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How to Build and Retrofit a Sustainable Home

Green Business Bureau

Building and Retrofitting a Sustainable Home. Whether you’re building from scratch or adding onto an existing home, there are a variety of green building materials and products on the market today to create your sustainable home vision. Eco-Friendly, Ethically-Sourced Building Materials. RECYCLED PLASTIC.

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Energy saving innovations dominate Scottish Environment Business Awards

Envirotec Magazine

More than half of the winners cited energy saving as key to their plans for success and a third were named winners for their innovation in becoming more efficient. A new Energy Transition Scotland Award was also added to the categories this year. improvement on energy storage, leading to significant carbon savings.

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Award for hull cleaning solution

Envirotec Magazine

The robotic tool harvests propulsion energy to stay attached to the hull and swipe up and down the hull underwater using soft brushes. An integrated video camera on the device enables real-time monitoring of the hull cleaning process and post-cleaning inspection via the ITCH digital application.

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Surveying the scrap metal landscape

Envirotec Magazine

Metal recycling has created vital secondary raw materials for the smelting of new materials since metal usage began. While the core function of the metals recycling process has remained constant over thousands of years, the industry has undergone significant changes as the volume of waste metals we treat has grown.

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How to Calculate Corporate Emissions Using Scopes 1 2 3 (With Examples)

Green Business Bureau

Scope 2 : Are the indirect corporate emissions released from the energy purchased by an organization. For instance, the electricity that’s purchased from an electricity provider (it’s the energy provider that has the scope 1 emissions here). Suppose the same company uses 20,000 kWh of electricity per year.

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Greentown Labs Member Milestones — January 2022

Greentown Labs

Blackburn Energy closed its Series A round , led by Toyota Tsusho America. Radical Plastics received a $650K Phase II SBIR grant from the U.S. Radical Plastics received a $650K Phase II SBIR grant from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s Green Building Program. Phytoform Labs raised a $5.7M funding round.

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UK Green Business Awards - Finalists Announced

Business Green

& the London Borough of Brent - St Raphael's SolarSpace Community Centre Grosvenor - Holbein Gardens IBM Corporation - Hursley Datacentre IF_DO - Brent Cross Town Substation SEGRO - SEGRO Park Tottenham The Office Group - Black & White Building Green Heat Project of the Year Barratt Developments - Energy House 2.0