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Energy Efficiency: 18 Easy To Implement Tips For Your Business

Green Business Bureau

Energy Efficiency: 18 Easy to Implement Tips for Your Business. Most electricity is generated by burning fossil fuels which emit greenhouse gasses and other harmful pollutants into the atmosphere. Fossil fuels, water, and land are all scarce resources that are at risk without proper energy efficiency initiatives. Energy Source.

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How Modern Poultry Farming Practices Contribute to a Sustainable Environment

The Environmental Blog

Whether you’re a backyard chicken keeper setting up your first few poultry nesting boxes or a seasoned farmer, keeping up to date with modern practices is crucial to ensure the health and productivity of your poultry. Energy Consumption Modern poultry farms have taken substantial strides in energy conservation.

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Smart Energy Finances: SMS smart meters lift dividends and €15.1bn EIB green financing

Smart Energy International

This week’s edition of Smart Energy Finances sees Smart Metering Services (SMS) post lifted dividends, citing increased smart meter installations – up to 40,000 per month – and their first grid-scale battery project coming online. SMS strong H1: 40k monthly smart meters and grid-scale battery project.

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Will sweat help us survive climate change?

Grist

If a widespread power outage hit Phoenix during a heat wave and lasted for days, it could kill thousands and send half the city to the emergency room, according to a recent study. These kinds of leaps are a lot for our bodies to handle, making heat waves in cooler climates especially deadly.

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The Return on Investment (ROI) of Sustainable Business

Green Business Bureau

Climate change has been linked to carbon emissions, yet another reason for businesses to change. In some regions, lack of access to natural resources and basic necessities such as water or reliable electricity is a major impediment to profitability and growth. Measuring Energy Usage and Savings.

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Corporate Giants Promote Climate Action, But Work With Oil Lobbyists in State Capitols

DeSmogBlog

companies, including Walmart, Amazon, and Microsoft, employ lobbyists that also do work for the oil and gas industry, according to new research into state lobbying data. The connections with oil and gas lobbyists, the researchers say, undercut the highly public positions the companies have taken on addressing climate change.

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Planet Works to Accelerate Sustainable Development and Progress on the SDGs

Planet Pulse

They cover such things as elimination of poverty, ending extreme hunger, the promotion of human health and well-being, the conservation and protection of life on land and the oceans, and addressing the climate emergency, among many others. Coral Reef mosaic of Nukuni, Fiji. 2018, Planet Labs, Inc. All Rights Reserved.