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The Sierra Club's Top 20 Cool Schools

Green Market Oracle

This year, the group implemented a reverse osmosis system in a Thai community; it cleans drinking water and eliminates locals’ need for plastic bottles. Chatham has also achieved a campus-wide net-zero energy footprint, thanks largely to wind and photovoltaic power. Student interns manage and control one of the microgrids.)

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Global Briefing: China hints at no new coal power plant permits 'in principle'

Business Green

Writing in a Twitter thread , NGO China Dialogue said the update from the agency also highlighted how it intended to provide "active support" for the further development of hydro, solar and wind power, and the development of transmission links between provinces. Plastic pollution has grown into an epidemic.

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Roaring Twenty-Twenties: Accelerating Energy Transition

Mr. Sustainability

For example, DSM, a Dutch multinational corporation active in the fields of health, nutrition and materials, is investing heavily in bio-based ethylene as a replacement for fossil products including plastics. Renewables include bio-energy, geothermal, hydropower, ocean, solar and wind power.

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