Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Intended to fill the policy vacuum emerging from the UK’s departure from the EU on 31 January, the Environment Bill has been eagerly anticipated, and seemingly gives government the power to set legally binding targets on all aspects of the environment in future. Plastic waste ban: A red herring?

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Soil Biodiversity Plastics Business Energy Monitoring 280

Grist

OCTOBER 1, 2022

When dealing with the life cycle of plastic, hundreds of solutions await, from alternative bioplastics that might be able to degrade themselves through the magic of fungus, to complex chemical recycling that can break plastics down to become other petroleum products or to be rebuilt good as new.

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Recycling Recycling Plastics Recycled materials 88

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 5, 2023

This reporting was made possible in part due to a media briefing sponsored by Beyond Plastics, Inclusive Louisiana, Louisiana Bucket Brigade, and The Descendants Project, which included local meals in Louisiana. Part of that strategy appears to be redefining its expanding petrochemical and plastics business as a solution to climate change.

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Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Fossil fuels 97

EDF + Business

MAY 2, 2023

Automotive Consumer Products Clean Energy Inputs Batteries Machinery Mining Paper Plastics Cement Steel Glass Chemicals Key Relevant Provisions §45X and §48C are the key provisions to know for advanced manufacturing, offering incentives for domestic clean technology and energy efficient manufacturing.

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Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Energy Monitor 52

Mr. Sustainability

AUGUST 20, 2020

With Direct Air Capture, atmospheric CO2 can also be used as a feedstock to create low-carbon products like plastics and concrete. The final Front-End Engineering Design for the facility is slated to begin in the first quarter of 2021 with construction expected to start in 2022. This article is taken from Carbon Engineering.

Business Energy Monitoring 78

Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Carbon 78

Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

A pilot plant on the University of Bath campus is said to be able to recycle up to 60% of plastic lab waste, to make back into new lab consumables. After decontamination, the plastic is turned into high grade pellets the size of rice grains, which are sent to LabCycle’s manufacturing partner to turn into new lab equipment.

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Recycling Recycling Plastics Waste 250

GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

These 20 C-suite executives have steered their companies forward through much disruption, providing inspiration for the possibilities of advancing sustainability, social responsibility and circular business models — sometimes all at once. In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S.

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Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2022

Innovate UK's Jonny Voon explores some of the most exciting green ideas this year, ranging from UK lithium mining and plastic recycling breakthroughs, clothing that 'grows' with the children wearing it. Currently, only up to 15 per cent of plastic is recycled. tonnes of CO2 for every tonne of plastic recovered. Impact Recycling.

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Climate Tech VC

JUNE 30, 2023

Investors spent a lot of money in 2021 and 2022. In fact, late-stage and growth investments in climate tech saw a greater dropoff than the market as a whole, potentially exacerbated by the relative capital-intensity of the physical asset climate tech businesses. Quarterly investment totals dropped to $6.6B

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Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Transportation Solar Energy Monitor 52

Business Green

JANUARY 6, 2023

Oh, what a tangled web they weave when businesses set out either to deceive consumers or aspirationally advertise green credentials they haven't earned. Forty-five per cent of Americans want to be viewed as eco-friendly consumers, according to the results in September of an unpublished 2022 Eco Pulse study from Shelton Group. "In

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Recycling Recycling Ozone Building Energy Monitoring 36

Business Green

APRIL 4, 2023

The strategy also confirms government's plan to move ahead with proposals to ban plastic wet wipes, and restrictions on polyfluoroalkyl substances, sometimes known as "forever chemicals", which are commonly found in firefighting foam, textiles, cleaning products, pains and varnishes.

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Pollution Energy Monitor Plastics Government 36

Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Retail business sustainability. These 7 sustainable developments are business opportunities that arise from key market trends we’re witnessing today. For this article we’ve analyzed the business landscape to identify such trends. What is retail sustainability? ” – Target CEO Brian Cornell.

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Retail Business Energy Monitoring Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring 78

Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2023

“It is likely that the majority of microplastics come from the fragmentation of larger pieces of plastic litter in the environment,” says a 2019 report from the Royal Society,1 and the tendency of discarded litter to degrade or fragment is helped along by things like UV radiation, physical erosion and temperature changes.

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Microplastics Plastics Soil Waste 222

Green Business Bureau

JANUARY 18, 2023

It’s important for business owners and global citizens to understand the source of this change to be empowered to anticipate and adapt to these changes and potentially help reverse them through intentional, sustainable action. . meters , with even a partial loss of its ice being enough to change coastlines around the world dramatically. .

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Resilience Building Energy Monitoring Ocean acidification Business Energy Monitoring 78

Grist

APRIL 13, 2022

The four are moving quickly to examine the tiny invertebrates, keeping them in plastic bins filled with ocean water to ease their stress. Now, it serves a dual purpose, carrying scientists and volunteers on weekends and in off-hours to monitor the coral they’re working to save. The structure is known as a “crib.”

Energy Monitor 92

Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 92

DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 12, 2023

The Conservative Party received a £2 million donation in March from a petrochemicals executive whose business interests include a Russian textiles plant, DeSmog can reveal. Labour Leader Keir Starmer has said that his party would reduce fossil fuel imports by investing in domestic renewable energy.

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Business Energy Monitoring Fossil fuels Politics Energy Monitor 98

Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

Around 70 years ago, it was thought one solution was to replace corroding metal water mains with new plastic pipes, which would never leak. Plastic pipes can leak and the noise the escaping water generates is quieter, lower frequency and harder to detect than that from a metal pipe. We now know this is not the case.

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Technology Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 147

Green Business Bureau

AUGUST 22, 2022

With continued advances in energy efficiency, green technology and design, houses built today operate more sustainably than they did several decades ago. Energy efficiency. Home renewable energy systems. Philips offers an online energy calculator for consumers to figure out just how much energy they use.

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Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Sustainability Energy Monitor 167

DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Importantly, fossil fuel deals could also hit employee retention in a sector where the average age of staff is 34, and hiring the best creative minds from an environmentally conscious younger generation is key to staying in business. million project for an oil and gas lobby called the Canadian Energy Centre.

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Fossil fuels Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 111

DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Importantly, fossil fuel deals could also hit employee retention in a sector where the average age of staff is 34, and hiring the best creative minds from an environmentally conscious younger generation is key to staying in business. million project for an oil and gas lobby called the Canadian Energy Centre.

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Fossil fuels Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 98

Elemental Excelerator

JUNE 14, 2022

At Interactive 2022: We welcomed 450+ people from all over the world. And if you’d like to learn more about any of these entrepreneurs and their companies, you can drop a virtual business card to get in touch. ” — Jason Salfi ( Dimensional Energy ). trillion particles of plastic in our oceans. .”

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Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Policy 52

Greenability Magazine

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The project met sustainability benchmarks for energy efficiency, water conservation, material selection, waste reduction, and more to achieve the Leadership in Energy and Design (LEED) certification. “The Electric Vehicles KCI is now the first U.S. airport to feature wireless electric bus charging.

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Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Sustainability Solar Energy Monitor 111

Climate Tech VC

JULY 17, 2023

deal on Thursday, ExxonMobil acquired Denbury , a Texas-based energy company focused on carbon capture and storage (CCS) and enhanced oil recovery (EOR) that controls the largest network of CO2 pipelines in the US. CCS is basically the only path for an O&G company to decarbonize while continuing its fossil fuels business.

Building Energy Monitoring 52

Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring 52

DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

Where the Tickfaw River leads into Lake Maurepas in South Louisiana, a coffin containing a plastic skeleton is fastened to pilings rising out of the water. billion “Clean Energy Complex” to manufacture blue hydrogen and an accompanying carbon capture and sequestration (CCS) project, that would be operational by 2026.

Carbon 98

Carbon Building Energy Monitoring Fossil fuels Hydrogen 98

Business Green

AUGUST 10, 2022

Beer giant launches Green Pub Guide 2022, as it looks to celebrate the most sustainable pubs in the country. Heineken has unveiled a list of the most sustainable pubs in the UK through its new Green Pub Guide 2022 - a research project which aims to celebrate those UK pubs with the most impressive sustainability credentials.

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Plastics Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 40

AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

These 20 C-suite executives have steered their companies forward through much disruption, providing inspiration for the possibilities of advancing sustainability, social responsibility and circular business models — sometimes all at once. In 2014, the electrical engineer and MBA became the first woman to lead a U.S.

Sustainability 28

Sustainability Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 28

Business Green

MARCH 6, 2020

Ford pledges to use 100 per cent renewable energy for all of its manufacturing plants (by 2035), eliminate single-use plastics from its operations (by 2030) and achieve zero waste to landfill across its operations. Beyond just the time cycles of our business plans, but who we really truly aspire to be.

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Sustainability Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 52

Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 28, 2022

In this Green Business Bureau eco friendly retail packaging guide, we explore sustainable packaging solutions for 6 of the most common types of packaging materials used. We explain our current waste crisis in detail, before defining an effective business waste management strategy to reduce packaging waste.

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Packaging Retail Innovation Sustainability 78

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Benzene is a colorless, sweet-smelling chemical found in crude oil and products including gasoline, solvents, plastics, paints, adhesives and detergents. The EPA’s National Air Toxics Assessment tool is based on weaker monitoring data from a few years back. That’s likely an undercount,” Hopkins said.

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Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 93

EDF + Business

MARCH 1, 2021

Members serving in the 2021-2022 term are: Trevor Anderson. (He/Him/His) He/Him/His) Energy & Sustainability Consultant, Cumming Corporation Los Angeles, CA, USA Shorenstein Realty Services (‘15). He/Him/His) Energy & Sustainability Consultant, AECOM Chicago, IL, USA City of Bloomington (‘13), Altria Group (‘14).

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Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring 52

GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

Clean energy for Native American communities. We’d like to express our appreciation to the World Business Council for Sustainable Business and Net Impact for helping to cast a global net for this year’s nominees. I've always been an energy nerd and I just knew that was my place. The 2021 GreenBiz 30 Under 30.

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Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring 528

Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

VERGE Energy Conference (VERGE 20) will take place on October 26-30, 2020. This online event can be attended from anywhere, The central theme at VERGE 20 will focus on how energy systems can be decarbonized, decentralized, digitized and democratized.

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Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Solar Energy Monitor 52

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Despite mounting scientific evidence of their harms to human health and the environment, pesticides have proliferated, with global usage up by about 80 percent since 1990. link] — Friends of the Earth (Action) (@foe_us) December 8, 2022. billion, including on lobbying and PR around glyphosate regulation.

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Building Energy Monitoring Fossil fuels Health Business Energy Monitoring 98

Business Green

DECEMBER 29, 2022

As usual, it was another year of ups and downs for sustainable business. Two steps forward, one step back: the sustainable business cha-cha, as I've long described it. The job boom crosses sectors, from finance and private equity to clean energy and biodiversity. Overall, it was more positives than negatives.

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Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Biodiversity 36

AGreenLiving

MAY 17, 2021

Clean energy for Native American communities. We’d like to express our appreciation to the World Business Council for Sustainable Business and Net Impact for helping to cast a global net for this year’s nominees. “I’ve always been an energy nerd and I just knew that was my place. Planet-healing fast food.

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Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring 36

Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2022

In June, Public Health Watch, the Investigative Reporting Workshop and Grist published a year-long investigation about pollution, power, and politics in the Texas petrochemical industry. One by one, the residents filtered into the small community center and found seats in the rows of plastic chairs. They were prepared for grim news.

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Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 93

Grist

JANUARY 4, 2022

The causes included plastic trash, oil, gas, and chemical industry pollution, agricultural runoff, overfishing and fishing gear, commercial coastal development, military operations, bright lights , power lines, and water warmed by climate change’s heat-trapping gases from fossil fuel emissions. on Jan 4, 2022.

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Climate change Fossil fuels Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring 145