AGreenLiving

APRIL 6, 2020

From carbon-negative polyester to dissolvable thread, here’s a handful of surprising startups making waves in the apparel industry. View original here: 5 seriously cool climate innovators in fashion.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 22, 2020

We came up with dozens of cool products and hosted tastings in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Kelp is also able to naturally remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, mitigating rising temperatures and climate change. ” Minimizing its carbon footprint is another crucial mission for AKUA.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 28, 2020

After a “rigorous” search, Stripe disclosed that it will support four “high potential” carbon capture and storage projects — picked from 24 applications. CarbonCure : The Canadian firm is using mineralized CO2 — aka calcium carbonate — in concrete. Last week, the company knocked that item off my checklist.

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Clean Energy Canada

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Out of the gate, a majority (53%) of British Columbians either already have a heat pump or feel positively about them, compared to 20% who have a negative impression or do not think a heat pump is right for them. Meanwhile, the percentage of people with a negative impression of heat pumps decreased from 20% to 15%. And with B.C.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 15, 2021

British-Swedish pharmaceutical firm AstraZeneca is partnering with Future Biogas to power its UK sites with low-carbon energy as part of company decarbonization efforts. Future Biogas will build a renewable energy plant that will enable AstraZeneca to replace natural gas with biomethane, for heating and cooling at its sites.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 20, 2021

The push to quickly transition carbon-intensive activities away from fossil fuels while meeting the world’s growing energy needs has put electricity producers and consumers squarely in the forefront of the emerging clean economy. Manufacturing is going electric, too, as companies ratchet up their net-zero-carbon goals. Joel Makower.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 16, 2024

Smith’s comments were made in the context of home heating costs within a wider discussion concerning carbon taxes and the affordability crisis. Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau announced a three-year “carbon price carve out” for home heating oil in October 2023. The most extreme reaction was from Saskatchewan Premier Scott Moe.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 13, 2022

The government confirmed £77m of new funding is to be made available to support the development of next generation nuclear reactors, alongside £25m for projects to produce hydrogen using sustainable biomass and waste that could deliver negative carbon emissions.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 12, 2022

The voluntary carbon offset market is rocketing, with the Ecosystem Marketplace reporting an annual market value of ~$1 billion in 2021, which was an all-time high. This can make things difficult for business leaders like you, looking to reduce their carbon footprint through purchasing offsets. The rules of carbon offsetting.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 15, 2020

Better filtration systems including HEPA filters, ionization, ultraviolet lights and active carbon have increased the quality of recirculated air, without having to increase the amount of fresh air in the building. . But with more outdoor air, the energy to heat and cool that air also will increase. .

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Not only does reclaimed lumber give that rustic, farmhouse look and possess some unique history within its grain, but it also helps preserve our carbon-sequestering forests and rejects monoculture tree farms that do not support biodiversity or ecological health. Eco-Friendly, Ethically-Sourced Building Materials. RECLAIMED LUMBER.

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Green Business Bureau

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

Impact measurement management (IMM) software Impact measurement management (IMM) software will analyze a company’s positive and negative social and environmental impacts, to then figure out ways to mitigate the negatives and maximize the positives in alignment with an entity’s goals.

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Greentown Labs

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The climate impact here is clear: in residential buildings, for instance, energy transfer through windows is responsible for 25 to 30 percent of heating and cooling use. In other words, atmospheric carbon that was captured by trees can be stored long-term in buildings in the form of wood.

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Smart Energy International

JULY 19, 2022

Research done in the US found that 42% of energy-related carbon emissions came from household machines, including cars. “They can only see a present negative aspect, like noise or dust originating from a building site,” she says. This project is aimed at individuals, since they are known to be big contributors to CO2 emissions.

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Elemental Excelerator

JANUARY 23, 2024

And while Canada’s coast faces countless climate threats, Elemental Policy Lab Fellow Na’im Merchant said it also could become important for climate resiliency as an unparalleled resource for ocean-based carbon dioxide removal (CDR) methods. The world needs to go net-negative, and not enough people are paying attention to that.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 18, 2023

🔑 Climate tech startups hit key milestones - including but not limited to - Fervo’s FOAK enhanced geothermal project operational in Nevada, Brimstone’s third-party approval of its carbon-negative cement, and Heirloom’s first commercial DAC plant. 

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Tech-enabled credits continue to constitute a big chunk of an anticipated $1T voluntary carbon market , and Oxy is on a development frenzy. Just this year, Oxy: Acquired DAC company Carbon Engineering for $1.1B Just this year, Oxy: Acquired DAC company Carbon Engineering for $1.1B

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Elemental Excelerator

AUGUST 8, 2022

As corporate pledges to achieve net zero pile up, carbon offsets — paying someone else to reduce GHG emissions to compensate for your own — are attracting both increased interest and scrutiny. There’s still much to learn about which carbon offset solutions and frameworks will truly be effective and economically viable at scale.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

As a result, the industry accounts for roughly 8 percent of annual carbon dioxide emissions, as well as a toxic soup of air pollutants. But in order to curb steel’s carbon emissions, the sector will have to transform how the material is traditionally made. The furnaces that melt iron ore to make steel consume vast amounts of coal.

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Sustainability Consulting

APRIL 14, 2023

It’s long been used to keep buildings warm in winter, cool in summer, and to maximize a structure’s thermal efficiency. It’s entirely non-toxic, fire resistant, and carbon negative, meaning it removes more CO2 from the atmosphere than it emits.

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Business Green

JUNE 13, 2021

Last month, there was a backlash in The Sun and The Daily Mail on the cost of replacing gas boilers with low carbon alternatives. Indeed, recent surveys consistently list cost as the greatest barrier for consumers in switching to low carbon forms of heat, including the latest from consumer group Which?

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Green Business Bureau

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Whether it’s a new build or a retrofit (also referred to as greenhabbing , or green rehabbing an older building to be more eco-friendly), the real estate industry is moving towards sustainability because a low-carbon building is proven to have lower operating costs, improved resale value and higher occupancy rates. Lower carbon footprint.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 28, 2024

This entails the transition to low, zero and negative emissions technologies and systems in the energy and mobility sectors by 2050 at the latest while boosting their competitiveness and benefit for users and civil society and reducing their environmental footprint.

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Living Green Technology

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Fortunately, there are several things each of us can do to reduce our carbon footprint and live a more sustainable lifestyle—starting with the technological devices we use to watch our favorite television shows, make phone calls, or heat and cool our homes.

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Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2021

Positive "tipping points" in low carbon technology development could spark cascading changes that accelerate action to slow temperature rise, according to fresh academic research today which offers a welcome flash of optimism in the fight against climate change.

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Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2021

Positive "tipping points" in low carbon technology development could spark cascading changes that accelerate action that slows global temperature increases, according to fresh academic research today which offers a welcome dose of optimism for the fight against climate change.

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Clean Energy Trust

AUGUST 16, 2019

Decarbonize the electric grid (shift from fossil fuels like coal and natural gas to carbon-free sources like wind, solar, hydro, and nuclear, paired with storage and demand-side solutions), B. particularly technologies that make the most of the carbon that we continue to emit. This area is the subject of this post?—?particularly

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

One tangible way to measure the positive contributions of investment portfolios on the climate is via reductions in carbon emissions and this is something more and more providers are reporting today, while a growing number of investment products are aligning themselves with the Paris Agreement goals. Rigorous standards. Beyond personal.

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Grist

AUGUST 3, 2021

Other research groups before the Malaysia team have shown that the solar-powered and carbon-neutral metal extraction process works in practice — a key step to winning over mining industry investors, who have insisted on field trials of several acres to show proof of principle. “We Department of Agriculture named Rufus L.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

APRIL 11, 2024

Green hydrogen produced through such means not only promises a reduced carbon footprint but may also herald a new era of water conservation and strategic resource management. The water molecules are split at the electrodes, with hydrogen gas collecting at the cathode (negative electrode) and oxygen gas at the anode (positive electrode).

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 4, 2023

💨 Yard Stick , a Cambridge, MA-based soil carbon monitoring platform, raised $12M in Series A funding from Extantia Capital, Breakthrough, Lowercarbon Capital, Microsoft Climate Innovation Fund, Pillar VC, and other investors. 52 countries pledged to reduce their global cooling emissions by 68% through 2050. CDR with one click.

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Business Green

AUGUST 31, 2020

They show starkly where it is failing: prioritising efficiency over resilience in healthcare, not accounting for the enormous cost of carbon emissions, and allowing persistent inequalities to develop within societies. As an anecdotal example, Netflix added 10 million subscribers in a lockdown-dominated second quarter.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 17, 2024

Cryogenic storage entails cooling hydrogen gas to temperatures below -253 degrees Celsius to convert it into a liquid state. In cryo-compressed hydrogen storage, the hydrogen is first cooled to a cryogenic temperature and then compressed at high pressure within specially designed tanks.

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Energy Innovation

JANUARY 3, 2021

Energy consumption at home for cooling, heating, lighting, and other work-related uses can also increase emissions (without commensurate reductions in the energy used at the office). Context is key, and many scenarios could result in negative or non-existent savings. Source: O’Brien et al., Finally, a recent paper by Pomponi et al.

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Business Green

MARCH 6, 2023

The staircase-shaped rocks that protrude out from the Irish Sea at the Giant's Causeway are the best known example of the geological phenomenon that results from rapidly-cooling magma. But now an industry is growing around the promise of fast-tracking this natural carbon sequestration process to help tackle climate change.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 3, 2020

During the most recent determination of the NHL’s total carbon footprint , it was estimated to emit 530,000 metric tons of greenhouse gases , an amount rivaling the yearly emissions from 110,000 cars, says the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). HFCs heighten the greenhouse effect, while carbon dioxide similarly intensifies global warming.

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Green Technology

JUNE 21, 2023

Green Technology’s Leadership Awards aim to recognize and honor individuals, organizations, and institutions that have made significant contributions to advancing sustainability efforts and reducing carbon footprints in various sectors. The award was accepted by Joel Griffith, DGS and the O Street team.

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