GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Blindsided by how COVID-19 quickly dominated the planet? Fourteen months ago, the World Economic Forum's 2020 Global Risks Report neglected to include a pandemic among its major warnings for the year ahead. The risky business of climate risk: 'Stop predicting the future'. Elsa Wenzel. Mon, 03/08/2021 - 01:00. You're not alone.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 20, 2023

Kathy Puffer of Tillson, state of New York, has been recognised at the AD and Biogas Industry Awards for bringing small-scale-biogas solutions to communities and women around the world. Kathy goes the extra mile, proactively spreading the word about biogas, educating all around the world ”, commented Chris Huhne, chairman of ADBA. “

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

For REI, transitioning to a circular model seems inevitable so it’s doing the work now. REI, as a company, we believe that this broader kind of shift to a more circular economy is something that the world is really going to have to do over the next 10 years," said Ken Voeller, director of circular commerce and new business development at REI.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 2, 2020

The fashion industry is damaging to the planet — it's responsible for 10 percent of the world's carbon emissions. It’s really hard to change our behavior, and even if we were able to do that, it's not going to fix the problems in the system. A closed loop fashion system requires scaling solutions now, not later. Deonna Anderson.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 19, 2020

But more companies outside of the food space are figuring out how they can invest in or use regenerative practices in the supply chain for their products. . The investment is part of a larger sustainability strategy at Timberland that is focused on three pillars — better products, stronger communities and a greener world. .

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

For example: About 4 billion people, representing nearly two-thirds of the world population, experience severe water scarcity during at least one month of the year ( Mekonnen and Hoekstra, 2016 ). The World Resources Institute has revised its predictions of the water supply-demand deficit to 56 percent by 2030. and globally.

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GreenBiz

JULY 2, 2020

Her work — in blogs, scholarship, professional services and a forthcoming book — reminds professionals that deals made on the backs of oppressed people are no deals at all. . Read on to reckon with how a truly clean energy system runs on a clean conscience. . Alec Appelbaum. Thu, 07/02/2020 - 01:15. I've gone in different directions.

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GreenBiz

JULY 22, 2020

As people across the United States and the world grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic and calls for racial justice, the business community has an integral role to play in both the dialogue and the solutions to these social issues. What COVID has done is a few things that we weren’t really able to get across until then. Deonna Anderson.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 26, 2023

A new exhibition opening at the University of St Andrews’ Wardlaw Museum explores the importance of peatlands in Scotland and across the world. While peat may conjure up images of whisky and wasteland, For Peatlands’ Sake aims to show how vital the resource is to our planet and to communities around the globe.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 6, 2021

Well, there are communities like that around the country and the world. Deonna Anderson: You are the woman mentioned in the title of your book, which chronicles your life and also your work as an environmental justice champion. First, how many people have you taken on these tours over the years? Read an excerpt here.).

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

How Stockton and California are building resilience from the ground up. California — as well as the rest of the United States and, in some cases, the rest of the world — is facing three major crises right now: the COVID-19 pandemic; the climate emergency; and racial injustice. . Deonna Anderson. Mon, 11/02/2020 - 00:05.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 8, 2020

How sustainability professionals can uplift the black community. I write to you again today with heavy grief and a set of earnest pleas: As sustainability professionals, we must lead the cultivation of a more inclusive, equitable and safe world for all. If you really want to be a part of the change, it’s time to get uncomfortable.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Since starting a solitary strike against climate inaction in Kampala in January, 2019, aged 22, Uganda’s Vanessa Nakate has emerged as one of the world’s most celebrated youth climate justice activists. climate talks, which open in the United Arab Emirates today, to demand world leaders act with the ambition the crisis demands.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 16, 2021

On the eve of the Upcycled Food Association ’s (UFA) launch of a certification and packaging label for upcycled products, Alesha Hartley, certification manager of the Upcycled Food Association, and four member companies talked about the challenges facing the upcycled food world at GreenBiz Group’s Circularity 21 conference. . Jesse Klein.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 2, 2020

As someone who works at the intersection of human resources and sustainability, I’m fascinated by the question of who is leading this change, and how they can do so effectively. As they say, a crisis is a terrible thing to waste. That’s where Wijdoogen’s book comes in.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

The world-changing potential of STEAM-powered youth. The last time I profiled a young technologist working to change the world, she went on to be honored as Time Magazine’s first Kid of the Year. Just sayin’ — we know how to spot a rising star. Just sayin’ — we know how to spot a rising star. Shana Rappaport.

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GreenBiz

JULY 27, 2020

In the course of a business career, you meet colleagues who are smart, or kind, or just really good at what they do. Joel Makower and I had just founded GreenBiz Group (then called Greener World Media). He was in good shape but, more tellingly, he was strategic in how he played — just as he was in his day job.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

My work buddy Lucy gets on two stops down, always with a pair of scones, wheeling her bike next to mine in the locker downstairs before joining me in the sunny coach section. Twice a week, this; twice a week, we co-work from a cafe in the suburbs. “And one of the central ideas of degrowth is shorter working hours.”

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 9, 2023

A project to restore and ‘regreen’ Egypt’s Sinai desert provided the focus for a recent episode of the podcast series Rewilding the World, produced by conservationist Ben Goldsmith. The limited podcast series Rewilding the World features six episodes in total. The Sinai desert at sunset.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

A fabricated ecosystem, or EcoFAB (image credit: Thor Swift/Berkeley Lab) A greater understanding of how plants and microbes work together to store vast amounts of atmospheric carbon in the soil will help in the design of better bioenergy crops for the fight against climate change, say the authors of a new paper.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

He said it was exciting to see the strong focus on forests at this week’s UN Climate Change Conference (COP27) underway in Egypt, with Australia joining world leaders in committing to halting forest loss and land degradation by 2030.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

What will it take for the world to finally rally around rapid, sustained climate action? Building upon years of research on activism, democracy, and climate politics, Fisher explores the state of the climate movement today to understand how radical direct action is evolving as the climate crisis worsens. Professor Dana R.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2019

The world’s first screening of the 50-minute documentary Brave Blue World , narrated by Liam Neeson, was met with “rapturous applause” at a blue carpet event held at the Paramount Theatre, Los Angeles. I felt very proud to have reached this milestone and am grateful for the opportunity to work with such amazing people.”.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 8, 2021

How cheap are those resources, really? And if they work as we think they might, what could they unlock? Thinking about how to integrate renewables to your grid? The Interchange is brought to you by LONGi Solar , the world’s leading solar technology company. And what might hold them back?

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 11, 2020

A glass ceiling is still “looming over” women working across the water industry and despite some progress, the sector is being held back by exclusion, Ofwat chief executive Rachel Fletcher told a British Water conference. I’ve been working in utilities for 25 years and it still feels more male dominated than many other sectors.

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Charged

APRIL 1, 2024

How does a battery pack turn into black mass? The economic benefits of recycling Li-ion batteries are clear, but at present, only a small percentage of them are recycled. In contrast, lead-acid batteries have a 99% recycling rate in the US. The two main processes for recycling lithium-ion batteries are pyrometallurgy and hydrometallurgy.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 14, 2020

It's really about who can stay the course and work through each round of progression,” says Manish. In this special episode, produced in collaboration with CohnReznick Capital, we’ll hear how Manish used his experience in the military and financial risk to find his way into the fast-paced world of clean energy.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

OCTOBER 19, 2023

The event recognizes the exceptional work of Bentley software users advancing infrastructure design, construction, and operations throughout the world. How does the software of Flow State Solutions complement the current suite of tools of Seequent? It’s continuous and it’s evolving and it needs to be managed.

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Grist

MARCH 11, 2024

The atmospheric chemist had won a Nobel Prize in 1995 for demonstrating how humanity was destroying the ozone layer, just one of the many ways people had radically altered the planet, from urbanization to releasing greenhouse gases. Interrupting a speaker, he announced that the world had already entered a new age: the Anthropocene.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

On his Netflix sketch show I Think You Should Leave , he’s played a range of oddball characters: a contestant on a replica of The Bachelor who’s only there for the zip line; a man in a hot dog costume who claims he’s not responsible for crashing the hot dog car through the window of a clothing store; a guy wearing a really weird hat at work.

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Andrew Winston

APRIL 22, 2024

Even in the face of the “anti-ESG” movement — a very American phenomenon — there are vanishingly few large organizations around the world that really question the need to address environmental and social issues. Need to explain the “why” of climate change action? And yet, the question “Why should we do this?”

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Andrew Winston

SEPTEMBER 10, 2023

I suppose it’s possible, but how much were those people going to do anyway? I guess these actions can feed the climate denier propaganda machine, but they have a clear storyline about how climate change is not really that bad, etc., But let’s be brutally honest: that hasn’t worked (or worked fast enough).

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 5, 2023

Developers have the know-how but are unlikely to take on FOAK projects they won’t be able to sell, and mitigating risks for early projects typically requires a level of technical expertise that capital providers like banks or VC firms don’t have in-house. Building a first-of-a-kind (FOAK) climate tech project is much tougher.

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Charged

MAY 3, 2023

SAE, the oldest and largest technical society for engineers in the automotive field, is working to develop standards for EV charging error codes, and helping to build a curriculum to train the technicians to repair and maintain equipment. SAE has also partnered with a company called ChargerHelp !

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Elemental Excelerator

JANUARY 23, 2024

Canada’s stunning coastline is the longest in the world, at approximately 151,019 miles — equivalent to road tripping from Northern California to Maine roughly 53 times. And that could be really bad — especially for many countries in the Global South. That is, if policymakers and innovators act quickly and equitably.

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The Verge: Energy

JANUARY 9, 2024

There’s still a long road ahead to see how viable this material is as an alternative to traditional lithium-ion batteries. What scientists are most excited about is the potential for generative AI to speed up their work. Samples of the new solid electrolyte discovered by Microsoft AI and HPC tools. Photo by Dan DeLong for Microsoft.

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GatesNotes

JUNE 6, 2022

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