Low Impact

JUNE 13, 2021

‘Strange’ ideas might be required for strange times. Before, it was people like me, with strange ideas, or people with strange ideas about money – but those ideas no longer seem strange when the situation becomes dire. But now people are ready to learn and to take these ideas forward. It concentrates.

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The Verge: Energy

MARCH 27, 2024

In this context, we are not going to mine Bitcoin as the open market trading currency at all.” You could solve this problem with rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, but they haven’t advanced enough to be very efficient for long-term energy storage. That’s where green hydrogen and Bitcoin mining might step in, the study posits.

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The Environmental Blog

JANUARY 13, 2021

Warm fibers for winters can be sourced from organic farms , including animals such as alpacas and sheep, making clothes from silk obtained from caterpillars is a renewable method that doesn’t have a huge long-term impact on the planet. Invest in Clothing for Long-Term Use. Share, Rent, and Contribute to the Circular Economy.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 27, 2023

As other parts of the world, like the US, introduce investment-friendly policies targeted at green growth, UK policy Ideas from Cornwall Insight including fiscal measures to incentivise electrification and addressing the grid constraints of getting renewables onto the network will help the UK keep pace and not miss out on economic growth.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

For all: Are the pledges, memberships and carefully worded water stewardship statements and goals on path to produce the necessary long-term results? In the last five years, from all the water conferences you attended, how many ideas did you take back and implement? Do we really need more private-sector pledges?

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Charged

DECEMBER 6, 2023

The Unite union said the plan “secures the long-term future of the site and the thousands of skilled well-paid jobs it supports.” Makoto Uchida has rejected the idea that the shift to EVs will cost jobs. “It Nissan will invest £1.12 billion on preparing its UK facilities and supply chain for the new models and training its workforce.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 16, 2020

They can seize opportunities to strengthen resilience and further set the example when it comes to long-term value creation, business transformation and progressive leadership. Additionally, luxury brands can leverage sustainable finance mechanisms and growing investor interest in ESG to partner on long-term value creation.

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Low Impact

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Matthew Slater wrote the Credit Commons white paper – an idea for federating mutual credit networks to create a new global, moneyless trading system He’s part of a group called Mutual Credit Services (MCS), formed to build this federation (new website coming soon). Does all this allow different groups to trade with each other?

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 29, 2021

ABB has a long-standing partnership with Imperial College London, which features at number 10 in the list. Much coverage has been devoted in both the national and trade press about the shortage of skilled workers available to take up jobs in key sectors including manufacturing and engineering. for apprenticeship schemes.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 4, 2020

The company admits the idea is nothing new. Meanwhile, the Dii re-emerged this year in connection with plans to develop hydrogen in North Africa, an idea that has met with a lukewarm reception from observers. The beauty of this idea is that it would massively simplify permitting, Morrish told GTM in an interview. percent of U.K.

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Low Impact

DECEMBER 6, 2020

Dil Green had the original idea for ‘mutual credit clubs’ that can federate to create a new global trading system. You had an idea earlier this year, that’s culminated in my getting the book deal. It’s apt I think to start those interviews with you, because it’s your idea about mutual credit clubs that’s got me to this position.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 14, 2020

government’s long-awaited energy white paper is out with confirmation of fresh negotiations with EDF over a new nuclear power station and a drive to push up the price of carbon. Those ideas now begin their journey into law, offering the energy sector some welcome certainty at the same time. carbon trading to begin next year.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Our climate, health and development goals remain unachievable as long as we are still produc- ing fossil fuels,” said McGivern. All 1.5ºC scenarios that allow it have us still using fossil fuels past 2100, long after we have stopped them causing further global warming by disposing of all the CO2 they generate back underground.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 26, 2020

Avangrid is open to the idea of launching its own separately listed yieldco company to house its huge portfolio of wind farms, CEO James Torgerson said Wednesday. ” In addition to its collection of electric and gas utilities in the Northeast, Avangrid has long been one of the country's leading developers and operators of wind farms.

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The Environmental Blog

JUNE 8, 2022

The 80-meter-long ship’s success should spur a rise in the presence of fully electric and fully automated ships in commercial use. By accepting more women, an open-minded culture may begin to flourish, giving way to valuable ideas the industry might be able to use. Increased use of cleaner fuel. Final words.

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R-Squared Energy

MAY 5, 2020

When we buy stocks – as long as we don’t trade on margin – we know that the worst case scenario is a 100% loss on our investment. a barrel, and then started a long slide. As oil prices fell, one person after another called or messaged me to ask if I thought it was a good idea to jump into this market.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

A recent example Arena cited was the oil industry’s effort to opportunistically seize on Russia’s war in Ukraine to promote long-standing policy wishes, while misleading the public by blaming climate policy for causing higher energy prices. The oil industry and its hired PR hands continue to deploy these strategies.

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Low Impact

JUNE 27, 2021

But if I say that the Sarafu Network is a mutual credit network that allows trading without conventional money, that includes 50,000 households across Kenya and did $3 million worth of trade last year – how’s that for a brief description? In the past they’ve thought that these kinds of ideas were something to do with secession.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 29, 2022

To critics, a long history of failed projects suggests that the chief beneficiary may not be the climate — but the bankers and brokers betting that carbon trading is on the cusp of exponential growth. We don’t have consistency of quality of the credits that trade,” Annette Nazareth, a former commissioner with the U.S.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Together, decide which areas of your business need improvement and select both short and long-term initiatives that can carry you throughout the year. Here are a few ideas for celebrating Houseplant Appreciation Day: Allow employees to bring a plant for their desk or office. Houseplant Appreciation Day – January 10th.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Makower: I can start to see how some of that connects — the space between the flowers, the idea of waging peace. We are looking for a long-term relationship. Those kinds of things were people paying attention to issues of human health and dignity and trade and quality. And she says, "Yes, this is the Ma." What is the Ma?" "The

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Charged

AUGUST 26, 2020

Virtually every shopper asks about public charging stations—where they are, how long they take to recharge a car—even though data shows they won’t use them nearly as much as they imagine. A marketer and graphic designer by trade, Teske saw a crying need for a simple, intuitive system to explain all that. Lots of talk. That takes time.

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Business Green

JUNE 29, 2022

As such Green Alliance has today warned that accounting for these consumption emissions will be critical if the UK is to deliver policies that reduce its global climate impact, noting there is an opportunity for Ministers negotiating post-Brexit trade agreements with other countries to leverage these to speed up climate action around the world.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Members of the Alliance are encouraged to stick to key comms messages, including the idea that meat is beneficial to the environment and will help to “feed the world”. Trade groups also give some indication of how they hope to shape conversations. The files also detail collaborations planned for the event itself. “We

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Low Impact

JULY 18, 2021

So yes, how do we get them trading together – and from my point of view, trading in mutual credit. One of the commenters said that for a columnist whose output could be charitably described as sanctimonious, how did it take you so long? Which is why I get the mutual credit idea, but can’t see it being transformative for us.

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Low Impact

JANUARY 24, 2021

As long as that’s the case, money will gravitate towards stored wealth, because money attracts money and gives access to the political system. The core of it is a 19th century idea called mutual credit, whose time has come, now that we have the internet, the ability to federate, a growing awareness of what’s happening to nature, and Covid.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 10, 2020

In response to California's electrification push, the state's largest ports, including San Diego, Los Angeles, and Long Beach, are turning to microgrids for energy security and demand flexibility. The Port of Long Beach is starting with its most critical facility, the Joint Command and Control Center.

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GreenBiz

MAY 26, 2020

As unprecedented as these times are, and as uncertain as the near future may be, some past events offer small but important parallels that could yield tools and ideas for how to proceed. Shifting focus: During times of crisis we get a glimpse of the next emerging issue and how companies can impact for the long term.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 14, 2020

We may not have to wait terribly long to find out. And what we’re seeing now are merely the opening acts of what could be a long-running global financial drama. Commodity Futures Trading Commission (CFTC) issued a report addressing climate risks to the U.S. And we’re only at 1°C of increased global temperature rise.

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Grist

AUGUST 10, 2023

Last month, the American Chemistry Council, a petrochemical industry trade group, sent out a newsletter highlighting a major new report on what it presented as a promising solution to the plastic pollution crisis: using “recycled” plastic in construction materials. The nonprofit Alliance for Sustainable Building Products, based in the U.K.,

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

The idea is outlined in a new whitepaper - A New Net Zero Doctrine: The Social Responsibility of Nations is to Reduce Debt. We already understand this idea in the UK, where citizens receive healthcare 'as a service' via the NHS, instead of receiving money to buy healthcare. A low carbon right. We need to move a lot faster.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

The hard sell is now underway convincing potential investors that it's a good idea to house all of Siemens' energy businesses — clean and less so — under one roof. There are still plenty of questions regarding SGRE’s longer-term future: How long will the Gamesa brand survive?

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 17, 2020

But there remain widespread misgivings about how long it is taking for the technology to get off the ground, particularly in Europe, which is trailing behind the US, according to a report released in December by the Global CCS Institute , a think tank dedicated to the topic. Recycling captured CO2.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Protesters hold these companies responsible for violations happening a long way down their supply chains. The idea was to bring all these issues under one house," Boulanger said. "We We don't want them traded off against each other anymore.".

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Sources told This is Money that trade body the Association of British Insurers is separately meeting with City Minister John Glen this week to discuss the new push. The Treasury are fed up with the loose language around the target, there's no real idea of how we're going to get there. But Boris doesn't want anyone to pay for it.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

Small Business Scotland Award – EGG Lighting, based in Glasgow, helps businesses plan and install LED lighting and sensors, aiming to make lighting circular by using a remanufacturing model to save money and energy whilst providing sustainable, long-term lighting solutions, reducing client lighting costs as well as CO2 emissions.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 4, 2022

In terms of maintaining an economically optimal supply of power, the energy sector refers to the sequence in which electricity-producing power plants operate on an electricity trading platform as a merit order. Graphically, the principle appears like this: The Merit Order Effect In Electrical Energy Trading.

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