needs to wean itself off of the natural-gas plants that come to the rescue every evening when solar generation disappears and grid demand spikes. If pumped hydro, with its billion-dollar price tag, continues to deter customers, it will leave an opening for the crop of newcomers. Who stands to benefit?

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 10, 2021

TAG), the largest natural gas transporter in Brazil. Teck Resources Limited, which part owns an oil sands mine in Alberta and ten mines in Canada, USA, Chile and Peru, was also represented on the list of “champions”. Last year CDPQ bought Transportadora Associada de Gás S.A.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Furthermore, by plotting your move in advance, you can tap into community resources , like local groups or online forums, to share and exchange packing materials, thus cutting down on waste and expenses. Alt-tag: A person sorting trash for recycling as one of the examples of ways to minimize your carbon footprint during a move.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 21, 2021

In terms of industrial impacts on the environment, one of the biggest culprits is the packaging material and accessories that tag along with products. In easy words, sustainable packaging is earth-friendly packaging that does not harm the environment and reduces the depletion of natural resources. Metal tin containers .

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Environmental and conservation organisations joined members of the quarrying industry on 23 October at The Royal Society in London, for the Mineral Products Association (MPA)’s ‘Quarries & Nature 2019’ event, which aimed to explore and celebrate efforts by this industry to preserve and restore wildlife. WINNER NATURAL ENGLAND AWARD.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Shell’s Quest project is a ‘blue hydrogen’ project in Alberta that generates hydrogen from natural gas and uses an on-site carbon capture capability to negate the otherwise carbon intensive process. Howarth and Jacobson concluded the production of hydrogen is more carbon intensive than simply burning natural gas directly for energy and heat.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Acutely aware of the massive waste in the textile industry, material development company PANGAIA (pronounced Pan-guy-ya) uses plants to make natural fabric dyes, skipping the need for harsh, synthetic additives. One of these natural dyes is sourced from the petals of the Japanese Sakura tree, which only blooms for a few days each year.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

The case charges BP, Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell, ConocoPhillips, and the American Petroleum Institute with conspiring together and through front groups to run “tobacco-industry-style campaigns to deceive and mislead the public about the damaging nature of their fossil fuel products.”

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Planet Pulse

JANUARY 11, 2024

All of yesterday’s growth and fun came with a steep price tag. And yet every major and minor industry has these easily transportable, energy dense, and exhaustible resources to thank. The industry giants continue to extract resources and sow misinformation in order to keep the party going. The energy hierarchy is shifting.

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Clean Energy Canada

AUGUST 8, 2023

Please use this as a resource, and let us know if there are any topics that you would like to see for future media briefs. Specifically it found: In Alberta and Ontario, wind can now produce electricity at lower costs than natural-gas-fired power with even more cost reductions on the horizon.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Acutely aware of the massive waste in the textile industry, material development company PANGAIA (pronounced Pan-guy-ya) uses plants to make natural fabric dyes, skipping the need for harsh, synthetic additives. One of these natural dyes is sourced from the petals of the Japanese Sakura tree, which only blooms for a few days each year.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Listen to the full episode and explore more resources below — including a transcript and summary of the conversation. Northland Community College, in nearby Thief River Falls, has a drone program for students and was a natural partner for Warren. Podcast (localenergyrules): Play in new window | Download | Embed. Episode Notes.

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GreenTechMedia

MAY 1, 2020

Kit Kennedy, senior director of the climate and clean energy program at the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC), spends her time promoting renewable and sustainable solutions to problems that face the public. She aims to promote clean energy solutions including distributed energy resources and energy efficiency.

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 5, 2021

This is a drain on resources and can leave your employees feeling like they aren’t doing their part for the environment. However, investing in renewable energy such as solar, wind or geothermal can come with a steep price tag and these technologies aren’t effective in every region. Strive for Zero Waste Break Rooms.

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Business Green

JUNE 4, 2020

As we begin the recovery from Covid-19, we should evaluate the potential of emerging technologies to give us a smarter, more interconnected and resilient food system that works with nature, rather than against it. Digital applications could also support better use of resources beyond the farm gate.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The UK's Deposit Return Scheme (DRS) has been besieged with delays since it was introduced in Defra's 2018 Resource and Waste Strategy as a credible way to address the linear nature of our packaging economy. That was three years ago, when many countries around the world already had operational DRS in place.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

As green groups slam the government's 'attack on nature', the opposition is this week seeking to make bolder climate action central to its offer to the country. But with abundant and cheap offshore wind resources, the UK doesn't have to be stuck with gas.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 4, 2021

Most investors and companies still don’t put a price tag on natural capital, or the cost of losing it, and biodiversity becoming a top “theme” only means people have begun talking about it. Abundant research revealing just the urgency and existential nature of the biodiversity crisis has heightened awareness.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Both the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) jointly warn that because of these serious healthcare and medical costs, climate change is essentially a public health crisis. The environment shapes our society. Hence, as climate change worsens, so do healthcare costs.

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Green Technology

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Most students were naturally curious about the environment, but I wanted all of them to be aware and interested. But if you look at all 6 million students, not many had exposure to an environment-based education through a science or nature center, organizations like the California Academy of Science, or the Science Center in LA.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

As business leaders and employees , we must understand the nature of corporate greenwashing. Creating any product and delivering any service uses natural resources and energy, but some industries are more harmful than others. Yet, distinguishing greenwash from the advertisement of genuine green credentials is often difficult.

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Business Green

JUNE 6, 2022

A growing band of major fashion retailers have pledged to achieve net zero emissions and overhaul their design and manufacturing processes to make the notoriously resource intensive industry more sustainable. But how will this drive change the look, feel, and price tag of items on sale on high streets and fashion sites?

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 7, 2022

Rainwater is the primary source for watering the cotton plants so it requires few resources to produce, which means a small impact to the planet. Product tags are also sourced from natural materials and the bags are colored with GOTS-certified dyes. This is cotton from farmers that are guaranteed fair pricing for their product.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 16, 2021

As business leaders and employees , we must understand the nature of corporate greenwashing. Creating any product and delivering any service uses natural resources and energy, but some industries are more harmful than others. Yet, distinguishing greenwash from the advertisement of genuine green credentials is often difficult.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Over 650 scientists have signed a letter urging world leaders to stop using forests for bioenergy, ahead of the 15th Meeting of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD COP15) – a major UN summit on protecting nature. Estonia, and Canada – and the UK–the world’s top importer of wood pellets for biomass energy.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Finnish technology research group VTT will develop sustainable materials and manufacturing processes for electronic products, as well as circularity enablers, namely smart tags as data carriers for digital product passports. A consortium of Finnish firms is among the line-up of contributors.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

DECEMBER 18, 2023

This is inherently wasteful and it comes with a price tag of emissions. source: Celsius Energy) In addition, we have a lot more conventional geothermal resources to develop all around the world, including from deep sedimentary basins. And we have the unconventional resources, as well.

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Green Technology

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Where this gets real interesting is in regard to what we are doing about existing facilities, how we are updating them to be greener, to save energy, to save resources, to be more efficient. We talked about natural light versus artificial light. As our district went through a modernization, we did it through a green lens.

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Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 17, 2021

Retrofits offer the cost-savings and health benefits of eco-friendly homes without the large price tag of newly-built green homes. Sustainable homes are efficient by design and often utilize natural sunlight as a method for passive heating as well as reducing the energy needed to use lights.

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