The Guardian: Energy

APRIL 10, 2024

VisitAHeatPump service allows householders to look and ask questions about low-carbon system UK householders considering swapping their gas boiler for an electric heat pump could see how they work by visiting an early adopter in their area.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 25, 2022

and to “make a poster, rap song, mini-book, or oral presentation” about one of the booklet’s “natural gas science facts or safety tips.”. Instead, it has invested in a handful of projects around the country from which it can obtain credits akin to a carbon offset program. Oregonians are still receiving fossil gas just as before.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Joel Makower talks to the former Unilever boss about his new book, 'Net Positive: How Courageous Companies Thrive by Giving More Than They Take'. An icon of sustainable business has a new book. Joel Makower: So, Paul, this is your first book. What inspired you to write a book? Does net positive help get us there?

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The company said it had purchased the biochar credits through carbon removal platform Supercritical in order to cover 100 per cent of its 2022 emissions. As a result, the firm said it was now implementing measures such as limiting long-haul business travel to two weeks in order to reduce the carbon footprint of its 1,250 employees worldwide.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Climate emergency and soaring energy bills are driving increased demand among home buyers and renters for low-carbon homes. per cent premium for a low carbon property, and renters were willing to pay a 13 per cent premium to live in a 'greener' home.

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Terra Infirma

DECEMBER 19, 2023

One of the most pervasive has been the idea that domestic measures, such as a carbon tax, will simply push high carbon industries overseas, a phenomenon known as carbon leakage. While much of this argument is overstated, there is not denying that carbon leakage is a thing. To me, this is the significant bit.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 30, 2024

At 9:30 am on March 12, 1963, in Room 1-B of Manhattan’s Rockefeller Institute , six experts gathered to discuss the implications of a newly identified atmospheric phenomenon: the rising level of carbon dioxide (CO2) caused by the burning of fossil fuels. Ordway, Jr., in the foreword to the group’s 1962 Annual Report.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

“The materials you put in the building will be there forever, they cannot be decarbonized,” said Victoria Herrero-Garcia, an engineer who analyzes the carbon used in buildings over their life cycles for Ambient Energy in Denver. In the case of cement, the very chemical reaction at its heart generates massive carbon dioxide.

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Terra Infirma

JANUARY 12, 2022

I’ve mentioned before that over the summer I got into a Twitter row over how much the individual should take responsibility for their carbon footprint. Likewise I don’t really have a viable source of zero carbon food – even staples come with a footprint. The post Whose carbon is it anyway?

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Terra Infirma

OCTOBER 14, 2019

Engineers designed the cars, the planes, the power stations and the factories which pump out carbon dioxide. When I was recommended this book by my occasional collaborator Nick Devitt, I was really desperate for a book to make me stop and think about the world in a different way and put some fire in my belly.

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Terra Infirma

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Put simply, a stranded asset is an asset whose value has collapsed due to its carbon footprint. I first came across the concept of stranded assets 15 years ago when I was interviewing Sustainability leaders for my second book, The Green Executive. This worries me – as I often ask – whose carbon footprint are you part of?

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 13, 2021

What if there was a way we could fund the climate transition by creating a new global currency, off the books of national and corporate accounts? Go here to see the original: Could a ‘carbon coin’ solve the climate crisis?

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Low Impact

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

Materials such as grass and manure, known as ‘greens’, have a higher level of nitrogen, and ‘brown’ materials, such as paper, have a higher level of carbon. The most important for a gardener, and the focus of this article, are Carbon and Nitrogen. Add too much carbon and the compost process will slow down. The results?

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Energy Central

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Methanol Methanol (one oxygen, one carbon, and four hydrogen atoms) emits CO2 on combustion, so ‘green methanol’ requires an offsetting lifecycle pathway in order to be sustainable. There is an accelerating order book for methanol-enabled.

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Terra Infirma

APRIL 22, 2024

Probably the most surprising sequence of the film comes when the beef farmer is presented with data apparently showing his farming methods were sequestering more carbon that the cows were emitting. I know that every movie, photograph or book is a version of the truth rather than the truth itself. Data is different.

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Green Business Bureau

MAY 24, 2021

Business travel and tourism releases almost 5 billion tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere every year, so it’s no secret that our current travel methods are not sustainable. Here’s how it works: You book your hotel and trip – Goodwings has more than 1 million hotels worldwide to choose from.

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Fairsnape

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

This book aims to provoke a new way of thinking among those involved in design and development. The book is accessible and thought-provoking, avoiding the trap of previous ‘deep green’ texts, and whilst some points are repeated, their importance warrants this. This book marks an important milestone in doing that. Interbeing.

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GatesNotes

FEBRUARY 14, 2021

This excerpt from my book includes several ideas for how you can help move us closer to a zero-carbon future.

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The Guardian: Energy

JANUARY 1, 2024

We would be at very high risk of setting off warming feedback loops – the melted ice would reflect less sunlight, the melted permafrost might unlock methane from the bottom of the ocean, and dying forests wouldn’t be able to regrow to suck carbon out of the atmosphere. It would be a massive humanitarian disaster. Continue reading.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Esteemed professor and author Cees Buisman, whose renowned book explores how the growth of humanity depends on the growth of our consciousness, has been announced as a BlueNote speaker at global water technology event, BlueTech Forum (6-8 June 2022, Vancouver).

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ThinkGeoEnergy

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

The centre will be open to the public and group bookings during this time, as well as visiting Northern Ireland Science Festival events and local schools. Geothermal energy can play an important role in how we decarbonise our energy sector in pursuit of net zero carbon targets by 2050.

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AGreenLiving

APRIL 2, 2020

Developed to bolster the university’s role as a leader in mass timber advocacy, the $16 million applied research center will be a “story book of timber ” promoting timber and wood design initiatives. View original here: Story book of timber designed for University of Arkansas.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 29, 2021

Drawdown: The Most Comprehensive Plan Ever Proposed To Reverse Global Warming is a must-read book… The post Earth911 Quiz #23: Drawdown Your Carbon Footprint appeared first on Earth911. Read more: Earth911 Quiz #23: Drawdown Your Carbon Footprint.

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Business Green

MARCH 1, 2021

Some leading Brexiteers have long argued the UK's break from the EU provides an opportunity to re-write the nation's rule book and rid the nation of bureaucracy and red tape they blamed for hampering the UK's economic progress as a member of the bloc.

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Terra Infirma

JANUARY 22, 2024

I haven’t read Hannah Ritchie’s new book “Not the End of the World” yet, but to be honest, I’m already jealous of it as it is causing a lot of debate. Repeatedly Ritchie is confronted with arguments made against her book on Twitter as if that is a source of authority.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 15, 2022

The system reduces emissions of nitrous oxide and carbon dioxide, and it also enables the energy-efficient elimination of drug traces. The showroom is also available for pre-booked visits. Grey water can also be recycled into drinking water and returned to the city.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

The London-based business announced the latest capital injection earlier this week, confirming it will use the new funding to advance plans to provide "transparent, secure and accessible carbon markets" that can aid corporate climate action and net zero emissions targets.

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Business Green

JANUARY 13, 2023

Meet the entrepreneur helping farmers capture carbon and increase crop yields - with rocks. Earlier this year, she cofounded Lithos Carbon , along with two Earth Sciences professors. It also measures how much CO2 is removed and sells carbon credits to companies, providing a share of the payment to the farmers it works with.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Finance director: Developing a business case to increase capital expenditure on carbon-mitigation projects . A global manufacturing company wanted to undertake a carbon pricing risk assessment to understand the current and potential future financial implications of carbon regulation and related price increases on operating margins.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 22, 2021

Together with tourism, business travel contributes to the release of almost 5 billion tons of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. Remote work software enables business productivity and operations to resume while minimizing workplace carbon emissions. Invest in carbon offset programs. Invest In Carbon Offset Programs.

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Green Business Bureau

DECEMBER 9, 2022

If you’re wondering what to get your favorite coworkers while keeping your carbon footprint low, then here’s a must-have guide on sustainable office gifts! Gifting your work bestie a second hand copy of your favorite book or a book on a topic that they adore makes for a truly thoughtful gift. For the Organizers.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Financial services firm Legal & General Retirement has today pledged to cut the carbon intensity of its £81bn annuity book in half by 2030. Goal part of a raft of measures outlined in the pension giant's new ESG policy. An interim goal will see the firm, which is targeting a net zero portfolio by 2050, aim for an 18.5

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Business Green

JULY 14, 2021

investigation reveals how planes continue to beat trains on ticket prices, despite much higher carbon impacts. describes as "a near-impossible trade-off" between low fares and reducing their carbon footprint. The biggest difference in carbon emissions the consumer rights organisation found was on the Bristol to Newcastle route.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

What we were looking at was how do we look at carbon in this circular economy? How do we look at carbon itself as an element, which is both an energy source and a material? It was about five square miles of trees’ worth of oxygen production or carbon sequestration required to set up one building. Demonizing carbon?

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Charged

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Customers can call for a charge via a mobile app, and can book charging in advance at pre-scheduled times. Low-carbon fuels are currently the most economically feasible solution, and can be used as a bridging technology towards a carbon-neutral solution such as hydrogen. “Low-carbon Source: L-Charge.

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GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

Deep decarbonization only happens if every polluter pays, not just the environmentally conscious.

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Business Green

APRIL 21, 2021

Google has announced that five of its major data centre sites worldwide are now running on around 90 per cent carbon-free power, as the tech giant unveiled plans for a climate-focused video series across YouTube featuring the likes of Sir David Attenborough and Bill Gates.

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