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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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. Many people are questioning whether this is achievable.

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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. Many people are questioning whether this is achievable.

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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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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. Hempcrete has numerous advantages ; not only is it strong, it‘s also lightweight, which lowers energy usage in transportation and installation.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 17, 2024

With ZeroAvia at the helm, exploring the adaptation of this technology into aviation could mark a turning point in achieving a greener future for global transportation. Cryogenic storage entails cooling hydrogen gas to temperatures below -253 degrees Celsius to convert it into a liquid state.

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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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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

  In deals, major funding for transportation including $144M for Indian EVs, $33M for rare earth-free magnets, and $15M for battery recycling.  Tech-enabled credits continue to constitute a big chunk of an anticipated $1T voluntary carbon market , and Oxy is on a development frenzy.   Thanks for reading!

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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. Last month, the BEIS and transport select committee chairs, Darren Jones MP and Clive Betts MP wrote about the need for costs to be affordable when greening our homes. Sticks without carrots won't work.

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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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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. Finally, a recent paper by Pomponi et al. percent on average.

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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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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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Climate Tech VC

AUGUST 17, 2023

The drop in sulfur oxide emissions, which ironically have a cooling effect in the atmosphere by reflecting light, has also played a role in record high ocean temps this year. Ships larger than 5,000 gross tons must calculate their CO2 emissions per unit of nominal transport work (e.g., What’s new? Maersk, MSC, Evergreen).

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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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Business Green

APRIL 6, 2022

Understandably, the focus for decarbonisation tends to mostly be on technologies, infrastructure, and finance, as well as individual sectors such as transport, energy, and agriculture - all of which are mission critical for the net zero transition. Sociocultural change has significant decarbonisation potential.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 28, 2022

Eliminating its Scope 1 and 2 emissions that mainly encompass energy use from robots, processors, heating, cooling and ventilation will mean putting in place renewable energy procurement. Facility construction, food transportation and employee flight miles dominate here. A clear path to net-zero. is no easy feat either.

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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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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 30, 2022

This could be by reducing an organization’s carbon footprint while also establishing a healthy work-life balance for employees. E.g. Delta Air Lines and Microsoft Corp pledged to drastically curb their carbon emissions, taking into account the carbon footprint of their associated law firms.

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 25, 2020

Despite the additional complications posed by the coronavirus pandemic a record 312 institutions participated in Sierra's annual Cool Schools rankings in 2020. Schools give us a glimpse into what carbon neutrality looks like. Here is a countdown of Sierra's top 20 Cool Schools as described by Katie: 20.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 6, 2022

That’s potentially very bad news for the climate: The huge amount of methane that leaks during the production, transport and storage of LNG means that the carbon emissions associated with importing the fuel could be up to ten times higher than for the equivalent amount of Russian pipeline gas, researchers say.

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Green Business Bureau

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Environmental and social disruptions cause a negative brand reputation (note BP’s 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill ). Are there opportunities to improve energy efficiency and upgrade lighting, insulation, heating, and cooling? Are there areas to improve supply chain efficiency in terms of lowering waste and carbon emissions?

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. Last year, Ecolab set a goal for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, getting halfway there by 2030. No doubt those conversations will be at play in Starbucks’ 50th year.

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Charged

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Components such as thermocouples, resistance temperature devices and negative temperature coefficient thermistors can directly measure temperatures, while infrared sensing is a non-contact option. Most industrial and transportation controls use the highly-sensitive thermistor temperature sensing technology.

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Low Carbon Prosperity

OCTOBER 17, 2018

In this Low Carbon Prosperity Institute (LCPI) analysis, we explore scenarios of carbon reduction investment performance based on the revenue allocation described in Initiative 1631. The measure is intended, but not required, to reduce carbon emissions in 2035 to 25% below 1990 levels, consistent with the state’s legislated target.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 29, 2022

For instance, a single pint of beer can have a carbon footprint as high as 900g CO 2e (for bottled beer that’s been extensively transported). This is ~14% of the daily average carbon footprint from meals per US citizen – having 2 to 3 pints ramps that percentage up to 42%. And alcohol is stated to make up ~16% of the U.S.

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Green Business Bureau

APRIL 27, 2022

One study reported that the average carbon footprint per skier could be as much as 74kg CO 2e per trip. Sustainability pushes resorts away from the negative spiral, where high carbon footprints catalyze climate change – which could ultimately render the ski industry obsolete. The benefits of sustainability for ski resorts.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 10, 2020

Whatever your view is on climate change, we must all agree that climate change is constant; we are and will continue to move through the historical cooling and warming cycles. Terms such as climate change, climate crisis, carbon neutral, negative emissions, etc. Carbon Neutral vs. Zero Carbon – 1.5

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Clean Energy Canada

JANUARY 14, 2022

Proponents of fossil fuel use have implied that climate policies, like carbon pricing or other regulations, will have a negative impact on household spending, including home heating and gas for vehicles. The report found that households across all income groups are likely to spend less in a net-zero 2050 compared to 2020.

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Climate Tech VC

JULY 17, 2023

acquisition is the largest single carbon-management investment since the passage of the IRA and has implications for the carbon capture, utilization, and storage ecosystem. Regulators miss another deadline on deep-sea mining rules, and the US is digging into the carbon removal benefits of regenerative agriculture.

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GreenTechMedia

JUNE 5, 2020

The goal of such a transition: all-electric buildings powered by solar, wind, and other sources of zero-carbon electricity. Economy-wide electrification (including transportation) could increase U.S. What sort of technology is involved in building electrification? Heat pumps are the big one. Already, around 30 U.S.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 19, 2020

Fortunately, with current solar, battery and heat pump technology every building with a sunny roof under two stories can be a net generator of energy — essentially carbon negative. The tangible impacts of climate change are compelling California to electrify buildings and transportation on an increasingly short time frame.

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CleanTech San Diego

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

Over the program’s first six years of operation, SCEIN member companies have commercialized innovative technologies that are accelerating market transformation in transportation electrification, grid and building decarbonization, energy efficiency, and resiliency. About the Graduating Startups: .

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Green Business Bureau

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Products are then transported , unrestricted and on a global scale to reach the retailer. “ We did not anticipate that transportation and freight costs would soar the way they have as fuel prices have risen to all-time highs.” This process spews gross amounts of greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) into the atmosphere.

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

Some have actually called the Arctic the world’s “air-conditioning system” because of the role of the large ice sheets in cooling the surrounding continents. Unfortunately, all kinds of positive (or negative?) With the Northern sea routes available all year, costs for transporting goods (especially from Asia to Europe and the U.S.)

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Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 20, 2019

The use of renewable can be seen in day to day life basically in four areas electricity generation, air and water heating and cooling transportation and rural(off-grid) energy services. Solar Energy is dependable progressing at Solar Transport. Biofuels is widely used for the transportation.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

The company, an early partner with the Ellen MacArthur Foundation, has positioned water and carbon emissions as equally critical in the climate crisis. Last year, Ecolab set a goal for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050, getting halfway there by 2030. No doubt those conversations will be at play in Starbucks’ 50th year.

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