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Visionary water projects celebrated by Lighthouse Awards

Envirotec Magazine

In 2011, water issues reached a critical level in the region. Textile wastewater is extremely difficult to treat and today CEPT Rayapurum meets 90% of its water needs from recycled water, while salts are also recovered and reused in the dyeing process. Project: Zero liquid discharge at Tirupur textile factory, India.

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Energy efficiency: The sleeping giant of the net zero transition

Business Green

Rasmus Valanko from the We Mean Business Coalition sets out what companies can do to reduce their energy use in order to drive down costs and emissions. Reliable access to affordable energy is in jeopardy due to the rising costs of an energy system still too reliant on fossil fuels. per cent reduction in gas imports.

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Best Cleaners – New York’s Capital Region Experts

Green Business Bureau

Other ways that Best Cleaners has greened their business are by switching to LED lighting in their facilities and creating a hanger recycling program. Magazine in August 2011, 2012 and 2013. They also offer wet cleaning methods which drastically reduce or eliminate the need for solvents or detergents.

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Greentown Labs, Saint-Gobain, and MassCEC Announce the Healthy Buildings Challenge Startup Participants

Greentown Labs

The Healthy Buildings Challenge received 99 applications from 15 countries, representing a range of innovations in building materials, coatings, and envelope systems, as well as digital platforms, monitoring, and supplemental technologies. Somerville, Mass., With its headquarters in Somerville, Mass. billion in funding.

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Can Facebook, Google and Microsoft inspire data center innovation at Climate Week?

EDF + Business

By Tom Murray One focus area at this week’s UN Climate Action Summit is Energy Transition , where one of the expected outcomes is bold new “commitments from the IT sector (individually or collectively) on energy efficiency and the leveraging of technology.”. zombie servers”). Tom Murray, VP EDF+Business. Alphabet (Google).

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Embracing Green - 3 Environmentally-Conscious Teams and Leagues in Sports

Living Green Technology

Here’s a brief on the efforts made by the top three of such nature-lovers: National Hockey League (NHL) Large energy usage is inherent in ice hockey leagues. Scarborough Research 2011 showed that NHL fans are 11 times more likely to recycle and 19 times more likely to donate to environmental causes than the average US adult.

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NorthVolt’s Battle Plan to Win the Upcoming Battery-Wars

Mr. Sustainability

What is NorthVolt’s strategy to create a European battery power basis? NorthVolt recently raised an additional $600 million in equity – enabling its expansion of production and recycling capacities, as well as R&D activities to support the target of establishing 150 GWh of manufacturing capacity in Europe by 2030.