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

GreenBiz

To transform basic inputs into stuff we need, manufacturers constantly heat (and cool) minerals, ores and other raw materials to extreme temperatures. Costs add up quickly: equipment to collect biogas (the unprocessed methane-rich vapor given off by waste); upgrade the gas to pipeline quality; and connect to existing gas pipelines. .

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Water scarcity: A growing risk for companies and investors

GreenBiz

This is largely because of its dependence on agriculture, which consumes the most water by far, slurping up roughly 70 percent globally and wasting about 60 percent of that, largely through inefficient applications. Both Barclays and CDP cite L’Oréal as a leader in reducing water waste.

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Solar Panel Landfill Deemed Safe as Recycling Options Grow

GreenTechMedia

But given that real-life disposal options are likely to be safer than those modeled in the study (all modern landfills have a lining, for example), the research bodes well as the renewables industry takes stock of what to do with a growing mountain of waste from end-of-life assets. Solar's recycling options. Elsewhere, the U.S.

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Doteasy Technology Inc: A Certified Sustainable Web Hosting Solution

Green Business Bureau

Established in 2000, Doteasy is a Canadian web hosting company specializing in domain name registration and sustainable web hosting solutions. Doteasy has a green office culture that strives to reduce waste, and they’ve implemented solutions such as their thorough recycling program and bottle-less filtered water coolers.

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Geothermal well drilled for energy storage of waste incineration plant in Finland

ThinkGeoEnergy

A 2000-meter geothermal well was drilled for the use of the Lounavoima waste incineration plant in the town of Salo, Finland. The well provides energy storage for the waste incineration plant, allowing for optimized operations despite fluctuations in heat consumption.

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

Business Green

To transform basic inputs into stuff we need, manufacturers constantly heat (and cool) minerals, ores and other raw materials to extreme temperatures. Costs add up quickly: equipment to collect biogas (the unprocessed methane-rich vapor given off by waste); upgrade the gas to pipeline quality; and connect to existing gas pipelines.

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Learning and Sharing in the Time of Corona

Fairsnape

Pam and I met in Second life back in mid 2000’s and then with Paul Wilkinson and Jodie Miners formed Be2Camp – now dormant but Paul has an archive of posts on his ExtranetEvolution blog ). ” (Thanks to Pam Broviak for sharing this through her Public Works blog. Day one at #EXPOC21. A New Normal Built Environment.