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This carbon challenge is bigger than cars, aviation and shipping combined

GreenBiz

It forged the steel and glass in your car, and it also cooked the aluminum, plastic and silicon in the very screen on which you may be reading these words. . To transform basic inputs into stuff we need, manufacturers constantly heat (and cool) minerals, ores and other raw materials to extreme temperatures. The urgency is growing.

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The carbon challenge that is bigger than cars, aviation, and shipping combined

Business Green

It forged the steel and glass in your car, and it also cooked the aluminum, plastic and silicon in the very screen on which you may be reading these words. To transform basic inputs into stuff we need, manufacturers constantly heat (and cool) minerals, ores and other raw materials to extreme temperatures. The urgency is growing.

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Building Industry Gets Serious About Its Embodied Carbon Problem

GreenTechMedia

They began by summing all the emissions released at power plants to keep buildings cool and electricity flowing to wall outlets. “We are building with materials that we chased out of our food system three decades ago,” he said, referencing building materials made of foams and plastics, derived from hydrocarbons.

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The Northeast’s hemlock trees face extinction. A tiny fly could save them.

Grist

A blue cooler lies open on the ground, filled to the brim with neatly stacked plastic vials. “I It’s quiet, dark, and cool, even on a summer day. In the spring, as the sun beams down and melts snow and ice elsewhere, hemlock preserve circles of snow at their trunks, which leech slowly into nearby streams and creeks and keeps them cool.

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? Busting geothermal myths with Bedrock Energy

Climate Tech VC

Pulling heat from the subsurface of the earth has been a proven method for powering the cooling and heating of buildings for ~70 years. He realized that O&G technology can be reengineered and redesigned for geothermal direct-use heating and cooling for buildings. Geothermal energy is climate tech but it isn’t new tech.

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Green Realtor® Guide: Marketing Eco-Friendly Homes and Sustainability

Green Business Bureau

Using remote sensors to detect temperature imbalances, smart thermostats can achieve an even heating and cooling throughout your home as well as turn off the HVAC when you’re away, saving on energy and money. energy use is roughly the same as it was in 2000 despite a 30% boost in economic growth.